Quadz, the Loquaciously Multiloquent Member

[Xavagus]

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-Xav

[[BTF]DeathStalker]

Thank You Mrs.Quadz and friend of Quadz !!!
Done and Done !!!

[Lilom]

I've only now read this sad news
My condoleances to all the people who knew/loved quadz.

[Sharxigan]

Woah! RIP quadz, this is shocking and sad, no one deserves to die as young as quadz was, this is crazy.
He died two months ago, is that too soon to ask what he died of? has everyone here been waiting to find out?

 

 

[|iR|Focalor]

No one is mentioning specifics so far, so it's probably best to just "let it be" as the song says.

I would offer the advice to those who knew him to consider talking about him later down the road. It'll always hurt, but the sadness you feel is kinda good because it lets you know you still love them and part of them is still with you.

[Krlll Mule]

I have been a member here since April 9, 2005 according to the membership list. I have been out of the community for quite some time due to life changes and other pursuits. I think I logged in a few years ago just to say "boo" in a shout post.  For some reason, I felt compelled to log in today, only to find I didn't remember my password.  I requested an update opportunity and got it almost immediately. Looking at my messages I was informed by Focalor of the the sad news.

I can't say that Quadz and I were "friends", but I always felt like he was my friend.  So many people before me have said exactly what I would say about him and this site, so I won't try to improve upon it.  What a giving, selfless person he was!  His name will be remembered in reverence for years to come for all the right reasons.  The man was a living example of LOVE.  If we all could be remembered in that way, what a world it could be!

To his family and friends, I hope you read these comments and gain some comfort in knowing what an impact he made through a game, a forum, and a community he helped to create. My prayer for you is peace in a difficult time and those that will follow.

Peace and love,

Krlll Mule

[RailWolf]

Hearing about and seeing the other ways that Bill has made peoples' lives better is a testament to his greatness.
I will share some of my experiences with my friend and mentor, Bill.

I first met him in quake2 at the end of the xquake days when things were transitioning to tastyspleen. I was a big tech nerd as a teenager, building PCs and taking 2 years of Cisco Networking training before graduating high school. I was working at [and eventually owned] a PC repair shop and was trying to learn about linux servers when I met quadz. He took me under his wing and showed me how everything worked on fragbait [the tastyspleen server]. At one point we set up a local infrastructure of his custom q2 server admin software on a debian pc at my house and connected it to a q2 server I had running on fragbait. In our early days he also introduced me to using a linux box as a home router and firewall, and since then I had always utilized a linux box as a router and firewall at home until very recently when I moved to a new place. We worked together for a good while on fragbait server maintenance and various things. His natural ability to communicate very clearly combined with his kindness and good heart made him an irreplaceable mentor. He was incredibly smart and was always humble.

We soon decided to try and use our skills together to start a game server hosting business. We set up the business, rented some servers and got to work making it happen. It was a challenge, but we got things going and learned a lot in the process. Planning for growth was definitely a big hurdle, there was a lot of work involved in just maintaining everything related to the business and disk space needs were projected to start becoming a big expense as we expanded. We ended up being kinda late to the party on paid game server hosting as more and more new games were starting to use their own matchmaking systems. We had a great time, but eventually decided to end the business.

After I drifted away from q2 and went to quakelive, we were still keeping in touch and playing other games together with friends. We eventually started having a weekly Friday night game night with quest and Xav. Lots and lots of Left 4 Dead. We would try a new custom map on l4d almost every week. I think his custom map collection for left 4 dead may be comparable to the quake2 map collection. My collection of l4d maps was so big that I had to move them off my gaming ssd onto a storage drive and make a symlink in the l4d game folder. Some other titles we enjoyed playing were Dungeon Defenders, Dying Light, and GTA V. These were some really amazing times with him.

We were heavy into the game Dungeon Defenders when I met Xavagus, and soon after meeting him it was brought up that there was a job opening in IT at the software company where quadz and Xav work. quadz and Xav got me the job, and 10 years ago I closed my business and they moved me from Alabama out to Portland, Oregon where the company's HQ is.

quadz was an amazing co-worker and a true genius. I will forever cherish being able to work daily along-side the greatest man I've ever known. Words cannot express how grateful I am for the opportunity that both quadz and Xav gave me in my life. I soon found more amazing opportunities here in Oregon to work on linux server network driver development at Intel, and server product development at Oracle. I learned [and taught] an incredible amount at Intel before finding a head IT job that I really like. I miss the time when I worked at Intel and Bill and I shared a lot of fun dialog about the servers and equipment at work. I worked in a datacenter lab, and he and I would both have a blast just nerding out. We talked about some of the high end servers and networking gear I worked on and the equipment I used to debug issues, like pcie protocol analyzers to read the data going between the nic and the cpu. We've always had our nerding out moments over the years about servers and hardware, the ones with Intel were definitely some of the koolest.

I had the pleasure of meeting his wife at company events. She is an amazing person and was perfect for him. I wanted to share a story about her too. One time at a company dinner here in Portland, she sat right next to me and had a cell phone cover that made her phone look like an audio cassette tape. She laid it down on the table between us and when I noticed it at first I thought it was an actual tape. I kinda laughed and asked her about it. When she looked at me and grinned, it suddenly hit me what it was... and we all had a good laugh. Good times.

Even during times where I wasn't playing games much, we would still talk about music. He was a talented musician, and would always find musicians' music. He'd find bands that weren't mainstream but had super talented musicians. I often shared that music with other people who enjoyed it as well. I was a drummer and he’d also share some outstanding clips of percussionists that always dropped my jaw. The SD card in my car is loaded with many of those bands, and I thank him for sharing that art with me. I will miss those talks.

During times of personal struggle, he was there with his positive energy and sense of humor. He was my buddy, my friend. On the road of my life, we paved many miles together.
I miss him.




Bill in my office in Portland. I had a collection of DOOM books and he picked one up.
http://railwolf.tastyspleen.net/bill/_DSC2588_00004.JPG

When we used a chinook helicopter to take a car to the top of the roof of the tallest building in GTA V. Then drove off.
http://railwolf.tastyspleen.net/bill/20160923215144_1.JPG

When he, quest and I walked onto a pier in GTA V to enjoy the view.
http://railwolf.tastyspleen.net/bill/20161014231337_1.JPG

Bill and I were messing around in GTA one day, and we pushed the wanted level as high as we could. We drove into the hills in an armored vehicle. We lasted a pretty long time, and took down quite a few helicopters that were after us.
http://railwolf.tastyspleen.net/bill/20161014235232_1.JPG
http://railwolf.tastyspleen.net/bill/20161014235241_1.JPG
http://railwolf.tastyspleen.net/bill/20161014235243_1.JPG

GTA V, took a screenshot because it was funny.
http://railwolf.tastyspleen.net/bill/20160910011935_1.JPG

Some Left 4 Dead fun. Many of my older screenshots with him in L4D are on an older machine that I haven’t booted up.
http://railwolf.tastyspleen.net/bill/20170609224203_1.JPG

[TacoGoblin]

Been playing on and off for years but recently decided to actually join the forums. I'm saddened to hear of Quadz passing, I never heard of the man the legend until recently but I can't express how thankful I am for his dedication to keeping this game alive, and I would like to express my condolences to Mrs. Quadz, and to his friends and family. I am happy to hear that Tastyspleen will go on and I will donate happily when I can to keeping the dream alive.

[2d]

6 months have passed. I just wanted to share my gratitude for keeping this community alive.

things move forward, but we never forget.

god bless. 

[Mrs Quadz]

Hello everyone,

I just want to take the time to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart for the donations that help keep everything running. Long live Tastyspleen ❤️

Much love,

Mrs Quadz (Liz)

[Arm0r]

RIP Quadz.  I know I'm late and I've been away a long time, but wow man.  He was always the voice of reason.  Even if you were dead wrong, he allowed you to speak your part.  The most fair community leader I've ever come into contact with.  Ever.  For a man that valuable to leave this world while others, myself included, get to keep drawing breathe, it's surreal.  Thanks for the good times.  I hope there is something after this, for everyone's sake. 

[Arm0r]

I wish he could see this thread.  Not that he ever needed the validation, but he always deserved it.

[Om3ga]

Hello guys,

Some of you remember me, Om3ga.

Im genuinely sadden of the passing of quadz.
He was one of the most eloquent people ive come across on the internet. Very classy. R.I.P

Thank you for making tastyspleen for what it is...

[ImperiusDamian]

I just found out about this. I didn't know Quadz nearly as well as some of you guys and we didn't always see eye to eye on the political threads, but he made tastyspleen what it is today and he was a good, selfless and giving person.

RIP Quadz, if there is a heaven I hope it's one massive LAN party.

[Golgo13]

i havn't logged in too much since for a few years. i've been in my own world so to speak. i just found out now about this. can't believe i didn't see something pinned to this post! was he in bad health, how did it happen?? quadz was always the competitive type to me for a while. i always felt like he was treating me a tad unfairly on some things. i think it was just the stress & tension that he was dealing with & all our bullshit is why he replied in such a fashion. although over the years it became much more friendly.  he was always willing to lend a hand with advice (time permitting) to help me out.

i really feel bad that i didn't notice this earlier. he was cool guy, supported quake 2 for a long time & entertained us, scolded us (when necessary) & supported us through the years. us youngings, who turned old fuckers been around for more than 20 years!  we always had a place to play our favorite mods. he was always impartial when it came to smack talk feuds. even though i may not have agreed with his every decision at the time. he still had the cooler head more than most of us. he will be missed. it's sad one of ours had to go so soon.  member of the community. RIP i considered him a friend, even if we didn't play together that much. i remember some 64 player events he would participate in. good times.


i want to share some personal messages i had with console, quadz over the years if that's ok. i'd encourage anyone to keep his memory alive so you show your personal messages or controversial posts also if you like.

Aloha,

what about the ratings. you omittied addressing that part. obviously there seems to be an issue for some reason or another. care to elaborate

(Sorry for the delay, been busy with work.)

The new rating system is still experimental, and i'm trying to see if I can prevent some of the usage patterns that happened on the previous systems.

I felt you were over-using the "troll" rating, but my attempt to fix that was to move "troll" to neutral.

Then I saw you'd marked one of my posts as "absurd misconstrual of scientific principles or evidence" which was bizarre and reminded me I had already had to recategorize 'troll' due to your usage pattern, so it seemed easiest to limit your account to neutral ratings only.

But again, the system is still experimental, so who knows. It's also supposed to be fun, so it's hard to know how much to care about accuracy of ratings.

Thoughts?

quadz