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 10/25-31/20

Here are highlights for the week of October 25 to 31, 2020, and this was a packed week as we included a whole lot of games this week... which included Overwatch, Fitness Boxing, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull, Star Trek Online, Animal Crossing New Horizon, Final Fantasy XV: Comrades, Nickelodeon Kart Racers, Paladins, Twitch Sings, Hyrule Warriors and Super Mario Bros 35!

Today's Agenda 10/31/20

Happy Halloween!

Today began with Fitness Boxing as per normal, had a rough start with that as the Double Combo #2 had a pattern I don't see too often with this (Step-forward Jab, Jab, Step Back, Step-foward Jab, Straight, Step Back) which just tossed me for a loop. Other than, the rest of today's routine was pretty solid.

Last night we started the stream at 5:30 PM EST, because I had no work to do, first sign indicator that the next couple of months is gonna be tough in that regard. Still it meant the first 7 hour stream I've done in a while, which included things like Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Super Mario Bros 35 (finished in the top 3 twice), some drawing, Final Fantasy XV Comrades, Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2: Grand Prix and Paladins. 

A quick review of NKR2:GP, is that while it doesn't have any voice-work to provided the characters some charm, there is a lot of unlockables that provide extra customization options. There doesn't seems to be any kind of online community, so any achievements associated with on-line play will be tough unless you find folks who looking to boost their way to completion.

Tonight's stream will be all about Twitch Sings, and I'll be in 'costume' with my N7 shirt and hoodie, and with luck I'll have some Mass Effect backgrounds to make any open seeds stand out. Also at 2 PM EST over in my discord, we'll be watching Ghostbusters II, which will be pretty fun.

Today's Agenda 10/30/20

Good Afternoon Everyone!

We got today off to a decent start, if a little late with Fitness Boxing with a 46 minute workout session. I did do things a bit out of order as I had breakfast before the exercising... so it was a bit weird.

Last night's Star Trek Online stream went about 3 hours, as we wrapped up the New Ftonier story-arc for my Cardassian Captain in the Klingon Empire, which means next week we'll be doing the first half of the Gamma Quadrent arc, which of course involves the Deep Space Nine crew. On a side note, the ship I'm currently using for this character, the M'Chla-class Pilot Bird-of-Prey, is one of the worst ships in the game, particularly with a cannon build, as keeping the enemy ships in front is very problematic due to how awkward (and at will) the ship engages its afterburners / thrusters on its own. 

With the General Election next week, work for me starts to slow down as it's that time of year where things start getting a little tight with income, but the silver lining of this cloud is that I will have a few more hour avalible to do stream things. Which means tonight's stream will probably start earlier and we'll end up doing... different things as there is a good chance this will be a variety stream tonight over on twitch.tv/fredcasden

Of course with Today being Friday that means this week's commentary video is now up, and it's a review of Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgAT29eISz8

That will wrap up today's notes, see ya later!

Review - Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull

This week, I'm giving my thoughts on 2007's "Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull" published by Her Interactive.

If you are interesting in purchasing this game, use my Amazon Link: https://amzn.to/3oGvThx

 

Today's Agenda 10/29/20

Hi everyone, as usual the day started with Fitness Boxing, which again saw a focus on cardio, and we also had to step on the scale today, and it appears I dropped two-tenths of a kilogram to get back to 120 KG (or 264 lbs). I hopefully will be able to drop below that weight, as I would love to get down to 113 KG (or 250 lbs), so I gotta keep at it. 

Last night's stream of Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull ended up being a six hour stream, partially because I got irritated as all hell regarding a 'puzzle' that was actually more of a mini-game involving 'bowling'. In a game where everything is logic based (or nearly everything, some stuff was quite cryptic), a glorified mini-game that revolves around angles and getting pixel-perfect positioning should not count as a puzzle. Now I did plan for Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull to be split into two streams, so finishing it one night means next week's plans are little... up in the air at the moment. That said, I'm considering making this week's commentary video a review of this particular game.

Tonight's stream of course will be at 9:30 PM EST, and the focus will be on Star Trek Online, there were some patch notes for this week: 

• Resolved an issue that was causing slotted Experimental Traits on Starships to revert back to a previously selected trait when moving between maps. 
• Updated the Mirror Universe Bundle description to list that it also includes the Mirror Hakeev Duty Officer in the Zen Store.  
  • This is a text change only.

 So nothing major, as per the usual since we recently got new content with the House Shattered event. Anyway, the plan will be to do three (maybe four) missions for my Cardassian in the Klingon Empire, then maybe do a Special Task Force Operation as well. I don't plan on this stream lasting more than four hours, at the very least it'll last three.We'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!