A Halloween Night of Ghostbusting

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream, well I did in costume... sort of... I have a Star Trek uniform top that I wear mostly as an excuse for Halloween... but the entire night was focused on Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, and color me surprised because they released a patch update to make things better, including making sure some achievements were being tracked, which is awesome, as it lead to a lot of achievements popping over the course of the evening. There is one achievement which is glitched, called 'Master Collector' involved with finding all the 'clippings' for the five locations, which I did. So that was disappointing

Now Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed will be moving to be apart of the Saturday Night combination of games starting next week, as I have accomplished nearly everything possible on the Ghostbuster side of things... but playing as a Ghost is damn near impossible, even when I want to queue up as a ghost for specific map, it keep kicking me to being a Ghostbuster. Ah well, at least this is a super fun game.

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Achievements

• Rift Destroyer: Help Destroy 30 Rifts
• Therapeutic: Calm down 100 civilians from Scared state
• Skilled: Fully Level up a piece of Gear
• Collector: Find all location secret clippings for a single location
• There you are!: PKE Blast Flush a Ghost out of hiding
• We have the best insurance: Finish a Job with the location totalled
• Side Hustle: Fully Complete a Contract
• Seasoned: Reach Profile Level 50
• Meticulously Efficient: Bust a Ghost with less than 1,000 dollars worth of property damage
• Teamwork: Pull a Ghost into a trap with a 4 person tether
• Solo Capture: Capture a Ghost all by yourself
• Rift Seeker: Uncover 50 Rifts
• Legions: Capture 1 of each of the 5 Ghost Types
• Ghostbuster In Training: Capture 25 Ghosts

Twitch Clips

• Achievement: We Have The Best Insurance
• Achievement: Solo Capture 
• Achievement: Ghostbuster in Training
  

For the raid we dropped in on BestiBunni who was playing Magic: The Gathering over at twitch.tv/bestibunni!

Big thanks to LvStrkr for hooking me up with a redemption code for some goodies in Fallout 76, looking forward to seeing what that includes!  

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

Finished the Until Dawn short story commission yesterday, now my attention turns to a WWE short story commission to continue a series the client wanted featuring stars who have returned to the promotion.

Game 3 of the World Series was rained out and everything was pushed back a day, which kind of makes things interesting for games four and five in Philadelphia... because originally Nola's next apperance would be game 5 with Wheeler starting game four... but now they are options for games four and five because of last night's rain out.

I wasn't going to visit my family this December, but my mom promised to make me Eggs Benedict. So I'm going home for the hollandaise.

Song of the Day: Last Nite by The Strokes

For tonight's stream we're returning back to Dragon Ball FighterZ to begin the second story mode, and we might also take a crack at one of the two longer arcade routes as well.

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

A Super Long Night Of Overwatch 2

Happy Halloween everyone,

Well last night's stream of Overwatch 2 started early, and lasted a lot longer than normal... ended up being a seven hour long stream, with us using a variety of characters, D.va, Junker Queen, Reinhardt, Oirssa, Roadhog, Moira, Brigitte, Mei, Junkrat and others. We picked up four plays of the game as Brigitte, Junkrat, Mei and Junker Queen.  We were also joined by PandaSweet for several matches as well, which is always a treat. Also picked up an in-game achievement as Sigma in a rather frantic moment.

Overwatch 2 Achievements

• Conservation of Energy: Gain 350 shields with a single use of Sigma's Kinetic Grasp in Quick or Competitive Play.

That said, there were several moments of major stupidity as I've seen in regards to people not knowing how to deal with Zarya, which is simple... DO NOT SHOOT HER BUBBLES. If you should her bubble barriers, it powers up her weapon, which can melt virtually everyone. Then there was the last match of the night, where as I Mei, Panda as Symmetra and a random player as Brig all had more mitigated damage than a random D.va who refused to use their defensive matrix. 

Twitch Clips

• Get Ready For A Shock!
• What a finish! 
• Achievement: Conservation of Energy
  

Big thank you to Lunar_Princess for the raid following their stream of Little Nightmares over at twitch.tv/lunar_princess!

For our raid, we dropped in on MissCammi316 who was also playing Overwatch 2 over at twitch.tv/misscammi316!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Front-Back Step Combo, Defensive Combo #2 and Uppercut Combo #2 for 28 minutes

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise Stats For October 2022

• Punches Thrown: 37802
  
• Estimated Calories Burned: 15988.11 kcal
  
• Sophie's Champion Progress: 74% (37 out of 50)
  
• King EX Fight Progress:97%
• Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days: 689
• Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days: 847

I like to spend every day as if it's my last. Staying in bed and calling for a nurse to bring me more pudding.

I got fired from my job at the bank today. An old lady came in and asked me to check her balance, so I pushed her over.

Song of the Day: Freaks by Surf Curse

Game 3 of the World Series is tonight, and I am hoping the Phillies can take full advantage of their home field advantage.

Nearly finished writing the short story commission request based on Until Dawn, It's going to be cutting it close to getting it to the requested word count the client wants. In case you can't tell, I'm a very formulaic approach when it comes to writing anything and getting my point across.

For tonight's stream we're playing Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, I think we're in good shape to maybe pick up one achievement.

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

Logitech Firmware Update Breaks Audio And Dragon Ball The Breaks Has No One Playing It

Good afternoon everyone,

Let's start with one of the annual pains in the ass that always rolls around whenever Logitech releases a firmware update for its G-Hub... it always... ALWAYS breaks how audio is captured in OBS and it's always a pain to fix, but this time I couldn't fix it with all my usual methods of unplugging and plugging the Elgato HD 60 S back in, it completely screwed with it. Not to mention, this latest Logitech firmware update also broke audio connection in Discord, Overwatch and the Xbox Desktop App on PC. As of this time, I still haven't gotten it fixed. In fact I spent a half hour on stream trying to fix it

Then there is Dragon Ball: The Breakers...which was something we've been playing over the past few weeks, but the long queue times was just getting ridiculous, most I ever saw was 6 at anyone time and I just said to hell with it an uninstalled it, live on stream. Turns out that the lack of cross-play is really hurting Dragon Ball: The Breakers because just a few weeks since launch there are barely 4000 players on the Steam version at any given time. That may seem like a lot, but it's not when you factor in that Dead by Daylight has 10 to 20 times that amount at any given time. Maybe we'll bring it back down the line if there is a major update, but I doubt it.

So we ended up bouncing around from game to game starting with Nickelodeon All-Stars Brawl doing two arcade mode runs, and one of which as the newest character in the game, Rocco from 'Rocco's Modern Life'. He's very floating, in fact much like Stripe over in MultiVersus, Rocco has an attack that can result in him plummeting to his death. The other arcade run was as Oblina from 'Ahhh! Real Monsters', and I actually increased the difficult for that, and if it wasn't for Powder Toast Man, I probably would've had a perfect run through it. Also picked up one achievement in this game

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Achievements

• Astonishing!: Clear Arcade with 5 brawlers

Next, we jumped over to Gears 5, and I totally forgot how to play it. We did a horde mode run and a quick Co-Op versus AI, noting major involved, just mindless fun.

Because I do have to put in serious time and grinding effort into Capcom Arcade 2nd Stardium, we spent some time playing that and getting myself on the scoreboard for a few different games. Was rather cool to see my scores for some stuff.

Lastly, we played some Smite, just doing a couple of challenges, lost both matches, but hey, people saw me play as Thor and as Ares, the later of which resulted in me getting an achievements.

SMITE Achievements

• Two Chains? Nah, Five: Unlock the SMITE Award Twos Chains? Nah, Five.

Twitch Clips

• Launching Garfield
• Oblina versus Zim 
• Clearing Arcade With Oblina
• Back in the ground! 
• Light 'Em Up!
• Co-Op vs AI 
• Chip Damage For The Win!
• Super Combo Finish! 
• Cutting it close!
• Slaying an enemy! 
• Achievement: Two Chains? Nah, Five
• Making it Interesting 
  

For the raid we dropped in on aggie_og who was playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II over at twitch.tv/aggie_og! 

Zach Wheeler got lit up for 5 runs in the Phillies 5-2 loss to the Astros, and like Aaron Nola I think Wheeler is basically cooked. Remember, both pitched in one more series than the Astros starters have and it is starting to show. But, the series is tied 1-1, and the Phillies have home field advantage... so maybe things will work out in their favor for the next three games at Citizens Bank Park.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout will featured Intermediate Combo #1, Triple Combo #2 and Defensive COmbo #2 for 31 minutes.

What's green and has wheels? Grass. I lied about the wheels.

Sometimes I tuck my knees into my chest and lean forward. That's just how I roll.

Song of the Day: Infinity by Jaymes Young

It's the start of a new week, so let's recap what we played over the past seven days which was Overwatch 2, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Until Dawn, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, Gears 5, Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium and Smite!

Started work on the Until Dawn commissioned short story, getting the intro done, and I have a good idea for the ending, just the meat of the story will take a bit of figuring out.

For tonight's stream, we're playing Overwatch 2, and we will featured the new Junkenstein's Revenge PVE content that rolled out on Tuesday plus we'll get up to all our usual nonsense.

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

So who survived my second playthrough of Until Dawn?

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night we finished our second play-through of Until Dawn and we had nearly everyone survive except for two characters. First Emily was sent to the great beyond because of The Exorcism of Emily achievement, and the other was Josh because I didn't find one collectable in chapter 10 to trigger him surviving. Still everyone else survived, which was actually better than my first play through last where where we lost Ashley, Mike, Jessica and Matt.

Of course I know some friends of mind were very disappointed in that result, but I did make it as hard as possible for myself when it came to taking some of the harder choices in terms of quick time events. Still this is a game that has a lot of replay value to try and get different results.

I do want to touch on the collectables for a moment, in that I was being incredibly thorough for this play through of Until Dawn, and outside of the final one associated with the Twins, I have no clue of exactly where some are when it relates the Mystery Man, 1952 and the Totems. I'll probably need a guide to find them.

Until Dawn Trophies

• The Exorcism of Emily: Mike shot Emily
• Don't Scare Jessica To Death: Jessica survived her night of terror

Twitch Clips

• This is the safe room Emily!
• Like a coconut! 
• Boom!!!
  

For the raid we dropped in on BestiBunni as they were playing Crusader Kings III over at twitch.tv/bestibunni! 

Work was kind of interesting yesterday in seeing just how stupid something people are in relation to those who are reasonable. Having been in Market Research for as long as I have, I do miss the days prior to 2016 when everyone on both sides were semi-intelligent. 

It wasn't pretty put the Phillies won game one of the World Series beating the Astros 6-5 in 10 innings. Aaron Nola got rocked, but Justin Verlander wasn't much better as they each gave up 5 runs, resulting in it being a battle of the bullpens. I have a sinking feeling that Nola is at the end of his rope for the year. Still I was hoping for the Phillies to get at least one win in Houston to start the series.

Now it's on to game two tonight with Zack Wheeler on the hill... if the Phillies can win tonight, and that is a huge if, it will mean Citizens Bank Park will be rocking on Monday night.

The legendary Jerry Lee Lewis passed away, and sure he made some questionable choices that hampered his career, but you cannot deny his impact on Rock N Roll.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Difficult Challenge Combo #3, Biceps Shape Focus Combo and Difficult Challenge Combo #1 for 34 minutes. I'm guessing when I woke up late a few weeks ago, that 20 minute workout really change the rotation of exercises.

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise States For Week of 10/13 to 10/29/22

• Punches Thrown: 9108
  
• Estimated Calories Burned: 3804.05 kcal
  
• Sophie's Champion Progress: 72% (36 out of 50 hours) 
• King EX Fight Progress: 97%
• Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days:687
• Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days: 845
  

I went on a once-in-a-lifetime vacation. Never again.

My grandfather has the heart of a lion and a lifetime ban from the National Zoo.

Song of the Day: Baby One More Time by Britney Spears

Finished writing the TNA short story commission and now work will begin on the Until Dawn short story commission... just need to find a transcript of all possible dialog from before Jessica gets ripped through the door by a Wendigo

For tonight's stream we're leading off with Dragon Ball: The Breakers, and we'll see where we go from there.

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

So I have to level a crafting skill in FFXIV... UGH!

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream was very productive as it related to clearing out side quests in Final Fantasy XIV in areas related to Shadowbringers, as I knocked out everything possible in two major areas. One can forget that all the maps for Shadowbringers were huge and there was a lot of ground to cover, since it was basically supposed to be a mirrored version in some regard to what players experience prior to that point in the game.

Of course there is one quest that requires a Crafting Skill to even access, which meant I finally had an 'excuse' to resume leveling both Carpentry and Botany, because I know there are similar quests at level 90 in the Endwalker related areas that were added to the game. 

At least going forward I can split the stream into side questing for a large portion and added crafting leveling on the back end. It won't be thrilling, but hey, we'll get it done. If I focus on crafting bulk items, I should be able to level up carpentry pretty quick, as I did get up to level 34 (with a bit done off stream)

Twitch Clips

• We survey the area... and defeat gremlins
• This is Philly! 
• It's a big one!
  

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

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Straight Combo #2, Block Combo and Difficulty Challenge Combo #2 for 31 minutes.

Work was meh yesterday, but at least one assignment that involved interviewing some of the biggest collection of jerks possible is done with. Hopefully we can end the work week on a high note.

Not to brag, but I defeated our local chess champion in less than five moves. Finally my high school karate lessons came to some use.

I hate Russian dolls. They're so full of themselves.

Song of the Day: Am I wrong by Nico & Vinz  

The World Series begins tonight, and the way I figure, the Phillies have to win in six games or less, because the Astros have much more depth if it were to go seven. 

Got the intro part written for the TNA short story that was commissioned earlier this week, took a while to figure out the best way to write it, and I have another commission request in the queue for a short story based on Until Dawn and one of the more hilarious moments of that game.

Speaking of which for tonight's stream we're playing the back half of Until Dawn, chapters 6 through 10 to finish the game for this year.

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

A Friday Night Of Until Dawn

Good afternoon everyone, 

Last night's stream of Until Dawn was a lot of fun, as I tried to do thinks differently than I did last year, to try and trying to see if these characters can be likeable. Jessica and Emily certainly are not, but in general everyone else can have their moments if you try to make them be agreeable. And so far I've only messed up one of the quick time events when Mike got hit by the mining cart.

That said, the second half of Until Dawn really starts to feature the Wendigos so trying to keep everyone alive is going to be interesting because I remember some of the deaths were really cheap. Still if anyone of the characters don't survive it just means we'll have another reason to replay it in 2023.

Twitch Clips

• Run Away!
• Well she told them 
• Throw the vase!
  

For the raid we dropped in on BestiBunni as they were playing Overwatch 2 over twitch.tv/bestibunni! 

The Phillies won last night, and folks knew I was keeping tabs on it during the stream. Ranger Suarez from what I saw deserved a lot better because the defense let him down a bit. The bullpen was a bit taxed as a result.

I do have to say I really hate the player introduction ceremony was not shown, and just was a reminder of how fucking terrible Fox Sports is at covering baseball playoff games.

Work was solid yesterday, not bad, but not too good... but there was a lot of assignment switching because quota marks were being filled up quick.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Advanced Combo #2, Hook Combo #2 and Left Right Step Combo for 31 minutes

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise States For Week of 10/16 to 10/22/22

• Punches Thrown:8572
• Estimated Calories Burned:3637.04 kcal
  
• Sophie's Champion Progress:  64% (32 out 50 Hours)
  
• King EX Fight Progress: 97%
• Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days: 680
• Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days:838

Have you heard the one about the corduroy pillow? It's making headlines.

What's the dumbest animal in the jungle? A polar bear!

Song of the Day: What’s My Age Again by blink-182

I saw how Leon looks in the Resident Evil 4 Remake... and good lord, someone at Capcom beat him with the ugly stick because the new character model actually looks worse than the original version from nearly 20 years ago!

Finished the latest WWE commission request I had on file based around the return of Scarlett Bordeaux, and the client wants a follow up regarding the return of Dakota Kai and call-up from Io Shirai, the later of which was rumored to be leaving WWE back in the summer.

For tonight's stream we're going to open with Dragon Ball The Breakers and we'll play other things like MultiVersus, Fall Guys and or Smite. 

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

Stormblood Side Quests Are Done!

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Final Fantasy XIV was a nice easy going adventure as we cleared out all the remaining side quests I had in areas related to the Stormblood expansion. Some highlights included seeing the connection between two of the tribes in the Azim Steppe, namely between a cook and a warrior who was not living up to his namesake's legacy.

From there we jumped the Shadowbringers areas and I totally forgot how terrible it is to roam around The Crystariumis because of some things being on different floors and not everything has a direct obvious path to reach. Still because I had Fishing maxed... but there is the obvious thing that I have to get other job classes unlocked and leveled up to complete some 'red' marked side quests down the line.

Way I figure it'll probably take me about a dozen more streams to complete all the side quests I have access too in all areas introduced in ShadowBringers and EndWalker...which shall keep things pretty even keel heading into early 2023 with Final Fantasy XIV

Also did the Halloween event which was a nice little story, and I rather like the costume set that unlocks with it. And PandaSweet made sure I unlocked the Eat A Cookie emote which is just awesome.

Twitch Clips

• What do I do?
• We're going to do something stupid...
• If you happen to run into our feerless leader... 
  

For the raid we dropped in on Kalenal who was also playing Final Fantasy XIV and focusing on the Variant dungeons over at twitch.tv/kalenal!

Yankees lost last night to the Astros 3-2 meaning they are down two games to none in the ALCS with the next three games being in New York. Hey at leas the Phillies are tied one game a piece with the Padres. 

Cosmetic surgery used to be such a taboo subject. Now you can talk about Botox and nobody raises an eyebrow.

What do you call someone who immigrated to Sweden? Artificial Swedener.

Sing of the Day: Mess is Mine by Vance Joy

Work was bleh yesterday as I got saddle on assignment that really doesn't play to my strengths, as I hate dealing with gate keepers. It was a fluke of a day in terms of it being as productive as it was. 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Double Combo #1, Body Straight Combo and Body Uppercut Combo for 28 minutes. Also did an extra few minutes with the short version of Difficult Challenge Combo #1 to make up a bit for yesterday.

Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight will be an upcoming Friday Night game in a couple of wakes, it's already installed with all the DLC for it.... and the reason why it'll be in a couple of weeks is because for tonight's stream we're starting up this year's play through of Until Dawn, I hope to not make the same choices as last year, but we'll see how it goes!

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

Platinumed Dancing In Starlight

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight was everything I was aiming for it to be, we focused on doing the songs on Normal difficultly, managing to get quite a few done rated at Brilliant. We even had to go to the Hard and All Night Difficulty at one point to get one particular trophy to put a perfect bow on this game.

In terms of the Social Links, I found Ryuji's to be the most difficult one to completed because I'm not exactly sure how it was being calculated for a cumulative score, was it based on combos? The score for finishing each song? It wasn't really clear.

Now we did go into quite a few of the DLC songs, which meant hearing music associated with other games in the Persona franchise. I was surprised with how long some songs ended up being, because some tracks were the opening sequence for some games, while others were long as hell.

I will have to make mind up on which Dancing game is going to be next, the one for Persona 3 or Persona 4? Technically speaking Persona 3's Dancing game does tie in directly to everything involving the plot of Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight.

So what's the plan for next Friday night? Well we're going to start another run of Until Dawn and the plan is play it over the course of the next two Friday nights since it's a 'horror' game

Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight Trophies

• Phantom Thief in Full Bloom: Obtained all the costumes.
• Prince of the Phantom Thieves: Obtained all rewards from the Twins' card hunt.
• Fully Tuned Up and Ready to Go: Unlocked all Custom modifiers.
• The Best Reward: Obtained an invaluable treasure upon the stage.
• Follow My Lead, Inmate!: Had the Twins join the grand ball.
• Beyond the Dream: Watched all Social events.
• Legendary Treasure Cache: Obtained all the accessories.
• The Ultimate Guide for Tricksters: Watched every possible dance for the P5 Protagonist (Ren Amamiya).
• Dancing in Starlight: Obtained all trophies.. 

Twitch Clips

• Futaba & Yusuke
• Praise Futaba! 
• Joker and the Twins 
  

For the raid we dropped in on DaemonsW0lf as they were playing Resident Evil Village over at twitch.tv/daemonsw0lf!  

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Swap Back Combo, Beginner Combo #1 and Advanced Combo #1 for 34 minutes. Certainly looking like we'll wrap up the Evan's Champion Achievement on on Monday.

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise States For Week of 10/09 to 10/15/22

• Punches Thrown: 8166
• Estimated Calories Burned: 3381.39 kcal
  
• Evan's Champion Progress:  92% (49 out of 50 hours)
  
• King EX Fight Progress: 96%
• Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days: 673
• Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days: 831
  

The Phillies lit up the Braves yesterday, so they are now in position to advance to the NLCS with a win today. In fact when I turned on the game JT Realmuto hit an inside the park home run making the score 4-1 in the 3rd inning. At the time I'm posting this, The Phillies were leading the Braves 4-2 after 5 innings.

Song of the Day:Little Dark Age by MGMT.

I was sitting in traffic the other day.  Probably why I got run over.

What's red and shaped like a bucket? A blue bucket painted red.

Finished writing the Arrow short story and thankfully I was able to end it where it leaves things open so the client could come back later for future installments. Also picked up a commission request for a story based on Resident Evil 2: Remake.

For tonight's stream we'll be playing Dragon Ball: The Breakers, there is a chance we might include other things as well, so we'll play that by ear.

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

We finished The Quarry... Everyone Lived

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of The Quarry we had one instance of an apparent drop in Upload speed, which split the stream in two, but I'll take only one minor incident over the nonsense that happened on Thursday night.

Now we managed to finish The Quarry with everyone surviving, which was an impressive feat considering how easily some things can lead to characters being killed off. One of the key things I was trying to do was follow ups on earlier actions, such as using the Stuffed toy found in the cabins earlier in the game to make sure Kaitlyn survived in the 10th chapter.

I did like how the Fortune Teller acted as both as a hidden antagonist and guide, it was a great misdirection similar to the menu android seen in Detroit Become Human... which funny enough is another game with branching paths I should do a second play through of.

Speaking of replays, since I didn't find all the evidence (missing one), it meant I didn't get the 'most positive ending', but there are incentives to replay The Quarry because of different endings and achievements. So for sure we'll have this on the agenda for the fall of 2023! 

Now which game will replace The Quarry on Friday nights? Well I'm not 100% sure yet, I'm considering a few things, I know Until Dawn is something I'm saving for October. So Maybe Alan Wake on the PS4? We'll see what I figure out.

The Quarry (PS4) Trophies

• Chapter 5: Completed Chapter 5
• Chapter 6: Completed Chapter 6
• Bizarre Yet Bonafide: Listened to the podcast
• Chapter 7: Completed Chapter 7
• Chapter 8: Completed Chapter 8
• Phlebotomy: Accepted the bite of a werewolf
• Above the Law: Travis and Laura agreed to work together
• Chapter 9: Completed Chapter 9
• The White Wolf: Killed Silas
• Chapter 10: Completed Chapter 10
• Rough Night: Keep everyone alive
• Epilogue: Witness the Epilogue
• Creature Feature: Started a movie mode playthrough

Twitch Clips

• Needle to the neck
• That was some serious (blank) 
• Good luck reporting that to AAA
• Slam It Home! 
  

For the raid we dropped in on DaemonsW0lf who was playing Destiny 2 over at twitch.tv/daemonsW0lf. Howe we caught them as they were about to end so the raid train was sent over to Glorifiedthief over at twitch.tv/Glorifiedthief who was wrapping up AI: The Somnium Files - Nirvana Initiative!

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

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise States For Week of 9/11 to 9/17/22

• Punches Thrown: 8614
  
• Estimated Calories Burned: 3583.49 kcal
  
• Evan's Champion Progress: 68% (34 out of 50 Hours)
  
• King EX Fight Progress:96%
• Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days: 645
• Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days: 803
  

Comcast will be out in my neighborhood to replace the service drop line, but of course after Thursday's incident I 100% bet there are grater issues with their infrastructure that serves my area.

Why shouldn't you write with a dull pencil? Because it's pointless.

How much does an influencer weigh? An Instagram.

Song of the Day:  Never Seen The Rain by Tones And I

If you're looking for tools to help with streaming or communicating from home with work, check out what Xsplit offers over at Xsplit.com, use the promo code CASDEN to save 10% on your order! If you're looking for just general stuff, of course you can swing over to Amazon using my affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3L8N1Yj. 

For tonight's stream we'll be messing around with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Cowabunga Collection, we'll try to feature every single game.   so tonight's stream will be full of Turtle Power!

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

A Troublesome Start To The Quarry Thanks To Xfinity

 Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of The Quarry got off to a real bad start, as we ended up having two stream interruptions that reset the broadcast thanks to Xfinity. There was an upstream power level at 55.8... and funny enough, these issues occurred between 7 PM and 7:30 PM... exactly as Thursday night. Of course there were 2 times during the afternoon that saw the internet fully going down.

As far the Quarry goes, we had a rough moment after the Prologue where we were stuck on a loading screen for quite a while. Apparently that is an issue that goes back to the original release of the game regardless of which console people were using. That said, unlike Until Dawn, the majority of the cast is actually likeable... outside of Jacob.who comes across as super unlikable. There is also the issue with the faces of the characters where the motion capture worked too well because a lot of the expressions the characters makes just look creepy.

Now we did cover all the way through to the end of Chapter 5, and so far I've kept everyone alive once things went crazy.. I will admit I admit I adjust the controls to be a little fairer to me because I remember some of the gimmicks from Until Dawn just didn't make sense on how they were executed. On the other hand, I do find the writing and overall dynamic of characters of Emma, Kaitlyn, Dylan and Ryan to be rather solid, with Abigail and Nick being 2nd tier. 

Also... have to comment on the aspect ratio... apparently it's for a 21:9 monitor and TVs... and there is no way to change that... which makes screen shots and stuff rather awkward. Why did the developers do that makes no sense.And if the screenshots look dark as hell... well the game is also very dark based on default settings.

The Quarry (PS4) Trophies

• What's This?: Collected first clue
• Forewarned is Forearmed: Got a Tarot reading
• Prologue: Completed Prologue
• The Truth is Out There: Collected first piece of evidence
• Chapter 1: Completed Chapter 1
• It's All Coming Together: Found a matching clue
• Chapter 2: Completed Chapter 2
• Nick of Time: Successfully took the fastest route to Nick
• Chapter 3: Completed Chapter 3
• Reactionist: Activated 15 Interrupts
• Chapter 4: Completed Chapter 4
• Just a Flesh Wound: Saved a friend from infection

Twitch Clips

•  We picked Dylan
•  Leap... WHEEEE!!!!!
•  Yup even I looked away...
  

For the raid we dropped in on Glorifiedthief who was playing AI: The Somnium Files - Nirvana Initiative over at twitch.tv/Glorifiedthief! 

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

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise States For Week of 9/4 to 9/10/22

• Punches Thrown:8207
• Estimated Calories Burned:3394.32 kcal
  
• Evan's Champion Progress:62% (31 out of 50 Hours)
  
• King EX Fight Progress: 96% 
• Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days: 638
• Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days: 796

How did the hipster burn his mouth? He sipped his coffee before it was cool
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What did the over-excited gardener do when spring came? She wet her plants.

Song of the Day:Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind 

By the way, in case you can't tell... the Song of the Days in my blogs have all been the solutions to the daily Heardle puzzles over at heardle.app.

Finished the commission request for a story based around the PlayStation 4 Spider-Man game. Basically had to rework an early scene to make it work because I have not (yet) played that game. It's on the list of things to do. Also may be getting another commission request to do something based around WWE 2K20. Haven't confirmed that yet. But in the mean time, another commission request came for a standard WWE story

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For tonight's stream we're more than likely are going to open with MultiVersus, and we're probably will mess around with Fall Guys and deal with other things.

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

 

 

My Reaction To Until Dawn

Good afternoon everybody,

Last night we started the stream a bit early because I wanted to do a one night play through of Until Dawn, which was a PlayStation 4 Exclusive Title released in August of 2015.

Until Dawn is like many of the games I've played lately, a game where the choices made will lead to a variance of the outcome, in this case, how many people survived the night. It is a horror game, with the plot being that Josh invites a bunch of friends up to a cabin one year after a prank gone wrong lead to the disappearance of his twin sisters. Josh plans to get back at everyone with an elaborate house of horrors.... but things go wrong when there is something else, much more real and terrifying up there with them.

Since this was released on the PS4, Until Dawn certainly looks real good, and the controls are pretty responsive, I felt like i had plenty of time to make snap choices and to respond to quick time event button presses. The atmosphere of the game is complete 1980s/1990s Teen Horror schlock, as the set up just screams of something you'd see in the Friday The 13th franchise. 

The characters are mostly stereotypes of that same genre as well, from Matt being the guy who happens to be wearing a varsity letter jacket, to Emily being a complete bitch that you want to see get killed, to Sam being you're typical blond heroine who is seemingly more capable than the other females in the cast, to Mike being the obvious douchebag who becomes oddly heroic and bad ass by the end, and so forth. 

I do have the comment on the camera angles reminding me a lot of the ones used in the early Resident Evil games, where it was fixed so you couldn't fully see everything in a room, only what you were meant to see.... it's great for making one feel scared, but for finding collectables... not so much. Granted we found most of them, but I have a feeling a guide might be necessary to find the ones I missed

With this being a game where I could make key choices, my first play through was more in line with what the characters would do and not chasing any achievements, which meant quite a few characters got killed (you can see those in the Twitch Clip Links down below), so we certainly had quite a bit of gore  tonight, which is certainly not usual for my streams unless I'm playing Mortal Kombat!

All in all, I enjoy Until Dawn and I'm looking forward to streaming it again at some point, to see if we can do better than just having Sam, Chris and Emily survive! Also, I do wonder if I jump to particular points in the story can I unlock achievements and find the collectables that way... just in case I want to knock off some off-stream.

Following the stream we sent the fun over to MommyBee who was playing Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/mommybee! 

Until Dawn Achievements

1. Scream Too!: Mike cut off his fingers to free himself from the bear trap
2. The Psycho Path: Sam or Ashley attacked the psycho with a weapon
3. The Skillful Wolf Man: Mike kept the wolf alive throughout the Sanatorium
4. You Let The Wrong One In!: Ashley or Chris opened the trap door and let the monster in
    

Twitch Clip Links 

• We Just Got Monk'ed... KILL HIM!!!!
• Guess That's Not Going To Happen
  
• Matt... didn't make it
• Groovy!
• Dramatic Explosions!
• Ashley... didn't make it
• It Lost Its Head!
• Josh... didn't make it
• Jessica... didn't make it
• I don't think Mike made it
  

Yeah that's a lot of clip links, but considering the gore for the death animations, I figure folks would want to see them, hell it is October and it's the Halloween Season after all!

It's Sunday which means we got a new Twitch Bits video for ya'll to see. This week we played Overwatch, Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered, Detroit: Become Human, Gears of War 3, Life is Strange True Colors, Marvel Super Heroes Vs Street Fighter & Until Dawn! 

I now have the tough task of picking what game I shall feature next.... there are a couple of candidates based. The Evil Within 2 and Call of Cthulhu have been things I've been teased about in regards to things I should play... but I'm not sure if I want to tackle 'first person' horror as horror is not something I typical go after.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout saw the return of Janice as the trainer and lasted 31 minutes with the following exercises: Straight Combo #2, Sway Back Combo & Hop Shape Focus Combo. The estimated calorie burn was 476 kcal

It's Sunday which means Overwatch is on deck as the game of the night, we'll be tackling Quick Play matches as we eagerly await the start of the Halloween event, which should be this week.!

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

A Marvelous Wavelength

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night was a double header, as we returned to Life is Strange: True Colors to play the bonus episode 'Wavelengths', and then followed it with Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter EX Edition, so we used two different consoles, the X-Box Series S and the Modified PlayStation.

So first, Life is Strange: True Colors, the 'Wavelengths' episode was certainly a lot more in-depth than I was expecting. It serves as an incredible bridge between what we saw with Steph in Life is Strange: Before The Storm and how she ended up in Haven Spring for True Colors, by showing her getting settled in with running the music store and being a DJ. Since we picked Chloe over Arcadia Bay, we saw the annual PTSD Steph has when it comes to the storm that tore the town apart, plus seeing her slowly getting back into the swing of things. The episode takes place over the course of a year, so it jumps to the key important days of her life and it all leads up to the day Alex arrives in Episode 1 of True Colors. 

To be honest with you, I found that Steph having issue with connecting with anyone long term because of Arcadia Bay getting wiped out adds a lot more to her character than say 'oh she broke up with the girl she was in a band with', as it gives that extra bit of spice to what she is dealing with and why she is comfortable being a DJ and running the music shop, not to mention her conversation with Mikey (also from Before the Storm) also adds more meaning to their continued Dungeon and Dragons shenanigans

Now there are some question I'm wondering in regard to how Steph's choices will effect the main game of True Colors if at all, as it seems like only a few differences could be possible due to how the music store look, and maybe how some NPCs around Haven Springs act, but I doubt that's the case. Still, it was incredible, and I'm really glad the pacing for it was what it was, as it gave so much depth to a character that really stood out from their first appearance.

Also: There were no achievements added to Life is Strange: True Colors with the bonus episode

 Playing Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter EX Edition on the PSOne certainly was an experience, as I don't recall ever playing it in the arcades... and I played all the other all the Capcom Marvle games in the arcades at some point during the late 90s and early 2000, but somehow this one never made it South Jersey. 

We did two arcade runs, one with Manual / Normal settings, and then then Manual / Turbo settings, clearing it with Sakura and Cyclops respectively. The PlayStation port of MSH vs SF, much like X-Men vs Street Fighter, see the tag team mechanic removed, turning the game into a best two out of three round fighter, where the power meters build quickly and the super moves are devastating. I didn't have too much trouble getting through every opponent up through Apoclypse... but Cyber-Akuma... or as in the version of MSH vs SF I was playing 'Mech-Gouki', was a completely different story.

The Cyber/Mech Akuma/Gouki was hell of a pain in the ass with how it would moves, and it took quite a few attempts to beat him. Facing Cyber/Mech-Akuma/Gouki also really showed the different between Normal and Turbo. With Normal I had the time to predict what's coming based on the sprite animations and try to adjust for it, while Turbo basically made me hope I could input things fast enough to overwhelm the game's A.I.. 

Following the stream we sent the fun over to TaterSalad21 who was playing the new MMO 'New World'. You can check his streams out over on twitch.tv/tatersalad21

Twitch Clip Links

• The ones Chloe made
• That has to be a plug for Dark Horse Comics!
  
• When all else fails...
• Shinkuu Hadou-ken with Sakura & Ryu
• I got nailed by Cyber-Gouki's Shining Gou Shock!
• Sakura Beats Cyber-Gouki with Shinkuu Hadou-Ken!
  

Yesterday we added The Fisher Price Rolling Stones Little People set to my collection of oddities, and it is really cool to see the Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and the late Charlie Watts as little figure. The packaging is really awesome as it looks like stage for a concert. The is something i noticed on the Mick figure and that his mouth seems like  the coloring wasn't completed for his lips to show that his mouth is open. 

Work yesterday was weight as I lost one hour because of something needing to be fixed before the majority of the evening staff started, but hey on the flips side, those of them who started during my last hour, also lost time. So I guess it balances out.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 31 minutes with the following exercises: Waist Shape Focus Combo, Block Combo and Hook Combo #1. The estimated calorie burn was 490 kcal. Today we've reached 75% of the EX Achievements... but we still got a long way to go to get to 100%. We're gonna put off going after the Hiro's Champion achievement (to train with Hiro for Over 50 hours) and will now focuse on Jancie's Contender which is to train with Janice for over 30 hours. We already have 13 on record using her.

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise EX Achievements

1. Hiro's Contender: Train with Hiro for over 30 hours
   
2. Grand EX Fighter: Acquire 75% of EX Achievements
   

For tonight's stream we're diving into horror with Until Dawn, so we're obviously using the PlayStation 4, we'll probably start as soon as I have dinner and we'll try and do the completely story in one super long stream!

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

The Hordes Of The Gears Of War

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream focused fully on Gears of War 3 for the entire stream because I wanted to dive deep into one of it's non-campaign modes, the horde mode. 

We sampled it last week, but this go round we dedicated the two plus hours to it, playing with random players, and actually doing fairly well. Granted my reaction time and ability to realize where enemies are at any given moment leave a lot to be desired, but I had a few bright spots as we made it all the way to like level 37 before having to take a break. The big thing we learned about Horde mode is that every 10 levels it gets tougher and it basically is a 'trainer' for Insanity mode. 

Once Iceman was able to join in, focused switched to the campaign of Gears of War 3 as we tackled Act 4. Ice-T's little cameo was cute, and we managed to find 7 out of the 8 collectables during it. There were a couple of times I got a bit too brave and got myself wrecked, but there were other times things went peanut buttery smooth.

There was one down side to the stream, and this was my own fault in that I wasn't grabbing the minute long clips during the campaign... and accidentally deleted a lot of the Twitch Clips that I was sorting through... so  the Twitch Clip links you see below are out of order as I tried to remember what happened when. 

Following the stream we sent the fun over to Kalenal at twitch.tv/kalenal who was playing Final Fantasy XIV! Kal will be streaming again on Saturday, but they have not decided what they'll be up to as of yet! 

Gears of War 3 Achievement

1. Level 15: Reached level 15.
2. Welcome to Horde Mode: Survived the first 10 waves of Horde.
3. Award Winning Tactics: Earned an Onyx medal.
4. Socialite: Earned the Onyx "War Supporter" medal.
5. Level 25: Reached level 25.
6. Respect for the Dead: Your respect for the dead earned you access to Griffin's special weapons stash.
7. Think You Can Handle That?: Found enough fuel to get to Endeavor naval base.
8. Baird's Favorite Kind of Toy: Launched the sub.
9. Welcome To -redacted-: Passed under the Maelstrom and found Azura.

Twitch Clip Links

• They are standing on Top of Each other!!!! 
• We cut it with Marcus' forearm! 
• Just keep coming down there! 
• How about I come over here? 
• Torque Bow

I will admit I'm rather interested in the Rolling Stones Fisher-Price Little People set just for the sure novelty of it. Clearly it was made for collectors in mind, because I can't imagine parents giving the set to their young ones.

Think I'm going back to not playing any ranked Overwatch matches, too many times as D.va am I having all the key match gold medals for eliminations, objective kills, objective time and damage dealt without any help from those queuing up for the damage role, that if I wanted to deal with that horse shit I'd just play Quick Play matches.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily work out lasted 31 minutes and featured the following exercises: Intermediate Combo #2, Advanced Comb #1 and Weaving Combo #1. The estimated calorie burn was 483 kcal. I had one miss and I believe any miss counts at a 7 kcal penalty as before the session started I noticed the game said the calorie burn should be 490 kcal.

Stepped on the scale yesterday, weight holding steady in the mid-240s, and I'm pleased with that, as I am hoping to break the 240 lb barrier by the end of the year.

Already announced on Twitter yesterday, but on Friday night Life is Strange True Colors returns with the Wavelengths bonus episode, and Until Dawn is slated for Saturday night.

For tonight's stream the goal is to finish Detroit: Become Human which we started on Tuesday night. There are 32 Chapters and we already covered 17 of them, so we should be able to achieve our objective.