Huge Night Of Persona 5 Strikers

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Persona 5 Strikers didn't have one single interruption which was amazing. Now I did move the coaxel cables as far as possible from any other cables (namely electrical ones), and maybe that was a solution, because I did read that if they crossed it could cause a disruption. We'll see how that plays out for Saturday's stream.

Anyway, with Persona 5 Strikers, we covered the entire second jail which wasn't so bad, as it was pretty straight forward from getting from one part to another... also realized how the level grinding works towards characters achievements, in that a lot of play time with each member of the Phantom Thieves is needed, and this is certainly going to be a lot more rewarding because "Requests' and revisiting prior jails are now unlocked, With time not being as much of a factor as with Persona 5 Royal. that means deliberate trips to do nothing but farm enemies is something we'll probably do.

In terms of the story, Yusuke being the focal point in having to have a come to the fictional son of a fictional higher-being meeting with the second villain certainly severed as a great call back to where Yusuke started as a character. Now from what I've seen of the start of the third arc, it seems Haru is going to be front and center for it, since it involves someone she directly knows.  

Also Futaba has been stealing the show in several ways, her comments regarding Ann and Haru's development in certain areas certainly was hilarious.

Persona 5 Strikers Trophies

• Knife in the Dark: Performed 50 ambushes.
• Unshakeable Teamwork: Performed an All-Out Attack 150 times.
• Flame Dancer: Obtained all Master Arts for Panther.
• A Helping Hand: Completed a request.
• Phantom Striker: Defeated 200 enemies with a phantom dash.
• Peerless Blade: Obtained all Master Arts for Fox.
• Cage of Vanity Conquered: Completed the Sendai Jail.
• A Little Memento: Obtained a souvenir for the camper.

Twitch Clip Links

• Ann's Showtime
• Taking Down The Nightmare Dragon 
• Futaba Is Impressed.... Aha!
  

During the stream we got 400 bits from the viewing audience, the support is always appreciated! Big thanks for the support! And also big thanks to YrGamerBunni for the huge raid  following their stream of Crusader Kings III which they play every Friday over on twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni! 

Rather surprised the Phillies seem to be holding it together thus far, but with Bryce Harper out till most likely late August, I highly doubt July is going to be as good a month as June was for them. 

My fantasy baseball team holds a 6-4 advantage this week, but with two days left and some guys playing on teams that have double headers today, I'm hoping I guessed right to having the right folks starting. 

Per LvStrkr's recommendation, we've added Blue Dragon to the list of Xbox360 games to play at some point.

I have a 5 days weekend, since it was announced yesterday afternoon that the July 4th break will be extended to included the 5th. So I should have no excuse not to knock out the commissioned Halo fic that I already started writing a few days ago.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout involved Defensive Combo #1, Uppercut Combo #2 and Double Combo #1 for 28 minutes.

Fitness Boxing 2 Rhythm & Exercise Stats For June 26 to July 2, 2002

• Punches Thrown: 8,554
  
• Estimated Calories Burned: 3527.64 kcal
  
• Bernardo's Champion Progress: 68% (34 out of 50 hours trained)
  
• King EX Fighter Progress: 94%
  

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For tonight's stream, I have no clue what we're going to do at the time I'm writing this at 4:56 AM, we might do some older-era gaming tonight just to have some variety.

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

A Nearly Event Free Night

 Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Final Fantasy XIV was mostly issue free, with only two interruptions that happened at 8:48 PM Eastern and 8:58 PM Eastern. Unlike Wednesday night with Fallout 76, the disruptions were enough to kick me from Final Fantasy XIV both times... thankfully I was not doing anything in a group when that happened. From what I can tell, it looks like signal interference.

As for what we did on stream, we did the usual routine of an Alliance Raid and a Trial, that ended up being the final showdown with Elidibus at the end of Shadowbringers, which I haven't done since first playing it... so needless to say re-learning it was interesting. We hit level 90 with Fishing, so that's maxed, and we did some power leveling on Botany, we only have two story quests for Botany left to do, and with luck we'll be able to knock those out on next week's stream. I thought we could some power leveling with Dragoon, but no such luck, but that's like a long haul project anyway.

We also did some Just Chatting, and I saw that President Joe Biden is going to appease Mitch McConnell but appointing an anti-abortion lawyer for a spot as a Judge in Kentucky. Considering the path of destruction McConnell's stuffing of the Supreme Court has done over the past week, appeasing Mitch The Bitch should be the last thing anyone should do.

On a positive note, I got a $5 Dollar Gift Card from my Day Job... and we went on Amazon to see if there anything unique we could add to the collection. Turns out that My Little Pony has a full multi-console game released called My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure. It was about a year ago at this time we discovered DC Super Hero Girls Teen Power, and I have no problem going against stereotype. On a side note, isn't it odd that Generation 4 of My Little Pony (Friendship Is Magic), never got a full video game released, which is amazing considering the number of grand adventures and epic plots that series had. Actually what would have worked for a Gen 4 Video Game would have been something along the same lines of the Persona series with the Slice of Life mixed with the Adventure. 

Twitch Clips

• Hope For People To Wake Up
• No One Likes You! 
• I Got One... I Got Two... I Got Three!
• Run Back To Find More Sap 
• What's the Logic In THat
  

For the raid, we dropped everyone off with SweetLindir as they were playing Smite over on twitch.tv/sweetlindir!

We're coming up on two full years of daily workouts... and first Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout for the month of July featured Defensive Combo #2, Triple Combo #2 and Front-Back Step Combo for 28 minutes.

Played Some Fall Guys last night and unlocked the season pass... which actually lead to a couple of achievements. So yay! Also PandaSweet picked up Fall Guys so got in a lot of fun matches playing duos and good test of the cross play too. 

Fall Guys Achievements

• Household Name: Reach lvl 25 fame during a season
• Star of the Show: Reach lvl 40 fame during a season
• Fall Bae: Share a hug with a Fall Guy

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For tonight's stream we'll be resuming Persona 5 Strikers. I might take a more grind approach this go-round as we're dealing with the Second Jail, but I saw there were achievements / trophies associated with unlocking skills by playing with each characters. So that should be fun.

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

An 8 hour stream was not intended

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream had a few issues with Xfinity, but thankfully having the Twitch hold the stream steady until things sorted out. The gaps ended up being a couple of minutes, but the thing was my internet didn't go down fully, because I did not experience any lag with Fallout 76 via my Xbox Series S since it is an online game. So the problem has to be something that effects an upstream signal. 

Anyway, the Fallout 76 portion of the stream was a lot of fun in terms of just getting some minor stuff done along the way, such as finding a few side quest location, new places to visits and realizing the placement of some enemy camps is complete nonsense. We were joined by Iceman for some daily and weekly objective grinds which helps with the scoreboard.

Of course the stream ended up being a lot longer because when we wrapped up Fallout 76 for the week, we just chatted about numerous sports stuff, including how our Fantasy Baseball teams were doing plus other thing, which was a lot of fun. Totally unplanned of course, but not the first time we've done that.

Twitch Clips

• Trapped in a trailer
• Coming back from an issues with Xfinity 
• Well that went wrong
• And he's dead 
  

Big thanks to Oldish22 for the raid following their stream of Final Fantasy XIV over on twitch.tv/oldish22!

For the raid last night we dropped in on YrGamerBunni who was playing Halo 2 over on twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni!  

Because of the length of last night's stream I really don't have that many notes for today. Then again, it was close to 4 AM by the time I actually went to bed last night and I woke up at around 9 AM.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Biceps Shape Focus Combo, Difficulty Challenge Combo #1 and Intermediate Combo #1. If I stay on the pace of 30 minutes a day every day, we should have every remaining Trainer's Champion EX achievement unlocked by January 20, 2023. Of course throwing in some extra time exercising means that would go a lot faster (ha ha)

Fitness Boxing 2 Rhythm & Exercise Stats For June 2022

• Punches Thrown: 37,349
  
• Estimated Calories Burned: 15,364.61 kcal
  
• Bernardo's Champion Progress: 66% (33 out of 50 hours trained)
  
• Kign EX Fighter Progress: 94%
  

I am curious how exactly the Supreme Court of the United States will disappoint me today, because going back to last Thursday, it seems like nothing but bad things have happened. Hell just today, the Supreme Court has put limits on the EPA in favor of climate change deniers. We are completely fucked.

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For tonight's stream will featured Final Fantasy XIV, just the usual nonsense that we do with Raids, Trials and level grinding... tonight's stream will be as long as last nights.

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

Junker Queen Impressions and other stuff

Good morning everyone,

The Overwatch 2 Beta did indeed launch and we had a mostly event free run of it, with once moment of Xfinity being a pain and causing issues when I went on break. There is a major issue at the moment for wait times to get to play as a tank or damage roles in Role Queue (average 10 minute and 7 minutes), which means those who like to Flex are often being shoved into Support roles, which I don't mind... still it gets old and tedious when you have people not focusing on the objective at hand. I did find the open queue to be more fun, and I won't be surprise if it ends up seeing the most amount of players with team comps similar to that of Paladins of two tanks, two damage and one support. In terms of characters used, mostly D.va (who I managed to pick up a Play of the Game as) and Moira, but I got in some time as Mercy, Ana, Ashe, Torbjourn, Tracer and I even got to try the newest character The Junker Queen.

Junker Queen's kit certainly is for aggressive players as she has an ability that is similar to Lucio's Speed boost which provided a temporary HP boost to teammates. She also has melee ability that leaves a status effect that does some damage. Her knife throw is interesting with how it can be used to pull an enemy close so that it could combo with the ability I just mentioned. Really not sure what to make of her ultimate.

Now we did start the stream at 30 minutes earlier than normal, and much like with Overwatch on Sundays, around fours in, I switched over to Star Trek Online to run a couple of Task Force Operations... two of which involved timed mechanics that just have things drag out for the sake of dragging things out. The Risa event is returning next week, so we may take part of a stream to check that out for shits and giggles. 

Getting back to Xfinity I did not call them after the stream, but I did enable a feature on Twitch that will throw up a standby image in case something goes wrong where the internet doesn't fully go down but at least there is something to indicate to the viewers that there is a problem.

Twitch Clips

•  Trying to figure out Junker Queen
•  Quad Kill... that is four!
•  A D.va Bomb to Secure The Win!
•  I actually got myself in a bad way...
  

For the raid we dropped in on Glorifiedthief who was playing Golden Sun: The Lost Age over at twitch.tv/Glorifiedthief!   

Yesterdays assignment for work saw me interviewing folks about an upcoming congressional election in the Pacific North West... it was a fair survey since both candidates were presented fairly.

Been steadily adding songs to my 'Liked' list on Spotify... even as I try to limit to just hit songs from what I can remember, the list is already huge! At this time the list included 1,409 songs.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Difficult Challenge Combo #2, Block Combo and Difficult Challenge Combo #3 for 34 minutes.

The Phillies lost to the Braves last night and the issues of how the line up is going to sake out without Bryce Harper are going to be real apparent for the next couple of months.

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For tonight's stream we're going to feature Fallout 76, and I'm kind of curious if the stream problems are tied to me gaming on my PC as opposed to doing stuff on console. I don't think so, but we'll see if there is a pattern. 

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

Two More Story Arcs Down In Persona 4 Arena

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream was without incident from Xfinity, so maybe somethings were addressed... we'll see if that holds true.

Anyway for the stream, we focused on Persona 4: Arena and went through two full story arcs, Akihiko and Teddie's... and both of which has made me further question the continuity of events of the story, to see if the 'true villain' is simply hopping timelines or note. That said, Akihiko's story was certainly straight forward, while Teddie's was without question a bit more on the silly side at times. There were things in Teddie's story that certainly did not make sense to me without proper context. 

We also did an arcade run as Mitsuru and managed to pick up a few achievements that require playing the arcade mode. Also managed to knock out 13 of Labrys's combo challenges, and from what I could tell the online play seems like it might still work... but with Persona 4 Arena Ultramax out, the odds of even getting a couple of online achievements seems every unlikely. 

Also discovered that Persona 4 Arena Ultramax is not a remake of Persona 4 Arena, instead its it sequel... which was exclusive to the PS3. I think it got a digital re-release for the PS4... so we'll look into that at some point.

Big thank you to the anonymous cheerer who kicked in 300 bits last night. The support is always appreciated!

Persona 4: Arena Achievements

• The Boxer: Akihiko's Story chapter has been told.
• The Beast: Teddie's Story chapter has been told.
• Persona Breaker: You created 10 Persona Breaks in Arcade Mode or online.
• Meat Dimension: You defeated an opponent in Arcade Mode or online before he Awakened! Now, that's a real challenge!
• Stylish!: You performed 100 Auto Combos in Arcade Mode or online.

Twitch Clips

• She jumped right into it!
• Give the Salute! 
• Meat Dimension!
  

For the raid we dropped in on YrGamerBunni as they were playing Mass Effect Legendary Edition (in particularly Mass Effect 3) over on twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni!  

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Straight Combo #2, Intermediate Combo #2 and Hip Shape Focus Combo for 28 minutes.

Watched another episode of Stargate SG-1 called Emancipation, (Season 1, Episode 3)... and considering how the rights of women were just restricted in the United States, this is hitting particularly hard. I wonder what Amanda Tapping's thoughts were on this episode regarding how here character of Captain Carter was basically persecuted for being a woman, forced to change her attire and was basically was to be sold. Granted, Carter plays a huge role in the resolution of the episode and getting to beat the crap out of the villain of the episode with things ending on a positive note. Still the entire first half of the episode is really cringe worthy.

The balls of white Christian Conservatives saying 'Don't Abort We'll Adopt' fucking pisses me off, because if that was true there wouldn't be over 110,000 kids waiting to be adopted!

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For tonight's stream the plan is to play Overwatch 2's Beta to get a good idea of any changes from the initial closed Beta from last month. Speaking of Overwatch, I'm not too keen on how the Brigitte Medic skin is forcing a requirement to gift-subs to specific streamers. Now if that isn't possible, we'll do something else of course.

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

Xfinity Causing Problems Yet Again

Good afternoon everyone,

Well after two full days of no problems, the issues with Infinity reared its ugly head yet again with six stream restarts, one involved a full reset of the modem. I did try to piece together the whole night into one video, but that would take too long to render, and when I make videos they typically would be at more 20 minutes long, and not 5 hours. So the YouTube channel will have the uninterrupted portion of the stream that last two out of the five hours. I did place yet another call to Xfinity last night

As for the night of Overwatch, outside of getting disconnected in the middle of some matches, we had a lot of fun. We were joined by PandaSweet and PatDes for several matches. Characters I mostly used weird D.va, Reinhardt and Moira. Picked up one Play of the Game as D.va, which keeps the weekly streak going. With Overwatch 2's beta launching this week and the fact I did do the pre-order, means we should be able to experience during one of the streams later in the week (either split with Final Fantasy XIV or on Saturday).

Big thankst to YrGamerBunni for kicking in 200 bits during the stream as well as testing out some of the new sound effect redemptions!

Twitch Clips

• Poor Service From Xfinity A Day Before I'm Paying Them...
• I dropped some bags of tea back there... 
• There's A Combo!
• That's Three! 
  

For the raid we dropped in on jonnietortilla who was playing Ark: Survival Evolved over at twitch.tv/jonnietortilla!  

I was so annoyed with the issues with Xfinity last night that instead of doing my laundry today, I did it right after the stream. Granted I don't go anywhere, so I have only one load to do, but still, I needed to take my mind off of things.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout involved Advanced Combo #1, Sway Back Combo and Beginner Combo #2 for 34 minuets. 

Back in the late 1990s, I was aware of the video game Blade Runner which was based on the film of the same name. Never played it, as the requirements for it where clearly too much for my computer at the time... but I am surprised that it basically has gotten a remake. Of all the PC games of the mid to late 90s that I'm personally aware, I would not have thought Blade Runner would be the one to get a second chance at life. That said... apparently the remake is dog shit. Who knows, maybe someday we'll give it a look since it was a game I was curious about over 20 years ago.

With Bryce Harper being placed on the injured list for at least the next 10 days, my Fantasy Baseball team is without its most contestant hitter.

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For tonight's stream, I haven't made up my mind on what we're going to do, as the issues with Xfinity certainly had me really perpexed. But we'll be up to something and hopefully this will be a smooth stream this evening.

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

We Finally Played Fall Guys

Good afternoon everyone, 

Well despite Fall Guys being out on PS4 and PC for quite some time, I waited until after it went Free to Play (and being available on Xbox console) to finally play it... and it's a lot of fun. It's bright it's colorful, it's silly and really it comes down to the skill one has and luck to be able to advance in each round. There are a nice variety of game modes , so not every session is the same. However because these game modes are randomized, there is always that possibility of seeing some things more often than not. Still this was a lot of fun, and we'll keep it as an option of things to do.

Big thanks to Redneck_23 and an Anonymous Cheerer for kicking in 310 bits during the course of the stream. The support and cheers are always appreciated!

Fall Guys Achievements

• Big Bully: Knock someone over
• One small trip: Qualify from your first round
• Flawless Victory: Qualify from a round without falling over even once
• Snowflake: Equip your first cosmetic item
• Troublemaker: Bump into 3 people while rolling on the ground before getting up
• Fall Throttle: Reach terminal velocity
• Face First: Qualify from a racing round despite falling over more than 10 times
• Style Points: Fall for at least 3 seconds before landing on your head
• Stumble Chums: Bump into other Fall Guys 1000 times in total
• One to Watch: Reach lvl 10 fame during a season

Twitch Clips 

• Fall Throttle
• I'm stuck! 
• We made it!
  

For the raid we dropped in on ChristalRaine who was also playing Fall Guys over on twitch.tv/ChristalRaine! 

Soon to be former WWE Superstar Paige has been rightfully going off the stupid arguements that Pro Lifers want to give, and it's made for some great stuff. You can see a lot of it over on her Twitter feed at https://twitter.com/RealPaigeWWE

Something that I did find interesting was how quick Nancy Pelosi was to send out 'fund raising' emails, when the Democratic party has had numerous opportunities to get things done to make sure Women Rights were not infringed upon. Then there was a rally in Cherry Hill, New Jersey yesterday, and from what I understand  

Finally finished the latest Commission Fic request based around Brock Lesnanr, setting it with his latest return. Unfortunately, the next request I got was another WWE story this time involving Roman Reigns and well, that's a hard pass. I don't find Roman to be a compelling character to write as he has less depth than even Brock. The pairing was to put Roman with Alexa Bliss during her Fiend phase... and that was not exactly ideal.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout featured only Hook Combo #1 and Waist Shape Focus Combo... I... woke up super late. But the daily streak continued!

We've officially added Capcom Fight Collection to the Xbox side of things, so expect to see the games in that bundle featured in the coming weeks, probably after we're finished with Persona 4: Arena. Also added Last Stop which from what I understand is a game similar to that that made by TellTale.

Watched another episode of Stargate SG-1 last night, titled 'The Enemy Within' (Season 1, Episode 2)... and it does make me want to watch the first episode again just to see if there was a shot of Kawalsky grabbing his neck as if he wrenched it as indication he was infected with a Goa'uld larvae. This was a solid episode on a few fronts in terms of establishing that bottle episodes could easily be done and still be compelling, since everything seen was mostly at Stargate Command. The operation scene was particularly well done to keep tension high, and the big reveal that Kawalsky was taken still holds up nicely.

Let's take a look back at all the games we featured over the past week which included: Overwatch, Persona 5 Royal, Persona 4 Arena, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Star Trek Online, Persona 5 Strikers and Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout!

If you're looking for tools to help with streaming or communicating from home with work, check out what Xsplit offers over at Xsplit.com, use the promo code CASDEN to save 10% on your order! If you're looking for just general stuff, of course you can swing over to Amazon using my affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3L8N1Yj.    

For tonight's stream, well you know it's Sunday which means Overwatch is on deck to kick off the new week!

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