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





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Rumor Bonus: Nintendo developing holographic storage? Brian Szabelski | 10:39 PM on 07.30.2008 20 comments

Score another one for the Patent Office and some NeoGAFfers. Along with digging up news on Jet Grind Radio, they have uncovered an interesting patent detailing a joint research agreement between your friendly neighborhood Nintendo and InPhase Technologies. The agreement apparently covers "a device comprising a spatial flexure for a scanner used in angle multiplexing of holographic data." In other words, Nintendo is working on holographic storage, likely for their next console. Holographic storage is fairly complicated to explain, but in short, it just means that the next Wii might be able to hold a shit ton of information. Like 500 GB. Or greater. What does this mean for us? Probably an expensive next console from Nintendo and an explanation to where all their Wii Play and Wii Fit money is going. How they'll use it, though, I don't have an idea, because there are a lot of possibilities. Check out the NeoGAF thread here, which offers some long explanations of just what holographic storage is. Of course, this could mean nothing, but remember: they had a partnership with a gyroscope company before the Wii came out. Edit: Yes, I screwed up and put MB where GB should have been. Pay no attention because I wrote that at 1:30 in the morning and I wasn't paying attention. It's 500 GB, obviously not 500 MB.