Disclaimer: This post is purely opinion and based on my own experiences and recollection of events. TL;DR: I'm leaving Cloud Sixteen (hopefully forever).
Chapter 1: An Early Beginning
From my first days of being at CloudSixteen I saw everything I needed to see. I saw a small but growing and bountiful community with a large amount of potential. When I first joined I was young and wary of people and only came on to ask for help. The people were nice and everything looked to be going well. As time went I slowly became more and more active in the community but I wasn't aware of all of the community's dynamics and right as I started to settle was when Alex Grist got left as well as a number of other people. I was oblivious to all of this at the time and so I just carried out my business and worked on my poorly made stuff for my very small community and continued on from there.
Chapter 2: Power To The First
As most (if not all) of you may know is that I'm well known amongst the Clockwork community at large, there's obviously a story to this popularity. The essence is that I was able to be the first one in line for a lot of things such as a large plugin collection, anticipated schema with a dev key, highly demanded features, etc. I feel as though I've cheated to get my fame as I look back at my work and see some simple edits or very poorly made work or even work that isn't even mine (properly credited of course). Why might I be telling you this? Well, I'll be gone from CloudSixteen so you may as know whatever I have to share. It's easy to get to the top if you're the only person selling to a large market.
Chapter 3: Drama
CloudSixteen is a cesspool for drama and a gravity well for poor achievements. Day after day from being involved with moderation from the start I've always seen so much potential but so little accomplishment. I've always tried to remain neutral in problematic situations but I've decided to be true to myself instead on things that were really going on. One thing was that having Alex Grist leave CloudSixteen was probably the worst thing that could ever happen as progress with everything came to a near standstill. The only time anything got done was when everyone was at kurozael's neck to get something done and even then, not much was done. There was always feuds between the two and a very bitter taste when one of them brought up the other. As things slowly began to heal I heard that Conna (aka kurozael) asked Alex Grist if he could remove his name or something from his blog but he refused and Conna didn't take it too lightly. From there kurozael went on to register a domain name and started hiding links in his forums that linked to the site and also posted the URL to other websites such as Facepunch. I was assuming that kuro was planning on using that website to slander Alex Grist's name in some way but I can't be sure because I was able to resolve that dispute between them.
If past grudges weren't enough, there was always politics running rampant in CloudSixteen. The administration is horrible, the official support is nearly non-existant and any attempt at civility was thrown out months ago. There was only one time where Cloud Sixteen had no drama with awesome posts, steady development and a kind aurora on the community. That golden age was quickly ended as SomeSortOfDuck (aka Duck) discovered that Conna had added a global banning feature to his DRM for Clockwork. There was disappointment in kuro as it was misused for getting back at people kurozael didn't like. Of course, nothing changed after it all blew over.
Chapter 4: Cycle Of Fools
Nothing changes in CloudSixteen as ignorance breeds ignorance. I've watched everything happen with CloudSixteen and it's something I can't bear to be apart of any more. Maybe it's me, maybe it's everyone else but I can't remain in one place being frozen in time. The fact of everything is that CloudSixteen goes nowhere and isn't changing at all, it's only putting on a new mask every now and then. I don't see anything good to come from CloudSixteen as no progress has been made with things that were meant to come out a very long time ago and there's no excuse for a business to deceive their customers with the glare of pitiful progress.
Chapter 5: Broken Circles
There's never enough on one given thing, but enough can be said. I don't wish to be apart of the past any more and so I won't waste any time on moving forward. For those of you that wish, you can add me on Steam if you'd like or leave me behind and move on yourself. I'll be writing my thoughts on people that have made a large enough impression on me to be mentioned below (in no particular order):
Vonel/Jake/Whatever: You have much to learn and you've learned so much. There's always room for improvement so keep improving. Become open minded and be considerate of others or there'll be no consideration for you.
Dex: You're probably one of the most fair minded people at C16 and I hope you'll remain that way. Although if there's ever a next time, use a readable username.
TheHipster: Stop shitposting.
kurozael/Conna: Learn to deliver on what you say or don't bother at all. You have to work on balance with your life and maybe try to get some weight off of your shoulder before trying to do so.
Atebite/Stitches: Keep learning and do what you're best at. You've come a long way from when I first met you and I'll be honest, I didn't think you would have ever came this far. I hope you keep doing what you're doing now and more.
invadingalienz: fgt lol
Kezter: You've sort of always had an unserious tone with everything you say/do. You should probably see a doctor about that.
Kurochi: One of the few people who left C16 before everything bad started happening. I wish you the best of luck with your endeavours whatever they may be.
Monkah: At first I thought you were a real asshole when you challenged everything I said. As things progressed I began to see that you were just persistent with doing what was right (however crude the methods were). Keep up your persistence as there's not enough people in this world that fight for what's right.
Duck/SomeSortOfDuck: It's been very enjoyable to be able to chat and work with you at C16 and I'm sure our paths will cross a lot in the future (if we don't die or something). I also hope that one day you'll broaden your potential by exploring the large amounts of possibilities in the world. I've always found the work you've done to be of grade A quality and your support to be both informative and useful to those needing the help and basically everyone else.
Soret: fgt 2 lel
Audio: When we first met I thought you were a huge asshole but then I began to saw that you were able to make light of almost any situation. Although I hope you can moderate yourself a bit more in the future as some may begin to perceive you in just one way.
alexanderk: I wish you the best of luck with whatever you plan on doing. The sad truth is that I know you and yet I can't remember much about you. Hopefully new memories can be filled.
Sloth: I always thought of you to be a trouble maker back when I cared about moderating the community, now it's always great to see what you have to say about people. Just be careful of what you say.
Tommy: #Tommy4ServerManager. In all seriousness though, it's been fun chatting with you from time to time, I hope you cut down on spam though.
I'll be releasing a GitHub for all of my work and some old goodies (eventually).
