CBlakemore: I was in a real military unit issued weapons and bullets. We heard about guys like you. We heard you didn't have the guts to get a combat MOS.
Nah, I just had a GT of 138, gave me options. I'm sure you were issued bullets; even the gate guards back in garrison got bullets. That's part of the whole military thing. Did you not know? I guess not.
I'm also not surprised you don't know, for example, what job a linguist would do in a coalition force. That's ok. I'd explain but there's a file size limit on GOG attachments so pictures are out.
See, it boils down to this. You're posturing, and I don't want to stray too far afield. Let's sum up some stuff, yeah?
In 2012, you said
What do you want to believe? That the game is going to be coming out next year? You can believe it. Of course it didn't. You also said, that same day,
On the other hand, having now taken money for the game on IndieGoGo, even $1, is an obligation. If I defaulted on that obligation you could start to make some conclusions about my character and these would actually be justified. I'm not going to default on the obligation I have now because I am fundamentally an honest person. I would not take other people's money and not fulfill their pledge. That would actually be very wrong. And of course, you failed to produce the game as promised. The next day you said,
Grimoire will come out in May 2013 and you can expect in future you will see more of the same from me, plenty of demonstrable gameplay and all the major problems solved before I start a campaign. A laudable goal, but you failed. As you always do.
That November, you put up a
video demo. Note at about 2:58 you claim it'll be out in May 2013. Of course, it wasn't.
Remember your subsequent
IndieGoGo campaign? "This game will ship in May 2013 with or without enhancement!!" Was it..oh, no. No, it wasn't released.
You settled down shortly afterwards, since you had no game. But you came back in 2014, and 2015. Remember when you posted, in 2015, "
I am down to roughly 7 issues that have emerged mainly from searching for notes in the code commented as "//*TODO" and "//*FIX". As far as I can tell I have not been able to produce an in-game exception from doing anything. (quoted from a user copying+pasting). Guess those issues took a long time to fix, huh? The following year, you wrote on your IndieGoGo page, "Placing the very last of the unique items today and finalising perk placements. I have not heard from anybody so I assume that's it, I've got them all now. That's about it. Everything is nearly finished. I am working for next two weeks going over every single detail marked as LEAVE UNTIL VERY END."
Well, your idea of two weeks is pretty much crap.
You also made some highly amusing claims about your plans for Grimoire. Remember this part?:
"1. I decide there will never be a third campaign because of all this butthurt. 2. I decide Rodney will get his refund with 2 other people the night before the game is released, meaning he has forfeited the rarest artefacts in the history of the computer game industry. The guy cornholed himself so badly it makes me wince when I walk. He literally snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Meanwhile the faithful are getting ready to cash in their longshot million-to-one bets. Even at the final hour the Blakemore irony effect demolished the unbelievers. These popamolers will never pass through the gates of paradise. Their faith was tested in the RPG development desert and they failed. Now the long lonely hours playing bizarre badly translated Japanese games for the remainder of their lives beckons ... as they wonder what might have been ..." Yeah, yeah. Wall o' text. It would be a lot shorter if you had fewer examples of your colossal failures, but you
are thorough, gotta give you that. See, we can spar back and forth about your myriad failures as a human and you can pull classic Cleve garbage like not knowing what you're talking about and arguing anyway. That's cool, and I've been up all night anyway so I'm feeling puckish. I'm your huckleberry.
But the most important part about my posts here is to make sure anyone hearing about this stuff knows that you've built a long history of failure to produce your product. I just want to make sure that nobody throws you money without getting a good opportunity to see what you've said in the past; see what you've promised; watch you make a liar of yourself again and again.
Honestly, I couldn't make this stuff up. You're gold, Cleve. Gold.
EDITS to fix malformed links