A Night Of Final Fantasy XIV

Good morning everybody,

Last night's stream fully featured Final Fantasy XIV, making it the first time we dedicated an entire stream to it.

We started with the 'Wreath of the Titan' story arc, which saw a lot of going back and forth from place to place, doing literal fetch quests... all in the name of 'proving ourselves' worthy of fighting the second of the games Primal gods, Titan, which is often the Earth based summon in most Final Fantasy games. Now things were going pretty well, outside of one bad encounter in a FATE where I got overwhelmed, but things were going smoothly. Then when I finally reached Titan (and after waiting in a queue for 10 minutes), I get squashed, revived and the knocked off the ledge! The other three people in the party had no issues with Titan... and I got credit for the quest being finished, but I did nothing during that fight! I'm quite mad about that while laughing at the same time at the shock. 

That kicked off the next major part of the story where the Scions are attacked, Minifilia is kidnapped and we find Cid as a monk with amnesia in a church which kicked off the search for his airship, the Enterprise. You know it's not a Final Fantasy game until Cid shows up, with the next goal finding his airship, The Enterprise. I remember back when I played Final Fantasy IV, that the name of the airship in that was also the Enterprise.... it's a good name for a shit, can't dispute that. 

So doing a full stream based around Final Fantasy XIV certainly proved to be more robust than a Star Trek Online stream because of the amount of content, keeping in mind I'm not doing the side quests at the moment, instead focusing on the main story quest line. The biggest draw backs are waiting in queues for dungeons, which can be anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes based on what I've experienced.

Following the stream we sent the fun over to Oldish22 who also was playing Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/oldish22! 

Twitch Clip Links

• Well he fell down 
• God god what is that?!
• And it's a dead turtle 
• We got him!
• Finishing The FATE in Time
• It's Huge! 
• First Time Facing Titan...
• I'm sorry but that was funny as hell! 
• Taking Out The Watcher

Now I did continue my trend of doing more Final Fantasy XIV off-stream, knocking out several quests leading up The Best Inventions is one of the final quests in the level 31-40 range of the story.I have noticed that some enemies are starting to be a little tougher out in the field despite the level advantage I have... then again, gear seems to be my biggest handicap.

Is there a more delusional D-list celebrity than George Takei? I mean the guy loves to blame William Shatner for the short gains in his career, but when you actually research Takei's history, you realize he basically justified the hiring of Walter Koenig for Star Trek's second season because Takei signed on to be in 'The Green Berets' starring John Wayne, which cut down on his own screen time, not to mention the fact that Takei only became an 'icon' as a result of becoming a self-parody with a starving need for attention which lead to him being a regular fixture on Howard Stern's program in the 1990s and 2000s.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout lasted 34 minutes and featured Difficult Challenge Combo #1, Difficult Challenge Combo #3 and Difficult Challenge #2 (in that order) for an estimated calorie burn of 645 kcal. For the Free Training we did Defensive Combo #1 and Defensive Combo #2 for an additional 11 minutes with the estimate calorie burn being 172 kcal. So the totals for today were 45 minutes workout time with an total estimated calorie burn of 807 kcal.

For tonight's stream we are continuing The Simpsons Game, we played about 50% of it this past Saturday, so with a bit of luck we'll finish it tonight!

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

 

Black Cats in Star Trek And Hordes In Gears Of War

Good morning everybody,

Yesterday certainly was weird, as someone hacked my PlayStation account, thankfully since I work from home I was able to act quickly when I saw the email saying something changed! Took an hour to resolved, but hey nothing was charged to my account.

Anyway last night's stream lead off with Star Trek Online as we played the new 'Fall of the Old Ones' task force operation which is apart of STO's first Halloween Event. Based on the Original Series episode 'Catspaw' the Old Ones returne to study humanity, but their plans are disrupted by the Devidians. A Group of five players team up to run through a castle, fighting skeletons and hags while finding black cats and lighting candles to save the day. 

For a special mission based around Halloween, it certainly is really cool, the castle is fairly dark, you can't defeat the skeletons unless they are standing in candlelight, there are 13 black cats that are optional to find, and it's a great excuse to break out the Synchronic Proton Distortion Prototype Assault Rifle if you have it, since it's basically Star Trek Online's version of a proton pack complete with the special effect of how the beam looks.

We then played some Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, doing a successful run on Normal as Sakura before trying it on Hard as Ken... and I think I was actually getting better in keeping up with the A.I. on the harder difficulty even if it takes multiple tries to figure things out on how to approach each opponent. 

Finally Iceman and I returned to Gears of War 3 to mess around with the Horde mode. We tried it with just us at first, before grouping up with randoms, as we experienced some weird lags jumps, but got to the 20th wave before things went totally wrong. This was a lot of fun, it would be awesome if we could mess around with it in a group of 5.

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

Twitch Clip Links

• Welcome to Halloween... Star Trek Style!
• I'm a CAT!
• I'm a cat! I'm a cat!
• A Three Chain Combo! 
• This was incredibly lucky
• Big Hit!
• Iceman admits he was having a Thumbz moment 
• When Gears of War 3 Has Lag!
• I'm burning up!

Off-Stream Final Fantasy XIV stuff for me saw more Main Story Quest stuff done as we get through a bunch of missions, with everything leading to the Skeletons in Her Closet Mission which allowed us to access the Haukke Manor dungeon, which was a little confusing to get around and to keep up with the one person who clearly did it before. We progressed further to to the Wrath of the Titan quest which I believe sets up the final six quests for levels 21-30. With lucky maybe I can knock in short order.

Overwatch's Halloween Terror doesn't seem to be tracking each instances of Junkenstein's revenge, so have to do more random matches in other game modes to get the play time to unlock the first weekly skin for the event.... damn! Still I already have the first two rewards for the week done so at the very least I need to play 9 more matches to get the skin.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily work out lasted about 31 minutes with the following exercises Straight Combo #2, Hip Shape Focus Combo and Sway Back Combo for an estimated calorie burn of 459 kcal. We did an extra eleven minutes with Beginner Combo #1 and Beginner Combo #2 for added estimated calorie burn of 174 kcal. Full total for today was a 43 minute work out with a calorie burn estimate of 634 kcal.  

Some asked why don't I just do a longer daily work out, it's because with how I have Fitness Boxing 2 set up, it's because I like to control anything beyond the 30 minute mark.

For tonight's stream I'm not 100% sure what we'll do, we could do a full stream of Final Fantasy XIV or we do something completely random for the evening, as I want to save the Simpsons Video Game for Friday and The Walking Dead for Saturday. I'll make up my mind by this evening, you can count on that!

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

Clementine Does Not Stay In Wellington

 Good morning everybody,

Last night we featured two games, The Walking Dead Season Two which we finished and also Final Fantasy XIV!

First The Walking Dead Season Two we featured Episode 4 & 5, and in case you can't tell by the title, Clementine doesn't stay in Wellington and is with Kenny at the end of Episode 5. Now before we got there, Episode 4 see Clementine and the gang escaping through the walkers outside of Carver's little warehouse, but things get drastic as Kenny wasn't too keen on anyone because of what happened to his girlfriend. Too top if off AJ is also born during this episode which sets up things for Season 3 and 4. 

Episode 5 basically sees everyone who survived to that point get killed off in some form or fashion, leading to a showdown between Kenny and Jane who was introduced in the 3rd episode. Since Kenny has had it so rough, he comes across as starting to crack, but Jane doesn't make it any easier by constantly pushing his buttons, including the pretending she killed AJ which sends Kenny over the edge. Clementine has a huge choice at the end of either to kill Kenny, let him kill Jane, or to let him kill Jane and to kill him. 

Now before I did the stay with Jane route, and to put it mildly I wasn't a fan of it considering the justification of killing her off was because she had a fling with Luke in Episode 4, so sticking with Kenny makes sense. I know he dies before the events of Season 3, but considering He is the only non-playable character to carry over from the first season, having him helping Clementine with AJ makes a lot more sense.

More than likely we're going to feature The Walking Dead: Michonne on Saturday night this week, since it's only three episodes, which frees up the ability to do Season 3 aka New Frontier split between Monday and Tuesday of Next week!

As far as the Final Fantasy XIV portion goes, we basically did some Main Story Quest things, and we did the dungeon that is associated with the Into the Beast's Maw quest. My big concern over gear continues to come up at different points though, but still we had a fun with FF14. Off-stream I did even more progressing the Main Quest Line up to Wilred Wants You.... and thank goodness Kalenal (twitch.tv/kalenal) hooked me up with a lot of gil early because all the back tracking makes using the teleportation method necessary to get things done quick!

Following the stream we sent the fun over to MommyBee who was playing Chrono Cross over at twitch.tv/mommybee!  

The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series Achievements

1. Beyond the Trees: Completed Season 2 Episode 4
2. All The Dead Lie Down: Completed Season 2 Episode 5
   

Twitch Clip Links

• Dude Get Off Me!
• Clem Deaths Count: 3 
  
• Bye Sarah!
• Ya'll Are Not Getting Up Here! No Sir! 
• It's alive.... It's Alive.... IT'S ALIVE!!!!! 
• Boom! Headshot! 
• One Could Say This Is the Walking WOUND-DEAD!
• Kenny Or Jane
• We're Not Staying! 
• We Done Did The Thing!
• Achievements; Crush You Enemies Number 3
• Just Been Put In A Bad Spot!

Work was really good yesterday as one of my favorite yearly assignments finally rolled in, and if things roll right with it it should carry everyone on the job through the end of November. 

There were no changes to Junkenstein's Revenge for Overwatch's Halloween 2021 event, but good news for people who live the Roadhog 'clown skin', it you earn it during week 3 of the event, with the week 1 and 2 skins being for Genji and Zarya. The new legendary skins are for Bastion, Brigitte, Echo, Lucio and Reinhardt, while Baptiste, Moira and Sigma all get new emotes. Since I had a lot of gold from loot boxes opened earlier in the year, I got all the stuff that is not tide to weekly skins. Woohoo!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 31 minutes with the following exercises Block Combo, Waist Shape Focus Combo & Hook Combo #1 for an estimated calorie burn of 464 kcal. Also did some extra exercises for 8 minutes featuring Hook Combo #2 and Uppercut Combo #1 for an added estimated calorie burn of 109 kcal. So the complete session lasted 40 minutes with an estimated calroie brun of 573 kcal.

For tonight's stream we will lead off with Star Trek Online's Halloween Event Task Force Mission, we'll do it twice once with Zagreus and the other with Sorra. If Hearts and Minds is available, we'll feature that as well. Then if Iceman is avaliable, we'll also feature Gears of War 3 for general silliness before the attention turns to Gears of War Judgement.

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

Split Decisions In The Eye Of The Storm

 Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream saw us start up Season Two of The Walking Dead, which features Clementine in the starring role.

Episode 1 sees Clementine paired with Omid and Christa to start things off, but Omid is killed and Clem gets separated from Christa in the middle of the woods 16 months later. So time line wise, the events take place when Clem is 11 years old. She gets bit by a dog, and comes across a new group of people who are hiding from a dude name Carver, who is running an encampment  with a survival of the fittest mentality. Throughout Episode 1 Clem has to stitch up her own arm, fight a few zombies and make a split decision choice of who to save at the end, Pete, who was kind of cool to her, or Nick, who nearly shot her.. I went with saving Pete because it means knowing his fate in episode 2 since Nick obviously was going to live.

Episode 2 sees Carver show up, and Clementine gets an opportunity to show just how much of a bad ass she is by not backing down when he is checking out the cabin the group is staying in. Everyone leaves and the big point of Episode 2 is that Clementine is reunited with Kenny who was assumed to have died in episode 5 of Season 1. Since we did everything as Lee to have Kenny be less of a jerk, the reunion between Kenny and Clem means a hell of a lot more. A bunch of characters get killed in this episode, and the tie in to 400 Days kicks in when Bonnie shows up... with Carver who captures everyone.

Episode 3 sees Clementine, Kenny and the group as prisoners in Carver's converted Hardware Superstore Fortress. Depending on choices made in 400 days, Vince, Russel, Wyatt, Shel and Becca will appear during this episode... but based on decisions I made, only Russel, Wyatt and Shel pop up. The whole point of episode 3 is escape, which leads to a few things happening, the introduction of Jane and Kenny being beaten to a pulp by Carver. Perhaps the most memorable moment of this episode is the choice of Clem watching Kenny get revenge on Carver... and considering the shit Clementine has gone through it makes sense for her to watch. The episode ends with a choice of cutting the arm off Kenny's girlfriend or stopping the zombie biting her to set up Episode 4... for the purpose of this play through, we went with Clem killing the zombie.

The funny thing about Season 2 of the Walking Dead is the gag that you get to turn Clementine into a little sociopath, but she doesn't directly kill any one living, just a bunch of zombies. Sure the death glare she gives some folks and her expression when Kenny is bashing Carver's skull in speaks volumes, but it really isn't until New Frontier (AKA Season 3) and the Final Season (aka Season 4) when she is m   

Following the stream we sent the fun over to Sw33ts_gaming who was playing Dead By Daylight over on twitch.tv/sw33ts_gaming!  

The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series Achievements

1. Split Decision: Completed Season 2 Episode 1
2. Reunion: Completed Season 2 Episode 2
3. Eye of the Storm: Completed Season 2 Episode 3

Twitch Clip Links

• Clementine Is Having A Bad Day
• We Regret Feeding The Dog 
• She Goes Up and Down The Stairs.
• Just A Stitch
• Clem Death Count: 2
• It's Hammer Time Bro! 
• Reunited and Feels So Good!
• Knife To Meet You! 
• A Narrow Escape!
• Help Kenny!
• What's That On Your Face... Oh It's a Crowbar!
  

Big thanks to Iceman7667 and TheInsanityInc for resubscribing to my Twitch Channel Yesterday, the support is always truly appreciated! 

Made a few tweaks to how the stream looks, brought back the Latest Follower / Host / Raid / Donation / Bits / Sub gimmick which will appear at the top of the stream. 

More Off-Stream Final Fantasy XIV stuff, figured out how to summon my Chocobo and how to get his help in combat, which will probably help when leveling up secondary skills by roaming around getting into battles and stuff. Also Started the level 21-30 Main Story Quests, with Never Forget being the next one on the list of things to do.

People are all hyped or pissed the 'Superman' is bisexual... but the here's the thing... it's Not Clark Kent, it's a secondary character called Joe Kent that debuted in 2015 as the sun of Clark and Lois Lane. So everyone can relax. Since the character hasn't been around for six-years, writers actually have a lot of fluidity in determining traits that would be associated with him with the hopefully lead to the character gaining enough of a following. So again: It's Not Clark Kent... It's His KID!

Personally, I believe this is being handled a hell of a lot better than the Tim Drake fiasco from earlier in the year since Drake has been firmly established for 30 years. It's always better to make changes with characters who has only been around a short time, other wise you risk pissing people off. Sure the more 'extreme' minded people say make these changes with the established characters, but you have to remember how far back these characters go.... people have an association with Clark Kent's Superman.... but those same people don't give a shit about what creative direction his son Joe goes in. So it's a win win

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout Session lasted 31 minutes with the following exercises: Weaving Combo #2, Straight Combo #1 and Beginner Combo #2 for an estimated calorie burn of 471 kcal. t. We did an additional 8 minutes of Free Exercise which included Hook Combo #2 and Uppercut Combo #1 for an added estimated calorie burn of 112 kcal. So the total work out was 40 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 584 kcal. Weight continues to hold steady in the 240s. Achievement progress has us at 305/365 for One Year's Hard Work, 19/30 for Janice's Contender, 305/350 for Uparalleled Stamper and 424,501/450,000 for monster Weight Puncher Lv. 4

For tonight's stream we will be continuing The Walking Dead Season 2 with Episodes 4 and 5 to wrap it up.(Assuming nothing drastic happens), depending on what time we wrap it up we make check out Overwatch's Halloween Terror to see what's new with it or save that for Sunday as usual.

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

Just Another Fun Night of Overwatch And A Bonus Stream Of Fitness Boxing 2

Good morning everyone,

A new week starts as we have all sorts of things to consider over the coming days of what to feature and when!

Last night we of course played Overwatch, and big thanks as always to PandaSweet for joining in on several matches. We got into a hot stretch where we went 8 and 2 in our final 10 matches of the night. The night did include a couple of Mayhem matches as well, and I picked up 5 Plays of the Game, 4 as D.va and 1 as Junkrat. So a real successful night on Overwatch! Woo-Hoo!

Of course the big Overwatch news is that the Halloween Terror event starts on Tuesday October 12 and will run until November 2, and so far we know that Reinhardt and Roadhog will have new skins. The question now becomes, who else will have new attire? And what new 'achievements' will be tied to Junkenstein's Revenge this year.

Following the stream we sent the fun over to glorifiedthief who was playing Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors over at twitch.tv/glorifiedthief!  

Twitch Clip Links

• Bullseye!
• Caught 'em!
• Scoreboard!
• I got Bob'ed and D.va'ed at the same time
• When I can't get behind Panda's Shield
• Waiting for the right moment for a Quadruple Kill!
• Wild Finish
• That was me falling off a ledge 
• We win 
• Get Ready For A Shock!

Off-stream Final Fantasy XIV stuff is that I'm gradually making progress through the main story, but the placement of NPCs can be really odd. I get and appreciate Square Enix wanting to make it feel like a living world so that you don't find certain characters in the same spot when on a quest... but a way point finder would be useful when NPCs are in a building that is underneath where the map is indicating where they should be standing! That said the off-stream adventures  saw a familiar sight, at least when compared to Final Fantasy XV: Fighting Ifrit and getting a Chocobo, also joined the Twin Adder because well... I started in Gridania.

The guy who commissioned the two fics I've done last week basked around RWBY and Harry Potter is wanting more, hell he sent a list of stuff for me to consider taking on, but if there is one thing people know about me when it comes to fan fic writing its that I'm not really keen on repeated use of the same themes and characters unless it's something I'm really invested in.

There's been a lot pointed out at how the WWE's Women Division has seen a down turn as of late, and it all goes back to the a lot of the decisions of who was let go back in the spring of this year. The WWE would rather turn the Women's Division back into the bathroom break filler matches it was of the LayCool/Divas Title era than for the women to get equal time for their stories and characters to developer. 

Star Trek Online is kicking off it's Halloween event on Wednesday so for sure we're going to feature that to start of that night's stream, and The Simpsons game will resume on Friday night to finish it's second half.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout lasted 31 minutes with the following exercise Intermediate Combo #2, Advanced Combo #1 and Weaving Combo #1 with the estimated calorie burn of 503.kcal. We also did an extra set featuring Difficult Challenge Combo #1 which added 103 kcal. Total session was 37 minutes with the estimated calorie burn being 606 kcal. This session was also streamed as a surprise as I tried use the Xsplit Cam set up.

Since this session was streamed the fun was set over to Sw33ts_gaming who was playing Smite this morning over at twitch.tv/sw33ts_gaming!

Bonus Twitch Clip Links

• Intermediate Combo #2
  
• Advanced Combo #1
• Weaving Combo #1
• Difficult Challenge Combo #1
  

Tonight's stream will see focus return to The Walking Dead with Season Two, which takes place a couple of years after the events of Season One, so Clementine is a bit older and is the star of the show. This will be a lot of fun!

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

The Simpsons Game Still Holds Up; Kotaku and PC Gamer Are CONDONING PIRACY?!

Good afternoon everybody,

Last night we started up The Simpsons Game on the PlayStation 3, and it's game I certainly have not played in well over a decade.

Originally released in 2007, The Simpsons Game allows the players to play as Homer, Bart, Lisa or Marge in a semi-open world environment, with specific pairs of characters of the games levels. It is a bit of a mix of button mash brawling, puzzle solving, item collecting and platformer all rolled into one very nice and extremely well produced package. As a licensed game, The Simpsons Game certainly goes above and beyond with the voice acting and look to give a proper representation of the show in a video game world.

The controls are still pretty responsive, and most of the time any missed jumps are normally the players fault. There are at times a lack of clear indication of what to do which does slow the game down a bit as a number of puzzles and solutions aren't obvious, and some things you have to basically wait for. The game does allow for two players which probably would make some areas easier than others, but it's not a difficult game by any means. Case in point, I finished 8 of the 16 levels during tonight's stream.

The collecting of items both in each level and in the open world is probably the most tedious thing, since in the levels you are limited to the 2 characters assigned to it (Bart & Homer during the food eating contest, Lisa and Marge during the mob rules section, etc) and a lot of times the camera does a too good a job of keeping things from view, as it's very easy to miss them. Granted in my case, I'm not totally going for the collectables, I'm more interested in finishing the game.

At some point this week we will continue the Simpsons game, probably on Friday since there is a good chance we're going to go hard and heavy on the Walking Dead with Season Two and Michonne

 Big thanks to LNG_3 for the raid during the stream! They were playing Golf With Your Friends over at twitch.tv/lng_3!   

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

Twitch Clip Links

• Hope nobody needs to go to the bathroom after this!
• Oh great we're playing Frogger now... DAMN IT ALL!
• Maggie Go Do The Thing! 
• Give Me Your Ride Jerk!
• Our Boy Ralph! 
• Behold the power of Jazz!
• Go Lisa! Donkey Just Got Konged!
• Lisa Wrecks Dolphins!
  

Went and played some Final Fantasy XIV after last night's stream to advance the story along, nothing major just running from point A to point B and getting loss every 5 minutes! Did get into a few dungeons as part of the Main Story Quest path which was cool.

It's Sunday which means it's time for the weekly Twitch Bits, and this week we played Overwatch, The Walking Dead Season One, Gears Of War 3, Final Fantasy XIV, Metroid, Super Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, Punch-Out and The Simpsons Game! 

Speaking of Metroid, would you believe two website are encouraging piracy of the new Metroid Dread game that is exclusive to the Switch? It's True Kotaku (https://kotaku.com/metroid-dread-is-already-running-great-on-switch-emulat-1847833403) and PC Gamer (https://www.pcgamer.com/watch-metroid-dread-running-on-pc-thanks-to-emulators)  both have columns written by Zack Zwiezen and Jody Macgregor on this subject. Why the fuck would you want to encourage piracy of a game for a franchise that has been neglected by Nintendo for so long? Hell the Kotaku column actually has the line: "There are so many good reasons to be grateful for pirates, emulators, modders, and hackers for doing what so many big publishers won’t" in it, with the justification that large publishers aren't preserving their legacy and that the Nintendo Switch is not a powerful console in comparison to a Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5 or B-Tier Gaming PC.

Look I'm all for preserving older titles, it's why I've done my best to track down games from the PS1 to PS3 era and take full advantage of the fact that the Xbox One and Series consoles have backwards comparability to try out older games, but I'm 100% against piracy when it comes to gaming and both Kotaku and PC Gamer should be fucking ashamed of themselves for encouraging it.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 30 minuets with the following exercises: Uppercut Combo #1, Triple Combo #1 and Body Straight Combo resulting in an estimated calorie burn of 445 kcal

It's Sunday night which means it's Overwatch time! Rather surprised that the Halloween event hasn't started yet, but here's hoping it's announced this week!

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

A Night of Metroids, Plumbers, Apes and Boxers

 Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream heavily featured the original Metroid, along with three other games from the Nintendo's NES era of the 1980s.

We'll talk about Metroid first, since it was the one game I certainly wanted to feature, and I can safely say this: anyone who finished it without using any of the password / cheat codes, kudos to you, because it was a reminder as to why I normally don't stick with Metroidvania games for more than a night or two. The controls are real easy to learn, and they are responsive to the inputs of the controller (at least the emulated version of Metroid is that is available through the Nintendo Switch's Online NES collection.

My biggest issues with Metroid is there really is no clear cut indication of where to go, the seemingly  randomness of the enemy movement patterns and some of the leaps of logic one must take to figure out how to reacher new areas. Let's address the first issue first, I totally get it that Samus has to find the gear and search all over the place first for the best gear to get the job done, the issue is actually figuring out where to go as the game is set up to make one feel like they are running in circles... and certainly this had me looking for an online guide to cover that. The second issue is randomness of enemy movement patterns, there are numerous instances where the pattern of the enemies changes, making quite a few things impossible to predict, which certainly cost me some time. The final issue relates to some of the games 'puzzles', such as having to go up through a ceiling or down through a floor, there is no way to tell difference as all the textures look the same.

Thankfully I found the guides over on GameFAQs to be rather helpful, but more importantly a map which actually gave me a idea of how to get to the mini-bosses and then to Morther Brain. And I'll straight up admit, we used the NARPASSWORD password / cheat code to push through. Even with these tool it did take me over three over to get though the game. We are counting it for this years tour, which means 54 games have been finished on stream.

Now we didn't end there, we messed around with three other classic Nintendo games: Super Mario Bros, Donkey Kong and Punch Out. Of the three... only Super Mario Bros I had some experience with, but that didn't show as I made numerous careless mistakes. Donkey Kong took some time to figure out but we managed to clear all three of it's stages to get a feel for it, Punch-Out I have played only a handful of times back in the early 90s... and well I'm so bad at that game Glass Joe can knock me down!

Big thanks to Foxy_Melly for re-subscribing to the channel for 22 months in a row! Foxy is also a streamer, broadcasting from the UK and was most recently featuring Destiny 2! You can check out their streamers over a twitch.tv/foxy_melly! 

Following the stream we sent the fun over to DaWorstGamerEver25 (twitch.tv/daworstgamerever25) who was playing American Truck Simulator! I've known him since high school and he's a really good dude! Hope you check him out when you get a chance!

Twitch Clip Links

• The First Of Many Deaths 
• Hey We Found A Thing! 
• Oh Wonderful... What Is This?!
• I want the thing!
• Hey we found another thing!
• We are so screwed...
• Damn it all!
• Ay Dios mio!
• Hey we made it!
• Down Goes Donkey Kong!
• I'm so bad Glass Joe can knock me down! 
• We're dead 

Twitch continues to have issues porting things over to YouTube, in the mean time I am highlighting key things from each stream to be archived at a later date. Hopefully Twitch can fix their issues as soon as possible. I will try to do full downloads and uploads of things featured on stream, but that's a long ass process.

While I was doing my laundry after last night's stream, I sat down to bang out (HA!) the commissioned fic featuring the RWBY characters of Pyrrha, Jaune and Cardin. It's up now over on HF under my DiceCasden pen name.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily work out lasted 31 minutes with the following exercises: advanced Combo #2, Double Combo #2 and Left-Right Step Combo. Total estimated calorie burn was 563 kcal.  We also did an additional 11 minutes with Uppercut Combo #2 and Beginner Combo #1 as well for an added estimated calorie burn of 174 kcal. So the compete totals for today were 43 minutes with an estimate calorie burn of 738

At this exact moment I'm not completely sure what's on the agenda for tonight's stream, we could dedicate it to Final Fantasy XIV or maybe start The Walking Dead Season 2? I'll make up my mind by this evening that's for sure!

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