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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><title>NeetGeek</title><link>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/</link><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Neetgeek" /><description></description><language>en</language><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</managingEditor><lastBuildDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 07:42:30 PST</lastBuildDate><generator>Blogger</generator><atom:id xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264</atom:id><openSearch:totalResults xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">219</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Neetgeek" /><feedburner:info uri="neetgeek" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><feedburner:emailServiceId>Neetgeek</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><item><title>Merry Christmas 2011</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neetgeek/~3/2qGxyvSBa6c/merry-christmas-2011.html</link><category>News</category><category>IRL</category><category>All</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</author><pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 04:39:00 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264.post-8600856217716662328</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2011-12-25T23:42:30.226+08:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">Feels like some 'forever alone' post, but nonetheless, Merry Christmas to everyone before the day ends =)It has been a heck of a long and busy year. I haven't been actively playing games nor watching animes. To me, it felt like the "Disappearance of Haruhi" movie came out just recently when it has already been a year old. Time has passed extremely quickly with me already in my 5th semester! Just </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NY3vqLXKeUc/TvdEUcrsrbI/AAAAAAAABKg/vH63W7dOsaM/s72-c/k-on-christmas-12.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/haqEvye8AcAtBhOKAU_QZILYRSg/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/haqEvye8AcAtBhOKAU_QZILYRSg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/haqEvye8AcAtBhOKAU_QZILYRSg/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/haqEvye8AcAtBhOKAU_QZILYRSg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Neetgeek/~4/2qGxyvSBa6c" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/2011/12/merry-christmas-2011.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Skyrim Review, thoughts and rants.</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neetgeek/~3/aV2ZjYyKWIM/skyrim-review-thoughts-and-rants.html</link><category>The Gamer</category><category>Reviews</category><category>All</category><category>Rants</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</author><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:25:00 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264.post-1364411331719053148</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2011-11-22T02:07:07.758+08:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">Already, ten days has passed since Skyrim's release and people are  either enjoying it fully while other are beginning to compare it with  other games. At first with the previous 2 Elder Scrolls, namely  Morrowind and Oblivion (I didn't play the first two) , I thought they  were rich yet barren. If you compare Skyrim to old classics like Baldur's  Gate, where you plan your party and your </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a5SfOSzun4U/TsqC0vmQyDI/AAAAAAAABKQ/MF-YCd1SX5k/s72-c/Elder-Scrolls-Skyrim-Leveling.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ImuV6VuCniK7Aked8GwNJxY289w/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ImuV6VuCniK7Aked8GwNJxY289w/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ImuV6VuCniK7Aked8GwNJxY289w/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ImuV6VuCniK7Aked8GwNJxY289w/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Neetgeek/~4/aV2ZjYyKWIM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/2011/11/skyrim-review-thoughts-and-rants.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Wow, time flies!</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neetgeek/~3/HYa7ku5eCx4/wow-time-flies.html</link><category>News</category><category>IRL</category><category>All</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</author><pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:23:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264.post-9153856639937676219</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2011-10-24T23:58:41.134+08:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">I can't believe it has been a month since my last post. Everything just got more hectic and with upcoming games lined up, updating this blog regularly with reviews does not seem likely, feasible and even worth the effort considering the hits they are getting and considering how unlikely I am to look back at the reviews. Also, considering my time constraint for now and perhaps the future, I will </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3C9QqzWAwIQ/TqWLEDI2yzI/AAAAAAAABJ4/4MOzGzKnP9g/s72-c/Red_Mage_by_onewingedangel94.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lGPjXosmzQpg-gYsf8AP8cT6aNw/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lGPjXosmzQpg-gYsf8AP8cT6aNw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lGPjXosmzQpg-gYsf8AP8cT6aNw/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lGPjXosmzQpg-gYsf8AP8cT6aNw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Neetgeek/~4/HYa7ku5eCx4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/2011/10/wow-time-flies.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A little jaded</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neetgeek/~3/_Qm-HV94wUA/little-jaded.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</author><pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 05:46:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264.post-3326963129318160704</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2011-09-26T09:15:13.717+08:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
It's Fall, the second Fall I am having since I started school. Have you seen the upcoming games scheduled to release and those that already released recently? Even when I filter them only to games I am actually interested in, the list is still huge. Dead Island. Gears of War 3. Dark Souls. Arkham City. Battlefield 3. Skyrim. Space Marine. UMVC3. KOFXIII. I don't even want to mention the several </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/MTBwKZBkaxg/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/efRlyfWwihByQdSJcmVDUIfmDqU/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/efRlyfWwihByQdSJcmVDUIfmDqU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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Hi guys, just letting everyone who somehow visits this blog know that I am still alive. My 4th semester have started and so far it's been looking great as my maths-heavy modules are disappearing from my schedule, replaced by design and other non-core art modules. Allow me to ramble a bit...the workload feels just as much, but now we seem to be tackling more abstract problems. It is fun, yet </atom:summary><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/7DY0AaqRo8zdfOeOVi99FSj1I9U/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/7DY0AaqRo8zdfOeOVi99FSj1I9U/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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This third semester in Digipen really takes the cake. Words cannot describe how happy I am about the end of it. For the past 4 days I have don't nothing but play my hearts out and enjoy every minute of sleep I can get. This semester has been incredibly hectic and painful; day after day of Pepsi and coffee and tea, and we are still worried about failing modules.

I'm glad that it's all finally </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/H3aKmL378go/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5a_naNG5VaydUfdsyc3QLRBTX30/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5a_naNG5VaydUfdsyc3QLRBTX30/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5a_naNG5VaydUfdsyc3QLRBTX30/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5a_naNG5VaydUfdsyc3QLRBTX30/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Neetgeek/~4/d-KJT1znUek" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/2011/08/semester-3-down.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Review: "SpaceChem"</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neetgeek/~3/t2duZhFYQqA/review-spacechem_21.html</link><category>The Gamer</category><category>Reviews</category><category>All</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</author><pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:35:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264.post-2081892404219347746</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2011-08-21T15:17:02.971+08:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">Ever want to feel like an engineer? Or experience what it is like to be one? If you loved puzzle games like Picross, Sudoku and enjoy spending hours on an your office computer playing minesweeper, you should definitely give SpaceChem a try.

You play a Reactor Engineer, unbinding chemical atoms and synthesizing them to create new compounds to fulfill your quota. In each reactor, you control two </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/cOst8gAMAPM/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Sd0qyw-zy-bhSJzRKcSrwiqPZgE/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Sd0qyw-zy-bhSJzRKcSrwiqPZgE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Sd0qyw-zy-bhSJzRKcSrwiqPZgE/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Sd0qyw-zy-bhSJzRKcSrwiqPZgE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Neetgeek/~4/t2duZhFYQqA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/2011/08/review-spacechem_21.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Reminiscent</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neetgeek/~3/xVQT3Gb3eGM/reminiscent.html</link><category>The Gamer</category><category>News</category><category>All</category><category>Rants</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</author><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 09:09:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264.post-776236795859839510</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2011-08-01T01:00:07.008+08:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">When I watched Evo2k11 this weekend and when SG's Kun Xian was eliminated from MVC3, David spent a few moments talking about Singapore and our current impact to them. That kinda took me back years when everyone was still dreaming about what we have today, including myself. When I first entered the arcade in 2005 (I think), it was in a sorry state. Most arcades around SG at that time were dying, </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZD8lP6XdP_o/TjWGa2rSyoI/AAAAAAAABJk/4SLBv-8Ed5o/s72-c/street-fighter-4-video-game-image-ryu.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cdwRxgMAWbvY_q9IRkLZVBr3j-w/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cdwRxgMAWbvY_q9IRkLZVBr3j-w/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cdwRxgMAWbvY_q9IRkLZVBr3j-w/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cdwRxgMAWbvY_q9IRkLZVBr3j-w/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Neetgeek/~4/xVQT3Gb3eGM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/2011/08/reminiscent.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Busy busy busy!</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neetgeek/~3/CFMXQimM1mI/busy-busy-busy.html</link><category>IRL</category><category>All</category><category>Rants</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</author><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 10:48:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264.post-9000052579100399105</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2011-06-12T02:01:20.269+08:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">Wow, it has been like, a month since the last post? The workload right now in school was quite incredible and I barely had time to sleep on weekdays, let alone play on weekends. That caused me to push Witcher 2 to one side, much to my dismay. Witcher 2 really looks incredible and will probably be the best RPG this year (thus far). On a lighter note, I have been spending my spare time playing </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_VqLDz-3EtA/TfOrVpl-fSI/AAAAAAAABJI/JQi88N8H3UA/s72-c/terraria_ver1_ss13.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lSZINcNPjcOEgTPZ-wgOwHzDfVI/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lSZINcNPjcOEgTPZ-wgOwHzDfVI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lSZINcNPjcOEgTPZ-wgOwHzDfVI/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lSZINcNPjcOEgTPZ-wgOwHzDfVI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Neetgeek/~4/CFMXQimM1mI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/2011/06/busy-busy-busy.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Achievements in Games</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neetgeek/~3/qeVzkVe8jMw/achievements-in-games.html</link><category>All</category><category>Rants</category><category>Game Design</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</author><pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 07:57:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264.post-322494465138728433</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2011-05-14T04:21:43.860+08:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">Remember back then when you played your good old Starcraft, Baldur's Gate or, for those super old schoolers, Asteroids or Rogue, achievements were defined by you and those around you. Back then, winning was the only goal of the game. Possible History of Achievements?Along the way, some genius thought that to keep their games going, player-defined achievements and goals are not enough. So this guy</atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ra8q_xl-pA0/Tcq7QgcnyLI/AAAAAAAABI8/InfrqukPtgY/s72-c/achievements-locked.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/n_qPrqTBbc0KScOysEpUgnyPeR0/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/n_qPrqTBbc0KScOysEpUgnyPeR0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/n_qPrqTBbc0KScOysEpUgnyPeR0/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/n_qPrqTBbc0KScOysEpUgnyPeR0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Neetgeek/~4/qeVzkVe8jMw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/2011/05/achievements-in-games.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Review: "Patapon 3 "</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neetgeek/~3/5aKdLT-D62c/review-patapon-3.html</link><category>The Gamer</category><category>Reviews</category><category>All</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</author><pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 01:39:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264.post-940683966953021530</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2011-05-08T20:54:26.671+08:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">There are quite a few mixed reviews about Patapon 3 as many people do not like the direction it's taking. No longer do you command a horde of patapons to battle in Patapon 3. Instead, you command 4 (only 4, don't look at the trailers) really beefed up patapons, one of them being your main character. Some patron fans dislike the change, but honestly not everyone wants another Patapon 2 grindfest. </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eqTSOIqi1R8/TcaRWiocqTI/AAAAAAAABIk/kJsuD3VCj78/s72-c/Patapon-3-logo.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sVZfBERLRPmlwUH47oYQNBo7hSE/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sVZfBERLRPmlwUH47oYQNBo7hSE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sVZfBERLRPmlwUH47oYQNBo7hSE/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sVZfBERLRPmlwUH47oYQNBo7hSE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Neetgeek/~4/5aKdLT-D62c" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/2011/05/review-patapon-3.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Review: "Portal 2"</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neetgeek/~3/Dc5Kwp1p61M/review-portal-2.html</link><category>The Gamer</category><category>Reviews</category><category>All</category><category>Game Design</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</author><pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 07:34:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264.post-5401507348411230260</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2011-05-03T23:20:38.165+08:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">Short version of the review:Portal 2 rocked!Long version:More Gameplay ElementsWe shall observe Portal 2 as a consumer, a game designer and a game developer. There are so many things done right that I could not possibly list them all out. But first, we must talk about what are we to expect from a sequel of a game which revolves around one and ONLY one mechanic: Shooting Enter and Exit portals. </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JZWf8A66B9I/TcAY4VoIgOI/AAAAAAAABII/lJxXQpQWbUU/s72-c/portal2-010-620x335.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Eg_B1IkxIyskCOWHAxgVq0mxmss/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Eg_B1IkxIyskCOWHAxgVq0mxmss/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Eg_B1IkxIyskCOWHAxgVq0mxmss/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Eg_B1IkxIyskCOWHAxgVq0mxmss/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Neetgeek/~4/Dc5Kwp1p61M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/2011/05/review-portal-2.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Semester 2 is DONE!</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neetgeek/~3/V-KMFRBvzW8/semester-2-is-done.html</link><category>News</category><category>All</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</author><pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:06:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264.post-8602766975368425594</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2011-05-01T02:23:04.926+08:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">At last, semester 2 is done and over with. It has been really tiring throughout the semester; my professor saying that I'll be busy this semester is really not kidding at all. So finally it's time for an update.Firstly, I have updated my ABOUT section a bit as well as my Reviews list section if anyone even found it. It's up there in the navigation bar when you mouse over one of the tabs. Secondly</atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--qOedVW4TgM/TbxTQMhG4mI/AAAAAAAABIA/8jo6OSdsV9o/s72-c/anime_and_paper_ballot-300x199.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8ZajjK5p-R5WQE212TsAKYGvTpQ/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8ZajjK5p-R5WQE212TsAKYGvTpQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8ZajjK5p-R5WQE212TsAKYGvTpQ/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8ZajjK5p-R5WQE212TsAKYGvTpQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Neetgeek/~4/V-KMFRBvzW8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/2011/05/semester-2-is-done.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Review: "Dragon Age 2"</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neetgeek/~3/2kjiq574-S0/review-dragon-age-2.html</link><category>The Gamer</category><category>Reviews</category><category>All</category><category>Rants</category><category>Game Design</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</author><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:17:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264.post-97091191394320654</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2011-04-18T01:24:58.765+08:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">Good god, I don't even know where to begin. Looking back at my Dragon Age Origins review, I keep wondering where did Bioware went wrong with this game. Seriously, there weren't many things wrong with the previous game. The biggest complaints I had were mainly balance issues and a couple of personal opinions which disagreed with the game. I'll list down the main problems up here first in case I </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ilrp20_qfvc/TasgkdhZBMI/AAAAAAAABHY/ZML18Dwgz4E/s72-c/Dragon-Age-2-Wallpaper.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Kd-XL_dNlrNVG3QVQr2QFUHoCwg/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Kd-XL_dNlrNVG3QVQr2QFUHoCwg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Kd-XL_dNlrNVG3QVQr2QFUHoCwg/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Kd-XL_dNlrNVG3QVQr2QFUHoCwg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Neetgeek/~4/2kjiq574-S0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-dragon-age-2.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Review: "Civilization 5"</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neetgeek/~3/Z9eISuOkNwQ/review-civilization-5.html</link><category>The Gamer</category><category>Reviews</category><category>All</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</author><pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:42:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264.post-4924033842772566983</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2011-04-12T22:12:36.208+08:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">I'll be frank: there's really nothing much to review about Civilization 5. That's why there isn't a review of it until now when I decided that it deserved one. When a sequel held on to the foundations that made it's predesessors good, it will end up just as good if not better...most of the time anyway. So this review will be rather short and will be a nice breather for me from my work and the </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZddKzx5cP5k/TaRdPftbFaI/AAAAAAAABHQ/pY2LdgsL1eo/s72-c/civilization-5%2B%25281%2529.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/YYOTtuEE9vQFvo2u4n-4on3a_2E/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/YYOTtuEE9vQFvo2u4n-4on3a_2E/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/YYOTtuEE9vQFvo2u4n-4on3a_2E/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/YYOTtuEE9vQFvo2u4n-4on3a_2E/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Neetgeek/~4/Z9eISuOkNwQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-civilization-5.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Starcraft 2: A look at Banshees</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neetgeek/~3/sUAwumuD2yE/starcraft-2-look-at-banshees_21.html</link><category>The Gamer</category><category>Article Sections</category><category>All</category><category>Starcraft 2</category><category>Rants</category><category>Game Design</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</author><pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:42:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264.post-6063362293737769321</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2011-04-16T12:46:45.833+08:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">Looking at Starcraft 2 from a distance now that I have not played it seriously for quite a while, there are quite a few units that piqued my interest as to why would the Blizzard design team create them. Today we'll be looking at possibly one of Terran's better units: The Banshee. I'm just going to go ahead and say that I'm mostly a Terran player (booooo) and I'll try my best to be as unbiased as</atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UtB125kbKpQ/TYYs7dB18wI/AAAAAAAABGM/roziQ8o6guI/s72-c/Banshee_SC2_DevRend2.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Bp3h8WAzSEs8JTYCN4_pt8s8-xY/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Bp3h8WAzSEs8JTYCN4_pt8s8-xY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Bp3h8WAzSEs8JTYCN4_pt8s8-xY/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Bp3h8WAzSEs8JTYCN4_pt8s8-xY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Neetgeek/~4/sUAwumuD2yE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/2011/03/starcraft-2-look-at-banshees_21.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Review: "Dragon Age: Awakenings", Dragon Age revisited.</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neetgeek/~3/fWC8W-gy_Ic/review-dragon-age-awakenings-dragon-age.html</link><category>The Gamer</category><category>All</category><category>Rants</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</author><pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:08:00 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264.post-8031326287405774824</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2011-03-11T01:20:46.339+08:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">Seeing how Dragon Age 2 is already released, I decided to spend whatever little free time I have into replaying Dragon Age: Origins along with all the DLCs and the Awakenings expansion. Then I took a quick glance at this old post and realized I might need to justify my tone then. (Note that this is going to be mostly a Dragon Age revisited rant/review more than an Awakening review, seeing how the</atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NYCVuElodrQ/TXkILsINvjI/AAAAAAAABF0/6kLDAaIg778/s72-c/screenshot_x360_dragon_age_origins_-_awakening047.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/nLhVVDWb5YjZVnhyGo78HZMEjNk/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/nLhVVDWb5YjZVnhyGo78HZMEjNk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/nLhVVDWb5YjZVnhyGo78HZMEjNk/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/nLhVVDWb5YjZVnhyGo78HZMEjNk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Neetgeek/~4/fWC8W-gy_Ic" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/2011/03/review-dragon-age-awakenings-dragon-age.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Baldur's Gate 2: Good Party Guide v.1.0</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neetgeek/~3/GGhm7dTXNUk/baldurs-gate-2-good-party-guide-v10.html</link><category>The Gamer</category><category>Article Sections</category><category>All</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</author><pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:06:00 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264.post-3709272532617281605</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2011-03-05T04:09:39.889+08:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">DISCLAIMER: This guide only considers Shadows of Amn characters. It doesn't take into account Throne of Baal expansion. Also, there are a couple of Neutral characters in this party, so it's not a 'pure' good party. Ah, the good party. We all know how overpowered the evil NPCs are in this game. Despite their limited numbers, almost all of them are pure classes, so they fit straight into an 'ideal'</atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0qPgZn-WLq8/TXFFefUsg5I/AAAAAAAABFs/zfKQSa_joHo/s72-c/bg2-1.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1fBsZUnsUeymSpxKukSmS1_A77M/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1fBsZUnsUeymSpxKukSmS1_A77M/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1fBsZUnsUeymSpxKukSmS1_A77M/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1fBsZUnsUeymSpxKukSmS1_A77M/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Neetgeek/~4/GGhm7dTXNUk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/2011/01/baldurs-gate-2-good-party-guide-v10.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Dots and Circles!</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neetgeek/~3/AdTUaxxL1bM/dots-and-circles_18.html</link><category>The Gamer</category><category>News</category><category>My Games</category><category>IRL</category><category>All</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</author><pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:27:00 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264.post-5980234605574772332</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2011-12-04T20:05:41.476+08:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">Alright, it's finally time!Here's presenting Yee Howe's and my Digipen's first semester's game project made using ProjectFun! Here's a quick rundown of the game and should explain things better than the website:1) Control a big circular object2) Change 'type' by Left Clicking3) Collect small circular objects that is the same type as you4) Hit different types of objects and you die5) 3 lives, aim </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/blsqz8ehe3o/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wvT0TgwukTgXhmLQoKDx9xlmxgA/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wvT0TgwukTgXhmLQoKDx9xlmxgA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wvT0TgwukTgXhmLQoKDx9xlmxgA/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wvT0TgwukTgXhmLQoKDx9xlmxgA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Neetgeek/~4/AdTUaxxL1bM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/2011/02/dots-and-circles_18.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Happy Lunar New Year!</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neetgeek/~3/c35R1Obt5Hs/happy-lunar-new-year.html</link><category>News</category><category>IRL</category><category>All</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</author><pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 06:40:00 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264.post-6775189675666214930</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2011-02-03T00:01:04.995+08:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">Somehow, I managed to put aside some time to post just to let everyone know that I'm still alive. Never before have I thought that Chinese New Year was godsend because it gives me more time to work on my assignments and projects. Digipen life is choking everyone with one tough assignment after the other.It's been painful, but less unnerving than last semester so far. Maybe because most of us are </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4OIF7pROmHM/TUl_B5MZnqI/AAAAAAAABFE/hRW1LjEzPFk/s72-c/china-tewi-business.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/mpRMAJolLHZnVbHW2B1c_VOUnW4/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/mpRMAJolLHZnVbHW2B1c_VOUnW4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/mpRMAJolLHZnVbHW2B1c_VOUnW4/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/mpRMAJolLHZnVbHW2B1c_VOUnW4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Neetgeek/~4/c35R1Obt5Hs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/2011/02/happy-lunar-new-year.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Anime: "Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi"</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neetgeek/~3/pr0rJjYf6oE/anime-ookami-san-to-shichinin-no.html</link><category>Reviews</category><category>All</category><category>The Otaku</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</author><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 06:29:00 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264.post-8745230241653429056</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2011-01-09T23:33:13.904+08:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">Also known as "Ookami and her Seven Companions", this short 12 episode anime is a Romantic Comedy between Ookami Ryouko and Morino Ryoushi.I decided to watch this because of the rather unique setting. At first, I thought this was going to be a high school splice and life + romance like Toradora!, but it proved to be rather different. So without much more of my ramblings, here is the basic </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4OIF7pROmHM/TSnUpLYlxvI/AAAAAAAABEg/vLZ-7RZckU0/s72-c/images.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jF5zAJqL5g5GtL90T9Edep7mPq0/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jF5zAJqL5g5GtL90T9Edep7mPq0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jF5zAJqL5g5GtL90T9Edep7mPq0/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jF5zAJqL5g5GtL90T9Edep7mPq0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Neetgeek/~4/pr0rJjYf6oE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/2011/01/anime-ookami-san-to-shichinin-no.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Anime: "Angel Beats!"</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neetgeek/~3/HS-OsBmugis/anime-angel-beats.html</link><category>Reviews</category><category>All</category><category>The Otaku</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</author><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 07:33:00 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264.post-7608684115856077073</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2011-01-07T02:09:54.038+08:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">Angel Beats try to be a lot of animes at once. It touched on a wide array of genres all within 13 episodes; comedy, drama, tragedy, splice of life, girl bands (K-On), shonen action, the list goes on. The main character is Otonashi Yuzuru who wakes up finding this crazy girl named Nakamura Yuri with a sniper rifle aimed at a girl aptly nicknamed "Tehshi", japanese for "Angel". She reveals to him </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4OIF7pROmHM/TSX2MpcXOVI/AAAAAAAABEI/cE39meLf3uQ/s72-c/AngelBeats.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/IRbMSXIqKiqvAP4SBUeWwNmJamI/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/IRbMSXIqKiqvAP4SBUeWwNmJamI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/IRbMSXIqKiqvAP4SBUeWwNmJamI/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/IRbMSXIqKiqvAP4SBUeWwNmJamI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Neetgeek/~4/HS-OsBmugis" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/2011/01/anime-angel-beats.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Anime: "Shinryaku! Ika Musume!"</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neetgeek/~3/w8Cbdwoyeik/anime-shinryaku-ika-musume.html</link><category>Reviews</category><category>All</category><category>The Otaku</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</author><pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:05:00 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264.post-8254502637065768230</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2010-12-30T08:05:00.082+08:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">Splice of life animes don't get more random than this one &gt;.&lt; Ika Musume, loosely translated as 'Squid Girl', is angry with human beings for defiling the ocean and has come to the surface to invade them. After creating a hole in the wall of a shop on a beach, she was forced to work there to pay off the damages.  The whole anime is basically about life of a girl who has squid like powers. Her '</atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4OIF7pROmHM/TRo-BSxYMXI/AAAAAAAABDg/5VGyWCjVUQA/s72-c/ika07-01.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lRjPsCoSXiQpMfTH4H1ZLlNB4wA/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lRjPsCoSXiQpMfTH4H1ZLlNB4wA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lRjPsCoSXiQpMfTH4H1ZLlNB4wA/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lRjPsCoSXiQpMfTH4H1ZLlNB4wA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Neetgeek/~4/w8Cbdwoyeik" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/2010/12/anime-shinryaku-ika-musume.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Anime: "Panty and Stockings with Garterbelt"</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neetgeek/~3/TJxWAitsxgQ/anime-panty-and-stockings-with.html</link><category>Reviews</category><category>All</category><category>The Otaku</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</author><pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 16:43:00 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264.post-8230361273151524428</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2010-12-29T03:48:14.385+08:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">I seem to be attracted to animes of total randomness more so than those with actual 'meaning'. "Panty and Stockings with Garterbelt" is truly a strange, disturbing, interesting and weird anime all at once, just as its title suggests. It took me a bit of courage to begin watching this. It's also incredibly vulgar and full of sexual references. I wondered how they managed to air this in Japan, </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4OIF7pROmHM/TRcOXdyNTMI/AAAAAAAABCY/4YOzDzWApBY/s72-c/panty.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1sLDqUQfsIxsoMw-hpx1HC_B0ko/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1sLDqUQfsIxsoMw-hpx1HC_B0ko/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1sLDqUQfsIxsoMw-hpx1HC_B0ko/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1sLDqUQfsIxsoMw-hpx1HC_B0ko/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Neetgeek/~4/TJxWAitsxgQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/2010/12/anime-panty-and-stockings-with.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>This X'mas = 4 HRs, 3 animes, 2 otomos and a brand new LG handphone</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neetgeek/~3/rDOrp5I1iMk/this-xmas-4-hrs-3-animes-2-otomos-and.html</link><category>News</category><category>IRL</category><category>All</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Faylar)</author><pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:20:00 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273826697703696264.post-843837002402971350</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2010-12-26T16:39:04.775+08:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">It's really been quite some time since I actually watched anime or did any anime review. A week of my holiday somehow disappeared into a swirl of alcohol, shit talking, anime screenings and monster hunting. Then I realized I just finished 3 half season and 1 full season animes in the whole week. Perhaps that's why time flew by pretty fast. Yet I know that it's still no match for other otaku </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4OIF7pROmHM/TRb--nWj7II/AAAAAAAABBo/USs_KdlyIZI/s72-c/merry-christmas-from-kakashi.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HQlEzBQyy4Hv9jDitO5xfeUaH8k/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HQlEzBQyy4Hv9jDitO5xfeUaH8k/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HQlEzBQyy4Hv9jDitO5xfeUaH8k/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HQlEzBQyy4Hv9jDitO5xfeUaH8k/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Neetgeek/~4/rDOrp5I1iMk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://neetgeek.blogspot.com/2010/12/this-xmas-4-hrs-3-animes-2-otomos-and.html</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>

