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No worries homeboy. We aren't like other sites, we don't tear into people Friendliest community there ever was.

@ I believe those images are from Battlefield: Hardline. The HUD looks to be the same.

Welcome @Jabberwocky NZ! You will certainly find many folks here that share a passion for zombies. You'll probably find topics like "best map" and "best wonder weapon" over in the General Zombies section of the forum. Let us know if you have any questions!

Update: Although we would love to continue the discussion of a community custom map, the truth is that we want to give it some time. We want the custom map makers to get comfortable on the site, to become part of the community - and work with us as part of the community. This is a new venture we are having with the map makers, and we don't want their first impression of CODZ as us putting them to work with fantastic, yet difficult, projects. Please respect our decision, and understand it is nothing against the concept nor anyone involved. More so we just want our new community members to feel comfortable about working with us. The thread will be locked, but it will indeed be unlocked when the time is right. - CODZ Staff

glad to have you aboard DBZ - looking forward to working with you

Allons-y Kylonso. My Who knowledge is now on par with my Office knowledge, you'll be happy to hear.

I kind of want to just delete everything after @Lenne's initial comment, would that be okay? I'd like to have this thread be about the subject and not be about someone making a mistake, and him then being chewed out. I'll give it until tomorrow.

One of my favorite topics, I always thought there was more to Antartica - nice thread! Here is a great read about a massive swastika being found deep below the ice in Lake Vostok (Antartica) - with some other stuff included I thought you might enjoy :http://atlanteangardens.blogspot.com/2014/04/massive-swastika-found-under-ancient.html Keep up the good work!

CODZ is full of different people from all over the world; young and old, active and lurker, hardcore and casual. Often times along the way, communication can get misinterpreted, and inevitably misunderstandings will occur. Sometimes it's 1 on 1, sometimes it's 10 on 10, and sometimes it's 10 on 1. We, as human beings, are not perfect. We all have faults - and it's quite easy to forget that when dealing with a personal, sensitive, or passionate topic. It's also quite easy to get into the "pack mentality", to "gang up" on the odd man out; we are all guilty of this, including myself. Gossiping about other members, only using destructive criticism, putting someone down - most time it's completely subconscious, just going through the motion... other times the true gravity of words are not taken into account. This looks like bullying, but in reality this is us being imperfect: we're a close knit community, some folks are going to have problems with other folks. Should we discuss them publicly? Absolutely not. IS discussing them publicly considered bullying? It's hard to say. No one is actively seeking out those to bully, and often times some members are just venting. It's a very contextual term, but one thing for sure is that it is an incredibly malicious act to consciously bully others. "Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively dominate others." CODZ is an oasis in a desert of cruel internet forums. I'd like to think I know a fair amount of you very well, and I wouldn't be able to name ANYONE who is purposely looking to "bully" other members. When there are bullys, you know what we do? We ban them. Swiftly. I was in chat the other day (the first time I had been in chat for weeks), and we were talking about a member who is no longer here amidst discussing zombies. We were sharing stories of how this member basically rubbed some folks the wrong way, and were having a nostalgia trip. The topic changed, we started talking about a current member. Then, a new-ish member joined the chat. This new member basically told us all that we were lazy for resorting to gossip, and that we should get back on to the topic of zombies and stop bullying. I have since seen that member post about "bullying" happening here in other places. I wasn't sure if this new member had seen us talking about the member who is no longer here, and perhaps had thought it was all about the current member we were talking about when he joined in the conversation. Regardless, him saying I was a "bully" killed me, I was just hanging out with my peers in the chat shooting the shit - and suddenly this new member thinks I'm some sort of gossiping bullying jerk. I tried reaching out to him at the time, but of course the conversation was still heated - and it was left completely unresolved. I've been thinking all week about how this new member was right, to an extent - but also about how I thought "bullying" was so harsh a term to use. This happened about a week ago, and it's been stuck in my head ever since - not for his impression, but for what he was trying to say. Another similar situation occurred with a different new member who was just trying to share a theory. His post was unfortunately misconstrued, and attracted a few responses that portrayed them as someone who was trying to pass off misinformation as truth for attention. This new user defended himself, and ended with something along the lines of "so this is how you welcome new members". This, also, KILLLLLED me reading it. Seriously kills me, breaks my heart. We get so used to being blunt with each other, we get so used to pointing out misinformation - but we cannot let it override the basic principle that mostly everyone on CODZ means well. It kills me to think a new member comes in, gets misinterpreted, and basically fed to the wolves. New member(s), if you read this, we aren't perfect. We know each other, we've been hanging out for the off-season, yes, we have issues from here to here - but instead of chastising us for "bullying", instead of calling us lazy, instead of "bullying" us back - try and realize that we probably don't mean it, we probably are just acting without thinking, and we are way too used to being candid with each other. We are an incredibly friendly community, as I said, an oasis in a desert of terrible communities. That doesn't mean we aren't human. I consider myself a crusader for user rights, but even I mess up from time to time (and this thread is how I'm trying to "own" my mistake). Let's just try and remember that most people mean well when they post. You can often tell when someone is posting for the love of zombies, or posting for the love of attention - but sometimes the lines are blurred. Before you call someone out: take a look at their post history, PM them, try and establish some sort of idea about where they are coming from before you chastise them. We are all here to nerd out and talk about zombies, let's do our best to be friendly, helpful and all around a kick ass community. Here's looking to a positive, bully-free 2015 for CODZ. All the best.

@Matuzz yeah, I mean - when I think about Richtofen (and his body) from origins - all I really concentrate on are those damn blood vials. It really makes me wonder if, prior to the O4 meeting up for the first time, if Richtofen had some sort of intervention with a time traveler who gave him those blood vials. Maybe even himself, from the future - which could be another reason as to his... confusion when we first meet him.

Methinks perhaps a little of both? Regardless, I'm eating it up. If you look closely, there is more white space in between the crossed out figure's left side then Tank's left side. I really don't think the crossed out figure could be anyone but Richtofen, but that's probably exactly what 3arc wants us to think. All I keep thinking of is that scene in Back to the Future, when Marty looks at himself slowly fading/erasing from the family photo. heres my question(s) about what 3arc is trying to tell us: 1. something happened to Richtofen after Origins? 2. he never exist in Origins to begin with? 3. has someone erased Richtofen (ala Marty Mcfly) from time? And now to entertain the outcome if all said questions were hypothetically true: 1. Events of WaW. BO & BO2 never happen. PARADOX 2. Tank, Tak and Nikolai would have not discovered the secrets of the Excavation site without the help of the doctor's knowledge & experience with the location. PARADOX 3. Richtofen does not happen. PARADOX You can see I'm getting at something. Do we need to save Richtofen?

@RedDeadRiot welcome back sir, I certainly remember you. Glad to have you back on the stomping grounds!

@Undead there will be another round at some point this year we're planning it out to coincide with 3arc hype.