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	<title>Manta Engie! &#187; Offbeat</title>
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	<description>Incomin&#039; sentry.</description>
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		<title>Keys.</title>
		<link>http://www.mantaengie.com/2011/12/05/keys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EvilDaed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mantaengie.com/?p=2233</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tribes is fun.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://mantaengie.com/tmp/keys.html">Tribes is fun.</a></p>
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		<title>DLC, all free</title>
		<link>http://www.mantaengie.com/2011/05/19/dlc-all-free/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mantaengie.com/2011/05/19/dlc-all-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 22:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EvilDaed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mantaengie.com/?p=2219</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting thing about Portal 2, it&#8217;s tons of fun, coop even more so, but only so the first time. It kind of loses it&#8217;s suprise thereafter. The good thing is Valve likes to update their games for free, unlike other companies. Let&#8217;s just hope it doesn&#8217;t turn out like L4D2. Other than that, two games [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting thing about Portal 2, it&#8217;s tons of fun, coop <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BgrxTrNYEg">even more so</a>, but only so the first time. It kind of loses it&#8217;s suprise thereafter. The good thing is Valve likes to update their games for free, unlike other companies. Let&#8217;s just hope it doesn&#8217;t turn out like L4D2.</p>
<p>Other than that, two games I got recently were Brink and Terraria. While Brink was hyped quite a lot, it turned out that several things that the devs have talked about weren&#8217;t true at all. Not to mention the amount of tech issues people were having at launch was amazing. Meanwhile Terraria costs four times less, and you could call it a 2d Minecraft ripoff. But it&#8217;s fun as hell, and comes with a lot of things that Minecraft should&#8217;ve had. I ended up spending a lot more time playing it, while Brink turned out to be not as interesting. Am I the only one that thinks that multiplatform games usually turn out kind of bad on the PC?</p>
<p>Also, no Saxxy vid from me. I had an idea which might come to life later on, but the submission process Valve put in looks kind of awkward. Yeah, I haven&#8217;t tried it yet, but damned if I wouldn&#8217;t rather screw around with the oldschool console commands!</p>
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		<title>Portal 2</title>
		<link>http://www.mantaengie.com/2011/04/20/portal-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mantaengie.com/2011/04/20/portal-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EvilDaed</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[opinions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[portal 2]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mantaengie.com/?p=2215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Is pretty damn awesome. I&#8217;m not going to talk about it, most of you probably already played it. What I would like to know is why Valve decided to include a teaser for some unrelated movie coming out some time in the future. Of course they got paid off to do it, but it feels [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;Is pretty damn awesome. I&#8217;m not going to talk about it, most of you probably already played it.</p>
<p>What I would like to know is why Valve decided to include a teaser for some <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoCBQtGyBXE">unrelated movie</a> coming out some time in the future. Of course they got paid off to do it, but it feels like this doesn&#8217;t belong in the game at all, even if it&#8217;s in the extras section.</p>
<p>Also, I&#8217;ve heard there&#8217;s people complaining about the cash shop similar to the one we all know and love (heh) from TF2. Come on, this isn&#8217;t half as bad as the mann shop back there, you can&#8217;t even buy items in Portal 2 that influence the gameplay in any way. &#8216;Course, even with me deciding I won&#8217;t spend any money on it, I&#8217;d still like to have some of those custom gestures.</p>
<p>Oh, and I&#8217;m also really glad that they&#8217;ve decided to keep the spraytag system in co-op. It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve been really enjoying ever since HL2 came out.</p>
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		<title>Pork butts and taters.</title>
		<link>http://www.mantaengie.com/2011/04/10/pork-butts-and-taters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mantaengie.com/2011/04/10/pork-butts-and-taters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EvilDaed</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[some kinda ARG sorta thing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here, go earn some profile potatoes.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here, go <a href="http://valvearg.com/wiki/Aperture_Science_login_page#Login_Screens">earn some</a> <a href="http://steamcommunity.com/id/stssts">profile potatoes</a>.</p>
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		<title>So fahnny joke</title>
		<link>http://www.mantaengie.com/2011/04/08/so-fahnny-joke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EvilDaed</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[tf2]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mantaengie.com/?p=2199</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone tipped me off about this one. Remember those servers where you could load up custom models like hats or other doodads? An enterprising fellow came up with the idea of charging for that using donations. Oh wait, the site&#8217;s apparently using everything without asking for permission from people and going against what I think [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Someone tipped me off about this one. Remember those servers where you could load up custom models like hats or other doodads? An enterprising fellow came up with the idea of charging for that using donations. Oh wait, the site&#8217;s <a href="http://store.pulpfortress.com/catalog/index.php">apparently using</a> everything without asking for permission from people and going against what I think Valve really wanted to prevent. If I remember correctly, that&#8217;s why Valve broke the equipment plugin for Sourcemod along with twelve others.</p>
<p>The TF2 community is kind of humorous right now in it&#8217;s current state. What&#8217;s even funnier is that they took one of my <a href="http://store.pulpfortress.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=29&amp;products_id=121">worst models</a> and appraised it at 4 dollars. I mean, I&#8217;d hand it out for a tenth of that price &#8211; look at those horrible proportions and textures!</p>
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		<title>Blog update video omigosh</title>
		<link>http://www.mantaengie.com/2011/04/05/blog-update-video-omigosh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mantaengie.com/2011/04/05/blog-update-video-omigosh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EvilDaed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mantaengie.com/?p=2191</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh, wait, it&#8217;s nothing. I really wonder how Valve is going to pull off releasing another two &#8216;Meet the&#8217; videos. Probably going to outsource it to someone making gmod videos. Oh well, at least Portal 2 looks fairly interesting.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, wait, <a href="http://teamfortress.com/post.php?id=5223&amp;p=1">it&#8217;s nothing</a>.</p>
<p>I really wonder how Valve is going to pull off releasing another two &#8216;Meet the&#8217; videos. Probably going to outsource it to someone making gmod videos.</p>
<p>Oh well, at least Portal 2 looks <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i-nMWgBUp0">fairly interesting</a>.</p>
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		<title>Shit, Gabe, keep it together.</title>
		<link>http://www.mantaengie.com/2011/03/22/shit-gabe-keep-it-together/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mantaengie.com/2011/03/22/shit-gabe-keep-it-together/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EvilDaed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mantaengie.com/?p=2189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While on a tour of Valve&#8217;s funtown, a fan managed to snap a picture of some rather odd concept art. It doesn&#8217;t look like anything we&#8217;ve seen in the Half Life universe before, if you don&#8217;t count that one dude with sticklegs.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While on a tour of Valve&#8217;s funtown, a fan managed to snap a picture of some <a href="http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/03/22/unseen-valve-concept-art-suggests-brand-new-project-spoilers-gordon-absent/">rather odd</a> concept art. It doesn&#8217;t look like anything we&#8217;ve seen in the Half Life universe before, if you don&#8217;t count that one dude with sticklegs.</p>
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		<title>Um.</title>
		<link>http://www.mantaengie.com/2011/03/20/um/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mantaengie.com/2011/03/20/um/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EvilDaed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mantaengie.com/?p=2183</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, there was a new patch with some new weapons thrown in TF2, but from what I heard it was so buggy it wasn&#8217;t even funny. I think someone at Valve is putting bugs in on purpose just for shits and giggles. Meanwhile, I&#8217;ve been playing AC: Brotherhood. The controls are simply awful on the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, there was a new patch with some new weapons thrown in TF2, but from what I heard it was so buggy it wasn&#8217;t even funny. I think someone at Valve is putting bugs in on purpose just for shits and giggles.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;ve been playing AC: Brotherhood. The controls are simply awful on the PC version, but the game is actually kind of fun and diverse. The game&#8217;s on the same engine as AC2, and it&#8217;s pretty much a large expansion pack masqueraded as a full game. It&#8217;s just more AC2, but I wouldn&#8217;t blow money on it.</p>
<p>Also been playing League of Legends. A DotA style game, if you haven&#8217;t heard of the name. It&#8217;s fun, but you&#8217;ll always have someone on your team that likes getting himself killed, thus empowering the enemy with gold and XP. The games last around 45 minutes so it&#8217;s rather painful when you&#8217;re losing a game and your team doesn&#8217;t want to surrender.</p>
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		<title>Not dead, just stagnant.</title>
		<link>http://www.mantaengie.com/2011/02/24/not-dead-just-stagnant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mantaengie.com/2011/02/24/not-dead-just-stagnant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EvilDaed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mantaengie.com/?p=2177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bulletstorm came out and since I didn&#8217;t have many games to play I decided to give it a whirl. The first thing I noticed is that even though it poked fun at many modern day FPS cliches, it certainly employed them to some effect. You remember that Duty Calls parody game, right? Well, Bulletstorm is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bulletstorm came out and since I didn&#8217;t have many games to play I decided to give it a whirl. The first thing I noticed is that even though it poked fun at many modern day FPS cliches, it certainly employed them to some effect. You remember that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QuE36_hZuE">Duty Calls</a> parody game, right? Well, Bulletstorm is not that different. You can only have three weapons on you at one time, the story isn&#8217;t great, regenerating health, and so on. These are the guys that made Painkiller, so what gives?</p>
<p>Okay, besides that moral dilemma, the game isn&#8217;t that bad, and the &#8216;skill kill&#8217; system is sort of fun. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoG0UppbYV0">Sometimes</a>. It&#8217;s worth a playthrough, but not the money.</p>
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		<link>http://www.mantaengie.com/2011/02/14/2169/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EvilDaed</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[beta]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late as hell but there was an update to the TF2 beta that modifies a lot of weapons and adds a few. The pyro can also flarejump in that beta. Betcha that&#8217;ll get you playing. Edit: Man where that title at?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Late as hell but there was an update to the TF2 beta that modifies a lot of weapons and adds a few. The pyro can also <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffliwUjhNo0">flarejump</a> in that beta. Betcha that&#8217;ll get you playing.</p>
<p>Edit: Man where that title at?</p>
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