Down A Tooth, Dragnet & Final Fantasy XIV...

 Good morning everybody,

Did not do a Twitch stream last night as the aftermath of having the tooth removed meant I had to switch out the gauze periodically.

So instead I did a watch along in my Discord of the movie Dragnet, starring Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks. I remember watching this movie a lot as kid, as we had a VHS tape of it. Using the corrupt nature of the 'moral outrage' leaders of the time, the plot sees Detective Sargent Joe Friday and his new partner tackle a series of crimes all connected to extortion, kidnapping and murder.

While in many way a parody of the radio drama and TV show of the same name created by Jack Webb, the 1987 movie is also a great tribute as well, as Aykroyd's impression of Webb speaking manner was on point, plus Tom Hanks' Pep Streebeck serves as a nice comedic counter balance. There are a few easter eggs in the film as well, from the obvious photo of Jack Webb on the desk, to a publicity shot of Harry Morgan and Jack Webb seen in Morgan's character of Captain Gannon... as Morgan co-starred on one iteration of the TV series.

Also the original sound track and score for Dragnet is pure 80s goodness in terms of a rock sound, particularly during a few of the action scenes (such as when Friday and Pep are chasing Muzz for the first time, the escape from the People Against Goodness and Normalcy festival, etc).   

Thank you to everyone who popped into the Discord to watch along, helped take my mind off of the fact I'm missing apart of myself!

Prior to heading out to the Dentist for the removal of a molar... I did get in some Final Fantasy XIV, mostly because I had time to fill, and I did a 'quick alliance', and a few main story quests, as things seem to be picking up with the Ishgard being a major focal point while the turmoil happening in Ul'dah seems to have the long term slow build to it as it seems to be transitioning from a monarchy or a republic. Moenbryda seemed to be a real cool character.... and then when I got back home from the Dentist... I put in more time on FF14 to keep my mind off of things.

I continued playing almost non-stop from about 8:30 PM to 2:45 AM, and dealt with dragons, immortals and then witness once of the biggest what the fuck moments I have ever seen in a video game, with the coup that takes place at the every end of A Realm Reborn in patch 2.55, which sees our hero being separated from the comrades I've come to know and like. I didn't have time to completely close it out before Fin

So what was it like to have a tooth pulled? Well for one I had heavily before hand so I wouldn't feel like eating afterward... they had to use two shots of the anesthetic to get me to feel numb... and the pressure of it being pulled out hurt like hell, so thank goodness for the anesthetic. Here were the instructions i was given.

Instructions Following Tooth Extraction and Oral Surgery

1. Your mouth will be 'asleep' for about 2 hours after surgery. Do not chew anything 2 hours or bite your tongue or lips while 'asleep'
2. Keep the gauze pac on the surgical site for half hour, and do not spit or rinse for 24 hours
3. Bleeding should normally be light when gauze is removed after 2 hours, do not disturb site, do not put anything on the site or on your face, it will heal by itself (No Hot or No Cold packs)
4. Pain should be controlled by over the counter meds like ES Tylenol, Motrin or Aleve, do not use any med containing aspirin (No Excedrin, Bayer, etc). If your surgery was extensive, Take the prescription medication prescribed by the dentist
5.  You should Avoid Smoking for 3 days, if at all possible, smoking is the main cause of Dry Socket, a condition where the bone does not heal normally and may get infected and be very painful as a result
6. Slight swelling may occur with more extensive surgery starting after surgery and continuing for 3 days. This may be normal but if accompanied by fever or if very swollen and not getting better after 3rd day, it requires a return visit to be checked by the dentist for infection or dry socket condition
7. Do not stop eating, nutrition is important for healing. Eat soft or light good on the other side and drink fluids. In other words, eat and drink as normally as possible but stay away from the surgical site
8. If any unusual symptoms occur, call or come into office for evaluation
   

I can safely say Tylenol does a hell of a job of masking the pain, and I feel the minor bleeding stopped around 7 hours after the dental visit... hopefully today won't be too bad.  When I woke up there was no noticeable pain, just a bit of soreness as it appears to be closing up. 

Finally, after 15+ years, added volume six of Chrono Crusade to my DVD collection, meaning I just need to track down volume 7 to complete the set! Also we added a physical copy of The Wolf Among Us for the Xbox One.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 34 minutes with the following exercises: Difficult Challenge Combo #2, Difficult Challenge Combo 31 and Difficult Challenge Combo #3 for an estimated calorie burn of 631 kcal.

For tonight's stream we'll be playing Big Rumble Boxing Creed Champions, going through the Arcade Mode for several characters to unlock stuff and possible get achievements! Plus PowerThumbz and Iceman are probably doing some Division stuff so we might join them around the 10 PM hour mark, so it might be a fairly long stream for a Tuesday. Which means using both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One... should be interesting.

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

From Overwatch Last Night To A Tooth Removal This Afternoon

Good morning everybody,

Well today's the day... I'm having a tooth removed... a molar on the right side of the mouth... am I nervous, yes I am... anyway my appointment is at 3:30 PM Eastern, and I should be home well before it's time for the nightly broadcast, but I'm not to sure of how bad the pain will be...

Anyway, last night's stream of course featured Overwatch as did a a couple runs of Junkenstein's Revenge, Quick Play and Mysteyr Hero bouts! Big thanks to PandaSweet and Oedu for joining in on the fun as we had our fair share of wins and losses when people were playing right... but we ran into a couple of players who elected not to focus on the objective at times. I picked up a few plays of the games as D.va, Junkrat and Torbjourn so that was cool!

Big shout out to oeduhc for following my Twitch channel last night as well, which means we have reached 1,100 followers! Woo-hoo, milestone!

Following the stream we sent the fun over to sw33ts_gaming over at twitch.tv/sw33ts_gaming as they were playing Back 4 Blood!

Twitch Clip Links

• Triple Kill!
• Just another Quad Kill
• A lucky landing 
  

Off-Stream stuff, made more progress on the Main Story Quest of Final Fantasy XIV from 'Coming to Terms' to 'Let Us Cling Together , which meant I ended up facing Shiva and wrapping up the Dreams of Ice story arc... and then I learned the next portion of the story is locked behind a trio of trials, to face Ifriti, Titan and Garuda once again... this time in the 'Hard' variants of their battles. 

That to be honest is kind of a bullshit way of introducing the 'repeat battles for rewards' mechanic with more of an intense difficulty challenge to be quite honest... because the Titan fight is the only one to me that doesn't make any sense! I mean seriously, there is virtually no tell when he jumps up and lands on ya, there is a ledge that if you fall off it you can't be revived... it's a total cluster fuck man! I mean seriously, how the hell can Titan be harder than Shiva who was added as a boss battle with a default hard difficulty from the start?! 

Speaking of Shiva... I do have to say, I love her design in FFXIV... then again, Shiva has always looked good in all of her appearances in the Final Fantasy games I've played.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 31 minutes with the following exercises: Straight Combo #2, Sway Back Combo and Hip Shape Focus Combo for an estimated calorie burn of 456 kcal. 

Here is the EX achievement update for Fitness Boxing 2 as of today... 318/365 consecutive days for One Year's Hard Work.... 26/30 hours for Janice's Contender.... 318/350 stamps for Unparalleled Stamper... 441,144/450,000 HITs for Monster Weight Puncher Lv. 4.

Tonight's stream as I mention at the start is questionable, as dealing with the gauze and other gimmicks I have to deal with regarding a pulled tooth may result in me being way out of it. I just know I'm fully stocked on apple sauce, yogurt and ice cream are all on hand. If I feel like I'm up to streaming, we may just play Final Fantasy XIV, but if I'm not we'll do a watch along over in my discord, the movie I have in mind is Dragnet.

So on that bombshell, I hope to see ya later today over on twitch.tv/fredcasden if note, if you're not apart of the Discord community, let me know and I'll invite ya, but otherwise be sure to check out Kalenal who normally streams Monday over on twitch.tv/kalenal!

Clementine's Journey Comes To An End

Good afternoon everyone...

Well last night's stream went way longer than I expected, but we covered all four episodes of The Walking Dead: The Final Season in one play through... I probably should have split it into two streams, but with the removal of a tooth scheduled for Monday, so I made the choice to play it how we played.

So the Final Season takes place three years after the events of New Frontier, and Clementine has recovered AJ from where David Garcia sent him. Because we kept Clem with Kenny at the end of season two, the fact that Clem can drive a stick shift makes a lot more sense. A big premise of The Final Season is tied to the fact that Clementine is now 'Lee' in that she is trying to raise AJ the right way, so every decision and choice matters to determine how he'll be in the end.

The Final Season also sees where Clementine has two potential love interests in the form of Violet and Louis, and shock of shock, we rolled Clem with Violet on the simple grounds of Louis not knowing when to shut up, a fact that leads to him getting his tongue cut out when he and others are captured by Lily, who turns up like a bad penny. That said, with Violet it comes across as two people who has gone through a lot of trauma finding each other in the most screwed up of circumstances... plus if you save Louis instead of Violet, she turns against you on Lily's boat

The reappearance of Lily is reminder of the selfish nature of humanity, and the 'me first' attitude as it expands on a few things that was already hinted at in A New Frontier, in that different settlements and factions are going to war with each other. We learn that Richmond, where Javier and Kate were, was a war zone by the time Clem found AJ. The other thing regarding Lily is that it is a strong call back to the first season and the idealistic differences between her and everyone else.

Of course the fact that Clementine gets bitten and her fate pretty much is left in the hands of AJ (she lives regardless) is really not needed, because when you look at the circumstances, Clementine could have avoided getting her foot sliced open that left her vunerable... I know why the developers had it happen, for the drama and to set up Clementine being Lee in telling AJ to either kill her or to run away... but considering Clem's streak of getting out of trouble, I kind of feel having it being a determining factor based on player's reaction time would've been better. Maybe having the time to react being shorter than every other instance, making it a near impossibility unless you act quickly enough would've meant Clem doesn't part of her leg.

Maybe I'm too hard on that aspect of the game with it being fresh in my mind at the time I'm writing this, but when you consider the dream Clementine has when she is talking to Lee to get some reassurance about her choices, which is even more heart breaking to watch...because you know Lee would've been proud of how Clem turned out, that everything he did in season one mattered. Add into the fact that for my play through of all the games, we kept the ties strong with the first season, siding with Kenny in every way possible in Season Two, plus bringing up Lee when we could as someone who meant the world to Clementine.

In my opinions, The Final Season was a great way for the TellTale series of Walking Dead games to end, as it ends with Clementine in a good place... however, I do have my concerns considering that the folks at Skybox have decided to continue Clementine's story in a comic book format. Now if they were doing the full series of games in a comic book format from start to end and then continuing the story from there, that would be cool, it would put it in the same realm as comic adaption of The Wolf Among Us... but a straight up continuation, where Clementine leaves AJ  behind just feels... wrong... 

Big thanks to long time friend of the channel Refoxukcov for using Twitch Prime to sub to my channel! The support is always appreciated!

Anyway Following the stream we sent the fun over to GGVexy who was playing House Flipper over at twitch.tv/ggvexy! 

The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series Achievements

1. Protector: Completed The Final Season Episode 1
2. Defender: Completed The Final Season Episode 2
3. Leader: Completed The Final Season Episode 3
4. Savior: Completed The Final Season Episode 4

Twitch Clip Links

• That's Romantic 
• You're Slipping Into The Boat! 
  
• Clem Gets Bit
• Clementine AXing Questions 
• Recovering Clem's Hat
  

So if the stream went 9 hours what time did I get to bed... late... or early... depends on how you look at 4 AM when you factor in all the post-stream stuff I do! Hell most people know these blogs are mostly written after each stream, which is when I put together the Facebook Highlight reels (along with the Twitch Bits following the Saturday streams). I really should consider starting Saturday and Sunday streams earlier...

It's time for this weeks Twitch Bits video, collecting clips which features moments from Overwatch, The Walking Dead: A New Frontier. Final Fantasy XIV, Gears of War: Judgement, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions & The Walking Dead: The Final Season! 

Of stream Final Fantasy XIV stuff, I did some playing yesterday afternoon, completing the series of Guildhests to have them available for the daily duty finder, plus knocking out the first two quests of the Dreams of Ice story arc, Traitor in the Midst and Back and Fourth, Even tried my hand at FF14's PVP content... which was a confusing mess!

By the way when it comes to archiving streams, things are being ported over to YouTube early, but they don't become viewable until a day or two later, depending on what's being sent over with scheduled 'going live' times of 9 AM.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 31 minutes with the following exercises: Hook Combo #1, Waist Shape Focus Combo and Block Combo for an estimate calorie burn of 470 Kcal.

For tonight's stream we'll be playing Overwatch because it is Sunday! We'll handle it as we did last week, mix of Junkenstein's Revenge and Quick Play matches!

So see ya later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden! 

The Primals And The Crystal Towers

Good afternoon everybody,

Last night's stream was a ton of fun with Final Fantasy XIV taking center stage. Of course we did stream it on Tuesday to finish the original campaign, but the reason we played it last night was because I didn't want to start up something else just yet.

So what did we do during FF14? Well the first big thing was dedicate time to doing the Crystal Tower story quest, which involved two Alliance Raids, since I did the first one off-stream on Thursday night, Both went smoothly... but there is a special place in hell for whoever came up with the ABC stuff for the fight against Cerberus in the 3rd Alliance Raid.

Of course a huge focus was playing the Main Story Quest, and we covered the second half of Through the Maelstrom (Patch 2.2), which saw the big battle against Leviathan, and huge thanks to Kalenal (twitch.tv/Kalenal) for jumping in to be apart of that and to coach me up on what needs to be during it. Then then MSQ content continued into the Defenders of Eorzea story arc  (Patch 2.3) and knocking out over half of it including the battle against Ramuh who truly has an epic beard.

The plot regarding the refugees and how some are treated in comparison to those who just arrived (Yugiri's people) is certainly borderline close to being a parallel to real world issues on immigration and taking care of the poor, to the point that if some of the dialog that didn't have voice acting did have it, it would have a hell of a lot more bite to it.

Also of note, I did knock out the back half of the Patch 2.3. story stuff off stream in the middle of the night as well, mostly because I realized the Guildhest are not just group tutorials but actual mini-dungeons.

Thank you to eltipometroidvania for the follow! I know they stream so you can check them out over on twitch.tv/eltipometroidvania! 

Also thank you to Dango42 for the raid! They were playing Final Fantasy XIV as well over on twitch.tv/Dango42! 

Following the stream we sent the fun over to SheepFuzz who was playing Jackbox Party Pack 8 over at twitch.tv/sheepfuzz!  

Twitch Clip Links

Learning How To Handle The Leviathan Battle

Let The Sun Shine In! 

I comment on the Music... and I get zapped...

Going through my DVD collection, I realize that I may need to add a couple of things to make it complete or look neat... so I'm in the process of tracking down a copy of Sudden Impact starring Clint Eastwood, which is of course apart of the Dirty Harry series of films, as well as Volumes 6 & 7 for both Gungrave and Chrono Crusade, two anime series from the early 2000s. 

Picked up Tales from the Glory Hole by Drace Domino, it is a tie-in to their earlier book Rise of the Battlebitch which was a great read. Also added Kingdoms of Amalur Re-Reckoning for the PlayStation 4 to the collection as well.

People are asking if the prop weapons that Alec Baldwin used to accidentally end the life of Filmmaker Halyna Hutchins are dangerous.... gee, let's go ask Brandon Lee who was on the receiving end of a prop malfunction back in 1993! Look if you're using weapons as props for films and if they are not correctly maintained, configured and triple check for safety purposes of course they are going to be fucking dangerous! Could it have been prevented yes, but at the very least this may see the stop of using REAL guns in film making.

There are some character changes in coming for Overwatch. Torbjorn's Overload's cool down is being reduced as is the consumption of ammo used when using the Rivet Gun's alternate fire. McCree's Deadeye is getting a shorter slower damage ramping speed and his combat roll can be used in the air, Moira's Biotic Orbs will have a slower speed when it has a target, and Junkrat is getting a near rework so that he's better at close range to reduce his long-range spam potential 

Speaking of McCree... he's getting a new name, Cole Cassidy... and to which I ask... when is Butch Sundance joining Overwatch? I'm apologizing for that joke, because everyone else picked up on the obvious 'Coal and Ash' because of the character of Ashe... me, I'm going for the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid reference!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 31 minuets with the following exercises.: Beginner Combo #2, Weaving Combo #2, Straight Combo #1 for an estimated calorie burn of 478 kcal... and I'm two months away from turning 39... ugh....

For tonight's stream we'll be playing The Walking Dead: The Final Season to wrap up that series! We'll start early because the goal is to play all four episodes!

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

Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions Is A Lot Of Fun!

 Good morning everybody,

For last night's stream, we hooked up the PS4 and played Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions for the first time!

Now I wasn't expecting much, maybe just a modern take on the Rocky games that were released for the PS2 over 15 years ago... in terms of presentation and how it looks, it's a real pretty game. The character models are on point for the licensed characters of Rocky, Apollo, Adonis, Clubber, the Dragos and the villain from the first Creed movie. There is a nice set of arenas, plus a back alley location, so not every fight is in the ring. The music is nice, with the real gem (and DMCA nightmare being Eye of the Tiger from Survivor).

Game play wise... it's a button masher, while the controls are simplistic... it's really more about overwhelming the opponent with a barrage of punches in a quick fashion. There does seem to be a delay or lag when it comes to blocking and dodging, which makes it a lot tougher than it needs to be.Still once I got the hang of it I was able to put some combos together

Now surprisingly there are quite a few unlockables, from bonus characters to alternate attires, and there are two ways of doing getting them. One is to go through the arcade mode with every default fighter at least once to unlock their respective alternate attires and a corresponding bonus character (example beating Arcade Mode with Rocky, unlocks Rocky's alternate trunks as well as Apollo Creed). The other method is to just do versus matches and grind out the requirements needed via an XP type bar to unlock something random.

With that said, I highly suggest and encourage going through the arcade mode, because every character has a story. With Rocky, he's telling Adonis stories, and you are replaying some of the big fights from the films, plus a couple to help stretch out the story mode. With Adonis, he's in a fixed tournament going up against guys he had issues with it... then you have Ramirez, whose story is a prequel to the original Rocky, where he is dealing with a loan shark and it caps off with street fight against a young Rocky... then you have Scraps, whose story is a fever dream involving having to fight for world peace against Ivan Drago and the resurrected Apollo Creed. 

Perhaps the biggest drawback is lack of online multiplayer, considering the roster, it seems like it would be a blast to play online. Oh well....

With Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions being a PlayStation 4 title, there are plenty of achievements to earn, and the best part is, because of the Arcade mode being a story mode, it justifies me streaming it again! And you can bet we'll go through everyone's story!  

Following the stream we sent the fun over to eltipometroidvania who was playing Super Punch-Out! over at twitch.tv/eltipometroidvania! 

Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions Trophies

1. This Guy Is Still Standing?: Land a Super Move 3 times in a single match
2. Finality: Win a match by Knockout using a Super Move
3. Ain't How Hard You Hit: Armor through a Basic Attack 10 times
4. Unmistakable Fire: Break your opponent's Guard Meter 3 times in a single match
5. It's How Hard You Can Get Hit: Armor through a Basic Attack 20 times
6. Sunshine And Rainbows: Break your opponent's Guard Meter 10 times
7. The Legend: Beat Rocky "The Italian Stallion" Balboa's Arcade Tower on Any Difficulty
8. Eye Of The Tiger: Win a match without Slip Countering or blocking any attacks
9. No Playing: Perform a Slip Counter 10 times
10. Imma Let You Finish: Interrupt an opponent's attack with a Super Move 10 times
11. No Jiving: Perform a Slip Counter 20 times
12. You Slip, I Slide: Slip Counter a Slip Counter 10 times
13. Just Business: Perform a Slip Counter 30 times
14. The Legacy: Beat Adonis "Hollywood" Creed's Arcade Tower on Any Difficulty
15. A Mean And Nasty Place: Break your opponent's Guard Meter 20 times
16. Flying High Now: Slip Counter your opponent 3 times in a single match
17. Head Trauma: Beat Luke "Scraps" O'Grady's Arcade Tower on Any Difficulty
18. Beat You To Your Knees: Break your opponent's Guard Meter 30 times
19. How Winning Is Done: Get the first Knockdown in a match without losing any health
20. One Step: Pierce an opponent's Guard with an Unblockable Move 5 times
21. Hit The Bars: Beat Axel "El Tigre" Ramirez's Arcade Tower on Any Difficulty

Twitch Clip Links

• Rocky: "Yo!" / Drago: "Die"
• Eye Of The Tiger! 
• Watch it!
• Apollo Creed Is Back From The Dead?! 
  

My off-stream Final Fantasy XIV adventures continued with my attention turned to the Crystal Tower story line, which involved my first taste of the Alliance Raids... and boy, just being told 'kill stuff and don't die' certainly was inspiring on my first successful run of Labyrinth of the Ancients. Granted I was downed once... but still managed to get through it, thanks to one person putting in some tips as well as having a wiki up to see where I'm supposed to go. Turned my attention also to the next steps in the Main Story Questline, which introduces Yugiri and the Doma, who are refugees who we get to bring to Reverenant's Toll... and I also learned that I'm now on a collision course with the next Primal... Leviathan... why do I feel there's going to be a Primal a giant  Tonberry

Am I nervous about my Dental appointment on Monday afternoon... yes... yes I am.

Received my copy of Daria: The Complete Animated Series today, and I wasn't expecting the delivery, in fact I didn't get a notification it would arrive until late this evening... after it already arrived. That said this box set is the 8 disc variant with all 5 seasons plus the two movies. The box set itself is from the era where for some reason, every packaging maker tried to be cute, and so the discs don't on the pegs neatly. Oh well.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily work out lasted 31 minutes with the following exercises: Advanced Combo #1, Intermediate Combo #2 and Weaving Combo #1 for an estimated calorie burn of 494 kcal.

For tonight's stream we're going to do something random,,, not completely sure, as I want to save doing more Big Rumble Boxing for next week as a feature title! Plus on Saturday, we're playing The Walking Dead:  The Final Season, so we need something chilled for tonight. We'll see what I come up with!

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

Puzzles And Judgment

Good morning everybody,

Last night's stream proved to be a lot of fun with a tad bit of frustration tossed in.

First off, we lead off with Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, with the goal of trying to beat it on the HARD difficulty setting with Dan on the standard arcade mode, then do it with another character (Ryu) also on the HARD difficulty setting in the classic arcade mode. The difference between the two is some sort of subtle balance change , but I didn't notice any difference. We were successful on both attempts which was really cool, so we've officially added Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix to the games finished list for this years tour! 

Then at 9 PM, the half way point of the stream, Iceman joined in as we started up Gears of War Judgement, as we continue our journey through the Gears Saga with the game set earliest in the time line. Marcus and Dom are not in it, as the focus is on Baird and Cole. The controls are slightly different than in the first three games so it's taking some getting use to, and the enemies are certainly a hell of a lot more up in your face. Iceman has played it before but it's been a long time for him, so it's almost a totally blind play through. We did clear the first two ACTs, and there are six in total, plus a bonus one for finishing the story that takes place in Gears of War 3. 

The story For Gears of War: Judgement is that Baird and his team are on trial for basically going against the orders given to them, and everything is being told as a flash back. So Baird is in the role of Marcus, and Cole is along for the ride as well, with two new characters Sofia and Paduk. As Iceman tells me, this game is basically explaining Baird's attitude in the first three games where he basically doesn't give a fuck about what those in charge have to say! 

Now for the ugly side of the night, three times during the stream, everything just froze, the stream didn't go down, it's just froze... all the USB devices (webcam, Elgato, speakers, stream deck) disconnected and then reconnected. I tried looking for a solution in Event viewer after restarting the PC but couldn't find any system errors... which I suspect were erased after when I restarted the PC after the stream....

Also, Twitch Raids weren't working so we couldn't send the fun along to anyone last night... so that was disappointing.

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix Achievements

1. Modern Battle Master: You completed X’ Arcade Mode on Hard or Expert Difficulty.
2. The Longest Journey: Ya-hoo! You have completed X’ mode (Hard or Expert difficulty) using only Dan.
3. Classic Battle Master: You completed X Arcade Mode on Hard or Expert Difficulty.

Gears of War: Judgement

1. Challenge Accepted: Completed your first Declassified mission
2. Ribbon Master: Earned 3 unique Ribbons in any section
3. They Called Him Karn: Completed Museum Of Military Glory
4. Level 5: Reached level 5
5. Open Arms: Completed Halvo Bay Military Academy
6. A Peek into the Future: Watched Aftermath teaser 

 Can I just point out how much Donald Trump has made my job difficult with how he has brainwashed the people who were nuts to begin with? Not every political poll has to do with him, even if he has to be included because of his influence.

Acquired Zarya's skin for week two of Overwatch's Halloween Terror 2021 event, I have gotten pretty good at picking my shots as McCree during Junkenstein's Revenge.

Started the Seventh Astral Era Quests for Final Fantasy XIV last night as well, these were apart of patch 2.1 released who knows how many years ago.  Anyway, the big goal was to knock out Thornmarch, a quest that releases a new duty assignment for group raids... and after a long wait was able to get into it... and involved fighting Moogles and their king.... it took a few attempts, but someone was about to relay what needed to be done and we were successful in the end, and we knocked out the rest of the story progress that sees the Scions base relocated from Vesper Bay to Mor Dhona. Also learned that there is a mandatory side quest involving the Crystal Tower that has to be done... joy....

Got the confirmation / reminder call for my Dentist Appointment on Monday at 3:30 PM, and I'm still up in the air on if we're going to stream that night or just do a watch along in the Discord of something.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 31 minutes with the following exercises Triple Combo #1, Body Straight Combo and Uppercut Combo #1 for an estimated calorie burn of 418 kcal

For tonight's stream we're going to hook up the PlayStation 4 and mess around with Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions, since November will mark the 45th anniversary of the release of Rocky (I think... not sure)

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

A Clueless Bard Saves The Realm

Good morning everybody,

Well what we did last night certainly caught me by surprised as the entire stream was indeed dedicated To Final Fantasy XIV.

Since I've been play FF14 off-stream most days, I've certainly covered a lot of ground, and thus last night it was almost like a straight line to the end of the original campaign... I said almost because there we were starting from Reclamation and we finished with The Ultimate Weapon, these were basically level 44 to level 50 quests in the Main Story, and I was level 55, so I was basically above what I needed to be for it.

I have to admit I did enjoy everything involved with the rescue of Minfilia and the other Scions, which had a real nice build up of scouting the area, getting the disguises and other items necessary to mount a rescue, but once that was done things certainly picked up quick in terms of a rapid escalation of the villains plot bringing things to a rather satisfying conclusion of the original story.

I will also admit I had trouble keeping up during Castrum Meridanium and Praetorium, for a new player to it, not having a clue of where to go and trying to follow the other players was rather tough, resulting in me getting lost and killed a couple of times, That said I did enjoy the boss battles, and the cut scenes were rather epic. In fact if it wasn't for the cut scenes I would have probably not been able to be apart of any the fun!

Have to again give credit to Kalenal (twitch.tv/Kalenal) for suggesting I go Archer / Bard since for the most part, I do stay out of trouble when I have to group with others in FF14 and can hold my own by running and shooting arrows!

I will of course continue to play Final Fantasy XIV mostly off-stream, but whenever there is a gap in the line up I'll work it in for a night of campaign stuff. Who knows how far along I'll be by the next time FF14 finds itself being featured!

Following the stream we sent the fun over to Joliet4 who was doing a live music stream over at twitch.tv/joliet4!

Twitch Clip Links

• Just another FATE completed
• Wedge is Sus 
  
• Okay... who brought the death star.... Oh.... Ohhhh....
• Yeah we're here... what of it? 
  
• He went down easy enough
• We haven't meddled enough at all!
  

I know there are achievements for Final Fantasy XIV, but I don't know where there is an easy way outside of the game to see the list of what I've managed to complete like with other games

Started progress for the Zarya skin which is the reward for week two of Overwatch's Halloween Terror 2021, mostly using Mystery Heroes because those matches end up being really quick. 

Work was kind of blah yesterday as it was mostly a case of waiting for connects, goes to show how dry the job can be when most people work the mornings to early afternoons. I could make that switch myself... but that means working out after lunch.... who knows maybe we'll give that a shot someday.

Speaking of which, today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 31 minutes with the following exercises Advance Combo #2, Left-Right Step Combo & Double Combo #2 for an estimated calorie burn of  As you can tell by the screen shot my timing was a bit off with the number of OK actions performed.

For tonight's stream Iceman will be joining the fun around 9 PM as we'll be starting up Gears of War Judgement! But since the stream starts before then, I'll mess around with a few other things... probably try getting an achievement in Super Puzzle Fighter II HD Remix by beating it on Hard difficulty? It's possible.

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