Job Hunts, Wonky Fridge and Just Being Batgirl

 Hi everyone,

Applied for a lot of job yesterday, about 20 or so, so hopefully one of them leads to something. Trying to find places I can get do with duties that I can perform or feel confident that I can learn quickly is not easy.

My refigerator is barely holding on, having turned its internal settings to max just to keep it cool, there is some water dripping from the freezer down into the fridge so maybe there is excess ice build up, but I don't know. The parts PSE&G are sending should be here between 10 AM and 3 PM on Wednesday.

Work was cancelled today again, was told worst case we might not have work until Thursday... I'm covered, but this is rather odd considering the heavy lack of work this year in compared to previous years. 

Tonight's stream of Gotham Knights started early-ish as a result and we did a big focus on the side stories involving Mr. Freeze, Clayface and Harley Quinn, as well as making some progress in regards of the main story and other side activities. The boss battles involving the three iconic villains were pretty cool, with Harley's being the most normal, while Mr. Freeze and Clayface's battles making me glad I refuse to play games on anything harder than I intend to, because the bat-cycle section of the Clayface fight took three attempts to clear.

In terms of the main story, the conflict of the League of Assassins and Court of Owls is building, but I have noticed that the more we do in the game, the most positive the citizens of Gotham are to seeing our heroes popping up at different points in time. 

We also experienced some co-op game play tonight, and that there is unique dialog depending on the pairing of characters and who gets to the cut-scene parts first.

 Gotham Knights Achievements

• Working Hard or Harley Working?: Interrupt a presentation at the Monarch Theater
• The Show Mud Go On: Crash a film set and anger the director
• Quartzer Life Crisis: Investigate the disruption at Quartz Labs
• Snow Problem: Keep your cool and survive the storm at Elliot Center
• Unstoppable Force: Unlock all four Momentum bars as Batgirl, Robin, Nightwing, or Red Hood
• Bad Apples in Every Orchard: Complete Case File 04: THE MASQUERADE
• Universal Health Scare: Go to Gotham City General Hospital after visiting hours
• Shock Til They Drop: Defeat 45 Regulator Shockers
• Cooldown: Put an inmate back behind Blackgate's bars
• Fusion Expert: Acquire 50 Modchips via mod fusion
• End of an Era: Complete all Villain Case Files
• Rock and a Hard Place: Crack the case at Gotham Reservoir

For the raid we dropped in on hawleigh during their stream of Hogwarts Legacy over on twitch.tv/hawleigh

As I waited for the commission request to come in I started writing a non-commission story based around Hellsing, it's a bit dialog heavy at first and will need a rewrite. Still I'll shelve this story for now as I did get a commission request for another Mass Effect story.

Our next stream is scheduled for 9:30 PM Eastern on Wednesday, and even with work being doubtful, I probably won't start the stream early just for the sake of keeping the Resident Evil 6 stuff featured without having to fully highlight it out and losing footage of anything done before hand.

But of course if I do start early because of no work, I'll do the highlight way of archiving the Resident Evil 6 content.

So with that we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden

 

We finished a 2nd campaign of Gears of War 2

Good morning everyone,

Song of the Day: Expressway (To Your Heart) by The Soul Survivors

Work was pretty solid yesterday, got two interviews done right away so that carried my mood the whole time. 

My first experience with Instacart was pretty good, the delivery was on time and was able to get a refund on what items they couldn't find. 

Last night's stream opened with Fall Guys, and we made it to the final show twice. We were joined by PandaSweet for joining in a lot of the shows we played. There were some really wonky moments at times where I didn't do as well as I normally would in certain events.

We also played and finished Gears of War 2 last night, big thanks to Iceman for being apart of the fun, and we had fewer deaths than the previous week. Picked up three achievements as well. Was again surprised at how under whelming the final boss of the game actually is, since all you do is aim the hammer of dawn at it three times.

That said, a big reason why we were playing Gears of War was because Iceman was not involved in every part of my original play through back in 2020, and we had FnDanteSavage tag in during a good part of Act 4. So this was a fun way to revisit the game and include him, not to mention making it a tougher experience by playing it on Normal difficulty.

Now looking ahead, next Wednesday will be an entire Fall Guys stream since Iceman and I aren't completely sure at what games that have on-line co-op we both have.

For tonight's stream we're going to play Hades some more, hopefully we can get another successful escape this. 

On a side note: I over compensated on the audio fix as the games were a lot louder than me during the stream! I shall make more adjustments before tonight's stream

 Gears of War 2 Achievements

• Organ Grinder: Killed 30 enemies with your Mulcher turret
• Takes a Licking: Bashed 30 Tickers
• Guerilla Tactician: Completed all campaign acts on Normal Difficulty

For the raid we dropped in on x9abenonymous9x who was playing Hogwarts Legacy over at twitch.tv/x9abenonymous9x

I am surprised that that part of the VOD for my play through of My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure has over 1800 views. Well looks like I will play that game again for sure this year!

Didn't do any writing yesterday, but I did pre-record a new Tier List video for a couple of weeks down the line. The subject is villains of Batman the Animated series, and I just know that people will be shocked at who is and isn't in the S-Tier.

So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden! 

 

From The Fist of the North Star to Hades

Good morning everyone,

Due to circumstances allowing it, we did two streams yesterday, the first was in the afternoon to feature Fitness Boxing: Fist of the North Star. This stream was about two hours, and featured a full 40+ minute workout plus all the Shin related battles in the Battle mode. We did unlock 10% of the achievements as well, and it does appear FB:FotNS will have a lot of the same achievements that Fitness Boxing 2 did in regards to reaching various goals.

Will I occasionally due bonus streams featuring Fitness Boxing: Fist of the North Star? Maybe, really depends on what I have going on any particular day and what I need to accomplish.

Oh today;s Fitness Boxing workout featured Hook Combo #2, Hook Combo #1, Beginner Combo #1 and Straight Combo #2.

Last night's stream of Hades got off to a very good start, as we finally cleared an escape attempt on the first run of the night. We actually made it to Hades a couple of times but ended up coming short due to my lack of ability and just some bad luck in some of the boons found. Still, I also made some things harder for myself in terms of my button mash approach along with having the parch of punishment bounties enabled.

Now would I want to attempt to do 9 full escape attempts on Hades to see if I could get to the hidden ending, and probably the make efforts towards the epilogue? Maybe. At the very least, trying to unlock various things seems like a good goal  as an excuse of keeping Hades in the weekly line up for the time being.

For the raid we dropped in on BangBangBang713 who was playing Hogwarts Legacy over at twitch.tv/bangbangbang713! 

Fitness Boxing: Fist of the North Star Achievements

• Get A Grip: Learn to hold the Joy-Con controolers
• Get Ready: Learn the Basic Stance
• Get the Idea: Learn the Basic Rules
• First Stamp: Acquire your first Stamp
• Set 'Em Up: Check your Daily Workout settings
• Know Yourself: Check your Date
• Exercise Checker: Check Actions in Basic Training
• Champion Star Lv. 1 - Get a total of 12 stars during (regular) workouts
• Minimumweight Puncher Lv. 1 - Reach a total punch count of 500 HITs
• Minimumweight Puncher Lv. 2 - Reach a total punch count of 1,000 HITs
• Minimumweight Puncher Lv. 3 - Reach a total punch count of 1,500 HITs
• Light Flyweight Puncher Lv. 1 - Reach a total punch count of 2,000 HITs
• Light Flyweight Puncher Lv. 2 - Reach a total punch count of 3,000 HITs
• Shin's Stage Cleared Lv. 3 - Complete Shin's Stage (hard)
• KO Puncher Lv. 1 - Defeat a total of 30 outlaws
• Kenshiro's Acquaintance - Work out with Kenshiro
• Kenshiro's Embrace - Receive a raiting of 7 starts from Kenshiro during a workout
• Meeting Mamiya - Acquire Mamiya
• MEasure Up  - Enter your height data
• On your Weight - Enter your weight data
• Calm Hitter - Throw 500 perfect punches
• Breeezy Hitter - Throw 1,000 perfect punches
• Windy Hitter - Throw 2,000 perfect Punches
• High Windy Hitter - Throw 3,000 perfect punches
• Rising Star Lv. 1 - Get a total of 12 starts during (light) workouts)
• Champion Star Lv. 2 - Get a total of 24 stars during (regular) workouts
• Light Flyweight Puncher Lv. 3 - Reach a total punch count of 4,000 HITs
• Shin's Stage Cleared L.v 1 - Complete Shin's Stage (light)
• KO Puncher Lv. 2 - Defeat a total of 150 outlaws
• Strong Windy Hitter - Throw 4,000 perfect punches
• Kenshiro's Coordinato Lv. 1 - Acquire Kenshiro's outfit
• Kenshiro's Coordinator Lv. 2 - Change Kenshiro's outfit
• One Weigh or Another - Enter two days' worth of weight data
  

Hades Achievements

• Escaped Elysium: Clear Elysium
• Is There No Escape?: Clear an escape attempt

The folks at TellTale Games have pulled a 3D Realms by changing game engines and starting over on developing The Wolf Among Us 2... this has of course brought back memories of endless development hell Duke Nukem Forever was stuck in.

With the Vinyl 45s now stored properly, my next concern in regards to archived stuff is the Vinyl LPs I have, which are a mixture of things my mom and dad got back in the 60s, 70s & 80s. I know my dad wants to know if I have a particular album that featured local radio personality Jerry Blavat 

Did finish writing the Star Trek story as a subscribstar exclusive for this month, my focus will now turn towards finishing the Daria commission request

"What do you call a poor Santa Claus?" "St. Nickel-less."

Song of the Day:Knock on Wood by Eddie Floyd

For tonight's stream we shall continue Final Fantasy VII remake picking up at the start of chapter 14. Depending on the pacing of things, I'm looking to at least get through Chapter 16 so  that we could save the last two chapters for next Friday.

So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden

So H.P. Was In FFXIV...

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Final Fantasy XIV saw the first 30 minutes end up being cut due to internet issues, more on that down below... but it was inconsequential, as i was focused on Side Quest in and around Foundation... and ended up finding the Scholasticate quest line, which is basically Final Fantasy XIV's way of using characters from Harry Potter without dealing with any licensing issues.

The Scholasticate quest line is actually a spin off of the first Hildebrand story featuring Briardien who was basically Hildy's foil, plus the quest line s used to add a lot of lore to Ishgardian society and the role of the church. But let's be honest, even as someone who is not big on Harry Potter I was able to pick up on who was who based on tropes and appearances.  I did find the over all story to be interesting, but there were some plodding moments. Of course with it being story driven with no action, it did make for a dull experience for those watching.

So to close things out we ended up doing one raid, the Eight Circle one... and I died twice... once by not realizing what was happening and the other because i panicked and ran the wrong way.  

Also finally reached the point where I have the Leonheart attire to use as a glam set... need to figure out how to hide the choker from my gear though.

Twitch Clips

• Realizing The Hildebrand Connection
• Don't Stop Believing 
• Just another raid finished
   

Big thanks to Kalenal who was doing a special Prog-Raid stream of Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/kalenal! 

For the raid we dropped in on Oldish22 who was also playing Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/oldish22!

I did experience the internet going down during work last night, and of course a lot of folks saw my stream last night struggle to stay connected from 7 PM to 730 PM. I did get a call from a senior tech who is now trying to spin it back to 'it's my ethernet network card' or one of the two Xbox consoles causing the problems. Now we didn't have any issues of note since Sunday and I wrote down every single time there was a major lack / service disruption. Now the only other thing he can think of is to replace the drop line that goes from the tap on the telephone pole to the splitter that separate internet and cable. 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Body Hook Combo, Double Combo #2 and Weaving Combo #1 for 31 minutes.

Why couldn't the pirate sit down? His booty got stolen!

Why was the broom late for a meeting? It overswept.

Song of the Day: Bad Day by Daniel Powter 

Phillies lost last night and I'm not surprised... considering how they have been increasingly inept in recent days

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Good thing I logged into my PS4 last night to do the system update. Rally should get into the habit of checking that after Thursday night streams. And only reason I did was to install the game which we're playing tonight

For tonight's stream, we're going to start up The Quarry on the PlayStation 4. From what I understand a single play through of the story takes about 10 hours, so I'm looking for the stream to be about 4.5 to 5 hours long.

So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden! 

Just Another Fun Night of Overwatch And A Bonus Stream Of Fitness Boxing 2

Good morning everyone,

A new week starts as we have all sorts of things to consider over the coming days of what to feature and when!

Last night we of course played Overwatch, and big thanks as always to PandaSweet for joining in on several matches. We got into a hot stretch where we went 8 and 2 in our final 10 matches of the night. The night did include a couple of Mayhem matches as well, and I picked up 5 Plays of the Game, 4 as D.va and 1 as Junkrat. So a real successful night on Overwatch! Woo-Hoo!

Of course the big Overwatch news is that the Halloween Terror event starts on Tuesday October 12 and will run until November 2, and so far we know that Reinhardt and Roadhog will have new skins. The question now becomes, who else will have new attire? And what new 'achievements' will be tied to Junkenstein's Revenge this year.

Following the stream we sent the fun over to glorifiedthief who was playing Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors over at twitch.tv/glorifiedthief!  

Twitch Clip Links

• Bullseye!
• Caught 'em!
• Scoreboard!
• I got Bob'ed and D.va'ed at the same time
• When I can't get behind Panda's Shield
• Waiting for the right moment for a Quadruple Kill!
• Wild Finish
• That was me falling off a ledge 
• We win 
• Get Ready For A Shock!

Off-stream Final Fantasy XIV stuff is that I'm gradually making progress through the main story, but the placement of NPCs can be really odd. I get and appreciate Square Enix wanting to make it feel like a living world so that you don't find certain characters in the same spot when on a quest... but a way point finder would be useful when NPCs are in a building that is underneath where the map is indicating where they should be standing! That said the off-stream adventures  saw a familiar sight, at least when compared to Final Fantasy XV: Fighting Ifrit and getting a Chocobo, also joined the Twin Adder because well... I started in Gridania.

The guy who commissioned the two fics I've done last week basked around RWBY and Harry Potter is wanting more, hell he sent a list of stuff for me to consider taking on, but if there is one thing people know about me when it comes to fan fic writing its that I'm not really keen on repeated use of the same themes and characters unless it's something I'm really invested in.

There's been a lot pointed out at how the WWE's Women Division has seen a down turn as of late, and it all goes back to the a lot of the decisions of who was let go back in the spring of this year. The WWE would rather turn the Women's Division back into the bathroom break filler matches it was of the LayCool/Divas Title era than for the women to get equal time for their stories and characters to developer. 

Star Trek Online is kicking off it's Halloween event on Wednesday so for sure we're going to feature that to start of that night's stream, and The Simpsons game will resume on Friday night to finish it's second half.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout lasted 31 minutes with the following exercise Intermediate Combo #2, Advanced Combo #1 and Weaving Combo #1 with the estimated calorie burn of 503.kcal. We also did an extra set featuring Difficult Challenge Combo #1 which added 103 kcal. Total session was 37 minutes with the estimated calorie burn being 606 kcal. This session was also streamed as a surprise as I tried use the Xsplit Cam set up.

Since this session was streamed the fun was set over to Sw33ts_gaming who was playing Smite this morning over at twitch.tv/sw33ts_gaming!

Bonus Twitch Clip Links

• Intermediate Combo #2
  
• Advanced Combo #1
• Weaving Combo #1
• Difficult Challenge Combo #1
  

Tonight's stream will see focus return to The Walking Dead with Season Two, which takes place a couple of years after the events of Season One, so Clementine is a bit older and is the star of the show. This will be a lot of fun!

So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

A New Week Begins

 Good morning everybody,

Last night's stream of Overwatch pretty fun in many ways while also proving my point about how you can't really trust other players on your team. 

Case and point, there was a match where if I had any type of healing I feel as if I could've held the payload at bay because the opposing team really didn't have an answer for how I was using D.va's ultimate. So as I'm backing up to get healed, neither healer was proving the support needed to keep me in the fight. Now granted I had moments where I just pulled back because of questionable things I saw with initial approach to the objectives and what their intentions are.

That said I did have three Plays of the Game last night, two as D.va and one as Tracer. Also had a few good games as Mei and Moira throughout the night as well. I am not sure where people have issues with Mei, because Mei can be very effective at range like a McCree and can help control the objective. Granted wall placement is important as well.

Following the stream we did a random raid, sending folks over to PixiRini who was also playing Overwatch over at twitch.tv/pixirini, they were mostly playing ranked matches which is something I will not do on stream.

During the stream we got a raid from kenzalishus who was playing Stardew Valley. You can check out their content over at twitch.tv/kenzalishus!

Big thanks to LvStrkr for resubbing to the channel and for keeping their streak going of 30 months in a row! They now have the Squall Sub-Badge which subscribers can unlock for being subbed for 2.5 years. 

Twitch Clip Links

• GRAB HER!
• Taking Out Nearly The Entire Team
• Come in for the save!
• Sometimes is not how much you do it's when you do it!
• We're Mei-king Baskets!
• Clearing The Point As Mei For The Win
  

Had a couple of fan fic ideas based around the MTV animated series Daria which aired in the late 1990s. Probably will keep them as short blurbs if I want to do anything in particularly with them. Already knocked out one based on the first official episode. Speaking of fics, was asked to do commission fic based on Harry Potter... and since i had trouble getting to sleep I knocked that out as well. Can't remember the last time I did two fics in a day. Anyway, both are up over on HF.

So the Phillies season has officially ended as they finished one game above five hundred, and the question becomes what do they need to make the playoffs next season. Well let's see they need a left fielder, a third baseman, a first baseman, an entire bullpen, and three quality starters... so with all that being needed, safe to say they won't make the playoffs in 2022, and I bet Joe Giradi will be fired by June. 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 34 minutes and featured Difficulty Challenge Combo #1, Difficult Challenge Combo #2 and Difficult Challenge Combo #3. Since unlocking those three exercise routines, I have not seen them paired up with other exercises, so I wonder if the Fitness Boxing 2 is programmed to keep certain sets together. Anyway the estimated calorie burn was 651 kcal... but I feel that could be higher as I had 14 OK actions and 1 missed.

For tonight's stream, our attention will turn to The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series,, which will continue our trend of playing games where choices matter towards the end results. Should be a lot of fun as we have played The Walking Dead games since the final episode of The Final Season game out. 

So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!