Persona 4 Golden and other notes

So we accomplished our task of  rescuing Naoto, now I knew about her wanting to be a man, but the whole being treated like a kid aspect was new to me. Of course it did take me nearly four hours to rescue her, because the first two hours of the stream was dedicated to back tracking through the previous dungeon to reach an extra boss and find side quest items.

We also completed several Social Link quests, Nanako and Dojima's are in the book, plus several others are closer to completion as well. Also the Compendium is close to 80% complete

Next time we play P4G, it'll be mostly slice of life stuff as we wait for the next Midnight channel night and for Naoto to recover from their ordeal.

Persona 4 Golden returns on Monday!

Tomorrow night we're playing Overwatch 2

For the raid we dropped in on samaell_alwahm who was playing Ratchet & Clank & MultiVersus 

Did a little tree branch cutting this afternoon

Watched the Phillies vs Mets game in London today, and good lord I forgot how awful Fox Sports is with its presentation and horrible pre-game show

 Finished the WWE Commission request, next is a Marvel related one which I'll start in the morning

Persona 4 Golden Achievements

• Boarded-Up Lab: Rescue Naoto Shirogane.

Persona 5 Tactica and other notes

We got a fair bit done during tonight's stream of Persona 5 Tactica, rescuing Fox and Queen to get all the Phantom Thieves reunited, along with seeing Toshiro is the center to the actual plot and not Erina. 

Finally saw the Accident variant for fusing Personas and it's hilarious, in addition to knocking out some side quests with the help of guides.

We're going to continue Persona 5 Tactica on Tuesday night's stream.

For the raid we went over to 13babybear13 who was also playing Persona 5 Tactica

Persona 5 Tactica Achievements

• Show Them Your Might, Zorro!: Swept away enemies with Morgana 20 times.
• Novice Dismantler: Broke down weapons 10 times.
• Perfect Aim: Performed 100 shooting attacks.
• The Battle Begins: Reunited the Phantom Thieves.
• Big Spender: Purchased 10 weapons.
• Accidents Happen: Witnessed a fusion accident.

Work was solid, even with a couple of technical difficulties picking up three interviews

I'm questioning the Phillies giving Aaron Nola a 7 year contract, but on the other hand he's going to end up being one of the longest tenured Phillies ever.

Didn't finish the WWE related story commission  I had on today's agenda but I'll be finishing it before I go to bed since it's about 85% finished.

Good night!

Starfield and other notes

 Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream of Starfield saw me mostly doing side quests as I came across them, some find of interesting, as we stuck mostly to one planet. I did find it really odds that my characters got roped into being recruited by two factions as I turn down one and then automatically got stuck with the other. Also learned there is no way to break down stuff from the inventory... which makes sense I guess because you are supposed to go out and search for resources, but at the same time inventory management is a fucking chore, not to mention finding vendors who will accept various items is a nightmare because trying to remember where shops are is quickly becoming a pain.

Now we did complete the first big mission for Constellation, so we now apparently have choices on how to proceed on the main story. Anyway, night time we play Starfield will be next Saturday night.

Out next stream on Sunday will feature Overwatch, with a start time of about 5 PM Eastern

Starfield Achievements

• Dust Off: Reach Level 5

For the raid we over to twitch.tv/kalenal for some Final Fantasy XIV

Didn't get as much writing done as I wanted to today for a WWE related commission, but it's nearly finsihed so after I post this blog I'll get write to that. Then I have two more story commission, one based on the Flash CW series and another one for AEW (thankfully the person who wants that included a nice big outline for me to follow)

I have been watching the Team Four Star commentaries on Dragon Ball Z Abridged, and it's become increasingly fascinating over what they do and don't remember.

At the time I'm writing this, the Phillies were up 6-1 on the Diamondback in game 5 of the NLCS... hopefully they can hold on and return to Philadelphia up 3 games to 2.

So with that, have a good night!

Horizon Zero Dawn and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream of Horizon Zero Dawn was the longest weeknight stream I've done in a while, guess having more than just one light on helped keeps me from feeling tired. Anyway, we got a lot done as we spent the entire night in the Frozen Wilds DLC area, finding everything we can find and doing all we could before advancing the plot. We found all the towers, all the animal statures and pigments, so we can pretty much focus on the DLC story next time we play it next week before getting back to the base game.Horizon Zero Dawn will be back next Friday night. 

Also on Monday we're going to start Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, which will be featured Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.

Saturday's stream will feature Starfield, with the stream starting around 5 PM Eastern.

Horizon Zero Dawn Trophies

• Reached level 40: Reached player level 40.
• Took the Shaman's Path: Survived the Shaman's Path and found Ourea's retreat.
• First Spear Modification: Applied a modification to your spear.
• All Pigments found: Found all of the Pigments in the Cut.
• All Animal Figurines found: Found all of the Animal Figurines in the Cut.
• All Control Towers disabled: Disabled all Control Towers by overriding or destroying them.

 For the raid we went to https://www.twitch.tv/misscammi316 where Overwatch was being featured

The Phillies lost tonight as Craig Kimbrel blew a lead in the 8th inning in what turned out to be a battle of the bullpens with the Diamondbacks. So now the Phillies need to win two of the next three games to go to the World Series. It's not looking good folks.

Work was meh, got a couple of interviews but it was real dull

So Jury Duty on Monday involves having to take part in a 90 minute webinar at 8 AM... and then apparently staying on call for the rest of the week? I'm rather confused about that 

Knocked out an story commission based on Arrow, and I have two more in the queue, one based on WWE programing (ugh...) and other based on The Flash which should be interesting to write.

Good night folks!

Day of the Tentacle, Smite and other Notes

 Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream opened with Day of the Tentacle and it was pretty much a sprint to the finish, even as I was taking my time and making sure I got nearly every achievement in the game, missing two that are not very obvious. I have a lot of positive things to say about the console port of this game, and it makes me wonder why Lucas Arts and Disney has not done remasters of other games from the Point and Click era of the 90s. Obviously I'll be doing a review of this game for my YouTube channel. Question of what will replace it in the weekly line up is up in the air at the moment.

Now Day of the Tentacle didn't fill the entire stream, as we loaded things up with Smite for the first time in a while, winning a couple of matches and losing a couple, playing as Athena, Baset, Discordia and Cupid. We will not talk about the Assault match which was a 3 versus 5 waste of time and downer to end the stream on.

Wednesday's stream over on twitch.tv/fredcasden will start around 9:30 PM Eastern, but Journey to the Savage Planet will be on hold as Iceman needs to work late, so we'll either start Starfield or RetroMania

Day of the Tentacle Remastered Achievements

• Voiding the Warranty: Try to put something metal in the microwave
• Master Plumber: Flush 50 objects through time
• Energy Conscious: Turn off the television
• Rap Sheet: Forger: Try to sign the contract yourself with the quill pen
• Behind Every Great Man Is a Quality Roadie: Red makes a super battery with only a little help from Hoagie
• Rap Sheet: Adventure Gamer: Pick up 45 things that don't belong to you
• Flush: Acquire a diamond
• That Should Have Worked: Hoagie uses battery with Chron-O-John instead of plug
• Number One: Power Hoagie's Chron-o-John
• Music Appreciation Award: Reach yesterday without turning the stereo off
• Yesterday's News: Defeat Purple Tentacle yesterday
• Mental Patience: Play the whole game without skipping a cutscene
• ...Take on the Words!: Sit through the end credits

SMITE Achievements

• Objective Stealer: Deliver the killing blow on a map objective where enemies did more damage in a qualifying match.

 For the raid we went to www.twitch.tv/EcoNstinct where Fortnite was being featured

Watched Justice League X RWBY Part 2 today, and it was a fun continuation of the first film, but it certainly made quite a few references to things in the later seasons of RWBY I didn't know about, which means I'll have to watch and catch up. There was one minor bit of disappointment in that the second film didn't fully commit to Ruby, Weiss, Yang and Blake adapting things to the DC Universe as things ended up favoring them using their standard abilities in the films climax.

Knocked out an commission story based on the Arrowverse today, and got an instant request for a follow up, which is awesome.

I certainly got something in mind for Halloween, just need to get the pieces together for it.

And on that note, good night!

Cyberpunk 2077 and other notes

 Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream of Cyberpunk 2077 saw a focus on trying to make sure we had all the relic upgrades, which saw a lot of trying to figure out which ones I had found already before realizing which two I didn't have. This resulted in getting an achievement  that only 0.15% of players unlocked. We also advanced the plot, and put our selves in a position to possibly finished the Phantom Liberty content on Saturday's stream.

Cyberpunk 2077 Achievements

• Relic Ruler: Unlock all Perks in the Relic Perk tree.

Our next stream for Friday night will feature Horizon Zero Dawn as we'll head into the Frozen Wilds area to that content. I believe we should be able to hang in with the apparent tougher enemies there.Stream will start around 9:30 PM Eastern over on twitch.tv/fredcasden

Per the recommendation of alexisthefemboy we raided twitch.tv/brittballs who was playing Portal 

Went out the post office to mail off my mail-in ballot for the upcoming General Election, ended up feeling incredibly sore and stiff in my lower back.

Knocked off a Mass Effect story commission this afternoon which turned out rather nicely.

Speaking of commission, the next two will  involve WWE anad Avatar The Last Airbender.

Work tonight was okay, got one interview done, so I felt productive in that regard.

Phillies beat the Braves 3-1 to advance to the NLCS, pulled up the radio feed on my phone to listen to the final out during the stream

And those are all of our notes today!

Good night folks!

Journey to the Savage Planet and other notes

 Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream featured more of the weekly fun we have with Iceman as we resumed Journey to the Savage Planet. We ended up focusing on the main story quests in trying to find the elements we needed to get through areas that are quite difficultly if not impossible to get around. We certainly ran into some boss level enemies which added a lot of strategy to deal with. the Floopsnoot requiring the hurling of acid goop took a little while to figure out.

Our next stream is scheduled for 9:30 PM Eastern as we continue Cyberpunk 2077 to continue the Phantom Liberty story arc over on http;//twitch.tv/fredcasden

Journey to the Savage Planet: Employee of the Month Edition Achievements

• Floopsnoot Queen Defeated: Successfully ended the bloodline of an endangered alien species! Congratulations!
• Ambidextrous: Use every left hand tool in the game. Gotta hand it to you: You're pretty handy.
• A Little Help, Please: Revive your Co-Op partner. Let's hope they learn to start pulling their weight.

Tonight's Raid: twitch.tv/mst3k
Streaming: Mystery Science Theater 3000

Finished a Spider-Man commission today in fairly straight forward order, making the sixth in a series based on the PS4 games.

Next commission story is based on Mass Effect, which will then be followed by a WWE commission request and then one based on Avatar The Last Airbender.

Work was solid if mundane...but right now I'm valuing the fact we got consistency for now.

Had a job interview today, think it went okay.

Picked up a few groceries, nothing major but enough where I shouldn't need to grab anything for a couple of weeks. 

Past made some pasta for two dinners.

Thursday is my niece Layal's birthday! 

And on that note good night!

Journey to the Savage Planet and other notes

Hi everyone,

Well the Phillies crushed the Marlins tonight to go on to face the Barves in the Division Round of the Playoffs... in a rematch of the same Division Series from last year. It's going to be interesting follow

Tonight's stream featured Journey to the Savage Planet, and following some issues in me being unable to hear Iceman and invites not working, we were able to get into a lot of exploring and finding the resources needed to unlock new gimmicks to help reach new areas... when we weren't figuring our own ways of getting around stuff. Looking forward to the next time we play it, which is slated for next Wednesday.

Journey to the Savage Planet: Employee of the Month Edition Achievements

• Return To Sender: Retrieved your own loot box. Death is no excuse for leaving behind Kindred property!
• I Want To Go Home. Eventually.: Marked your first fuel pod. Momma, I'm coming home!
• That's all people really want to do...: Kick 10 Pufferbirds in 45 seconds. It's why you bought the game. We get it.
• We came, We Saw, We Kicked Its Ass: Crack Cragclaw with a Co-Op partner. Teamwork really does make the dream work.
• Cragclaw Defeated: Cragclaw down. Break out the garlic butter! 

For the raid we went over to twitch.tv/zonesama during Cecilia Littlewing's marthone of retro television 

Our next stream is slated for Thursday night at 9:30 PM Eastern with Cyberpunk 2077, continuing doing stuff related to Phantom Liberty

Work tonight was okay, got a solid interview done right off the back before it became mundane and mind numbing in the final hour.

Finished the Watch Dogs commission story requests and got started on the WWE commission request straight away, trying to make it different from another similar is going to be a challenge. Also in the queue are commission stories based on Spider-Man and Resident Evil

Picked up a birthday present for my niece, as well as some sweatpants and the 2nd Justice League / RWBY crossover

And on that note, good night!

The Evil Within 2, Social Media Update and other notes

Hi everyone,

Work today was alright as we picked up two complete interviews, which I think were pretty solid given the very clunky nature of the questions that were asked. The issue with day hours is still up in the air for next week.

Tonight's stream of The Evil Within 2 saw a lot of roaming around in the first area of the game, finding missing items and little secrets before advancing the plot. Turns out Sebastian's missing daughter is being chased by a loon in a suit. We reached the Marrow and crossed to the other side to put is in the area of City Hall, which means we''ll be in a whole new area of the game next time we play it on Thursday.

Also huge thanks for the re-subs during tonight's stream! The support is always appreciated!

The Evil Within 2 Achievements

• Clearing a Path: Killed 60 enemies.
• I Am The Night: Killed 10 enemies using Sneak Kills.
• You Got Red in You: Used your first Red Gel.
• Taken: Saw a chilling vision.
• Now You're Playing with Power: Upgraded a weapon to Level 3.
• Making Things a Little Easier: Used your first High-Grade Weapon Parts.

Our next stream, scheduled for around 9:30 PM Eastern over on twitch.tv/fredcasden will feature Journey to the Savage Planet. I'm going to try and start as soon as I finish work to get any tutorial and sets ups out of the way as the plan is for Iceman to join in

For the raid we went over to twitch.tv/elegantlyslays who was playing Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Huge thank you to zephyrwrestles for hooking me up with a Blue Sky invite link, as we're now on that social media platform, which will be helpful for when Twitter goes  tits up! Here are all my current social media links: 

Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/fredcasden.bsky.social

Pebble: https://pebble.is/FredCasden

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fredcasden

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@fredcasdensworld

Twitter: https://twitter.com/fredCasden

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FredCasdenGaming

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fredcasden

 Finished the 16th entry in a series of Resident Evil commissions, with the focus being on Annette Birkin, since I won't use Sherry Birkin in these stories until way down the line. Also picked up a commission request for a Star Wars story which will make heavy use of 'time skips' to make sure it gets written in a reasonable amount of time.

 Phillies made the playoffs as the #1 wild card team in the National League, and they have a shot of finishing the season with over 90 wins.

And on that note, good night everyone!

Confused With Continuity in Fallout 76

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Fallout 76 saw some plot advancement, with the biggest detail being finding the Astronaut as a new CAMP companion. She has her own set of quests so it makes her a little more interesting than the forager. But the big thing that is amusing me is the 'order' of events, because heaven knows there is a real continuity problem with how I'm approaching every quest, as some things were started months ago that should have been done early on but because I keep finding quests it's tough to find. A great example is the fact I've done a lot with the Brotherhood of Steel's introductory plot but that place well after stuff involving the Overseer which I'm still in the middle of doing.

We were of course joined by Iceman to get various challenges done in his 1st World, and some hilarity was had along the way. We did see what was involved in fixing a power plant, so I'll be more inclined to do those in the normal game world going forward.

Big thanks to the viewers for kicking in 1000 bits and to Iceman for renewing his sub for the 52nd month in a row! I'm happy that I'm able to earn that continued support from you folks!

Twitch Clips

• You've Already Had One!
• We Just Punched A Bear In The Face! 
• It's A Chia Pet!
  

For the raid we dropped in on TracyDoll as they were playing Friday the 13th: The Game over on twitch.tv/tracydoll!  

Well one of the worst assignments for work came in... I can't complain, but the production rate  The fact that a meeting is being held to get feedback which we're going to experience the same issues as last year is making me glad that I don't clock in until noon.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Body Uppercut COmbo, Advanced Combo #2 and Body Straight Combo for 31 minutes.

A lot of folks are upset that Ubisoft is shutting down a lot of online features for the PC versions of a number of their titles, like Assassins Creed III ... thing is... everyone knew this was going to happen because of the Remaster that game and others like it got. Why keep the older version online when there is the remastered version that included everything that was DLC originally? It's just a smart move.

So the Phillies lost two games in a row against the Blue Jays, and everyone on the team can just look at JT Realmuto and go 'yeah this is on you dude'.

Staying on the subject of Baseball, my Fantasy Baseball Team is off to a good start... but because of the All-Star break, the week is 'extended' to included next week as well, so there is a lot of concern regarding how well my team will continue to do. 

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For tonight's stream we're back to Final Fantasy XIV, with the goal of doing some Hildibrand quests and other stuff like raids, trials and maybe some leveling.

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

Huge Night Of Persona 5 Strikers

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Persona 5 Strikers didn't have one single interruption which was amazing. Now I did move the coaxel cables as far as possible from any other cables (namely electrical ones), and maybe that was a solution, because I did read that if they crossed it could cause a disruption. We'll see how that plays out for Saturday's stream.

Anyway, with Persona 5 Strikers, we covered the entire second jail which wasn't so bad, as it was pretty straight forward from getting from one part to another... also realized how the level grinding works towards characters achievements, in that a lot of play time with each member of the Phantom Thieves is needed, and this is certainly going to be a lot more rewarding because "Requests' and revisiting prior jails are now unlocked, With time not being as much of a factor as with Persona 5 Royal. that means deliberate trips to do nothing but farm enemies is something we'll probably do.

In terms of the story, Yusuke being the focal point in having to have a come to the fictional son of a fictional higher-being meeting with the second villain certainly severed as a great call back to where Yusuke started as a character. Now from what I've seen of the start of the third arc, it seems Haru is going to be front and center for it, since it involves someone she directly knows.  

Also Futaba has been stealing the show in several ways, her comments regarding Ann and Haru's development in certain areas certainly was hilarious.

Persona 5 Strikers Trophies

• Knife in the Dark: Performed 50 ambushes.
• Unshakeable Teamwork: Performed an All-Out Attack 150 times.
• Flame Dancer: Obtained all Master Arts for Panther.
• A Helping Hand: Completed a request.
• Phantom Striker: Defeated 200 enemies with a phantom dash.
• Peerless Blade: Obtained all Master Arts for Fox.
• Cage of Vanity Conquered: Completed the Sendai Jail.
• A Little Memento: Obtained a souvenir for the camper.

Twitch Clip Links

• Ann's Showtime
• Taking Down The Nightmare Dragon 
• Futaba Is Impressed.... Aha!
  

During the stream we got 400 bits from the viewing audience, the support is always appreciated! Big thanks for the support! And also big thanks to YrGamerBunni for the huge raid  following their stream of Crusader Kings III which they play every Friday over on twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni! 

Rather surprised the Phillies seem to be holding it together thus far, but with Bryce Harper out till most likely late August, I highly doubt July is going to be as good a month as June was for them. 

My fantasy baseball team holds a 6-4 advantage this week, but with two days left and some guys playing on teams that have double headers today, I'm hoping I guessed right to having the right folks starting. 

Per LvStrkr's recommendation, we've added Blue Dragon to the list of Xbox360 games to play at some point.

I have a 5 days weekend, since it was announced yesterday afternoon that the July 4th break will be extended to included the 5th. So I should have no excuse not to knock out the commissioned Halo fic that I already started writing a few days ago.

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

Fitness Boxing 2 Rhythm & Exercise Stats For June 26 to July 2, 2002

• Punches Thrown: 8,554
  
• Estimated Calories Burned: 3527.64 kcal
  
• Bernardo's Champion Progress: 68% (34 out of 50 hours trained)
  
• King EX Fighter Progress: 94%
  

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For tonight's stream, I have no clue what we're going to do at the time I'm writing this at 4:56 AM, we might do some older-era gaming tonight just to have some variety.

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

Just Doing Things In Fallout 76

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Fallout 76 was mostly without incident, until the game itself started crashing repeatedly when I messing around with stuff related to the Brotherhood of Steel. Don't know why things like that happen on Consoles but who knows. We were also joined by Iceman who accessed the Fallout 1st gimmick which means we could probably knock out dailies rather quickly when he's able to join which means more of a chance to tackle the scoreboard things. Overall thing were mostly straight forward last night. I did hope to hit level 35, but that was a no go on stream. Did duck back in off-stream to knock out a bit to reach that mark... but ran out of 5.56 ammo. Also I basically have the option of joining the Brotherhood of Steel, not sure if there is another faction or not and who would technically be the good guys.

Fallout 76 Achievements

• Shwag: Collect 10 Bobbleheads

Twitch Clips

• Anyone Else Want Some?
• Get Away From My Stuff!
• Another Thing Comes Running Up On Iceman 
  

For the raid last night we dropped in on DaemonsW0lf who was playing Hunt: Showdown and celebrating their birthday over at twitch.tv/daemonsw0lf! 

Played some Smite last night knocking out a few weekly quests which involved playing as Hunters and Assassins... and of the two classes, I'm much better as a Hunter. Still played two matches as Thanatos and Charybdis, unlocking an achievement with the later.

SMITE Achievements

• Drown Your Sorrow: Unlock the Smite Award "Drown Your Sorrow"

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout Featured Intermediate Como #2, Hip Shape Focus Combo and Straight Combo #2.

We had work yesterday afternoon, and from what I learned, is that Republicans are completely delusional as it pertains to Roe vs Wade and gun violence. How can these people have their head so far up their asses at this point is beyond me.

Rather surprised the Phillies won yesterday afternoon as I was following the game via Twitter

Apparently the WWE Board of Directors is targeting Vince McMahon himself for a $3 Million payment of hush money... and no this has nothing to do with the hush money he paid to keep Jimmy Snuka out of prison back in the 80s, and it involves some major speculation regarding John Laurenitits as well. Will be very interesting to see if this forces Vince out of his own company considering Stephanie has taken a leave of absence recently. Apparently the investigations started in April and there has been enough found for it to be made public.

And speaking of WWE, looks like Sasha Banks has been let go... I know maybe two people are sadden by that.

LvStrkr said he would join us for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge fun on Saturday if he's not too busy, so we could have some co-op silliness with the new game this weekend! I have already pre-installed the game on my Xbox One S.

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For tonight's stream, the plan is of course Final Fantasy XIV, which will focus on all the usual nonsense of raids and basic level grinding on alternate jobs.

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

Completed 3 Of Persona 4 Arena's Story Arcs

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream was mostly without incident, with the exception of a weird outage at 9:10 PM, as it appears there was a disruption of not just my internet service but also my cable service as well, at least according to the Xfinity app. It's the first sign of a problem since Saturday afternoon. 

Anyway, we went through the story mode of Persona 4: Arena for Aigis& Labrys to completion as well as the back portion for Yukiko. There was certainly a lot of back story revealed for Labrys and atd the same time Aigis as well in terms of their origin but boy did it raise a ton of questions about how the hell the continuity works with the various arcs for each characters. Unlike in BlazBlue where every story felt connected, with some time-manipulation, I'm really not sure if a a similar gimmick is in place with P4A because of how Aigis and Yukiko's endings seem quite definitive. Of course we'll be continuing going through Persona 4: Arena during next week's line up to work our way through full story arcs from start to finish (and finding the joke endings as well). This will be possible because we did do Labrys's story in full so nearly everyone will have a straight path to the end.

Huge thanks to Redneck_23 and Iceman7667 for renewing their sub to my Twitch channel, as well as to YrGamerBunni for the bits!

Persona 4: Arena Achievements

• The President: Labrys' Story chapter has been told.
• The Unconquerable: Yukiko's Story chapter has been told.
• The Angel: Aigis' Story chapter has been told.

Twitch Clips

• I was just joking about that
• Nearly Flawless 
• Sweet!
  

For the raid we dropped in on Elden Ring who was playing Elden Ring over at twitch.tv/tracydoll! 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Advanced Combo #1, Sway Back Combo and Beginner Combo #2 for 34 minutes

Jeff Hardy was arrested... again... it seems like being away from the WWE is not what was best for him; because he was working a toned down style prior to literally walking out... and now after going to AEW and going balls out in the ring again, look at how quickly he's falling into old habits.  

Since the Score Board Bot was working, it meant I was able to keep tract of the Phillies epic collapse to the Marlins last night... I told ya'll that hot streak they were on wasn't because Joe Giradi was fired.

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I was surprised that there was a huge Fallout 76 patch update (25+ GBs) which I promptly installed last night, so it's going to be interesting to see what it involves. Also learned that with the new seasons the 'scoreboard thing' resets, so there is real incentive to try and do daily activities

Of course that will relate to tonight's stream which of course will featured Fallout 76, and Iceman will most likely join us for more shenanigans!

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

Xfinity Crippled Last Night's Stream

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream certainly had a lot of problems thanks to Xfinity. We started at a bit after 6:30 PM Eastern because I went out of my way to reset my modem to try and prevent any issues, and there was a patch update for Final Fantasy XIV. At 7:17 PM Eastern we had a break in the stream due to the network service provided by Xfinity becoming unstable. This happened again at 7:23 PM, then at 7:38 PM, at which point I started trying to get a live person on the phone. It took having to schedule a call back to reach someone, at which point when I'm talking to them live the network becomes unstable at 7:57 PM and again at 8:04 PM. This basically resulted in the first hour and half of the stream being basically worthless in terms of the archives. And they have the balls to say I would be charged for any changes of equipment that may end up having to take place. Needless I fucking went ballistic, because I have NEVER been charged when anything needed replacing in the past. 

Now after that call and making it real clear what I'm expecting with Saturday's Technician visit, we managed to have a stable stream the rest of the way to about 11:30 PM. We did the usual stuff Botanty level grinding, Fishing, some Alliance Raids, Trials and Dungeons plus some PVP. I really hate having incomplete streams in the archives. Thing is one could really tell by my body language that I was completely taken out of the mood for last night's stream with all the issues that plagued a large chunk of it.

Twitch Clips

• Just Hang On...
• When The Internet Service I Get From Xfinity Stars To Go Wrong 
• Reel it in... but it got away from me
  

For last night's raid, we dropped in on Oldish22 who was also playing Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/oldish22! 

I did take a glance at the that January 6th hearings after last night's stream, and if anything the Republican party is being exposed for just wanting to stay in power by any and all means. That said, I wonder how badly Donald Trump is going to bitch out Ivanka for her saying under oath she believed the election wasn't stolen.

I did add a few additions to my Camp Site in Fallout 76, the water slide and collection to make things a little more odd. I'm considering possibly relocating my camp to another location, but not 100% sure what would be a good spot.

The Phillies swept the Brewers and I'm surprised they are keeping this momentum, but it's clearly not to sustainable with the current roster and obvious limitations of the  pitching staff. 

Got into some Smite matches after the stream and thankfully there were no issues and we picked up an achievement as well, getting the 50th kill streak with Esst.

SMITE Achievements

• Can't Stop This: Get 50 killing sprees in qualifying matches.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Hook Combo #2, Body Straight Combo and Body Uppercut Combo. Duration was 31 minutes. 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge comes out on June 16, and is developed / published by the same folks who made Streets of Rage 4, so I'm expecting the same level of quality there. Looks like for those getting the game on the Nintendo Switch there will be a 10% discount through June 22.

The Capcom Fighting Collection has a release date of June 24, and there will be a bundle option that includes exclusive illustrations and remixed music, plus Three Wonders for Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium. 

Speaking of Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium that has a release date of July 22

For tonight's stream Persona 5 Royal is on deck, and here's hoping we won't have any issues. The plan will be to tackle the final leg of the December 24th gauntlet and then head into the story that carries things into January. I know we have one more palace to tackle

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

We Built A House In Fallout 76

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream suffered two major interruptions, and it's real funny when Xfinity called me yesterday to say the issue was fixed only for things to go wonky yet again. Good thing I did not cancel the technician visit on Saturday. 

Anyway we were of course playing Fallout 76 last night, and the first two hours was mostly spent on me building a house in game, and it turned out rather nice I think in terms of having two floors and plenty of tools for visitors to use. Iceman joined in and we finally wrapped up the Mistress of Mysteries story arc, getting a very rare achievement in the process. We also did some random exploring to open up some other areas of the Wasteland to make traveling a little easier depending on what quests pop up. All in all, it was very productive.

Fallout 76 Achievements

• Mistress of Mystery: Complete "Mistress of Mystery"

Twitch Clips

• You are not getting through that floor!
• Well he's fast! 
• Dude... Double Dude!
  

For last night's raid we dropped in on Redneck_23 who was playing Wolfenstein over on twitch.tv/redneck_23!  

Finished the commissioned Halo fan fic based around the end of Halo 4 (which I have never played), and all things considered, I'm not completely sure what more I could have done with it giving the circumstances of when Cortana becomes 'physical'. 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Uppercut Combo #2 and Double Combo #1. I woke up incredibly early by my standards and just wasn't feeling it today.

Capcom has announced the full list of games for Capcom Arcade Stadium 2, and it includes a number of titles that will be appearing in the Capcom Fighting Collection Games listed in bold will be in both collection of games. Also, titles that are underline are the games that appeared in the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection. Now my big question regarding the 2nd Capcom Arcade Stadium is what will the achievements look light, because I'm not really seeing anything that could be put on an endless loop to grind out hours.

• 1943 Kai
• Black Tiger
• Block Block
• Capcom Sports Club
• Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors
• Eco Fighters
• Gan Sumoku (GunSmoke)
• Hissatsu Buraiken (Avengers)
• Hyper Dyne Side Arms
• Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition
• Knights of the Round
• Last Duel
• Magic Sword
• Mega Man: The Power Battle
• Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters
• Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge
• Pnickies
• Rally 2011 LED Storm
• Saturday Night Slam Masters
• Savage Bees (Exed Exes)
• SonSon
• Street Fighter
• Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams
• Street Fighter Alpha 2
• Street Fighter Alpha 3
• Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix
• Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
• The King of Dragons
• The Speed Rumbler (Rush & Crash)
• Three Wonders
• Tiger Road
• Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire

The Phillies have gotten themselves on a hot streak, but I doubt it's going to last long, as injuries have certainly taken a toll on the starting line up as of late.

The plan for tonight's stream is Final Fantasy XIV, as you know raids, trials, fishing botany and other stuff is on my agenda for it. Hopefully tonight will be a night where there are no issues.

But we'll see what ends up happening when we see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Finally a Dragoon

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Final Fantasy XIV was very productive in terms of getting various  things done... and I learned that I will have to do the Savage raids of the hardest raids to even have a shot of getting a weapon that matches my current gear set. Still I managed to conquer the Palace of the Dead to now have access to Heaven-on-High... and also finally leveled up Lancer to the point we can start the Dragoon quests... which means, when we encountered Estinien he doesn't know who I am because of when this set of quests takes place in the grand scheme  of the story. Beyond that, also gained a level on Fishing and Botany to bring those up, with Botany being the higher priority in terms of quests.

Twitch Clips

• Or Was It Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana Fanna Bo Besca III
• Ooops.... 
• That's A Metalica Song... From the Black Album...
  

For the raid last night we dropped in on YrGamerBunni who was playing Crusader Kings III over at twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni! 

The Phillies fired Joe Giradi... and I'm not sure how that can be justified considering the half-ass team he was assigned that had consistently the worse bullpen in modern history over the past few years.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Advanced Combo #1, Waist Shape Focus Combo and Hook Combo #1

There is a new Beavis and Butt-Head movie coming out... sure it's behind the paywall of Paramount+, but the idea that franchise is being brought back is surprising!

Made sure to have things ready to renew PlayStation Plus for the next year... will also need to remember to do the same for the Nintendo Switch before the end of the month. Of course, I have this ready before learning that PlayStation Plus subscriptions do no stack so I'll have to wait to implement it

Well it's confirmed, Resident Evil 4, the game that probably set the standard for a generation is getting a Remake... I am disappointed that Code Veronica has gotten over looked... again.

Played a couple of matches of Smite as Esst, winning one and losing one. I figure I might try to get Esst to rank 10 at a casual pace. Also got in a few matches in Overwatch, working mostly on my escape skills as D.va, which will come in handy in a 5 v 5 situation in Overwatch 2.

For tonight's stream we going to be playing Persona 5 Royal, as we're probably going to going to the Cruise Ship palace as soon as possible!

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

It's A Thursday

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream opened with me going off for 30 minutes on every single politician who has sided with the gun lobbyists that has lead to more and more massacres over the years.  Something I noticed is that less than 24 hours after the incident on Monday there was one attempted yesterday in Dallas that thankfully was prevented.

After a break, things switched over to Fallout 76 for the remainder of the stream, as we were joined by Iceman as we continued our focus on Mistress of Mysteries story arc, while getting a few different things done along the way. I need to make sure I have a lot of Stimpacks because I'm basically constantly getting into trouble to the point I end up having no ways to heal myself.. And for the first time since I started gaming using Xbox consoles, I've had an incident with some asshole harassing me. Said person has been blocked and footage of it was forwarded to Bethesda. Good news is, since Iceman was part of the fun last night, he witnessed it as well.

Twitch Clips

• Wasn't there something glowy around here?
• The Aggressive Mothman 
• Medic!
  

For the raid last night we dropped in on YrGamerBunni who was playing Halo: Infinite over at twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni! 

The 2006 game, Sonic the Hedgehog, has been relisted on the Xbox Game Store for digital purchase. It's not on the list of backwards compatible games, but the fact it's been made available must mean Sega might actually go about fixing it. I highly doubt it because Sega has never really been a company that attempt to fix prior releases... which is funny considering Sonic '06 sold  really well and despite some of its premise and stylistic choices has some very unique things going for it. Hell one of the best stages in Sonic Generations is based on Sonic '06. 

Had a full shift of work yesterday which was nice, all things considered as it was for the annual survey of hospitals in a mid-western state. This would be different from the one I mentioned for Monday, as this one I know exactly how temperamental (Key part of that being MENTAL) some of the respondents can be.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Sway Back Combo, Block Combo and Straight Combo #2. There is a good chance we'll complete the requirements for Laura's Contender with tomorrow's session.

There has been a sharp increase in the call for the Phillies to fire Joe Giradi as manager... but how can one justify that when he has had a shitty pitching staff handed to him every single year?

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For tonight's stream we shall be playing Final Fantasy XIV, all the usual nonsense of raids, fishing, botany and leveling.

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

Whole lot of roaming around in Fallout 76

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Fallout 76 saw a fair amount  of things done, a lot of roaming around to get various stuff done, including killing the 6 different enemies with Grant's Sword. Iceman has that same quest, but he joined us late so he still has a few to get on that quest. Other things done was the Top of the World quest that sees the players meet Rose, plus various lore related stuff such as the Overseer notes. I do think the enemies get tougher when in a group. Another theory I have is that Fallout 76 is built around going every damn play, but the tying of Fast Travel to the Bottle Caps will make some quests a real slog to get through. Still we had fun!

You Can't Tell Nukes Landed Here

Fallout 76 Achievements

• Personal Matters: Complete "Personal Matters"
• Ain't He the Cutest?: Collect a Bobblehead
• Pioneer Scout: Discover 100 Locations

Twitch Clips 

• Exploded!
• The shoot out on top of the world 
• It's Big And Bad and Ugly
  

For last night's raid we dropped in on FnDanteSavage who was playing Gears of War 3 over on twitch.tv/fndantesavage!

May 19, 2022

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout involved Difficulty Challenge Combo #1, Defensive Combo #2 and Defensive Combo #1.

Part way finished the latest fic commission request, getting a good chunk done. I feel like I'm getting back into a groove of writing again to some degree.

Messed around some more with Smite, only playing Assault matches to see if I can figure out anything with Gods that I never played before that were randomly selected. Of note Gilgamesh and Cthulhu were interesting. With Gilgamesh I figure being able to dive in and do a lot of damage is key, or to at least set things up, he did have one of the easiest achievements to get which just involved going to a specific point of the playing field. Cthulhu is pretty tanky, but really seems all about setting up things for the team, but his related achievements involving trying to stack passives which is not my strong suit.

SMITE Achievements

• Quick Turn-In: Unlock the Smite Award "Quick Turn-In"

Looks like Bryce Harper is going to be sidelined for a few days, which just hurts my Fantasy Baseball team considering the hot stretch he was on.

Looking at the footage for the She-Hulk TV show I have to say... visually it looks awful, as the look for She-Hulk herself looks like it' straight out of the uncanny valley of PlayStation 3 video game cut scenes. 

Headline I didn't think I see 'Kathy Griffin shows of her sexy body'... I get it, there's the trend of a lot of the older celebrities who had their prime in the 90s showing off how great they look, but c'mon, this is reaching a little bit.

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For tonight's stream, we'll be doing a casual night of Final Fantasy XIV, you know the drill, a couple of raids, some leveling and fishing. So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

 

We Finished Chrono Cross The Radical Dreamers Edition

 Good morning everyone,

Well we finished Chrono Cross The Radical Dreamers Edition last night... and three achievements based on story points where not unlocked, two of which should have popped last night. Then there was the fact we did the set up for the good ending twice, sitting through the credits completely both time with that achievement not popping. Of course the poor optimization of this remaster certainly had me on the 'just get it done' way of doing things, as we used the battle boost and the fast forward options just to tear through major battles. Considering this is the second remaster from SquareEnix released this year that has had issues, I do hope that they are actually going to be more serious about things from their history being remade or remastered in the future considering how they sold most of their non-Japan based studios early this year. But you know what is great, since we did a play through of the original Chrono Cross last year, I went and looked that clip from August 31, 2021 of the final battle, and man my body language was completely different, as I looked completely done with the Radical Dreamers edition

I was not going to leave this alone, so off-stream, I uninstalled and reinstalled Chrono Cross The Radical Dreamers Edition, changed the appearance settings to classic and and re-ran the final boss battle again to get the good ending, and the achievement popped on the third attempt... then I went and got the bad ending. So that's two achievements knocked off the list.

Of course now I get to ponder about what will replace Chrono Cross in the weekly lineup, there are a few contenders, like the classic version of Mass Effect 3 for example, or maybe we can do something odd like revisit a TellTale Series game like Game of  Thrones.

Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition Achievements

• The Defiant: Defeat FATE, the mother computer of Chronopolis.
• Lucca's Legacy: Use Kid's unique level 7 tech, Hot Shot.
• The Long-Lost Element: Obtain Chrono Cross, the rainbow-aligned Element.
• The Devourer Undone: Defeat the evolved form of the Time Devourer.
• A New Future: See the good ending.
• An Unchanging Future: See the bad ending.
  

Twitch Clips 

• Its dead after all that
• Up from the depths... 40 stories high... 
• There we go, we cheesed it... worth it
  

For the raid last night, we dropped in on RoseMaryShorn who was playing Dragon Age: Inquisition over at twitch.tv/rosemaryshorn!This is of course a reminder to me to reinstall it and play the DLC quests.

Played a handful of matches of Smite last night, and focused on playing as Hera and I think I figured out a few things in Arena using her. Seems like I can use her from the back line a fair bit. Her shield is real useful. Also, Hera's achievements were part of the "A Necessary Darkness" expansion at this time both were still diamond level achievements.

SMITE Achievements

• Royal Assault: Unlock the SMITE Award "Royal Assault."
• Argus to the Rescue: Unlock the SMITE Award "Argus to the Rescue."

I managed to build up another decently long Xbox achievement streak of 19 days and 116 achievements going back to April 30th. It is my fourth longest streak to date. 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout involved Intermediate Combo #1, Triple Combo #2 and Biceps Shape Focus Combo. Woke up a bit late so kept the basic workout streak going.

Have yet another commission fan fic request based around old WWE storylines, this time involving The Miz's dressing down of Daniel Bryan back in 2016. I got two ideas of how I want to approach it that could be interesting.

The new skins for the Anniversary Remix Event Volume 2 in Overwatch clearly had some thought put into what alternate color schemes would work. Probably the best one is Sombra's Neon Cat.

People are complaining about the Phillies being shut out for the fourth time in thirty-six games, to which I say... when all you have is the offense to carry a team, then shut outs are going to happen very frequently.

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For tonight's stream, we're back to Fallout 76, as we'll most likely will be joined by Iceman as we work our way through West Virginia in our quest to do stuff.

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