Welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God, US Gamer's official RPG podcast. I'm your host, Kat Bailey, joining me as always my

lovely co-host, Nadia Oxford. Hello, Kat. How are you? I know you've been having some troubles

with a demon leaf blower outside. No, I'm actually feeling morose about the anniversary of the

end of one-up.com, a site that both of us have in common. Oh, yes. I forgot that was today. You can always count on Bob Mackey to remind

you, and I'm kind of glad he did because, yes, it was a very formative site for myself. It was the

first, like, real, hey, here's some pay for your work site that I worked for. I think my first

piece for them was, of course, like a Mega Man timeline or something like that and I used to do a lot of blogging for them as well.

Were you part of the Mega Man anniversary series that Jeremy did?

I almost certainly was. I know that any time we had a Megaman thing, I was there to contribute and I contributed to so many of them.

I remember, gosh, like when Mega Man 9 came out, we had a lot of pieces

about Mega Man in general because that was like the first revival of the series in a long time.

A lot of people from that community got their start in the games industry because they were

part of one-up. I was one of them. Jeff Grubb over a games beat was one of them. We used to

talk all the dang time over there,

McKinley Noble. Long list, I think. Yeah, I'm glad for social media just so I can keep in touch

with a lot of people I worked with. I was always a little bit of like on the edges because I wasn't

part of the San Fran crew. I was just a remote worker who came in once in a very blue moon.

But, yeah, I still remember and miss all those people.

Yeah, I showed up just in time for the layoffs.

Here I am. There I go.

Yeah, it was pretty grim, unfortunately.

But, I mean, Axe of the Blood God can trace its roots all the way back to Active Time Babel,

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