Today's Notes 1/8/21

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Last night's stream of Star Trek Online saw the wrapping up of all available 'story content' within the game for Klingon Defense Force aligned characters. Federation aligned characters have some story related patrols. Still the Cold War arc was surprisingly shorter than I remembered it being, so does make me wonder why does it get the voice-overs needed to bring it back in line with the rest of the content.The real question is going to be... what the hell am I doing with STO in the upcoming weeks until new content comes out.

That said I did install the steam version of Star Wars: The Old Republic.... and instantly unlocked 77 achievements. Man I do love it when games recognize what I've done with them on different platforms. Now if only Blizzard will do the same with Overwatch, that would be really neat! I'm not even asking for cross-play! Just cross-progress!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 session was a solid 30 minute work out that saw a lot of body punches (jabs, straights, hooks, upper cuts), which meant a lot of dropping of the hips and rotating to try and do things correctly. Let me tell ya, when you have to jab-jab-straight-left hook-right body hook-right body-hook-right body hook several times in a row it can be tiring! And then remember you have to do it from the southpaw stance as well, ugh! It's tough business... but at least the combination of punches makes sense.

At the time of this writing I just a video of a group of insurgents harassing Lindsey Graham at Regan International Airport because actually pulled his head out of his ass and did the right thing after enabling Trump for 4+ years. Hard to have sympathy for Graham, but even he saw this coming. Hell he said it 5 years ago "If we nominate Trump we will get destroyed and we will deserve it". Well the chickens have come home to roost.

Tonight we'll be back to Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, and if memory serves me right, the next in-game story content will focus on the Android / Cell Saga, which means things are getting much harder in the game. Still we'll have opportunities to level up, and currently I have Yamcha as my 'mentor' in the game at the moment and... shit I'm screwed aren't I? Oh we'll well get tonight's stream started at about 9:30 PM EST.

With that said we'll see you later tonight over on twitch.tv/fredcasden! 

Today's Notes 1/7/21

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Last night at 3:39 AM, the United States congress finalized what we all knew back in November that Donald Trump lost the election. Yes I actually sat and watch C-Span following last night's stream and what bothers me is how so many people who opposed the election results did so out of blind loyalty to Trump... particularly those who were just elected to the House of Representatives. Let me ask something, if there was election fraud, didn't they benefit from it? You can't just say only one thing was fraudulent on a ballot... so those who benefited from such a circumstance that did not exist in the first place really should have said not a fucking thing. 

That said I do find it real funny that a day after terrorists attack Capital Hill, the FBI is now looking for 'tips' on  those involved... well here's a huge fucking tip it starts with Donald J Trump who basically invited those mutants to DC while giving orders on national  television and social media for them to do what they did! But of course, the head of the FBI is a Trump loyalist. The national guard and capital police should have been mobilized at 6 AM yesterday morning with orders to defend against what was obvious going to happen!

Alright enough about that, last night's stream of ESPN Major League Baseball, saw my 2004 Phillies start a six-game home stand, with the first three games being against the Diamondbacks. We won two of the three games, getting shut out in the second game. Luis Gonzalez proved to be a real pain in the ass to get out as i gave up two home runs to him. For whatever reason I tried to pitch him up and in, and he just crushed everything, which is weird considering his 'hot zone' is middle-in and down-in. Ah well, next time I do an ESPN Major League Baseball stream, the St. Louis Cardinals are rolling into town.

Today's Fitness Boxing session was short and sweet, about half-an-hour when one factors in stretching. Only had one real miss which was on a sway back motion from the orthodox stance. We did have a few exercises that involved the lower body, particularly duck to uppercut movements.

Tonight, being Thursday, means we'll playing Star Trek Online, starting at about 9:30 PM EST and we'll be going through the Cold War story arc (or at least 3 of the 5 missions, depending on time), Continuity wise, it takes place after the Borg Advance and is the series of missions that involves the discovery of the Preservers, which are later wiped out by the Iconians. But because the developers at Cryptic Studios are complete idiots, the Cold War story arc is locked behind the level-65 wall and unless players are aware of its existence, they may not know it's there or its importance to the overall story of Star Trek online.

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

Today's Notes 1/6/21

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Last night I marked 5 years of streaming on Twitch with a one night play through of Sam & Max hit the road, and man I love that game... as proven by the fact I'm able to quote so much of it, knowing what lines are said when and where during the course of the adventure. Big thanks to everyone who came by to help mark half a decade of being on Twitch!

Had a solid 1/2 Fitness Boxing 2 workout session, there was no lower body focus today, so it was very straight forward. I did earned a couple of new achievement the first being Super Featherweight Puncher Lv. 3 which is to reach a total punch count of 32,500 HITs and also Typhoon Hitter which is ti throw 40,000 perfect punches... which I believe it more for perfect movements including ducks, weaves, steps and blocks. Because my total across 16 Hours 22 minutes (or 26 separate but consecutive daily sessions) of Fitness Boxing 2 I have a total of 37,721 punches thrown. So HITS are more in line with my actual punch count. Also I weight in at 258 LBS recently.... so I got below 260 lbs! My current goal is to get down to 253 lbs, so I'm getting closer.

Tonight's stream will be a return to ESPN Major League Baseball as we'll continue the 2004 season with the Philadelphia Phillies, I think we'll just be doing one three-game series tonight as the stream will start at 9:30 PM EST and heaven knows I'll be distracted by the news during the course of it.

So President Trump got what he want, he got his terrorist supports to attack Washingdon DC on the day where he was going to be certified to be the loser that he is. I'll give credit to gizzard neck Mitch 'The Bitch' McConnell for saying and wanting to do the right thing, but Ted Cruz and that piece of shit no-body from Oklahoma can go hang in a ditch for encouraging what is happening at the time of this writing. Every body who has stormed the capital building should be branded as terrorists and treated as such. But let me get this right, all summer long, for protesters in the street, tear gas and rubber bullets were used who protested the deaths of several American citizens by local law enforcement, but for Trump's supporters who are performing a terrorist act. If you support this in any shape way or form, you are a traitor to this nation.

See ya later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Today's Notes 1/5/21

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Today marks the 5th anniversary from my first attempt at streaming way back in 2016, where I had no mic, no webcam and a real basic understanding of how things worked. It was about that same time when I started doing a lot of my content on my old YouTube channel before looking for a fresh start following my falling out with Dare to Stream last year and nuking everything. Still it's been a wild ride so far, and it's why, for my 5th anniversary of streaming on Twitch, we'll be bringing back one of out favorites, a game that did not see any screen time last year, Sam & Max: Hit the Road? Why this game, well I wanted to get the 2021 tour off of finishing games off on a good foot, and since Zero Escape 999 probably won't be finished until towards the end of the month based on the one night per week full story to different ending runs we are doing, we just started Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 and my pacing with that will take a while too.

Speaking of Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, we reached level 40 last night, but I saw some battles are a little more difficult than one would assume, as I actually needed two tries on a story mission and didn't quite have the power to get through 'training advancement' on first tries. That said, since my skill from the first game carried over, it was totally awesome to wreck Vegeta with his own moves not once, but twice in terms of the Capsule Corp time rift side story. I am really digging the inclusion of the movie villains, as they shake things up quite a bit, not to mention how certain elements of the story are being seen from a different perspective from the first game. Also fighting Cooler and Frieza at the same time certailly didn't leave me Frosty nor did it give me a King Cold level of Chill. 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 session was a solid routine, that saw me struggling with the the front back step movements, something about it is certainly tracking different than the first game, but then again I wasn't a huge fan of FBCs with the first game either. Beyond those troubles, everything else was solid, even though I really have to figure out what they mean by 'engage your core'... what ever that is suppose to mean is going over my head.

I have been kicking around ideas to get back into writing fan fiction, there have been some old stuff I've seen on YouTube recently that's given me a few ideas on how to twist things around, it's just a matter of finding out if anyone else has done what I'm thinking already or not. Believe me, if there is one thing I hate is seeing that I'm late to the party when it comes to writing something seeing someone do a concept first and perfect it. I have no problem with folks improving on my concepts, but to try and follow someone else who had the same idea that's tough to do.

And on that note, we'll see ya at about 9:30 PM EST for Sam & Max: Hit The Road over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

 

Today's Notes 1/4/21

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Last night's stream of Overwatch was pretty topsy-turvy as the influx of new players or veteran smurfs wanting to troll and create new accounts because of the 'Play for free' period Blizzard put in made things pretty rough. Ended up going 4-6 in the last 10 matches played. Still we had fun, big thanks to PandaSweet for joining in on several matches as we tried to carry as much as we could. That said, off-stream I did finish getting the 3000 points needed from Rank matches to get another golden weapon, selecting Reinhardt's hammer. Also so far this year I have two plays of the game and both are for Reinhardt so there's some positives!

This morning we got in a bonus stream and of course the big focus of that was Fitness Boxing 2, as we did a Get Moving workout set on Heavy so we went for 48 minuets and that meant a no mercy set was included. The Bicep, Waist and Hip focused workouts were indeed included, and damn were some of the combinations were different  and very counter-intuitive in terms of what to do. Still we threw nearly 2000 punches today, so we had that going for us.

We also did a bit of Animal Crossing New Horizons, and once again my Island is full of residents, as we added Raddle and after looking it up, he is not wearing a mask as a reference to COVID-19, but it's part of his Doctor's appearance. So I wonder if we can get him out of the mask by giving him alternate face wear at some point. Also checked out another player's island who put in 900 hours in making their island awesome. While I'm happy with my tropical-rural paradise, seeing what others has done is always impressive.

In addition to that, we closed out the bonus stream with Super Mario 35.... and one badly timmed jumped lead to my doom. Ah well I did finish in the top 10 so not too disappointed.

Tonight we'll be back to Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, as we'll work on advancing the plot a bit. Since we're level 30 it should pretty much be a cake walk to get through the Namek saga. Not sure exactly when we'll start, but worse comes to worse we'll start at the scheduled 9:30 start time. 

I am wondering how any Trump Supporter can justify Trump's blatant attempt at electoral fraud which was revealed this past weekend. His actions are worse than what Nixon tried to pull in the 1970s. Here's the thing, at this point Trump has more than enough rope to...well you can guess what he can do with that rope. I'm sure at this point Melania will probably help him just so she can get the fuck out of dodge.

Anyway, on that bombshell, we'll see ya later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Today's Notes 1/3/21

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A new week begins, and of course you know that means tonight we'll be playing Overwatch on PC! I already have the Roadhog Frosty skin as it relates to Winter event, which ends this week. I still think it's unfair that that Blizzard chooses to place the event basically to be limited to the week before, week of and week after Christmas when so many people are traveling, and thus they miss out on opportunities to get the skins that require 9 wins to acquire. Still regardless, we'll have a lot of fun tonight doing probably more Quick Plays than anything else..

Last night we completed the second ending for Zero Escape 999, and of course we did it from the very start until the end. Now the ending we got, the 'Cut and Run' ending left me a littler confused over who was the one who killed Lotus and Junpei, but I suspect it's clover since she would have probably taken the scalpel from when she, Junpei and Seven went into the operating room. As I don't recall their being a knife out right anywhere along the rooms I explored. That said the only rooms I haven't done yet were 4, 3 and 2 and so that will be for next Saturday's stream just so things aren't to repetitive. This is a visual novel with branching paths aferall.

Today's Fitness Boxing session was solid, if not totally remarkable. Did reach the Super Featherweight Puncher Level 1 achievement which was to have a total punch count of 32,500, and also unlocked three new routines that weren't in the first game, being Bicep, Waist and Hip Shape Focus combos. If these are to focus in on those specific areas it should be interesting, but will I see all three during tomorrow's session, because normally when new routines become available, that's they appear in the following day's session... guess I'll just have to weight to find out.

Yes I did forget to put together the highlight reel for last week last night and I did do it today, it should be posted on YouTube by the time I post this. Since we did two bonus streams involving Fitness Boxing 2, Animal Crossing New Horizons and Super Mario 35, clips from all three games will be included to represent both streams, because that is how I roll (when not going down a hill).

And on that note, we'll see ya later for Overwatch over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Highlights from the week of December 27, 2020

Here are the best moments from all the games featured on my Twitch Channel from December 27, 2020 to January 2, 2021 which includes Overwatch, Fitness Boxing 2, Animal Crossing New Horizons, Super Mario 35, ESPN Major League Baseball, The Division 2, Star Trek Online, Twitch Sings, Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, and Zero Escape: 999!