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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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Worst. Character. Ever. - ROUND 1, MATCH 18
Brian Szabelski | 11:21 PM on 12.17.2007 22 comments


Tonight, we've got a special enhanced edition of Worst. Character. Ever. with a few lulz to help you through the evening/night/early morning/whatever it is when you're reading this.

If you haven't checked out my Thule Trail adventure, please do. It's worth the lulz. Also, thanks to Colette for posting about this game on the front page. It's a great remake in the spirit of Oregon Trail.

And since everyone else is doing it:



There, happy?

Now that all that's taken care of, onto the reason you probably dropped in here in the first place: we're haulin' ass through the Worst. Character. Ever. Tournament and have just started the Tingle Bracket. Last time saw Tingle battle Lara Croft, and I said it'd be closer than I thought.

Boy, was I right.

ROUND 1 – MATCH 17 (Tingle Bracket)

(1) Tingle - 14 votes
(16) Lara Croft - 15 votes

We can only assume king3vbo's "TITS NOW" comment meant Lara Croft, because other than that hard-to-decipher vote, it was a dead heat. But the King has spoken, as it turns out, and his voice put Lara Croft over the top, knocking out Tingle, unless I am mistaken.

So who shall the victor's opponent be? One of these two contestants:



Love in an elevator, livin' it up when I'm going down

.vs



Angry at Bender... errr, Marcus Fenix

Aerosmith (nominated by me for the abomination known as Revolution X) against Gears of War's Damon Baird. Voting begins now!



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MrSadistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/17/2007 23:30
MrSadistic
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AEROSMITH. Not only have that took a proverbial shit on music, but took many proverbial shits on video games as well.
F Whipple's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/17/2007 23:35
F Whipple
I love Aerosmith...so I vote Marcus Fenix
Wedge's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/17/2007 23:47
Wedge
Marcus Fenix isn't nominated. Read bettar. GH games have reminded me Aerosmith didn't always suck, and well... from what I played of gears I liked Baird.

So... based on RevolutionX... Aerosmith.
taumpytears's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/18/2007 00:08
taumpytears
Aerosmith
Some Jerk's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/18/2007 00:22
Some Jerk
Baird, get to the APC!

Yeah, Aerosmith is definately more annoying. If for no other reason than the fact that they licensed out "love in an elevator" to "The Shaft", a movie about, wait for it...a killer elevator.
Variable Gear's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/18/2007 00:38
Variable Gear
Aerosmith, because of this:

JRisJunior's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/18/2007 00:49
JRisJunior
kill the aerosmith. now.
joepaniic's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/18/2007 03:37
joepaniic
Aerosmith.
Bus's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/18/2007 06:06
Bus
I guess I'll keep it from being an almost complete blowout because I absolutely hated Baird and, indeed, all of the Gears of War characters. Watching Youtube videos of Revolution X sends me into bales of derisive laughter so I can at least thank Aerosmith for that.
Batthink's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/18/2007 06:11
Batthink
Aerosmith for a horribly pixelated shooter.
Aaron Mxy Yost's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/18/2007 06:18
Aaron Mxy Yost
I wish I could wipe Revolution X from my brain. Aerosmith.
aborto thefetus's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/18/2007 06:23
aborto thefetus
Aerosmith.
I actually kind of like Baird.
Goei's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/18/2007 06:26
Goei
Mark. I hated Gears of War characters.
Hitogoroshi's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/18/2007 07:33
Hitogoroshi
Aerosmith. That game was a freakin abomination.
Arugala9's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/18/2007 16:59
Arugala9
Aerosmith
Wedge's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/18/2007 19:20
Wedge
I think we got 3 votes for something other than Aerosmith, and only one of them actually managed to properly vote for Baird.

Ouch.
Darren Nakamura's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/18/2007 21:13
Darren Nakamura
I actually liked Revolution X, but at the time I was probably ten years old and I still recognized how ridiculously stupid it was. My vote goes to Aerosmith.
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