So last night we played The Last of Us Remastered... and I'll be honest, I'm not too keen on the game play... in fact the game play itself just sucks, the combat is mediocre at best, the puzzles I've seen are generic... and everything just seems to be just 'breaks between cut scenes'. In fact, the more I think about it, the the actual 'game' part of The Last of Us serves more as a 'break' between the gorgeous cut scenes and dialog. The controls are cumbersome, with even the most mundane things needing button presses which makes stuff like getting into and out of cover a chore.
I'll straight up say, if I wasn't playing this on its easiest setting I would have switched games probably in the trenches when escaping the city.
Now how far did we get, well we found Bill in Bill's town and wrapped up just before leaving 'the bar' which had a lot of supplies. So I saw basically all the set up, saw Joel and Tess's relationship, and had my first encounters with the Clickers and Runners.
The game does sound great, but visually... depending on the lighting, things either look awesome, or they look off to where I have a hard time seeing. The swimming section I saw when going into an area that has spores really was tough to see things.
Something that really bugs me is the lack of trophies to give an idea of progress, I thought that it was something done with the Remastered version, but the PS3 version was also lacking in actual story related achievements.
So against my better judgement we will play The Last of Us Remastered again next week, maybe things will improve as we get into the meat and potatoes of the game.
For the raid we dropped in on BestiBunni as they were playing Crusader Kings III over on twitch.tv/bestibunni! They also reached affiliate status!
Yesterday I realized I had clips from 2017, 2018 and 2019 over on my personal Facebook page, so I downloaded them with the idea of putting compilations for those three years. Problem is, Facebook compressed the hell out of those clips, and they were like at 480p and below because of the hardware I was using at the time.
Also, the first half of work sucked.. but thankfully things picked up when we had an assignment switch. So it was a 50% good shift.
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Straight Combo #2, Intermediate Combo #2 and Hip Shape Focus Combo for a total time of 28 minutes. I've actually put in 400 hours in on Fitness Boxing 2
Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise States For Week of 9/18 to 9/24/22
Punches Thrown: 8162
Estimated Calories Burned:3306.04 kcal
Evan's Champion Progress:76% (38 out of 50 hours)
King EX Fight Progress: 96%
Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days: 652
Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days: 810
Before the invention of the wheel… everything was a drag!
What do you call it when Dwayne Johnson buys a cutting tool? Rock pay-for scissors.
Song of the Day: Layla by Derek & The Dominos
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For tonight's stream we'll mess around with a few things, probably lead off with MultiVersus. I will need to remember to turn off the music for that game to avoid a lot of issues from a few weeks ago.
Last night's stream of Final Fantasy XIV was a nice easy night as I covered all the side quests in the remaining areas that were apart of the Heavansward expansion, so we ended up spending a few hours just going all over the place fetching items, defeating enemies and so fourth.
Now a big part of the night was once we started covering the side quests in Sea of Clouds where every quest involved Moogles giving the quests. There was one major reoccuring one involving a Moogle named Mogleo who wanted to join the Pomguard... and by the end of that little story I was wondering how a Moogle could slay a dragon let alone two!
Now of course I'll continue these side quests journeys as the next areas will be all related to the Stormblood expansion. Should have an easy time with that as all the quests should be between levels 60 and 70.
For the raid we dropped in on Kalenal who was also playing Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/kalenal!
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Beginner Combo #2, Advanced Combo #1 and Sway Back Combo for 34 minutes.
Work was solid yesterday, no complaints about the assignment that I was on... well maybe one when it comes to trying to complete interviews that were already started by other people. That is never easy to do since apparently one method of doing so is no longer being utilized.Unfortunately, I already know the assignment I'm on for today is going to cause the day to fucking drag
Before 1 AM last night i had two short story commission requests in the queue, and managed to knock out the first one, which was the WWE one I mentioned yesterday. The second one involves baseball, or at least some of the elements related to that game.
What kind of car runs on leaves? An autumn-mobile!
I tried to organize a professional Hide-and-Seek tournament, but it was a complete failure. Good players are hard to find.
There was an OBS update yesterday... I look forward to seeing what it breaks this time.
Speaking of updates there was a System update for the PlayStation 4 which we installed last night when installing the game we're going to feature next.
Song of the Day: Let Me Down Slowly by Alec Benjamin.
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For tonight's stream we're going to start up The Last of Us: Remastered. I shall play it on its easiest difficulty setting, so we'll see if this will be something I try to finish or just say 'to hell with it'.
Last night's stream of Fallout 76 saw me focused on knocking on the Mayor for a Day quest line, as well as the Woman That Feel To Earth, which was more important because it lead to an achievement. That later quest ended up taking me to the building where the grief incident happened several months ago . I am glad to get that story arc done, because we went all in on the Romance portion so in my Fallout 76 story, my Vault Dweller and Sofia are a couple. Also we set Athena up with a body, so I wonder if they will pop up again somewhere.
Now... The Pitt.... is just awful, not only was the daily just to unlock the opportunity to get to that new area was a pain in the ass, but The Pitt itself just is a brutal mess, with incredibly tough enemies and little to no sense of direction or markers. We got into the catacombs, but we couldn't figure out where the hell to toss some things into nests because we had no clue what the nests look liked. You really won't see me doing that on stream again any time soon.
Big thanks to Iceman for joining in, too bad we didn't get to finish Mayor for a Day for him, it seems like we missed getting him an item when were covering that quest line, but he was with me as we explored The Pitt. He also had the same reaction I did to the Pitt as well.
For the raid we dropped in on Bestibunni as they were playing Magic The Gathering and Crusader Kings III over at twitch.tv/bestibunni!
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Uppercut Combo #1, Hook Combo #1 and Waist Shape Focus Combo for 31 minutes.
Work was incredibly bleh yesterday, not as engaging as it was on Tuesday. Here's hoping for a more engaging day today
Did watch a bunch of episodes of Dragon Ball Heroes, and for being a series of shorts to promote a card game, they are not bad in terms of a quick Dragon Ball fix. Do like the fact that it is giving Radtiz a chance to shine a bit as well as other short lived characters.
Will Saraya (formally Paige in the WWE) showing up in AEW make me want to pay more attention to that shit-show of a wrestling promotion? Not really, with her neck issues I really can't see her having a match there.
Song of the Day: Come As You Are by Nirvana.
The guy that invented the umbrella was gonna call it the brella. But he hesitated.
Fun fact: Australia's biggest export is boomerangs. It's also their biggest import.
Finished the commissioned short story based around Spider-Man for the PS4, and got another commission request for a story based around Evan Bourn during his WWE tenure. That should be tough...
Got a call from Executive Customer Relations team member that I've been dealing with at Xfinity for the past few months to see if I was satisfied now that everything seemed to be resolved after techs were doing maintenance in the entire area Friday, Saturday and Sunday in addition to the tech visit I got on Saturday afternoon. Basically laid into them for finally addressing the issues I've been pointing out to them for the past four months while also suggesting that since Xfinity bought the bullet and is upgrading its outdated coaxial style network to a fiber-optic one that they do that as quickly as possible.
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For tonight's stream we are playing Final Fantasy XIV, and we'll resume my quest to do all the side quests. So we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!
Last night's stream of Tekken 7 was certainly focused on the story, as we covered the entire story mode... and when everything is laid out... it's quite clear that every one associated with the Mishima clan is an asshole, but the only one who seems to have any justification in their actions is Heihachi, because when his wife ends up being possessed by the devil gene and tries to kill him and he basically acted in self defense... then had concerns about his son Kazuya inheriting his mother's 'gift'... sure he threw him off a fucking cliff, but all things considered, Heihachi is the 'good guy'. Sure he's evil as fuck, but justified to some degree.
Now let's talk about that 'Special' Akuma fight aka the 'Special Chapter.'... it took me three attempts, and I nearly pulled it off in the first attempt. What I ended up doing was basically waiting for Akuma to stop teleporting so that I could wail on him. So that certainly appealed to me.
In addition, we dedicated time to doing all the Character Episodes... and I was surprised to see how many were joke endings, so it raises the question is whose version of events is the true version, since quite a few endings are told from two different points of view. Not sure if I'm buying into Nina being Steve's mother are not.
We put in more time into the Treasure fights to push towards grinding towards various rank achievements and unlocking of items. Speaking of that, unlocked nearly everything in the gallery. I'm actually surprised at how much of this game I'm actually completing.
On a side note, I am counting Tekken 7 as being a game finished because we did do all the lore related stuff, but I do intend to feature it at least a couple of more times because I want to go after some achievements on stream.
Tekken 7 Achievements
You Think You're Tougher Than Me?: Finished the prologue of the main story.
Let's Do This: Finished Chapter 1 of the main story.
You Challenge Me?!: Finished Chapter 8 of the main story.
I Can't Accept This Fate: Finished Chapter 13 of the main story.
It's Time For You To Meet Your End!: Watched the epilogue of the main story.
Master Of Iron Fist: Finished the Special Chapter of the main story.
I Demand To Know The Truth!: Finished three Character Episode stories.
Lightning Of Fate: Finished 10 Character Episode stories.
Stun Gun!: Snatched victory from the jaws of defeat 5 times with Rage Art. (Excluding offline VS Battle)
Your Technique Is Impressive: Got promoted to Initiate.
For the raid we dropped in on BaronVizkopa who was playing Star Trek Online over at twitch.tv/BaronVizkopa!
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Straight Combo #1, Triple Combo #1 and Weaving Combo #2 for 28 minutes.
I'd like to go to Holland someday. Wooden shoe?
Why can't you trust an atom? Because they make up everything.
Song of the Day: Mine by Bazzi
Woke up late this morning because I forgot to take my phone off of vibrate when I was done working yesterday...
Part of why I woke up late was that I got quite a bit of writing done on the latest Spider-Man commission request I received, as figuring out how to trade back and forth between him and Silver Sable has been quite a challenge.
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For tonight's stream, we're back to Fallout 76 with my first objective being to see how I can finish that damn quest that Iceman and I started two weeks ago!
Last night's stream featured no issues at all, making it three in a row where the words Xfinity didn't pass my lips on stream. Of course last night's stream was dedicated to Tekken 7, and we certainly had a fun time with it, messing around with Online matches, the arcade mode and Tekken Bowling. Perhaps what stands out about Tekken 7 is the guest characters... and the fact we cleared an Arcade mode run with Negan from the Walking Dead pretty much says it all.
One thing that was real apparent is that my in ability to block consistently is something people can quickly figure out once I'm unable to keep my 20-year old approach to playing Tekken games gets exposed. Still we actually won a fair share of matches which surprised me. Hell I love the fact the game recognizes my tenacity even if I'm put into some really bad match ups.
I do feel the achievement list for Tekken 7 is rather fair,as quite a few regards just getting an idea of how to use various mechanics and to get players to play certain modes to try things out. Now I actually went back into the game off-stream to knock out a few I figured I could tackle... with the biggest pain in the ass being the one that involved getting a 10 hit combo... somehow Yoshimitsu has a five hit combo that counts as a 10 hit (Inputs being 33221 or BBYYA on an Xbox Controller)
On a side note, I really enjoyed Ultimate Tekken Bowling, and I found it hilarious that Noctis' boys from Final Fantasy XV were there to support him when I did round with him.
Tekken 7 Achievements
I'll Kick Your Butt To Hell And Back: Dealt 70+ damage in an air combo. (Excluding offline VS Battle)
Don't Take It Personally: Achieved a perfect victory. (Excluding offline VS Battle)
The Prosperous Inevitably Decline: Beat Akuma in an Arcade Battle or a Special Match in Treasure Battle.
You Fought Well: Achieved a great victory. (Excluding offline VS Battle)
This Should Be Fun: Got promoted to 1st dan.
Yeah! I Did It!: Won a ranked match online.
There's Nowhere To Run. Give Up!: Dealt 10 homing attacks. (Excluding offline VS Battle)
It's Just Business: Obtained an overall total of 5,000,000G.
Elegance At Its Purest: Triggered 10 screws. (Excluding offline VS Battle)
Anger Of The Beast: Dealt an overall total of 1,000 damage while in rage mode. (Excluding offline VS Battle)
Power Is Everything!: Dealt 10 power crushes. (Excluding offline VS Battle)
Come And Get Some, I Dare You!: Fought ten online battles.
Instant Annihilation: Won three times consecutively in Treasure Battle.
Not Bad: Won a player match online.
Excellent: Obtained an overall total of 10,000,000G.
Cool!: Obtained 20 treasure boxes.
Crushing Impact!: Performed a balcony-breaking move. (Excluding offline VS Battle)
Please Don't Tell My Father: Reached the deepest part of the Jungle Outpost stage. (Excluding offline VS Battle)
Destructive Drive: Performed a floor-breaking move. (Excluding offline VS Battle)
Going Somewhere?: Reached the bottom floor of the Forgotten Realm stage. (Excluding offline VS Battle)
We Settle This Now!: Dealt 20 Rage Arts. (Excluding offline VS Battle)
Overdrive!: Dealt 10 Rage Drives. (Excluding offline VS Battle)
Just Relax, You Can Do It: Performed three 10 hit combos. (Excluding offline VS Battle)
Sturdy And Indestructible: Blocked 5 Rage Arts. (Excluding offline VS Battle)
For the raid we dropped in on BestiBunni who was playing Magic: The Gathering over at twitch.tv/BestiBunni!
Just realized I managed to put together a 3-game streak of Xbox achievements, thanks to the fact that the last eight achievements listed for Tekken 7 were unlocked today.
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Double Combo #2, Weaving Combo #1, and Body Hook Combo for 31 minutes.
My daughter thinks I don't give her enough privacy. At least that's what she wrote in her diary.
A friend of mine got into photographing salmon in different clothing. He said he liked shooting fish in apparel.
Song of the Day: Listen to the Music by The Doobie Brothers
Did put in some writing to finish the commission request for another Spider-Man for the PS4 story, figured I'd combine what I remember from the Spider-Man animated series that aired on Fox back in the 90s with what I can learn about that Black Cat's role in the game. Did manage to keep it in 'universe' with the other Spider-Man commission fics I did recently.
So you can imagine my surprise that after sending the finished story to the client last night at 3 AM that they wanted a fourth story in the same continuity, this time focused on Silver Sable. Was able to put together the intro this morning based around some pieces from the PS4 game's script. Got to love it when things go together nicely.
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For tonight's stream we will be diving into the story mode of Tekken 7, and to try and get through it as quickly as possible I will reduce the difficulty. With lucky we'll cover the whole thing in one stream.
Last night's stream of Overwatch featured a fair amount of wins and losses, with some being a little more dubious than others. Did nab three Plays of the Game all as D.va, and we were joined by PandaSweet for several matches, which is always awesome. Characters I used last night included obviously D.va and Moira, put also Orissa, Torbjourn, Ashe and Soldier 76.
Of course we are three weeks away from the launch of Overwatch 2, and there is a question over when the servers for Overwatch will shut down on October 2nd. If they are being shut down late in the night, that would be great which means we'll get one last stream of old school Overwatch before the change over.
We picked up a new follower over on Twitch last night in the form of SherylCoo, and we had a fun time talking about Overwatch and my rather aggressive approach to playing as D.va.
For the raid we dropped in on TracyDoll who was playing Elden Ring over at twitch.tv/tracydoll!
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Beginner Combo #1, Left- Right Step Combo and Hook Combo #2 for 28 minutes
There were no incidents on stream at all, so back to back nights of me having a perfect stream... looks like Xfinity finally resolved things
Where do spiders seek health advice? WebMD.
What did Yoda say when he saw himself in 4K? "HDMI."
Song of the Day: Play Date by Melanie Martinez
Put in some off-stream grinding in Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium to get to the 30,000,000 CAPSO mark. Only 70 Million more to go
Finished the Commission request for a Resident Evil 5 story, and now I have one fir another story based on Spider-Man for the PS4 one to feature the Black Cat... which is going to be tough because a) I revealed what I was planning.... and b) Black Cat does not appear in the original game of Spider-Man for the PS4, and no one has done transcripts of its DLC.
I am considering starting up the Remastered version of The Last of US for the PS4 on Friday... of course another contender is Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight. We'll see what I am end up deciding.
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For tonight's stream we'll be playing Tekken 7 for the first time, we'll see what I can learn in tonight as we see what some call the best game in the series has to offer!
Last night's stream featured every single game of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Cowabunga Collection... which of course meant taking advantage of the online play involved for the two Arcade Games... which oddly enough didn't result in achievements for either game. The quality of the connection to other players was certainly all over the place. But still had fun going through them from start to finish.
As far as all the console games go... we didn't come close to beating any of them, but we did see how everything evolved in the late 80s and early 90s when it came to TMNT. Visually perhaps the game that impressed me the most with how it looked was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers. The sprite quality in that little game for the Game Boy was incredible.
So after the stream, and using the method featuring in the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection (watching a pre-recorded version, jumping in on near the defeat of the final boss, saving the game, quitting, loading that save and finishing the fight), I went through every game to get every single achievement that method would work for. However the SNES and Sega Genesis versions of Tournament Fighters required different methods.
With the SNES version, that required going the Story Battle mode, and what I did was change the time limit to 30 seconds and rewind at key moments to avoid hits to ensure a time limit victory. With the Sega Genesis version, I enabled the 'hidden boss characters' feature to play as Kairi that involved setting the difficulty to level 8 (Hardest difficulty) setting the rounds to 1. No once I selected Kairi, I increased the power and speed to eight.. But since the Sega Genesis version didn't have a time limit adjustment, I used to rewind method to basically try and counter every attack the A.I. performed to stumble and bumble my way through everything.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection Achievements
Shredding the Shredder: Finished Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (N)
Pizza Party!: Finished Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (N)
I Have Become Turtle, Eater of Pizzas: Finished Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (N)
N Tournament Champion: Defeated Shredder in TMNT: Tournament Fighters’ Story Mode (N)
Waiting for the other Foot to Drop: Finished Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan (GB)
Back Into Action: Finished Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers (GB)
G Tournament Champion: Defeated the real Karai in TMNT: Tournament Fighters’ 1 Player Mode (GEN)
We also took a brief look at Nickelodeon All-Stars Brawl because a) it has TMNT characters in it and b) I wanted to hear the quality of the voice overs they finally added. And they are of a high quality, it was real cool to hear Cam Clarke as Leonardo once again. That said, Nick All-Star Brawl's controls are reversed from MultiVersus, so trying to remember what buttons did was was a pain in the but on a quick arcade run.
The Clip list is rather long as I pulled a clip for each game. Sorry not sorry. Of course we didn't play the SNES version of Turtles in Time... now that I think about it. Oh well
For the raid we dropped in on Kalenal as they were playing Final Fantasy XIV Over on twitch.tv/kalenal!
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Body Uppercut Como, Advanced Combo #2 and Body Straight Combo for 31 minutes.
Xfinity Tech arrived at exactly 2 PM yesterday and was here till after 4 PM working on stuff, as they monitored the network connection, they figured that maybe the node on the tap my service drop line was attached too was shorting out, so they switched my line to an open node on the same tap. They also replaced the service drop line that runs from the tap to my house. They also detected interferance coming from the line devoted to the two cable boxes I had. They said it shouldn't be an issue but he checked the connections for them just to be on a safe side.
Why was the math teacher late to work? She took the rhombus.
I'm really excited for the next autopsy club. It's open Mike night!
Song of the Day: Speechless by Dan + Shay
Finished writing the commission request for a story based around The Last of Us games, and I had a lot of fun writing Ellie. And keeping with the spooky season, I'm glad the next commission request is for a story based around Reisdent Evil 5 which featured Chris Redfield.
It's the start of a new week, so let's recap what we played last week which included: Overwatch, Murdered Soul Suspect, Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium, Star Trek Online, Fall Guys, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, The Quarry, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; The Cowabunga Collection, & Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl!
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For tonight's stream we're going to play Overwatch as the count down to Overwatch 2 continues!
