We wrapped up Persona 4 Arena

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream was pretty damn solid as we wrapped Persona 4: Arena in order to list as a game finished on this year's tour. This involved quickly re-going through Yu's story making only 'Choice A' for all dialog portions in order to get the secrete ending, now I did play out the content that was after the cliffhanger. Like with every other story chapter, the ending just sets up what takes place in Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, which we'll eventually play to see how everything ends officially.

We also went through the arcade mode with every single remaining character that I didn't do runs with previously (Akihiko, CHie, Kanji, Shadow Labrys, Teddi, Yosuke and Yukiko) and doing their Instant Kill moves. However, I needed to do one more instant kill move in arcade mod for Yu, to get the overall achievement called BAM!. Also picked off the 'Denied Pets' achievement which basically involved me getting my ass handed to me by the A.I. on 'Hell Difficulty'... funny thing is I did hung in there, but Kanji on that difficulty setting just whooped my ass.

There was something that stood out about me when doing those arcade runs, and that's Teddie has a version of events that involves him meeting Labrys sooner while facing the fake shadow up himself before facing Shadow Labrys. I the change up in variety was a nice change of pace, particularly when some lines of dialog are clearly recycled  

Of course we do want to say thank you to the viewers in the chat for kicking in 300 bits, as well as to DaemonsW0lf for renewing their subscription to the channel for their 11th month! The support, as always, is truly appreciated!. 

But with Persona 4 Arena now wrapped, will I jump straight to Persona 4 Arena Ultimax... and the answer to that is no, for the simple reason that is a PS4 title, and we're currently dedicating PS4 streams to Persona 5 Strikers. Now I was using the Xbox Series S to playing Persona 4 Arena, so for certain, we'll be using the Xbox One S with whatever title I choose to feature next.

On a side note:the stream did have one hiccup but nothing major as everything was kept as one broadcast and not split in too!.

Persona 4: Arena Achievements

• The Kingpin: Yu's Story chapter has been told.
• The End of Everything: You have seen all the Story endings.
• Time for the All-Out Attack!: You performed 100 All-Out Attacks in Arcade Mode or online.
• Mystery Food X: Mystery Food X is yours!
• Victory Cry: You won 30 Rounds in Arcade Mode or Online by using SP Skills or Awakened SP Skills.
• Wild: You have used all the characters in Arcade Mode or Online. Variety is good for you!
• Action!: You performed 100 Furious Actions in Arcade Mode or online.
• Belt Collector: You completed Arcade Mode with all characters.
• BAM!: You used every character's Instant Kill move in Arcade Mode or online!
• Denied Pets: You lost in Arcade Mode or online before you Awakened... That's sad. Here's a consolation prize.

Twitch Clips

•  It Comes Crawling Out...
• Went to Space... Salute! 
• Achievement - BAM!
• Achievement - Denied Pets 
  

For the raid we dropped in on AnnieTalksShow was was playing Uno and Phasmophobia over on twitch.tv/AnnieTalksShow!Also they will be doing a giveaway stream next Monday starting at about 7:30 PM Pacific Time / 10:30 PM Eastern Time. 

Got another commission request in the works as the next fan fic that was asked of me is to be set when Nikki Bella won the Divas Championship off of AJ Lee at Survivor Series. I think there was a post-match interview I can use for a set up and for references.

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

Added the Halo Master Chief collection to the list of things to eventually tackle... one could imagine the struggles I'm going to have with that legendary series.

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For tonight's stream,  Cultist Simulator will be the game of the night, as recommend by YrGamerBunni! I've heard good things about this game, so I'm looking forward to trying it out!

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

A New Week Starts

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Overwatch saw the usual Sunday night shenanigans and thankfully without any issues from Xfinity. Big shout out and thanks to Tokidoki and PandaSweet for being apart of the fun, we ended up going 5-5 in out final ten matches, but two of those wins were rather epic in how hard fought they were. In fact one match saw all three of us get post-match cards based on our individual performances.

In terms of how I did solo, I picked up two plays of the game as Moira this week which is always nice. Other characters used were D.va, Orissa, Reinhardt, Brigitte and Anna. I didn't really get an opportunity to do any DPS roles on this week's stream. Ah well.

Twitch Clips 

• Wheee!!!
• Cleaning Up The Mess 
• Trying TO Keep Them Boxed In!
  

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!

Did mess around some with Overwatch 2 last night, mostly to try and figure out some timing with Moira's new kit, and I think I figured out some things... but it does appear her new 'damage orb' can be blocked by enemy shields. Also in a 1v1 against Brigitte, Moira no longer has an advantage as far as I can tell.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Uppercut Combo #1, Hook Combo #1 and Waist Shape Focus Combo for 31 minutes

Finished writing the latest commission request featuring WWE's Xia Li yesterday afternoon, and it turned out fairly alright I think. Though some complained I did not include Gifs or Pictures to add flavor to it, to which I say there are far too many writers who basically use Gifs and Pictures as ways not to write out various details.

So I'm thinking a head ot Saturday's stream, and I do have NFL Game Day '98 in my collection... maybe we'll check that out?

Had issues with Amazon yesterday in that the delivery person lied on exactly where the placed my package. And trying to lodge a complaint certainly was not possible. Still, we now have The Quarry and Life Is Strange Volume #6 which collects the final issues of the series published by Titan Comics. The plan for the Quarry is for it to be apart of the Spooky Stuff in October

Staying on Life is Strange though, the final issues kind of save the series which certainly went out of its way to try and make the trio of Max-Rachel-Chloe work, but it was quite clear early on that it was not going to be something that really worked, so the final issues being about getting back to normal really ends the series on a high note, in my opinion.

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For tonight's stream the plan is to wrap up the final chapters of Persona 4 Arena's Story Mode and do arcade runs with various characters. With luck we'll be able to get several instant death moves performed for various characters as well.

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

A Weird End To A Wild Night

Good afternoon everyone,

Well last night's stream had a lot of variety, but let's talk about how it ended. For the first four hours, there were no issues at all, then there was a slight drop off for a few moments, nothing major... but then at 11:14 PM we had issue to the point that it forced the stream to split into 2 parts. Thankfully I was going to be wrapping up anyway, but that's the first instance of that in a quite a few weeks.  

Anyway, last night we lead off with NFL Game Day, and despite the disc having more scratches than a curtain in a room full of cats, it was a fun experience. Granted the first game I played as the Eagles vs the Cowboys ended in a loss, but by the end of it I had enough of any idea of how to play. The second game, where I played as the Bears vs the Jaguars ended in a dominate win... granted the Jaguars were one of the worst teams in the game, but hey a win is a win.

I broke out the Dance Pad and loaded up Dance Dance Revolution Konamix for the 2nd game of the evening... and needless to say, you probably will never see that game streamed by me ever again for two reason. One being, the added sound of me 'dancing' on the dance pad sounds terrible, and Two being I mostly did this to see if the Dance pad itself still worked... and good news is it does.

I also took a look at The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga... and for 20+ years I always thought it was a side scrolling beat-em up. I had no idea it was a 3D game with puzzle elements. I can say that the music sounded good, but I couldn't make heads or tails out of the controls.

We switched over to the PlayStation 2 to mess around with Capcom vs. SNK 2, during a couple of arcade mode runs, and even taking a crack at survivor mode (getting 9 wins as Sakura). Unlike an earlier attempt at playing it while back, we didn't have the game freezing when fighting Rugal (Since I mostly used the Capcom characters).

Lastly we spent some time playing Overwatch 2, as I continue to practice using D.va to see what can and cannot be done against live opponents. Only won one match, but had a great moment of getting a double kill by dropping my mech on a Widowmaker and Soldier 76!

Big thanks to the chat for kicking in 300 bits during the stream! Ya'll are great!

Twitch Clips

• We Worked It In There!
• Yup... I have DDR... 
• Well we're dead
• Get That Stuff Out Of Here! 
• Double Squish!
  

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

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Triple Combo #1, Straight Combo #1 and Weaving Combo #2 for 28 minutes.

I did some rearranging of things in my office space as there might be a reveal of what's behind the screen stream at some point.

Nearly finished the latest commissioned story request based around John Cena's 20th Anniversary appearance on WWE Monday Night RAW, just need to wrap up the action sequences.

It's the start of a new week, so let's look back at what happened last week over on my Twitch channel, which featured Overwatch, Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins, Paladins, Persona 4 Arena, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 5 Strikers, NFL Game Day, Dance Dance Revolution Konamix, The Incredible Hulk The Pantheon Saga, Capcom Vs SNK 2 Mark of the Millennium 2001 and Overwatch 2! Also three moments of Just Chatting is included as well.

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For tonight's stream, the plan is of course, Overwatch as it is every Sunday! Hopefully we'll have no weird issues like we did last night! 

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

Two More Jails Conquered In Persona 5 Strikers!

 Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Persona 5 Strikers ended up being longer than I intended only because I went after some side quests I could have saved for Next Friday, plus I got lost in the Kyoto Jail, which required that I looked up how to navigate it because of warping portals. It reminded me of some of my least favorite aspects of Persona 5 Royal in some Palaces with a lot of misdirection in getting around. Also that one on one battle with duplicate Joker was rather tough, in fact it's a good think I'm constantly stock pile healing items because I was nearly defeated, even on 'Easy' difficulty.

In terms of the plot, Zenkinchi now has his Persona and looks bad ass, Akane was used as a pawn to trap the Phantom Thieves, and the parallels of two of the main villains being tie ins to Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump isn't lost on me. We covered a huge chunk of Zolf's Master Arts so we can easily tackle that at the start of next Friday's stream.

From what I can tell, we're the path to finishing Persona 5 Strikers within two more streams. Granted the longer streams dedicated to knocking out as much of the side quests and main game has helped. There are number of grind heavy achievement left as well, like getting everyone to level 70... however, at this point I've only gotten Joker to level 51, so knocking out 19 levels seems like a tall ask.

Big thanks as always for the bits the viewers in the chat tossed my way during last night's stream! Your kindness is always appreciated!

Funny thing with the trophies we unlocked last night, my completion percentage for all PlayStation games that have achievements that I have played has hit 45%

Persona 5 Strikers Trophies

• Gentleman Thief: Obtained all Master Arts for Mona.
• Treasure Hunter: Opened 50 treasure chests.
• Cage of Desolation Condemned: Completed the Okinawa Jail.
• Jolly Roger: Obtained all Master Arts for Skull.
• Farewell to the Past: Wolf awakened his Persona.
• Eye for Talent: Spent Persona Points to strengthen a Persona's stats.
• Cage of Wrath Collapsed: Completed the Kyoto Jail.
• What are Friends For?: Cleared all special requests from the Phantom Thieves.
• Master Chef: Cooked 12 types of food.

Twitch Clips

• That NPC Cutting The Other Way!
• Healing Up Before Defeating The Fake Joker 
• Ebon God Descended!
  

For last night's raid we dropped in on DaWorstGamerEver25 who was doing a bonus stream of Fortnite over at twitch.tv/DaWorstGamerEver25!   

JT Reamluto is trying to walk back the stupid comments he made about not getting vaccinated, thus refusing to play in Canada. He tried to say that 'he's from Oklahoma' as an excuse, but all that proves is that he's an elitist on top of being a fool. 

Unlike the last few weeks, we didn't do a Fitness Boxing workout right after the stream, instead I went to bed almost straight away after getting the Facebook highlight reel put together. So with that said Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Double Combo #2, Weaving Combo #1 and Body Hook Combo for 31 minutes.

Fitness Boxing 2 Rhythm & Exercise Stats For July 10-16, 2022

• Punches Thrown: 8,440
  
• Estimated Calories Burned: 3,612.74 kcal
  
• Bernardo's Champion Progress: 84% (42/50 Hours Trained)
  
• King EX Fighter Progress: 94%
  

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For tonight's stream the plan is for a variety night with the first thing we're doing is either playing NFL Game Day or a Madden game from either 98 or 99. After that all bets are off!

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

 

A Fun Night Of Final Fantasy XIV

Good morning everyone, 

Last night's stream of Final Fantasy XIV featured a lot of silly things happening, first being the second of the new Hildibrand quests sees his soul basically restored without much hassle, and now I'm really curious as to what his time in the world of the First would have been like. Also the set up of a plot involving aliens was really cool, since there are near endless possibilities for various antics with the Manderville stuff. 

Got my Dragoon Lancer to level 40, so next week we'll open with the next job quest. We also did nearly all the big daily roulette with PandaSweet joining for a lot of the fun, as we covered some ones that I don't think I've done on stream, including the standard Omega boss fight

Of some some of the more interesting stuff happened early in the stream with some chatting in regard to  an old 'visor' I got from a Star Trek exhibit back in the 90s, that prompted me to go find a photo from that period to get an idea of what year that was (1994 at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, PA for those curious)  

There was also proof of the running gag of my 'gaming to do list' at least as far as the Nintendo Switch was concerned, and getting an idea how old a figure of the Tasmanian Devil I have is (32 years old). and yeah, I have some things that date back a long ways in my collection folks.

Big thanks to the chat for kicking 300 bits during last night's stream, I great appreciate the continued support!

Twitch Clips

• Aliens
• When did I get this Taz figure? 
• Raid Wipe...
• Turn... TURN!!!! 
  

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

YrGamerBunni recommend that I play Cultist Simulator on an upcoming stream, which we'll do on Tuesday the 19th! They even made an awesome hype banner for it! 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Hook Combo #2, Beginner Combo #1 and Left-right Step Combo for 28 minutes.

Work really dragged yesterday, as it the assignment we are on just has too many variables that makes things impossible to accomplish. At the very least the production rate has changed

Messed around with Smite last night, mostly to grind out matches to unlock some of the Nickelodeon event awards. Even picked up an achievement with Lancelot, which gives me a total of 146 out of 306 current achievements that Smite has.

SMITE Achievements

• Jousting Champion: Unlock the Smite Award "Jousting Champion"

Going to add the Quarry for the PlayStation 4, and also the final comic in the Life is Strange expanded saga based around Max and Chloe. 

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For tonight's stream, we shall continue Persona 5 Strikers, and I have to remember to do a side quest with Makoto, because all the hang out stuff leads to an achievement in game. 

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

Confused With Continuity in Fallout 76

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Fallout 76 saw some plot advancement, with the biggest detail being finding the Astronaut as a new CAMP companion. She has her own set of quests so it makes her a little more interesting than the forager. But the big thing that is amusing me is the 'order' of events, because heaven knows there is a real continuity problem with how I'm approaching every quest, as some things were started months ago that should have been done early on but because I keep finding quests it's tough to find. A great example is the fact I've done a lot with the Brotherhood of Steel's introductory plot but that place well after stuff involving the Overseer which I'm still in the middle of doing.

We were of course joined by Iceman to get various challenges done in his 1st World, and some hilarity was had along the way. We did see what was involved in fixing a power plant, so I'll be more inclined to do those in the normal game world going forward.

Big thanks to the viewers for kicking in 1000 bits and to Iceman for renewing his sub for the 52nd month in a row! I'm happy that I'm able to earn that continued support from you folks!

Twitch Clips

• You've Already Had One!
• We Just Punched A Bear In The Face! 
• It's A Chia Pet!
  

For the raid we dropped in on TracyDoll as they were playing Friday the 13th: The Game over on twitch.tv/tracydoll!  

Well one of the worst assignments for work came in... I can't complain, but the production rate  The fact that a meeting is being held to get feedback which we're going to experience the same issues as last year is making me glad that I don't clock in until noon.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Body Uppercut COmbo, Advanced Combo #2 and Body Straight Combo for 31 minutes.

A lot of folks are upset that Ubisoft is shutting down a lot of online features for the PC versions of a number of their titles, like Assassins Creed III ... thing is... everyone knew this was going to happen because of the Remaster that game and others like it got. Why keep the older version online when there is the remastered version that included everything that was DLC originally? It's just a smart move.

So the Phillies lost two games in a row against the Blue Jays, and everyone on the team can just look at JT Realmuto and go 'yeah this is on you dude'.

Staying on the subject of Baseball, my Fantasy Baseball Team is off to a good start... but because of the All-Star break, the week is 'extended' to included next week as well, so there is a lot of concern regarding how well my team will continue to do. 

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For tonight's stream we're back to Final Fantasy XIV, with the goal of doing some Hildibrand quests and other stuff like raids, trials and maybe some leveling.

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

Closing in on 'Finishing' Persona 4 Arena

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Persona 4 Arena was rather productive as we knocked out the story chapters for Yosuke and Elizabeth. I feel Yosuke's was unnecessarily long and just felt rather dull in comparison to everyone else's, which was disappointing, sure it had a couple of great moments early on, namely with Chie saying she wants to eat him, but it felt really lacking.

Elizabeth's story on the other than was much short, and certainly filled in some gaps with references to Persona 3 as well as justifying why she is involved in the tournament. In fact, her ending justifies use of the character in almost every instance of the Persona franchise, because she is looking for away to free the hero of Persona 3 from a permanent fate.

Now I did have a goal about going through the challenges and completing 150 of them for the achievement, which we were successful at doing... and learned that Kanji is (for me) the worst character. Nothing he does seems to flow together with how I play.

We also completed Naoto's Arcade mode, and we had a number of close calls with losing a few rounds. Naoto has a fun kit, but the fact she remains stationary when using her revolver leaves her wide open.

Next time we play Persona 4 Arena, the goal will be to go through all of Yu's story from start to finish, selected the first choice option to make sure we get the secret ending. Also the goal of doing arcade runs with every character will continue as well.

Persona 4: Arena Achievements

• The Captain: Yosuke's Story chapter has been told.
• The Elevator Attendant: Elizabeth's Story chapter has been told.
• I Learned a Few Moves: You have completed 150 Challenges.

Twitch Clips

• Life Is Strange Before The Storm Figures
• Chie Wants To Eat You Up 
• 150 Challenges Completed
• Kill the bear! 
   

For the raid, we dropped in on YrGamerBunni who was playing Halo: Infinite over at twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni!  

While I've had some issues with my Internet connection, as well documented on my blog over the past month, I have not had a full instance where it went down completely, as was the case this afternoon while I was in the middle of work. Thankfully it came back up to where I could complete an interview. Fucking Xfinity... and I say that because they just got a payment from me on Monday!

Think I'm going to start laying off the Hot Pockets... Inflation has pushed them beyond being a reasonable snack! 

Ended up dealing with a tension headache in the middle of the night? How could I tell it was that type of headache? Because I also had a bit of congestion... and believe me a tension headache is very easy to identify when one has it as semi-frequently as I do.

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

Twitch made it clear that the use of shout out clips goes against their Terms of Service, so that gimmick that I've been using through Clippy is done for now. But hey, at least the BRB screen will not be affected.

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For tonight's stream, we'll be messing around with Fallout 76 as I slowly advance the plot. We may be joined by Iceman for more shenanigans.

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