I once had a highly optimistic view regarding ZDaemon: It was a community that (almost entirely) respected each other without problems. I got along with people from every aspect of the community, whether they were Newschool, Oldschool, DM mappers, CTF mappers etc. A dirty whore by the name of "Whatever" arrived, and that bitch is the reason for the downfall of the ZD community.
Alternatively, I can blame the 1.07 release with the in-built IRC feature in ZLauncher. That single feature contributed heavily towards the fuckup that the ZDaemon community has turned in to.
And on that note, I'm leaving that shithole until I see it back to the state that it once was... back in the glory days of 1.04 and 1.05, or even the anarchist state that was known as 0.99. Hell, that was tolerable compared to the shithouse that was the 1.07 era.
I'll make this post as concise as possible; I've been pissed off towards the ZDaemon community ever since my forum moderator status was removed because I had unlocked a topic. That's right, I unlocked a topic and I lost my super moderator status entirely. While I was sleeping last night, I was permbanned entirely from ZDaemon by Kilgore for being AFK in
#aza, and that ban includes the master server, the forums, and ZDIRC. For those that don't know what #aza is, it's an anti-ZDaemon channel spearheaded by CodeImp, whose aimbot
fix caused him to get fucked over by almost all of the ZDaemon staff (excluding myself) because he had sent it out to two people to test, one of which decided to spread it around to his fellow retards. The purpose of the channel was a mere joke between myself, Aurelian, Shockwav3 and CodeImp where we'd screw around and make stupid things that nobody would probably see. A few people would join and they'd have a good laugh as well. It suddenly grew in size after the notorious master ban exploit, at which a site was created stating CodeImp's hatred towards ZDaemon and linking to #aza; Now I'm posting mine.
I'd like to give a big fuck you to the following people: Whatever, Samiam, Exl, Bonzo, and every single moron that supported those four assholes. I have to admit that I was blindly fooled by Samiam and Exl at first, but I realised a week ago how much of a bitch Samiam is and how much of a backstabber Exl is. They're made for each other in more ways than one.
I ask the rest of you to do what's right: If you don't like ZDaemon, leave it already. Don't make up crappy excuses, just fucking boycott it. They're pathetic at looking at matters extrinsically. They don't even want to listen to your pleads of innocence unless you give them what they want, which is something I refuse to give.
Things are destined to die eventually, so don't delay ZDaemon's death.
EDIT: I decided that this isn't informative enough. If you can't figure out where to go after boycotting ZDaemon, I'll give you some nice places to go.
I recommend that you check out
Skulltag. It's the first online port I got involved with (way back in January 2001), and it was a bad mistake to try to remain neutral in the "holy crusade war" between Skulltag and ZDaemon. Of course, I also recommend a bit of
CSDoom, especially if you can find 0.62. That version still has the best netcode that I've ever seen, period. Also, you could also wait for a while and expect something else to pop up that I've been following...
Also, to show how much of a wuss Raider is, I'll post this lovely quote from a PM:
<Raider> I was perfectly willing and interested in patching things up with you.
<deathz0r> was?
<deathz0r> you're not willing anymore?
<Raider> I can't, and won't reverse what the other top admins here do.
<deathz0r> pfft
<Raider> well it's too late now.
<deathz0r> you're project leader
<deathz0r> you have absolute power
<Raider> that doesn't mean anything and you know it.
<Raider> nah. that's not true.
<deathz0r> that doesn't mean anything because you don't want it to mean anything
And his response to this unedited post:
<Raider> are you kidding me? you're blaming whatever for this?
<deathz0r> she's the spark
<Raider> how the hell do you figure that?
<Raider> ya know what. don't even tell me
<Raider> I'm not even going to waste my time with an idiot like you.
Congratulations on having the ability to confront matters.