Persona 4 Golden and other notes

Tonight we opened up with Kanji's Steamroom, as we stormed through all 10 floors, fighting every battle, seeking out every treasure chest and leveling up to level 38, meaning I will have to go ahead and fuse the Personas in the gaps from 27 to 38. Might try to knock that out off stream.

Anyway,  I did discover the status ailments in Persona 4 Golden are a lot more heavy hitting than they were in Persona 3 Portable and Persona 5 Royal, and I didn't really come across any items that would help cleanse the effects, and not every Persona has the ability to do that either.

Next time we play we're basically building towards the next story arc, as we wait for Kanji to recover and then look to meeting Rise.

Persona 4 Golden will return on Saturday

Tomorrow night we look to wrap up side-quests in Ghost of Tsushima, slim possibility I might start early depending on work (see below)

For the raid we dropped in on baphythesapphy who was also playing Persona 4 Golden

Work was solid as we closed out an assignment focused on things in Ohio. Not sure if we'll have work tomorrow because of the holiday weekend

Finished the Spider-Man commission story, next one is WWE related... might repurpose an old outline for it to try and knock it out quick.

Also shoulder felt better today, so I think I did strained it a bit doing some like exercisess

Persona 4 Golden Achievements

• Tactical Fighter: Exploit enemy weaknesses 100 times.
• Fill Your Hand: Get 50 Sweep Bonuses.
• A True Man's Stand: Rescue Kanji Tatsumi.
• Fusion Expert: Perform 50 Persona fusions.

Sea of Thieves, Spider-Man, Persona,

Iceman and I had a fun time in Sea of Thieves finding various treasures and crates of items to turn in. There was a question about trying to get twenty-chests on the ship, but we would need way more time and a lot more luck to pull that off.

Sea of Thieves will return next Wednesday, depending on Iceman's availability.

Tomorrow night we're back to Persona 4 Golden, with the goal of rescuing Kanji!

For the raid we dropped in on ZoneSama for the weekly Zone-Out stream

Work was a slog, felt half as productive as it did when compared to the last two nights

Worked on the Spider-Man commission story, had to do research into who the hell Dr. Young is in the Spider-Man 2 game for PS5 

Shoulder feels a little better than it yesterday

Borderlands 2 and other notes

Tonight we finished Borderlands 2, wrapping up with a total play time of 61.6 hours and 51 of 75 Xbox Achievements unlocked. Because we were over leveled and got our hands on on DLC related weapons and gear, we basically were able to steam roll Jack and The Warrior within a span of maybe 5 minutes (if that).

Overall I liked this play through a hell of a lot more than I did my first one on Steam where I didn't really have a clue and didn't have a plan on how to prepare for key battles, such as not knowing having acid weapons would be very important.

With Bordermands 2 wrapped up, Persona 4 Golden will move into being out main focus with Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday streams being dedicated to it.

Tomorrow night the plan is wither Smite or Sea of Thieves, depending on Iceman's availability 

For the raid we dropped in on AshRe_L who completed a speed run of Borderlands 2 in 5.5 hours!

Got another estimate on having the trees cut down... and was told $550... so I'll go with the first one once I scrape together the cash

Work was solid this evening, and I know I was about 40% over production so thing should work out in getting funds to deal with the rees

Finished the Legend of Zelda story, next up is a Spider-Man related commission

Borderlands 2 Achievements

• Dang Girl You Ace At This Game: Won the most challenging round in Murderlin's Temple
• Feels Like The First Time: Opened the chest at the bus stop in Fyrestone
• Knowing Is Half The Battle: Completed the mission "Data Mining"
• Cool Story, Bro: Defeated Jack
• What does it mean?: I can't even capture it on my camera

Borderlands 2 and other notes

Tonight we did more side quests in Borderlands 2 and progressed the story to where are basically in the final open area of the game to explore. Probably the big highlight was finding Donkey Mong and realizing it had barrels on its back for a Donkey Kong reference!

Beyond that, it was mostly just chaos and carnage, but because I got all turned around and navigating some areas were more annoying that others, we extended the stream an extra hour.

Also, we broke 1000 Gamer Score, so by normal Xbox 'completion' standards, we hit the pinnacle and showed we put in a ton of time.

We shall continue and possibly finish Borderlands 2 tomorrow

For the raid we dropped in on abenonymous who was playing God of War Ragnarok

Work was solid, we did a study focuses on Toledo, and a lot of the folks there were quite nice to talk to

Made good progress on the Legend of Zelda commission request and I should be able to finish it during the day tomorrow... and then put out the word for the top tier SubscribeStar folks to send in their story requests for June

 Got the first of two estimates to cut down the trees behind my house, $475, not bad. But I will get another estimate tomorrow.

Borderlands 2 Achievements

• Urban Explorer: Discovered all named locations in Sanctuary, Opportunity, and Lynchwood
• Definitely An Italian Plumber: Killed Donkey Mong
• Bombs Away: Completed the mission "Toil And Trouble"

Overwatch 2 and other notes

Tonight's stream of Overwatch was the usual, but we it was a double XP weekend, so by doing daily, weekly and event challenges we got closer to the completing the bonus tiers for titles in the battle pass.

We were joined by PandaSweet, which is always awesome as things could and sometimes did get silly with some things that happened.

Picked up one of Mercy related achievements, and I realize the other is for resurrecting a certain number of players without dying... don't think that's going to happen since I rarely play as Mercy. 

Overwatch 2 will return next Sunday

Tomorrow night we're playing Borderlands 2

For the raid we dropped in on Kalenal who was playing Final Fantasy XIV

Already know the electric bill is in, which will be paid on Friday along with the Water Bill

Considering buying more salad stuff next time I do groceries so instead of cooking I can just rip open a bag and chow down.

Finished the Mass Effect commission request and it broke the 6000 word mark. Next story on the docket is based on Legend of Zelda

In regards to the Fantasy Baseball team, we won the week 6 to 4, winning in Runs (37 to 30), (Home Runs (8 to 6) RBI (36 to 27) Saves (5 to 4) ERA (2.008 to 3.58) and WHIP (0.88 to 1.07). We lost on Stolen Bases (6 to 8), Average (.250 to .276) and Wins (5 to 6)

Overwatch 2 Achievements

• Group Health Plan: Restore 150 health for 4 allies without dying as Mercy in Quick or Competitive Play.

Persona 4 Golden and other notes

Tonight's stream of Persona 4 Golden saw us learn that Kanji is the next person that needs to be rescued and some things regarding his sexuality have not aged well, but we also got to see Naoto being more apart of the story as well to some degree as she has already been chatting with Kanji.

That said, a lot of the stream was spent building up social links, setting up and completing side quests before finally reaching May 22 to go hunting for items as well as giving us an excellent starting point to rescue Kanji and going through his dungeon next week.

Level wise we're up the upper 20s, which allowed me to knock out some of Margaret's Social Link fusion requests earlier than expected as well as hold 10 Personas at a time. 

Also ran into Death and... safe to say I don't want to do that again until way later in the game with more powerful Personas on hand.

Persona 4 Golden Returns next Saturday night

Tomorrow we're featuring to Overwatch 2

For the raid we dropped in on  intergalacticpants who is playing Baldur's Gate 3

Had a big salad for a late breakfast / early lunch today and some tortellini for dinner

Took advantage of the Assassin's Creed sale because its very rare Ubisoft put there games on sale

Going to do some writing on a Mass Effect commission story since I get to do a lot a lore expanding with it for an Alternate Universe tale

I may also record this weeks Daria reaction video before bed as well

Persona 4 Golden Achievements

• Fashion Plate: Fight a battle in costume.

Ghost of Tsushima and other notes

Tonight's stream of Ghost of Tsushima was focused on exploring the northern portion of the map, finding a lot of things before realizing two things were back in the central area, and needed a guide to get them (one was a fox den and one was a Haiku that was hidden because of an NPC). I need one Haiku to complete another trophy but that's tied to the main story.

At this point, I have 5 major side quests to do to complete tales associated with three of my allies and the main story itself. There is a slim possibility all of that could be done the next time we play Ghost of Tsushima next Friday. But the goal will be do tackle the side quests first before advancing the plot again.

I do know there will be a good chance to get the Platinum trophy as I knocked out two trophies tonight (Have a Night Fall and Dirge of the Fallen Forge) that I thought would be impossible. I just will need a guide to find 10 hidden shrines to bow to.  Way I figure, my total play time of the base game of Ghost of Tsushima is going to be close to 70 hours... and I'm certainly not going to deal with the DLC any time soon.

Ghost of Tsushima will return next Friday!

Thank you to Oldish22 for the raid following their stream of Final Fantasy XIV

Tomorrow night we begin the second story arc of Persona 4 Golden!

For the raid we dropped in on chaotic_nikki who was playing World of Warcraft.

Since I felt weird all week and felt I've had a good enough 9 days of work to cover one day with potential incentive bonuses, I took the day off.

Managed to finish the Star Wars commission. which would also help partially cover for today as well, I say partially because I did order something to eat as I didn't feel like messing around in the kitchen.

Felt totally embarrassed about missing a text from my brother on mother's day which I didn't noticed until earlier today... what is wrong with me, other than fucking obvious? 

Really looking into services to remove two trees and take care of the yard. At the moment the tree removal might be the bigger priority

Ghost of Tsushima (PS4) Trophies

• Have a Nice Fall: Kill an enemy with fall damage by knocking them off a ledge
• Favor of the Kami: Find and honor all of the Shinto Shrines on Tsushima.
• The Exiled Alliance: Reunite with your allies in the frozen north.
• Light the Way: Rekindle all the lighthouses of Tsushima.
• Dirge of the Fallen Forge: Play the "Lament of the Storm" at a friend's grave