ZDaemon
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
ZDaemon is a source port of Doom with support for online play. The community is almost terminally stupid and very easily offended by the tiniest things, even by CS and WoW standards.
The IRC channel is a cesspool of random retarded spewings and creepy innuendo which is repeated verbatim and frequently spouted forth by their automated bot. Their forums aren't much better, with all of the normal fixin's of social posturing, clan posturing and administration favoritism.
So basically, it's like /b/.
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[edit] People of Interest
- deathz0r: Former Judeo-Bolshevist admin who would lock any fucking topic that doesn't catch his fancy, which was about 2/3rds of them. He was a fucking self-important douche who threatens the banhammer for the lightest infractions. Left the community due to massive butthurt over having his power level taken below nine thousand. He can't seem to let go, however, and still insists on trying to play under an alias every time he obtains a new IP.
- Kilgore: The greek lead programmer. Basically follows whatever the rest of the administration team decides. Gets really pissed when you point out that the launcher is set up to pirate commercial games by default if it can't find them on-hand. Is also suspected to be an anal pirate of sorts himself.
- NightFang: Furry who origionally created ZDaemon by regex-ing "CSDoom" with "ZDaemon". Also showed off his Computer Science III skills by writing a CSDoom server crasher, and a personal aimbot for his own game. Quit when he realized that people were actually taking his game seriously.
- Raider: The classic "project lead" who actually does nothing but have his ego masturbated and ban people who don't like him", except his "ego" is suspected to be "masturbated" by teenage girls and the occasional pre-teen. He's suspected to be in his early forties, for perspective.
- Danni: Another programmer with access to the source code, comes on once a year to code one line and then fucks off, also created ZDaemon 2.0, a version that doesn't exist.
- Romeo: I asked my crack team of specialists to come up with a name for this guy, but all we could think of was 'dipshit'. His clan practically defined the term clan posturing by having a million members in it but 95% of them too busy playing WoW to actually play.
- Thunder: Deceased. That didn't stop her from becoming the target of a post-mortem lolcow when someone joined a server aliased as her.
- Mr-Cheater: A mentally challenged Canadian and self-proclaimed "biggest troll on zd." In all cases to date, his trolling attempts have resulted in the purest form of fail known to exist. He leaves the community forever at least three times a month. He is known to whine incessantly when banned from any server/IRC for his terrible trolling attempts and then trying to spread drama to places that honestly don't give a fuck and whine when he's kicked out of those places too. If you see a spectacularly unfunny edit done to this page it's probably done by a Mr-Cheater alt.
- Heatpack (Ice_Cold): The very definition of human failure, Ice_Cold is an awesome white TeamSpeak rapper, virgin, and lady's man. He is obviously one of the most skilled e-lovers to ever exist, as you can clearly see by reading one of his fuck logs. He has a strange affliction for plump young Russian girls. He forced a female member of the community named Horsey to kill herself after he was afraid to show up at a mall to meet her.
- AF-Domains: A well known Basement-dweller and IRCop in the community. It is rumored that he hasn't left his basement or seen sunlight since becoming an IRCop years ago. When asked why he is always online he claims he is "paid" to do his job, but won't say how much or in what form; leading to much speculation. One group of strapping young intellectuals has decided to attack this issue head-on, releasing this report which implies that he is not really paid, but frequently gives Raider oral sex to keep his position of power in the community. Some go as far as assuming that he is not human, but actually Raider's male sex-doll that is programmed to K-Line everything in sight while they fuck.
- zombeh: Huge attention whore. Became popular by saying "<3 (person)" whenever any random (person) logs in. Will have e-sex with anyone to get moar attention. Thinks she is 1337 at internet, but only knows the memes fail and the shit spamming of "buttsex" (meme courtesy straight from the fucking empty minds at Zdaemon). Has every kind of myspace ripoff page on the internet. Also, emo, 16 year old girl, camwhore,and really sucks at the actual DooM game. Has no point in life besides to get more e-friends that she doesn't know, and have e-sex with other attention whores on ZDaemon, to get more attention from the horny mods (whom encourage this shit by setting the bots to quote all of her "horny moments").
A search party attempts to locate Toke's body.
- Toke: (deceased) Toke was an amateur level designer who died because he could not operate a vehicle properly. Known for making numerous, highly repetitive levels often with custom monsters. Toke levels will have roughly 50,000 imps in one room, 500,000 demons in the next, etc. Players disinterested in variety, puzzles or fun fawn over Toke's levels. One Toke map, "PENIFSUCKS," was named after Anti-ZDaemon crusader PENIF following numerous run-ins with The Purple Squad that forced Toke to redesign many of his favorite maps. Toke died shortly after the maps creation.
- The Purple Squad: Pioneers in "ruining other peoples fun." If a co-op server allows friendly fire, these hooligans will do nothing but murder teammates and create chaos. If the server has team damage disabled, they will most likely block important hallways, passages, and elevators. The most notable member of this unofficial "clan" (The Purple Squad is notoriously anti-clan) is PENIF. ZDaemon moderators have made numerous attempts to ban Purple Squad, but have never been successful. One member originally operating under the handle, "QuakeSucks", is often found "name-faking" as late adversary, Toke.
[edit] Holy Shit Effort
Due to the administration being extremely paranoid after past dissent, trolls and miscellaneous butthurt, trying to gain access to the community itself, for lulz or otherwise, is a bit of an ordeal. IRC access requires a special IRC client that is built in to the game launcher itself (though efforts to modify and recompile a normal IRC client have been met with success in the past) and a valid ZDaemon account (which are automated). To gain forum access, you need to register a forum account and then join IRC and PM one of the admins until they sanity check your IP and activate your account manually. Being 'found out' means being banned from IRC, the forums and the game metaserver itself. Effort.
[edit] Clans and the huge E-Dick
ZDaemon, like any other gaming community, has many clans that like any other community, are so retarded that upon actually getting a Wicked Sick (30 frags without getting killed), will make countless moviesto show off their immense virtual penis size and then post it on the Forums, usually done by recent immigrants in the United States. Despite this, they will quickly attack a player who takes this game seriously.
[edit] The DDoS
When people become sick of Raider's shit, they go out in style. One of the more notorious (and funny) flame-out's in ZDaemon history was CodeImp's exit stage left. CodeImp happened to be the lead coder behind Skulltag Online, a server browser for Skulltag, ZDaemon's "rival". He created an 'update' to Skulltag Online, which was specifically designed to DDoS ZDaemon's master servers when the program was next used. It worked beautifully, and no one could figure out why ZDaemon was offline for a few hours. Unfortunately, he made the mistake of labeling his work, and was finally found out by someone with Computer Science III who took a look inside the program itself with a hex editor.
Update: the lulz unexpectedly continues when someone adds Codeimp's heroic exploits to his profile on the Doom Wiki. His Doom Wiki profile currently contains no mention of the exploit and the discussion page has been blanked while the argument continues in a less conspicuous place, with retarded ZDaemon players screaming about "cyber terrorism" on one side and CodeImp denying everything and making thinly veiled threats on the other.
[edit] Your servers aren't your own
| —Raider |
| —Raider, ZDaemon Main Page |
Considering the fact that maybe a quarter of the total bans on the banlist are community drama related and not cheating, you, as a server admin, are now forcibly 'involved' with the latest retarded community drama if you like it or not.
[edit] The Community
- ZDaemon Main Site (just like the Game, straight out of the 1990's)
- Forums (complete with ringamarole signup process)
- Banlist (tl;dr)
[edit] Drama
If you have drama that has yet to be categorized in the main article, link it here
- Someone aliases as another deceased player
- Oh, furries too!
- The administration team covertly releases a "cheat" that actually deletes files off your hard drive.
- Apparently, you aren't allowed to piss pubbies off on your own server
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