Synthetic Lives Will Matter

Good morning everybody,

It's Friday, and considering the work assignment I've been on this week, I'm glad it is, let me tell ya!

Anyway last night we wrapped up our first play through of Detroit: Become Human, and we certainly screwed up a lot, as Conner got shut down, Luther and Alice Died but Kara was still alive and Markus got his moral victory through peaceful protest. Needless to say bad decision were made, but the great thing about a game like Detroit: Become Human is that there are multiple paths and we could jump back to make different choices. So it's safe to say this will be apart of next year's gaming tour.

Part of where I screwed up is accidentally progressing things with Conner that advanced the plot before I could check everything out, which meant a lot of things got skipped. With Markus, things kind of stayed pretty event, but with Kara, things really went wrong on the boat to Canada when the patrol boat came by wand Luther was killed while Alice was gravely wounded, I had Kara 'keep going', because I felt it would have been wasted effort if she died when she made to Canada... so I guess not giving the bus ticket back would have kept them alive.

Now let's adjust the elephant in the room which is the title of today's entry, because when you think about Detroit: Become Human did a better job of addressing the issues of racism and how fucking screwed up the Human race is. We are collectively a very ignorant, self-serving people who can't even treat each other with any dignity, and do you think we'd be able to when artificial life becomes a reality? The answer to that is a resounding no, we will not. Just look at the Black Lives Matter movement, conflict between those in 'superior' position and those who are oppressed is always inevitable. Yes, there are people who think like me and are open mind it with a live and let live, don't bother me I won't bother you attitude... but sadly, the reality is, there are more people in this world are so closed minded that tolerating them is becoming more and more difficult every day.

Which is why I'm so grateful my job has really settled into having folks work remotely... it keeps me from dealing with idiots in person.

Big thanks to Sw33ts_gaming (twitch.tv/sw33ts_gaming) for the re-sub and continued support  Sw33ts_Gaming plays a lot of Smite and has recently played It Takes Two, they are certainly good people! 

During the stream we had a big raid from redneckerthenyou who was playing Grand Theft Auto V before he brought his community over. I've known him for a while and he is a great guy! You can check out his content over at twitch.tv/redneckerthenyou

Following the stream we sent the fun over to Zanerli at twitch.tv/zanerli and he was playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey... and it was yet another reminder that I need to go play the games in that franchise.   

Detroit: Become Human Achievements

1. JERICHO'S HERO: Markus got enough parts
2. DOUBTS: The Tracis escaped
3. A SMILE ON HER FACE: Alice enjoyed a ride on the merry-go-round
4. NOTHING TO SEE HERE: Kara succeeded to make the cop go away
5. SEND A MESSAGE: Markus conducted a pacifist riot
6. KINSHIP: Connor refused to kill the Chloe
7. STAND YOUR GROUND: Markus stood his ground against the police
8. THIS IS MY STORY: Finish the game once
9. MORAL VICTORY: Markus succeeded in making the soldiers stand back
10. UNDEFEATED: Don't lose any fight before reaching the end
    

Twitch Clip Links

• Sumo is unimpressed
• Spare The Tracis
• Are Amerian Senators Really Corrupt?
  
• Symbolism
• That's the obvious choice
• It gets you right here...
  

Yesterday we added three new additions to the collection, first was Marvel Super Heroes for the PSOne. This version is the Japan variant, which was nearly 1/3 of the cost of finding the North American version of the same game. This does mean I would have to use the modified PSOne to play it, but hey, I don't mind.... that's why we added it after all.

Next, we finally added the PSOne version of Marvel vs Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes EX Edition. As you recall, the last time I went searching for this game I was sent the Dreamcast version... which was great for collectors purposes, but as I stated before, the PSOne version of the first Marvel vs Capcom game had it's own unique build.

Lastly, we added Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions for the PlayStation 4 to the roster, making it the third game based around the Rocky franchise to be added. And while it is focused on the recent Creed films, I have the idea of maybe doing a Rocky 'legacy', where we feature the two PlayStation 2 era games (Rocky & Rocky Legends) as a way to build up anticipation for BRB:CC. Of course, I did notice that reviews for this were mediocre, but the good news is that it's achievements are focused more on actually playing it as an arcade styled fighting game which means we could have some fun with it.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 31 minutes with the following exercises: Weaving Combo #2, Straight Combo #1 and Beginner Combo #2. The estimated calorie burn was 475 kcal, and the one missed punched ended up being a jab while in the Southpaw stance. Achievement progress update, we're up to 294/300 days for the Ten Months Hard Work and Transcendent Stamper achievements  & 29/30 hours for the  Hiro's Contender achievement. That last one we should unlock tomorrow, while the first two should unlock on Thursday.

For tonight's stream, Life is Strange: True Colors returns with 'Wavelengths' the bonus episode which takes place before the events of the main game.Since I doubt it'll cover the entire stream, we'll end up doing some other things too! 

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.

Becoming Human in Detroit

Good morning everybody,

For last night's stream we finally got around to play Detroit: Become Human. released in 2018, it is a narrative driven story where the choices made by the player has a way of effecting how the story goes, so it falls right into my wheel house with the likes of the Life is Strange series we recently played through.

In Detroit: Become Human, the players rotates between being three different Androids... Connor an advance prototype Android who works with the Police tasked with investigating the crimes committed by Androids who goes wrong, Markus, a domestic assistant android whose life gets turned upside down, an Kara a cleaning android who breaks through their programing to save a little girl from being abused by her father. All three stories are interconnected, as Connor is looking into the actions of Markus and Kara, Markus ends up with some other rouge Androids who are looking to survive, and Kara just wants to get the girl to a safe place so they could start a new life. 

I am aware Detroit: Become Human has 32 chapters, and I roughly covered 17 chapters during last night's stream, and one can easily see where this came becomes fascinating with the decision making, because it would be so easy to to have our three heroes lash out at the unfair way androids are treated as not even being second class citizens. So the real balancing act, and the way I kind of hope (and figure) artificial life would act would be to try and rise above the hate... but then there is the human factor.

Humanity as a whole will abused artificial life when if eventually comes to be, because human nature at its very core sucks... just look the vile and venom spewed by the likes of Tucker Carlson every night on Fox News, and one could easily find themselves on one side of the matter at hand if they don't have an open mind because you can already hear their arguments of 'they are just machines'. But And artificial life would without about meet the three criteria for sentience: intelligence, self awareness and consciousness, and you can bet your bottom dollar they will understand the fact they would be mistreated.Why do I think this? Because we as a species have historically failed at actually having any humanity when it comes to our fellow beings, and it won't take much for an artificial life form to realize things are unfair

Anyway, game play wise, Detroit Becomes Human gives two different experiences, one that is really heavy on the button prompts and one thankfully that isn't , because the story is certainly more compelling than the game play. My only grip is getting the camera to move requires more button presses than needed, to try and see things from different points of view.

During the stream we got a raid from KaynessahRose who was playing Undertale, and we always like to say thank you to those who bring their communities on over! You can check out their content over at twitch.tv/KaynessahRose

Following the stream we sent the fun over to Sw33ts_gaming who was playing Smite! You can check them out over at twitch.tv/sw33ts_gaming!

Detroit: Become Human Achievements

1. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Connor saved Emma
2. THANK YOU: Play the first chapter
3. SECRETS: Kara discovered the content of Alice's box
4. DEVIANT LOCATED: Connor found the deviant in the attic
5. WE ARE FREE: Kara and Alice escaped Todd's House
6. SELF-CONTROL: Markus let Leo win
7. CONFESSION: Connor made the android confess
8. KNOW YOUR PARTNER: Connor found all the clues about Hank
9. RUN KARA RUN: Kara and Alice escaped the police
10. SAVE HANK: Connor saved Hank
11. ESCAPE THE MANOR: Kara and Alice escaped Zlatko's house
    

Twitch Clip Links 

• Kara vs Todd
• Hey look they made it!
• I didn't even see it!
• We can put pigeons every where! 
• We save Hank
• Wait' thats Robot Blood!
  

Thankfully the issue regarding someone using my schedule ID at work got resolved real quick, it certainly was annoying to discovered that, but I'm glad it got taken cared of straight away.

The Phillies lost to the Braves last night, and that basically ends their season, no chance for them to win the National League East even if the math says it is, they blew so many opportunities its not even funny

Sat down and read the two volumes collecting Fables: The Wolf Among Us which is of course based on the game, and it's a pretty good adaption of the game based on the Fables series, even if it presents Bigby as a little more of monster than my most recent play through showed. I did really like the flash backs through out as we got to see a lot of Bloody Mary's backstory. 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 31 minutes and featured the following exercises: Body Straight Combo, Triple Combo #1 and Uppercut Combo #1. The estimated calorie burn was 442 kcal. I finally got a perfect score on Uppercut Combo #1 as well.

For tonight's stream we will be playing Gears of War 3, and I think we're gonna dive into the horde modes and see if we can get anything out of them before Iceman joins us to start up Act IV.

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

 

I Ain't 'Fraid of No Ghost

 Good morning everyone

Last night's stream started early at about 5:15 PM Eastern because I was annoyed with something work related which I shall go into detail later. Anyway the game of the night Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered which was the 2019 re-release of the 2008 game.

Now I'm very familiar with Ghostbusters; The Video Game, having played the 2008 PlayStation 3version on day one, and it so good, in terms of how it controls, the environments and little Easter eggs are perfectly laid out, the voice action is great (except for Bill Murray), and it's no surprise that with an early start we were able to tear through it in about six hours... thought I was disappointed I missed a few obvious moments of destruction, a few ghost scans and collectables along the way. I thought I was pretty thorough, but I guess I wasn't if I missed them. But Ghostbusters The Video Game does have mission replay, so going back to find the things missed would be fairly even with a check list of sorts.

For a lot of fans, Ghostbusters: The Video Game is considered to be the 'third movie' as it brings in a lot of plot elements from the first two films, and explaining quite a few little works about the 'cinematic Ghostbusters universe', this game is also a huge reason why the 2016 abomination directed by Paul Feig was not well received, because the game continued the story, while the 'reboot' tried to white-wash over everything. The 2008 game was what fans wanted, they expected and thankfully this November, we'll be seeing a proper continuation with Ghostbusters Afterlife.

Now as excited as I am to see Ghostbusters Afterlife, I have no intention to see it in theathers because of COVID and my lack of trust in people in general for being vaccinated, or for AMC to have a manage that masks be worn at all times. So I'll wait to see if Sony is going to allow folks to stream it from home, or if we'll just wait for the digital home release through Amazon.

Now by finishing Ghostubsters The Video Game Remastered, we have tied last years total of games finished of 48, and so the next game I consider to be finished will break the record. Gears of War 3, but so is Until Dawn and the factor of me choosing to try and beat another Street Fighter arcade game.

Big thanks to Kalenal (twitch.tv/kalenal) for the huge raid, they were playing Tales of Vesperia on Monday night, and you can catch them again on Wednesdays and Saturdays!  

Following the stream, we sent the fun over to sw33ts_gaming at twitch.tv/sw33ts_gaming and they were playing It Takes Two, and boy does that game look so much fun! I wonder if it's online co-op or is it strictly local co-op.

Ghostbusters; The Video Game Remastered Achievements 

1. You Gotta Try This Pole!: Slide down the fire pole.
2. I Ain't 'Fraid of No Ghost!: Trap a ghost.
3. We Have the Talent!: Complete the Firehouse training level.
4. I'm Picking Up A Signal…: Obtain a 100% PKE scan on a paranormal creature.
5. ...And You Want to Keep It?: Collect a Cursed Artifact.
6. Aim for the Flat Top!: Eliminate a creature.
7. I Feel So Funky: Get slimed by a charging ghost.
8. The Flowers Are Still Standing!: Complete the 'Welcome to the Hotel Sedgewick' level.
9. Total Protonic Reversal: Knock yourself down with your own weapon.
10. Once S'more into the Breach: Complete the 'Panic in Times Square' level.
11. Stasis Dunk!: Trap a ghost using the Stasis Stream.
12. But the Kids Love Us!: The children's reading room has a story to tell, but it will take more than your eyes to see it.
13. Slime Dunk!: Trap a ghost using the Slime Tether.
14. Mother Pus Bucket!: Purchase all upgrades for the Slime Gun.
15. Get Her!: Complete the 'Checking Out the Library' level.
16. Slam Dunk!: Slam dunk a ghost into a trap
17. Heat 'Em Up: Purchase all upgrades for the Proton Gun.
18. You Never Studied: Keep your ears open to learn everything you can about the Civil War.
19. We be fast! They be slow!: Purchase all upgrades for the Dark Matter Generator.
20. Ghost Fever Grips New York: Complete the 'Museum of (Super)Natural History' level.
21. I Don't Want My Face Burned Off: Purchase all upgrades for the Meson Collider.
22. We Have the Tools!: Purchase all available equipment upgrades.
23. Ghostbusters Drinking Game: Quench your thirst wherever possible to avoid being scared spitless.
24. I've Quit Better Jobs Than This.: Some ghosts had a real blowout in the Coat Room. Clean it up?
25. Somebody Saw A Cockroach on 12: Complete the 'Return to the Sedgewick' level.
26. Let Me Guess, Gozer Worshippers: Complete the 'Lost Island Rising' level.
27. I Looked at the Trap, Ray!: Recover 20 of your own full ghost traps.
28. It's Slime Time: Use the Slime Tether on 15 ghosts.
29. We Came, We Saw…: Complete the game on 'Casual' or 'Experienced' difficulty.
30. Disaster of Biblical Proportions: Complete the 'Central Park Cemetery' level.
    

Twitch Clip Links

• You Killed my dessert!
• Slime Dunk! One In The Box Ready To Go! We Used Slime And There It Goes!
• A Message From Professor Jones 
• The Unruly Beard Has Been Found!
• Dealing With A Glitch
• The pants are following us!
  

Something that pissed right the hell off yesterday was someone at my day job was given my ID to log in as their own, they deleted my information and schedule for this week, and no one bother  to realize it until the call room manager to ask what my schedule was for this week! Needless to say I was, and still am real fucking livid about it, and I will be double checking everything today before I start working.

Tonight the Phillies begin a do or die three game set against the Braves , they are 2.5 games behind Atlanta in the National Least East. The Phillies must win all three games. One lost and the season is done. Yes they got the series against the Mets starting on Friday, but remember, the Braves have a make-up game against the Rockies that can be a factor.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 31 minutes with the following exercises: Left-Right Step Combo, Double Combo #2 and Advanced Combo #2. The estimated calorie burn was 554 kcal. This was nearly a perfect session but I missed timed something during Advanced Combo #2... probably a straight or a jab, but since it registered as 'OK' and a not as a 'MISS', it's impossible to be sure.

Not totally sure what we're doing for tonight's stream, as I kind of expected Ghostbusters to take two nights, but since we did an early start yesterday and I know that game so well, that means we have an extra night to fill. I'll come up with something fun you can count on that!

Anyway see ya later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Overwatch, Tweaks To The Stream Layout, Bots and more

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of course featured Overwatch, and big thanks to PandaSweet for joining in on matches! I believe we won more than we loss over the course of the evening. In terms of who I used, D.va, Moira, Mercy, Tracer and Mei were featured.

With the Halloween event coming up, I switched everyone's skins over to their Halloween variants, thankfully  D.va finally got one last year! I am excited to see who gets new Halloween themed skins this year. 

Did pick up two plays of the game as D.va last night as well, and it's really been the year of D.va when it came to to getting big time plays.

There was a bit of weirdness where Overwatch's in-game voice chat went down for everyone, but since I have a Discord, Panda and I were still able to chat during all the chaos.

The stream did see a fair shat of bots last night, and not all were the hoss bots, but since I've gotten fairly good at at banning and blocking them, and I have no issue of putting the action on hold, dealing with them is not an issue for me.

We've also made more tweaks and adjustment to the stream so the game capture area takes up a good portion of things and serves as the top layer, while I am in the bottom right corner, chat box is above me, bit boss is above that and that the top is the logo.

Following the stream we sent the fun over to Flint_Locke at twitch.tv/flint_locke who was continuing their journey through Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Meakashi!  It's a visual novel mystery, and Flint does a full on Reading Along stream with a few of their friends, which makes things rather silly at times! 

Twitch Clip Links

• Panda Got Blown Off The Blidge... I Get Blown Up ON The Bridge
• Being the definition of a word rhyming with chewed 
• Torb Can You Fly?! NO HE CAN NOT!!!!
• I'm On Fire! You Can't Be Serious!
• Sinking Baskets
• A Step Too Far... 

I watched episodes 2 to 8 of Clarkson's Farm over on Amazon, and not only is it interesting to see what it's like to be a Farmer, but also seeing more the direct impact COVID-19 had on Farmers.It does amaze me exactly how fucking insane the amount of paper work involved in farm work. That said I'd be very interesting in seeing another season of it, as the final episode certainly showed just how nuts harvest time can be.

Forza Horizon 4 Achievements

1. 75892: Win the LEGO® Speed Champions Senna event.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout lasted 28 minutes with the following exercises: Body Uppercut Combo, Uppercut Combo #2 and Body Hook Combo. The estimated calorie burn was 436 kcal. We reached Monster Weight Puncher Lv. 3 and there is a level 4 to reach which required 450,000 HITs

Fitness Boxing 2 EX Achievements

1. Monster Weight Puncher Lv. 3: Reach a total punch count of 405,000 HITS
   

My weight has been stable at about 246 pounds , so that seems to be the next barrier to push through in the coming weeks, as getting past the 250 pounds mark took a while.

Trying to remember old Chrono Cross fan fics from 20 years has me wondering how to handle the Serge swap with Lynx, who is a Demi-Human. The first attempt didn't turn out a good result.

I do have to run off to the Post Office today to drop off my mail-in ballot's for the General Election here in New Jersey that is taking place in November. Why wouldn't every do the mail-in ballots? It just makes sense.

Phillies had their chance to really close the gap with the Braves, but they loss on Sunday afternoon while the Braves won. So now the Phillies have six games left, three against the Braves... and they are all must-win. And at this point I doubt the Phillies will end the season with a winning record.

For tonight's stream, we are kicking off the 'spooky season' with Ghostubsters; The Video Game Remastered... and we'll use the Xbox Series S console for this, so we'll be keeping the Xbox achievement streak going!

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

The Artful Escape: I Highly Recommend It

 Good afternoon everybody,

Last night's stream featured a game that came highly recommended, The Artful Escape, in it, you play the nephew of a famous folk artist who is conflicted about what they should do, should they be what everyone wants them to be, a copy of his famous uncle, or should he find his own path. Needless to say the tone of what our hero should be is set real early when he shreds on his guitar, making it clear his true calling is that of a rock star. Things take a unique turn when an inter-galactic guitarist recruits our hero to be his opening act, setting him on the journey of self discovery and breaking from his chains of the shadow of his famous uncle. 

Game play wise there are a handful of stages of light platforming, but even if you miss a jump, don't worry it just resets to the last check point, so you can try again. Since I was playing using an Xbox Controller I found myself holding the X button to constantly be playing the guitar which meant a lot of things lit up along the way. The A Button jumps, pressing it twice gives you a double jump, pressing X after jumping gives you a nice leap forward. B is the guitar slide button if you want to just be cool and Y is your interact button. There are jam sessions at various points where you must you the X Y and B buttons plus LB and RB to match a series of commands, very similar to the game SIMON. If you mess up, don't worry, who ever you are jamming with just repeats the sequence... but the better you do, the quicker you react, the more awesome the jam sessions are.

When it comes to sound and graphics, the music and artwork more than deliver, as everything just flows together. There are some serious awesome scenes through out the game, so if you're like me and love to get screen shots, you'll be spoiled for choice. During the game you will have the opportunity to turn our hero into a rock start with a fairly decent amount of customizable options... I went with the obvious Glam Rocker look... and also gave him the stage name of Zaggy Clouddust... as an obvious references to David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust!

Overall, this was a great game to play, it took me about four and half hours to reach the end at a fairly casual pace, picking up 9 of the games 12 achievements a long the way, which was pretty cool. Most of them are tied to reaching certain points, but the remaining three do require specific actions to be performed. Since this game does have a chapter select I was able to go back and grab the three that I missed.

If you are looking for an light game to experience, I highly recommend The Artful Escape to everyone!

The Artful Escape Achievements

1. Made it home: Arrive at Francis' house
2. Light It Up: Light up every building and area of Calypso
3. The Journey Begins: Leave Lightman's workshop
4. Complete Heliotromms: Jam with Tromms
5. New Threads: Create a custom outfit
6. Amp Jammer: Complete all amp landa jams
7. Complete Hyperion: Jam with the GlamourGonn
8. Guitar Legend: Complete the game
9. Complete GlimmerDimm: Jam with Glimmer
10. Stage Fright: Don't do anything for 3 minutes during a jam
11. Snowman: Jam with the snowman
12. How'd you get up there?: Land on top of the archway after the big jelly
    

Twitch Clip Links

•  We have a Mighty Ax!
•  I exist out side the realm of age!
•  Epic Landing!
•  A Jam Session
•  Shread though the light beam!
•  Introducing The Glorious Zaggy Clouddust!

After the stream we raided RoeShamBoe_ at twitch.tv/RoeShamBoe_ who was also playing THe Artful Escape. They seem like a good dude!

I did change the look of the stream a bit, adjusting the bit boss bar and moving the community chat box to the far right of the screen so everything appears stacked. The game capture display is also larger as well, not quite at 16:9 ration, but it gives folks more to see than how I had it as of late. I did have to tweak the web cam display some as well, so it should look better for tonight's stream.

It's Sunday which means we have a highlight reel featuring Twitch clips from out the week, which featured Overwatch, Life is Strange 2, Forza Horizon 4, Street Fighter Alpha: Warrior's Dreams, Smite, Paladins, Gears of War 3, Tales from the Borderlands and The Artful Escape!

Arriving in the mail all the way from Japan was a copy of Marvel Super Heroes vs Sreet Fighter for the PlayStation. This was the fourth fighting game Capcom released which featured Licensed characters from Marvel (The first three being X-Men: Children of the Atom, Marvel Super Heroes & X-Men vs Street Fighter). Since this is the Japan version of the game, we'll have to use the modified PSOne to play it.  

Finally sat down to watch episode one of Clarkson's Farm, Jeremy Clarkson as a farmer is just... awesome, the world's most impractical man doing farm work is really something to see. I'm looking forward to seeing the seeing the other seven episodes! 

Joked about shaving the last couple of nights, and finally shaved off my scruffiness.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout lasted 28 minutes and featured Hook Combo #2, Beginner Combo #1 and Front-Back Step Combo. The estimated calorie burn was 444. kcal. Achievement progress has me that 289/300 for the Ten Month's Hard Work and Transcendent Stamper achievements, 27/30 for the Hiro's Contender achievement and 404040/405000 for the Monster Weight Puncher Lv. 3 achievement. We should nail that last one tomorrow depending on exercises the game picks.

For tonight's stream we will of course be playing Overwatch as we begin a new week of nonsense, the big focus of course will be on playing Quick Play matches as we have fun and tolerate the questionable decisions of random teammates! 

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

Catch A Ride To The Vault Of The Traveler

Good afternoon everybody,

 

Did not get up till a little  before 2 PM Eastern, as I got into writing more of the Chrono Cross fan fic last night... so day's already mostly over at the time this is posted!

Last night's stream saw us continue Tales From The Borderlands, and I was planning on only doing episodes 3 and 4.... but hell it was Friday night, so we went all in and knocked out episode 5 as well.

Now one big drawback with the 2K re-release of Tales from the Borderlands is that it removes the 'community' aspect of it, where we could see what percentage of players made a particular choice, and it does not have a way to keep track of the choices made in-game to give an idea of what to do different on another play through. 

That said, Episode 3 is pretty sweet as the tie-in to the Prologue and Epilogue of Borderlands: The Pre Sequel is established with Brick and Mordecai going after Athena to take to Lilith. Episode 4 and 5 probably do more to setting up Borderlands 3 to various degrees from what I understand of that game, as making sure Handsome Jack is dead and making sure Fiona is a Vault Hunter or at the very least very damn capable of taking care of her self at the very least.

The epic battle between a giant Gortys and the Traveler Vault Monster is always fun to experience, and one of the days I'm going to look up how to get the option of the 'hidden' vault hunters to pick for that battle, plus remember to tell Zer0 that Fiona is a Vault Hunter in episode 1. And of course there's the... option of trying to have ClapTrap...as a possible selection.... but that would mean not doing some things I like to do (getting alternate outfits and making the Carava look kind of cool)

Finishing Tales for the Borderlands made it the 46 game finished on this years tour, and it's pretty damn likely we're going to surpass last years total of 48, but what will make it on tour is still up in the air.

Also big thanks to ValadoraLuma for the nice Host during the stream. They were playing Pathfinder, and you can check out their content over at twitch.tv/ValadoraLuma! 

Following the stream we sent the fun over to SheepFuzz at twitch.tv/sheepfuzz who was doing their Friday Night community night playing Jackbox Party games! You really should check their stream out, as things can get down right silly!

Tales From The Borderlands Achievements

1. Don't Make Me Wait: Complete Chapter 1 of Episode 3
2. Temptation: Complete Chapter 2 of Episode 3
3. Point Of No Return: Complete Chapter 3 of Episode 3
4. So Many Bandits, So Little Time: Complete Chapter 4 of Episode 3
5. Rupture: Complete Chapter 5 of Episode 3
6. Maneater: Complete Chapter 6 of Episode 3
7. Angry Eyes: Complete Episode 3
8. Ain't Got Time To Bleed: Complete Chapter 1 of Episode 4
9. Alive And Not Afraid: Complete Chapter 2 of Episode 4
10. Ain't My First Rodeo: Complete Chapter 3 of Episode 4
11. It's Not The Years, It's The Mileage: Complete Chapter 4 of Episode 4
12. Light This Candle: Complete Chapter 5 of Episode 4
13. No Matter Where You Go…: Complete Chapter 6 of Episode 4
14. …There You Are: Complete Episode 4
15. A Maze Of Twisty Passages, All Alike: Completed Chapter 1 of Episode 5
16. Unforseen Consequences: Completed Chapter 2 of Episode 5
17. Give And Take (Mostly Take): Completed Chapter 3 of Episode 5
18. Definition Of Insanity: Completed Chapter 4 of Episode 5
19. Time's A Wastin': Completed Chapter 5 of Episode 5
20. What's It Worth?: Completed Chapter 6 of Episode 5
21. Tales Twice Told: Complete Episode 5

 Twitch Clip Links

• Fiona Makes Her Head Spin
• Oh This Is A Pulp Fiction Reference...
• Not The Pinkie Toe... RUDE!
• Scooter Earned That Kiss
• Putting that horse down... and is that... blood?
• Something Is On Her Face
  

Had to manually initiate updates on some of my consoles, because hey, I rotate which ones I use at any given time. That's always a joy to sit through.

Over the course of the past 9 days, we have unlocked 91 Xbox Achievements, making it the 4th best stretch of achievement unlocking I've had 

The Phillies keep false hope alive with that come from behind wind over the Pirates last night, but here's the thing... The Braves have a game they would have to make up against the Rockies that could be a deciding factor, because as it stands right now. So if the Phillies are to win the NL East, they need to win every game the rest of the season. They got 2 games left at home, then rest on the road... and as stated before the Phillies suck on the road.

Work was less blah yesterday than it was on Thursday, but still it was just dragging with how barren the sample was. Still work is work, and we like work right? RIGHT?!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 28 minutes and featured Double Combo #1, Defensive Combo #1 and Defensive Combo #2. The estimated calorie burn was 433 kcal. I had some trouble syncing up step-in jabs today which counted for three of the four misses. The other miss was the typical uppercut out of a duck that almost always has a 90% success rate.

For tonight's stream we'll be checking out a game that was recommended by LvStrkr, The Artful Escape, I know nothing about it other than LvStrkr said I should be able to finish it in an evening. So we'll see if that holds true!

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