A Frustrating Night Thanks To Xfinity

Good morning everyone,

Since the Xfinity tech came out last Sunday, I only had one day with issues while streaming and that was last Saturday night... tonight saw a return to the issues I was having with constant stream resets and clear network path issues that I thought were resolved. First attempt at streaming was at about 6:30 and it was resetting every 5 to 15 minutes. I downed the stream at 7:30, did a full restart of the PC and the modem, while also calling Xfiniy with the ticket number from the last set of issues. After being blatantly lied to I was given a new ticket number and was told things would be escalated because of the prior issues. Out of about 4 and half hours of stream time, only two and a half hours were archived

I might just star recording Streams to my hard-drive while streaming and uploading them directly to YouTube at the very least that would mean footage wouldn't lost. But just for the record, as I was uploading the highlight reel for the week on YouTube.. it took 40 minutes.And considering the highlight reels are often less than 6 minutes long, that is a problem.

Now we did play MultiVersus, Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed and Capcom Arcade 2nd Stardium. And I should probably talk about Marvin the Martian who was just added to MultiVersus. He's labeled as an Assassin class, but he doesn't seem to have as much of the versatility that Harley Quinn does. We had several good runs in Ghostbusters, and even picked up an achievement. When we got to Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium, we played Last Duel and Pnickies. Last Duel has some really wonky enemy placement, while I also ranked 56th in the world for Pnickies on a score challenge.

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Achievements

• Fully Haunt a Location without Getting captured Once

Twitch Clips

• You make me so angry!
• I'll take the double there! 
• Almost But Not Quite
• Into The Box! 
• We Sure Did!
• A Third One?! 
• They are dropping fast!
  

For the raid we dropped in on Kalenal over at twitch.tv/kalenal as they were playing Final Fantasy XIV

Starting writing the third short story based on Dragon Ball yesterday afternoon and found a way to tie it in with the first two stories written. Why do I always try to build some type of canon with what are obviously one shot tales?

Start of a new week, so lets recap what we featured over the last seven days which was Overwatch 2, Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova, Vampire Survivors, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Fallout 76, Fall Guys, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 4: Dancing All Night, MultiVersus, Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed and Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Weaving Combo #2, Hook Combo #1 and Waist Shape Focus Combo

Why did the businessman invest in Smith & Wollensky? He wanted to stake his claim.

Song of the Day: Sugar (feat. Francesco Yates) by Robin Schulz, Francesco Yates

For tonight's stream, well the plan is to play Overwatch 2and we're going to be hoping that we'll be able to have a solid stream with no restarts or frame drops. We'll see how that goes.

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

Another Friday and Another Persona Dancing Game

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Persona 4: Dancing All Night got off to an awkward start because a) I didn't realize there were DLC tracks for the game b) I didn't change the title or game category. Whoops on my part! Still once we got rolling, I was able to find my comfort zone with P4D rather quickly, with my biggest concern being the weird charting this game has in comparison to its Persona 3 and Persona 5 younger siblings. More so than those two games, P4D was clearly meant to be played on the Vita, as even on Easy I have trouble picking up on how some notes appear. 

Now the story for Persona 4: Dancing All Night is rather intriguing, as the Investigation Team is practicing to be apart of Rise's comeback but then group of Idols goes missing as they were pulled into the world of the Midnight Stage... where the only way to save them is to dance. Sure the premises is silly, but the question of who is behind the mystery has my attention. It does make me think that the Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight and Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight could have been just one single game with a looming threat that had to be dealt with through dance but oh well.

Now because of the story mode, we'll tackle it in segments, with doing 1 full chapter then doing some free dances, then another chapter. I figure we'll get at least three weeks out of the game since there are eight chapters. Of course I'll probably put in a lot of off-stream grinding because of how unlocks are handled.

Persona 4: Dancing All Night Trophies

• What's a "Miss"?: Cleared a track with no MISSes
• Hit the Dance Floor: Cleared 1 track in Free Dance
• The Festival Begins: Completed Chapter 1
• Working Together: Triggered a Bond Fever at least once
• Dream Team: Paired Rise and Kanami in Free Dance
• Born Entertainer: Obtained top rank (King Crazy) on a track
• Love Connections: Performed a full combo on a track
• Closing Night: Rescued Tamami Uesugi
• A Night to Remember: Rescued Tomoe Sayama
• Perfectionist: 50%+ Perfect clear on HARD track or higher
• Empty Seats: A performance ended prematurely
• New Personal Best: Beat your own high score
• Appearance Matters: Bought a costume for the first time
• The Final Touch: Equipped accessory and began dancing
• Fashion Police: Changed costume and began dancing
• Star Dancer: Danced using 2 or more items to raise difficulty
• That Familiar Rush: Watched replay data from Score

 Twitch Clips

• Teddy & Naoto Fever Time
• Yosuke & Chie Fever Time 
• Naoto and Kanji Fever TIme
  

For the raid we dropped in on twinamitv who was also palying Persona 4: Dancing All Night over at twitch.tv/twinamitv! 

With the added day off, I finished writing the Dragon Ball commission request that featured Gohan, and to my surprise, instead of a WWE commission request popping up based on Sarah Logan's return, I got another Dragon Ball request to do a follow up to the previous story that featured Goku & Videl

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Double Combo #2, Triple Combo #1 and Straight Combo #1 for 31 minutes.

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise Stats For Week Of 11/20 to 11/26/22

• Punches Thrown: 9438
• Estimated Calories Burned: 4008.57
  
• Martina's Champion Progress: 64% (32 out of 50)
  
• King EX Fight Progress: 98%
• Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days: 715
  
• Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days: 873

What do an apple and an orange have in common? Neither one can drive.

Song of the Day: Murder On My Mind by YNW Melly

For tonight's stream, well, it's Saturday, so random games are on deck, so expect MultiVersus, Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed and whatever else comes to mind.

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

Always finding something new in Final Fantasy XIV

 Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream started with Final Fantasy XIV as we got back to side questing, by clearing out all the side quests remaining in the areas introduced to Shadowbringers. I still have to level up Carpentry up a major way to unlock a few other little quests in one of those areas, but all the main side quests are done. I then found myself back at Revenant's Toll finding more 'A Real Reborn' side quests there, and two interesting ones. The first being a tie in to Minfilia's death to wrap that up with a pendant being buried, and the other was a quest where the player becomes a stooge... I mean carrier in training for a PostMoogle (aka a Postman). That opens up a series of side quests that actually adds lore and content to minor, yet key NPCs the player meets in their journeys. Looking forward to going through those.

We also did a bit of Overwatch 2, as we were joined by PandaSweet to take a little advantage of the Double XP Weekend. I picked up one play of the game as Brigitte which was cool.

Twitch Clips

• Doggone Dagons
• And Wave Them Like You Just Don't Care 
• Achievement: Mark of the Lake: B
• Wow... Darn It! 
• Being Brig
• Plotting Course... And Vengeance 
  

For the raid we dropped in on SweetLindir as they were playing Paladins over on twitch.tv/sweetlindir! 

How did I spend Thanksgiving day you may ask? Well I did put in some more play time on Vampire Survivors in the late afternoon before the stream. When you know how to wait for certain items things it makes several runs incredibly easy to do. Now I also played it after the stream... and guess what? We completed it, every achievement was unlocked. My Xbox gamer score is at 95,000.

Vampire Survivors Achievements

• XII - Out of Bounds: Reach minute 31 in the Gallo Tower after unlocking the Randomazzo.
• XIV - Jail of Crystal: Reach Level 99 with Pasqualina after unlocking the Randomazzo.
• Fuwalafuwaloo: Unite Vento Sacro and Bloody Tear.
• Bracelet: Survive 30 minutes with either Gallo or Divano.
• Tri-Bracelet: Evolve the Bracelet and then the Bi-Bracelet.
• Candybox: Discover every standard evolution and union.
• X - Beginning: Reach Level 99 with Antonio after unlocking the Randomazzo.
• Seal: Banish 10 or more weapons in a single run.
• XI - Waltz of Pearls: Reach Level 99 with Imelda after unlocking the Randomazzo.
• Sir Ambrojoe: Defeat a total of 6000 Stage Killers.
• Queen Sigma: Complete the Collection.
• Tiny Bridge: Reach Level 80 in Inverse Gallo Tower.
• Reroll 5: Reach Level 100 with Sir Ambrojoe.
• Victory Sword: Defeat 100000 enemies in a single run with Queen Sigma.
  

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

Who can jump higher than a house? Pretty much anyone.

Song of the Day: Yellow by Cold Play

For tonight's stream we're starting up Persona 4: Dancing All Night, which is the final game in the Persona dancing trilogy. From what I understand, it's story mode is more of a visual novel so this should be fun in that regard.

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

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!