Learning about something devasting...

Good morning everyone,

As everyone knows, at 9 PM I typically take a break during my streams, and as of late in addition to just stretching my legs, grabbing a snack, I've been checking up on my mom seeing if she needs anything. However last night, I learned something... devastating. My mom has cancer, stage IV lung cancer. She was a smoker, but she quit years ago. I'm just torn up inside... because my mom without question is the strongest person I know in terms of her will power. Hell I'm scared out of my wits. And what I'm going to ask does not come easy.

About a week ago, because of what turned out to be related health concerns and costs, we set up a Go Fund Me for my mom over at https://gofund.me/6adf8354 if could spare a little bit to help, we would greatly appreciated. All funds would go directly to my mom to help cover medical costs and related expenses. 

Of course during the stream, we were playing Final Fantasy XIV, we finished The Carrier Quests to get the PostMoogle hat, which just looks stylish with the Squall attire from Final Fantasy VIII. Also did the variant dungeons for the first time, was lucky to find a group after a 1/2 hour wait. Also discovered that there are some loose side quests that popped up in areas that I cleared already, but I'll go back for them after I finish the side quests in the areas added in Endwalker.

Twitch Clips

• We're Turning Ants into A Ant Hill
• Trying a Variant Dungeon Solo 
• Hallow Victory
  

For the the raid, we dropped in on SweetLindir as they were playing Paladins over at twitch.tv/sweetlindir.

Work was surprisingly good yesterday, as I helped closed an assignment that was struggling, so that felt good.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Beginner Combo #2, Uppercut Combo #1 and Advanced Combo #1 for 34 minutes. We did hit the 40 hour mark with Martina.

What do you call an empty can of Cheese Whiz? Cheese Was.

Song of the Day: Sugar, We’re Goin Down by Fall Out Boy

For tonight's stream, we shall be playing Persona 4: Dancing All Night, with the goal being focused on Chapters 5 & 6 of the story mode, plus trying to beat some of the scores I've already placed in Free Dance mode.

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

 

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Fall Guys Success and Helping A Buddy In Fallout 76

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream started with Fall Guys, and we were joined by the one and only PandaSweet. Now we did have an issue setting up a party and with the game claiming one of us cancelled match making, which was very weird. Still we did have a blast, and even some success, winning three bouts of 'Sweet Thieves'. Not often to be on the winning side of things in Fall Guys, so it was a real treat.

After the break, we switched over to Fallout 76, and we were joined by Iceman, so we made sure to focus on story content he needed to be done associated with the Steel Dawn arc. Because I two of the more combat heavy ones solo a couple of months ago, I was able to basically walk him through it, including dealing with hacked doors very quickly. Was fun being able to do these again with a buddy considering the nightmare of doing them solo. Going to be real fun next week because his next quest involves the Super Mutant invasion of Fort Atlas

Twitch Clips

• I will never be able to do that again!
• Over The Top! 
• We Win!!!
• Insult Bot!!! 
• Mothman!!!!
• And it goes Boom! 
  

For the raid we dropped in on x9abenonymous9x as they were playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II over at twitch.tv/x9abenonymous9x

Work was another mediocre day, possible leads and stuff, but no progress to feel productive.

Picked up another WWE commission which I was expecting based on the return of Sarah Logan to the promotion. Will probably start writing that before tonight's stream.

Managed to ear a few King Crazy's in Persona 4: Dancing All Night last night, and with how I have the Free Dancing set up, I wonder how it'll throw off my timing for the Story Mode dances for tomorrow night's stream because of the slower pace.

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

What are the biggest enemies of caterpillars? Dogerpillers.

Song of the Day: Heather by Conan Gray

For tonight's stream we'll be focused on Final Fantasy XIV, we'll continue to Carrier series of quests, and depending on how long that takes, we may start up the Endwalker side quests or do a couple of raids.

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

The Middle Of Game of Thrones The Telltale Series

Good morning everyone

Last night's stream featured episodes 3 and 4 of Game of Thrones: The Telltale Series, and as with prior play-throughs the question becomes what shall I do... make sure Asher lives or make sure Rodderick lives, because I do like both characters. But since the original Telltale games went out of business, we'll never know fully how things will play out. Did discover that if you 'attack' in Whitehill, it means everyone dies... and I'm surprised that was not an option for story progression. I mean it does resolve a lot of the issues after all.

Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series Achievements

• Storied Sights: Completed Chapter 1 of Episode 3
• Brothers: Completed Chapter 2 of Episode 3
• Garrisons: Completed Chapter 3 of Episode 3
• Rendezvous: Completed Chapter 4 of Episode 3
• Relief for the Parched: Completed Chapter 5 of Episode 3
• Intentions Known: Completed Chapter 6 of Episode 3
• Your Grace: Completed Chapter 7 of Episode 3
• Master of Arms: You completed Episode 3.
• The Old, the True, the Brave: Completed Chapter 1 of Episode 4
• None so Wise: Completed Chapter 2 of Episode 4
• Pride and Purpose: Completed Chapter 3 of Episode 4
• Honed and Ready: Completed Chapter 4 of Episode 4
• Ever Vigilant: Completed Chapter 5 of Episode 4
• Righteous in Wrath: Completed Chapter 6 of Episode 4
• The Sun of Winter: Completed Chapter 7 of Episode 4
• Castellan: You completed Episode 4.

We also played some Commander Keen in Keen Dreams Definitive Edition as part of the stream as well, actually managing to get through a few levels which was kind of cool. Some of the score and time challenges are not something I'll be looking to do.

Twitch Clips

• We get back up
• Attack Is Not The Correct Option 
• It's Not Being Lit Any More
• Cheap Death... 
• Parship Pass Finished
• Gimmie The Cookies! 
  

For the raid we dropped in on Hawleigh as they were playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild over at twitch.tv/hawleigh!  

Work was rather bleh yesterday... nothing fell into place like things were last week... hope today will be a better day.

Made sure to get the Battle Pass for the new season of Overwatch 2, and I love some of the skins that are featured in it, so I'll be making sure to grind that out as quickly as possible!

Phillies signed Taijuan Walker and I certainly feel like they over-paid for him. He's a glorified #4 starter but will be earning #1 starter money when compared to Zach Wheeler and Aaron Nola.  There is also speculation that the Phillies are looking at Matt Strahm for the bullpen.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Straight Combo #1, Triple Combo #1 and Double Combo #2 for 31 minuets. We also passed 1 million punches thrown in Fitness Boxing 2.

Where did the king keep his armies? Up his sleevies.

Song of the Day: Back To Black by Amy Winehouse

For tonight's stream, it'll be a split between Fall Guys and Fallout 76, just to make sure we feature both games fairly equally.

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

More Pokemon, More Xfinity Issues.

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Pokemon Violet was very productive in terms of accomplishing big things, such as facing the Rock Titan... which was a lot bigger than I thought it would've been, and also clearing the second gym, which was a Grass Type focus gym, which meant my one Fire-Type Pokemon basically one-shot everything. Then I ended up getting lost trying to find my way to what the second Titan. Also figured out the picnic gimmick, sandwich making... and the fact that letting my lead Pokemon roam around could mean some fairly easily leveling up. That said some Pokemon end up being a real pain to capture, as I feel like I lost 15 Poke Balls in failed capture attempt that were complete hog wash. Did managed to catch Eevee tonight as well.

Now for the Xfinity issue, and this was very weird, the X8 gateway that was just replaced on Saturday, suddenly turned off as if it lost power. No other electrical device plugged in to the same outlet (which were my desk lamps) did. I reported it to the tech who came out on Saturday, since he said to note any weirdness that occurred and that was weird. So the stream ended up being split in two. Not thrilled about it, but no footage was lost. ALso near as I can tell, the Modem went offline at 340 AM, judging by the X8 gateway uptime.

Twitch Clips

• Can We Go Down The Slide?
• The Stone Cliff Titan.. Defeated! 
• I Just got it... Me Ride On...
• Grass-Gym... Conquered! 
  

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

Got a little writing done for the latest WWE short story commission, trying to go by all the notes given for it is turning out to be tougher than I thought it was going to be despite how easy the opening and set up was to write.

The Phillies signed Trea Turner to an 11-year contract worth $300 million, sure long term that may end up a bargain... assuming Turner ends up playing all 11 years at a high level. 

I am curious as to why Justin Verlander signed with the Mets... there is no logical sense to it, and considering the Mets let Jacob DeGrom leave, it makes even less sense.

Kirstie Alley passed away at the age of 71 yesterday, always did enjoy what she did as Saavik in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, as it basically set in place the approach most female Vulcans have had on Star Trek in the follow decades  

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

What do you give a sick bird? Tweetment.

Song of the Day: I Don’t Wanna Do This Anymore by XXXTentacion

For tonight's stream the plan is to play Game of Thrones: A TellTale Series episode 3 and 4, and we'll work in some other little stuff like maybe more Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium or Commander Keen in Keen Dreams

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!