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!

 

 

Today's Notes 5/23/21: Mortal Kombat 11, Ronda Rousey Can't Act & More

Good afternoon everyone,

Yes I slept in today, because I didn't go to bed until 4 AM, because it was all about Mortal Konbat 11 for me yesterday.

So for last night's stream, the big focus was on doing the story mode for Mortal Kombat 11, which picks up sometime after Mortal Kombat X, and we learn through the entire story that there have been multiple time lines in the Mortal Kombat Universe as part of an enternal plan to have a perfect time line as crafted by the villain of the story Kronika, who happens to be the mother Shinnok, and that she is reason behind the events seen in Mortal Kombat 9 where Raiden and Liu Kang go head in the final chapter. It's an okay plot that gives context to a lot of things such as Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe as well Scoprion and Sub-Zero appearing in the Injustice video games. It took me about 4 1/2 hours to get through the story mode, as each fight was two rounds, and most of the characters used in the story mode I have not used in the prior weeks in my achievement grinding. 

Speaking of which here are the achievements unlocked last night, some were done after the stream because they required some 'focused' attention.

1. Half Way There: Komplete 50% of Story Mode
2. What's Next?: Komplete Story Mode
3. R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Pay 100 total respect points in King of the Hill
4. Hit The Dojo: Komplete all Basics Tutorials

Now I know I said I wasn't going to go for the Tutorial achievements, but I was only two away from completing Hit The Dojo, and it took me an half an hour to figure out the timing needed to do a combo using Scorpion's spear. Anyway, if all goes right after tonight's stream, I'll be going after the Victorious achievement, since I need to unlock just one more victory pose and equip it to its corresponding character.

Of course we do have clips from last night as well, so here a few highlights

Twitch Clips: Cassie Cage Brutality

Twitch Clips: You know what they say, it's better to burn out than to fade away

Twitch Clips: We pulled that one out of our backside

Twitch Clips: Cassie Cage: Fatal Blow To Fatality

Now let me turn my attention to Ronda Rousey, who puts in a dreadful performance as Sonya Blade where it comes across as her blatantly just reading lines off a piece of paper with little or no direction. This was obvious with her performance in the story more for WWE 2K20 and when having to cut promos on Monday Night RAW, but it's really exposed here because there are supposed to be some several emotionally intense moments for Sonya but because of Ronda's inability to put any emotion into anything she does, Sonya comes across as oddly disinterested in what's happening to her as a character and what she learns. You know what Netherealm Studios should have done was when they managed to get Bridgette Wilson for the Mortal Kombat 95 skin back, they should have had her record all of Sonya's lines for the story mode and patched Rousey's piss-poor acting out of the game. Believe me, if replacing Peter Dinklage with Nolan North improved the original Destiny, replacing Ronda Rousey would've helped give MK 11's story mode the emotional punch it needed.

Moving on, Today's Fitness Boxing 2 session was short for me for a Sunday as I felt a little sluggish at times. Still was a 40 minute workout, I just didn't do anything extra. Besides most people just do the dailies only, from what I've seen on Twitter anyone who is doing Fitness Boxing on a daily basis are not doing any free exercises to go with them. 

With it being Sunday that means our attention will be on Overwatch and since the anniversary event is going on, we might be able to work in one of the seasonal brawls that are PVE (depending on what the daily cycle in the arcade mode has listed). Otherwise, we'll stick with Quick Play matches.

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

 

Yukes Working On AEW's Video Game Could Be A Disaster

This week a lot of people expressed excitement over the announcement of AEW working out a deal with Yukes to developer their video game.... but that could be a disaster in my opinion. 

 

 

Today's Notes 11/10/20

 Good afternoon everybody...

You ever have the feeling of when you got to bed you don't exactly fall asleep right away, and thus you lay in bed for a couple of hours only to then fall asleep... thus ruining whatever you had plan for the morning? Yeah that happened to me last night... and so I didn't formally wake up until 11:30 AM. So for today's Fitness Boxing session I switched it to Cardio only, solid workout, not as intense as a Strength and Cardio routine, but hey it get the day started.

Last night, we went through the Southpaw Regional Wrestling and Empire of Tomorrow DLC for WWE 2K20... and let me again stress the point that the in-match objectives are just idiotic and actually ruin the charm of these alternative universes. This is why I'm really reluctant of wanting to do the Four Horsewomen content on stream, because that is nothing but matches with certain objectives to be done because they are 'recreations of actual events'.... and while this gimmick was cute back with the Legends of WrestleMania game which was all about re-creating matches, this has really played itself out and should be not be including in the next installment in the WWE 2K series. Something that became painfully obvious was how the developers basically ended up not caring about the final product as most of the character models in the Empire of Tomorrow package were extremely generic looking.  

Tonight's stream more likely will be a continuation of Mass Effect which we started up this past Saturday, probably bopping around the galaxy and side-questions... maybe pick up Liara as well. We'll see for certain.The stream will start at 9:30 PM EST, if I can start earlier due to lack of work (which ironically I hope is not the case) I will.

In other news, my 'The Gang Saves Democracy" t-shirt arrived today, and say what you want about Amazon, but they are pretty damn accurate when it comes to saying an item will arrive on a certain day... as long as it's not your Prime Delivery Day, then it'll get pushed back to the next day (or so it seems based on some of my recent orders).

And with that, we'll see everyone later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Today's Notes 11/9/20

Good afternoon everybody...

Well as usual we got the day started late, but we did get in a solid 50 minute Fitness Boxing session, focusing on strength and cardio, which meant only 4 sets instead of 5, but it was a more intense workout. Really trying to put effort into moving back and forth from a standing position seems to take some pressure off my left knee as opposed to the slight bounce I normal do.

 Big thanks to one of my regulars ShadowStrikeR24 for letting me know about the upcoming remaster of Sam and Max: Save the World. It's a big surprise that came out of nowhere, but considering the original Telltale series was done in a 4:3 aspect ration, having an updated version is appreciated. I got a slight chuckle seeing that the publisher and developer is Skunkape Games.... as Skunkape is an antagonist in Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.

Last night's Overwatch stream was a lot of fun, with the entire stream dedicated to Mayhem matches... which surprised even me. Normally at about 8 PM EST, the modes in Arcade mode rotate... now I started the stream at 7 PM EST, Mayhem was available from the start so to see it still there at 8 PM was a pleasant surprised. That said, it is amazing how stupid some people can get in Mayhem, particularly those who just want a match to end, so they either switch to something that isn't helpful or they quite the match.

Tonight's stream will be at 9:30 PM and will focus on the Southpaw Regional Wrestling and Empire of Tomorrow DLC... which means again trying to deal with the idiotic in-match objectives with awful controls. The only bright side is that these two DLC packs focus more on the Women of the WWE and seems to involve the player using more than just one character at a time.

I just now realize that I probably will have to sit down at some point and make a new twitch channel trailer, as the current one features footage most from the first half of 2020. That's gonna be a rough evening, as I'll have to go through months of clips to edit things down to just a couple of seconds.

Anyway, hope you all have a great day!

Best of the Week 11/1-7/20

Here at the best moments from my Twitch channel (http://twitch.tv/fredcasden) for the week of November 1 to 7, 2020, which featured Overwatch, Fitness Boxing, WWE 2K20 Final Fantasy XV: Comrades, Full Throttle, Star Trek Online, Twitch Sings and Mass Effect! 

The line up for this upcoming week will featured Overwatch,Fitness Boxing, WWE 2K20, Mass Effect, Star Trek Online and Twitch Sings... maybe something else as well depending on how I'm feeling on any particular day!

Today's Notes 11/3/20

Good Morning Everybody,

It's Election Day here in the United States, and so let me state the real obvious: if you vote for Donald Trump you are betraying not United States of America, but you are also betraying humanity. There is no fucking reason that you can give to justify voting him. If you vote for him you have the brains of a fuck trout, and no I'm not talking about the Angels outfielder, I mean you have the brains of a fucking fish that is easily caught and cooked for dinner. 

Anyway, last night's stream of WWE 2K20's Bump in the Night and Wastelands DLC content was interesting, if it really over-exposed the bugs with the game when it comes to executing what moves you want to do. Hell it took 5 minuets just for the game to realize I want to perform a leg grapple and not pull the opponent up to their feet. I do feel this would've been a lot more fun if there were not in match objectives to perform for every little thing, most of which does not make sense. Anyway there is still the Southpaw Wrestling and Empress of Tomorrow DLC stories to do, which we'll do as apart of next week's line-up.

This morning's Fitness Boxing session was alright, very light as it was only about 42 minuets based on the in-game time. Left knee continues to bother me at times, particularly when I'm set up to throw punches from the right side (since I'm naturally right handed), so trying to stay in rhythm is a big more of an issue. Still nearly was perfect with everything to day.

Bioware is pushing N7 day hard this year with merchandise and promotions surrounding Mass Effect... and I'll admit I did put my order in for another N7 Hoodie, and SR-2 hate and the complete comics collection. I am really hoping on Saturday they are announcing the remastered trilogy collection and or Mass Effect Andromeda 2.... preferably both. If its just a 'cast reunion' type deal that we've seen with movies and shows this year I'll be very disappointed.

Tonight's stream at 9:30 PM EST will of course be focused on Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, probably will be looking for temples and towers. The advantage of open world games is things can be done in any order... which is also the disadvantage when you really think about it. Of course every stream I do is over on twitch.tv/fredcasden. 

And that concludes today's notes, have a great day folks!

Today's Notes 11/2/20

Good Morning!

Hope everyone had a good weekend and will have a good week. For those of us here in the United States, tomorrow is election day and if you did not already return your mail-in ballot or gone to vote in person during early voting (why not?!) remember to vote tomorrow! 

We got this Monday off to a start with a Fitness Boxing stream, as you know it really depends on if I feel like streaming a session of it or not, or just to make sure it's represented in the weekly featured content list (aka the best of the week stuff lol). Was a solid maintenance workout, left knee was bothering me a bit, but that's nothing new. What's odd though is I went to bed an hour earlier than normal and still woke up later than I wanted. I can't win for trying.

Last night's Overwatch stream was a lot of kick ass fun, as we made sure Kalenal and PandaSweet got the Echo skin for the Halloween event, and we worked in some normal Quick Plays as well. Perhaps the real highlight for me personally was somehow getting a Play of the Game as Widowmaker in Junkenstein's Revenge....and it had nothing to do with playing her the way the character is meant to be played

Recently Twitch added the 'request to be unbanned' feature so that people who were banned from channels could see about getting their bans lifted, and someone tried to get their ban lifted from my channel, keeping in mind they were banned for trying to get someone else's ban lifted and being disruptive to my broadcast. And since the chat logs are shown to give an indication as to why they were banned, yeah safe to say they didn't get what they wanted. Also didn't help that their message said I had no reason to ban them.

Tonight's stream will see the return of WWE 2K20 and we'll be checking out the DLC content, starting with Bump in the Night, which now that I think of it I probably should've streamed that on Friday since it is Halloween themed.... oh well, live and learn I guess. The evening stream will start at 9:30 PM EST over at twitch.tv/fredcasden

 

Today's Notes 11/1/20

Good Afternoon, 

Hope everyone had a nice Halloween, I sure as heck did with my brother bringing his family over for a bit, and of course, the Saturday Night stream was focused on Twitch Sings. We had a nice amount of Duets and Solos... but that's not all we did. At about the 10 PM hour, I switched over to try Hyrule Warriors, and I can safely say that is something that if it had online-multiplayer it would certainly be something to get streamed on a semi-reoccurring basis, but the real highlight came when on a whim I switched to Super Mario 35.... and actually managed to come in first place! It was really surreal as when it happened i couldn't quite believe it thinking something went wrong with the game itself.

Anyway this week's lineup is going to certainly have a lot of variety in it, as WWE 2K20 will return for Monday Night's stream which will be dedicated to the DLC content, with Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild being featured on Tuesday night. Wednesday we're going to dedicate to a game called Full Throttle which I believe is one of the few Lucas Arts point and click adventures I've never played. Thursday is of course Star Trek Online, but Friday will featured Twitch Sings because Saturday is N7 Day, which means I'll be starting up a run of Mass Effect, this time the Xbox 360 version, so we'll be getting achievements and things along the way to boost my gamer score.

We did start today with Fitness Boxing, more of a maintenance workout because I didn't get up until after 12 PM EST...fucking Daylight Saving Time... anyway it was a solid workout as you'll see by the results posted below. And with it being Sunday, that means Overwatch is on tap for tonight, and while I have the new Echo skin for the Halloween event, we'll be mixing in Junkenstein's Revenge with other stuff. That will start at 7 PM EST over on twitch.tv/fredcasdem

Best of the Week 9/20 to 9/26/20

These are the best moments from the game features on my Twitch Channel this week including Overwatch (Both PC and Xbox One), Marvel's Avengers, Gears of War 2, Star Trek Online, Fitness Boxing, WWE 2K20 and Twitch Sings! Be sure to follow me over at twitch.tv/fredcasden for daily shenanigans.

Best of the Week 9/13 to 9/19/20

This week's highlights for 9/13 to 9/19/20 included things from Overwatch, Marvel's Avengers, Gears of War 2, Star Trek Online, Fitness Boxing, WWE 2K20 and Twitch Sings!

Line-up for Week of September 13

Here is this week's line up for my nightly streams over at twitch.tv/fredcasden that are actually scheduled! 

Sunday: 7 PM EST - Overwatch
Monday: 9:30 PM EST - Marvel's Avengers
Tuesday: 9:30 PM EST - Marvel's Avengers
Wednesday: 9:30 PM EST - Gears of War 2
Thursday: 9:30 PM EST - Star Trek Online
Friday: 9:30 PM EST - WWE 2K20
Saturday: 7 PM EST - Twitch Sings

Note: Any Fitness Boxing streams done are bonus, and depends on when I actually wake up in the mornings

Best of the Week August 30 to Sept 5, 2020

Here at the best moments from my Twitch Streams for the week of August 30 to Sept 5, 2020, which include Overwatch, Fitness Boxing, Super Mario Odyssey, The Division 2, Star Trek Online, WWE 2K20 and Twitch Sings!

Best of the Week August 23-29, 2020

These are highlights from all the streams done over the week of August 23 to 29, 2020 which featured Overwatch, Fitness Boxing, Super Mario Odyssey, The Division 2, Star Trek Online, WWE 2K20 and Twitch Sings!

What Is Planned For The Week Of June 14

Looking ahead for this upcoming week over at twitch.tv/fredcasden, I'm trying to figure some things out as what the line up is going to be. Of course some things are already locked it based on major games that are either weekly features or part of the current tour.

June 14: Sunday Night Overwatch (PC)

- More than likely this feature normal quick place / role queue matches, as the Anniversary event has already ending earlier this week. So there isn't any pressure to get wins or to run something like Uprising over and over again.

June 15 & 16: Mass Effect Andromeda

- Monday and Tuesday will be completely focused of Mass Effect Andromeda, with roaming around Eos being the major priority on Monday, doing what quests I am able to before returning to the Nexus. That may carry over into Tuesday, it really depends on how much better I can with playing ME:A with a controller as opposed to a mouse and keyboard in order to deal with the Kett.

June 17: Gears of War

-Wednesday night the plan is to tackle more of Gears of War with Iceman, picking up somewhere in Act II. If Iceman can't make it, then I'll probably do some random gaming, maybe Power Rangers Battle for the Grid's story mode, or other console things

June 18: Star Trek Online

- Thursday of course is dedicated to Star Trek Online, and picking up with things on New Romulus for our Cardassian Captain in the Klingon Defense Force. More than likely this will be a lot of ground stuff as it does take quite a bit of time to get from part of the map to the other.

June 19: Trials of Mana or WWE 2K20
- So as of the time of this writing, on June 12, I figure I should be able to finish Trials of Mana, but of course, things could go horribly wrong with an expected difficulty spike. If I don't finish Trials of Mana tonight then it will be finished next Friday. If I do finish Trials of Mana tonight, then next Friday we'll start going through the story stuff for WWE 2K20

June 20: Twitch Sings

- Saturdays are of course always for singing, no real plan other than continuing to do songs on expert, complete duets and open seeds. The usual literal song with lack of dance.

Of course this is subject to change but this is a general idea of what I have planned for this upcoming week.