The Return Of Problems From Xfinity?

Good afternoon everyone,

An hour into last night's stream, we started dropping frames and ended up seeing the stream do a reset  We haven't had that problem happen since September 17th when the service drop line from the telephone was replaced and connected to a different node on the tap. So I'm really hoping it was just an aberration and not a sign of those other problems coming back.

Now we opened the night with Dragon Ball The Breakers, and the queue times were rather long, but I did end up being on teams where we survived and even managed to defeat the Raider. Hell I ended up being the solo survivor in one match simply by being away from everyone else. It was certainly a Dead by Daylight way of playing simply by staying out of sight and out of mind.

We played some MultiVersus, and picked up an achievement when playing as Stripe which was surprising. I have really figured out how to use him a lot better, as he he has a nice flurry combo as a neutral, and as I said last week, when doing his diving chainsaw attack, it can really be key to victory when it connects. On the downside, I did get stuck with some partners who didn't either know how to play or were in the mood to play. 

MultiVersus Achievements

• Ringouts Are Better In Pairs: Get 25 Double Ringouts

We closed out the night playing Fall Guys, and had some mixed success, making it to the final round in a solo show once. I did end up running into some of the worst solo races possible where some of the gimmicks are things I can't fully adjust too. So it kind of ended on a slight downer in that regards.

Twitch Clips 

• Making use of the Senzu Bean
• Surviving and Escaping 
• F It I'm Out!
• Winner! 
• Achievement: Ringouts Are Better In Pair
• Oof... 
• I just need two
• Sheet! Sheet! Sheet! Sheet!
• For 13 Points
  

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

The Phillies and Padres had a bit of a slug-fest last night in what was a Bull Pen game for both teams, with the Phillies winning 10-6. If they win today, they'll go to the World Series. At the time of this post the Phillies were up 2-1 in the top of the 5th. Hopefully they can hold on.

And speaking of the World Series, it's really looking like the Astros will represent the American League as they are up 3 games to none on the Yankees who are floundering.

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

I'm thinking about removing my spine. I feel like it's only holding me back.

Did you hear about the two thieves who stole a calendar? They each got six months.

 

Song of the Day: Cheerleader (Radio Edit) by OMI, Felix Jaehn

 

Started writing the commission request for another WWE short story, certainly bending the realm of continuity with it, but what the hell. It does help there were the rumors that Iyo Sky was looking to leave the WWE prior to Vince McMahon's forced retirement.

 

It's the start of a new week, so lets recap what we played over the last seven days which featured: Overwatch 2, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Until Dawn, Dragon Ball: The Breakers, MultiVersus & Fall Guys.

 

 

For tonight's stream we're playing Overwatch 2, we'll focus on doing the dailies and try to wrap up the remaining weekly challenges I have for the week. Of course I did complete the Battle Pass last night off stream, so now it's grinding for the titles

 

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

A Friday Night Of Until Dawn

Good afternoon everyone, 

Last night's stream of Until Dawn was a lot of fun, as I tried to do thinks differently than I did last year, to try and trying to see if these characters can be likeable. Jessica and Emily certainly are not, but in general everyone else can have their moments if you try to make them be agreeable. And so far I've only messed up one of the quick time events when Mike got hit by the mining cart.

That said, the second half of Until Dawn really starts to feature the Wendigos so trying to keep everyone alive is going to be interesting because I remember some of the deaths were really cheap. Still if anyone of the characters don't survive it just means we'll have another reason to replay it in 2023.

Twitch Clips

• Run Away!
• Well she told them 
• Throw the vase!
  

For the raid we dropped in on BestiBunni as they were playing Overwatch 2 over twitch.tv/bestibunni! 

The Phillies won last night, and folks knew I was keeping tabs on it during the stream. Ranger Suarez from what I saw deserved a lot better because the defense let him down a bit. The bullpen was a bit taxed as a result.

I do have to say I really hate the player introduction ceremony was not shown, and just was a reminder of how fucking terrible Fox Sports is at covering baseball playoff games.

Work was solid yesterday, not bad, but not too good... but there was a lot of assignment switching because quota marks were being filled up quick.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Advanced Combo #2, Hook Combo #2 and Left Right Step Combo for 31 minutes

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise States For Week of 10/16 to 10/22/22

• Punches Thrown:8572
• Estimated Calories Burned:3637.04 kcal
  
• Sophie's Champion Progress:  64% (32 out 50 Hours)
  
• King EX Fight Progress: 97%
• Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days: 680
• Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days:838

Have you heard the one about the corduroy pillow? It's making headlines.

What's the dumbest animal in the jungle? A polar bear!

Song of the Day: What’s My Age Again by blink-182

I saw how Leon looks in the Resident Evil 4 Remake... and good lord, someone at Capcom beat him with the ugly stick because the new character model actually looks worse than the original version from nearly 20 years ago!

Finished the latest WWE commission request I had on file based around the return of Scarlett Bordeaux, and the client wants a follow up regarding the return of Dakota Kai and call-up from Io Shirai, the later of which was rumored to be leaving WWE back in the summer.

For tonight's stream we're going to open with Dragon Ball The Breakers and we'll play other things like MultiVersus, Fall Guys and or Smite. 

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

Stormblood Side Quests Are Done!

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Final Fantasy XIV was a nice easy going adventure as we cleared out all the remaining side quests I had in areas related to the Stormblood expansion. Some highlights included seeing the connection between two of the tribes in the Azim Steppe, namely between a cook and a warrior who was not living up to his namesake's legacy.

From there we jumped the Shadowbringers areas and I totally forgot how terrible it is to roam around The Crystariumis because of some things being on different floors and not everything has a direct obvious path to reach. Still because I had Fishing maxed... but there is the obvious thing that I have to get other job classes unlocked and leveled up to complete some 'red' marked side quests down the line.

Way I figure it'll probably take me about a dozen more streams to complete all the side quests I have access too in all areas introduced in ShadowBringers and EndWalker...which shall keep things pretty even keel heading into early 2023 with Final Fantasy XIV

Also did the Halloween event which was a nice little story, and I rather like the costume set that unlocks with it. And PandaSweet made sure I unlocked the Eat A Cookie emote which is just awesome.

Twitch Clips

• What do I do?
• We're going to do something stupid...
• If you happen to run into our feerless leader... 
  

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

Yankees lost last night to the Astros 3-2 meaning they are down two games to none in the ALCS with the next three games being in New York. Hey at leas the Phillies are tied one game a piece with the Padres. 

Cosmetic surgery used to be such a taboo subject. Now you can talk about Botox and nobody raises an eyebrow.

What do you call someone who immigrated to Sweden? Artificial Swedener.

Sing of the Day: Mess is Mine by Vance Joy

Work was bleh yesterday as I got saddle on assignment that really doesn't play to my strengths, as I hate dealing with gate keepers. It was a fluke of a day in terms of it being as productive as it was. 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Double Combo #1, Body Straight Combo and Body Uppercut Combo for 28 minutes. Also did an extra few minutes with the short version of Difficult Challenge Combo #1 to make up a bit for yesterday.

Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight will be an upcoming Friday Night game in a couple of wakes, it's already installed with all the DLC for it.... and the reason why it'll be in a couple of weeks is because for tonight's stream we're starting up this year's play through of Until Dawn, I hope to not make the same choices as last year, but we'll see how it goes!

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

Fallout 76's Steel Reign content is completed

Good morning everyone,

Well last night's stream of Fallout 76 saw us finally wrap up all the major story content that was associated with the Steele Reign expansion. The Catalyst as a quest certainly a nice ending point for it as we got a big boss fight, got rid of Knight Shin and got promoted. Of course now my big focus will be getting back to the other quest lines from the original release of the game, which we did by knocking off the Belly of the Beast quest, which sets up the final leg of the original story. 

So at some point I'm going to have all of the main story stuff finished, which I'll count after we make sure we do all the things associated with the Wasterlander's expansion, such as siding either with Crater of the Foundation. We're probably still several months away from that at the pace I'm going.

Big thanks to Iceman for joining in on some of the fun as we knocked out a bunch of the Daily and Weekly Challenges. Granted with how I only play Fallout 76 once a week, the Daily Challenges are Weekly. Trust me that made more sense in my head than it does when I look at it here on the blog.

 Fallout 76 Achievements

• Steel Brethren: Complete “The Catalyst”

Twitch Clips

• We got him, we got him!
• There was something glowing in the distance 
• He had famous last words
  

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

Speaking of BestiBunni, they invited me to be apart of an amateur e-sports team, but because  time zone differences and my normal work and Twitch schedules I couldn't make it work. Still it was awesome to be asked!

What does dad hate about Father's Day? Having to celebrate it.

Why can't you hear a Pterodactyl go to the bathroom? Because the pee is silent.

Song of the Day:  …And to Those I Love, Thanks for Sticking Around by $uicideboy$

The Phillies had a round day out in San Diego as the Padres lit up Aaron Nola, and to be fair Nola was probably due to get smacked around considering how good he's been in his last few starts. Now the series comes back to Philly for the next three games, so the Phillies could in theory win three straight at home and go the World Series.

Not surprised that the Yankees lost game one of the ALCS to the Astros considering the fiasco that surrounded Game 5 of the ALDS against the Guardians.

Work was solid yesterday, decent assignments and had little trouble completing interviews. I always take the positives where I can get them.

Got some writing done as it related to the latest commission request I received for a WWE Short Story, I'm going to try and finish it by Friday evening.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured only Uppercut Combo #2 and Defensive Combo #1 because I woke up late. Duration was only 20 minutes.

For tonight's stream we're back to Final Fantasy XIV as we'll be resuming our progress towards completing every single side quest in the game. I think I have only a handful more in the Stormblood areas before moving on into the Shadowbringer expansions.

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

First Impression of Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed

Good morning everyone

Last night we played Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed and it's really awesome, you get to play as either your own custom Ghostbuster or as a Ghost in a 4 vs 1 match. The objectives are to close the Ghost Rifts and to capture the Ghost, while also keeping civilians calm. The tutorials for both being a Ghostbuster and a Ghost are very descriptive to let you know what you can do. Finding a match was pretty easy with Cross-Play, and one can easily tell that some folks are really looking to play as the Ghost because I ran into dude who already had things ranked to level 30 and above.

In terms of presentation, there is a story that is gradually unlocked as you play, and I've seen the first three major cut scenes that involves Winston getting possessed because of something in a trap that Venkman sent to the firehouse so there is incentive to keep playing to see how the story plays out. Sound effects and music are really solid, voice overs are also decently done. There is also a 'ping' system so voice chat isn't needed but one has to hope folks are paying attention.

Now it may get 'old' seeing the same few maps over and over again, however, I think there is a lot of long term potential with GB:SU because more maps can easily be added down the road, and I can easily see maps being based on locations from the movies being added to make things really interesting down the road.

We'll do another stream of Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed next Tuesday!

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Achievements

• Stylish: Equip an unlocked cosmetic item to your Buster
• Vaporous Expansion: Unlock a Ghost class variant
• Discovery: Break open an artifact to reveal a Rift
• Swift Rift Removers: Destroy all Ghost rifts within 5 minutes of the match start
• Advancement: Equip an upgrade to a piece of gear
• Fully Upgraded: Equip an upgrade to every slot of a piece of gear

Twitch Clips

• Ghost Captured
• Just Being A Ghost 
• Knocked off the stairs!
  

For the raid we dropped in on PowerThumbz who was playing Tom Clancy's The Division 2 over at twitch.tv/powerthumbz! 

Work was pretty solid yesterday, even though it was really focused on speaking to people in New York state, and man there are some real loons out in some of those boondocks.

The Phillies won game one of the NLCS against the Padres 2-0 behind two home runs from Harper and Schwarber. They only need to win three more games to make it to the World Series... I'm not getting my hopes up, because the Padres are a good team. In fact I saw stats that basically indicated the Padres and Phillies have basically the same win-loss record going back several years.

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

What did one dish say to the other? Dinner is on me!

What does a house wear? Address! 

Song of the Day: Self Esteem by The Offspring

Nabbed Doom, New Tales from The Borderlands, Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova and Them's Fightin' Herds: Deluxe Edition on the Xbox side of things. So you can beat we'll featuring them as soon as possible based on the currently line up of games we have already in place.

For tonight's stream we're back to Fallout 76 with the goal being focused on doing the final mission of the Steele Dawn story arc. Granted I still have not finished the story arcs for things that were part of the original release of Fallout 76.

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

First impressions of Dragon Ball FighterZ Story Mode

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream was focused on the story mode of Dragon Ball FighterZ, and the first thing I have to point out is that the tutorial fights are ridiculous with how they are repeated constantly. Like why? Shouldn't there be more battles instead of running the gauntlet of seeing things I've already done over and over again?And of course there is the fact it has a 'game board' style approach similar to Dragon Ball Z Budokai 2 which I haven't played in close to 20 year.. and I thought that was a neat call back. Then there is the difficulty or lack their of against the A,I. in normal fights, it's not really proving much of a challenge with how quickly I start out of the gate. In fact the loading screens are lasting longer than the fights in most cases.

Still all those complaints aside, I do have to say the story itself is rather good and whoever wrote it certainly played into the memes a bit with how much of an idiot Goku can be. Found a few 'special event' dialogs where rather humorous takes on things are presented, and the one where Goku is justifying why Yamcha should train with him because the later is not married had me shocked.Then there is Android 21 and... hot damn I see why she was everyone's favorite addition to the Dragon Ball lore from this game. Great design on all fronts in terms of both her lab coat and majin forms.  

So we didn't finish the first story arc tonight even after nearly 5 hours because I am doing every single fight, rotating characters to try and level everyone up equally, except Goku who I'm using in every fight. I know there is an easier way to level him up but to do that one needs to have the Zenii to get the Capsuls to get the Hercule Coins to nab the boost to level 100.

Also took a shot at getting an S Rank on Snake Way (the 3 fight arcade run), and got S ranks on the first two fights... but a C rank on the 3rd, which dropped the final grade to an A... so close. Maybe next time.

Dragon Ball FighterZ Achievements

• Conversationalist: Story - Trigger a special conversation sequence.
• Bye-Bye Buu: Story - Defeat Clone Kid Buu.

Twitch Clips

•  Goku's reasoning at work....
•  Yamcha can beat.... wait... what?!
•  I can't believe she's 21!
•  Kelfa vs Cell
  

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

So let me get this right, once again Major League Baseball dropped the ball when it came to rain in the forecast, and now the Yankees and Guardians have to play game five of their series this afternoon, then then winner has to go to Houston on Wednesday. This really screws both teams over.

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

Finished the Resident Evil commissioned short story and picked up one for what seems like will be a renouncing commission request based around some of the recent returns to the WWE Roster. Hey, it's extra cash for games and stuff while leaving my work earnings for savings and bills.

What's green, fuzzy, and would hurt if it fell on you out of a tree? A pool table.

A communist joke isn't funny unless everyone gets it.

Song of the Day: Blinding Lights by The Weeknd!

For tonight's stream we are playing Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed as it launches today, and that should be a lot of fun. 

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

Kicking Booty In Overwatch 2

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Overwatch 2 was awesome, as we were joined by PandaSweet for the full stream, so we had plenty of wins and losses. I picked up six plays of the game as Junker Queen (1), Mei (3) and Moira (2), and PandaSweet even picked one up as Moira in our last match of the night. 

I have found Junker Queen to be a lot of fun to play as, and found that her Ultimate combined with getting nano'ed by Ana means for a potential fun time of carnage. Did learn the hard way JQ's ultimate can be stopped by Junkrat's trap and she can be hooked by Roadhog as well during it.

OF course I have been keeping up with doing all the dailies. and I'm nearly done through 60 levels of the Battle Pass. With luck I should have it all banged out by the end of next week. Also learned that once level 80 of the Battle Pass is reached

Twitch Clips

• It's Time For The Reckoning!
• Epic Team Kill 
• Panda Sat That...
  

 Big thank you to RedFoxUKCov for resubscribing to my channel! It is great appreciated!

For the raid we dropped in Joliet4 as they were doing a music stream featuring their original tunes over at twitch.tv/joliet4!  

The Yankees managed to hold off the Guardians to force a game five in the ALCS, but whoever wins it will be at a major disadvantage 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Difficulty Challenge Combo #2, Difficulty Challenge Combo #2 and Block Combo for 34 minutes. We knocked off the Evan's Champion EX Achievement following the first exercise set. We'll now focus on training with Sophie to work on her Champion EX Achievement.

Fitness Boxing 2 Rhythm & Exercise EX Achievements

• Evan's Champion: Train with Evan for over 50 hours
• King EX Fighter Progress: 97%
• Sophie's Champion Progress: 60% (30 out of 50 hours trained)
  

Rather surprised the Eagles are undefeated, as it did look like they were going to collapse in the 2nd half of their game against the Cowboys.

Why do you smear peanut butter on the road? To go with the traffic jam.

When is your door not actually a door? When it's ajar.

Song of the Day: Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go by Wham!

A lot of folks are whining about complaining about the Frames Per Second for Gotham Knights when it comes to running on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles, which was confirmed by the developers to be at 30 Frames Per Second. I myself, cannot tell the difference between 30 FPS and 120 FPS because for me, there is no actually difference. I've looked at comparison video of different things and to me, there is never any difference that is meaningful. Anyone who says FPS matters is a fucking idiot

Comcast is pulling the plug on G4 less than a year after it's launch and I'm not surprised, because what was it doing that 90% of gaming associated YouTube channels wasn't doing? Answer: Nothing.

Loaded up Dragon Ball FighterZ after last night's stream to try and knock out some achievements and managed to get three. The try hard nature of those playing Ranked and the fact there the match making is just awful speaks volumes when it came to completing 20 Ranked matches. I can only imagine how long it'll take to do the achievements for Casual and Arena matches, which very few people have bothered with.

Dragon Ball FighterZ Achievements

• You Can't Win This...: World Match - Play 10 Ranked Matches.
• This Pain Will Make Me Stronger!: World Match - Play 20 Ranked Matches.
• Practice Makes Perfect: Practice - Perform a combo that deals 5000 or more damage in Training Mode.

And speaking of Dragon Ball FighterZ, For tonight's stream we'll be starting up its story mode, which may actually take us 2-3 streams to complete depending on how the difficulty curve adjusts.

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