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Oh, hi there. Didn’t see you enter. Anyways, welcome to my humble little blog. For those of you not familiar with who I am, the name’s Brian. I’m 24 years old and hail from Findlay, Ohio. I work at the local newspaper here as a copy editor, putting my four long years of college to actual use. Kind of. I think.

For those of you who might recognize me from elsewhere, I work as Assistant Gaming Editor over at Blogcritics Gaming and as Features Editor over at Tomopop. It's a lot of work, but it's worth it because I get to do a lot of cool shit with a lot of cool people.

I've been gaming since the relatively young age of around 3 and I've played plenty of games, both good and bad. I'm continuously expanding my gaming collection, which has become more of an archive in recent years as I'm focusing on collecting older, less well-known titles. You'd honestly be surprised on what people are missing out on in bargain bins...



Other than gaming, I love anime, manga, sports, movies, TV, and a whole lot more. I also happen to have something of a legendary love for Cammy, to the point that I am the site's unofficial official Cammy fanboy. And yes, I do play as her in Street Fighter and do so quite well, too.

Also, I am Chad Concelmo's B.F.F., my prize for coming in first in The Great Retro Quiz .18 - ActRaiser. Accept no substitutes. Not even Aerox.

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AIM: NihonTiger90
MSN: hurricane317 at hotmail.com
Skype: NihonTiger90
Twitter: brianszabelski
GMail: brianszabelski at gmail.com
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Mad props to Ghost for this amazing card!

Great Retro Quiz! Results

Punch-Out! featuring Mike Tyson


Star Fox (winner)
ActRaiser (winner)
Dolphins!!
Metroid
Ninja Gaiden
Street Fighter II
Super Mario Kart


Castlevania
Contra
Donkey Kong Country
Smash Bros.
Zelda II

Nihon's Gallery of Hotness:









(Yes, that’s one of Dtoid’s own, Hollie (a.k.a. phoenix-blood). I met her at PAX and she is awesome.)





(Ooooh, I think I found a new favorite :3)

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Sorry I've been lurking a bit lately, guys: just the usual job stuff has been throwing me a curve so I've been working on managing my time around that. And yes, it takes a lot of time management for things to go smoothly for me. Heck, I'm probably running late to something as we speak ...

But none the less, I've remembered to post yet another edition of What'd You Get?, where the community comes together to show off all the cool shit they've bought since last time.

As you might have guessed by the title, I got one big thing these past two weeks: an invite to a beta for which I'm not allowed to talk about it. It's a pretty fun game, if a bit flawed and pretty laggy so far in just the closed beta ... which makes me fearful of how bad it'll get when open beta hits. >.> Oh, and I've been trying to get those new hats and weapons in TF2. So far, not much success. And I almost bought Battlefield: Bad Company 2, until I realized it wasn't through Steam so I'd have to deal with SecuROM and I didn't want any part of that. Yuck.

That's all for me this time around: what'd all of you get?



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FF14?? Just a guess at your top secret beta. :)
I got God of War 3 for my brother and Valkyria Chronicles and BAYONETTA for myself. DLed Lucidity too.
Spectral Force 3 for 360 and the Broken Steel expansion for Fallout 3 (half price). I haven't touched either of those, or the two Gamefly games sitting at home, because I've been too obsessed with Dragon Age recently.
Over the past two or so weeks, I got myself Heavy Rain, God of War III, and Final Fantasy XIII. Bayonetta is like 40 bucks over at Amazon, so I guess I should finally pick that game up soon.
Cave Story, Sanitarium, and The Longest Journey. Hooray for downloads!
The Orange Box. Stopped playing through Portal so I could finish Half Life 2 properly without skipping some puzzles.

So far, I might skip a few puzzles anyways.
Pokemon Heart Gold and Warioware D.I.Y. The microgame creator is nuts.

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