Saturday, November 19, 2022

We Finished Persona 3 Dancing in Moonlight

Good afternoon everyone,

As the title states, we finished Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight, knocking off all the remaining Social Links before doing Elizabeth's 8th one that triggers the credits. I totally forgot that I changed some things after last Friday's stream to set up going after two achievements that were only possible once Elizabeth was unlocked as a lead dancer. Now I did focus on several different aspects of things I wanted to do beyond achievement hunting, namely trying to get a Brilliant score on several songs on Normal Difficulty, some took multiple attempts to do. I could've had a King Crazy on a few songs, but the charting of the notes baffled me at the worst possible times.

On the down side, the stream was broken up into multiple parts due to sudden drops in internet download and upload speeds. In fact at 647 PM Eastern I had 10.80 Mbps Down and 0.38 Mbps Up. Now unlike Thursday night, I basically plowed through hoping we could get hour plus blocks of footage, resulting in three separate segments. Now Twitch listed my total stream time last night as 5 hours 46 minutes... however only 4 hours 36 minutes was actually broadcasted. I got more to say about this, but I'll save for when I talk about work down below.

Of course the next game we'll be playing on Fridays will be Persona 4: Dancing All-Night, and unlike its Persona 3 and 5 cousins, the Person 4 dancing game does not take place in the Velvet room, but in the 'real world'. It leans more in the visual novel style with a more fleshed out story mode. Hopefully 

Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight Trophies

  • Best Buds: Explored all the guys' rooms.
  • The One Who Gathered the Glasses: Obtained all the pairs of glasses.
  • Fashion Monster: Obtained all the costumes.
  • The Dependable Classmates: Cleared the stages where Yukari and Junpei dance together.
  • Koromaru's Rival: Obtained all rewards from Elle-P's card search.
  • Down to the Bone: Unlocked all Custom modifiers.
  • The Party Never Stops: Made Elle-P's ball a success.
  • The Selfish Producer: Had Elle-P join the ball.
  • The Dancing Jeweler: Obtained all of the accessories.
  • It's Gotta Be You: Watched all Social events.
  • Can't Say "I Don't Care" Now: Watched every possible dance for the P3 Protagonist (Makoto Yuki).
  • The Dancing Anti-Shadow Weapon: Watched every possible dance for Aigis.
  • Dancing in Moonlight: Obtained all trophies.

Twitch Clips

For the raid we dropped in on Hawleigh who was playing Jackbox Party Packs over on twitch.tv/hawleigh

Work was rather bleh yesterday, but the noticeable thing was that exactly at 3:45 PM for the second day in a row, my internet download and upload speeds dropped significantly and this carried on through damn near the entire night, seemingly to settle down around 10:30 PM. Now I don't want to hear about 'peak hour' nonsense, because if that bullshit was actually true wouldn't I have these issues be reoccurring since everything was fixed back in September?!

Did find out that for sure I don't have work Thursday because of Thanksgiving, but Friday is up in the air because of an assignment that may start that day 

My Copy of Pokemon Violet arrived yesterday morning, and it most certainly take over the Monday slot in my Twitch line up... after we finish Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Straight Combo #2, Difficult Challenge COmbo #2 and Block Combo for 31 minutes/ On a silly note, the first song in Fitness Boxing 2 to hit 100 times played is 'Don't You Worry Child' by Swedish House Mafia

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise States For Week of 11/13 to 11/19/22

  • Punches Thrown: 8579
  • Estimated Calories Burned:3616.7 kcal
  • Sophie's Champion Progress:96% (48 out of 50 hours)
  • King EX Fight Progress: 97%
  • Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days: 708
  • Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days: 866

What did Blackbeard the pirate say when he turned eighty? "Aye, matey."

Song of the Day: London Calling by The Clash

For tonight's stream, which hopefully will go well with not problems, will feature a variety of stuff, MultiVersus, Fall Guys, Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed... basically whatever casual nonsense I feel like playing.

So on that note I hope we'll be up and running later over at twitch.tv/fredcasden!


Friday, November 18, 2022

Xfinity Service Got So Bad Yesterday

Good morning everyone,

Yesterday afternoon at about 345 PM, I noticed a sudden drop in my internet speed while working, (and having a pretty good day too), then when I ran a speed test I saw my internet speeds were at 124 Mbps on the download and 1.1 Mbps for the upload... and considering i pay for 400 Mbps / 10 Mbps, that was a major problem. So I went ahead to rest my modem... and that did not work. I called Xfinity directly and they didn't see anything wrong, but scheduled an appointment for a tech to come out on Saturday afternoon.

So all fine a good right? Well I noticed that my speeds would improve to being back to normal, then dropping off again in the early evening, and I tried to star a stream for Final Fantasy XIV at 7 PM when a speed test results looked normal. But nope, everything went in the crapper straight away. I called Xfinity back, this time to try and get some answers... and after being hung up on twice, I finally got through to someone who was able to see the inconsistency with my service, and they told me I was having these issues going back to Friday.

Which makes sense because I had indications of YouTube telling me I was offline when I was online, I just chalked it up to an issues with YouTube, and had a real tough time uploading a few highlight reels to my Facebook page. So at the very least I got a $30 credit put on my account with Xfinity, and hopefully these issues can be resolved with the tech visit on Saturday.

I did hanged out on Kalenal's stream as they were playing Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/kalenal, and I ended up playing Vampire Survivors for a good portion of the evening, and managed to knock out several achievements. More on this in a bit.

Now about 10 PM things looked like they got to normal, so I started up a stream to get in some Final Fantasy XIV action for the week. My plan to do Side Quests was negated so I ended up doing Raids. We also worked in Vampire Survivors into the stream as well, with the focus on clearing Stage 4 with a level of 80 or higher, which I managed to do as Mortaccio. The build I ended up using practically made me immortal.

Vampire Survivors Achievements

  • Yatta Cavallo: Defeat a total of 3000 Lion Heads.
  • Soul Eater: Evolve the Garlic.
  • Stone Mask: Find a Stone Mask.
  • XXI - Blood Astronomia: Reach Level 99 with Poe.
  • Moongolow: Unlock Hyper mode for 4 normal stages.
  • O'Sole Meeo: Defeat a total of 3000 Dragon Shrimps.
  • Hyper Gallo Tower: Defeat the Giant Enemy Crab in the Gallo Tower.
  • II - Twilight Requiem: Reach Level 99 with Dommario after unlocking the Randomazzo.
    XIII - Wicked Season: Reach Level 99 with Christine after finding the Randomazzo.
  • Reroll 1: Reach Level 100 with Mortaccio.
  • Cappella Magna: Reach Level 80 in the Gallo Tower.
  • Lama: Survive 20 minutes with at least +10% Curse.

Twitch Clips

For the raid, which happened at 1 AM, we raided MajorTom928 who was also playing Vampire Survivors over at twitch.tv/majortom928.

Anyway work was solid yesterday as I said earlier, just too bad I lost the final hour because of the internet issues. On the plus side, I did get an automatic call from Xfinity saying they 'fixed' the issue, but I did not cancel the appointment for Saturday afternoon, because I know how that works.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Intermediate COmbo #2, Sway Back COmbo and Hip Shape Focus Combo for 31 minutes.

Why don't crabs donate? Because they're shellfish.

Song of the Day: Friday I’m In Love by The Cure

For tonight's stream... if possible, the plan is to finish Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight, but if that is a no go, we'll push it back to next week.

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


Thursday, November 17, 2022

How Would I Consider Fallout 76 To Be Finished?

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Fallput 76 was productive in a few ways as I actually got daily quests done that I started months ago, one of which lead to an achievement. Which actually brings forward the condition of which for when would I consider Fallout 76 to be a finished game... and I have two qualifiers for it. Either I get the 'I Have Become Death' achievement worth 50 gamer score... or I earn enough of a gamer score through other in-game achievements to hit 1000... and all I need is 40. 

There are two Event related achievements associated with the Monster Mash & Breach and Clear events that I could focus on whose achievements are worth 20 each, and also doing favors at the White Spring would net an achievement to get 30.

Big thanks to Iceman who was part of the stream last night to help with challenges, and for alsoresubscribing to the channel for the 56th month in a row! I always appreciate the awesome support for the things that I do! 

On a side note, the stream re-started twice times, but there were no internet issues that I could detect on my side, so I'm assuming it was on Twitch's end somewhere. I of course will continue to track the issues as best I can. Knowing Comcast, they are going to blame it on the weather.

Fallout 76 Achievements

  • Queen of the Hunt: Complete "Queen of the Hunt"

Twitch Clips

For the raid we dropped in on CallMeMsGalaxy who was playing Phasmophobia over at twitch.tv/callmemsgalaxy!

Work yesterday was rather forgettable with a lot of rude people with nothing getting done. 

Played some more Vampire Suvivors last night and banged out a bunch of achievements, I'm having a bit of tough luck on the 4th stage, which I came very close to clearing but it introduces some very weird elements late in the 30 minute duration. Also earned my 4,000th Xbox achievement as well.

Vampire Survivors Achievements

  • Milky Way Map: Find the Milky Way Map.
  • Hyper Dairy Plant: Defeat the Sword Guardian in the Dairy Plant.
  • The Bone Zone: Unlock Hyper mode for 3 normal stages.
  • Bloody Tear: Evolve the Whip.
  • Ars Gouda: Find the Ars Gouda.
  • Mindbender: Fill 50 entries in the Collection.
  • Gorgeous Moon: Evolve the Pentagram.
  • Krochi: Defeat a total of 100000 enemies.
  • Gallo Tower: Reach Level 60 in Dairy Plant.
  • Christine: Get Pentagram to Level 7
  • Pummarola: Survive 5 minutes with Gennaro.
  • Randomazzo: Find the Randomazzo.
  • VI - Sarabande of Healing: Find the Randomazzo.
  • Sorceress' Tears: Find the Sorceress' Tears.
  • Heaven Sword: Evolve the Cross.
  • Banish 1: Fill 60 entries in the Collection.
  • Ebony WIngs: Get Peachone To Level 7.
  • Hellfire: Evolve the Fire Wand.
  • XIX - Heart of Fire: Reach Level 99 with Arca after unlocking the Randomazzo.
  • Vandalier: Unite Ebony Wings and Peachone.
  • Death Spiral: Evolve the Axe.
  • Thousand Edge: Evolve the Knife.
  • VII - Iron Blue Will: Reach Level 99 with Gennaro after unlocking the Randomazzo.

Have a bit of writer's block on the commission short story based around Halo IV, I have the intro done but I'm split on how hard I should lean into how top heavy it should be.

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

It's Danny DeVito's Birthday today... now there is a guy who always keeps it Sunny in Philadelphia.

Three fish are in a tank. One asks the others, "How do you drive this thing?"

Song of the Day: Season of the Witch by Donovan

For tonight's stream we'll be playing Final Fantasy XIV with a focus on the remaining side quests in areas associated with Shadowbringers before moving into the areas that were added for Endwalker.

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

 

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

The Android 21 Story Arc Is Basically A Spotlight For Android 18!

 Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Dragon Ball FighterZ was focused on the Android 21 story arc... which actually was mostly focused on Android 18 and Android 16 because they are the only playable character up until the boss fight against Cell on Map 11. So the fights end up being either 2 versus 1, 2 versus 2 or 2 versus 3.

Now I wonder why Android 18 gets the big spotlight, now it's obvious because she was the lone female character on the launch roster that was playable from the start... and also because she was created by Dr. Gero as part of his quest to avenge the Red Ribbon. Actually those are the only reasons, but the funny thing is, 18 gets perhaps the easiest path to hit Level 40, in fact we finished tonight being in the mid 30s, putting us in a good spot to hit level 40 as part of next Tuesday's stream. 

Anyway. I am kind of amazed that they went the full Majin Buu Good / Evil split with Android 21, which in a way makes sense to keep her as a protagonist in addition to capitalizing on her Buu like design, but this does raise questions.... such as how did anyone get Buu's DNA?!

At the very least we'll be finished with Dragon Ball FighterZ next Tuesday, as we have 5 or 6 more maps to cover to finish up the Android 21 Story Arc. So we're looking for two achievements, but at the very least we'll get one.

Twitch Clips

For the raid we dropped in on BestiBunni who was playing Cyperpunk 2077 over on twitch.tv/bestibunni

Work yesterday was... alright... nothing special, felt a bit productive to an extent.

Per the recommendation of Lunar_Princess, I picked up Akiba's Trip as a game that is a PlayStation 4 exclusive... but the version Amazon delivered wast he Region 3 version for Japan. Oh well, good thing the game discs can be used on any PS4 console. Still it is rather funny anomaly in my collection.

Also picked up Hentai vs. Evil for the PS4... and Amazon sent the Region 2 version.

Donald Trump announced he's running for President and I said it last night on stream, the sooner he is six feet under, the better. Watch the Republican Party just 'bow and kiss the ring' because of how idiotic they have become, The GOP is now where near what it was back when I first was able to vote back in the early 2000s. 

Played some more Vampire Survivors last night and figured managed to complete two stages, which means basically surviving for 30 minutes. Turns out evolving the book and the water leads to some heavy duty areas of effect!

Vampire Survivors Achievements

  • Empty Tome: Have 6 Different Weapons.
  • Dairy Plant: Reach Level 40 in Inlaid Library.
  • La Borra: Evolve the Santa Water.
  • Hyper Inlaid Library: Defeat the Hag in the Inlaid Library.
  • Il Molise: Unlock Hyper mode for any normal stage.
  • Pentagram: Survive 20 minutes with any character.
  • Unholy Vespers: Evolve the King Bible.
  • Poe Ratcho: Get Garlic to level 7.
  • Mortaccio: Defeat a total of 3000 Skeletons.
  • Green Acres: Unlock Hyper mode for 2 normal stages.
  • Holy Wand: Evolve the Magic Wand.
  • Hyper Mad Forest: Defeat the giant Blue Venus in the Mad Forest.
  • Dommario: Earn 5000 coins in a single run.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Waist Shape Focus Combo, Weaving Combo #2 and Hook Combo #1 for 28 minutes

A chicken coup only has two doors. If it had four, it would be a chicken sedan.

Song of the Day: Heart-Shaped Box by Nirvana

For tonight's stream we'll be roaming around West Virginia in Fallout 76, maybe try to clear out the dailies I have crowding up the right hand side of the screen every week. If PowerThumbZ is able to join in, we'll see about going for the I've Become Death achievement.

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

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

2nd Week Of Star Trek Prodigy SuperNova is in the books

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Star Trek Prodigy SuperNova saw both story progression as well as replaying earlier levels in the game in the pursuit of better times and finding collectables. As the plot of this game develops, it becomes very clear that if one has watched the show then there would be a better understanding of Gwyn and her memories. That said, I love the spear weapon she gets, as it's fast, can be used to close in on enemies and does a fair amount of damage quick. For sure we'll finish this game next Monday because all that's left are two levels and a third boss fight.

That said, completing Star Trek Prodigy SuperNova is another issue all together, because one has to not only find all the collectables, and somehow I missed the final two in the third level, but also completing each level within a certain time limit, which means remember all the solutions to every puzzle... which would be fine until one realize the speed running is meant for two people, because some sections have  having cause and effect puzzles, such as Dal pushes a block in their part to help Gwyn cross a gap so that she can flip a switch to help him reach a higher platform.

On a side note, the second boss of the game looks like a Reaper from Mass Effect, just look at it in the screenshot that I've included.

Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova Achievements

  • Welcome back: You rescued Zero!
  • Naroan History: You met Yarm'orn and finished Mirios Level 2: The Deep.
  • One Man Army: You unlocked all weapons.
  • Proto Menagerie: You found all of the Punnies
  • Quest for Loot: You opened half of all Chests.
  • Playing with Time: You finished Mirios Level 3: Winds of Fire and escaped the time anomaly.
  • Budding Botanist: You collected half of all Plants.
  • Coming in from the Cold: You survived the blizzard and finished Taresse Level 1: Mines of Nar’eh.
  • The Crew is Back!: You rescued Murf and got the whole crew back together!
  • Escape from Mirios: You defeated Madax and finished Mirios Level 4: Zor'ka Station.
  • Teamwork makes the dream work: All crewmembers have helped out in combat with their abilities at least once.
  • A True Merit Badge: Earned all badges on Orisi.

Twitch Clips

For the raid we dropped in on DaWorstGamerEver25  who was playing Grand Theft Auto V over at twitch.tv/DaWorstGamerEver25

Started writing the requested commission story based around Halo 4... the client wants it to involve Palmer and Master Chief... but they barely have any interactions in the game... so I get to make shit up to somehow make it work!

Played a lot of Vampire Survivors last night off-stream and knocked out quite a few achievements. Did discover that it's Xbox port can crash under various circumstances. Considering the odds of getting achievement on tonight's stream is very unlikely this ended up extending a streak that started this past Friday. This also ended up being the 150th game on Xbox consoles that has achievements that I've played.

Vampire Survivors Achievements

  • Hollow Heart: Survive 1 minute with any character.
  • Garlic: Find 5 Floor Chickens.
  • Bracer: Get King Bible To Level 4.
  • Crown: Reach Level 10.
  • Wings: Reach Level 5.
  • Fire Wand: Destroy 20 light sources.
  • Peachone: Survive 10 minutes with any character.
  • Lancet: Find an Orologion.
  • Cross: Find a Rosary.
  • Arca: Get Fire Wand to Level 4.
  • Magnet: Find a Vacuum.
  • Inlaid Library: Reach Level 20 in Mad Forest.
  • Lightning Ring: Defeat a total of 5000 enemies.
  • Duplicator: Get Magic Wand To Level 7.
  • Grim Grimoire: Find the Grim Grimoire.
  • Runetracer: Survive 5 minutes with Pasqualina.
  • Thunder Loop: Evolve the Lightning Ring.
  • Spellbinder: Get Runetracer To Level 7.
  • NO FUTURE: Evolve the Runetracer.
  • Porta: Get Lightning Ring To Level 4.
  • Clover: Find a Little Clover.
  • Candelabrador: Get Santa Water To Level 4.
  • Suor Clerici: Recover a lifetime total of 1000 HP.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Straight Combo #1, Triple Combo #1 and Double COmbo #2 for 31 minutes

Why couldn't the bicycle stand up? Because it was too tired.

Song of the Day: I Like Me Better by Lauv

For tonight's stream we're starting the Android 21 story arc of Dragon Ball FighterZ... at at least we get to play as Android 18 during it!

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

Monday, November 14, 2022

We Got Achievements as Doomfist and Sombra?!

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Overwatch 2 was a bit shocking because I ended up getting three achievements for characters I normally don't play as. First was as Sombra where I got both of her character achievements in one match in the span of like 30 seconds. Sure someone was not happy that I was playing Sombra in multiple rounds... but they certainly weren't complaining when I came through in a big way in my greatest performance as her ever... in fact the screenshot is of the stats. Also got one of DoomFist's achievement by pure luck, but I feel his other one using his ultimate to hit four people at once is going to be very tough.

Now I did end up using a lot of different characters last night, and I think I used every tank at least once, I know had few matches as Hanzo, Junkrat, Moira, Ana, Brigitte... and also picked up a couple of Plays of the Game as well! All in all a good match.

Overwatch 2 Achievements

  • Power Outage: Hack 5 enemies at once as Sombra in Quick or Competitive Play
  • Hack the Planet: Hack 15 enemies without dying as Sombra in Quick or Competitive Play
  • Power Punch: Slam 3 enemies into a wall with Doomfist's Empowered Rocket Punch in Quick or Competitive Play

 Twitch Clips

Big thank you to CallMeMsGalaxy for the raid following their stream of Valorant over at twitch.tv/callmemsgalaxy!  

For our raid we dropped in on PowerThumbz who was playing Vampire Survivors over at twitch.tv/powerthumbz!

Hoped into Fallout 76 to cheese out the grind for Becoming Allies With The Crater, and managed to pick up two more achievements as well. Here's how to do it:

1. Get Retirement Plan Daily Mission/Quest
2. Talk to Rocksy about the Raider.
3. Confront the Raider and Attack.
4. Report back/talk to Rocksy.
5. Select "Appalachia has a new corpse"
6. Quickly back out of the conversation after saying the dialog.
7. Repeat steps 4-6.

This can be a bit grindy but it is do-able. If you side with Crater over Foundation as it relates to the Treasure Vault Raid, it will save a lot of time.

Fallout 76 Achievements

  • Ground Zero: Be at Ground Zero of a Nuclear Blast
  • Scorched Earth: Win the "Scorched Earth" Event
  • Friends in Low Places: Become allies with Crater

Also did some some off stream achievement in Dragon Ball FighterZ to get to 20 casual matches played... I got my ass kicked doing it, but hell I did win one match.

Dragon Ball FighterZ Achievements

  • Lemme Play Too!: World Match - Play 20 Casual Matches.

Finished writing the commissioned short story based on Mia Yim's return to WWE and picked up another commission request based around Halo 4. I may not have played it, but I hope someone has the transcripts of its dialog or clips of its cut-scenes somewhere

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Beginner Combo #1, Body Hook Combo and Weaving Combo #1 for 28 minutes.

When the two rabbit ears got married, it was a nice ceremony. But the reception was amazing.

Song of the Day: My Shit by A Boogie Wit da Hoodie

For tonight's stream we're playing Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova, we'll just how involved the game gets with having to switch between characters!

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

Sunday, November 13, 2022

Ghostbusting With A Moon Princess!

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream featured both Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed and for a bit of time Fall Guys, but the majority of time was on Ghostbusters because we were joined by the amazing Lunar_Princess (who streams over at twitch.tv/lunar_princess). It was a real hoot as we teamed up to capture ghosts, while at times also playing as the Ghost. In fact Luna pointed out how to set a preference for which role to play, so that lead to me actually having an opportunity to try my hand at being a spook! Also, there is maybe the possibility of Luna joining in for some Fallout 76. 

Also we got into an extended just chatting session that saw us talking about Persona, Fitness Boxing and other topics, it was a great time on all fronts. In fact one of the things that came up was seeing how much new copies of Persona 2 for the PS1 are going for... and yeah neither of us is getting our hands on that game.

In terms of what happened on Fall Guys, made it to the final round of a solo show and had some mixed success in a few squad shows. It was a Double XP weekend so I was able to get some battle pass levels done.

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Achievements

  • Mycophile: Collect all Spores, Molds, and Fungi in a location
  • Daily Dose: Complete a daily challenge
  • Back Off: Down a buster that is reviving another buster
  • Summoner: Summon 100 minions

Twitch Clips

For the raid we dropped in on Starvexia who was playing Minecraft and doing a Subathon over on twitch.tv/starvexia!  

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Left-Right Step Combo, Advanced Combo #2 and Hook Combo #2 for 31 minutes

A cowherd counted 48 cows on his property. But when he rounded them up, he had 50.

Song of the Day: Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol

Funny enough, Chasing Cars is one of the songs I want to say was a real staple of Twitch Sings for myself, Kalenal and several other streamers!.

Time to recap all the games we featured last week which was Overwatch 2, Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight, Fall Guys & Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed!


For tonight's stream we're playing Overwatch 2 to start up the new week!

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

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