A Random Saturday

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream started with DKO Divine Knockout and I'm determined to get Athena to 'level 20' mostly because one of the things that is popular to do over in its sister game Smite, is to put in the play time with each character to rank X even if you're not good as them. I'm fairly good with Athena in certain match ups, so this gives me a long term goal with the game. Big thanks to Reaper for joining in on a few matches as well.

Next we played MultiVersus, and I do like the look of the Game of Thrones inspired arena, just wish I wasn't playing Velma at the time so I could have a better idea of how to recover when knocked off the sides. Also MultiVersus had some weird rendering issues with textures on the characters. Did nab the ugly sweater skin for Arya Stark, because that helped with some challenges.

Lastly we closed out the night with Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, and we had a good stint on it, winning 4 out of 6 matches played. I have to remember next time to hunt for Rifts to fulfill one of the side hustles.

So all in all a good night!

Divine Knockout Achievements

• Air-Time: Achieved 'Air-Time'
• Damage Dealer Gold: Achieved 'Damage Dealer Gold'
• Double KOs Silver: Achieved 'Double KOs Silver'

Twitch Clips

• Get Off My Point!
• Back to Back! 
• Trapped at the same instant the rift was destroyed!
  

For the raid we dropped in on Tracy Doll who was playing The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil In Me over at twitch.tv/tracydoll.

We have nearly raised $1000 for my mom to help cover her medical expenses, ya'll are awesome for helping her out! For information on what's going on in her fight against cancer visit: https://gofund.me/6adf8354.

Finished the first in a new series of short story commission based on Mass Effect, and the client wants a second right straight away. Now to figure out how to write the second episode.

Start of a new week, let's recap what we played over the last seven days: Overwatch 2, Pokemon Violet, Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series, Smite, Fall Guys, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, DKO Divine Knockout, MultiVersus & Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed

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

There are three types of people in the world. Those of us who are good at math and those of us who aren't.

Song of the Day: Believer by Imagine Dragons

For tonight's stream Overwatch is on deck, as we'll work on knocking out things required for the weekly challenges and so forth. 

SO we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Is A Bit Different Than The Original

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Persona 4 Arena Ultimax saw us getting use the mechanics that were introduced in the original Persona 4 Arena which we played earlier this year... however there are a number of differences. I feel Aigis plays a lot different, some of the combo challenges feel awkward in execution, but overall it didn't take me too long to get back into the flow of things. That said, I did notice that characters who had sprites in the original Persona 4 Arena don't look as good when compared to the characters added to Ultimax, and that extends over to how some of the Instant Kills look as well.

In terms of other things done, we did one arcade run, attempted a Score Attach run... and dived in deep into the Golden Arena mode as Naoto, getting down to level 45... once I figured out the RPG element of it. It was great to hear some music I've heard a lot in the Dancing game trilogy over the past several week.

There is going to be a question of how I'm going to handed Person 4 Arena Ultimax next week with my Birthday on the 23rd. I'm certainly leaning towards doing a variety stream next Friday and putting P4AU on Saturday. We'll see what I end up doing.

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Trophies

• Baby Steps: You started on the road to knowledge.
• Cram Session: You studied 20 different Lessons.
• 30-Minute Workout: You Trained for 30 minutes straight!  
• Combination Fighter: You completed 150 challenges!
• The Punk's Way: You defeated an opponent without letting them Awaken in Arcade or Network Mode.
• Advanced Fishing Manual: You performed 10 Fatal Counters in Arcade or Network Mode.
• Awakened SP Skill Boosts Made Easy: You used an Awakened SP Skill Boost in Arcade or Network Mode.
• Arcade Novice: You completed Arcade Mode with one character.
• Not Unlike a Boss: You defeated a boss character in Golden Arena Mode!
• Brave Gladiator: You raised a character to level 10 in Golden Arena Mode!

Steam Clips

• Achievement: The Punk's Way
• Galactic Punt! 
• I actually... lost...
  

For the raid we dropped in on x_lumineee  when they were playing Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - Reunion over at twitch.tv/x_lumineee!   

Mom was visited by several family members yesterday which was pretty cool, and I got in touch with a cousin I haven't spoken too in a long time. Also, huge thank you to everyone who donated to my mom's GoFundMe yesterday, your kindness and generosity is incredible! For more info on what is going on visit: https://gofund.me/6adf8354

Played a little Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 yesterday and nabbed an achievement in it... granted I was playing it because Windows and Logitech had updates that broke the audio set up I have for OBS

Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 Achievements

• ADVENTURE 2: Clear area 3-11 in ADVENTURE!

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

What do you call the security guards outside of Samsung? The guardians of the Galaxy.

Song of the Day: Intentions by Justin Bieber ft Quavo

For tonight's stream, well it's a variety night, so DKO: Divine Knockout, Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed and MultiVersus are things I have planned

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

Just your casual night of FFXIV

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Final Fantasy XIV was indeed focused on side quests in area's associated with Shadowbringers, with the highlight being that Puddingway finally got to have good pudding. Those who played through the MSQ would know Puddingway from when you go to the moon. That said some of the side-quests certainly involved some heavy footwork in terms of where some locations were to get or do stuff.

We also did some raids and three successful trips into the Variant Dungeons. If I get all the 'notes' or not, it's all gravy for me because I'm not someone looking to get all the in-game mounts. Actually I did have a great performance in one raid come to thing of it, the Eden version of Titan, I managed not to get killed once. So there's that.

Twitch Clips

• That nearly worked
• A nice run on the Hades Trial 
• We make it rain... a deadly rain
  

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

Got two commission stories done yesterday, thanks in part to my job being in its slow period. Both stories were WWE related. To break the string of WWE story, I got a commission request for a Mass Effect one... granted it involves using the male version of Commander Shepard

We had some more donations to help my mom cover some of the expenses related to her medical issues, and I deeply appreciate it. Ya'll are awesome! To learn more about what's going on vist: https://gofund.me/6adf8354

Ended up watching Con Air after last night's stream while playing some Persona 5 Dancing in Starlight... where I managed to score four more King Crazy ranks on tracks set to normal difficulty.

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

Who invented the round table? Sir Cumference.

Song of the Day: Have You Ever Seen The Rain by Creedence Clearwater Revival

For tonight's stream we are starting up Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, and we'll be playing the PS4 version of it. Now I haven't looked at the trophy list, but I'll assume there will be achievements associated with the tutorial and challenges, so we should get a fair idea of what everyone plays like.

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

Fall Guys, Fallout and Getting Follow Bot Bombed

 Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream opened with Fall Guys, and surprisingly I ended up in the Final Round 4 times, twice as a solo and twice in Squad mode, which was amazing... and I came within whiskers of actually pulling off some wins. But it was a lot of fun regardless. We were also joined by PandaSweet for a few rounds as well.

After the break, we switched over to Fallout 76, and we helped Iceman with a few of his Brotherhood of Steel quests that were combat heavy, and we were joined by PowerThumbZ as well in an attempt to get one of the nukes launched to go for it's related achievement. Unfortunately, someone else beat us to it and we got kicked when maybe 75% of the way through. We'll give it a shot in a private session down the road. 

Now unfortunately, we ended up getting Followed Botted towards the end of the stream, 2,500 new followers. It didn't take me long to realize what was happening and I have to laugh. I did clip the incident and reported it to Twitch.

Fallout 76 Achievements

• Code Cruncher: Hack 50 Terminals

Twitch Clips

• I was in the final 3...
• Stay In The Light! 
• Give me my penguin back!
• Things happening 
• Shin go in front!
• Back here again 
• Being Followed Botted
  

For the raid we dropped in on x9abenonymous9x as they were were playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II over at twitch.tv/x9abenonymous9x!

Mom had an okay day yesterday, near as I can tell, but we do have major concerns. Full details on what's going on can be found on her GoFundMe page at: https://gofund.me/6adf8354. All donations go directly to her medical expenses.

It's that time of year where work slows down because of the Holiday season, but I did plan for it this go round, wish some of my usual expenses already paid in advance.

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

What do sprinters eat before a race? Nothing, they fast.

Song of the Day: Arcade by Duncan Laurence

For tonight's stream, we're playing Final Fantasy XIV, with a focus on Side Quests in areas associated with Shadowbringers. These will be more difficult as I won't be able to one or two shot every enemy I come across. 

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

We'll never know how The TellTale Games Of Thrones Series Will End

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream opened up with Game of Thrones: A Telltale series, with episode 5 and 6 being played back to back. But despite all the choices I made to give it the most dismal ending possibles as far as a cliffhanger goes... we'll never know how things play out because TellTale games, well the original version of that company, went out of business. Sure it was relaunched, but they don't have the license rights to do another Game of Thrones series (hence why you cannot buy it digitally, you have to find a physical copy).

Still, I did go with choice that lead to Mira losing her head so that Asher is the lone surviving Forrester and Tutle choosing to march back to Ironrath instead of defending the North Grove. Why did I have Mira lose her head, well I was playing up her 'pride' as a Forrester.  

On a side note, the achievement for Chapter 5 in Episode 6 is glitched, and didn't pop during my play through on stream, I replayed the chapter, that didn't pop it, and I  tried the delete the save method, and that did not work to fix the bug either. Will justify another play through down the road.

Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series Achievements

• Set Down Our Deeds: Completed Chapter 1 of Episode 5
• Here We Stand: Completed Chapter 2 of Episode 5
• We Light the Way: Completed Chapter 3 of Episode 5
• We Do Not Sow: Completed Chapter 4 of Episode 5
• As High as Honor: Completed Chapter 5 of Episode 5
• Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken: Completed Chapter 6 of Episode 5
• Family, Duty, Honor: Completed Chapter 7 of Episode 5
• Grand Maester: You completed Episode 5.
• Ours is the Fury: Completed Chapter 1 of Episode 6
• Our Blades are Sharp: Completed Chapter 2 of Episode 6
• Growing Strong: Completed Chapter 3 of Episode 6
• Hear Me Roar!: Completed Chapter 4 of Episode 6
• Winter is Coming: Completed Chapter 6 of Episode 6
• Iron from Ice: Completed Chapter 7 of Episode 6
• Sentinel: Complete Episode 6.

We also played some Smite, winning 2 matches and losing 1 in Arena, which was a nice surprise. Always love how folks don't know how to deal with Athena, because her basic 1-2-3 combo gets stronger as the match goes on. In fact in the match I used Athena, I had 28 assists... in a match where my team had over 30 eliminations, meaning I was involved in every elimination!

Twitch Clips

• When in doubt headbutt!
• Hi Finn! 
• Not in the face
• I got my revenge! 
• Bringing the Wubs
• Incoming for Victory! 
  

For the raid we dropped in on annietalksshow as they were playing Valorant over at twitch.tv/annietalksshow! 

Work was surprisingly good yesterday, rather nice after last week.

Mom had a few tests done yesterday, hopefully we'll get some good news, but if anyone wants to contribute to her gofundme to cover these medical expenses, visit https://gofund.me/6adf8354

With the wrapping up of Game of Thrones, we're at 59 games finished on stream for the year... so we're going to do a short game on next Tuesday's stream called Abzu to give us an even 60. This will also give me plenty of time to put together the image to celebrate this year's gaming tour.

Not a fan with how the Winter Wonderland event is set up for Overwatch 2, basically forcing folks into playing game modes that weren't too popular in previous years 

Got some writing done last night on the WWE Short story commission, would've finished writing it too if it wasn't for realizing the glitched achievements for Game of Thrones.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Defensive Combo #1, Uppercut Combo #2 and Front-Back Step Combo for 28 minutes

What concert costs only 45 cents? 50 Cent and Nickelback.

Song of the Day: Little Talks by Of Monsters and Men

For tonight's stream, we're opening with Fall Guys and then we'll play Fallout 76. It's a Falling Wednesday

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

Team Star Is Kind of Interesting

Good morning everyone

Last night's stream of Pokemon Violet was really productive in terms of covering various objectives, with the first being The Sky Titan... which turned out to being a giant bird pokemon, which was basically taken down by my Pikachu straight away. We then moved into dealing with the first two Team Star bases (Dark and Fire), which was a different type of battle, which took advantage of the game's let's go feature to have my top three Pokemon wreck Team's Star's Pokemon before going into a boss battle.

That said, Team Star certainly has an interesting back story, where they were people who banded together because they were bullied... they are the outsiders, who didn't quite fit in at the 'Academy'. So I kind of have some sympathy for them because it appears they are just minding their own business. Will be interesting to see how that plays out.

We left off basically on the doorstep of the third gym which is an electric-type gym. We'll see how many attempts it takes me to get past it on next Monday's stream

Twitch Clips

• Defeating The Open Sky Titan
• Defeating Giacomo! 
• Defeating Mela!
  

For the raid we dropped in on PowerThumbz who was playing No Many's Sky over at twitch.tv/powerthumbz! 

My mom has an MRI scheduled for today and PET scan booked for next Monday. Her health insurance providers does appear to be staffed with incompetent fools and I wish she didn't have to go through them not wanting to help her to get stuff done. If anyone wants to help, you can donate to her gofundme at https://gofund.me/6adf8354

Really hoping work today is going to be better than it was last week in regards to feeling productive. 

Outline the action sequence for the WWE Short Story commission featuring Tegan Nox

Picked up four King Crazy ranks across both Persona 3 and Persona 5 dancing games. Whims of Fate in Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight took several dedicated attempts. Blooming Villain has a few tricky parts that I keep only getting "Good" timing on.

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

The 2022 Twitch Recaps were just posted... and I thought I'd share my results here.

My Twitch Viewer Recap 2022 (Things I did while watching Twitch)

• 2,000 hours watched
• 333 Days watched
• 330,000 Channel Points
• 6,000 Messages
• :D Is my Most used Emote at 1,334
• 5 Sub Gifted
• 2 Channels Modded
• 38 Hours Modded
• My most watched Channel is Kalenal (twitch.tv/Kalenal) at 377 hours
• My second most watched channel is BestiBunni (twitch.tv/bestibunni) at 195 hours
• My favorite category to watched is Final Fantasy XIV
• Created 3 Emotes, 2,000 Emotes used
  

My Twitch Streamer Recap 2022 (Things related to my broadcasts)

• 440 broadcasts (this is due to a number of issues with Xfinity forcing restarts on streams)
• 3,000 hours watched
• 12,000 clips created 
• 34 Highest Concurrent Viewers
• 13 New Subscribers
• 93 New Followers
• 1 Million Channel Points
• 25,000 Chat Messages
• LUL is the most common emote used on my channel at 548
• Viewers gifted 5 subs to my channel
• Top 3 Categories were Final Fantasy XIV, Fallout 76 and Persona 5 Royal
• I was in the top 4% of Final Fantasy XIV streamers
  

What do you call a magician dog? A labracadabrador.

Song of the Day: Great Spirit by Armin Van Buuren, Vini Vici, Hilight Trib

For tonight's stream we're looking to finish Game of Thrones: A Telltale Series with episode 5 & 6. Not sure what'll do to pad the stream out a bit once that's done.

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

Fun night of Overwatch 2

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream was certainly filled with wins and losses, in fact there was a long stretch with a lot of losses in a row early on. Still we ended up getting on a stretch of wins too. We also had a variety of folks joining is, big thanks to PatD, PandaSweet and LvStrkr for being apart of the games. I personally picked up two Plays of the Game, one as Mei and one as Junker Queen. Other characters sued were Moira, D.va, Reinhardt, Lucio, Junkrat and several others. 

Also the 3rd and 4th clips listed below are both from the same match, one ended up being Play of the Game, while the other was just a perfect combination of events leading to that match being won.

Twitch Clips

• Was that my kill or yours?
• Fire in the Hole! 
• This ended up being Play of the Game
• Rezzed and Reckoning 
   

For the raid we dropped in on PradoxGamerAU who was playing World of Warcraft over on twitch.tv/PradoxGamerAU!   

Talked to my dad yesterday, had a nice conversation with him that just brought forward how rough things are going to get for my mom. If anyone wants to help, you can donate to her gofundme at https://gofund.me/6adf8354.

Finished up one WWE Short Story Commission and started on a fourth, this one will feature Tegan Nox and will be based on her surprise return two weeks ago.

So that Maximillian_DOOD and the Yo Videogames crew was playing DKO Divine Knockout last night, unfortunately they were just doing 2 v 2, becuase it would be interesting to see how they would handle a 3 v 3 situation. He also did a Boss Rage for Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection that I wish I could've stayed up to watch, but thankfully the twitch VODs pick up from where you last watched a live stream for a channel.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Biceps Shape Focus Combo, Difficult Challenge Combo #3 and Difficult Challenge Combo #1 for 34 minutes. Also, yesterday we hit the two year mark... and at my current pace, I should hit the 50 hour mark with Martina around December 27th, original estimate had it being reached January 1st

What did the finger say to the thumb? I'm in glove with you.

Song of the Day: Die A Happy Man by Thomas Rhett.

For tonight's stream, we're back to Pokemon Violet with the goal being to find the 2nd Titan to conquer it. Last week we got lost trying to find it, so hopefully we'll have better luck this time.

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

 

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