Xfinity Butchered A Great Stream

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream suffered a series of interruptions caused by Xfinity, which resulted in the stream being split into 4 parts. It's been a while since things were that bad to force a complete split in the stream, which meant that 15 minutes of loss footage. 

Anyway last night we lead off with NFL Game Day 98... and... quite frankly I was terrible at it, in two full games played, I didn't score a single touch down. While the controls and way to play were similar to the original NFL Game Day, the game's A.I.was just brutal even on the easiest settings. Unfortunately, a good portion off footage from the NFL Game Day 98 portion of the stream is what was loss. On a positive note, NFL Game Day 98 still looks pretty good for a game from 1997. Next time I play a football game on stream, we'll jump to Madden I think

Next on the night was Bio Freaks, and once I saw and realized it was a Midway game from the late 90s, I realized there was going to be a bunch of hokey shit to deal with, mostly from the game's A.I. See Midway was notorious for having some brutal difficulty spikes in its games, and that popped up in a big way. I did play as a few characters, but the controls were rather cumbersome, resulting in some Tekken like struggles in trying to see what did and did not work.

Speaking of Tekken, we finally played Tekken Tag Tournament 2, and I am counting it as a game finished because of going through the arcade mode and then learning character endings can be unlocked via the Ghost Fight option. We spent the majority of the stream with TTT2, and while some if its difficulty spikes were a bit 'mean' at times, it certainly wasn't frustrating beyond me realizing them mistake I made when I lost. Also, this was the PS3 version of the game, so we unlocked several trophies.Also... this game has no analog movement controls which is really fucking weird.

On a side note, since we had to install Tekken Tag Tournament 2 onto the PS3, that meant waiting for a long time for that to happen. The PlayStation 3 never had great install times... then again the PS3 was not really a great system, as many developers have stated over the years.

Big thanks to the chat for kicking in 300 bits during the stream, your support is always appreciated, especially on a night when things were going wrong.

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Trophies

• Insane Juggler: You dealt more than 62 damage in a midair combo.
• Oodles of Ukemi: You pulled off 3 ukemi.
• PERFECT Player: You won a PERFECT battle.
• Doused But Not Out: Your upper body got wet in the Fallen Garden stage.
• Preeminent Partner: You cleared an Offline Mode arcade battle with a partner.
• Lead Coach: You dealt a total of 1000 damage in Practice in Offline Mode.
• Touch-Up Artist: You customized a character
• Dance to Your Own Beat: You changed the background music using TEKKEN TUNES.
• Combot, On Standby!: You cleared Stage 1 in Fight Lab.
• Tenacious Fighter: You won 3 team battles in Offline Mode.
• Renovation Time: You broke a wall.
• Stick It to 'Em: You pulled off 10 homing attacks.
• Geronimooo!: You broke a balcony.
• Who You Gonna Call?: You defeated 30 ghosts.
• Below the Belt: You pulled off 3 low parries.

Twitch Clips

• Didn't take long for me to screw up...
• We take the win there 
• Well that happened
  

For the raid we drooped in on x9abenonymous9x who was playing Fortnite over at twitch.tv/x9abenonymous9x!   

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Defensive Combo #1, Uppercut Combo #2 and Double Combo #1 for 28 minutes.

I do have to finish that Star Wars commissioned story request, I did get a good chunk done on Wednesday with that unwanted day off... maybe I can knocked out this afternoon.

It's the start of a new week, so let's look back at last week with a video of everything we featured which included Overwatch, Persona 4 Arena, Cultist Simulator, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 5 Strikers, NFL Game Day 98, Bio Freaks and Tekken Tag Tournament 2!

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Looking ahead to this upcoming week, I'm thinking this will be the line up

Monday: Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse
Tuesday: Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse or Cultist Simulator
Wednesday: Fallout 76
Thursday: Final Fantasy XIV
Friday: Persona 5 Strikers (Possibly Finishing)
Saturday: Madden 98 & Other Nonsense

For tonight's stream, the plan of course is Overwatch and hopefully last night's problems will not carry over to this evenings activities. 

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

A New Week Starts

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Overwatch saw the usual Sunday night shenanigans and thankfully without any issues from Xfinity. Big shout out and thanks to Tokidoki and PandaSweet for being apart of the fun, we ended up going 5-5 in out final ten matches, but two of those wins were rather epic in how hard fought they were. In fact one match saw all three of us get post-match cards based on our individual performances.

In terms of how I did solo, I picked up two plays of the game as Moira this week which is always nice. Other characters used were D.va, Orissa, Reinhardt, Brigitte and Anna. I didn't really get an opportunity to do any DPS roles on this week's stream. Ah well.

Twitch Clips 

• Wheee!!!
• Cleaning Up The Mess 
• Trying TO Keep Them Boxed In!
  

For the raid we dropped in on Flint_Locke who was playing Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Chapter 8 - Matsuribayashi over at twitch.tv/flint_locke!

Did mess around some with Overwatch 2 last night, mostly to try and figure out some timing with Moira's new kit, and I think I figured out some things... but it does appear her new 'damage orb' can be blocked by enemy shields. Also in a 1v1 against Brigitte, Moira no longer has an advantage as far as I can tell.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Uppercut Combo #1, Hook Combo #1 and Waist Shape Focus Combo for 31 minutes

Finished writing the latest commission request featuring WWE's Xia Li yesterday afternoon, and it turned out fairly alright I think. Though some complained I did not include Gifs or Pictures to add flavor to it, to which I say there are far too many writers who basically use Gifs and Pictures as ways not to write out various details.

So I'm thinking a head ot Saturday's stream, and I do have NFL Game Day '98 in my collection... maybe we'll check that out?

Had issues with Amazon yesterday in that the delivery person lied on exactly where the placed my package. And trying to lodge a complaint certainly was not possible. Still, we now have The Quarry and Life Is Strange Volume #6 which collects the final issues of the series published by Titan Comics. The plan for the Quarry is for it to be apart of the Spooky Stuff in October

Staying on Life is Strange though, the final issues kind of save the series which certainly went out of its way to try and make the trio of Max-Rachel-Chloe work, but it was quite clear early on that it was not going to be something that really worked, so the final issues being about getting back to normal really ends the series on a high note, in my opinion.

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For tonight's stream the plan is to wrap up the final chapters of Persona 4 Arena's Story Mode and do arcade runs with various characters. With luck we'll be able to get several instant death moves performed for various characters as well.

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

A Weird End To A Wild Night

Good afternoon everyone,

Well last night's stream had a lot of variety, but let's talk about how it ended. For the first four hours, there were no issues at all, then there was a slight drop off for a few moments, nothing major... but then at 11:14 PM we had issue to the point that it forced the stream to split into 2 parts. Thankfully I was going to be wrapping up anyway, but that's the first instance of that in a quite a few weeks.  

Anyway, last night we lead off with NFL Game Day, and despite the disc having more scratches than a curtain in a room full of cats, it was a fun experience. Granted the first game I played as the Eagles vs the Cowboys ended in a loss, but by the end of it I had enough of any idea of how to play. The second game, where I played as the Bears vs the Jaguars ended in a dominate win... granted the Jaguars were one of the worst teams in the game, but hey a win is a win.

I broke out the Dance Pad and loaded up Dance Dance Revolution Konamix for the 2nd game of the evening... and needless to say, you probably will never see that game streamed by me ever again for two reason. One being, the added sound of me 'dancing' on the dance pad sounds terrible, and Two being I mostly did this to see if the Dance pad itself still worked... and good news is it does.

I also took a look at The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga... and for 20+ years I always thought it was a side scrolling beat-em up. I had no idea it was a 3D game with puzzle elements. I can say that the music sounded good, but I couldn't make heads or tails out of the controls.

We switched over to the PlayStation 2 to mess around with Capcom vs. SNK 2, during a couple of arcade mode runs, and even taking a crack at survivor mode (getting 9 wins as Sakura). Unlike an earlier attempt at playing it while back, we didn't have the game freezing when fighting Rugal (Since I mostly used the Capcom characters).

Lastly we spent some time playing Overwatch 2, as I continue to practice using D.va to see what can and cannot be done against live opponents. Only won one match, but had a great moment of getting a double kill by dropping my mech on a Widowmaker and Soldier 76!

Big thanks to the chat for kicking in 300 bits during the stream! Ya'll are great!

Twitch Clips

• We Worked It In There!
• Yup... I have DDR... 
• Well we're dead
• Get That Stuff Out Of Here! 
• Double Squish!
  

For the raid, we dropped in on Kalenal who was playing Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/kalenal!  

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Triple Combo #1, Straight Combo #1 and Weaving Combo #2 for 28 minutes.

I did some rearranging of things in my office space as there might be a reveal of what's behind the screen stream at some point.

Nearly finished the latest commissioned story request based around John Cena's 20th Anniversary appearance on WWE Monday Night RAW, just need to wrap up the action sequences.

It's the start of a new week, so let's look back at what happened last week over on my Twitch channel, which featured Overwatch, Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins, Paladins, Persona 4 Arena, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 5 Strikers, NFL Game Day, Dance Dance Revolution Konamix, The Incredible Hulk The Pantheon Saga, Capcom Vs SNK 2 Mark of the Millennium 2001 and Overwatch 2! Also three moments of Just Chatting is included as well.

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For tonight's stream, the plan is of course, Overwatch as it is every Sunday! Hopefully we'll have no weird issues like we did last night! 

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

Two More Jails Conquered In Persona 5 Strikers!

 Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Persona 5 Strikers ended up being longer than I intended only because I went after some side quests I could have saved for Next Friday, plus I got lost in the Kyoto Jail, which required that I looked up how to navigate it because of warping portals. It reminded me of some of my least favorite aspects of Persona 5 Royal in some Palaces with a lot of misdirection in getting around. Also that one on one battle with duplicate Joker was rather tough, in fact it's a good think I'm constantly stock pile healing items because I was nearly defeated, even on 'Easy' difficulty.

In terms of the plot, Zenkinchi now has his Persona and looks bad ass, Akane was used as a pawn to trap the Phantom Thieves, and the parallels of two of the main villains being tie ins to Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump isn't lost on me. We covered a huge chunk of Zolf's Master Arts so we can easily tackle that at the start of next Friday's stream.

From what I can tell, we're the path to finishing Persona 5 Strikers within two more streams. Granted the longer streams dedicated to knocking out as much of the side quests and main game has helped. There are number of grind heavy achievement left as well, like getting everyone to level 70... however, at this point I've only gotten Joker to level 51, so knocking out 19 levels seems like a tall ask.

Big thanks as always for the bits the viewers in the chat tossed my way during last night's stream! Your kindness is always appreciated!

Funny thing with the trophies we unlocked last night, my completion percentage for all PlayStation games that have achievements that I have played has hit 45%

Persona 5 Strikers Trophies

• Gentleman Thief: Obtained all Master Arts for Mona.
• Treasure Hunter: Opened 50 treasure chests.
• Cage of Desolation Condemned: Completed the Okinawa Jail.
• Jolly Roger: Obtained all Master Arts for Skull.
• Farewell to the Past: Wolf awakened his Persona.
• Eye for Talent: Spent Persona Points to strengthen a Persona's stats.
• Cage of Wrath Collapsed: Completed the Kyoto Jail.
• What are Friends For?: Cleared all special requests from the Phantom Thieves.
• Master Chef: Cooked 12 types of food.

Twitch Clips

• That NPC Cutting The Other Way!
• Healing Up Before Defeating The Fake Joker 
• Ebon God Descended!
  

For last night's raid we dropped in on DaWorstGamerEver25 who was doing a bonus stream of Fortnite over at twitch.tv/DaWorstGamerEver25!   

JT Reamluto is trying to walk back the stupid comments he made about not getting vaccinated, thus refusing to play in Canada. He tried to say that 'he's from Oklahoma' as an excuse, but all that proves is that he's an elitist on top of being a fool. 

Unlike the last few weeks, we didn't do a Fitness Boxing workout right after the stream, instead I went to bed almost straight away after getting the Facebook highlight reel put together. So with that said Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Double Combo #2, Weaving Combo #1 and Body Hook Combo for 31 minutes.

Fitness Boxing 2 Rhythm & Exercise Stats For July 10-16, 2022

• Punches Thrown: 8,440
  
• Estimated Calories Burned: 3,612.74 kcal
  
• Bernardo's Champion Progress: 84% (42/50 Hours Trained)
  
• King EX Fighter Progress: 94%
  

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For tonight's stream the plan is for a variety night with the first thing we're doing is either playing NFL Game Day or a Madden game from either 98 or 99. After that all bets are off!

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

 

Today's Notes 5/9/21

Good afternoon everybody and Happy Mother's Day!

Last night's stream of ESPN Major League Baseball wasn't without incident, as during game two of the World Series between my Phillies and the Red Sox, it was a slug fest when the game locked up, and I've noticed that only happens when so much happens in a game it just FUBARs everything. Still my Phillies are the 2004 World Champions. The real highlight was Game 5, which I'm calling the Boston Massacre, but my Phillies won 29-1, with Bobby Abreu hitting 3 grand slams. What makes it better is that the game glitched out and the in-game commentary of Rex Hulder and Jon Miller was absent, so I was providing half-assed commentary through-out. I segmented that out as a full on highlight because it was that silly.

Full Game: ESPN Major League Baseball: The Boston Massacre 

Since ESPN Major League Baseball is finished I'm not sure what's replacing it on the weekly line-up, I'm considering perhaps a football game, either NFL Game Day or a Madden game from the late 90s / early 2000s. Actually what I should do is play Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep to wrap up the 1.5 + 2.5 Collection. But we'll see how I figure that out come the end of the week.

Following the stream I went through organizing my CDs, and managed to reunited a bunch of music with their original jewel cases and liner notes the the exception of 2 where I'm missing the liner notes for. My CD binders are also neatly organized to where there are 4 CDs per page if liner notes are missing, and 2 CDs per page if I still have the liner notes but note the jewel cases. Also I put a bunch of burnt CDs from the early 2000 in their own little binder, and have another one set aside for various video games & video media which I didn't have cases for.

We're only a few days away from the release of Mass Effect Legendary Edition! I can't wait for Friday! My biggest concern is using the ME2/ME3 styled controls using a game pad since I only every played those games on PC. 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 session was about 70 minutes total with 40 minutes counting for the daily exercise. We're up to 82 points out of 100 for Bernardo's Best Friend Achievement, so I should have that wrapped up by the end of the week, either Thursday or Friday. Saturday at the latest.

With it being Sunday, that means Overwatch is on deck to begin the new week! Will we have Mayhem matches for more than just an hour? Actually, what Blizzard should have done is implement weekly PVE stuff, there are plenty of maps where mission objectives can easily be a thing... but then again, Jeff Kaplan was in charge and if he couldn't understand that smurfing was cheating then it's no wonder many of us are eager for Overwatch 2 now that he's gone. 

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