Once again, we are a Pokemon Champion

Good afternoon everyone,

Well last night's stream of Pokemon Shining Pearl was filled with all sorts of emotions, as it's not often you get to see me voice some rage in regards to something that happens in a game. There was level grinding for well over an hour before I made my way back to dealing with the Elite Four to use them level boost, as the wild Pokemon in the Underground were not exactly giving me the gains needed. Now the first run of the Elite Four and the Champion Cynthia went surprisingly well... right up until the champ pulled out a full restore out of nowhere right when I had them ready to be beaten... then the spamming of Earthquake meant I was dead in the water.

Needless to the the bullshit that is the Elite Four and Champion having multiple Pokemon that can use Earthquake is just idiotic, not to mention the amount of full restores they can utilize Thankfully I had a guide up to help me remember match ups for the most part, so on the next attempt, success was ours... with Roserade being the MVP. Since it can learn Dazzling Gleam, it basically was able to take down Garchomp, which has a vulnerability to a Fairy-type moves.

Now following that I actually went about completing the Sinnoh Pokedex... and accidentally killing two of the three legendary Pokemon of the lakes. Still this makes the first Pokemon game I've played since Crystal where I was able to complete an entire Pokedex. Woo-Hoo! 

Will I deal with the post-game stuff of Shining Pearl? Maybe, it does give an excuse to go back to it at some point. Will I be looking to get Pokémon Legends: Arceus the day it comes out? Probably not, keep in mind in the past 12 months I've played three Pokemon games, so I'm going to hold off on the next entry until probably the Fall / Winter

Now what will replace Pokemon Shining Pearl in the lineup? Well Kingdom Hearts III, as that is something some of my viewers have been hoping to see at some point, so we'll get that started on tomorrow's stream after installing it. We'll use the X-Box One for it, since the Series S is being used for Gears 5.

Now who did we raid last night? Why it was Hawleight who was playing Life is Strange: True Colors! You can check out their streams over at twitch.tv/hawleigh! 

Twitch Clip Links

•  What the hell is that?! KILL IT WITH FIRE!
•  Roserade Gets The Job Done!
•  The Last Pokemon For The Pokedex!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout featured Weaving COmbo #2, Straight Combo #1 and Beginner Combo #2 for 31 minutes and a calorie burn of 467 kcal. Here are the stats for this week, aand if these totals don't add up with the screenshots it's because I do a little extra following the main session.

• Punches Thrown: 8,943
• Estimated Calorie Burn: 3769.34 kcal
  

Finished off another commissioned fan fic based around a WWE Alumni entering another line of work, was nice to get the compensation for it rather quickly!

Speaking of WWE, amazing how after Mickie James rightfully puts the company on blast for how they released her and sent her stuff in a garbage bag that she's going to be in the 2022 Royal Rumble. The push back I've seen on that has been rather hilarious as its clearly the WWE trying to make it up to her..

Didn't mess around with Final Fantasy XIV last night, but did mess around with Mass Effect for the X-Box 360, as there are achievements with that I can work towards. Way I figure I need to do a full engineer run paired mostly with Ashley and Kaiden to knock off several things in one play through, then another run as a full biotic with Liara and Garrus... then finally a run with my original character to to get the last few I'm willing to try to get. So don't be surprise if there are are random Mass Effect Classic streams here and there.

Of course that meant I didn't get any achievements as what I currently have installed on my two X-Box console and PC didn't have anything I could easily complete.

So that leads us to announcing what is on deck for tonight's stream we will be starting up Kingdom Hearts III since we already featured Final Fantasy XIV on stream on Thursday. As I mentioned we'll use the X-Box One for this which means my streak will continue past today!

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

Reflections on Crystal Reflections

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Final Fantasy XIV certainly was Main Story heavy...and that wasn't my intention, it actually was to handle the Eden side-story... but it turns out that would have been among the first stuff in the game I've seen that was effect by COVID, as its clear some stuff was cut and shuffled around.

So my attention turned to doing the Main Story Quest on stream, which meant a lot of cut scenes with voiced and non-voiced dialog, general running around from place to place. The good news is that outside of the abrupt '...and then the Scions went home' line of dialog in the epilogue of Hope's Confluence, everything was pretty smooth.

Granted, the action was rather light, but the pay off was epic in terms of Elidibus committing his last acts of a desperation, even when the truth was right in front of him that he had no fight left to fight, that he lost a long time ago. The trial, titled Seat of Sacrifice, was certainly epic, and had a nice pay off with Emet-Selch helping out certainly had me asking questions (and thankfully Kalenal was able to answer them.)

So now my attention if Final Fantasy XIV turns towards finishing the 5.3 content off-stream as well as getting back to the Eden side-story, as clearly there is a lot more to happen with that than meets the eye.

For the raid, we sent the fun over to Wolfeey_ who we found on Hover, they were playing Genshin Impact. Their twitch channel is over at twitch.tv/wolfeey_!

Twitch Clip Links

• Well we got him!
• Timely Resurrection To Get The Last Hits In 
• When the Limit Break doesn't finish the boss...
  

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout had me doing Intermediate Combo #2, Weaving Combo #1 and Advanced Combo #1 for 31 minutes resulting in an estimated calorie burn of 486 kcal.

Knocked out two what I deemed 'do-able' achievements for Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, the remaining achievements involve dealing with the tutorial, and character combo and combat commands, both 'cliffhanger' achievements, and playing 100 online matches. The last one would be 'do-able', but people have a habit of not accepting matches when one becomes available to them. This also continued my current streak of having 34 days with at least one X-Box achievement unlocked with a total of 236

Dead or Alive 5 Last Round Achievements

1. The Power of Two: Do 10 different character-specific tag throws.
2. Training Hard: Play Free Training mode for 1 hour.
   

Also, knocked out two more achievements Microsoft Solitaire Collection, and if I was smart I would have held off on doing these to help extend the daily streak... oh well.

Microsoft Solitaire Collection (UWP) Achievements

1. Expedition Leader: Took 14 cards off the board in a row without using the stock in TriPeaks
2. Dig, Dig, Dig!: Won a three-board game of Pyramid on Hard difficulty or higher 
   

For tonight's stream, we are focused on level grinding in Pokemon Shining Pearl, to build up my squad to deal with the Elite Four and the Champion Cynthia. Way I figure, I need to get the entire team up into the upper 70s to low 80s to deal with that gauntlet, which is a hell of a lot higher than what I needed to finish off Pokemon Shield and Pokemon Let's Go Eevee!

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

More Gears On The Forza Horizon

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream lead off with Forza Horizon 4, and we did a lot of roaming around, numerous races and various other things. Since the 'season' for this week was Winter, it meant a lot of snow and ice, which meant the use of 4WD vehicle like a Dodge Ram was advisable . Granted... I take every vehicle in the game off road. Also found a few Barn finds

Then with the second half of the stream, Gears 5 with LvStrkr and Iceman happened with most of Act II knocked out, and nearly all the collectables found... I say nearly, cause there was a few missed along the way. Still there was some hilarity with questionable deaths, scenes forcing us to move along. The big focus on Kait seemingly being able to hijack the Swarm seems to be the sign of something cool for later in the game.

I will admit, I do like the open exploration part of Gears 5, as clearly it's meant to be done with a team of three people and not just one person with two A.I. parterres. Also the skiff is a nice in game way to get around, which I don't mind using since for the most part I enjoy the change of pace and allows for my buddies to keep an eye out for anything I might miss. Really looking forward to continuing the fun next Wednesday! .

On a side note: the armor Kait wears looks very similar to the the Initiative Armor seen in Mass Effect: Andromeda. Except in ME:A Ryder doesn't have a small Volus on their back!

For the raid tonight, we sent things over to Kalenal who was playing Final Fantasy XIV! Their twitch channel is twitch.tv/kalenal! 

Forza Horizon 4 Achievements

1. We Have the Technology: Complete the first chapter of the "Upgrade Heroes" story.
2. Picture Perfect: Take photos of 200 different cars for Horizon Promo.
   

Gears 5 Achievements

1. It's Time We Fight Them Together: Saved the Riftworm village
2. Shock and Awe: Used Jack's Shock Trap ability to shock 6 enemies at once in Campaign
3. Jameson Shipping Depot: Found a way into New Hope
4. That Old COG Technology: Opened the old COG gate in Kadar Valley
   

Twitch Clip Links

• Out of my way!
• This is how we go down hill! 
• It goes with everything! 
• A Door Is Slammed In My Face 
• He has one vulnerable spot... his face! 
• It Has Mouths! 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Uppercut Combo #1, Triple Combo #1 and Body Straight Combo for a duration of 31 minutes and a calorie burn of about 434 kcal.

Off-stream achievement progress saw more things done with the Microsoft Solitaire Collection, I do want to get the ones associated with dailies.

Microsoft Solitaire Collection (UWP) Achievements

1. There's a Timed Mode?: Played a game of Pyramid with the timer turned on
2. Low Altitude: Cleared 10 TriPeaks boards
3. Flipping Out: Flipped Over 10,000 Cards
4. They Made Me Do It: Cleared a board in TriPeaks with the Pyramid card back applied
   

Spoke to someone at my day gig and things should be back to normal next week

I wrapped up the 5.2 content of Final Fantasy XIV's main story quest, and certainly more ground work is being laid to not only kick the butt of the person using the form of Ardbert for evil intentions, but also for Endwalker as it was revealed that Zenos has always dreamed of how the world ended and fractured into 13 different ones. The dungeon, Anamnesis Anyder, was quite interesting in how it begins with the team riding on the back of the First's version of Bismark... I did have some trouble with the 2nd sub boss and the final boss of the dungeon with some of their odd gimmicks. But hey, I can now continue the Eden side story and do its raids / trials.!

Lost of folks are mad that the big reset button has been pressed even harder in regards to NXT and the WWE's developmental program. Considering NXT was supposed to be the minor league program for folks to get experience, and not a third major brand for the WWE... which it failed at being once it moved to airing on the USA Network, it was time for it be re-started.

For tonight's stream we're going to most likely mess around with Final Fantasy XIV, depends on the queue when I log in later. If the queue is long, we'll do something else instead!

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

 

Side Content Is What Carries Fist Of The North Star: Lost Paradise

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise certainly featured some bizarre things, such as having to stare at Xsana for three minutes straight, having to fight Jagi from a First Person Point Of View  Perspective... but the length of the main campaign is certainly coming into question. If I subtract the time of me just roaming around, looking for side quests, playing the mini-games and so forth... then that tells me the main story is only maybe 10-12 hours at the most. Don't get me wrong, I get why that is, as all the side stuff is meant to keep people playing with goals in mind.

Hell, I've fallen for the trap that is FotNS:LP's side content, it certainly is a lot of fun, even if certain things feel as if its meant to handicap the player to some degree (the race against Diego for example), and the reoccurring bounties can be a little silly but considering the 10 Million IDL debt Kenshiro gets put under is a major part of the game's side story. Not to mention finding little things like seeing Kenshiro hand out groceries and other mini cut scenes is a nice motivator.

That said, we did finish chapter eight, so that leaves three chapters left, so we could a few more streams left of this game, and if I want to just throw it in for a night of just mindless tomfoolery. Will be interesting to see how I choose to feature Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise after eventually finishing the main story.

On a different note, I did watch some of Dub of the North Star, and the three videos that did abridged parodies of some of the big story arcs...they were interesting to say the least.

Big thanks to FelKimChi for the raid during the stream! They were playing Minecraft, working on a rail! Their channel is over at twitch.tv/felkimchi!

Following the stream we raided Joliet4 who was playing Borderlands 2! They often do music streams and can be found over at twitch.tv/joliet4!  

Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise Trophies

1. Ahem. Yuria?: Stare at Xsana in First Person Mode for 3 minutes straight.
2. Battler Royale: Complete 50 encounters each in Eden and the Wasteland, 5 scripted encounters, and 5 in-store battles.
3. The Man who Broke Ties: Completed Chapter 8.

Twitch Clip Links

• Waiting for an Trophy To Pop
• Can Kenshiro Handle This?
• Well this fight is interesting 

With today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout, we're back to using Janice as the trainer! The Exercises for today were Left-Right Step Combo, Advanced Combo #2 and Double Combo #2 for a duration of 31 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 556 kcal.

Knocked off three achievements in Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, which I'm surprised were all Diamond ranked considering they involved triggering the Danger Zones on three different stages. 

Dead or Alive 5 Last Round Achievements

1. Tango Kilo November: Trigger the Special Danger Zone in Hot Zone.
2. Gesundheit!: Trigger the Special Danger Zone in The Show.
3. Catch and Release: Trigger the Special Danger Zone in Sky City Tokyo. 

Also more achievements unlocked in the Microsoft Solitaire Collection, it's getting really interesting to see what things I can add to my current streak of daily X-Box related achievements.

Microsoft Solitaire Collection (UWP) Achievements

1.  Aces High: Cleared 3 Aces from the board in a sequence without using the stock pile
2.  Snowfall Success: Won 10 Klondike games
3.  Peak Jumper: Cleared a board where your last three cards cleared were at the top of each peak in TriPeaks
4.  Good To Be King: Played a game of TriPeaks and Pyramid in which a King was the last card removed from a board
   

Played some Final Fantasy XIV, and I think I finished what was the initial Doma Enclave improvements as it related to the area called 'The Yard'. Also knocked out the MSQ quests Deep Designs and A Whale's Tale. Next time I play I know I'm going to be dealing with a dungeon and the end of the 5.2 content, which means I should be able to get back to the Eden side-story

For tonight's stream, we shall lead off with Forza Horizon 4, seeing what carnage we can get up to in that, and then after 9 PM Eastern, it'll be Gears 5 with Iceman and LvStrkr!

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

I Finally Saw Ghostbusters: Afterlife... I Loved It

Good morning everyone,

Because of Covid and my anxiety, discomfort and outright unease about being around more than a couple of people, I did not go to see Ghostbusters: Afterlife in theaters... but that has been corrected. I pre-ordered to watch it digitally via Amazon on Sunday night, and exactly at 12:15 AM last night, I sat down to watch it, I turned off the lights, my second monitor, and I sat in the dark watching what clearly was the best movie I've seen in probably the last 15 years. The story made sense, there weren't any out of place jokes for the sake of being demeaning to someone based on their gender, everything built on things being discovered gradually because there was a plan... or rather Egon's back-up plan. The most important detail about the plot of Ghostbusters: Afterlife is how Egon dies in the very beginning... what was in his hand... the P.K.E. meter, it's as if he knew the fate of the world was going to be on those left he left behind, his friends and family. Trust me, it makes a lot of sense, as the theory I've always had in regards to what could actually cause a real life haunting is that if something happened to someone that would leave a large enough psychic and emotional imprint, a spiritual apparition could form tied to its familiar surroundings.

So how about I talk about last night's stream of  Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise, and people saw that I used the wireless controller since I wanted to knock out some things related to the Bartending side stories... and what I quickly discovered, and what Iceman pointed out when he saw it, is that shaking the controller is reminiscent of all the jokes related to using a Shakeweight... which, well, let's just say there's a reason why that particular workout fad got spoofed by not only South Park but the Adult Film Industry. Still, we did see that Xsana and Lyra are both really mean drunks that have no memory of what happens after they have a few drinks. And of course this allowed for some in game comedy regarding Kenshiro's reactions.

Also found another sub-stories that involve racing, finding prime beef that shows Kenshiro can beat meat (Pun intended), did a few bounties.... but as far as the main story goes? Well Chapter 7 is what we started, and that lead to the epic show down with Thouzer in the Night Club, and I believe I did see him in what little I've seen of the Fist of the North Star anime back in the early 2000s when it was airing on Encore Action. I do know for tonight's stream we will start with some bounties and then transition the game to 'night' to advance the story.

Following the stream we sent the fun over to AnnieTalksShow who was playing Overwatch, which is something you know I do every Sunday! Anyway you can check out their streams over at twitch.tv/AnnieTalksShow!  

Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise Trophies

1. The Man who Revealed the Truth: Completed Chapter 7.

Twitch Clip Links

•  Thouzer's Secret
•  He Is Fighting in the Tux!
•  There is no way to look cool doing this

Obviously with me watching a movie last night, I didn't play any Final Fantasy XIV, also didn't get any work done on a new commissioned fic that someone peaked my interest with either... which I really should tackle considering how upside down things have been since the passing of the manager at my day gig last week and what was expected for this week

That said, I did turn my attention to the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection to knock off the last two games I've yet to beaten in it, Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers (which I first played on a Sega Genesis was back in the mid 90s), and then that left the original Street Fighter. Using the 30th Anniversary Collection's save state feature, I picked up from a prior save against Adon and basically brute forced my way through him and Sagat... and like so many other people, I will never play the original Street Fighter ever again! The only achievements left are all online multiplayer playing in ranked matches. I might have a shot if I play Street Fighter Alpha 3, since Sakura is in that one, but I don't think I'll pursue that challenge.

Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection Achievements

1. Challenge Everyone!: Beat Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers.
2. Fighting in the Street: Beat Street Fighter.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout Featured Body Uppercut Combo, Body Hook Combo and Uppercut Combo #2 for a duration of 28 minutes and an estimated calorie burn of 432 kcal. With today's session (and a little extra), I unlocked the final EX achievement for Karen, which brings the completion of the EX achievements up to 85%. With tomorrow's session, I'm switching back to Janice to begin the chase for her final achievement.

Fitness Boxing 2 Rhythm & Exercise EX Achievements

1. Karen's Champion: Train with Karen for over 50 hours
   

For tonight's stream we shall continue Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise, which should be a lot of fun.

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

The Peppermint Bark Is Mine

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Overwatch was the wrap up of the chase for the three Winter Event skins for 2021, with the goal on unlocking the Peppermint Bark skin for Brigitte. Surprisingly we had quite a few wins and some good matches along the way... with one exception, a match where I had to report five people for game play sabotage. Still we got in matches as D.va, Winston, Reinhardt, Mercy, Brigitte, Moira, Tracer, Bastion and Mei. Actually set a new personal best for freezing people in a round with 18 as Mei so that was pretty cool (Pun intended). Plays of the game were earned as D.va, Reinhardt and Winston!

Something I realized that I forgot to do was to put together the video of all the Plays of the Game I had in Overwatch for last year. Granted it only goes back to February 20, because of the computer issues that occurred, but hey I remembered to do it. Overall I earned 246 Plays of the Game, goes to show I can have my fair share of big moments. Sadly, three clips had issues with how they were saved, so we just roll with the other 243. The video itself will be an hour and 40 minutes. At the time of this post, it was 65% uploaded to YouTube.

Big thank you to LvStrkr for re-subbing to the channel during the stream, the continued support is always appreciated!

Following the stream we sent the fun over to Flint_Locke who was doing a read aloud of the visual novel Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Tsumihoroboshi! You can check them out over at twitch.tv/flint_locke!

Twitch Clip Links

• Booyakasha?!
• Getting on Fire as Moira 
• On fire as Mei! 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Hook Combo #2, Beginner Combo #1 and Front-Back Step Combo for a duration of 28 minutes and an estimated calorie burn of 439 kcal. Now here is the progress on the EX Achievements I'm currently grinding towards

• 49/50 Hours Trained with Karen for Karen's Champion
• 388/400 Stamps Acquired for Honored Stamper
• 530,360/540,000 total HITs for Immortal Weight Puncher
• 84/100 percent of all EX Achievements acquired for King EX Fighter

I should be able to knock off the Karen's Champion achievement sometime this week,  while both Honored Stamper and Immortal Weight Puncher seem like things I might be able to accomplish towards the end of next week.

With Jump Force 100% completed, my attention for X-Bos achievements turns to Dead or Alive 5 Last Round. I knocked off a bunch in the summer of 2020, so now is seeing which ones of the remaining I can get. Some of them involve the tutorial and I hate that with fighting games, so I think I'll focus on things involving time played, mainly one hour in free training and the 100 online matches. But here are the ones I did accomplish tonight.

Dead or Alive 5 Last Round Achievements

1. Rival Rampage: Fight online 10 times.
2. Anybody, Anytime, Anywhere: Set "Throwdowns" to "Accept" and have 10 Throwdowns in Versus, Arcade, or Free Training mode.
3. Change of Power: Press H+P+K during a Power Blow to tag in a partner and deliver a Tag Power Blow.

On the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection side of things, Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting was knocked off the list of games in  the collection to beat, so that just leaves the original Street Fighter and Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers. 

Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection Achievements

1. Hyperactive: Beat Street Fighter II': Hyper Fighting.
   

I advanced the plot in Final Fantasy XIV yesterday afternoon with the main story quests A Sleep Disturbed and An Old Friend. The first saw an interesting take on the Riddle of the Sphinx and a surprising battle that was really well thought out, which made me kind of wish it was a trial or raid. The second quest basically sets the tone that Elidibus is going to be a lot more direct with his intention to be bring back the world he helped destroyed.... but considering this is taking place in the post game of Shadowbringers, it does raise some questions.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife was listed as being available digitally today, but I guess that was a false date as now it's listed for tomorrow, January 4th

For tonight's stream we shall be hooking up the PS4 to continue Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise, maybe I'll try to use the wireless controller to see if we can do the one set of bartender mini-games that is not possible with a wired controller.

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

 

 

 

To Finish Shining Pearl... I'll Need To Grind

Good afternoon everyone,

You know that feeling when the end is in sight for a game, but then you realize exactly what you need to go through to finish it? That is exactly what happened to me with last night's stream.

As you know, Pokemon Shining Pearl was what we were featuring, with the first goal of getting through the eighth gym was interesting, and it probably should've been a warning as to how the Elite Four were going to be in terms of specialty, or rather going off-specialty.. The Victory Road journey was pure torture to get through, mostly because the Pokemon spawning in it were just pure mindless action. Granted the level boosting was nice but seeing Golbat after Golbat which basically negates the effectiveness of some members of my squad is just mind numbing.

Then there is the bull shit of having to win five fights in a row with no real chance to rest after beating the Elite Four, it's straight to the Champion Cynthia. Which means the next time I play Pokemon Shining Pearl next Saturday, that entire stream will be about grinding. I will probably do off-stream re-matches against the Elite Four without using Portions or Revives to get as much XP as possible since I know I can get through them with extreme difficulty at the moment. Plus I'm going to want to stock up on every healing item I can.

One last note, every member of the Elite Four having Earthquake as a move on multiple Pokemon is just cheesy, frustration. If there is a reason why we want to over-level just have the Hit Point pool large enough to tank those devastating hits. In fact that process began this morning as I set about looking for the Lucky Egg and finding a spot to start gaining levels on my team with Rapidash being the horse of the squad and beating up on Ice-Type Pokemon in the underground.

We had two raids during the stream, first was LumiLexy who was playing Little Miss Fortune over at twitch.tv/lumilexy! The second raid was from Lunar_Princess who was playing Pixel Ripped 1995 over at twitch.tv/lunar_princess!

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

Twitch Clip Links

• This Rounds Out My Team
• The Big Come Back
• It's Up To Mew 

Played a little Final Fantasy XIV off-stream yesterday afternoon, knocking off a few main-story quests, but the length of the dialog to sit through does mean I've really slowed my pace down with the game as of late considering it's all setting up stuff for Endwalker. Plus the clear indication we're on a collision course with Elidibus is really obvious.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 diamond workout featured Defensive Combo #1, Double Combo #1 and Defensive Combo #2 for a duration of 28 minutes and an estimated calorie burn of 438 kcal

Since for whatever reason Mortal Kombat IX is delisted digitally, I tracked down a copy of the phyiscal version for the X-Box 360. I believe backwards compatibility for it was recently added to use on the X-Box One / Series X consoles... but since only my X-Box One has a disc drive, that is how we will feature it. I also believe it's only functions for head to head play are also disabled as well, so no need to worry about online achievements/

Managed to get the final two achievements in Jump Force, one was needed to unlock the other, but the game is 100% completed. I became the 283rd person over on trueachievements.com to accomplish that particular feat. According to X-Box itself, of all people who have owned and played Jump Force, only 0.01% have actually done this.

Jump Force Achievements

1. Apex Fighter: Got S rank 10 or more times on Expert Free Missions.
2. Jump Force: Obtained all achievements
   

Also spent some time working on another set of achievements in Microsoft Solitaire Collection. If it weren't for the in-game ads, this would be a lot more pleasant.  

Microsoft Solitaire Collection (UWP) Achievements

1. Playing the Odds: Completed all the odd-numbered challenges in an event before playing the even-numbered challenges
   

It's time for this week's Twitch Bits, highlights from last week from all the games featured which were Overwatch, Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise, Forza Horizon 4, Gears 5, Final Fantasy XIV, Kirby's Adventure, Power Rangers Time Force, Rushdown, Shock Wave Assault, Space Jam, WWF War Zone, Yu-Gi-Oh Forbidden Memories and Pokemon Shining Pearl! 

For tonight's stream Overwatch is on tap with the goal of playing enough matches to unlock the Peppermint Bark skin for Brigitte!

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