Constantly Getting Loss Is apart of the ESO experience

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Elder Scrolls Online certainly was interesting. Of course were were joined by Striker and made some progress knockout a few side quests... but them my in ability to actually finding my way from point A to point B popped up... and somehow, I kept losing track of wherever Striker went, like there were no on-screen indicator of how to track him down. Then on top of that, we ran into a glitched quest... as if that has never happened before  in a Bethesda game I've played.

Still, did have my first group Dungeon experience, and there is clearly some long queue times, in fact nearly two hours waiting in the queue to get into a dungeon. Still it's very straight forward, and much like with Final Fantasy XIV, you will not see my ass tanking or playing a mage in ESO, because it's tough enough playing the role of a damage dealer!

For the raid we dropped in on Kalenal while they were playing Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/kalenal

Of course it's Sunday night, which means Overwatch 2 is on tonight's agenda, with the super casual approach I'm taking since I've already knocked out the Season's Battle Pass

Heard an interesting fan theory that connects Mass Effect Andromeda's Vetra to Mass Effect's lead villain Saren, indication that she is his daughter. There are a lot of hoops to job through to make that work, but there are lot of tie-ins between ME:A and the rest of the franchise that works on so many levels.

Got a fair amount of writing done yesterday for the Dragon Ball short story commission, don't think it'll pass 2000 words in total though.

Made the mistake in saying I needed a HDMI switcher when what I need is an HDMI splitter, this way I can take the output signal that passes through my capture card  and direct to the monitor and TV.

Recorded the 3rd video of a series involving going through a bunch of 45s to see if I can find the music on them on Spotify. The video of that experience will be on YouTube around April 17th

Rearranged a large chunk of my basement as well, my bed is no longer viewable on camera, the stacks of DVD cases are off the one side. I'm really thinking of just getting a fairly sized rug to throw down on the floor. Everything is not where I want it to be yet as I still need to get the deep freezer out of here... but it is closer to how I wanted it to look for years.

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

So much to do in Spider-Man

Good afternoon everyone,

I must have been exhausted yesterday, because I slept for nearly 12 hours today....

Work yesterday was... alright, got one complete interview, but the shift was ended much earlier than anyone would have thought. Five bucks says its because of the lack of people willing to work Friday afternoons. Really should consider working Mondays instead of Fridays.

Moved the flat-screen TV that was in the living room down to the basement, and how I figure is that once certain furniture is moved around, it'll be in a perfect spot for when doing any local co-op. I should get a second HDMI splitter for output from the Elgato this way I can switch between the TV and my main monitor. Will I get a Roku or a similar type device? At some point yeah, but it's a very low priority

Last night's stream of Spider-Man certainly saw a big example of my focus when it comes to open-world games, as I spent a large amount of time on the side activities, doing all of the King Pin's bases, finding all the landmarks and doing nearly all of the Science Labs... only to find out, a couple require specific skills unlocked! Boo! But we did kick Shocker's ass a couple of times, ran into Mary Jane and had a fun time seeing the plot slowly (very slowly) advance. 

I did look at the trophy list  and I can almost guarantee I'm not going for 100% completion, but I will do as much as I can that seems reasonable But near as I can tell, I'm going to end up doing a lot of the main story in next week's stream as I need to level up to unlock specific skills..

Marvel's Spider-Man Trophies

• Spider-Man About Town: Greet 10 citizens
• All the King's Men: Take down each Fisk Hideout
• Sightseeing: Photograph all Landmarks on the Map
• Neighborhood Watch: Complete all Faction Crimes in a district
• Sticky and Tricky: Chain 4 unique tricks before landing
• Snappy Dresser: Wear 5 new Spider-Suits
• Shock and Awe: Defeat Shocker

For the raid we dropped in on maximilian_dood who was playing the new Resident Evil 4 remake over at twitch.tv/maximilian_dood

The plan for tonight's stream is more Elder Scrolls Online, as Striker and I will continue out quests and adventures. Back up plans include things like Smite and other stuff.

This week's Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Stats are

• 51% of Achievements Unlocked
• Punches Thrown: 8803
• Estimated Calorie Burn: 3545.76
• Fitness Age: 19

Have to make sure I do the dishes today, used a lot more than usual this week because of all the fresh food I got to eat!

Also plan to do some writing on the Dragon Ball shorty story commission, already got the basic intro written, granted I had to do do a time skip to get things lined up to when Videl and Gohan are married.

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

We Had THREE Successful Escapes In Hades?!

Good morning everyone, 

Despite how yesterday started, work was incredible with four complete interviews, and the shift nearly went as long as I schedule myself for!

Also spoke with my uncle Abraham yesterday afternoon, talked alot about food... what can I say... in my family, we like to eat!

Last night's stream of Hades got off to a shaky start because of issues caused by a surprise update to the Xbox consoles, but then we pulled off three straight successful escapes, two with the spear, and one with the bow. The plot over how Persephone ended up in the underworld and the possible war that could erupt between the gods is certainly an interesting twist. 

So now I'm up to eight escapes, with a streak of four in a row. I could have gone for a ninth escape last night, but that would mean the single objective for next Thursday would be to just clear one escape to finish the main story. So I ended the stream at about the 4 hour mark to preserve the idea of finishing the game next week.

Hades Achievements

• Back to Work: Earn access to and enter the Administrative Chamber
• Blood Bound: Max any Weapon Aspect
• Thanks, But No Thanks: Purge a Legendary Boon

For the raid we dropped in on caphrine_ while they were playing Apex Legends over at twitch.tv/caphrine_

The plan for tonight's stream is of course, Marvel's Spider-Man on the PS4. I am going to lower the combat difficulty, and first focus on finding all the Kingpin bases through out the city. Yes I am taking the approach I use in every other open world game I've played

Picked up three t-shirts associated with 93.3 WMMR, a local radio station here in the Philadelphia area. Mostly to replace a few shirts that I regularly wear.It's good to retire shirts from time to time, particularly when I rotate through the same 20 shirts

Need to remember to pick up some milk and bread over the weekend.

Finished writing the Daria story to fulfill a commission request, and started work on the next commission request for another Dragon Ball related story. Hopefully that won't take a week to finish

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

Hey... finally played a Resident Evil game on stream!

Good morning everyone,

I will admit today was one of those days where I didn't feel like I getting out of bed, like I heard my alarms going off, but I just didn't feel like moving as I just laid in bed thinking to several hours. This reflected on my Fitness Boxing workout this morning as well, as I only did 18 minutes. 

Anyway, work yesterday was... shorter than expected, but the assignment was interesting, as we were interviewing folks in New York regarding a public official, and its always interesting to see how people answer when asked straight forward questions.

Last night's stream opened with Fall Guys, and I was apart of a winning show in a squad. With the double XP on Show points, we were able to gain a lot of shards considering I have the base battle pass completed. I do have to point out that reoccurring problem of Fall Guys just starting duo and squad shows with teams that are at an unfair disadvantage. Squads are supposed to be teams of fours... but if your team only has three people, you're basically screwed from the word go!

We also played Resident Evil 5, and we have to thank Iceman for being apart of the fun on this, as I was certainly struggling in dealing with the controls which aren't as good as I would expect considering the types of enemies running around. Still since it was designed with co-op in mind, having Iceman's help and experience meant we kept the death count fairly down. I think if Capcom designed the game with mobility in mind, it would be a lot more straight forward in being able to handle things.

That said, we did knock all of chapter one and the first half of chapter two... and the boss fights we encountered certainly were more puzzle based than I anticipated. Although one encounter resulted in us both being roasted alive! 

Resident Evil 5 Achievements

• Completed Chapter 1 - 1: Complete Chapter 1 - 1 on any difficulty setting.
• Completed Chapter 1 - 2: Complete Chapter 1 - 2 on any difficulty setting.
• A Cut Above: Defeat 5 enemies with the Knife.
• Completed Chapter 2 - 1: Complete Chapter 2 - 1 on any difficulty setting.

For the raid we dropped in on pradoxgamerau who was playing Stellaris over at twitch.tv/pradoxgamerau

The plan for tonight stream is to continue Hades, We already have five escapes under out belt, and we need five more! If we get can get two done tonight that would be awesome! Of course the success of each run depends on the weapon along with the boons we're able to pick up along the way.

Basically crashed to bed right after the stream, so I didn't get to do any of the writing I had planned, but I will work on the Daria story after tonight's stream. Or even before, depends on if work if cut short again.

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

First Impressions Of Hi-Fi Rush

 Good morning everyone,

First an update regarding my billing issue with PSE&G, apparently, when I got things sorted with the accounts following my mom's passing, no one told me that I would have to wait a billing cycle to have everything implemented back the way it was before. So that explained that sudden panic attack I had.

Anyway, work yesterday was really good, minus the fact the final hour was cut because they needed things fixed for the evening shift... not sure why that would affect those of us on the assignment I've been on since i t doesn't run in the evenings.

Last night we started up Hi-Fi Rush... and I'm really glad I'm playing it on the lowest possible difficulty, because the rhythm patterns and beat isn't something I can hear since I'm not using earbuds or headphones to listen to the game's music. Still I love the art design and the game play is solid. I'm certainly relying on as much basic stuff as I can to overwhelm enemies quickly... and i could do without the parry system. 

Still it's very fun and I do find myself looking to explore everything to see if I can find any secrets along the way. Which means that levels that should probably take me 30 minutes to complete take an hour

We'll continue Hi-Fi Rush on Monday, in what I believe is the middle of the third chapters (as we met The 2nd of the ally characters)  

Hi-Fi RUSH Achievements

• Does that say weakpoint?: Destroy QA-1MIL's face, revealing its shame.
• Feeling the beat!: Land 20 beat-hit attacks on enemies.
• Start with a bang!: Take out the last line of defense at Quality Assurance.
• I look cool. But I can look COOLER.: Equip any costume.
• You can pet the cat!: Play with 808 in the hideout.
• Who put gears in there?: Destroyed your first golden statue of Kale.
• Cream of the Crop: Come out on top with a battle against the head of Production.
• Thanks for the free chip, Peppermint!: Purchase and equip your first upgrade chip.
• You got this, Peppermint?: Destroy 10 barriers by calling in Peppermint.
• Perfect Parry: Sucessfully parry with perfect timing 15 times.
• Alright, that felt AWESOME!: Defeated your first enemy with a Rhythm Parry Attack.

For the raid we dropped in on PowerThumbz as he was still playing Prey over at twitch.tv/powerthumbz

The plan for tonight is to open with Fall Guys, then at 9 PM we'll be switching over to Resident Evil 5 with Iceman to continue our co-op adventures!  

Got a fair amount of writing done regarding the Daria commission request, I'll be looking to finish it after tonight's stream.

Really pondering how I'll going to layout the basement once the Deep Freezer is out of it, because I think I'll some stuff in that far corner. Really considering adding another bookshelf or two as well.

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

Agents of Mayhem Is Finished, How Was My PSE&G Bill $80 Higher Than Expected/!

 Good morning everyone,

Yesterday, with the help of my brother, the couch, the large tv, an exercise bike and other items were removed from the basement, giving me a lot more room to work. I still need to get the deep freezer out as well, but that's going to happen sooner or later.

Also found a box of CDs in the deep freezers, which means I'll need to get more CD binders than I was anticipating to get down the line. 

In a bit of a shock, when I finally got my first bill from PSE&G in my name, I was shocked as hell to see it at $255, when I paid $163 in January and $186 in February when it was under my mother's name. Needless to say I was caught off guard by that amount.And the past 30 days wasn't much colder than than previous two months.

Last night's stream of Agents of Mayhem saw us covering the final two story arcs... and the fact that Agents of Mayhem can and will adjust the difficulty on the fly to make things more difficult. Thankfully a trip back to the Ark allowed for the difficulty to be lowered to make sure the final boss fight would go fairly quick. Now there is a post-credit open world, it's set for grinding out every character to get to level 20, plus do other tasks... but I'm not going to dive into that. Maybe as a lark we can re-install Agents of Mayhem just to do a bit of achievement chasing down the line. We'll see

Agents of Mayhem Achievements

• Hello, Ladies: Collect all agent vehicles.
• Through the Looking Glass: Complete "Operation: Madhouse".
• Fall of Babylon: Complete "Operation: Damocles".
• Not Technically a Golem...: Destroy a golem in the open world.

For the raid we dropped in on the official Twitch channel for Mystery Science Theater 3000 while Attack of the Giant Leeches was airing over at twitch.tv/mst3k

The next big early week game we'll be playing is Hi-Fi Rush, which game out fairly recently 

Picked up the remake of House of the Dead for the Nintendo Switch, will be interesting to see how that plays, since I am looking for local couch co-op games to play with my brother and cousin on stream. 

It appears work will still see me on the assignment regarding hiring & staffing issues in a state controlled by Republicans... aka psychopaths. 

Oddly enough, I have seen a lot of folks asking about Tekken X Street Fighter lately, which was supposed to be the Bandai Namco version of the Street Fighter & Tekken crossover. Considering how we all saw Akuma used in Tekken 7... I think it might be best that we forget about it.  

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

A Full Fridge Is A Happy Fridge

Good morning everyone,

Yesterday was really cool as my Aunt Grace and Cousin Frances came over with some goodies for the fridge... and as someone who weighs anywhere between 235 and 240 lbs you know I like my goodies! It was great to chat with them for an extended period. I do need to remember to be careful about what I say during the streams, even in joking when it comes to food, since Friday I joked about them saving me a slice of Birthday cake... and the first thing they show me is indeed a slice of birthday cake from my aunt's birthday. (For the record its delicious)

As a lot of folks know I often end my streams by saying tighten your friendship bracelets, stay safe, have a good night and a pleasant tomorrow. The first half of that I got from Fn Dante Savage, and like many things I do on stream, I copied that from him because its such a cool line. Anyway, Frances brought me a Friendship bracelet with ta little charm that is half of a video game console controller and she has the other half. So that is awesome.

Also gave Frances my old Blue Snowball Microphone, and a few things my mom had to my Aunt (one of the Heart Shaped clocks and a couple of other items). It's the first time anything was done with some of moms things since she passed away. 

Last night's stream of Overwatch was the usual madcap nonsense, big thanks to PandaSweet for being apart of the all the fun. I picked up a few plays of the games as Orissa, Moira, Reinhard and Torbjourn. Other characters used included Junker Queen, Ana, Wrecking Ball, and a handful of others. Also to my shock I picked up a couple of achievements

Overwatch 2 Achievements

• Conservation of Energy: Gain 350 shields with a single use of Sigma's Kinetic Grasp in Quick or Competitive Play.
• Incomparable Pain: Block against 300 or more incoming damage and survive in a single use of Nemesis Form.

For the raid we dropped in on GGVexy while they were playing Sun Haven over on twitch.tv/ggvexy!

Tonight we're looking to Finish Agents of Mayhem, we have two story arcs to do, and then it's pretty much clean up detail on any achievements we want to try and get out of the game.

Today is going to be a rough day as the moving of furniture will be happening. Thankfully my brother Leo has a plan and I took the time to move things around so that things could be done with as little obstructions as possible. In fact I got started last night but managing to get a TV halfway towards the door... by literally flipping it end over end

Didn't get to do as much writing as I planned to yesterday, that's my own fault.

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