Fun with Friends in Fallout 76!

Good morning everyone

Last night's stream of Fallout 76 was a lot of fun as we were joined by PowerThumbz and Iceman for some hilarity as they gave me a big assist in getting some quests done. We managed to get all the dailies done in and made use of Iceman's Custom World for silliness in terms of using the Fat Man mini-Nuke launchers.

In terms of the story progress I was focusing on the Brotherhood of Steel story arc, and safe to say I'm firmly locked into siding with Paladin Ramani in terms of how I want the story to be from my point of view. Part of what makes that easy is that Knight Shin is just unlikeable.

No achievements were unlocked, but we made progress on the scoreboard, I also need to remember next to week to head down to the southern portion of the map to find a lake so that I'll have every major location located to make fast travel easier.

Twitch Clips

• Hey he flew!
• Well he dead
• Nuke The Hermit Crab 
  

For the raid we dropped in on BestiBunni who was playing Overwatch 2 over at twitch.tv/bestibunni! 

Speaking of Overwatch it was virtually impossible to get into the game yesterday and I'm not buying that its a DDoS problem because if it was, wouldn't all of Blizzard's games be having issues?  

Still did get into Overwatch 2 at around 1 AM and got in a few matches before bed. I did end up having curiosity of the character unlocks for Overwatch 2 for new players and found the list.

• Available of the at the Start: Orissa, Reinhardt, Winston, Zarya, Pharah, Reaper, Soldier 76, Torbjorn, Tracer, Widowmaker, Lucio, Mercy & Moria
• Login Deason Season 1 (Season 2 for owner of OW1): Sojourn, Junker Queen
• Play 1 Match: Genji
• Play 2 Matches: D.va
• Play 3 Matches: Cassidy
• Play 4 Matches: Ana
• Play 9 Matches; Hanzo
• Play 12 Matches: Junkrat
• Play 16 Matches: Roadhog
• Play 20 Matches: Symmetra
• Play 25 Matches: Zenyatta
• Play 30 Matches: Bastion
• Play 40 Matches: Sigma
• Play 50 Matches: Ashe
• Play 60 Matches: Brigitte
• Play 70 Matches: Mei
• Play 85 Matches: Doomfist
• Play 100 Matches: Baptiste
• Play 116 Matches: Sombra
• Play 130 Matches: Wrecking Ball
• Play 150 Matches: Echo
• Reach Tier 55 In Battle Pass (Or purchase Premium Battle Past: Kriko
  

The order seem very weird when one factors in that Genji is one of the hardest characters to use for new comers.

Work was decent yesterday, got on an assignment that allowed me to productive and not stress over dealing with rude people. Granted I was talking with people who lean so far to the right they are falling over. But hey it was decent  

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Difficult Challenge Combo #2, Block Combo and Difficult Challenge Combo #3 for 34 minutes.

Who ever came up with the schedule for the first round of this year's MLB playoffs needs to be smacked. The fans in some markets are screwed because some games will be starting in the early afternoon. I get they don't want these games to overlap, but the schedule is just idiotic.

What's the best thing about Switzerland? I don't know, but its flag is a big plus!

My favorite word is "drool." It just rolls off the tongue.

Song of the Day: Midnight City by M83.

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For tonight's stream we shall be playing FInal Fantasy XIV and continuing my search for all the side quests in every single major area. So it'll be a nice casual night.

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

Overwatch 2's Troubled Launch

Good morning everyone

Well Overwatch 2 got off to a rough start with massive queues, disconnects and general problems but once we were able to get in we did have a lot of fun. I racked up six plays of the game as Moira, D.va (2), Torbjorn, Brigitte and Symmetra. Big thanks to LvStrkr for being apart of matches, and we queued up as role queue, so we got to be Tanks, Damage and Support fairly evenly over the course of the matches. 

I did want to see if I could get the achievements on the Xbox side of things that I already unlocked on the PC side but had no luck logging in last night, but was able to do so this morning. Oddly enough only one achievement unlocked... proving that not everything was syncing up.

In regards to all the problems Overwatch 2 had, I do believe they all could have been prevented had the developers at Blizzard paid attention to the launch of Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker last year and actually try to make sure server capacity was up to the task, instead of waiting to the last minute and launching the 'registered phone number' fiasco that was announced at basically the last minute last week.

Oddly enough Blizzard's officials said they were experiencing a massive DDoS attack... but it was not stated on official notification feeds, but on the personal accounts of those officials. This further compounds an issue of transparency, because if they announced that was the issue then a lot of us (myself included) would have been a lot more understanding

Overwatch 2 Achievements

• Decked Out: Collect 50 unlocks for a single hero.

Now because of the issues with Overwatch 2, the stream actually opened with Smite, and we got in a few matches as Nike and Aphrodite. I do love 'The Sparrow' skin on Nike and how it's basically a glorified Green Arrow reference in terms of how it looks. Never really understood how Aphrodite skill set, but i needed to play a game as a mage.

Also worked in some Paladins as well, big thanks to PandaSweet for some matches in it. Had a really good Team Death Match as Ying racking up 16 Kills pretty easily. Of course the usual issues with Paladins rear their ugly head with bad team composition.

Twitch Clips:

• Enemies Behind Us?
• Getting things done
• I got the Kill!
• Lost Connection Mid Match!
• Got 'em!
• Unstoppable!
• Got him... and got him too! 
• The Robot Is In Out Possession
• One way to do it... do it my damn self! 
• Nerf This! Love D.va!
  

Big thanks to PatDes_ following their stream of SnowRunner over at twitch.tv/PatDes_!

For the raid we dropped in on PowerThumbz who was playing Fallout 76 over at twitch.tv/PowerThumbz!

Work positivity sucked yesterday, I don't know why the hell I keep getting saddled with this one assignment, it's not like I'm getting much progress beyond just getting possible leads other people can follow up on. I'm dreading looking at today's assignment chart. 

Song of the Day:Never Be Like You By Flume

What do you call it when one cow spies on another? A steak out!

What happens when a frog's car breaks down? It gets toad!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Straight Combo #2, Intermediate Combo #2 and Hip Shape Focus Combo for 28 minutes.

Many people are saying Aaron Judge is the 'true home run kind', but last I checked the single season record is 73. Aaron Judge only hit 62 home runs, and there is no way he's hitting 12 more today which is the last way of the season.

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For tonight's stream the plan is to play Fallout 76, and unlike last week where I roamed around for several hours, I intend to focus on quests I already have started. 

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

The Last of Us actually became half-way decent

Good morning everyone,

I will admit, despite how shitty the game looks whenever it's dark or entering an area with spores, The Last of Us actually became 'kind of' fun to play once I got past the Pittsburgh part, and with the next few areas being shorted and more condensed while moving the story forward. 

That said, the relationship between Ellie and Joel does come across as more forced than anything else when she 'runs away'. Ammo continues to be a hindrance at time but I'm glad I'm playing this on the 'Easy Setting' just to one or two shot most enemies. 

Now the way I figure there are three chapters left with two major sections each, so there is a possibility I could finish The Last of Us Remastered during a stream next week. We'll pick up at the start of the Winter Section, after Joel was injured when ambushed in the University.

Twitch Clips

• He's on fire!
• Making use of the Flamethrower 
• Right through the D...
  

Big thank you to LvStrkr for re-subscribing to my Twitch Channel for the 42nd month! That is incredible!

For the raid we dropped in on BestiBunni who was playing Magic: The Gathering over at twitch.tv/bestibunni!  

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

Song of the Day: No Type by Rae Sremmurd

What do you call birds who stick together? Vel-crows.

Today I gave my dead batteries away. They were free of charge.

The Phillies beat the Astros and clinched the 3rd Wild Card spot. Kyle Schwarber ended up being the key to victory... and funny enough I saw a clip on YouTube for the MLB Network discussing Schwarber's hitting approach. 

Finished the Arrow short story commission request last night, based it around the Pilot episode to leave plenty of room for follows ups. And the client immediately asked for one... best part is I can make it a direct sequel

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For tonight's stream... we officially welcome Overwatch 2 to our weekly line up with a special Tuesday night stream! I intend to start the stream as soon as I finish work and grab dinner

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

One last night of old Overwatch

Good afternoon everyone,

Now color me embarrassed because I thought to Overwatch servers were going down at midnight last night, but nope, turns out they were going down at noon today, but we got in a full on 8 hour stream, with plenty of breaks and water had. Ended up getting five plays of the game, one as Bation, three as D.va and one as Reinhardt. Hell even got the Triple Threat achievement for Bastion as well which shocked the hell out of me.

Big thanks to BangBangBang and PandaSweet for being apart of a lot of matches in what turned out to be a marathon stream of kicking ass and taking names. I got in matches as quick a few characters including ones I don't normally play... and the list of those I used were Doomfist, Echo, Sigma, Bastion, Roadhog, Wrecking Ball, Zarya, Lucio, Cassidy, Ashe, Mei, Brigitte, Mercy, Reinhardt, Moira, & D.va. Hell I even had a pretty good moment as Doomfist of all people. like in theory I know how to use him, it's just that in execution it's not easy.

Still I made sure to close out Overwatch with a win and we look forward to Tuesday night and Overwatch 2!

Overwatch Achievements

• Triple Threat: Kill 2 enemies in each of Bastion's configurations without dying in Quick or Competitive play.
  

Twitch Clips

• Achievement: Triple Threat
• How the hell did that happen?! 
• The Final Win In Overwatch
  

Thank to you LepsLair for the raid during the stream, they were playing Dead by Daylight over at twitch.tv/lepslair!

For the raid we dropped in on  YuzuPonEN who was also playing Overwatch over at twitch.tv/YuzuPonEN! 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Hook Combo #1, Uppercut Combo #1 and Waist Shape Focus Combo for 31 minutes

Song of the Day: Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day

What kind of dogs love car racing? Lap dogs!

What did Winnie the Pooh say to his agent? "Show me the honey!"

Started work on the Commission request for an Arrow short story, and got the intro and set-up written. Thankfully some folks did transcripts of many of the episodes to find something that works. 

I uploaded all of my Plays of the Game in Overwatch for 2022 to my YouTube Channel. Had to do it across two videos because for whatever reason the exporting feature in Windows' Video Editor hates anything over 30 minutes long.

Overwatch Plays of the Game 2022 Part 1 (January 9 to May 16)

Overwatch Plays of the Game 2022 Part 2 (May 22 to October 3)

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For tonight's stream we shall resume The Last of Us Remastered on the PS4, picking up towards the end of the Pittsburgh portion of the story where we have to sneak out of the city. Should be a pain in the ass.

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

Thoughts on Rick in MultiVersus

Good afternoon everyone,

Rick from "Rick & Morty' was added to MultiVersus this week and I spent quite a lot of time playing as him. He is listed as a mage, and he is very much over powered from my experience. Best to use him at a a fair distance, but he does have a couple of abilities that are good at close range which makes him more useful than Gizmo. I could see myself choosing to use him every so often. Funny enough I did get into one match where I was teamed with someone playing as Morty, which was pretty cool... even though I may have seen maybe just one or two episodes of 'Rick & Morty'.

I should point out that there might be issues with PC players cheating in MutliVersus because I saw a Batman player doing some thing so fast that I couldn't react or get a read on what was coming in order to dodge or try to block. I suspect they were using pre-programmed inputs, which is easily programmable into the PC versions of any fighting game.

Anyway, we did switch over to Fall Guys at about 9:30 PM and I love the fact there was an Ellen Ripley from Aliens skin. The new Season Pass was out and it looks like a lot if its skins are Sci-Fi related as well, as there is one for Spock from Star Trek in it. I did make it the final round in solo a few times so there was that. But I do hate some of the gimmicks, and the jumping at times felt way off from what I'm use too. Still had a lot of fun.

Twitch Clips

• First win using Rick
• Rick And Morty Win! 
• Bits and Eliminations
• We're Talking About Practice 
• Qualifying
• When you know you're doomed 
  

Thank you to to Redneck_23 for the raid following their stream of Farming Simulator 22 over at twitch.tv/redneck_23!

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

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Straight Combo #1, Triple Combo #1 and Weaving Combo #2 for 28 minutes.

Song of the Day: Close by Nick Jonas featuring Tove Lo

What kind of streets do ghosts haunt? Dead ends!

What do you tell actors to break a leg? Because every play has a cast!

Start of a new week so lets recap what we played last week which included: Overwatch, Tekken 7, The Last of Us: Remastered, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight, MultiVersus & Fall Guys! 

Finished the recent commission request for a WWE short story, which turned out rather well I think... and then got another request for a story based around the TV series Arrow. I actually use to watch a lot of the Arrowverse related shows on the CW until they basically scarified Supergirl to prop up the Batwoman Season 2

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For tonight's stream the plan is to play Overwatch, so hopefully we'll get in some games before its shut down. If we can't play Overwatch, we'll call an audible and do something else. 

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

Persona 5 Dancing In Starlight Is Incredible!

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream featured the return of Persona 5... in the form of Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight. It is a rhythm game where you press buttons on the controller to match where the notes are going on screen... and it is addicting. We went well past midnight, and we haven't done that since we were playing Persona 5 Strikers! 

One of the big pluses about P5:DIS is that it fits in nearly perfectly within the events of Persona 5 Royal and Persona 5 Strikers, actually fitting in between the events of both game. Sure it's based more on the vanilla version of Persona 5... and there is the issue of Caroline and Justine being the hosts in the Velvet Room but for me the game has its place in the timeline. There is a lot of the same charm and banter of other games in regards to how the characters talk to one another which basically encourages going for the Social Links to see how over the top some things can get.

The dancing portion is really enjoyable, and there are enough difficulty settings and modifiers to keep things fresh (or make things easier), Plus the Persona 5 sound track is awesome enough to want to keep playing the game and lose track of time... which was certainly the case when I was playing Royal and Strikers through out the year!

Now I did go back into the game to bang out some achievements that I know would be tough to get based on trying to figure out certain dance partners. Thankfully there was a guide for that.  Now I did get access to knew Social Link scenes but I didn't view them yet because we're certainly featuring Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight next Friday for damn sure!.

On a side note: Virtually impossible to get quality screenshots because as a rhythm game, taking a hand off the game pad would mean a lot of misses. 

Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight Trophies

• Ready to Party: Obtained a costume.
• Careful Planning: Played a tutorial.
• It's Showtime!: Cleared a stage.
• Solid Bonds: Watched a Social event.
• Masters of Disguise: Changed costumes and played a stage with each of the Phantom Thieves (excluding Akechi).
• A Mountain of Treasure: Unlocked all ???s in Collection.
• Unwavering Interests: Watched 20 Social events.
• I'm Just Getting Started: Unlocked the highest difficulty level (ALL NIGHT).
• Stylish Phantom Thieves: Registered a costume as a Favorite.
• The Student and the Teacher: Cleared the stages where Morgana and Haru dance together.
• I've Stolen About Half!: Obtained half of all the costumes.
• Suspect in Custody!: Failed a stage.
• I Am Thou, Thou Art Who?: Started a stage with a different hairstyle, two accessories, color contacts, and a colored wig.
• Unstoppable: Beat your own high score.
• The Dragon and the Panther: Cleared the stages where Ryuji and Ann dance together.
• Alibaba Fanatic: Watched every possible dance for Futaba.
• The Unusual and the Uptight: Cleared the stages where Yusuke and Makoto dance together.
• Stars Dancing in Starlight: Watched 40 different Fever Time dances.
  

Twitch Clips

•  Makoto & Ann
•  Futaba and Morgana
•  As long as we're together
  

Big thank you to the chat for kicking in 100 bits during the stream! The support is always appreciated!

For the raid we dropped in on BestiBunni who was playing Crusader Kings III over at twitch.tv/bestibunni! 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Double Combo #2, Body Hook Combo and Weaving Combo #1 for a duration of 31 minutes.

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise States For Week of 9/25 to 10/01/22

• Punches Thrown:8446
• Estimated Calories Burned: 3586.90 kcal
  
• Evan's Champion Progress: 84% (42 out of 50)
  
• King EX Fight Progress: 96%
• Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days: 659
• Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days: 817

Work was alright yesterday... even thought it started off with my on the crappy assignment but thankfully I was switched to something else... even if the people in the state of Georgia who are supporting Herschel Walker are complete idiots.

What do you call a farm that makes bad jokes? Corny!

Why do fish live in salt water? Because pepper makes them sneeze!

Song of the Day:Shimmy Shimmy Ya by Ol’ Dirty Bastard

Received my mail-in ballot for the upcoming General Election here in New Jersey, promptly filled it out... which means I need to take a walk on Monday to the Post Office.

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For tonight's stream we will be starting with MutliVersus to try out the new character Rick (from Rick & Morty) to see what his gimmicks are, and then do various other matches. Plus we'll more than likely feature Fall Guys or Smite.

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

We Spent The Night In Gyr Abanian

Good morning everyone

Last night's stream of Final Fantasy XIV was another nice chill stream, as we focused on side quests through out Gyr Abanian and Rhalgr's Reach, getting about 95% of them done, with like a half dozen left to complete before I move on to the next area. There were a few things I enjoyed in terms of how some stories connected with each other, but the destination points of some objectives were rather silly in terms of placement, not to mention these quests were not really designed to be binged played.

I did run into a Level 70 A Rank boss that kicked my ass... now I was told that its solo-able at level 90, but i believe that's only possible for like a Red Mage or Paladin or something that has some heavy duty self-healing.

Still we had fun, and just enjoyed taking it easy.

Twitch Clips

• Yeah ya'll better run
• Time for a tactical retreat 
• We sense a hostile presence
  

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

Work was actually good yesterday, as I was productive because I was actually given assignments that played to my strengths and vocal pacing. Unfortunately, the same won't apply to today because I was placed back on the crappy assignment, which is unfair and complete bullshit.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily work out featured Hook Combo #2, Left-Right Step Combo and Beginner Combo #1 for 28 minutes.

Fitness Boxing 2 Rhythm & Exercise September 2022 Stats

• Punches Thrown:36149
• Estimated Calories Burned:15004.84 kcal
  
• Evan's Champion Progress: 82% (41 out of 50)
  
• King EX Fight Progress: 96%
• Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days: 658
  
• Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days: 816

Oh and for the record, I'm been keeping my weight around 250 lbs, so not gaining, but not losing, just maintaining my pear shape figure

I've gotten a chuckle seeing former WWE Superstar Paige has certainly been taken some people to task for things they've said regarding her promo on AEW's programming this week. Not her fault for them not knowing her promo was a fucking work.

Elgato finally released a Stream Deck patch update and I'm hoping it resolves a lot of the issues of the Stream Deck and OBS de-syncing so I don't have to keep reinstalling the plug in!

Song of the Day:  Car Radio by Twenty One Pilots

Do you remember that joke I told you about my spine? It was about a weak back!

I just went to an emotional wedding. Even the cake was in tiers.

Played a little Overwatch last night, and I said this back when I played the Beta for Overwatch 2... damage role only players are going to get instantly blocked for every single time I see a Genji selected.

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For tonight's stream we are playing Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight... and yeah it's a rhythm game so you know I'm playing it on the easiest setting, but I am aware some things require harder difficulties to accomplish stuff. 

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