Fred Casden's World

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

We Learned How To Play DragonBall FighterZ

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream saw us start up Dragon Ball FighterZ and we spent a lot of time in the tutorial mode, learning the ins and outs of the game at a casual level, plus knocked out 200 of the combo challenges. There was a reason for that, as much like Persona 4 Arena and Under Night In-Birth and Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r], there were achievements associated with those game modes.

We did tackle one of the arcade runs, the Snakeway one, and nearly pulled off the requirements for S rank on the first attempt, getting ranks of A, S and C which pulled the average down. Attempts made later on were not as I couldn't finished the third fight. Doesn't help that I was hitting RB and not RT to keep the pressure on the A.I.

Attempted a couple of online matches, won a match against someone who was AFK, and got my butt handed to be by a player who clearly created a second profile in order to beat up on newer players. That was 'wonderful' experience.

On a side note, I'm surprised at how many achievements are ranked 'diamond' (as in less than 10% of Xbox players who have played this game accomplishing the achievement)... so it was nice to get a couple like that.

Monday we'll start up the story mode, and see how long that takes us to do, it might take two streams based on everything I'm seeing.

Dragon Ball FighterZ Achievements

Yo, I'm Goku!: Complete a quest tutorial.
To Test Myself, I Too Will Fight: Local Battle - Play a match.
Snake Way Sensei: Arcade - Complete the Snake Way Course.
Farewell, Tien...: Complete seven or more quest tutorials.
Battle-Ready: Practice - Complete all battle tutorials.
Don't Underestimate Earth!: Practice - Complete 30 Different Combo Challenges.
The Power to Go Beyond the Super Saiyan!: Practice - Complete 100 Different Combo Challenges.
Before Creation Comes Destruction...: Practice - Complete 200 Different Combo Challenges.
Stamp of Approval: Replay - Use a Z Stamp while watching a Replay Channel.
It's Play Time!: World Match - Play a Casual Match.
Goku Isn't the Only Super Saiyan...: World Match - Play a Ranked Match.

Twitch Clips

For the raid we dropped in on Joliet4 who was doing a music stream following their weekend at Twitch Con. They do some occasional gaming as well over at twitch.tv/joliet4!

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

Work yesterday was solid, no complaints other than the assignment I was on having a terrible order of questions to be asked which just destroys the pacing.

Also had the Phillies game on, TV was on mute, rather surprised they racked up 7 runs... I am no surprised that bullpen got exposed because Ranger Suarez had no command, and his houdini act saw him throw 87 pitches in less than 4 innings.

It's inappropriate to make a "dad joke" if you are not a dad. It's a faux pa.

What did Batman say to Robin before they got in the car? "Robin, get in the car."

Song of the Day: Naive by The Kooks

Started writing the latest short story commission request based on the TV series Arrow, the intro turned out pretty solid since it's based around the introduction of Felicity Smoak, but safe to say I won't be able to come up with a solid teaser for any follow up based on how lame-duck episode 4 of season one was.

For tonight's stream, we're back to the wasteland that is West Virginia in Fallout 76 as we'll be working our way though daily objectives and story stuff.

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

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

We Finished The Last of Us And Like Everyone Else... We'll Never Play It Again

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of The Last of Us Remastered started a little early because I wanted to give myself a cushion on trying to finish it... and thankfully it was very straight forward when it came to getting things from point A to point B. Whoever came up with the 'sneaking battle' against David in the burning diner needs a swift kick to the nuts, but that was more luck than anything else to get passed it. It took me about a dozen attempt to get passed it because stealth isn't something I'm good at no matter what the game.

Now the novelty of playing as Ellie was kind of cool, and it does show that the developers were thinking ahead to what they were going to do in the sequel with her being the focus and finding out what Joel did. Quite frankly I'm not too keen on the ending because Ellie tells Joel her sacrificing herself so that a vaccine can be made was something she wanted to do

Now as the title says, I'm never playing the Last of Us ever again, because all a second play through would be is to find collectables I missed and upgrade Joel to have maximum stats. But the fact that The Last of Us had no standard achievements or things that allowed for a player to feel as if they were making progressing just sucks the joy out of the game. I like looking at games I re-play and seeing achievement list to make it feel like it was worth my time. The Last of Us Failed in that regard.

Now it was a bit after 10 PM when we finished The Last of Us, so we did some bonus gaming playing some Street Fighter V, clearing Sakura's SFV arcade ladder before getting my butt handed to me in some ranked matches. One thing I'm hoping for with Street Fighter VI is that there would be fewer loading screens between fights, both online and off.

The Last of Us Remastered Trophies

No Matter What - Easy: Complete the game on Easy

Twitch Clips

Big thank you to Kalenal for the raid following their stream of The Trials of Mana, they cleared the section where they were miniaturized and are heading to the Wing Element portion. You can check them out over at twitch.tv/kalenal!

Also huge thanks to Iceman for re-subbing to the twitch channel for the 55th Month in a row! Incredible!

For the raid, we dropped in on BestiBunni as they were playing Magic: The Gathering over at twitch.tv/bestibunni!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Left-Right Step Combo, Hook Combo #2 and Beginner Combo #1 for 28 minutes. By my estimation, I should hit the 50 hour mark for the Evan's Champion EX Achievement by Monday

The Phillies vs Braves Division Series starts at 1 PM This afternoon... obviously I will be working but I'll have the TV on and on mute just to keep up with things.

What did the janitor say when he jumped out of the closet? "Supplies!"

Imagine if Americans switched from pounds to kilograms overnight. There would be mass confusion!

Song of the Day: Water Fountain by Alec Benjamin

For tonight's stream we're going to turn out attention to playing Dragon Ball FighterZ, and we'll be using the Xbox One console for it. We'll look at the tutorial and other things before diving into local matches and maybe start the story mode.

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

Monday, October 10, 2022

Off to a good start this week

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Overwatch 2 was a lot of fun as we actually had matches in all three roles (Tank, Damage & Support) with a fair amount of wins and losses along the way. There was a weird glitch seen at the start where queuing up was not even possible, and the game itself crashed unexpectedly which is the first time I've seen that happen. Big thank you to PandasSweet for being apart of the fun.

In terms of who I used last night where it was a variety, D.va, Morita, Bastion, Roadhog, Tracer, Torbjourn, Orissa, Junker Queen, Junk Rat and several others. Also picked up six plays of the game during the stream, which was awesome... and I might have had a few more that were probably over looked in terms of just wrecking fools.

Also managed to snag one of Junker Queen's achievements which surprised me, but the big thing I have trouble figuring out is how does she mitigated damage? Her shout doesn't seem to offset that much. Will probably have to settle into using her more often to figure that out.

Overwatch 2 Achievements

Coup De Gracie - Use Junker Queen’s Jagged Blade and Carnage to pull and kill an enemy in Quick or Competitive Play.

Twitch Clips

Big thanks to BlueElectron for renewing their subscription to my Twitch channel! Always appreciate the support!

For the raid we dropped in on CallMeMsGalaxy as they were celebrating their birthday and also playing Overwatch 2 over at twitch.tv/callmemsgalaxy!

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

Song of the Day: Hurricane by Luke Combs.

How did Darth Vader know what Luke got him for Christmas? He felt his presents.

What's the last thing that goes through a bug's mind when it hits a windshield? Its butt.

The Mets lost last night to Padres in the only Wild Card Series that went to three games, and I know Jerry Seinfeld is going to blame it on the Timmy Trumpet thing... but let's be honest, the blame falls on Keith Hernandez whose comments about the Phillies defense seemed to curse the Mets into playing terribly.

Finished writing the 3rd consecutive commission request for something based on the show Arrow before I went to bed last night... and the one who commissioned it wants a 4th one. Will based the next installment around the third episode of season one.

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The plan for tonight's stream is to finish The Last of Us Remastered, so I'll probably start a bit early to make sure that happens. Hopefully it's really straight forward.

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

Sunday, October 9, 2022

A Wild Saturday Night

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream opened with Overwatch 2 because I was playing it before the stream to knock out a couple of challenges... and was joined by PandaSweet, so we got in a couple of hours in which was awesome. Really had a lot of fun and the pace of play certainly allows me to do some great things as Moira when I know Panda is the second healer. Looking forward to more games as Overwatch 2 takes its rightful place on Sunday nights starting tonight.

Now the plan was to Play MultiVersus last night and we did, and I mostly played as Wonder Woman, and we got on a pretty solid winning streak. Perhaps the big highlight was winning a 4-player Free for All as Harley Quinn. That shocked the hell out of me.

We wrapped up the night playing Fall Guys, and there was moment that I certainly feel like I got screwed... going into a Squad Show with no-teammates. How the hell is that possible?! I did nab the Star Trek bundle, but I'm still rocking the Ripley skin I picked up last week.

Twitch Clips

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

I did have the Phillies game up during the stream, and right as I ended the stream the final out was recorded in their 2-0 win over the Cardinals.But you know what's funny... the Phillies haven't had a home game since September 25th... Game 3 of the Division series against the Braves will be on Friday and in Philadelphia.

I did see some folks who are Damage role only players in Overwatch 2 complaining about how tough it is to take down Tanks and Supports, to which I say, cry me a fucking river because back in the Beta of Overwatch 2, Tanks and Supports were being melted left right and center. Overwatch 2 is actually incredibly balanced compare to what it was like when I played the Beta.

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

What did the blanket say as it fell off the bed? "Oh sheet!"

Why do cow-milking stools only have three legs? 'Cause the cow's got the udder!

Song of the Day: Linger by The Cranberries

Started work on a third consecutive short story commission request based on the show Arrow, and thankfully the client picked up on where I was looking for the creative direction to go in to make it easy to write. I'll probably have it finished by tomorrow of I choose not knock it out today.

Start of a new week so lets recap all the stuff we featured over the last seven days which included Overwatch, The Last of Us Remastered, Smite, Paladins, Overwatch 2, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight, MultiVersus, & Fall Guys!

For tonight's stream, as mentioned earlier we're playing Overwatch 2, so on that note we'll see you later over at twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Saturday, October 8, 2022

More Dancing in the Starlight of Persona 5

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Persona 5 Dancing in Starlight was a blast, not only did we knock out every achievement related to difficulties and gimmicks, we put ourselves in great position to actually get the Platinum Trophy. There is however one big road block and that is the requirements for Yusuke and Ryuji's which require a cumulative score and 'perfect' scores, then there is Makoto's which requires completing stages with different accessories. These are required to the Social Links related achievement done

That said, I can' finish the game at any time by watching the Social Link for Caroline and Justine's 'Rank 8' which I have unlocked. But I really want to get the everyone up to Rank 8 because when I played Person 5 Royal and Persona 5 Strikers, the bonds between the Phantom Thieves makes the game memorable.

So that said, next Friday's stream will really see the grind being put on to make progress towards completion. Because we're not 'finishing' the game until every member of the Phantom Thieves is at rank 8.

Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight Trophies

Indecisive Advance: Cleared a stage with 5 Challenge and 5 Support modifiers simultaneously enabled.
The First Step to Greatness: Earned the highest possible grade on a stage (KING CRAZY).
Infiltration Mission: Start!: Explored a friend's room.
Trick Note: Cleared a stage with both "Note paths waver" and "Note speed fluctuates" enabled.
Sparkling Quarry: Obtained half of all the accessories.
A Few Small Gifts: Obtained 5 rewards from the Twins' card hunt.
Phantom Choreographers: Watched a replay.
An Impossible Mission: Started a stage on ALL NIGHT difficulty with 10 or more Challenge modifiers enabled.
Hype It Your Way: Cleared a stage after changing Hype Gauge difficulty in Custom.
The Perfect Crime: Cleared a stage on HARD or harder and earned a PERFECT rating on at least half of the Notes.
Infiltration Route Secured: Cleared a stage on HARD or harder with all Support modifiers enabled.
I'll Steal Your Hearts, My Dears!: Explored all the girls' rooms.
A Safe Tightrope Walk: Cleared a stage with both "GOOD ratings won't break combos" and "Game Over with combo break" enabled.
I've Taken Your Rooms, Lads!: Explored all the guys' rooms.
A Phantom Thief's Most Indispensable Tool: Obtained all the pairs of glasses.

Twitch Clips

For the raid we dropped in on BestiBunni as they were playing Crusader Kings III over on twitch.tv/bestibunni!

Work was really good yesterday, felt productive because I actually was, and I do enjoy that feeling when things just fall into place.

Finished the recent Arrow fic requests to complete another commission, and got promptly requested to do a third consecutive fic because of the world building I've managed to do.

I did not wake up until 3:30 PM this afternoon... bleh

Also had the Phillies game on while I was working, had my TV on mute, but when I finished work, I saw the entire rally in the 9th inning with the volume turned up. So that was a hell of a kick off the weekend.

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

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise States For Week of 10/02 to 10/08/22

Punches Thrown: 8627
Estimated Calories Burned:3591.30 kcal
Evan's Champion Progress:90% (45 out of 50 Hours)
King EX Fight Progress: 96%
Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days: 666
Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days:824

What does a zombie vegetarian eat? "Graaaaaaaains!"

My new thesaurus is terrible. Not only that, it's also terrible.

Song of The Day: Sex on Fire by Kings on Leon

For tonight's stream we're probably playing MultiVersus and Fall Guys, continuing a trend that has been going the past few week.

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

Friday, October 7, 2022

Finding more follow up quests in FF14

Good morning everyone,

Last night's Final Fantasy XIV was another nice casual night as I finished up all the side quests I could find in Gyr Abania, then covered all the side quests in Kugane and knocked out nearly all the side quests in Ruby Sea.

Perhaps the biggest thing was actually seeing there was a continuation of a quest that unlocked the dungeon called Shisui of the Violet Tides, which was surprising. It's actually makes that dungeon stand out a little more because there are some Little Mermaid references with the titles, and actually seeing there is a tie in to doing the Custom Deliveries, which I'll eventually have to dedicate time too... once all the side quests are done.

Beyond that there were a two instances of frame drops with the upstream single dropping to 0 for the briefest of instances. Haven't had any issues at all with my internet service since September 17th. So this means I'll have to keep an eye on things... again.... FUCK!!!!!!

Twitch Clips

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

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

Blizzard basically did some emergency maintenance to try and sort out the mess that has been the Launch of Overwatch 2, but on the plus side they are ditching the phone / SMS nonsense for players who played original Overwatch. Of course media outlet called out Blizzard for their bullshit in regards to announcing the phone / SMS gimmick less than a week before the game launched.

Got some writing done in regards to the Commission story request for a follow up to the Arrow story I wrote earlier this week. If I come up with a good enough ending might get the client to ask for another follow up involving implied characters.

Had a decent day of work yesterday, we closed one assignment in short order which is always good. Now they said there would be a surprise for today... and it's a contest... joy...

Why is Peter Pan always flying? He neverlands.

I just wrote a book on reverse psychology. Do not read it

Song of the Day: It Wasn’t Me by Shaggy

For tonight's stream we're continuing Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight, so on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

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

Thursday, October 6, 2022

Fun with Friends in Fallout 76!

Good morning everyone

Last night's stream of Fallout 76 was a lot of fun as we were joined by PowerThumbz and Iceman for some hilarity as they gave me a big assist in getting some quests done. We managed to get all the dailies done in and made use of Iceman's Custom World for silliness in terms of using the Fat Man mini-Nuke launchers.

In terms of the story progress I was focusing on the Brotherhood of Steel story arc, and safe to say I'm firmly locked into siding with Paladin Ramani in terms of how I want the story to be from my point of view. Part of what makes that easy is that Knight Shin is just unlikeable.

No achievements were unlocked, but we made progress on the scoreboard, I also need to remember next to week to head down to the southern portion of the map to find a lake so that I'll have every major location located to make fast travel easier.

Twitch Clips

For the raid we dropped in on BestiBunni who was playing Overwatch 2 over at twitch.tv/bestibunni!

Speaking of Overwatch it was virtually impossible to get into the game yesterday and I'm not buying that its a DDoS problem because if it was, wouldn't all of Blizzard's games be having issues?

Still did get into Overwatch 2 at around 1 AM and got in a few matches before bed. I did end up having curiosity of the character unlocks for Overwatch 2 for new players and found the list.

Available of the at the Start: Orissa, Reinhardt, Winston, Zarya, Pharah, Reaper, Soldier 76, Torbjorn, Tracer, Widowmaker, Lucio, Mercy & Moria
Login Deason Season 1 (Season 2 for owner of OW1): Sojourn, Junker Queen
Play 1 Match: Genji
Play 2 Matches: D.va
Play 3 Matches: Cassidy
Play 4 Matches: Ana
Play 9 Matches; Hanzo
Play 12 Matches: Junkrat
Play 16 Matches: Roadhog
Play 20 Matches: Symmetra
Play 25 Matches: Zenyatta
Play 30 Matches: Bastion
Play 40 Matches: Sigma
Play 50 Matches: Ashe
Play 60 Matches: Brigitte
Play 70 Matches: Mei
Play 85 Matches: Doomfist
Play 100 Matches: Baptiste
Play 116 Matches: Sombra
Play 130 Matches: Wrecking Ball
Play 150 Matches: Echo
Reach Tier 55 In Battle Pass (Or purchase Premium Battle Past: Kriko

The order seem very weird when one factors in that Genji is one of the hardest characters to use for new comers.

Work was decent yesterday, got on an assignment that allowed me to productive and not stress over dealing with rude people. Granted I was talking with people who lean so far to the right they are falling over. But hey it was decent

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

Who ever came up with the schedule for the first round of this year's MLB playoffs needs to be smacked. The fans in some markets are screwed because some games will be starting in the early afternoon. I get they don't want these games to overlap, but the schedule is just idiotic.

What's the best thing about Switzerland? I don't know, but its flag is a big plus!

My favorite word is "drool." It just rolls off the tongue.

Song of the Day: Midnight City by M83.

For tonight's stream we shall be playing FInal Fantasy XIV and continuing my search for all the side quests in every single major area. So it'll be a nice casual night.

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

Fred Casden's World

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

We Learned How To Play DragonBall FighterZ

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

We Finished The Last of Us And Like Everyone Else... We'll Never Play It Again

Monday, October 10, 2022

Off to a good start this week

Sunday, October 9, 2022

A Wild Saturday Night

Saturday, October 8, 2022

More Dancing in the Starlight of Persona 5

Friday, October 7, 2022

Finding more follow up quests in FF14

Thursday, October 6, 2022

Fun with Friends in Fallout 76!

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