Just your usual productive night of FF14

Good morning everyone,

Well last night's stream had no issues with internet connectivity so everything went smoothly overall. We got a few things done, getting close to level 90 for Fishing, we knocked off several levels for Botany to get that into the mid-50s, we're passed level 35 as Dragoon... and even got a new spell as Blue Mage. Things for the most part were positive until I went for the Blue Mage spell, and I'd just assumed I would be helping out... but turned out I had to be the one to look up how to get through one dungeon boss. 

Twitch Clips

• We Don't Want The Gift Of Flames!
• Where is my team?! 
• Dramatic Finish
  

For the raid we dropped in on YrGamerBunni who was doing a Just Chatting theme and working on various projects plus playing a bit of Fortnite over at twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni!  

Messed around with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, and for the most part is is a great game... but it does have some noticeable bugs with the game soft locking at different points, some bad connectivity due to questionable netcode, not spawning into levels and so forth. Still manages to nab some achievements 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge Achievement

• Teamwork: Perform 10 Team Attacks in multiplayer.
• Most Fearsome Fighting Team!: Complete a Stage in any mode in multiplayer.
• Come On!: Got hit while performing a taunt.
• Kind Brother: Revive a teammate in multiplayer.
• A + B: Finish a boss using a Super Attack.
• Classic Couch Memories: Complete the Arcade Mode in Multiplayer.
• Master of One Quarter: Complete the Arcade Mode without using a credit.
• Special Report: Stop the rogue Channel 6 broadcast in Story Mode.
• Return to Sender: Deflect 10 projectiles.
• Piped Piper!: Trespass the royal grounds of NYC sewers and defeat the Rat King in Story Mode.
  

Have I ever mentioned I'm not the biggest fan of having work assignments that involve dealing with people in New York City? Because I'm not. The only positive was that the assignment was short

Already put in the Pre-Order for Overwatch 2 and signed up for the cross-play Beta. Hopefully we'll be apart of it and start working it into streams in the coming weeks.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout involved Block Combo, Difficult Challenge Combo #2 & Difficult Challenge Combo #3 for 34 minutes. From what I can tell we're over 27 hours in towards the Sophie's Contender EX Achievement.

I was surprised the Phillies walked all over the Nationals last night... but if anything the inconsistent offense is going to be re-exposed sooner rather than later because today they have a double-header.

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For tonight's stream, we are getting back to Persona 5 Royal. We have a few main objectives, one involves dealing with unlocking the 3rd and final Personas for the remaining team members, and probably diving deep into Mementos and probably the final palace of the game.

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

Just Doing Things In Fallout 76

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Fallout 76 was mostly without incident, until the game itself started crashing repeatedly when I messing around with stuff related to the Brotherhood of Steel. Don't know why things like that happen on Consoles but who knows. We were also joined by Iceman who accessed the Fallout 1st gimmick which means we could probably knock out dailies rather quickly when he's able to join which means more of a chance to tackle the scoreboard things. Overall thing were mostly straight forward last night. I did hope to hit level 35, but that was a no go on stream. Did duck back in off-stream to knock out a bit to reach that mark... but ran out of 5.56 ammo. Also I basically have the option of joining the Brotherhood of Steel, not sure if there is another faction or not and who would technically be the good guys.

Fallout 76 Achievements

• Shwag: Collect 10 Bobbleheads

Twitch Clips

• Anyone Else Want Some?
• Get Away From My Stuff!
• Another Thing Comes Running Up On Iceman 
  

For the raid last night we dropped in on DaemonsW0lf who was playing Hunt: Showdown and celebrating their birthday over at twitch.tv/daemonsw0lf! 

Played some Smite last night knocking out a few weekly quests which involved playing as Hunters and Assassins... and of the two classes, I'm much better as a Hunter. Still played two matches as Thanatos and Charybdis, unlocking an achievement with the later.

SMITE Achievements

• Drown Your Sorrow: Unlock the Smite Award "Drown Your Sorrow"

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout Featured Intermediate Como #2, Hip Shape Focus Combo and Straight Combo #2.

We had work yesterday afternoon, and from what I learned, is that Republicans are completely delusional as it pertains to Roe vs Wade and gun violence. How can these people have their head so far up their asses at this point is beyond me.

Rather surprised the Phillies won yesterday afternoon as I was following the game via Twitter

Apparently the WWE Board of Directors is targeting Vince McMahon himself for a $3 Million payment of hush money... and no this has nothing to do with the hush money he paid to keep Jimmy Snuka out of prison back in the 80s, and it involves some major speculation regarding John Laurenitits as well. Will be very interesting to see if this forces Vince out of his own company considering Stephanie has taken a leave of absence recently. Apparently the investigations started in April and there has been enough found for it to be made public.

And speaking of WWE, looks like Sasha Banks has been let go... I know maybe two people are sadden by that.

LvStrkr said he would join us for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge fun on Saturday if he's not too busy, so we could have some co-op silliness with the new game this weekend! I have already pre-installed the game on my Xbox One S.

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For tonight's stream, the plan is of course Final Fantasy XIV, which will focus on all the usual nonsense of raids and basic level grinding on alternate jobs.

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

Completed 3 Of Persona 4 Arena's Story Arcs

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream was mostly without incident, with the exception of a weird outage at 9:10 PM, as it appears there was a disruption of not just my internet service but also my cable service as well, at least according to the Xfinity app. It's the first sign of a problem since Saturday afternoon. 

Anyway, we went through the story mode of Persona 4: Arena for Aigis& Labrys to completion as well as the back portion for Yukiko. There was certainly a lot of back story revealed for Labrys and atd the same time Aigis as well in terms of their origin but boy did it raise a ton of questions about how the hell the continuity works with the various arcs for each characters. Unlike in BlazBlue where every story felt connected, with some time-manipulation, I'm really not sure if a a similar gimmick is in place with P4A because of how Aigis and Yukiko's endings seem quite definitive. Of course we'll be continuing going through Persona 4: Arena during next week's line up to work our way through full story arcs from start to finish (and finding the joke endings as well). This will be possible because we did do Labrys's story in full so nearly everyone will have a straight path to the end.

Huge thanks to Redneck_23 and Iceman7667 for renewing their sub to my Twitch channel, as well as to YrGamerBunni for the bits!

Persona 4: Arena Achievements

• The President: Labrys' Story chapter has been told.
• The Unconquerable: Yukiko's Story chapter has been told.
• The Angel: Aigis' Story chapter has been told.

Twitch Clips

• I was just joking about that
• Nearly Flawless 
• Sweet!
  

For the raid we dropped in on Elden Ring who was playing Elden Ring over at twitch.tv/tracydoll! 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Advanced Combo #1, Sway Back Combo and Beginner Combo #2 for 34 minutes

Jeff Hardy was arrested... again... it seems like being away from the WWE is not what was best for him; because he was working a toned down style prior to literally walking out... and now after going to AEW and going balls out in the ring again, look at how quickly he's falling into old habits.  

Since the Score Board Bot was working, it meant I was able to keep tract of the Phillies epic collapse to the Marlins last night... I told ya'll that hot streak they were on wasn't because Joe Giradi was fired.

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I was surprised that there was a huge Fallout 76 patch update (25+ GBs) which I promptly installed last night, so it's going to be interesting to see what it involves. Also learned that with the new seasons the 'scoreboard thing' resets, so there is real incentive to try and do daily activities

Of course that will relate to tonight's stream which of course will featured Fallout 76, and Iceman will most likely join us for more shenanigans!

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

Vampire Survivors: Simple, Difficult And Awesome

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Vampire Survivors was a lot more fun than even I was anticipating as I figured out what combination of items worked out best for me, and having some runs that lasted over 20 minutes!  One thing I did realize is that the Pentagon power up is a great screen clear, but it not only takes out enemies, but also all the XP gems and pick-ups that are on screen. In terms of levels, I did make it to the 3rd level of the game overall, and found the mandatory item... but to progress further would require a lot grinding to build up the powers up one can have heading into a level. The music in the second stage, the library is pretty kick ass. Of course there was a hilarious moment that when I took a break I forgot to un-mute my mic.

Also the stream featured the unboxing of the latest Funko POP I've added too my collection of WWE's Becky Lynch, in particular the 'Becky Two Belts' variant, so now I have all three Funko figures of the last Superstar in wrestling that really had my full attention.

 Vampire Survivors Achievements

• Lightning Ring: Defeat a total of 5000 enemies.
• Magnet: Find a Vacuum.
• Arca: Get Fire Wand to Level 4.
• Porta: Get Lightning Ring To Level 4.
• Mortaccio: Defeat a total of 3000 skeletons.
• Cross: Find a Rosary.
• Duplicator: Get Magic Wand To Level 7.
• Clover: Find a Little Clover.
• Poe Ratcho: Get Garlic to level 7.
• Spellbinder: Get Runetracer To Level 7.
• Pentagram: Survive 20 minutes with any character.
• Inlaid Library: Reach Level 20 in Mad Forest.
• Stone Mask: Find a Stone Mask.
• Suor Clerici: Recover a lifetime total of 1000 HP.
• Thunder Loop: Evolve the Lightning Ring.
• Dairy Plant: Reach Level 40 in Inlaid Library.
• Milky Way Map: Find the Milky Way Map.
• NO FUTURE: Evolve the Runetracer.
• Magic Banger: Find the Magic Banger.

Twitch Clips 

• Becky Two Belts In All Here Big Headed Glory
• That is just mean game! 
• End of my best run 25 minutes, level 70
• We finally got a health item but... 
  

During the stream we had a big raid from Kalenal who was playing Tunic over at twitch.tv/kalenal! 

For our raid, we dropped everyone off over at YrGamerBunni's stream who was playing Mass Effect 3 (Legendary Edition) over at twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni! 

Now that I think about it, yesterday was the most achievements I've earned on a game through Steam in quite a while since I've mostly focused on console gaming over the past 18 months.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Uppercut Combo #1, Hook Combo #1 and Waist Shape Focus Combo for 30 minutes.

Capcom had some interesting thing in their showcase, with Monster Hunter Rise getting a big update, Exo-Primal getting a new trailer, hype for the Capcom Fighting Collection and Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium. I know a lot of folks are excited for things being added to Resdient Evil VILLage with it getting a story expansion and a third-person mode.

Speaking of Capcom, Dragon's Dogma has celebrated its 10th anniversary and I totally forgot LvStrkr gifted me that game early last year.  Really going to have to give that a look probably once Persona 5 Royal is finished.   

Put in the pre-order for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, so I we'll be featuring that on Stream for Saturday this week. I now have to think of when was the last time I did anything associated with the Ninja Turtles on my channel and I think it was with Out of the Shadows back during my 2nd or 3rd year of streaming. Oh wait, I know I played the Arcade ROMs of the Arcade Game and Turtles in Time.

Started work on the latest commission fan fic request, and I'll admit I'm lifting Cody's post match interview whole-sale to serve as the introduction and awkward transition to the action. 

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For tonight's stream, we'll be getting back to Persona 4: Arena and working on the story mode... and I realize that there is probably an efficient way to go through it. 

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

A New Week Begins

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Overwatch was pretty fun, as we were joined by PandaSweet and a friend of theirs named Snow. I ended up with a pair of plays of the game, both as D.va in very key moments. Also on the surprising side, I even picked up an achievement as Junkrat. Other characters I used were Reinhard, Moira & Ashe. A general observation is that there was a strong uptick in overly aggressive game play, and the queue time to play damage roles were a lot longer than normal, but there was also an issue of getting replacement tanks and support role players in some matches.

Overwatch Achievements

• Mine Like A Steel Trap: Knock an enemy into your steel trap using Junkrat's Concussion Mine in Quick or Competitive play.

Twitch Clips

• Persona On Xbox Reaction
• Overwatch 2 Reaction 
• I'm still here!
• That's Four! 
• Just Dva Things
  

For the raid, we dropped in on x9abenonymous9x who was playing Aee Combat 7: Skies Unknown over at twitch.tv/x9abenonymous9x! 

Going to Overwatch 2 for a moment, based on her teaser trailer, I will not be surprised if Drace Domino will end up with a bunch of commission work based on the Junker Queen.  

I became aware of an issue with the Sports Score Bot after the stream, hopefully the people behind it will solve the issues, because it has been a really cool addition to my stream.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Weaving Combo #1, Weaving Combo #2 and Straight Combo #1 for 31 minutes.

While I have played Diablo III, I'm not 100% sold on what I saw with the Trailer of Diablo 1V, but then again, I wasn't a fan of the ending of Diablo III.But if it has the implied cross-play component then we might give it a look.

When we raided Kalenal (twitch.tv/kalenal) on Saturday night, we got a very good recommendation for a game called Vampire Survivors which we'll feature on tonight's stream. It is a rouge-lite game where you see how long you can survive. There are different glasses of characters, and I have already given it a shot, even picking up a number of achievements for it. Currently Vampire Survivors is only available on Steam.

Vampire Survivors Achievements

• Wings: Reach Level 5.
• Hollow Heart: Survive 1 minute with any character.
• Fire Wand: Destroy 20 light sources.
• Lancet: Find an Orologion.
• Empty Tome: Have 6 Different Weapons.
• Candelabrador: Get Holy Water To Level 4.
• Peachone: Survive 10 minutes with any character.
• Crown: Reach Level 10.
• Runetracer: Survive 5 minutes with Pasqualina.
• Garlic: Find 5 Floor Chickens.
• Lightning Ring: Defeat a total of 5000 enemies.
• Magnet: Find a Vacuum.
• Arca: Get Fire Wand to Level 4.
• Pummarola: Survive 5 minutes with Gennaro.

Now for tonight's stream, we shall feature Vampire Survivors, even though getting OBS to capture it involves having to use Window Capture, because for whatever reason Game Capture does not work, and setting it to full screen doesn't fill up the full screen. 

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

Shin Akuma In Capcom Fighting Evolution Is Rather Tough

Good afternoon everyone,

Well first off , the Xfinity tech arrived late, after 6 PM, but he was real attentive an actually was able to find a major problem in that one of the cable boxes were shorting out and causing havoc, sending electricity back through the line which was disrupting everything. So the tech took that one and I was advised to replace the other with a wireless cable box at some point.

Anyway, last night's stream started with Capcom Fighting Evolution, and I was doing just some random arcade runs with a few different characters... and somehow with the duo of Zangief and Alex I met the requirements for facing Shin Akuma. CFE does have some weird difficult spikes, as I really struggle with the likes of Dimitri in almost all circumstances, but Shin Akuma was on an all different level. Now I tried to beat him with the duo f Zangief and Alex, but in the end I ended up trying different characters before finally pulling it off with Zangief and Felica. Because we got the super secret boss fight and completed it, we're counting Capcom Fighting Evolution on the tour! 

So after two hours of that, we switched over to Smite for a bit, playing a couple of arena matches before finally playing Super Meat Boy. I'm not particularly fond of these trial and error platformers, but there is a charm to Super Meat Bo that was appeal for me to clear the first world, as I certainly picked up on what to do pretty well. 

Super Meat Boy Achievements

• Nostalgia: You found a warp zone! Now pay me for the door repair!
• The Commander: You unlocked Commander Video! Double rainbow all da way!

Twitch Clips

• Defeating Shin Akuma!!!!
• Thank you! 
• We did it!
  

For last night's raid we dropped in on Kalenal who was playing Final Fantasy XIV  over at twitch.tv/kalenal!

Was recommended to check out a rouge-like game called Vampire Survivors, which is only on Steam. We'll try and fit that into this weeks like up of games. From what I understand it's a rouge-lite indie game, with a max run of 30 minutes if one manages to live that long.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Double Combo #2, Triple Combo #1 and Left-Right Step Combo.

Got another commission fan fic request this time for a WWE fic based around Cody Rhodes and Brandi following Cody's WrestleMania return earlier this yaear. 

It was announced that Persona 5 Royal, Persona 4 Golden and Persona 3 Portalable are all coming to Xbox consoles and Windows, with P5R being the first, with a release date set for October of this year! Safe to say that version will be in the lineup for next year! Plus with P3P and P4G coming to the Xbox side, that means I will not have to open up the older versions of Persona 3 FES and Persona 4 for the PS2, so they can remained sealed and in mint condition!

Also announced, Overwatch 2 will be launching on October 4 as well as a Free-To-Play service, and existing players will get a founders pack!

It's the start of an new week, so let's recap what we did last week which included Overwatch, Tom Clancy's The Division 2, Persona 4 Arena, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 5 Royal, Capcom Fighting Evolution, Smite and Super Meat Boy!

For tonight's stream, we'll be playing Overwatch, and hopefully last night's stream was a clear indication of how smoothly things will go tonight. 

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

From the End Of Persona 5 into the Royal Content

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Persona 5 Royal did have two stream resets due to an apparent issues with the upstream, so now I'm narrowing things down as to the problems I'm having with Xfinity. Looking forward to the technician coming out to check the tap, wires and possible the modem... but at least now I can give more of a detail of what I'm seeing.

The stream itself picked up with everything heading up into the God of Control and the aftermath that leads into the Royal content, including the 'revelation' that Akechi is alive which is the first sign indicator things are wrong. The second indicator was the Christmas Day party which basically recycled the previous major party in the game following Shido's Palace. We managed to get up to January 20th and we still have plenty of time, so next Friday's stream will cover a trip into Mementos and the Maruki's Palace, and probably boss battle. Not to mention getting the third-tier Personas for a couple of members of the team we didn't cover tonight because getting "Kasumi" maxed out was a real pressure point.

Persona 5 Royal Trophies

• The Thorough Trickster: Completed Mementos.
• Awakening the Phantom Thieves: Evolved a party member's Persona.

Twitch Clips

• That's One Way To Finish Off A Big Bad
• Sumeri Overkill 
• Finally Got The 701!
  

Got a lead on a Becky Lynch Funko POP, the 'Becky 2 Belts' variant which I didn't know was a thing until yesterday. Will be nice to have the complete set... and this probably means I'll gradually add 10 more to make the collection I have even at some point.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Body Hook Combo, Beginner Combo #1 and Advanced Combo #2 for 28 minutes. This workout was down prior to 5 AM right after last night's stream.

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise State For Week Of June 5 to 11, 2022

• Punches Thrown: 8,966
  
• Estimated Calories Burned: 3553.36 kcal
  
• Sophie's Contender Progress: 80% (24/30 Hours Trained)
  
• King EX Fighter Progress: 93% of all EX Achievements Acquired  
  

Nintendo Switch Online has been renewed for the next year, that just leaves waiting for my PlayStation Plus to expire to re-set it under its new format because Sony had the collective brains of a dead fish when trying to come up with a half-assed counter to what Nintendo and Microsoft offer.  

Saw a really cool moment that took place at the AFI Lifetime Achievement awards when five of the actors who played the Von Trapp children surprised 2022 recipient Julie Andrews during a sing-a-long of Do-Re-Mi. I'm really hoping there will be better footage of that popping up because the 'cell phone' footage may have captured the audio perfect, the footage feels like a tease.

While I am no fan of Justin Beiber, it is a shame he's being plagued by a neurological disorder called Ramsay Hunt Syndrome. From what I've read it's similiar to Bell's Palsy, but a bit more severe. It is pretty rare, happening in only 5 in every 100,000 people.Apparently it is caused by the reactivation of a shingles virus in the face, so those who had a variant of chicken pox can be vulnerable to it. 75% of those who have it recover completely, but 25% end up with some type of long term nerve damage. Hopefully Beiber will be in the 76% category.

For tonight's stream I'm not sure what we're going to do because as I'll be waiting for Xfinity between the hours of 4 and 6 PM Eastern, so by the time they leave we'll be seeing what trouble I get up to.

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