We Broke 1000 Gamer Score On Fallout 76!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone,

Last night's stream featured two games, with the first being Fallout 76 and the goal was to get two achievements to make sure I reached the 1000 gamer score mark. Now why was that a big deal? Simple, it's because for a lot of games, 1000 gamer score indicates completion with all achievements unlocked. Since Fallout 76 has an open ended story, I needed some kind of marker to indicate 'finishing' the game. My next goal in this game will be to reach level 100, but that it'll be something in 2023 when I reached that mark.

What does this mean for Fallout 76 going forward? Well I'm thinking I'll split Wednesdays between it and something else, because we can still help Iceman with his adventures. 

Fallout 76 Achievements

• Breach and Clear: Win the "Breach and Clear" Event
• Monet of Murder: Mod 50 Weapons
• Monster Mash: Complete the "Monster Mash" Event

Now we didn't spend the entire stream on Fallout 76, we switched over to Fall Guys, and I loved the new sliding race, can't help but to go Wheee! During it. Now it was also a night of near improbability, as I nearly won a few shows in both Duo and Squads modes. Would've been epic if we could've won, but the fact that I was involved in the final rounds was awesome.

Twitch Clips

• Achievement: Monster Mash
• Communing With The Mothman 
• Good Use Of The Stealth Boy
• Getting Those Rings! 
• Going Down The Slide!
• Making It To The End 
  

For the raid we dropped in on DaWorstGamerEver25 over at twitch.tv/DaWorstGamerEver25 as he was playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II

Started work an hour early yesterday because shift was called super early because of the Holiday weekend, still it was super productive so it 'should' balance out. That said I have a 5 day weekend.

Finished the Dragon Ball commissioned story yesterday since I had the extra time, I probably put more time into trying to include references and characters than the actual action of the story. Picked up another commission request for another Dragon Ball story early this morning to feature Gohan.

I continued my off-stream push through Vampire Survivors and find myself 12 achievements away from completing the game. Once I figured out what worked for me in terms of surviving, this game became incredibly easy. 

Vampire Survivors Achievements

• XX - Silent Old Sanctuary: Reach minute 31 in the Dairy Plant after unlocking the Randomazzo.
• Bianca Ramba: Defeat a total of 3000 Milk Elementals.
• XV - Disco of Gold: Reach minute 31 in the Inlaid Library after unlocking the Randomazzo.
• Seeker of the Infinite Corridor: Obtain the Infinite Corridor.
• Reroll 3: Reach Level 100 with Bianca Ramba.
• Seeker of the Crimson Shroud: Obtain the Crimson Shroud.
• Phieraggi: Evolve and unite Phiera Der Tuphello and Eight The Sparrow.
• Skip 5: Survive 15 minutes in Boss Rash.
• III - Tragic Princess: Reach Level 99 with Porta after unlocking the Randomazzo.
• Vicious Hunger: Evolve the Gatti Amari.

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

Ever tried to eat a clock? It's time-consuming.

Song of the Day: Dancing On My Own by Calum Scott

For tonight's stream, we'll be playing Final Fantasy XIV, with the goal being  to clear out the side quests I was planning to do last week!

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

Dragon Ball FighterZ is Finished!

Good morning everyone,

Last night we wrapped up Dragon Ball FighterZ, going through the back end of the Android 21 story arc... or shall we call it the practice learning Android 18 showcase, because I did virtually every fight with 18 in the line up... except for those that involved having to set up 3-person conversations. I really liked the conversation 21 has with Piccolo and Tien, as it serves as a call back to Piccolo's soul link with Kami and the concerns regarding they would have over defeating Evil 21 and if it would cause Good 21 to disappear. 

Now we wrapped up the Story Mode at about 940 PM, so I made an attempt at getting an S-Rank on an arcade run... getting S Ranks on the first fights, only to earn an B rank on the third, which brought the arcade run down to a A-Rank. Also figured out how to do the Dramatic finishes... and by figure out I mean look up to see that it simply involves hitting someone with a Vanish Attack or a neutral heavy attack... and that's assuming the characters have dramatic finishes for their opponents... so we ended up seeing Bardock and Yamacha's.

Dragon Ball FighterZ Achievements

• Link Level 40: Story - Raise Link Level to 40.
• My Appetite...Is Insatiable...!: Story - Complete the Android 21 Arc.

Twitch Clips

•  Good 21 vs Evil 21
•  Bardock vs Frieza Dramatic Finish
•  Yamcha vs Nappa Dramatic Finish
  

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

Work was decent yesterday, speaking with Kitchen and Bath designers right before Thanksgiving is always a treat when people are looking to get out of the office.

Rather surprised the 76ers won last night, I actually said on stream that I was expecting the Nets to win because of the injuries to 76ers Roster. 

Played some more Vampire Survivors last night and 'beat the game', as indicated with the Greatest Jubilee Achievement. At this point, it's all about fulfilling some of the games objectives to clean up all the remaining achievements.

Vampire Survivors Achievements

• Great Gospel: Find the Great Gospel.
• Game Killer: Defeat the final enemy in the Cappella Magna after unlocking the Randomazzo.
• The Eudaimonia Machine: Obtain all standard relics from all stages.
• Skip 2: Survive 30 minutes in Green Acres.
• Seventh Trumpet: Obtain the Seventh Trumpet.
• Reroll 2: Reach Level 100 with Yatta Cavallo.
• VIII - Mad Groove: Reach minute 31 in the Mad Forest after unlocking the Randomazzo.
• Gracia's Mirror: Obtain Gracia's Mirror.
• Greatest Jubilee: See the final fireworks.

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

Also, got my weight down to below 250 lbs, I'm back at 245 lbs.

Don't worry if you miss a gym session. Everything will work out.

Song of the Day: Oops!… I Did IT Again by Britney Spears

For tonight's stream, the plan is to play Fallout 76 and I'll be looking to do two things during it, Breack and Clear... and Monster Mash... because if I get those two achievements, it would put me right at 1000 gamer score, and that is the condition I've set to consider Fallout 76 finished.

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

Star Trek Prodigy Supernova Is Finished!

Good morning everyone,

Last night we finished Star Trek Prodigy: SuperNova and the final two stages took an hour each to get through, and the way I figure even with quickly advancing through the dialog it would be nearly impossible to 'speed run' those levels solo because of the types of puzzles involved in them. That said I did enough the final boss fight against the System Slayer, and how everything wraps up nicely. I'll most likely end up trying to find the remaining collectables off-stream to see what 'cheats' are unlocked.

Speaking of the System Slayer fight I did love the fact that all the mechanics that are taught during the game in how to deal with the Watchers are basically used for it, so it's not having to figure something out as was the case with the two earlier big bosses.

This does indeen mean Pokemon Violet will begin next Monday nigh, and hopefully there be a patch update before then to address some of the issues players have already experienced.

Prior to the stream I was playing Vampire Survivors just to knock out a few achievements, and because I had a few things on my mind and wanted to clear my head before stream. But since we wrapped up Star Trek Prodigy: SuperNova at an early enough time, I switched consoles to feature Vampire Survivors on stream and had a few successful runs in it.

Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova Achievements

• Relic Hunter: You found half of all Relics.
• Searching for Al'Shams: You met Lorn'ess, found a way into Al'shams Station, completing Taresse Level 2: The Frozen Lagoons
• Stopping the Supernova: You prevented the supernova and finished Taresse Level 3: Al'Shams Station.
• Saved the System: You defeated System Slayer and completed your journey!

Vampire Survivors Achievements

• Magic Banger: Find the Magic Banger.
• XVI - Slash: Reach Level 99 with Lama after unlocking the Randomazzo.
• Skull O'Maniac: Survive 30 minutes with Lama.
• Torrona's Box: Hold 6 different weapon evolutions at once.
• IV - Awake: Reach Level 99 with Krochi after unlocking the Randomazzo.
• Omni: Get Torrona's Box to Level 9.
• Tiragisú: Survive 20 minutes with Krochi.
• Vento Sacro: Survive 15 minutes with Zi'Assunta.
• Mannajja: Evolve the Song Of Mana
• I can't see anything...: Find the Yellow Sign.
• Forbidden Scrolls: Find the Forbidden Scrolls of Morbane.
• Skip 3: Survive 30 minutes in The Bone Zone.
• IX - Divine Bloodline: Reach Level 99 with Suor Clerici.
• Banish 5: Fill 100 entries in the Collection..

Twitch Clips

• Achievement: Relic Hunter
• Defeating System Slayer 
• System Slayer Loses His Head
• We'll Just Walk Around In A Circle 
• Evolving The Song of Mana!
• Would you like to ask a question? 
  

Big thanks to Kalenal for the raid following their stream of Trials of Mana over at twitch.tv/kalenal! 

Fow our own raid we dropped in on PowerThumbz as they were playing Vampire Survivors over at twitch.tv/powerthumbz! 

Got some writing done on the Dragon Ball short story commission, it probably has the most 'dialog' for an opening to set everything up so that things make sense. 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Front-Back Step Combo, Defensive COmbo #1, and Uppercut Combo #2 for 28 minutes. We completed the requirements for Sophie's Champion and now we just have one more in the form of Martina's Champion

Fitness Boxing 2 Rhythm & Exercises EX Achievements

• Sophie's Champion: Train with Sophie for over 50 hours
• Martina's Champion Progress: 60% (30 out of 50 hours)
• King EX Fighter Progress: 98%
  

Sunny-side up, scrambled, or an omelet? It doesn't matter. They're all eggcellent.

Song of the Day: Thunder by Imagine Dragons

For tonight's stream the goal is to wrap up the Android 21 Saga in Dragon Ball FighterZ while getting Android 18 and / or Goku to Level Link 40. WIll be interesting to see if we are successful on that objective.

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

A Fun Stream With No Internet Issues

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Overwatch 2 was the first stream in a few days that didn't have any sudden restarts or other known issues, which I'm rather happy about.We were also joined by both PandaSweet and BangBangBang for lots of matches, which was incredible, with several great matches, that of course results in either wins or losses... there are no draws!

In terms of characters I used, well there was D.va, Moira, Reinhardt, Wrecking Ball, Mei, Brigitte and several others, even picked up a few Plays of the Game as Mei, D.va and Reinhardt. Oddly enough I'm feeling a lot more comfortable playing Wrecking Ball, he's moving beyond the, 'well match is lost, let's haev fun category' that the likes of Doomfist is in. Actually at this point, Doomfist is the only tank in that group for me, along with the likes of Widowmaker, and Kiriko.

Twitch Clips

• I'm burning!
• Quad Kill... Then Team KILL! 
• Fist of the Hamster?!
  

For the raid we dropped in on Lunar_Princess as they were playing Pokemon Sword/Shield over at twitch.tv/lunar_princess! 

Picked up a new Commission Short Story request this time based around Dragon Ball with it having to use the characters of Goku and Videl. I think I'll make use of the Room of Infinite Bullshit... err... the Room of Spirit and Time as a setting piece.

Something that went under the radar is that Atari released a 50th Anniversary Collection... which actually includes games from beyond their glory days of the early 80s, as there are titles in it from the Lynx and Jaguar era of gaming as well! Now if only Sega can do that.

Put in some more achievement hunting in Vampire Survivors. Actually cleared the 5th Stage fairly easily. But in terms of the bonus stages, there's a special place in hell for whoever came up with the spinning effect for the Moongolow. 

Vampire Survivors Achievements

• Phiera Der Tuphello: Survive 10 minutes with Pugnala.
• Eight The Sparrow: Survive 15 minutes with Pugnala.
• Coffin: Dairy Plant: Find and open the coffin in the Dairy Plant.
• I - Gemini: Reach Level 99 with Pugnala after unlocking the Randomazzo.
• Gatti Amari: Survive 15 minutes with Giovanna.
• Banish 3: Fill 80 entries in the Collection.
• Coffin: Gallo Tower: Find and open the coffin in the Gallo Tower.
• V - Chaos in the Dark Night: Reach Level 99 with Giovanna after unlocking the Randomazzo.
• Song Of Mana: Survive 15 minutes with Poppea.
• Hyper Cappella Magna: Defeat the Trinacria in the Cappella Magna.
• Coffin: Cappella Magna: Find and open the coffin in the Cappella Magna.
• Boss Rash: Unlock Hyper mode for all 5 normal stages.
• XVII - Lost And Found Painting: Reach Level 99 with Poppea after unlocking the Randomazzo.
• Shadow Pinion: Survive 15 minutes with Concetta.
• Skip 1: Survive 15 minutes in Molise.
• Glass Vizard: Find and buy the Glass Vizard.
• Banish 4: Fill 90 entries in the Collection.
• Valkyrie Turner: Evolve the Shadow Pinion.
• Skip 4: Survive 15 minutes in Moongolow.
• XVIII - Boogaloo of Illusions: Reach Level 99 with Concetta after unlocking the Randomazzo.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Triple Combo #2, Intermediate Combo #1 and Defensive Combo #2 for 31 minutes. I should be able to knock off Sophie's Champion EX Achievement with tomorrow's workout

It's hard to teach kleptomaniacs humor. They take things so literally.

Song of the Day: White Lightning by George Jones

For tonight's stream, the plan is to finish Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova, and then maybe try and do some achievement hunting in it as well. Should be an easy going stream.

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

So my internet problems have to do Xfinity's poor infrastructure

 Good afternoon everyone,

So yesterday afternoon the Xfinity tech came out and saw that everything was literally perfect with things at my house, but the real problem was with the infrastructure of their network beyond my house. He said it was with the 'Plant' which serves the area, and that yesterday things were really bad (as we experienced on last night's stream), things were better today with only two sudden stream resets.

So as for last night's stream it was a variety night starting with Fall Guys, and I actually won a show! I made damn sure to get the clip for that right away. Also played some MultiVersus and managed to get myself closer to earning the achievement for playing 100 matches in a 'party' Won one match with an epic double elimination that resulted in a come from behind victory. Next was Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed where I won my first match while being a ghost, and I managed to score some achievements in that while also getting my first win playing as a Ghost, before playing a few matches of Smite losing 2 and winning 1 to close out the night.

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Achievements

• Animated: Haunt 50 Objects in a single match
• Tobin's Prodigy: Fully Haunt 10 Locations as a Ghost
• Whoopsie: Destroy a very Expensive Object

Twitch Clips

• Whoa-oh-oh!
• Spinning while holding the Penguin! 
• We Win!
• It's Pummeling Time! 
• Two For One!
• Somebody call the doctor! 
• We Survived As A Ghost... or Beer Keg!
• GET IN THE BOX! 
• Achievement: Whoopsie
• First Kill With Anhur 
  
• The one highlight I had from this match...
•  FelkimChi's Victory Fanfare Redempetion Leading To A Double Kill!
  

For the raid we dropped in on MissCammi316 as they were playing Dead By Daylight over on twitch.tv/misscammi316!

Finished the Commissioned Fan Fic request for a Halo story featuring Commander Palmer and Master Chief. I really should play the Halo games in order to actually understand these characters at some point.

Did some Vampire Survivors runs after the stream and picked up several more achievements. Would be fascinating if I actually 'complete' this game.

Vampire Survivors Achievements

• Banish 2: Fill 70 entries in the Collection.
• Coffin: Mad Forest: Find and open the coffin in the Mad Forest.
• Coffin: Inlaid Library: Find and open the coffin in the Inlaid Library.
• Reroll 4: Reach Level 100 with O'Sole Meeo.

Start of a new week means it's time to recap all the games we played last wee which were Overwatch 2, Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Vampire Suvivors, Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight, Fall Guys, MultiVersus, Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed and Smite!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Difficult Challenge Combo #3, Difficult Challenge Combo #1 and Biceps Shape Focus Combo for 34 minutes.

How does your feline shop? By reading a catalogue.

Song of the Day: Karma Police by Radiohead

For tonight's stream we're playing Overwatch 2 and we'll hope the stream goes rather smoothly with no issues. So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

We Finished Persona 3 Dancing in Moonlight

Good afternoon everyone,

As the title states, we finished Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight, knocking off all the remaining Social Links before doing Elizabeth's 8th one that triggers the credits. I totally forgot that I changed some things after last Friday's stream to set up going after two achievements that were only possible once Elizabeth was unlocked as a lead dancer. Now I did focus on several different aspects of things I wanted to do beyond achievement hunting, namely trying to get a Brilliant score on several songs on Normal Difficulty, some took multiple attempts to do. I could've had a King Crazy on a few songs, but the charting of the notes baffled me at the worst possible times.

On the down side, the stream was broken up into multiple parts due to sudden drops in internet download and upload speeds. In fact at 647 PM Eastern I had 10.80 Mbps Down and 0.38 Mbps Up. Now unlike Thursday night, I basically plowed through hoping we could get hour plus blocks of footage, resulting in three separate segments. Now Twitch listed my total stream time last night as 5 hours 46 minutes... however only 4 hours 36 minutes was actually broadcasted. I got more to say about this, but I'll save for when I talk about work down below.

Of course the next game we'll be playing on Fridays will be Persona 4: Dancing All-Night, and unlike its Persona 3 and 5 cousins, the Person 4 dancing game does not take place in the Velvet room, but in the 'real world'. It leans more in the visual novel style with a more fleshed out story mode. Hopefully 

Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight Trophies

• Best Buds: Explored all the guys' rooms.
• The One Who Gathered the Glasses: Obtained all the pairs of glasses.
• Fashion Monster: Obtained all the costumes.
• The Dependable Classmates: Cleared the stages where Yukari and Junpei dance together.
• Koromaru's Rival: Obtained all rewards from Elle-P's card search.
• Down to the Bone: Unlocked all Custom modifiers.
• The Party Never Stops: Made Elle-P's ball a success.
• The Selfish Producer: Had Elle-P join the ball.
• The Dancing Jeweler: Obtained all of the accessories.
• It's Gotta Be You: Watched all Social events.
• Can't Say "I Don't Care" Now: Watched every possible dance for the P3 Protagonist (Makoto Yuki).
• The Dancing Anti-Shadow Weapon: Watched every possible dance for Aigis.
• Dancing in Moonlight: Obtained all trophies.

Twitch Clips

• Elle-P's Big Surprise!
• Here Comes Elizabeth 
• They are doing a trade off!
  

For the raid we dropped in on Hawleigh who was playing Jackbox Party Packs over on twitch.tv/hawleigh! 

Work was rather bleh yesterday, but the noticeable thing was that exactly at 3:45 PM for the second day in a row, my internet download and upload speeds dropped significantly and this carried on through damn near the entire night, seemingly to settle down around 10:30 PM. Now I don't want to hear about 'peak hour' nonsense, because if that bullshit was actually true wouldn't I have these issues be reoccurring since everything was fixed back in September?!

Did find out that for sure I don't have work Thursday because of Thanksgiving, but Friday is up in the air because of an assignment that may start that day 

My Copy of Pokemon Violet arrived yesterday morning, and it most certainly take over the Monday slot in my Twitch line up... after we finish Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Straight Combo #2, Difficult Challenge COmbo #2 and Block Combo for 31 minutes/ On a silly note, the first song in Fitness Boxing 2 to hit 100 times played is 'Don't You Worry Child' by Swedish House Mafia

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise States For Week of 11/13 to 11/19/22

• Punches Thrown: 8579
• Estimated Calories Burned:3616.7 kcal
  
• Sophie's Champion Progress:96% (48 out of 50 hours)
  
• King EX Fight Progress: 97%
• Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days: 708
• Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days: 866

What did Blackbeard the pirate say when he turned eighty? "Aye, matey."

Song of the Day: London Calling by The Clash

For tonight's stream, which hopefully will go well with not problems, will feature a variety of stuff, MultiVersus, Fall Guys, Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed... basically whatever casual nonsense I feel like playing.

So on that note I hope we'll be up and running later over at twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Xfinity Service Got So Bad Yesterday

Good morning everyone,

Yesterday afternoon at about 345 PM, I noticed a sudden drop in my internet speed while working, (and having a pretty good day too), then when I ran a speed test I saw my internet speeds were at 124 Mbps on the download and 1.1 Mbps for the upload... and considering i pay for 400 Mbps / 10 Mbps, that was a major problem. So I went ahead to rest my modem... and that did not work. I called Xfinity directly and they didn't see anything wrong, but scheduled an appointment for a tech to come out on Saturday afternoon.

So all fine a good right? Well I noticed that my speeds would improve to being back to normal, then dropping off again in the early evening, and I tried to star a stream for Final Fantasy XIV at 7 PM when a speed test results looked normal. But nope, everything went in the crapper straight away. I called Xfinity back, this time to try and get some answers... and after being hung up on twice, I finally got through to someone who was able to see the inconsistency with my service, and they told me I was having these issues going back to Friday.

Which makes sense because I had indications of YouTube telling me I was offline when I was online, I just chalked it up to an issues with YouTube, and had a real tough time uploading a few highlight reels to my Facebook page. So at the very least I got a $30 credit put on my account with Xfinity, and hopefully these issues can be resolved with the tech visit on Saturday.

I did hanged out on Kalenal's stream as they were playing Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/kalenal, and I ended up playing Vampire Survivors for a good portion of the evening, and managed to knock out several achievements. More on this in a bit.

Now about 10 PM things looked like they got to normal, so I started up a stream to get in some Final Fantasy XIV action for the week. My plan to do Side Quests was negated so I ended up doing Raids. We also worked in Vampire Survivors into the stream as well, with the focus on clearing Stage 4 with a level of 80 or higher, which I managed to do as Mortaccio. The build I ended up using practically made me immortal.

Vampire Survivors Achievements

• Yatta Cavallo: Defeat a total of 3000 Lion Heads.
• Soul Eater: Evolve the Garlic.
• Stone Mask: Find a Stone Mask.
• XXI - Blood Astronomia: Reach Level 99 with Poe.
• Moongolow: Unlock Hyper mode for 4 normal stages.
• O'Sole Meeo: Defeat a total of 3000 Dragon Shrimps.
• Hyper Gallo Tower: Defeat the Giant Enemy Crab in the Gallo Tower.
• II - Twilight Requiem: Reach Level 99 with Dommario after unlocking the Randomazzo.
  XIII - Wicked Season: Reach Level 99 with Christine after finding the Randomazzo.
• Reroll 1: Reach Level 100 with Mortaccio.
• Cappella Magna: Reach Level 80 in the Gallo Tower.
• Lama: Survive 20 minutes with at least +10% Curse.
  

Twitch Clips

• Show Me More!
• Lucky Me! 
• Crush This!
• Those Level Ups! 
• Roaming Around
• You Can Curse Me All You Like Because I'm Immortal! 
  

For the raid, which happened at 1 AM, we raided MajorTom928 who was also playing Vampire Survivors over at twitch.tv/majortom928.

Anyway work was solid yesterday as I said earlier, just too bad I lost the final hour because of the internet issues. On the plus side, I did get an automatic call from Xfinity saying they 'fixed' the issue, but I did not cancel the appointment for Saturday afternoon, because I know how that works.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Intermediate COmbo #2, Sway Back COmbo and Hip Shape Focus Combo for 31 minutes.

Why don't crabs donate? Because they're shellfish.

Song of the Day: Friday I’m In Love by The Cure

For tonight's stream... if possible, the plan is to finish Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight, but if that is a no go, we'll push it back to next week.

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