Saturday, January 27, 2024

South Park The Fractured But Whole and other notes

Tonight we put the finishing touches on South Park The Fractured But Wole wrapping up the final Mintberry Crunch DLC story and going after Morgan Freeman to get one more achievement. The squad I  took into that fight was Mintberry Crunch, Call Girl and Henrietta, all three of which was able to apply buffs and debuffs which made the fight doable with only two of them being knocked out at any point in time. There are three achievements left in the game, but we can save those for a future play through.

Now that wasn't the whole stream, we did play some Smite, and big thanks to Striker for being apart of a few matches. We won three and lost three I think, so it evened out, as I played as Nike and Athena. Did accidentally turn off auto-purchasing of items, which certainly put me in a bind in a couple of bouts.

Tomorrow night we're playing Overwatch as is the Sunday night tradition. Did work more ranked matches this weeks, but not too many bouts on role queue to avoid playing damage in ranked bouts.

For tonight's raid we dropped in on Kalenal who was playing Final Fantasy XIV

Since we're done with South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Monday night we will be playing Skullgirls 2nd Encore and going through a few story modes for various characters in a bit of achievement hunting. 

Tuesday night however, we will be starting up Final Fantasy XIII. Now I have played this game a bit many years ago prior to my original PlayStation 3 dying on me, so basically we will be going into it blind! I remember the combat system being quite difficulty to understand.

Got some writing done on a SubscribeStar commission tier story today, which is WWE related, I hope to have it finished before tomorrow's stream.

Nearly finished season eight of Red Dwarf, just have one more episode to watch, and then it's the jump to the more modern seasons.

South Park: The Fractured but Whole Achievements

  • Farts over Freckles: Picked a fight with Morgan Freeman and defeated him

Ghost of Tsushima and other notes

Tonight we started up Ghost of Tsushima and I have to say, I can safely say it's going to be a long journey as it seems the open world aspect of this game seems very similar to Horizon Zero Dawn, which means I'm going to be as thorough as possible exploring every thing on the map. I also set the audio settings for the dialog to be in Japanese with English subtitles, as it seems like the most immersive way to play it, and so far based on how the dialog sounds, I feel I'm right.

Tomorrow night we're wrapping up South Park The Fractured But Whole, focusing on the Mintberry Crunch DLC story, along with possibly taking another shot at the Morgan Freeman boss fight. 

For tonight's raid we dropped in on baenalux who was playing Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, doing their first run of Mass Effect 3

Work is still on hold at the moment, but I am looking for something more stable.

Did knock out an Arrow related commission in fairly short order, with the next story on the docket being a SubscribeStar subscription story based on 2010s WWE. It may take two days to write it

Ghost of Tsushima (PS4) Trophies

  •  Gathering Storm: Recover the katana of clan Sakai.
  • A Moment in Time: Personalize a scene in Photo Mode.
  • Point of No Return: Break your code to help a new friend.
  • Lost and Found: Discover a Pillar of Honor and collect its Sword Kit.

Friday, January 26, 2024

South Park The Fracutred But Whole and other notes

Tonight's stream of South Park The Fractured But Whole got plagued with not one but two brief power interruptions, that ended up dividing the stream into two parts, which is really frustrating when it comes to archiving everything. It's been a while since I had something like that happened, but it was related to PSE&G.

Now we did finish the game and I really liked how the New Kid having a reason for his powers. Was a bit surprised to see that the game ends with having to beat up both Kyle and Cartman, and that seems to be a trend since there is the option to beat up one or the other in the Stick of Truth. We did try the Morgan Freeman fight, which did not go well, as I think I'm going to need a team that fights from a distance to overcome it. We did the Casa Bonita DLC story, and I was night expecting a Michael Jackson cameo.

We also started the Mintberry Crunch DLC, but it appeared to be a lot longer so we're going to continue that on Saturday's stream, and maybe give the Morgan Freeman fight another shot.

Tomorrow night we're starting up Ghost of Tsushima on the PlayStation 4

For the raid we dropped in on rumhamshmah who was playing Palworld

No update on work resuming, but all bills are paid at the moment so we're in a good spot

Knocked out the AEW commission request, which turned out to be a decent follow up to an earlier one. 

Next on the commission agenda is a short Arrow related story

It's now been one year since mom's passed... and yeah, I'm missing her a whole lot right now.

South Park: The Fractured but Whole Achievement

  • Fully Bloated: Unlocked all combat TimeFarts
  • Invasive Tumor Removal: Defeated Mutant Cousin Kyle
  • Through the Bowels of Time: Survived the farts of future past

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Sea of Thieves and other notes

Tonight's stream of Sea of Thieves saw Iceman and I engage in a quest that involved a 20 minute long brawl against a Ashen captain, skeletons and lots of fire. We were able to get a pretty big haul of loot turned in but we left of the chest of rage because of how it kept exploding and it sunk out ship!

Tomorrow night we look to finish South Park: The Fractured But Whole

For the raid we dropped in on lilmoolah_ who was playing Baldur's Gate 3

Having to get a lot of my paystubs together for the past year in preparation for filing a dispute with the local UI office as it seems like things might be a struggle in the coming weeks

Finished the WWE related commission request and started work on an AEW related one, which I should be able to finish fairly easily tomorrow, as I got the intro and set up written already.

King of glad that the weather this week got up into the 60s, as a lot of the snow has melted... of course we might get more snow this weekend.

Watched episode two of Red Dwarf Series 8, our Dwarfers dressed as the Dibbley clan was a great little moment.

Good night!

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

South Park The Fractured But Whole and other notes

Tonight's stream of South Park: The Fractured But Whole was extended a bit tonight because just like on Saturday I kept finding things to do as it was related to various quests. We placed all the headshots (but that quest cannot be turned in yet because of politics) and found all the yaoi art pieces, and I thought we had all the cats found (but turns out one is in an area we have not accessed yet). We did battle with Professor Chaos, got ambushed by Ninjas... and saw Craig and Tweak reunite (LET'S FIGHTING LOVE!!!!). All in all a great night

Tomorrow we shall continued South Park The Fractured But Whole, picking up with a quest where we must assist Tupperware (Tolkien) in a main story mission. 

For the raid we dropped in on misscammi316 who was playing Smite

Work was held off today because we are waiting for materials to come in, which basically means the client was probably adjusting something in the questions to probably make them more of a mouthful. 

Got paid for all completed commission requests today, so that's all caught up (thank goodness) so now we started planning ahead for February.

The AEW commission story came together rather nicely, and the next one with a WWE related one, which shouldn't take me more than three or four hours to bang out. So we can really make a dent in things on the docket by the end of the week.

I do need to learn about Star vs. the Forces of Evil for one that will be written next month however.

Finished series seven of Red Dwarf, and while the cliff hanger for the ship itself being rebuilt was great, it does mean the Rimmer gets the character reset for series eight if memory serves me right.

South Park: The Fractured but Whole Achievements

  • Death Dodger: Kept an Ally alive for an entire combat while they took twice their max Health in damage
  • Chaos Controlled: Foiled the plans of Professor Chaos
  • Deep Seated Power: Obtained and equipped Artifacts to reach 600 Might
  • Divine Wind: Successfully Fartkour'd to the Lofts at SoDoSoPa rooftop and back down again
  • Boy Love Aficionado: Found all Yaoi art pieces
  • Master Manipulator: Confused or charmed an enemy into defeating another enemy

Sunday, January 21, 2024

Overwatch 2 and other notes

Tonight's stream of Overwatch was the usual bit of madness as we were joined by PandaSweet, Odeu and BangBangBang for various matches. We had a good mix of wins and losses. Tonight I played as Moira, Junker Queen, Bastion, Torbjourn, Ashe, Reaper, Sombra and several others

Tomorrow night we're resuming South Park The Fractured But Whole. 

For the raid tonight we dropped in on Kalenal who was playing Final Fantasy XIV 

Electric and Water bills have been paid, so now just got to put more of a credit on my Internet bill to stay ahead of that.

Did some grocery shopping today picked up all the usual stuff.

Finally got paid on the NFL story commission from last week, and now just have one outstanding.

Knocked out the NBA commission today (and got paid for it the same day, thankfully)

Next story commission is AEW related, in fact I got a couple of wrestling related stories in the upcoming queue... which is always at the end of the month or start of the month... ugh.

Good night folks!

South Park The Fractured But Whole and other notes

Tonight's stream ran from 5 PM Eastern till about 12:30 AM, and was not planned, but I kept finding stuff to do in South Park The Fracture But Whole that seemed totally doable, as a lot of quests just flowed from one to another. I'm really digging the story between Craig and Tweak, and the customization for the player character seems to get really nutty as things go along, from super hero class, race, ethnicity and other factors. We'll continue this game on Monday's stream.

Sunday night's stream will feature Overwatch 2

For the raid we dropped in on swiftsupafly who was playing The Finals 

A fair amount of snow melted today, so didn't really have to shovel much of anything, anything left over I can easily deal with on Monday.

Finished the Dragon Ball commission request and am now waiting on payment for it and the earlier NFL commission request finished earlier in the week. Am counting on those to cover groceries this week. Next commission story in progress is NBA/NCAA related and I'm thinking i'm keeping that under 2500 words since the one after it is intended to be a bit lengthy.

South Park: The Fractured but Whole Achievements

  • Class Warfare: Equipped powers from 2 different classes
  • Titleist: Reached the highest rank on 1 title in your Character Sheet
  • Call in a Favor: Used a Summon
  • Diabetes Defender: Defended a helpless child from a drunk lunatic
  • Big Knocker: Killed an enemy by knocking another enemy into them
  • Epic Artificer: Crafted an Artifact with a Might value of 75 or more
  • Character Sheet Elite: Earned the highest rank on 5 Character Sheet Titles, or 4 while having the highest Economic Level
  • Stop, Drop and Roll: Won a combat by using TimeFart Pause to kill all remaining enemies at once before time resumed
  • Glitch of Death: Used TimeFart Glitch to cause a status-effected enemy to lose their turn and die at turn's end

Good night folks!

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