That is awesome Kezins! I knew you mentioned being a writer back then, but never got to read any. I am thankful to you for sharing these and get a chance to read your past works. I'd like to see more and hopefully you would return to writing articles again. Anyways Happy Thanksgiving Kezins! Hope you and your family enjoy a wonderful day.

Thanks TK. Hope your turkey day is great too.

I'm very happy to hear that you have been feeling better lately. I hope you keep doing so, because like I have mentioned before you're a pretty genuine person.

Also I had no idea you ran your own site in the past. (I did know you did articles though) Seems like it was doing pretty well. You want to start it up again?

Happy thanks giving.

Not sure if I can handle my own site again. Lol. It's a lot of work..more marketing than writing. Lol. I may do something freelance one day again though. The problem with blogging about games heavily is that it can take a toll on you. With the rat race pace of straight game blogs, you can work hard all day, get a big traffic payoff and then you're right back to trying to find the next big story a day later. With blogging, articles rarely live longer than a few days. I'd only do it if I had funding for a big staff. Lol

Pretty interesting stuff, Kezins. Game Podunk's domain name is actually registered through Godaddy, but thankfully we're hosted elsewhere for the meantime; thank goodness too, I've heard a lot of horror stories about sites that were hosted with Godaddy.

I can definitely sympathize with what you mentioned about running a site being a lot of work, especially if you're in it for more than just a hobby. By the by, it's interesting that your first gig was called 1PStart because there was actually a popular podcast for a while called 2PStart, which is a crazy coincidence, haha.

Haha. We were casual friends with the 2PStart guys actually. They came after us though. They did comics too.

Don't know if anyone is a Destructoid fan, but we had to give up association with 1PStart when we signed with Ziff. At the time, I think I got 30% of 1P profit which was $750 month so not bad traffic. The blog network handed it off to a guy named Stuart Piazza. Piazza started a hate war against the entire Destructoid staff and readers causing the "Destructoid Piazza" incident. Needless to say, he literally got 1PStart buried in a month and the site never recovered. Lol. Lesson for sure is don't anger the majority of Destructoid.

At an E3, some Destructoid guys thought one of us was was Stuart at first with our 1PStart affiliation. Lol

Couldn't find the discussions other than one. I do vaguely recall it starting with an offensive logo.

http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/PacoDG/destructoid-vs-1pstart-com-stuart-piazza--45396.phtml

Definitely good old days. I received some lawsuit threats while writing from Microsoft for leaking a game manual and Jack Thompson. I got into a semi-public feud with Jack over his misinformation about what games the VT shooter played. Thompson continually cited Counter Strike as his game of choice when in fact his dorm room and computer primarily uncovered Sonic The Hedgehog games as the most violent games. Lol. Unfortunately our back and forths were removed to get him to go away.