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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
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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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What'd You Get? - Three Weeks to Graduation Edition Brian Szabelski | 1:29 PM on 04.07.2008 31 comments

Hello there, and welcome to yet another edition of What'd You Get?, the one and only feature on Destructoid's community blogs that lets you flaunt everything you've bought in the past week like you're a rich millionaire. Even though you're living off ramen and Coke. Like the title says, I graduate from college in three weeks. No, I don't have a full-time job post-graduation yet, but I'm still looking. This week, like most people, I bought the Call of Duty 4 map pack, and that's about it for now. That was enough of a hassle to make me not want to buy anything else this week. Well, that and the fact that I spend $170 last week and $100 the week before on games and toys, the latter of which you can see on Tomopop in the coming days, hopefully. Next week, we'll be talking Ikaruga... as long as Xbox Live Marketplace doesn't crash again. And I have a bad feeling it will. Still, the map pack is easily the best DLC download since Halo 3's Heroic map pack and Crackdown's additional DLC. The new maps are pretty fun and I've developed strategies for each. I've noticed that Creek turns into a snipe-fest pretty quickly, that Chinatown is close-quarters combat fun, and Broadcast makes it hard to find people sometimes. Still, all is well with this DLC, and if you own CoD4 (not Game of the Year edition), pick this up. Otherwise, you'll get everyone mad during FNF. So, now that I've told you about what I got: what'd you get?