More Persona 4 Arena... More Xfinity Troubles

Good morning everyone,

Well last night's stream of Persona 4 Arena wasn't all in one session, as the stream got broken into three parts... because we had two stream interruptions / resets thanks to Xfinity. Now my internet didn't go down fully, but there were some issues that certainly persisted throughout the day of the upstream just hanging... and this goes to when I was working yesterday afternoon as well. I did call Xfinity last night after a modem reset to see what's involved with swapping the 2 cable boxes I have for a wireless variant. Not it took nearly 40 minutest to questions answered over what could be done to make things as seamless as possible as well as inquiring about the unlimited data cap plan option. Sad part was I didn't get all the questions I wanted answered because I was put on hold for 15 minutes of said call.

Now for the gaming of Persona 4 Arena, we covered two story arcs fully, first Mitsuru and then Naoto, and combined they took over four hours to get through. Granted I started off doing full narration of Mitsuru's story for the first hour, but even with setting the speed of the text to fast, there is a lot ground covered. I did find Naoto's to be more engaging as every other 'chapter' had a fight that had to be played, so the story of how events played out from their perspective to be a lot of fun. Not to mention, Naoto seems to be the most progressive character in terms of basically being gender neutral to some degree.

We also did an arcade run with Labrys, and both does she have some real wonky attack patterns to learn to be effective with. I did like her post-match trash talk of everyone on the arcade ladder. Did managed to figured out her Instant-Kill move which was pretty bad ass. Also learned it can be blocked.

Big thanks to RedFoxCovUK for resubscribing to my Twitch Channel last night, as well to the anonymous cheerers who tossed in quite a few bits!

Persona 4: Arena Achievements

• The Queen: Mitsuru's Story chapter has been told.
• The Detective: Naoto's Story chapter has been told.

Twitch Clips

• And It was that moment he realized
• Naoto Instant-Kill Move 
• Labrys Instant-Kill!
  

For the raid we dropped everyone over with Joliet4 who was playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge and also doing a music stream. They stream over on twitch.tv/joliet4!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Body Uppercut Combo, Hook Combo #2 and Advanced Combo #2 for 31 minutes. I did do an extra 17 minutes of exercise to make up for waking up late yesterday

Played a couple of Arena matches in Smite, wining one and losing the other... but managed to get one of the achievements associated with Thanatos. I'm getting closer to having 50% of the in-game achievements for Smite... but the overall total was increased to 306 with the recent addition of Lancealot

SMITE Achievements

• Reaper of Souls: As Thanatos silence 15 enemies out of their abilities.

I will say this, when it comes to the election for US Congress in Pennsylvania, anyone that votes for Lisa Scheller is a fucking idiot. Because think about this, what was one thing Trump was all about 'China this and China that'... well Scheller is a Republican who is the CEO of Silberline Manufacturing Co. Inc and during her time in that role, the company has eliminated 60% of their American workforce, closed one manufacturing facility in Carbon County, PA... while opening another in China. The truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle Will be revisited this year... with the PS4 version, as before we'll do the story mode and play various matches and so forth. What is notably about BBCTB is that its a cross-over of Persona 4 with BlazBlue with Under Night In-Birth with RWBY. But if I remember right the original released didn't have an arcade ladder of any kind.

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For tonight's stream the plan is of course to play Fallout 76, I will of course progress my own story and more than likely we'll be joined by Iceman to knock out some daily stuff via his Fallout 1st Immortality world. So it should end up being silly.

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

After 143 Hours... We Finished Persona 5 Royal

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Persona 5 Royal certainly saw me doing what the game said to do and 'Take My Time' when it came to trying to anticipate how much content was actually left, as I certainly wasn't rushing to finish the game, because I wanted to streak to last at least four hours. Turns out there was six hours worth of content left based around how I was choosing to handle the last trip into Mementos and doing other things (messing around with the Batting cages, spending time with some of the Confidants and unlocking stuff in the Thieves Den 

Now... let's talk about that battle against Maruki which is probably the most drawn out pain in the ass boss fight in the entire game with how many phases it had. Sure we got a HP and SP reset with each phase, but it was a battle that boiled down to 'But wait there's more...' when it came to obviously points of where it should have ended. We defeated Maruki's Persona... no wait... he evolves his Persona... then he gets eaten by his Persona... then it boils down to a fist fight... like really? The Holy Grail to Yaldabaoth boss fight wasn't nearly as padded as Maruki's was.

Now of course by the time we finished that fight it was 10:12 PM... but we didn't finish the game until 12:19 AM... because of all the cut scenes and extended dialog sequences I've managed to find pepped into the last stretches of time. Sure There's the time skips, but there is a lot to see, and when you are given time to roam around there are little nuggets and references one can find that serve as nice callbacks.And since I've been playing Persona 4 Arena, and seeing the 'Men In Black' involvement with characters from Persona 3... I'm betting those were who was chasing the Phantom Thieves at the very end.

Overall, Persona 5 Royal was an awesome experience and I look forward to playing it again on the Xbox side of things in 2023. 

Persona 5 Royal (PS4) Trophies

• Take Back the Future: Completed every Palace.
• The Path Chosen: Watched the ending.
• The Phenomenal Phantom Thief: Obtained all trophies.

Twitch Clips

• It's Showtime! The Defeat Of Jose!
• Boom... Headshot 
• Roses For Makoto 
  

During the stream we got a raid from Redneck_23 who was playing American Truck Simulator 19 over at twitch.tv/redneck_23!

For last night's raid, we dropped in on YrGamerBunni who was playing Halo: Infinite and Fortnite over at twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni! 

On a side note, Persona 5 Royal is only the 5th PlayStation title that I've gotten the Platinum Trophy for... the others being NCIS, WWE: Legends of WrestleMania, X-Men The Arcade Game and Sonic The Fighters.

There is a question of what will be featured on Friday's now... and the top two contenders are Dragon's Dogma and Persona 5 Strikers. We'll see what I end up deciding 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured a brisk workout because I woke up super late. Still kept the daily streak going which was good.

While my fantasy baseball team had a great week last week, this weeks looks like it'll be a problem with Bryce Harper having to deal with a blister issue.

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For tonight's stream... well, it's back to Persona 4 Arena to continue going through the story mode of that game, which means sitting through the visual novel parts. Good news is I believe we can basically go through everyone's story straight through because we tackled Labrys's story last week. So we should be able to knock off at least three characters stories tonight.

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

A Solid Night Of Overwatch

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Overwatch saw the usual break down as mostly matches in the flex role (which meant Tank and Support) before dedicating the final hour to playing Damage role characters. Big thanks to PandaSweet for being apart of the fun. Picked up three plays of the game last night as D.va, Reinhardt and Torbjourn. Other characters used were Junkrat, Mei. Wrecking Ball, Ashe & Moira. Think in our last 10 matches we went like 5-5... not 100% sure but I'm not about to go check. 

On a side note we did have a brief issues with Xfinity, my internet service provided during the stream... where it didn't go down fully, but it certainly interfered with the strength of signal to Twitch.

Twitch Clips

• The Focus Is Real
• Where Did She Go... COME HERE!!! 
• There goes my 12 kill streak...
  

During the stream we had a raid from YrGamerBunni who was playing Halo: Infinite over at twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni!

For the raid we dropped in on Flint_Locke who was playing Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Chapter 8 - Matsuribayashi over at twitch.tv/flint_locke! 

I mentioned it last night during the stream, but one has to admire the balls of Capcom to be putting out two compilations of arcade games that have some of the same games in both collections within a month of each other and charging the same amount for both. Of course I would go for the Capcom Fighting Colleciton first because that can and will be a streak of featuring the games in that collection... and then grab Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium down the road.

Disney is doing another live-action remake with Hercules... and unlike with most of their live action efforts, this one makes sense because there is little chance they will screw up the casting... oh wait... this is Disney... and they picked Will Smith to step into the role of the Genie for Aladdin...

Played a couple of matches of Assault in Smite last night, winning one of the two. Always nice to be able to split the difference.

Today's FItness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Defensive COmbo #1, Double Combo #1 and Uppercut Combo #2 for 28 minutes.

Shaved off my beard... I'm now a lot less fuzzy on the face.

Watched the first episode of Stargate SG-1 for the first time in a long time, it's amazing how much Richard Dean Anderson brings to the role of Jack O'Neil right off the bat.

Finished the WWE commissioned fan fic featuring Cody Rhodes & Brandi yesterday afternoon... and thank goodness I used the post-match promo he did at WrestleMania because it served as a great framing device. Ended up getting another commission request, again WWE related, this time to do something involving Brock Lesnar.

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For tonight's stream, well we're going to wrap up Persona 5 Royal... we started it as a Friday Night Exclusive back in mid-February, and outside of one week where we also did a Saturday night stream, we kept to that. But with not much left to the game we'll take out time in finishing the remaining days with one final trip to Mementos, then give the Calling Card to Maruki, kick his sorry butt then it's just the time skip that occurs to Valentine's Day and then White Day to close it out.

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

A Full Night Of Turtle Power,

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge was full of Turtle Power. Granted trying to find full games to join or even start with the hope of randoms joining was an adventure in and of itself, but we did do a full arcade run as Splitter, and thus I am counting it as a game finished on stream. The story mode has more of an RPG element to it, but it is basically the same as the arcade mode.

Of course the net-code issues I mentioned the other day were on full display depending on when people are joining into games, and some weird latency issues. Of course once you get six people playing on screen at the same time it because pure chaos and nearly impossible to tell where you are at any given moment depending on how quickly people are building up their super meters. 

We did get a few achievements done last night, some of which involved just some general progression and doing repeated tasks. I did go back into it after the stream to knock out as many achievements as I could, so on the list below, the first six were done on stream, the remainder were done off-stream.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge Achievements

• INEFFECTIVE!: Defeat the Rat King while using Splinter.
• Pizza Time!: Eat 20 pizzas.
• Breaking Out!: Destroy 200 breakable objects.
• Button Masher: Win the mini-game in Coney Island.
• Sharing is Caring!: Cheer up the same teammate 3 times in a single stage.
• Buffoons!: Put an end to Bebop and Rocksteady's run in Story Mode. 
• Opening an Antique Store?: Find 5 different collectibles in Story Mode.
  Empire Strikes Out: Retreat the Triceraton empire in Story Mode.
• Mode 7: Throw 16 enemies toward the camera.
• Clean Up in Aisle 4: Stop Chrome Dome before he can rebuild the old Technodrome in Story Mode.
• Biggest Fan!: Find all cameos in Story Mode.
• Complete Season: Complete the Story Mode.
• Beware Lawbreakers!: Play as Casey Jones.
• Finally Getting Along!: Cheer up Raphael while playing as Casey Jones.
• Multitasker: Complete all of the special requests in Story Mode
  

Twitch Clips

• Splitter vs The Rat King
• She got beaten by a rat 
• Everybody work together
  

For the raid we dropped in on Oldish22 who was playing Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/oldish22!  

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Triple Combo #2, Front-Back Step Combo and Defensive Combo #2 for a 28 minute workout

Why is it everyone wanted Amber Heard's head on a platter, but people are actually defending Ezra Miller? I don't get it.

Messed around a bit with Friday the 13th: The Game on the Xbox side of things. We might have it as an option for random Saturdays.

Friday the 13th: The Game Achievements

• He's Back: Get killed by Jason.

A new week is starting, so let's take a look back at moments from the previous week, which included Overwatch, Vampire Survivors, Persona 4: Arena, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 5 Royal and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge!

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For tonight's stream, well, it's Sunday which means Overwatch is on deck!

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

Entering The Home Stretch Of Persona 5 Royal

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Persona 5 Royal was very productive on two fronts, one we spent a ton of time in Mementos, finding every single Stamp in the areas of the original game, then the finding 40 in the added area that ties into Maruki's Palace... and then we tackled the Palace itself, finding all three Will Seeds and securing the route to Maruki's treasure. There were a few things I probably over looked in terms of treasures, but at the same time I hit the max level for Joker and the rest of the Phantom Thieves (Level 99), maxed out yen (9,999,999) and also hit 99 on several Personas. 

As of this time, we have put in 136 hours in, and the way I figure, with all the cut scenes and remaining things to do, there are probably close to four hours of game play left. So we will be finishing Person 5 Royal on next Friday's stream! Also with only two trophies left, and both are story related, we'll be able to Platinum Persona 5 Royal as well! Woo-hoo!

Oh an yes, I am rather pleased with the screenshot I took at the end of Joker & Sumeri's Showtime. That was just perfectly timed.

Persona 5 Royal (PS4) Trophies

• A Serene Experience: Visited a temple. 

Twitch Clips

• An Anonymous Cheerer Cheering Anonymously!
• Sumeri's Showtime 
• We Want The Panda!
  

For last night's raid we dropped in on x9abenonymous9x who was playing Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown over on twitch.tv/x9abenonymous9x!  

Five years ago with my original YouTube channel, a lot of dirt bags were stealing my videos and posting them on their own channels... but I found a few of them still floating around YouTube and promptly uploaded them. You can find them over at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoZDn5flULzEeJlW0Rw2X2Q

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Biceps Shape Focus Combo, Intermediate Combo #1 and Difficulty Challenge Combo #1 for a duration of 34 minutes.

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise Stats for Week Of June 12 to 18, 2022

• Punches Thrown: 8,577
  
• Estimated Calorie Burn:3611.62 kcal
  
• Sophie's Contender Progress: 90% (27 out of 30 hours trained)
  
• King EX Fighter Progress: 93%
  

My fantasy baseball team is doing rather well this week... granted I've had to make a number of moves, and staying up to date on whose starting and who isn't can be a real pain, particularly when it comes to anyone who is playing on the west coast.

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For tonight's stream we'll be playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredders Revenge. Hopefully we won't have any issues with the game's net code for online play.

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

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!