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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 9
Brian Szabelski | 11:30 PM on 11.29.2007 22 comments


The weekend approaches, and my seventh semester at Bowling Green is coming to an end. I'm both excited and nervous, because I want to graduate, but I'm a little worried about actually finding a job. I've also been swamped with homework and other busy work, which has kept me from blogging as much as I would've liked.

But I'm not letting homework keep me away from my Worst. Character. Ever. Tournament. The last match of the Shaq Bracket's First Round is now over... and who ended up on top?

ROUND 1 – MATCH 8 (Shaq Bracket)

(2) Duck Hunt Dog - 6 votes
(15) Wild Woody - 12 votes

In a shocking upset, it's Wild Woody moving on to the next round. I didn't really see this one coming, but then again, who would've two days ago?

As we bid farewell to the Shaq Bracket for now, we begin the next set of matchups, the Navi Bracket. There's some big names and some notorious characters deep within this bracket's ranks, including one pretty controversial inclusion, but the bracket's matches begins with this bracket's namesake against a semi-popular character.



HEY! LISTEN!

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This guy's supposed to be a hero?

Navi battles Sora. Let the voting/slaughter begin!



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soul3150's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/29/2007 23:34
soul3150
Sora, at least Navi helped you target things and work out how to kill them.
Aerox's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/29/2007 23:36
Aerox
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tsunamikitsune's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/29/2007 23:37
tsunamikitsune
Sora. Navi's awesome.
F Whipple's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/29/2007 23:40
F Whipple
Sora...probably the lamest character to come out of a good game, well besides tidus
Upgrayedd's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/29/2007 23:41
Upgrayedd
Navi was bitch made!
ZekeThePlumber's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/29/2007 23:44
ZekeThePlumber
I've seen far too many fat chick Sora cosplayers to be able to vote for Navi without a guilty conscious.

Sora FTL.
Excremento's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/29/2007 23:54
Excremento
Sora should die...
JRisJunior's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/30/2007 00:03
JRisJunior
Navi.

i swear to god i wanted to strangle that fairy fuckin thing.
EightBitMav's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/30/2007 00:53
EightBitMav
Gotta go with Navi...

Simply because I'm a huge Kingdom Hearts fan...oh, and Sora didn't bitch at me every 30 seconds.
NintenDawg's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/30/2007 00:59
NintenDawg
Sora's pretty gay.

He's the stupidest original character to come out of KH.

Screw Sora.
Rider Chop's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/30/2007 01:18
Rider Chop
look at that smug look on soras face. normal people dont need THAT many belts a zippers.

I dont need that shit!
ban sora
MrSadistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/30/2007 01:31
MrSadistic
Sora, because he looks like the type of kid that, if he was real, would get his ass handed to him every day in high school.
Wedge's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/30/2007 01:44
Wedge
Sora tries to beat people with a fucking key. FAILT.
Darren Nakamura's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/30/2007 02:16
Darren Nakamura
I am so surprised Sora is getting so many votes instead of Navi. Granted, Sora was no badass or anything, but at least he wasn't mindnumbingly obnoxious. Absolutely Navi for this one.
Aaron Mxy Yost's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/30/2007 03:22
Aaron Mxy Yost
Navi all the way.
ToxicPrince's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/30/2007 05:09
ToxicPrince
Sora.

He WAS mindnumbingly obnoxious and demonstrated what happens when you try and do 3D 3rd Person RPG combat without Navi.

Failure.
aborto thefetus's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/30/2007 06:30
aborto thefetus
Sora. I've played very little of kingdom hearts, but I played enough to know he's a whiny little bitch.
That, and whenever I go to comic-con I see about 50 Soras. He's my second most hated person that people cosplay as. My first being Naruto.
Variable Gear's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/30/2007 09:00
Variable Gear
Sora because his game sucks.
No shutdown's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/30/2007 12:51
No shutdown
Navi. I'm cool with guys who can float and wield two weapons telekineticly. I'm not so cool with useless lights that annoy me with cries for attention.
Bus's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/30/2007 17:47
Bus
Navi. She kept me from even starting Ocarina of Time for years.
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