Clemency for the banned?

[quadz]

Anyway, the next day he shows up with a map override called "Q2DM1-noob_on_u". I loaded it onto the EOM server and we played a few rounds of it. It was kinda fun. Not as easy to kill people as you'd think. If someone runs fast, it can be not so easy to pin someone down in place good enough to get a good shot on them. And since they're armed with a BFG too, you gotta be sneaky with your usage of cover to kill someone without getting killed yourself.

I think Quadz still has all the eom server stuff up that was migrated to the TS box from [BTF]Gator's old server box where it originally was, so the map is still here somewhere.

'twas indeed archived on the server.

It's now available on mutant:

  mymap q2dm1_noob

[0rbisson]

I doubt he is dead. Peoples life circumstances change, Some people just dis appear with no trace. I've known many people who used to sit online religiously every day for years then one day poof, gone. I haven't seen dervish on here for a long time, Do we assume he is dead?

Razor copped so much shit from what he did, Even haunted if i remember correctly at one stage spoke to his mother on facebook to be a troll. Maybe his circumstances just changed, He was young back then, Maybe, Just maybe he has had to grow up and be a big boy and get a job to pay his bills and live.

Just because he vanished doesn't mean he isn't out there. Plotting and scheming to take over the world. And you're not invited!

[haunted]

Lmao. No. I only added her, never talked with her. She post cat videos every day. I would never talk to a player's family.

[fader]

I doubt he is dead. Peoples life circumstances change, Some people just dis appear with no trace. I've known many people who used to sit online religiously every day for years then one day poof, gone. I haven't seen dervish on here for a long time, Do we assume he is dead?

Again, there is a lot that I'm leaving out out of respect that leads me to that conclusion. You're more than free to believe otherwise, but to me, what I knew about him up until that point lead me to believe at the very least something must have went very, very wrong.

Even if he is still alive, I don't see him touching this game ever again.

[0rbisson]

Well perhaps on this one occasion if haunted has the capacity to reach out to his mother and ask if he is alive to put it to rest. If anyone would know, She would. Razor was not liked however its sad if he has passed away. Would like to believe he has changed his way of life

[quadz]

Would like to believe he has changed his way of life

The last time Razor and I interacted – probably via email or IRC, circa 2014 – he had made considerable progress on learning to code, in 'C' and also some scripting languages.

He seemed at a level of proficiency where he could easily do an entry-level programming job, provided anyone was willing to hire someone who is self-taught with no prior job experience (which is a tough sell in this industry.)

I don't know if he even wanted to do programming for a living. But he had an aptitude for it.

[0rbisson]

He certainly knew a bit about computers, he just put it to the wrong use. If he is living on his own, or forced to move due to some circumstance, he may have had no choice but to do something to earn money and live. I know personally when you are forced to do things with no choice, other things don't seem so important in your life anymore

[haunted]

She cleaned up her friends list and deleted me. I was accustomed to seeing her cat posts and sharing silly things for years though so I remembered her name. She probably speaks english like most of europe but I did google translate and politely asked if he was doing well since I haven't heard about him in years.

[fader]

He certainly knew a bit about computers, he just put it to the wrong use. If he is living on his own, or forced to move due to some circumstance, he may have had no choice but to do something to earn money and live.

Razor had always been living on his own, actually. He moved out at 18 because (and I don't know the specifics or reasoning of this), but he was apparently getting a basic income from the Swedish government for a pretty long time. It was definitely temporary, however. He 100% chose to emigrate. I wouldn't try too hard to contact his family since, to put it kindly, he's never been close to his family at all. In fact, you'd probably know more about the situation than his actual family just by reading my posts.

And yes, as I said, Razor was one of the worst trolls in this game, which was helped by his actually impressive self-taught skill in computer programming as quad said. Don't take it from me, though 

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<az__> i think i was one of the worst quake trolls in q2
<az__> really exploited the hell out of the game
A little unrelated note, but he mostly exploited European servers before he quit playing, such as coolnet and playground. He especially exploited the hell out of coolnet in Poland, which, to be perfectly honest, I don't entirely condemn because nofake is an absolute garbage system.

-moi

[fader]

Does anyone have a picture (any picture, old or new) of what he looks like? i want to verify something.

I should, but I'm not giving it to anyone. I understand your curiosity and skepticism to what I'm saying but I suggest moving on and forgetting about it.

[haunted]

Razor is alive and well. He just quit q2 and left the community. Mystery solved.

[0rbisson]

According to fader in a private message, he claims he didn't want to know if said person was alive or not, And seeing i challenged him on that and he has modified his original post and now blocked me from sending a private message here are my final thoughts.....

Fader, There are only 2 logical reasons you made that post...

1. You wanted a laugh and to take the piss....or

2. You were genuinely concerned to the whereabouts of your friend. And in a round about way you were asking if anyone knew anything without actually saying it, In fear of being ridiculed because of the said persons less than glamorous reputation.

There is no other logical reason why you would make a new account out of years of silence to post about it. Anyways you got your answer

[Admin]

he has modified his original post

Note, the alteration of the title of the original post was an administrative action.

I think we should not have a post claiming "playername (Real Name) is dead" if it's false information.

Not interested in generating new drama, though.

(Now that it's been confirmed he's OK, perhaps we can let the subject rest, if there's nothing new to add.)

[fader]

I think we should not have a post claiming "playername (Real Name) is dead" if it's false information.
(Now that it's been confirmed he's OK, perhaps we can let the subject rest, if there's nothing new to add.)

I actually did get a bit of an update about his situation as late as 2017; I modified some of what I said to reflect it. Even though I've seriously been under the assumption for years that he wasn't alive, now I have a bit more of a reason to believe he's alive and well, which is great. Everything else I said still stands though, so I'm going to leave it up.

But yeah, I have nothing else to add about it; I'd say now would be a good spot to let the subject and Razor as everyone knew him to rest. I hope at least someone appreciated the update, even if I'm sure no one liked him. 

Thanks

[adz1La]

Razor reminds me of the killer from don't fuck with cats