Xfinity Causing Problems Yet Again

Good afternoon everyone,

Well after two full days of no problems, the issues with Infinity reared its ugly head yet again with six stream restarts, one involved a full reset of the modem. I did try to piece together the whole night into one video, but that would take too long to render, and when I make videos they typically would be at more 20 minutes long, and not 5 hours. So the YouTube channel will have the uninterrupted portion of the stream that last two out of the five hours. I did place yet another call to Xfinity last night

As for the night of Overwatch, outside of getting disconnected in the middle of some matches, we had a lot of fun. We were joined by PandaSweet and PatDes for several matches. Characters I mostly used weird D.va, Reinhardt and Moira. Picked up one Play of the Game as D.va, which keeps the weekly streak going. With Overwatch 2's beta launching this week and the fact I did do the pre-order, means we should be able to experience during one of the streams later in the week (either split with Final Fantasy XIV or on Saturday).

Big thankst to YrGamerBunni for kicking in 200 bits during the stream as well as testing out some of the new sound effect redemptions!

Twitch Clips

• Poor Service From Xfinity A Day Before I'm Paying Them...
• I dropped some bags of tea back there... 
• There's A Combo!
• That's Three! 
  

For the raid we dropped in on jonnietortilla who was playing Ark: Survival Evolved over at twitch.tv/jonnietortilla!  

I was so annoyed with the issues with Xfinity last night that instead of doing my laundry today, I did it right after the stream. Granted I don't go anywhere, so I have only one load to do, but still, I needed to take my mind off of things.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout involved Advanced Combo #1, Sway Back Combo and Beginner Combo #2 for 34 minuets. 

Back in the late 1990s, I was aware of the video game Blade Runner which was based on the film of the same name. Never played it, as the requirements for it where clearly too much for my computer at the time... but I am surprised that it basically has gotten a remake. Of all the PC games of the mid to late 90s that I'm personally aware, I would not have thought Blade Runner would be the one to get a second chance at life. That said... apparently the remake is dog shit. Who knows, maybe someday we'll give it a look since it was a game I was curious about over 20 years ago.

With Bryce Harper being placed on the injured list for at least the next 10 days, my Fantasy Baseball team is without its most contestant hitter.

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For tonight's stream, I haven't made up my mind on what we're going to do, as the issues with Xfinity certainly had me really perpexed. But we'll be up to something and hopefully this will be a smooth stream this evening.

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

We Finally Played Fall Guys

Good afternoon everyone, 

Well despite Fall Guys being out on PS4 and PC for quite some time, I waited until after it went Free to Play (and being available on Xbox console) to finally play it... and it's a lot of fun. It's bright it's colorful, it's silly and really it comes down to the skill one has and luck to be able to advance in each round. There are a nice variety of game modes , so not every session is the same. However because these game modes are randomized, there is always that possibility of seeing some things more often than not. Still this was a lot of fun, and we'll keep it as an option of things to do.

Big thanks to Redneck_23 and an Anonymous Cheerer for kicking in 310 bits during the course of the stream. The support and cheers are always appreciated!

Fall Guys Achievements

• Big Bully: Knock someone over
• One small trip: Qualify from your first round
• Flawless Victory: Qualify from a round without falling over even once
• Snowflake: Equip your first cosmetic item
• Troublemaker: Bump into 3 people while rolling on the ground before getting up
• Fall Throttle: Reach terminal velocity
• Face First: Qualify from a racing round despite falling over more than 10 times
• Style Points: Fall for at least 3 seconds before landing on your head
• Stumble Chums: Bump into other Fall Guys 1000 times in total
• One to Watch: Reach lvl 10 fame during a season

Twitch Clips 

• Fall Throttle
• I'm stuck! 
• We made it!
  

For the raid we dropped in on ChristalRaine who was also playing Fall Guys over on twitch.tv/ChristalRaine! 

Soon to be former WWE Superstar Paige has been rightfully going off the stupid arguements that Pro Lifers want to give, and it's made for some great stuff. You can see a lot of it over on her Twitter feed at https://twitter.com/RealPaigeWWE

Something that I did find interesting was how quick Nancy Pelosi was to send out 'fund raising' emails, when the Democratic party has had numerous opportunities to get things done to make sure Women Rights were not infringed upon. Then there was a rally in Cherry Hill, New Jersey yesterday, and from what I understand  

Finally finished the latest Commission Fic request based around Brock Lesnanr, setting it with his latest return. Unfortunately, the next request I got was another WWE story this time involving Roman Reigns and well, that's a hard pass. I don't find Roman to be a compelling character to write as he has less depth than even Brock. The pairing was to put Roman with Alexa Bliss during her Fiend phase... and that was not exactly ideal.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout featured only Hook Combo #1 and Waist Shape Focus Combo... I... woke up super late. But the daily streak continued!

We've officially added Capcom Fight Collection to the Xbox side of things, so expect to see the games in that bundle featured in the coming weeks, probably after we're finished with Persona 4: Arena. Also added Last Stop which from what I understand is a game similar to that that made by TellTale.

Watched another episode of Stargate SG-1 last night, titled 'The Enemy Within' (Season 1, Episode 2)... and it does make me want to watch the first episode again just to see if there was a shot of Kawalsky grabbing his neck as if he wrenched it as indication he was infected with a Goa'uld larvae. This was a solid episode on a few fronts in terms of establishing that bottle episodes could easily be done and still be compelling, since everything seen was mostly at Stargate Command. The operation scene was particularly well done to keep tension high, and the big reveal that Kawalsky was taken still holds up nicely.

Let's take a look back at all the games we featured over the past week which included: Overwatch, Persona 5 Royal, Persona 4 Arena, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Star Trek Online, Persona 5 Strikers and Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout!

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For tonight's stream, well you know it's Sunday which means Overwatch is on deck to kick off the new week!

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

We Started Up Persona 5 Strikers

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Persona 5 Strikers was without incident, in fact, I had no issues at all with Xfinity yesterday, which made the shift for my day job rather smooth.

Now my first impressions of Persona 5 Strikers is that its already a solid sequel to Persona 5 Royal, and outside of just the big references to all the stuff that happened overall, there is not much reliance on the older games (or rather vanilla Persona 5). The music is pretty solid, but the game play is obviously the big departure. For the most part I have no issue with general combat in the 'Jails', but the boss fights really seem like they are going to be a problem because Skill Points management is going to be a problem.

Now the stream itself lasted eight and half hours, so we covered basically the entire first story arc, and I noticed that the first arc involving Alice is rather focused on Ann, and the start of the second arc in Sendai seems to be heavily focused on Yusuke. So I wonder if there will be strong parallels with the Persona 5's Palace Order

Persona 5 Strikers Trophies

• It's Showtime!: Activated Showtime.
• Back in Business: Witnessed the Phantom Thieves' reunion.
• Seeker of Power: Used Incense.
• Impulse Buyer: Bought something during a limited time sale.
• Ultimate Trump Card: Obtained all Master Arts for Joker.
• Cage of Lust Closed: Completed the Shibuya Jail.
• Short Order Cook: Cooked food for the first time. 

Twitch Clips

• Just A One Letter Difference
• Show's Over! 
• The Defeat Of Alice
  

For the raid we dropped in on DimakTV who was also playing Persona 5 Strikers over at twitch.tv/dimakTV! 

My fantasy baseball team is having one hell of a bad week... at this rate, I know I'm going to end up at the very least in the middle of the pack by the end of the season.

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

Fitness Boxing 2 Rhythm & Exercise Stats For The Week June 19-25, 2022

• Punches Thrown 7,669
• Estimated Calorie Burn 3298,89
• Bernardo's Champion Progress: 62% (31 out 50 hours)
• King EX Fighter Process: 94% of EX Achievement Acquired
  

If you believe having the right to own a gun is more important than women's rights, then you can go fuck yourself. Hell people will see in the archived form of last night's stream that I basically opened by quoting nearly verbatim George Carlin's monologue on these issues from the late 1990s. Needless to say, I now worry for a lot of other rights that Conservative leaning Supreme Court may attack next. 

But as I said last night, Conservatives, who are mostly Christian and White, don't give a damn about the lives of the unborn, they don't care about women... all they care about is having as many impressionable minds available to shove into a glorified cult. 

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For tonight's stream we'll be checking out Fall Guys and probably will mess around with other stuff!

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

From Final Fantasy to Star Trek Online

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream featured both Final Fantasy XIV and Star Trek Online, however the stream was broken up into two parts because Xfinity was causing some issues. I had problems with them in the afternoon when I was working, lost a couple of completions. I Called Xfinity again, got hung up on, as I was asking for specific information,. So you can imagine how pissed off I was a 1 AM in the morning

Anyway, for the Final Fantasy XIV portion we did the usual bit of the run of the Aglaia alliance raid, plus a trial (which turned out to be against The Mother Crystal), we did some Fishing and some heavy leveling on the Botanist side job. I decided not to do anything with Lancer because of how we were banged the entire back end of the Heavansward Botany quests and started the Stormblood ones as well. With luck we might knock those out all in one go next week.

So I made t he call to do some Star Trek Online, and as per usual with STO, when it came to running Task Force Operations, the fixed time component made some drag super long while at the same time others were done within three minutes or less. Spent some time adding a new uniform for my Captain and showing off some dance emotes at Club 47 as well.

Twitch Clips 

• Thanks for the 300 Bits!
• Beggin 
• Come Out Come Out Wherever You Are
• Just Some Dancing 
  

For the raid we dropped in on BaronVizkopa who was also playing Star Trek Online over at twitch.tv/BaronVizkopa!   

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Double Combo #2, Triple Combo #1 and Weaving Combo #1 for 31 minutes. As a reminder, after hitting Sophie's Contender yesterday, we're back to using Bernardo as the trainer in pursuit of the Bernardo's Champion EX achievement.

While the Senate passed its first gun violence related bill since the mid-1990s, the Supreme Court of the United States made things more complicated by ruling against New York stats gun carried laws, which in turn could cause problems in New Jersey where I live. It comes as no shock to me that the Supreme Court only 25% of Americans have any real confidence in it.

Going back to talking about work, in the state of Maryland, there is a lot of debate regarding regulation of waste disposal when it comes to the numerous chicken raising facilities throughout the state that are contracted to the likes of Perdue and Tyson Foods. Some folks are really for doing what it takes to protect their communities, but these major companies are quite against anything that affects their bottom line. 

How does a penguin build its house? Igloos it together.

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For tonight's stream we'll be starting up Persona 5 Strikers, which takes places a few months after the events of Persona 5 Royal.

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

We had to rebuild the house in Fallout 76...

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Fallout 76 didn't have any issues with my internet connection near as I can tell, there was some minor frame drops but nothing major.

As far as what we did last night... well the first two hours was spent rebuilding my house because when I logged in things my camp was blocked by another. I tried finding a new location but couldn't quite find any place that would work. So we rebuilt the whole thing into a three-story dwelling. We were joined by Iceman and we gradually knocked out a few major quests but got stuck trying to figure out how to enter the sewer of the chemical plant. We'll tackle that next week.

Big thanks to Redneck_23 for kicking in a couple of bits during the stream! The support is always appreciated.

Fallout 76 Achievements

• Moneybags: Possess 10,000 Caps
• Gimme Gimme!: Pick 50 Locks
• Gold Star Crafter: Craft a 1 star legendary mod, a 2 star legendary mod, and a 3 star legendary mod

Twitch Clips

• They can open doors?!
• We Got In And Out
• And then it exploded... 
  

For the raid we dropped in on YrGamerBunni who was playing Mass Effect 3 over on twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni! 

Have not quite figured out the opening for the latest commissioned fic based around WWE content that was requested of me. Might go with something generic...

Had a great assignment with work yesterday as it focused on a proposal to preserve the areas in and around the Grand Canyon.

I've decided that on Friday's stream we'll start up Persona 5 Strikers... hopefully I can figure out it's game play

People are worried about Star Wars burn out... considering how Disney has shoved the franchise down everyone's throat over the last decade, I can say.... it's long over due.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Beginner Combo #1, Body Hook Combo and Left-Right Step Combo for 25 minutes. With this session we knocked out the Sophie's Contender EX achievement. Which leaves just the Champion EX Achievements for Sophie, Laura, Martina, Bernardo and Evan. We'll be switching trainers from Sophie to Bernardo

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise EX Achievements

• Sophie's Contender: Train with Sophie For Over 30 Hours
• King EX Fighter Achievement - 94% Complete
  

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For tonight's stream, we'll be playing Final Fantasy XIV, you know the drill... an Alliance Raid, maybe a Trial, some Fishing, botany and Dragoon leveling and some other stuff.

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

More Persona 4 Arena... More Xfinity Troubles

Good morning everyone,

Well last night's stream of Persona 4 Arena wasn't all in one session, as the stream got broken into three parts... because we had two stream interruptions / resets thanks to Xfinity. Now my internet didn't go down fully, but there were some issues that certainly persisted throughout the day of the upstream just hanging... and this goes to when I was working yesterday afternoon as well. I did call Xfinity last night after a modem reset to see what's involved with swapping the 2 cable boxes I have for a wireless variant. Not it took nearly 40 minutest to questions answered over what could be done to make things as seamless as possible as well as inquiring about the unlimited data cap plan option. Sad part was I didn't get all the questions I wanted answered because I was put on hold for 15 minutes of said call.

Now for the gaming of Persona 4 Arena, we covered two story arcs fully, first Mitsuru and then Naoto, and combined they took over four hours to get through. Granted I started off doing full narration of Mitsuru's story for the first hour, but even with setting the speed of the text to fast, there is a lot ground covered. I did find Naoto's to be more engaging as every other 'chapter' had a fight that had to be played, so the story of how events played out from their perspective to be a lot of fun. Not to mention, Naoto seems to be the most progressive character in terms of basically being gender neutral to some degree.

We also did an arcade run with Labrys, and both does she have some real wonky attack patterns to learn to be effective with. I did like her post-match trash talk of everyone on the arcade ladder. Did managed to figured out her Instant-Kill move which was pretty bad ass. Also learned it can be blocked.

Big thanks to RedFoxCovUK for resubscribing to my Twitch Channel last night, as well to the anonymous cheerers who tossed in quite a few bits!

Persona 4: Arena Achievements

• The Queen: Mitsuru's Story chapter has been told.
• The Detective: Naoto's Story chapter has been told.

Twitch Clips

• And It was that moment he realized
• Naoto Instant-Kill Move 
• Labrys Instant-Kill!
  

For the raid we dropped everyone over with Joliet4 who was playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge and also doing a music stream. They stream over on twitch.tv/joliet4!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Body Uppercut Combo, Hook Combo #2 and Advanced Combo #2 for 31 minutes. I did do an extra 17 minutes of exercise to make up for waking up late yesterday

Played a couple of Arena matches in Smite, wining one and losing the other... but managed to get one of the achievements associated with Thanatos. I'm getting closer to having 50% of the in-game achievements for Smite... but the overall total was increased to 306 with the recent addition of Lancealot

SMITE Achievements

• Reaper of Souls: As Thanatos silence 15 enemies out of their abilities.

I will say this, when it comes to the election for US Congress in Pennsylvania, anyone that votes for Lisa Scheller is a fucking idiot. Because think about this, what was one thing Trump was all about 'China this and China that'... well Scheller is a Republican who is the CEO of Silberline Manufacturing Co. Inc and during her time in that role, the company has eliminated 60% of their American workforce, closed one manufacturing facility in Carbon County, PA... while opening another in China. The truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle Will be revisited this year... with the PS4 version, as before we'll do the story mode and play various matches and so forth. What is notably about BBCTB is that its a cross-over of Persona 4 with BlazBlue with Under Night In-Birth with RWBY. But if I remember right the original released didn't have an arcade ladder of any kind.

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For tonight's stream the plan is of course to play Fallout 76, I will of course progress my own story and more than likely we'll be joined by Iceman to knock out some daily stuff via his Fallout 1st Immortality world. So it should end up being silly.

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

After 143 Hours... We Finished Persona 5 Royal

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Persona 5 Royal certainly saw me doing what the game said to do and 'Take My Time' when it came to trying to anticipate how much content was actually left, as I certainly wasn't rushing to finish the game, because I wanted to streak to last at least four hours. Turns out there was six hours worth of content left based around how I was choosing to handle the last trip into Mementos and doing other things (messing around with the Batting cages, spending time with some of the Confidants and unlocking stuff in the Thieves Den 

Now... let's talk about that battle against Maruki which is probably the most drawn out pain in the ass boss fight in the entire game with how many phases it had. Sure we got a HP and SP reset with each phase, but it was a battle that boiled down to 'But wait there's more...' when it came to obviously points of where it should have ended. We defeated Maruki's Persona... no wait... he evolves his Persona... then he gets eaten by his Persona... then it boils down to a fist fight... like really? The Holy Grail to Yaldabaoth boss fight wasn't nearly as padded as Maruki's was.

Now of course by the time we finished that fight it was 10:12 PM... but we didn't finish the game until 12:19 AM... because of all the cut scenes and extended dialog sequences I've managed to find pepped into the last stretches of time. Sure There's the time skips, but there is a lot to see, and when you are given time to roam around there are little nuggets and references one can find that serve as nice callbacks.And since I've been playing Persona 4 Arena, and seeing the 'Men In Black' involvement with characters from Persona 3... I'm betting those were who was chasing the Phantom Thieves at the very end.

Overall, Persona 5 Royal was an awesome experience and I look forward to playing it again on the Xbox side of things in 2023. 

Persona 5 Royal (PS4) Trophies

• Take Back the Future: Completed every Palace.
• The Path Chosen: Watched the ending.
• The Phenomenal Phantom Thief: Obtained all trophies.

Twitch Clips

• It's Showtime! The Defeat Of Jose!
• Boom... Headshot 
• Roses For Makoto 
  

During the stream we got a raid from Redneck_23 who was playing American Truck Simulator 19 over at twitch.tv/redneck_23!

For last night's raid, we dropped in on YrGamerBunni who was playing Halo: Infinite and Fortnite over at twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni! 

On a side note, Persona 5 Royal is only the 5th PlayStation title that I've gotten the Platinum Trophy for... the others being NCIS, WWE: Legends of WrestleMania, X-Men The Arcade Game and Sonic The Fighters.

There is a question of what will be featured on Friday's now... and the top two contenders are Dragon's Dogma and Persona 5 Strikers. We'll see what I end up deciding 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured a brisk workout because I woke up super late. Still kept the daily streak going which was good.

While my fantasy baseball team had a great week last week, this weeks looks like it'll be a problem with Bryce Harper having to deal with a blister issue.

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For tonight's stream... well, it's back to Persona 4 Arena to continue going through the story mode of that game, which means sitting through the visual novel parts. Good news is I believe we can basically go through everyone's story straight through because we tackled Labrys's story last week. So we should be able to knock off at least three characters stories tonight.

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