Solid Night of Overwatch

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Overwatch 2 didn't have any noticeable issues, I did see that the downstream and upstream power levels were a lot more even than they were previously. So fingers crossed in that regard.

As far as playing Overwatch goes, we made a solid effort in trying to get PandaSweet within striking distance of Battle Pass level 200, and we certainly had a lot of fun. As always thank you to PandaSweet for being apart of the fun! 

I picked up three Plays of the Game, two as D.va and one as Junker Queen, so December is off to a decent start, considering I didn't get any POTGs prior to last night for the month.Other characters used were Reinhardt, Wrecking Ball, Soldier 76, Mei, Junkrat, Moira, Lucio and Brigitte. Also had a hell of a match as D.va racking up 39 Eliminations (which is reflected in the scoreboard screenshot).

Twitch Clips

• Access Denied!
• That's three! 
• Time for the Reckoning!
  

For the raid we dropped in on PowerThumbz as they were playing Vampire Survivors over at twitch.tv/powerthumbz! 

Started work on another short story commission request based on fairly recent WWE stuff, the promo between Iyo Sky and Asuka certainly has me off to a good start just in terms of how idiotic I can write the dialog. 

Fred McGriff is going into the Baseball Hall of Fame... and this proves that Baseball Writers Association of America are a joke, because they should've voted him in instead of letting him wait until he would come up during the Winter Meetings

Managed to clear a ton of tracks on Hard Difficulty in Persona 4: Dancing All Night... granted using a few modifiers... still managed to get rated as brilliant on a few. I think I should also be able to acquire all the remaining costume gimmicks pretty easily once the rest of the story mode is finished.

This week's line up will be

• Monday: Pokemon Violet
• Tuesday: Game of Thrones: A TellTale Series (Episode 3 & 4)  
  
  • Plus Commander Keen In Keen Dreams / Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium
    
• Wednesday: Fall Guys & Fallout 76Thursday: Final Fantasy XIV (Focus on Carrier Quests)
• Friday: Persona 4: Dancing All Night (Story Mode Chapters 5 & 6)
• Saturday: Divine Knockout, MultiVersus, Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed
• Sunday: Overwatch 2
  

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

I broke my arm in two places. You know what the doctor told me? "Stay out of those places!"

Song of the Day: All My Life by Foo Fighters

For tonight's stream we are resuming Pokemon Violet, we'll do stuff at the school and work towards finding the first titan.

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

Xfinity came out, swapped the modem, internet goes down in the middle of stream

 Good afternoon everyone,

So in the follow up to last Saturday's fiasco, Xfinity came out, checked everything... replaced the external splitter and some fittings on the coaxial cable and swapped the X8 modem I had with a new one... then at 1027 PM the modem did a full on reset out of the blue similar to what I saw happened back during the troublesome issues of July through September. Now I'll just hope that was just an instance of the modem getting an update.

The stream itself was a bounce around kind of night, we opened up with MultiVersus and managed to snag the achievement for playing 100 matches in a party, which was nice. I did happened to get stuck with people who clearly weren't in the mood to be playing with them doing less than 100 damage dealt. Why play a fighting game if you're not going to play?

We also checked out Divine Knockout, which is a 3 vs 3 platform brawler from the people who made Smite. I certainly got a good feel for it early, playing as Sol in a couple of matches. It's in its Alpha stage of development, but from what I saw, it seems like it'll be a fun game to play every now and then.

We also played Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed, and the macro key using PC players certainly was on full display when it came to cool downs and just keeping four people cornered for extended periods of time. Did get a few solid captures.

Space Invaders: Infinity Gene was next on the hit parade, and it was during this portion of the stream when things went down as detailed at the beginning of today's blog. We made a couple attempts of getting 10 Million Points, getting to 8.5 Million. Would've been cool to accomplish that.

And lastly we played two matches in Smite, losing both, but it was in the second match where I had to report another player for AKFing. One they complained about the team selection and then left the match when we were winning, proving him. We only lost at the final moment because my team got greedy trying to push 4 vs 5 when all we had to do was defend. 

MultiVersus Achievements

• Life of the Party: Play 100 matches in a party

Divine Knockout Achievements

• Practice Makes Perfect: Achieved 'Practice Makes Perfect'

Twitch Clips

• Get That Stuff Out Of Here
• Cross Over Scares Taz 
• Get that Nonsense Out Of Here!
• Close To Victory! 
• Controlling The Point
• Darn it! 
• Saw him coming
• It's the music that makes it 
• My highest score ever...
• Get the Kill and then got killed 
• Shut Down!
  

For the raid we dropped in on Flint_Locke as they were in the middle of a Dungeons & Dragons campaign over at twitch.tv/flint_locke! 

Made some headway on the writing of the first of two back to back WWE commission short story requests, I'll probably finish it this afternoon... or at the latest by tomorrow.

Start of a new week, so let's recap last weeks games which featured Overwatch 2, Pokemon Violet, Game of Thrones: A Telltale Series, Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium, Fall Guys, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 4: Dancing All Night, MultiVersus, Divine Knockout, Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed, Space Invaders: Infinity Gene and Smite!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Double Combo #1, Body Uppercut Combo and Body Straight Combo for 28 minutes. On a side note, will probably hit 1 million punches thrown by the end of the week

How do you feel when there's no coffee?  Depresso.

Song of the Day: Way Down We Go by KALEO

For tonight's stream the plan is to play Overwatch 2 with the goal being to help PandaSweet get to Battle Pass level 200! We hope we can accomplish that!

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

I now understand that Dojima is awesome

Good afternoon everyone

Last night's stream of Persona 4: Dancing All Night saw us continuing the story, knocking out Chapters 3 and 4 of the story mode, and it's chapter 4 that has my attention because I finally understand why everyone says Dojima is awesome as it relates to the characters of Persona 4. Dude is a gruff cop who is always one step away from wanting to say he's too old for this shit.  The way he goes fully into the case and how all the pieces of the plot come together through his logical deductive reasons was quite interesting to watch. Also learned that the Fever Time Dances that are are revealed in the story mode will trigger the trophies if the other ones were already seen.

Now I did spent a good portion of the night trying to beat my own high scores... and short of doing everything perfectly, there really isn't going to be much of a chance of me getting some scores higher than what I've gotten already.  I do find it funny that there is the option to 'overwrite' high scores... I do have my pride so I'll never do that!

Persona 4: Dancing All Night Trophies

• Tidy Up Your Toys: Rescued Sumomo Ujima
• Beauty and the Beast: Seen all Bond Fevers between Naoto and Kanji
• Standing Room Only: Rescued Nozomi Nakahara
• Bearwell!: Completed Chapter 4

Twitch Clips

• Kanji & Naoto (Fever Time)
• Just a story about a Small Town Bear...
• My best combo on 'Heaven' (Normal Difficulty) 
• Marie & Margaret (Fever Time)
  

For the raid we dropped in daworstgamerever25 as they were playing Grand Theft Auto V over at twitch.tv/daworstgamerever25 last night 

We're expecting Xfinity to come out to check everything... again... considering the reoccurring problems that popped up last Saturday that were similar to what we experience the previous week

Happy Birthday to my mom who turns 63 today.

Work was surprisingly productive yesterday, even if I felt rather wonky during it... still can't complain too much when things go well right?

Played some Space Invader Infinity Gene follow the stream to try and grab another achievement out of it and was successful... once I read I could use the Bonus stage to do things a bit easier than playing through the normal levels.

Space Invaders Infinity Gene Achievements

• 1,500 CHAINED: Achieved a chain of 1,500.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Defensive Combo #1, Front-Back Step Combo and Uppercut Combo #2 for 28 minuets.

Fitness Boxing 2 Stats For Week Of November 27 to December 3 2022

• Punches Thrown: 9755
  
• Estimated Calories Burned: 4018.56 kcal
  
• Martina's Champion Progress: 72% (36 out of 50 hours)
  
• King EX Fighter Progress: 98%
  
• Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Streak: 722
  
• Fitness Boxing & Fitness Boxing 2 Combined Daily Streak: 880
  

How do you organize a space-themed hurrah? You planet.

Song of the Day: Return of the Mack by Mark Morrison

For tonight's stream, it's a variety night as we'll feature the likes of MultiVersus, Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed and other stuff.

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

The Delivery Moogle Quests

Good morning everyone,

So last week I discovered the Delivery Moogle Quests, in which the player gets roped into being a postman in Final Fantasy XIV, and all the quests certainly do a nice bit of world building when it comes to the Realm Reborn era of the game. However, the plot twist that the reason we were duped is because the Deputy PostMoogle crashed into a Windmill and can't do their deliveries. That was a clever way of giving a reason for it. Plus their was a nice touch of being 'promoted' to a full carrier made it kind of neat. But I still have seven more quests to do to complete it, which will results in my character having a PostMoogle hat... which is like the first decent piece of a head-wear I've seen in the game

We also did a couple of Random Roulette, and it's been quite a while since I've done a few so it was a slight struggle remembering the mechanics of the ones that did pop up. Did manage to get a perfect level 3 Limit Break off to cap the stream.

Twitch Clips

• I didn't need any help...
• No Pressure 
• Perfect Limit Break Usage
  

For the raid we dropped in on Oldish22 as they were playing Pokemon Scarlet over on twitch.tv/oldish22!  

With Clippy being weird, I switch the BRB screen during streams to show the artwork I commissioned from DaemonsW0lf, and using the music from Duke Nukem II as a place filler. 

Work was rather... bleh yesterday, sure I set up possible interviews for next week, but compared to the prior couple of days, yesterday just blew.

I'll say it now, Aaron Judge isn't worth $300 Million over eight years, because a) he's already 30, and b) despite last season and his rookie season, he's a .280, 25 Hoomer, 80 RBI guy. Solid but not worth $300 Million

Started work on the first of two back to back commission requests based on the WWE, both of which have the same damn premise. Oh well. With luck I can knock out the first one in a couple of short sessions

Played some more Persona 4: Dancing All Night last night, grinding things out to unlock another trophy. Near as I can tell, some of the fever time duets have to be seen in the story mode first then performed in Free Dancing mode. Still at this point we got half the costumes for Free Dancing as well.

Persona 4: Dancing All Night Trophies

• Best Dressed: Bought half of all costumes

Since I know on Tuesday the plan is to play Episode 3 & 4 of Game of Thrones, A TellTale Series, I figure instead of revisiting Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium, why not revisit a game from the early 90s that was on PC with Commander Keen in Keen Dreams. The Definitive Edition is pretty damn cheap, and it will make for nice little laugh. Played a little last night to test it out, since it is a platform that has some wonky physics to get a feel for it... and yeah it's one of those games I'd consider to be filler to pad out a stream.

Commander Keen in Keen Dreams Definitive Edition Achievements

• Novice: Beat your first level in Keen Dreams.

Also snagged up one achievement in Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime, and it would be awesome if I could find folks willing to play it, as it's not a bad little twin stick shooter.

Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime Achievements

• TEAM OF FOUR: Play with each character.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Triple Combo #2, Intermediate Combo #1 and Defensive Combo #2 for 31 minutes.

Wait, you don't want to hear a joke about potassium? K.

Song of the Day:Down With The Sickness by Disturbed

For tonight's stream we're getting back to Persona 4: Dancing All Night, with the plan being to do Chapters 3 and 4 of the story mode, plus a fair amount of free dancing.

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

Fall Guys and Fallout 76...at least the first four letters are the same

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream opened with Fall Guys, and in the 'Krakken' event show, I came painfully close several times to winning, but had some last minute bad luck. Still it was a total blast every single time. Big thank you to PandaSweet for being apart of lot of the fun, as we also took part in Duo and Squad shows as well.

We also played Fallout 76, and as I focus on basically trying to gain one level a week, I found an area that I didn't visit before, Camden Park, which was kind of cool. We were also joined by Iceman, as we helped them advanced their progress in the Steel Dawn story arc. Will be really cool to help them in many of the heavy combat areas I had to deal with.

Twitch Clips

• The Doctor Is In... And Still In!
• A First Place Finish 
• Oh boy...
• An Organic Solution... Finished 
• Yes I Am...
• One disadvantage... 
  

For the raid we dropped in on PradoxGamerAU over at twitch.tv/pradoxgamerau as they were playing World of Warcraft

Work was real good yesterday, things really went my way in terms of getting things done, which felt good,

Finished writing the short story Batman commission, had to add a bit of padding to it to get it to where I like these little projects to be in terms of length. Really should get back to adding more dialog during the action portions. Next commission request I have is yet another WWE short story. Actually I have back to back WWE commissions coming up

Put in more off-stream grinding in Persona 4: Dancing All-Night... and I can say without question trying to see every fever time combination is going to be rather rough because the pacing on Hard is damn near All-Night levels off difficulty when compared to Person 3: Dancing in Moonlight and Person 5: Dancing in Starlight. Did manage to knock out another achievement in it

Persona 4: Dancing All Night Trophies

• Best Dressed: Bought half of all costumes

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Difficulty Challenge Combo #3, Difficult Challenge Combo #1 and Biceps Shape Focus Combo for 34 minuets.

I want to go camping every year. That trip was so in tents.

Song of the Day: Children’s Story by Slick Rick

For tonight's stream we'll be playing Final Fantasy XIV, continuing out hunt for side quests and lore. 

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

Forgot How Long The TellTale's Game Of Thrones was

Good morning everyone

Last night's stream featured episodes one and two of Game of Thrones: A Telltale Series, and yes the plan was to play episode three as well... but I forgot how long TellTale the episodes could be, not to mention, with how I was taking my time with it, still this means we'll get three weeks out of it instead of the expected two, with episode three and four next Tuesday, with episodes five and six the following week.

In terms of how I'm playing, I'm trying to thing a little different with Mira Forrester since she's basically all on her own, but that kind of is what it is. Otherwise, I'm going for the Forresters in general to just basically wanting the Whitehills' heads on pikes. One does have to appreciate the cameos from the show... even though I never watched a single episode of Game of Thrones.

To pad things out a bit, we did load up Cacpom Arcade 2nd Stadium because... well there getting to 100 hours of game to knock out, not to mention the long grind towards

On a side note, note sure why the Sidekick 'BRB' reel was not working the way it should have. In fact it wasn't working particularly well on Monday either. Hopefully it'll sort itself out, otherwise I'll have to come up with some audio for the BRB screen.

Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series Achievements

• Through the Night: Completed Chapter 1 of Episode 1
• Justice or Mercy?: Completed Chapter 2 of Episode 1
• A Long Road Ahead: Completed Chapter 3 of Episode 1
• Defiance or Diplomacy?: Completed Chapter 4 of Episode 1
• A Lord's Judgement: Completed Chapter 5 of Episode 1
• A Lord's Depute: Completed Chapter 6 of Episode 1
• A Lord's Reception: Completed Chapter 7 of Episode 1
• Squire: You completed Episode 1.
• A Ransom's Reward: Completed Chapter 1 of Episode 2
• Fight for Life: Completed Chapter 2 of Episode 2
• Unfamiliar Faces: Completed Chapter 3 of Episode 2
• Strength of Mind: Completed Chapter 4 of Episode 2
• The Pressures of Family: Completed Chapter 5 of Episode 2
• Love and Hostility: Completed Chapter 6 of Episode 2
• Initiation Completed: Completed Chapter 7 of Episode 2
• Knight: You completed Episode 2.

Twitch Clips 

• You're A Bold Lord
• He's Been Disarmed! 
• There were not enough chugs!
• Mistakes Were Made 
• We got 'em!
• We got energy 
  

For the raid we dropped in on PowerThumbZ as they were playing Vampire Survivors over on twitch.tv/powerthumbz!

Work yesterday was surprisingly decent, as I came across some very cooperative people in interview which was really nice.

Got a bit of writers block on finishing the short story commission request based on Batman: The Killing Joke, mostly divided on how I want to end it.

I stupidly (or wisely) loaded up Person 4: Dancing All Night and basically did all the tracks on Easy difficulty to see how many I could unlock, which was quite a few. It does seem that a couple are truly tied to the story mode or require some other method to unlock them.  Still with the songs unlocked and done, we'll have more a variety in between the chapters when we resume the story mode on Friday night's stream. Also picked up one Trophy as a result.

Persona 4: Dancing All Night Trophies

• Inseparable: Triggered 30 types of Bond Fevers

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Stragith Combo #2, Difficult Challenge Combo #2 and Block Combo for 31 minutes

Fitness Boxing 2 Stats For November 2022

• Punches Thrown:39115
• Estimated Calories Burned: 16602.11 kcal
  
• Martina's Champion Progress: 70% (35 out of 50)
  
• King EX Fighter Progress: 98%
• Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Streak: 719
  
• Fitness Boxing & Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Streak: 877
  

How many bugs do you need to rent out an apartment? Ten-ants.

Song of the Day: Anti-Hero by Taylor Swift

For tonight's stream we'll open up with Fall Guys for the first half and then switch over to Fallout 76 for the second half. There are still achievements in it I do want to try and get... it'll just take time to do.

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

First Impression of Pokemon Violet

Good morning everyone,

Last night we finally started up Pokemon Violet... and I have to say, the open world aspect of it certainly meant that the tutorial part of the game took me way longer to complete than most people, because I often like to over power my Pokemon as much as possible early on. Still it did mean we put a nice dent into capturing quite a few critters early on. Did clear the first gym to get off the right foot, and it's made very clear to me level grinding is going to very important to be able to tank some serious hits.

On aspect I don't particularly care for though is the camera angles in open world battles against wild Pokemon, because it means from a streamer point of view, the Pokemon in question could end up being behind where my camera box is positioned. Other than that I find that it is pretty much the continuation of numerous mechanics seen in Pokemon Shield, with the Giga-sizing gimmick being replace with the Tera-Styling one.

So for now Pokemon Violet will be locked in on Monday evenings going forward, so we'll have my very slow gradual process with it to experience, considering there are three story arcs to complete in order to finish the game.

Twitch Clips

• This is an easy decision
• Two Hits... That's All It Took 
• Fletching Getting It Done!
  

For the raid we dropped in on YuzuPonEN who was also playing Pokemon Violet last night over on twitch.tv/YuzuPonEN!  

The first season of Overwatch 2 ends on Monday I think, and I have an excellent shot of getting the level 200 battle associated with the Battle Pass. 

Got a follow up call from Xfinity regarding the issues I was having this past Saturday, after I escalated things to the FCC (again), instead of moving forward based on the tech visit from the 19th, they are basically starting over from scratch. In short, a tech is coming out on Saturday to do the same checks that were done two weeks ago.

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

This sweet ride has four wheels and flies. It's a garbage truck.

Song of the Day:  Maneater by Daryl Hall & John Oates

For tonight's stream, the plan is to play Episodes 1 through 3 of Game Of Thrones: A TellTale Series, so depending on how long that takes we might do something else to pad out the stream a little.

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