Fred Casden's World

Thursday, September 1, 2022

Completed Coming to Fruition in Fallout 76

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Fallout 76 was productive in a few different ways as I completed the Coming to Fruition story arc which was apart of the original story content of the game, which means my next focus should be on the Fort Defiance arc which I believe would wrap everything up with the original story. Now the biggest problem I'm running into is making sure I have ammo for rifle weapons which makes getting through waves of enemies tougher than it needs to be in my opinion.

Of course I did realize a way to cheese out another achievement, the New Fort Knox, turns out when you turn in the Treasury notes you can buy them back and re-sell them at the same value. I think holding on to those will be rather key to knock out its related challenges on the in-game scoreboard whenever they pop up daily or weekly.

Fallout 76 Achievements

Coming to Fruition: Complete "Coming to Fruition"
The New Fort Knox: Gain 1500 gold bullion

Twitch Clips

For the raid last night we dropped in on Bestibunni who was playing Stellaris over at twitch.tv/bestibunni!

Last night's stream had two issues with the upstream jumping to to 58.8 and 59 at 9 PM and at 11 PM. Packet losses at both instances were at 25% and 75%. Got a call from Xfinity this morning saying they are saying techs out to finally do something about the issues happening in the area. Might effect work this afternoon, but since I was told in advance I let my job know.

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

FnDanteSavage was streaming this morning playing Viking: Battle For Asgard over at twitch.tv/fndantesavage!

What's a foot's favorite snack? Dori-toes.

The shovel was a truly groundbreaking invention.

Song of the Day: Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day

Seems like there will be another installment in the Marvel vs SNK series which has been dormant for nearly 20 years

Cleared out a bunch of side quests in Final Fantasy XIV... but now I realize my Dragoon is too low to really continue this little nightly quest with because at the moment the role is a level 48... and the level cap to turn in quests is set to level 50. Grrr

Work was a bit frustrating... when I was the only one still on one assignment in the final hour... combine with seeing folks on another assignment that makes for an easy way to hit a bonus mark. I'm told that folks will be rotated... but I was told that a few weeks ago and mostly been stuck on the same drab mind bending assignment.

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For tonight's stream the plan is to do the new story stuff based around the Pandaemonium raids, so this will mostly involve me dying... a lot. Hopefully we'll have an event free stream when it comes to Xfinity.

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

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Back to the Land of Lego With Indiana Jones

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures certainly had a number of issues thanks to Xfinity, with anyway from a 25% to 75% packet loss from 6:46 PM to 7:36 PM. I continue to get no feedback from Xfinity during this. I also had the internet go down a bit before 4 PM as well.

Anyway, the game play of Lego Indiana Jones saw the entire "Raiders of The Lost Ark" portion taken cared of, and picking up all the Story related achievements, and I totally forgot the solution to several pizzle so some things were taking me longer than others to accomplish. In fact I actually had to look up how to deal with the 'Boxer' boss because I didn't realize the plan could demolish trucks addition enemies come in with.

On the opposite side, I did enter every available unlock code into the game, which took quite a bit of time, but hell it ate up stream time. But it did mean I had more options available when going back to do a bit of Free Play stuff.

Next time we'll play Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures will be on Monday and Tuesday of next week.

LEGO Indiana Jones: Original Adventures Achievements

You cheat very big!: Unlock all extras.
Your mail is on your desk.: Post all parcels.
Hey! You call him Dr. Jones!: Create and name a custom build character.
There is nothing to fear here.: Complete the "The Lost Temple" level in Story Mode.
It’s important Marion, trust me.: Complete the "Into the Mountains" level in Story Mode.
He no nuts. He's crazy!!: Smash 250 LEGO objects.
Belloq's staff is too long.: Complete the "City of Danger" level in Story Mode.
I step on fortune cookie!: Destroy 50 creepy-crawlies.
Why did it have to be snakes?: Complete the "The Well of Souls" level in Story Mode.
I hate these guys.: Destroy 200 bad guys.
I’m making this up as I go along: Complete the "Pursing the Ark" level in Story Mode.
Keep your eyes shut!: Complete the "Opening the Ark" level in Story Mode.
Got lost in his own museum.: Unlock secret area in the museum.
Nice try, Lao Che!: Destroy Lao Che with Indy.
Goodbye Dr. Jones.: Destroy Indy with Lao Che.

Twitch Clips

Big thank you to rainbownarwhal9 for the raid following their stream of Lego Indana Jones: The Original Adventures over at twitch.tv/rainbownarwhal9!

For the raid we dropped in on Cammi_316 as they were playing Fornite. You can check out their streams over at twitch.tv/cammi_316!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Hook Combo #1, Uppercut COmbo #1 and Waist Shape Focus Combo for 31 minutes. Since it's the end of the month, here are totals for the past 31 days of my daily workouts.

Fitness Boxing 2 Rhythm & Exercise August 2022 Stats

Punches Thrown: 37056
Estimated Calories Burned: 15313.82
Laura's Champion Progress: 90% (45 out of 50 Hours)
King EX Fight Progress: 95%
Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days:628
Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days: 786

How many bugs do you need to rent out an apartment? Tenants.

What did one elevator say to the other? "I think I'm coming down with something."

Song of the Day: Talking Body by Tove Lo

Knocked out just about every possible side quest in Limsa Lominsa that I skipped over during my run through Final Fantasy XIV's Main Story, and managed to get a couple of minions. Annoyingly, the level gate of when some quests can be turned in did mean some things were not turned in as a Dragoon, but instead as a Red Mage.

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For tonight's stream, we're back to Fallout 76, and we may be joined by Iceman in the later portions. Hopefully tonight's stream will not be problematic.

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

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Xfinity Screws Me Over Again...

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream was plagued with issues thanks to Xfinity with complete instability from 7 PM, witch complete package lost, stream being broken up into three splits... and generally a lot of lost and wasted footage. To top it off my PlayStation 2 Slim started having issues reading the XenoSaga Disc when it came to cut scenes, which means I have to get the PlayStation 2 Fat Model to send a video signal somehow or otherwise, just find a refurbished model... or write off being able to feature games from the PlayStation 2 era on original hardware.

In terms of XenoSaga, we covered most of Chapter 3 which featured Ziggy rescuing Momo... and I found some of the stealth mechanics to be quite interesting and easy to grasp in order to avoid trouble. We would have finished Chapter 3 if the PS2 would load the the cut scene that leads into the boss fight.

Now I did went to switch to PS2s from the Slim to the Fat one, but I couldn't find the components that I know I have... I look just about everywhere on stream and couldn't find them. So we'll order another set and try again down the line.

We did get in some Fall Guys to try and salvage the stream, and picked up a couple of achievements and had some good moments with that

Fall Guys Achievements

Big Air: Clock up 1 hour total time falling
Catwalk Model: Equip your first legendary customization item

Twitch Clips

For the raid we dropped in on Bestibunni who was playing Magic: The Gathering over at twitch.tv/bestibunni!

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

Kncoked out every possible side quest I could find in Coerthas Central Highlands last night in Final Fantasy XIV, couple of which involved messing with snowmen. Also stumbled across the 10th anniversary event quest which was cute, if not fourth wall breaking.

What's brass and sounds like Tom Jones? Trombones.

How do prisoners communicate with one another? Cell phones.

Song of the Day: Tear in my Heart by Twenty One Pilots

You know during last night's stream the Phillies were up 7-0 on Arizona... less than 40 minutes later they were trailing 12-7.

Started work on the Metal Gear Solid commission request... and I discovered in my research the entire 'if Snake doesn't shower' scenes, which will serve as a great basis for the short story.

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For tonight's stream we're going to start up Lego Indiana Jones: Original Adventures, namely the Xbox 360 version

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

Monday, August 29, 2022

A Strong Night Of Overwatch

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Overwatch certainly saw me playing the role of back fill quite a lot more than usual as of late, but it was decent night overall. Big thanks to PandaSweet for being a big part of the matches, as we closed down the night winning 7 out of the last 10 matches. I personally picked up three Plays of the Game as D.va, Reinhardt and Moira... who was basically all I used during the night, but there was a moment I did play as Orissa. I do feel like I should've had a few more Plays of the Game, but I'll take the three we were credited with.

Shout out to Mech3003 for re-subbing to the channel for the 10th time! As always the continued support is awesome! You don't have too, but I always appreciate it!

Twitch Clips

For the raid we dropped in on BestiBunni who was playing Stellaris over at twitch.tv/bestibunni!

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

During the stream we had one issue with Xfinity, and Overwatch itself detached indications of a weak connection at times.

Last December and January, I spent a lot of time dedicated to the game Jump Force, just prior to when it was announced the game's ranked servers were being shut down and it was being delisted. Well that finally occurred, but good news is some of the requirements for online trophies were changed. So folks will still be able to 100% complete it... but I get to humble brag about doing it the original way.

Finished the Resident Evil commission request I received yesterday and setting it in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis is certainly the best choice I could have made. Amazingly, got another commission request to base something around Big Boss and Quiet in Metal Gear Solid V... now to how to come up with a quick plot when one of the characters can't talk.

With my focus on Mass Effect 3's achievements done, I can refocus on doing stuff in Final Fantasy XIV to clear out every side quests I skipped over, managed to bang out a bunch right before the maintenance for fixes to patch 6.2 started.

What did the princess say in the photo booth? "Someday my prints will come."

What can you do if you're scared of elevators? Take steps to avoid them.

Song of the Day: The Pretender by Foo Fighters

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For tonight stream we're hooking up the PlayStation 2 to continue Xenosaga Episode 1, we're picking up after getting off the ship and Kos-Mos basically commandeering a freighter.

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

Sunday, August 28, 2022

Completing Objectives In Mass Effect 3 and Fall Guys

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream lead off with one more round of the 360 version Mass Effect 3, namely the multiplayer as we went on the quest of getting the Veteran achievement which required 5,000 kills. Now keeping in mind I started the 360 version of Mass Effect 3 way back on August 1st, and here we are 27 days later, and I have all but one achievement unlocked. That last achievement is of course playing the game on finishing the game on Insanity difficulty... which I'm really not inclined to do, because I know how bullet sponge like things like Brutes and Banshees can become, having experienced Gold and Platinum Difficulty in the Multiplayer mode.

Mass Effect 3 Achievements

Veteran: Kill 5,000 enemies.

Once my goal in Mass Effect 3 was done, we switched over to Fall Guys, and amazingly we were apart of a winning squad, and I actually came in first on a solo race without realizing it. We also messed around with the Blast Balls event, making it to the final round three times only to come up short all three times. Still, we did complete the battle pass which final rewards were Mecha-Godzilla related. So woo-hoo! We did it!

Twitch Clips

For the raid last night we dropped in on Kalenal as they were playing Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/kalenal! Kal will be looking to wrap ob a co-op objective in Stardew Valley on Monday night!

Of course the Xfinity update, we did have a couple of connection slow down which went beyond the Ethernet and WiFi. I just dare them to tell me it's my Ethernet card in my PC, when the same issues of a stable connection affect the Xbox One which is hardwire and my phone which I'm using to constantly check the WiFi when things start going wrong.

Then there was the fact there was a power outage this morning at about 9 AM, which reset everything associated with the Xfinity X8 Gateway

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

Why do ghosts love elevators? Because they lift their spirits.

What do you call a snobby criminal going downstairs? A condescending con descending.

Song of the Day: Another Love! by Tom Odell

Finished the latest commission story request for something involving the Shield in WWE... thankfully there was a little promo at WrestleMania 30 that was a YouTube exclusive that made for the perfect framing device.

Did get another commission request, this time for a story based around Resident Evil 3... thing is there are two Resident Evil three... the original, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis released back in 1999... and of course Resident Evil 3: Remake released in 2020. I think I'll use the original release for the frame work of the story because of how the first half takes place before Resident Evil 2, with the second half taking place after. Gives me more roof to play with.

It's the start of a new week, so let's recap everything we featured this past week over on Twitch which was Overwatch, Mass Effect 3, Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV Online, Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r] and Fall Guys!

Square Enix had an unannounced clearance sale of stuff they no longer own, and so I went ahead and order physical copies what I could that was dirt cheap, which included the Deuz Ex Human Revolution - Augmented Edition for the Xbox 360, plus the standard editionf or PS3 and PC (because why not), Thief for the Xbox One, plus Marvel's Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Edition for the PS4. I did miss out on all the Tomb Raider physical copies.

For tonight's stream, well it's Sunday night and you know that means Overwatch!

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

Saturday, August 27, 2022

Arcade Runs In Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r]

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream featured arcade runs with several characters in Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r], namely Enkidu, Hilda, Londrekia, Merkava, Nanase, Orie, Phonon, Seth, Wagner and Eltnum. One thing that instantly stands out, is that Hilda has no real natural combinations... and Seth was just a chore to play as, with nothing of his seemingly like it leads to anything solid that I could figure stuff out with

On a more positive side, I loved Eltnum's fourth wall breaking as she's from an older game called Melty Blood, so her dialogue reflected dealing with 'rookies'. Also Phonon and Wagner have real intuitive ways of playing, in fact Wagner seems to have some similar combinations to Ken in the Street Fighterseries of game. Also Wagner has the best super in the game from the ones I've seen so far, and we saw a few tonight including Orie, Nanase and Hilda's!

Now since we cover Hyde and Waldstein last week, that means we'll focuse on the rest of the cast of Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r] on next Friday's stream, at which time we'll count the game as being finished for this year's tour!

Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r] Trophies

Era of the Bad Bitch: Fought 10 battles using female characters. (Not unlockable in Training Mode, Tutorial Mode, or Mission Mode.)
Extremely Guarded: Performed Guard Thrust while in Vorpal state. (Not unlockable in Training Mode, Tutorial Mode, or Mission Mode.)
Plate Completion: Purchased all Plates.

Twitch Clips

For last night's raid we dropped in on Bestibunni over at twitch.tv/bestibunni and they were playing Halo: Infinite!

What do you call an Italian astronaut? A specimen.

Two guys walks into a bar. The third guy ducks.

Song of the Day: What You Know by Two Door Cinema Club!

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

Fitness Boxing 2 Weekly Stats 8/21 to 8/27

Punches Thrown:8566
Estimated Calories Burned:3622.98 kcal
Laura's Champion Progress: 86% (43 out of 50 Hours Trained)
King EX Fight Progress: 95%
Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days: 624
Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days:782

Work just sucked yesterday afternoon, as I lost complete internet connection 4 times... I forward photos and other notes on the matter to Xfinity. And this wasn't like the stream issues (which we experienced twice last night), I'm talking the modem going to red / orange light status indication no service at all!. Speaking of that, the Gateway indicates the internet went down 1106 AM this morning, and I saw it going completely down again at 409 PM

My Mass Effect 3 grind for the Veteran achievement now stands at 4622 enemies slayed... we only need 378 more! So to lead off tonight's stream, we're going to focus on that, then we'll do some random stuff.

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

Friday, August 26, 2022

Final Fantasy XIV 6.2 MSQ Thoughts

Good morning everyone,

The 6.2 update for Final Fantasy XIV rolled out this week.. and on last night's stream we dedicated the entire time (or nearly the entire time) to the New Main Story Quests... and I loved it. Zero... a humanoid/voidsent hybrid, is an incredibly compelling character with a great design comes across as a no-nonsense bad ass, but by the end of the new MSQ quests, one could see probably getting a chance to have a real world around.

The world of the 13th (or the Voidsent realm) made some real extended use of the new dungeon, but we got to learn about what happened to the 13th... and it's the reverse of what happened to the world of the 1st, while it was threatened by Light... the 13th was completely enveloped in Darkness. Outside of Zero, there are no other humanoid beings seen roaming around. This kind of lead to a unique problem for me, because I was engulfed in the story, which meant I didn't want to go back to repair my gear following the dungeon or the mandatory in-cut scene fight sequence before doing the new trial

The new dungeon, called The Fell Court of Troia is very straight forward... and it was full of Trojans, so if you were looking for a pack... I'm kidding, but all the enemies are labeled 'Trojan' something or other, so this obviously feeds into my thinking that there is certainly going to be an emphasis on Greek Myths going forward in FF14. On a first attempt, didn't have too much trouble until reaching the final boss of it.

The new trial, 'Storm's Crown', has two phases in the normal variant, and I had a lot of trouble picking up on the patterns at first. The second phase sees the field being brought in tight, so not alot of room to avoid AOE attacks. Barbariccia has a really night design.

I did start up the Island Sanctuary stuff, so that could be a nice casual diversion from time to time.

Next Thursday we'll focuse on the new Raid content associated with the Pandæmonium story arc, which should be a real treat... or nightmare

Twitch Clips

We picked up a new following during the stream in BestBunni! Always glad to see new folks hanging out!

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

Had numerous issues with Xfinity yesterday, with the internet going down twice when I was working, including one instance where the upstream power level dropped below 40 which I've never seen before. During the stream we had two minor interruptions, one kicked me from FF14 while the other didn't.

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

Parallel lines have so much in common. It's a shame they'll never meet.

There are three types of people in this world: People who are good at math and people who are not

Song of the Day: Dangerous Woman by Ariana Grande

The Phillies Swept the Reds... Bryce Harper is coming off of the DL today... and Zach Wheeler was placed on it... Playoffs are still in doubt as far as I'm concerned.

My quest for the Veteran achievement in Mass Effect 3 is 4275 out 5000 enemies killed, or 85% completion

Really need to focus on the recent commission request based around the time The Shield was a thing in the WWE... but I really hate working on fics that involve a large cast of characters.

Saw that Sony had the balls to raise the price for the PlayStation 5 just weeks after shutting down production on the PlayStation 4. But of course by the time I end up go into looking into a PS5, it will be marked down to a reasonable price in the form a bundle.

For tonight's stream we'll be doing arcade runs with every nearly every character in UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late cl-r, so we'll see what we can figure out with the bulk of the cast!

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

Fred Casden's World

Thursday, September 1, 2022

Completed Coming to Fruition in Fallout 76

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Back to the Land of Lego With Indiana Jones

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Xfinity Screws Me Over Again...

Monday, August 29, 2022

A Strong Night Of Overwatch

Sunday, August 28, 2022

Completing Objectives In Mass Effect 3 and Fall Guys

Saturday, August 27, 2022

Arcade Runs In Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r]

Friday, August 26, 2022

Final Fantasy XIV 6.2 MSQ Thoughts

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