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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, MATCHES 22 AND 23
Brian Szabelski | 10:16 PM on 12.25.2007 18 comments


A merry Christmas and happy holidays to all. I hope your holidays have been great and those of you who have snow, enjoy it.

I’ll be on the road tomorrow traveling to Boston to visit relatives, and once more, to spread the Gospel of the Wii. I was pretty successful this summer in doing that, but it can’t hurt them to get another dose of what they’re missing out on. I’m bringing Galaxy, MLB Power Pros, Zack and Wiki and a few other games with me on the trip, as well as DS Games that I need to review. Should be a fun time!

But with all that said, we have a tournament to get to tonight. Who won the last match?

ROUND 1 – MATCH 21 (Tingle Bracket)

(6) Cheetahmen - 14 votes
(11) Sigma - 1 vote

Another match, another obvious choice. The Cheetahmen move on to Round 2.

Tonight, because I don’t know how much access I’ll have to the Interwebs while on vacation, I’m posting a double-shot. Two matches going on at the same time. Just vote for one for each match, like so:

EX.)
Match 22 – Character X
Match 23 – Character Z

Because it’s two matches, voting will be open for four days instead of two, ending on December 29 at midnight.

But just who is going head to head? Let’s find out:

MATCH 22



Psst… she dies.

vs.



Not strong enough to stop the sucky games.

MATCH 23



Thought Pokemon couldn’t get more annoying?

vs.

[img]hhttp://www.littlemathletics.com/8bitmegaman.jpg[/img]

He got screwed when they were handing out powers, didn’t he?


Aeris/Aerith battles Superman in match 22, and in match 23, it’s Pichu versus Wood Man. Voting begins now!



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kwaselow's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/25/2007 22:19
kwaselow
Supes and Pichu
bottled dark's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/25/2007 22:28
bottled dark
match 21: superman
match 22: pichu
MrSadistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/25/2007 22:31
MrSadistic
Superman because 'Superman Returns' was such a shitty movie/game.

Pichu, because uh it's Woodman. Who the hell would vote against a MegaMan villain?
Some Jerk's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/25/2007 22:44
Some Jerk
Superman and Pichu.
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/25/2007 22:59
king3vbo
superman
Pichu
Teta's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/25/2007 23:00
Teta
Superman and Woodman.
Superman has gay haircut, and the only good thing Megaman could get out of Woodman is morning wood cause his upgrade weapon sucked balls.
braulio09's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/25/2007 23:02
braulio09
Superman and Pichu
kwaselow's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/25/2007 23:17
kwaselow
@Teta

I totally get wood from Woodman

@NihonTiger90
Please fix teh BBC
Guagloves's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/25/2007 23:34
Guagloves
Picu
taumpytears's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/26/2007 00:17
taumpytears
Superman and pichu.
Darren Nakamura's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/26/2007 00:23
Darren Nakamura
My votes go to Superman and Woodman. Superman is the lamest superhero ever, and Woodman comes from a terrible series. Nihon, you have an extra H in the URL for the last image.
ZekeThePlumber's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/26/2007 00:50
ZekeThePlumber
Aeris, because being dead automatically makes you lose.

And Pichu.
JRisJunior's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/26/2007 03:00
JRisJunior
Superman and pichu.

BBCode FAIL.
bluki's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/26/2007 03:23
bluki
superman gets my vote
Batthink's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/26/2007 05:40
Batthink
Match 21 – Superman, responsible for some of the worst games to come out for several gaming consoles.

Match 22 – Pichu. We already have enough electric rat-like Pokemon in this world.
Hitogoroshi's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/26/2007 10:31
Hitogoroshi
Superman
Pichu
Wedge's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/26/2007 16:37
Wedge
I guess you all forgot The Death And Return of Superman. It's the only Superman game I ever played, and I remember it not totally sucking. This could be because I played it when I was little, and I may be thinking of the arcade game, and it's really just a fuzzy memory. But I swear there was a Superman game that didn't suck.

Besides, Aeris is... augh.

Pichu... god no.
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