A Full Night Of Turtle Power,

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge was full of Turtle Power. Granted trying to find full games to join or even start with the hope of randoms joining was an adventure in and of itself, but we did do a full arcade run as Splitter, and thus I am counting it as a game finished on stream. The story mode has more of an RPG element to it, but it is basically the same as the arcade mode.

Of course the net-code issues I mentioned the other day were on full display depending on when people are joining into games, and some weird latency issues. Of course once you get six people playing on screen at the same time it because pure chaos and nearly impossible to tell where you are at any given moment depending on how quickly people are building up their super meters. 

We did get a few achievements done last night, some of which involved just some general progression and doing repeated tasks. I did go back into it after the stream to knock out as many achievements as I could, so on the list below, the first six were done on stream, the remainder were done off-stream.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge Achievements

• INEFFECTIVE!: Defeat the Rat King while using Splinter.
• Pizza Time!: Eat 20 pizzas.
• Breaking Out!: Destroy 200 breakable objects.
• Button Masher: Win the mini-game in Coney Island.
• Sharing is Caring!: Cheer up the same teammate 3 times in a single stage.
• Buffoons!: Put an end to Bebop and Rocksteady's run in Story Mode. 
• Opening an Antique Store?: Find 5 different collectibles in Story Mode.
  Empire Strikes Out: Retreat the Triceraton empire in Story Mode.
• Mode 7: Throw 16 enemies toward the camera.
• Clean Up in Aisle 4: Stop Chrome Dome before he can rebuild the old Technodrome in Story Mode.
• Biggest Fan!: Find all cameos in Story Mode.
• Complete Season: Complete the Story Mode.
• Beware Lawbreakers!: Play as Casey Jones.
• Finally Getting Along!: Cheer up Raphael while playing as Casey Jones.
• Multitasker: Complete all of the special requests in Story Mode
  

Twitch Clips

• Splitter vs The Rat King
• She got beaten by a rat 
• Everybody work together
  

For the raid we dropped in on Oldish22 who was playing Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/oldish22!  

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Triple Combo #2, Front-Back Step Combo and Defensive Combo #2 for a 28 minute workout

Why is it everyone wanted Amber Heard's head on a platter, but people are actually defending Ezra Miller? I don't get it.

Messed around a bit with Friday the 13th: The Game on the Xbox side of things. We might have it as an option for random Saturdays.

Friday the 13th: The Game Achievements

• He's Back: Get killed by Jason.

A new week is starting, so let's take a look back at moments from the previous week, which included Overwatch, Vampire Survivors, Persona 4: Arena, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 5 Royal and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge!

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For tonight's stream, well, it's Sunday which means Overwatch is on deck!

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

Entering The Home Stretch Of Persona 5 Royal

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Persona 5 Royal was very productive on two fronts, one we spent a ton of time in Mementos, finding every single Stamp in the areas of the original game, then the finding 40 in the added area that ties into Maruki's Palace... and then we tackled the Palace itself, finding all three Will Seeds and securing the route to Maruki's treasure. There were a few things I probably over looked in terms of treasures, but at the same time I hit the max level for Joker and the rest of the Phantom Thieves (Level 99), maxed out yen (9,999,999) and also hit 99 on several Personas. 

As of this time, we have put in 136 hours in, and the way I figure, with all the cut scenes and remaining things to do, there are probably close to four hours of game play left. So we will be finishing Person 5 Royal on next Friday's stream! Also with only two trophies left, and both are story related, we'll be able to Platinum Persona 5 Royal as well! Woo-hoo!

Oh an yes, I am rather pleased with the screenshot I took at the end of Joker & Sumeri's Showtime. That was just perfectly timed.

Persona 5 Royal (PS4) Trophies

• A Serene Experience: Visited a temple. 

Twitch Clips

• An Anonymous Cheerer Cheering Anonymously!
• Sumeri's Showtime 
• We Want The Panda!
  

For last night's raid we dropped in on x9abenonymous9x who was playing Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown over on twitch.tv/x9abenonymous9x!  

Five years ago with my original YouTube channel, a lot of dirt bags were stealing my videos and posting them on their own channels... but I found a few of them still floating around YouTube and promptly uploaded them. You can find them over at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoZDn5flULzEeJlW0Rw2X2Q

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Biceps Shape Focus Combo, Intermediate Combo #1 and Difficulty Challenge Combo #1 for a duration of 34 minutes.

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise Stats for Week Of June 12 to 18, 2022

• Punches Thrown: 8,577
  
• Estimated Calorie Burn:3611.62 kcal
  
• Sophie's Contender Progress: 90% (27 out of 30 hours trained)
  
• King EX Fighter Progress: 93%
  

My fantasy baseball team is doing rather well this week... granted I've had to make a number of moves, and staying up to date on whose starting and who isn't can be a real pain, particularly when it comes to anyone who is playing on the west coast.

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For tonight's stream we'll be playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredders Revenge. Hopefully we won't have any issues with the game's net code for online play.

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

Just your usual productive night of FF14

Good morning everyone,

Well last night's stream had no issues with internet connectivity so everything went smoothly overall. We got a few things done, getting close to level 90 for Fishing, we knocked off several levels for Botany to get that into the mid-50s, we're passed level 35 as Dragoon... and even got a new spell as Blue Mage. Things for the most part were positive until I went for the Blue Mage spell, and I'd just assumed I would be helping out... but turned out I had to be the one to look up how to get through one dungeon boss. 

Twitch Clips

• We Don't Want The Gift Of Flames!
• Where is my team?! 
• Dramatic Finish
  

For the raid we dropped in on YrGamerBunni who was doing a Just Chatting theme and working on various projects plus playing a bit of Fortnite over at twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni!  

Messed around with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, and for the most part is is a great game... but it does have some noticeable bugs with the game soft locking at different points, some bad connectivity due to questionable netcode, not spawning into levels and so forth. Still manages to nab some achievements 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge Achievement

• Teamwork: Perform 10 Team Attacks in multiplayer.
• Most Fearsome Fighting Team!: Complete a Stage in any mode in multiplayer.
• Come On!: Got hit while performing a taunt.
• Kind Brother: Revive a teammate in multiplayer.
• A + B: Finish a boss using a Super Attack.
• Classic Couch Memories: Complete the Arcade Mode in Multiplayer.
• Master of One Quarter: Complete the Arcade Mode without using a credit.
• Special Report: Stop the rogue Channel 6 broadcast in Story Mode.
• Return to Sender: Deflect 10 projectiles.
• Piped Piper!: Trespass the royal grounds of NYC sewers and defeat the Rat King in Story Mode.
  

Have I ever mentioned I'm not the biggest fan of having work assignments that involve dealing with people in New York City? Because I'm not. The only positive was that the assignment was short

Already put in the Pre-Order for Overwatch 2 and signed up for the cross-play Beta. Hopefully we'll be apart of it and start working it into streams in the coming weeks.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout involved Block Combo, Difficult Challenge Combo #2 & Difficult Challenge Combo #3 for 34 minutes. From what I can tell we're over 27 hours in towards the Sophie's Contender EX Achievement.

I was surprised the Phillies walked all over the Nationals last night... but if anything the inconsistent offense is going to be re-exposed sooner rather than later because today they have a double-header.

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For tonight's stream, we are getting back to Persona 5 Royal. We have a few main objectives, one involves dealing with unlocking the 3rd and final Personas for the remaining team members, and probably diving deep into Mementos and probably the final palace of the game.

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

Just Doing Things In Fallout 76

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Fallout 76 was mostly without incident, until the game itself started crashing repeatedly when I messing around with stuff related to the Brotherhood of Steel. Don't know why things like that happen on Consoles but who knows. We were also joined by Iceman who accessed the Fallout 1st gimmick which means we could probably knock out dailies rather quickly when he's able to join which means more of a chance to tackle the scoreboard things. Overall thing were mostly straight forward last night. I did hope to hit level 35, but that was a no go on stream. Did duck back in off-stream to knock out a bit to reach that mark... but ran out of 5.56 ammo. Also I basically have the option of joining the Brotherhood of Steel, not sure if there is another faction or not and who would technically be the good guys.

Fallout 76 Achievements

• Shwag: Collect 10 Bobbleheads

Twitch Clips

• Anyone Else Want Some?
• Get Away From My Stuff!
• Another Thing Comes Running Up On Iceman 
  

For the raid last night we dropped in on DaemonsW0lf who was playing Hunt: Showdown and celebrating their birthday over at twitch.tv/daemonsw0lf! 

Played some Smite last night knocking out a few weekly quests which involved playing as Hunters and Assassins... and of the two classes, I'm much better as a Hunter. Still played two matches as Thanatos and Charybdis, unlocking an achievement with the later.

SMITE Achievements

• Drown Your Sorrow: Unlock the Smite Award "Drown Your Sorrow"

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout Featured Intermediate Como #2, Hip Shape Focus Combo and Straight Combo #2.

We had work yesterday afternoon, and from what I learned, is that Republicans are completely delusional as it pertains to Roe vs Wade and gun violence. How can these people have their head so far up their asses at this point is beyond me.

Rather surprised the Phillies won yesterday afternoon as I was following the game via Twitter

Apparently the WWE Board of Directors is targeting Vince McMahon himself for a $3 Million payment of hush money... and no this has nothing to do with the hush money he paid to keep Jimmy Snuka out of prison back in the 80s, and it involves some major speculation regarding John Laurenitits as well. Will be very interesting to see if this forces Vince out of his own company considering Stephanie has taken a leave of absence recently. Apparently the investigations started in April and there has been enough found for it to be made public.

And speaking of WWE, looks like Sasha Banks has been let go... I know maybe two people are sadden by that.

LvStrkr said he would join us for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge fun on Saturday if he's not too busy, so we could have some co-op silliness with the new game this weekend! I have already pre-installed the game on my Xbox One S.

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For tonight's stream, the plan is of course Final Fantasy XIV, which will focus on all the usual nonsense of raids and basic level grinding on alternate jobs.

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

Completed 3 Of Persona 4 Arena's Story Arcs

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream was mostly without incident, with the exception of a weird outage at 9:10 PM, as it appears there was a disruption of not just my internet service but also my cable service as well, at least according to the Xfinity app. It's the first sign of a problem since Saturday afternoon. 

Anyway, we went through the story mode of Persona 4: Arena for Aigis& Labrys to completion as well as the back portion for Yukiko. There was certainly a lot of back story revealed for Labrys and atd the same time Aigis as well in terms of their origin but boy did it raise a ton of questions about how the hell the continuity works with the various arcs for each characters. Unlike in BlazBlue where every story felt connected, with some time-manipulation, I'm really not sure if a a similar gimmick is in place with P4A because of how Aigis and Yukiko's endings seem quite definitive. Of course we'll be continuing going through Persona 4: Arena during next week's line up to work our way through full story arcs from start to finish (and finding the joke endings as well). This will be possible because we did do Labrys's story in full so nearly everyone will have a straight path to the end.

Huge thanks to Redneck_23 and Iceman7667 for renewing their sub to my Twitch channel, as well as to YrGamerBunni for the bits!

Persona 4: Arena Achievements

• The President: Labrys' Story chapter has been told.
• The Unconquerable: Yukiko's Story chapter has been told.
• The Angel: Aigis' Story chapter has been told.

Twitch Clips

• I was just joking about that
• Nearly Flawless 
• Sweet!
  

For the raid we dropped in on Elden Ring who was playing Elden Ring over at twitch.tv/tracydoll! 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Advanced Combo #1, Sway Back Combo and Beginner Combo #2 for 34 minutes

Jeff Hardy was arrested... again... it seems like being away from the WWE is not what was best for him; because he was working a toned down style prior to literally walking out... and now after going to AEW and going balls out in the ring again, look at how quickly he's falling into old habits.  

Since the Score Board Bot was working, it meant I was able to keep tract of the Phillies epic collapse to the Marlins last night... I told ya'll that hot streak they were on wasn't because Joe Giradi was fired.

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I was surprised that there was a huge Fallout 76 patch update (25+ GBs) which I promptly installed last night, so it's going to be interesting to see what it involves. Also learned that with the new seasons the 'scoreboard thing' resets, so there is real incentive to try and do daily activities

Of course that will relate to tonight's stream which of course will featured Fallout 76, and Iceman will most likely join us for more shenanigans!

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

Vampire Survivors: Simple, Difficult And Awesome

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Vampire Survivors was a lot more fun than even I was anticipating as I figured out what combination of items worked out best for me, and having some runs that lasted over 20 minutes!  One thing I did realize is that the Pentagon power up is a great screen clear, but it not only takes out enemies, but also all the XP gems and pick-ups that are on screen. In terms of levels, I did make it to the 3rd level of the game overall, and found the mandatory item... but to progress further would require a lot grinding to build up the powers up one can have heading into a level. The music in the second stage, the library is pretty kick ass. Of course there was a hilarious moment that when I took a break I forgot to un-mute my mic.

Also the stream featured the unboxing of the latest Funko POP I've added too my collection of WWE's Becky Lynch, in particular the 'Becky Two Belts' variant, so now I have all three Funko figures of the last Superstar in wrestling that really had my full attention.

 Vampire Survivors Achievements

• Lightning Ring: Defeat a total of 5000 enemies.
• Magnet: Find a Vacuum.
• Arca: Get Fire Wand to Level 4.
• Porta: Get Lightning Ring To Level 4.
• Mortaccio: Defeat a total of 3000 skeletons.
• Cross: Find a Rosary.
• Duplicator: Get Magic Wand To Level 7.
• Clover: Find a Little Clover.
• Poe Ratcho: Get Garlic to level 7.
• Spellbinder: Get Runetracer To Level 7.
• Pentagram: Survive 20 minutes with any character.
• Inlaid Library: Reach Level 20 in Mad Forest.
• Stone Mask: Find a Stone Mask.
• Suor Clerici: Recover a lifetime total of 1000 HP.
• Thunder Loop: Evolve the Lightning Ring.
• Dairy Plant: Reach Level 40 in Inlaid Library.
• Milky Way Map: Find the Milky Way Map.
• NO FUTURE: Evolve the Runetracer.
• Magic Banger: Find the Magic Banger.

Twitch Clips 

• Becky Two Belts In All Here Big Headed Glory
• That is just mean game! 
• End of my best run 25 minutes, level 70
• We finally got a health item but... 
  

During the stream we had a big raid from Kalenal who was playing Tunic over at twitch.tv/kalenal! 

For our raid, we dropped everyone off over at YrGamerBunni's stream who was playing Mass Effect 3 (Legendary Edition) over at twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni! 

Now that I think about it, yesterday was the most achievements I've earned on a game through Steam in quite a while since I've mostly focused on console gaming over the past 18 months.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Uppercut Combo #1, Hook Combo #1 and Waist Shape Focus Combo for 30 minutes.

Capcom had some interesting thing in their showcase, with Monster Hunter Rise getting a big update, Exo-Primal getting a new trailer, hype for the Capcom Fighting Collection and Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium. I know a lot of folks are excited for things being added to Resdient Evil VILLage with it getting a story expansion and a third-person mode.

Speaking of Capcom, Dragon's Dogma has celebrated its 10th anniversary and I totally forgot LvStrkr gifted me that game early last year.  Really going to have to give that a look probably once Persona 5 Royal is finished.   

Put in the pre-order for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, so I we'll be featuring that on Stream for Saturday this week. I now have to think of when was the last time I did anything associated with the Ninja Turtles on my channel and I think it was with Out of the Shadows back during my 2nd or 3rd year of streaming. Oh wait, I know I played the Arcade ROMs of the Arcade Game and Turtles in Time.

Started work on the latest commission fan fic request, and I'll admit I'm lifting Cody's post match interview whole-sale to serve as the introduction and awkward transition to the action. 

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For tonight's stream, we'll be getting back to Persona 4: Arena and working on the story mode... and I realize that there is probably an efficient way to go through it. 

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

A New Week Begins

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Overwatch was pretty fun, as we were joined by PandaSweet and a friend of theirs named Snow. I ended up with a pair of plays of the game, both as D.va in very key moments. Also on the surprising side, I even picked up an achievement as Junkrat. Other characters I used were Reinhard, Moira & Ashe. A general observation is that there was a strong uptick in overly aggressive game play, and the queue time to play damage roles were a lot longer than normal, but there was also an issue of getting replacement tanks and support role players in some matches.

Overwatch Achievements

• Mine Like A Steel Trap: Knock an enemy into your steel trap using Junkrat's Concussion Mine in Quick or Competitive play.

Twitch Clips

• Persona On Xbox Reaction
• Overwatch 2 Reaction 
• I'm still here!
• That's Four! 
• Just Dva Things
  

For the raid, we dropped in on x9abenonymous9x who was playing Aee Combat 7: Skies Unknown over at twitch.tv/x9abenonymous9x! 

Going to Overwatch 2 for a moment, based on her teaser trailer, I will not be surprised if Drace Domino will end up with a bunch of commission work based on the Junker Queen.  

I became aware of an issue with the Sports Score Bot after the stream, hopefully the people behind it will solve the issues, because it has been a really cool addition to my stream.

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

While I have played Diablo III, I'm not 100% sold on what I saw with the Trailer of Diablo 1V, but then again, I wasn't a fan of the ending of Diablo III.But if it has the implied cross-play component then we might give it a look.

When we raided Kalenal (twitch.tv/kalenal) on Saturday night, we got a very good recommendation for a game called Vampire Survivors which we'll feature on tonight's stream. It is a rouge-lite game where you see how long you can survive. There are different glasses of characters, and I have already given it a shot, even picking up a number of achievements for it. Currently Vampire Survivors is only available on Steam.

Vampire Survivors Achievements

• Wings: Reach Level 5.
• Hollow Heart: Survive 1 minute with any character.
• Fire Wand: Destroy 20 light sources.
• Lancet: Find an Orologion.
• Empty Tome: Have 6 Different Weapons.
• Candelabrador: Get Holy Water To Level 4.
• Peachone: Survive 10 minutes with any character.
• Crown: Reach Level 10.
• Runetracer: Survive 5 minutes with Pasqualina.
• Garlic: Find 5 Floor Chickens.
• Lightning Ring: Defeat a total of 5000 enemies.
• Magnet: Find a Vacuum.
• Arca: Get Fire Wand to Level 4.
• Pummarola: Survive 5 minutes with Gennaro.

Now for tonight's stream, we shall feature Vampire Survivors, even though getting OBS to capture it involves having to use Window Capture, because for whatever reason Game Capture does not work, and setting it to full screen doesn't fill up the full screen. 

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