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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
MSN: hurricane317 at hotmail.com
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Twitter: brianszabelski
GMail: brianszabelski at gmail.com
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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)

Psst, more here.

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Worst. Character. Ever. - ROUND 1, MATCH 3 Brian Szabelski | 10:52 PM on 11.17.2007 18 comments

First off, a big thinaks to everyone who has been voting and participating so far in the Worst. Character. Ever. tournament. I honestly didn't know how my idea would go over, but I'm glad to see that people have taken an interest in it. Secondly, we have to do a little housekeeping to take care of, namely the results of the last match. For a while, it was dead even, but eventually one of the two characters pulled out a slight lead and never looked back: ROUND 1 – MATCH 2 (Shaq Bracket) (8) ET - 12 votes (9) Big the Cat - 19 votes So it'll be Big vs. Shaq in the first match of Round 2. What a fun time that should be, right? But we must keep moving, and therefore, it's time for Match 3 voting to begin. This time, it's one of the newer additions to the worst character debate versus one of the characters that made the list because they continue to have my undying ire: The annoying A.I., 343 Guilty Spark vs. The annoying World Warrior, Ryu Begin casting votes... now!