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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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What'd You Get? - Summer Storms Edition
Brian Szabelski | 2:07 PM on 06.23.2008 25 comments


Welcome once again to What'd You Get?, the once a week feature where you do the whole bragging about everything you got thing.

It's been storming here for about the last four days. And oddly enough, it's only really been happening in this part of the state. Maybe because of the fact we're sandwiched between two bodies of water and a river or maybe because we're next to Canada and God is frowning on them for something, I don't know. But it's getting kind of annoying. Though I did manage to get some neat pictures yesterday of it...

Anyways, this week, I didn't get a thing yet, but I will be getting Gyrostarr off WiiWare later because... well, it looks awesome.

What about you guys? What's you get?



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blehman's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/23/2008 14:17
blehman
Hint, hint. Also, I didn't mean to steal your thunder on the Lego Death Star.

I just don't regularly read tomopop.
Kryptinite's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/23/2008 14:20
Kryptinite
I got...damn I didn't get anything. Nevermind.
shipero's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/23/2008 14:21
shipero
Genesis Collection for the PSP. Not a bad way to kill some time.
Simmons 2pt0's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/23/2008 14:25
Simmons 2pt0
Nothing, because being unemployed means you have to be stingy.
Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/23/2008 14:29
Justice
The fact that some of you guys that frequent the comments in this series so regularly have purchased things every week scares me.
bbrigg1's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/23/2008 14:33
bbrigg1
I'm getting a couch soon.
RonBurgandy2010's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/23/2008 14:33
RonBurgandy2010
Tony Hawk PG should come in any day now, and I'm buying No More Heroes and Zach & Wiki from the Incredible Edible Egg (shout out) soon.
The Bez's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/23/2008 14:48
The Bez
I got The Clap from your mom. :(
GoS-CPT-Stewart's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/23/2008 14:51
GoS-CPT-Stewart
I got High Stakes poker ont he PS3 to play on Wednesdays and I used that crazy 25% cashback offer on Ebay along with a 10% off ebay coupon to get a 24" Westinghouse L2410NM LCD Monitor (one of which I already have so now I'll have a kickass dual setup) for a grand total of $260 (They normally sell for about $500).
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/23/2008 14:59
king3vbo
I has nothing
Darren Nakamura's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/23/2008 15:02
Darren Nakamura
I was on eBay last night and I got an SNES, Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, Final Fantasy III, and Super Mario RPG.
Mr Wilson's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/23/2008 15:02
Mr Wilson
A FUCKING PS3!!! Yea MGS4 was a system seller for me. Along with that came a dual shock 3, Warhawk, Hot Shots Golf, and i splurged for Pain.

Sounds expensive, but gamestop actually gave about $600 in credit for all my Wii stuff...they have crazy trade promos going on now...I only paid 300 for my wii with everything so that worked out for me.
Messer's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/23/2008 15:28
Messer
I got Stranglehold and NBA Street Homecourt for the 360. I had the demo for Homecourt ever since I got my Live subscription and would play it periodically, finally manned up and got it for 10$ on Half. Ohh, and I got Stranglehold because of a tip to Gamefly pre-owned game sale from someone here at D'toid. You know who you are, thanks!
mix's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/23/2008 15:39
mix
I found Ninja Gaiden Sigma (PS3)in the US for a piddly $34 a whole $36 cheaper than in Canada!!

I was thinking about making a blog about my vacation purchases as I bought the most bitching samurai sword EVER, but I was waiting for the whole 9000OUSAND thing to die down....
Justin Villasenor's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/23/2008 16:16
Justin Villasenor
Tales of Legendia, because I had a Best Buy rewards zone coupon to use.
covah's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/23/2008 16:41
covah
Rented DBZ Burst Limit. S'okay, I'm just disappointed in the lack of characters.
mistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/23/2008 16:42
mistic
[img]https://www.digitalstreet.nl/images/Panasonic-NV-GS330.jpg[/img]
but now I had to promise my GF not to buy any games in june/july :-(

but got damn it was worth it! 3CCD MiniDV FTW!
mistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/23/2008 16:43
mistic

damn didn't notice the https at the beginning of last image...
Bob Muir's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/23/2008 16:55
Bob Muir
Just now, I bought a Dreamcast off eBay. Congratulate me and such.
Conrad Zimmerman's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/23/2008 17:06
Conrad Zimmerman
I snagged Elements of Destruction but not much else this past week.
Coonskin05's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/23/2008 17:41
Coonskin05
I got Ocarina of Time and Pirates of the Dark Water(Genesis) from a used games store and Star Ocean 3 (I know, its supposed to be horrible but I wanted to see for myself) from Goozex.
kaz's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/23/2008 18:15
kaz
Custom firmware on my slim. Finally!!!
ZeroTolo's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/23/2008 23:13
ZeroTolo
Coon, you won't regret the trade (I hope).

I have all my cash tied up right now, so the chances of me getting anything new in the next few weeks is pretty slim. Maybe I'll get Bad Company or something.
cjpkiller's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/24/2008 02:49
cjpkiller
I got aces of the galaxy and mgs essentials collection
and a raging boner from beating mgs4 again
Knivy's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/24/2008 03:07
Knivy
I got the Spore creature creator and some points for the Pixies DLC on Rock Band
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