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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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Army of Two criticized for "homosexual encounters" Brian Szabelski | 8:36 PM on 12.03.2008 18 comments

Ah, it's that time of the year again. The time when all the nutjobs come out with their cautionary lists of games you should not buy your kids, for one reason or another. Well, we've got another one, this time from The Timothy Plan, a Florida investment firm which bills itself as "conservative Christian." They have a list of the 30 "most offensive" video games this holiday season, and a lot of familiar games are on the list: Devil May Cry 4 is demonic, GTA IV is all that's wrong with the world, etc. There's quite a few surprises, though, and perhaps no game's inclusion is more surprising than EA's Army of Two. Well, not surprising that it made the list, but why it made the list. Here's what they had to say about that game: "Army of Two: Homosexual Encounters: ...Somewhat homo-erotic undertones between the two main characters are present." ... Of all the things to criticize Army of Two over... you picked THIS?!?! This is the first time I have ever heard this complaint about Army of Two. I mean, had they talked about the violence, it would have been sensible, but "homosexual encounters?" Does that count for GTA IV, too, because of Bernie's storyline? Or Team Fortress 2 and its epic love tale between the Heavy and Medic? Someone think of the children!!!! THE CHILDREN!!!! Seriously, though, this is an incredibly odd thing to be upset over, especially since I don't recall said "homosexual encounters" in the game. I guess they must be upset about the Wii and it's homo-erotic undertones, too? Attached photos: