Grimoire Thread

[Haba]

I will be quite upset on the day it is finally and definitively FINISHED and FEATURE COMPLETE.

Most probably. 'cuz that'll be the day we all die.

 

[Valky]

GOG release when?

 

[Serus]

I will be quite upset on the day it is finally and definitively FINISHED and FEATURE COMPLETE.

Most probably. 'cuz that'll be the day we all die.

Apocalypse of St. John (the original unaltered version):

8:1. And when he had opened the seventh seal made Grimoire feature complete there was silence in heaven, as it were for half an hour.

8:2. And I saw seven angels standing in the presence of God: and there were given to them seven trumpets.

(...)

 

[slymer]

i'll definitely buy this game when it comes with a manual and it fixes that inventory management.

 

[Rpguy]

Meanwhile, on the "Decline" thread:

Zep will have to go back to molesting children in Vietnam after V2 comes out because he has been unable to crack the current encryption, which was only added because Zepo is a bore and I wanted him to have no reason to ever post to this forum ever again.

 

[slowtard]

Mr. Blakenfeld, slowtard would appreciate it if you could help to explain why Australians are attacking ambulance personnel. It is perplexing. Were these literate people, a horde of Outsiders, or is the Road Warrior coming true?

Many thanks.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Mr. Blakenfeld, slowtard would appreciate it if you could help to explain why Australians are attacking ambulance personnel. It is perplexing. Were these literate people, a horde of Outsiders, or is the Road Warrior coming true?

Many thanks.

He called for faster intervention by police and said attacks on paramedics in the Bankstown area had become a regular occurrence.

The Aboriginal groups of the entire Sydney region were part of the Australian south-east coast cultural group, and they are the original people of Canterbury Bankstown. It is believed that the Daruk and Eora people were the original inhabitants of the Bankstown and Canterbury area, for many thousands of years before European settlement. The Daruk is the largest Aboriginal language group in the LGA.

https://www.cbcity.nsw.gov.au/commu...ers/aboriginal-history-places-of-significance


hmmmm

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

Mr. Blakenfeld, slowtard would appreciate it if you could help to explain why Australians are attacking ambulance personnel. It is perplexing. Were these literate people, a horde of Outsiders, or is the Road Warrior coming true?

Many thanks.

There is a longstanding threat to ambulance personnel showing up in rough neighborhoods from rats, funnelweb spiders and Australians. The difference is that you can make an appeal to reason with rats and funnelweb spiders.

My 25 years in Australia have left me with a deep, abiding respect ... for the British.

 

[Biggus]

There is a longstanding threat to ambulance personnel showing up in rough neighborhoods from rats, funnelweb spiders and Australians. The difference is that you can make an appeal to reason with rats and funnelweb spiders.

My 25 years in Australia have left me with a deep, abiding respect ... for the British.

Well do us all a favour and get the fuck out. You'll have to soon anyway, you won't fit for much longer, you fat clown.

Must be a real shit of a place, living here for a quarter of a century and all.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

There is a longstanding threat to ambulance personnel showing up in rough neighborhoods from rats, funnelweb spiders and Australians. The difference is that you can make an appeal to reason with rats and funnelweb spiders.

My 25 years in Australia have left me with a deep, abiding respect ... for the British.

Well do us all a favour and get the fuck out. You'll have to soon anyway, you won't fit for much longer, you fat clown.

Must be a real shit of a place, living here for a quarter of a century and all.

Biggus, why did you come back onto the public forum when you have yet to give me your real name in private? You don't need to be posting anything here anymore. Go to private mail and let me know who you are. All these nonstop insults make you a digital twink. The difference between a digital twink and a real twink is a real twink has the guts to say these things to another person in real life, not from some anonymous identity. Tell me who you are and you don't have to thrash about here anymore in a fem tizzy, you can tell me to my face what you really think of me. I promise to never post again here if you tell me your real name and back it up by meeting me in person and saying these things to me in person. Be a man, don't act like an Australian.

You're desperate for my attention, judging by the 171 posts you have specifically directed at me since you joined the Codex. Why not meet me in person and be a man? Imagine the legend of Biggus, the guy who answered the real call for plane tickets, bitch and showed up. Nobody would ever call you a thin hipped, pencil necked punk ever again. They'd say, "That Biggus, whatever else you think of him, had guts. He actually showed up to meet Cleve. You got to give him credit for that."

Seriously, whats the worst that could happen? You never had your ass kicked? You never been punched in the face? This stuff must seem terrifying to your candy ass. Trust me, it's nothing. You wipe off your face, get up on your feet, it's over. Assuming you still have feet at that point.

Time to man up Biggus. Baxander and Zep already had their punk cards pulled for all eternity until the day they die. Don't go out like that. Be proud of yourself, don't hide on some internet forum spouting your shrill girlyman drivel from an alias. You have a rare opportunity here.

You're talking about Australia? Wow, the only people who know nothing about Australia are Australians. Everybody else in the world already knows about Australia.


Australia is a bunch of ice smoking dope addicts and an embarrassment to the developed world :

http://time.com/4737800/meth-australia-ice-crystal-methamphetamine-methylamphetamine/

Australians figure there is one way to escape this socialist hellhole and they're taking it :

https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2...peaked-to-a-terrifying-new-height_a_21480647/

Australia has productivity rates that mark it as a failed regime with a less promising economic future than Venezuela :

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/na...t/news-story/223dc41dad3e11b035f83128f5917a38

Productivity in Australia revealed to be a hoax - Australians incapable of achieving any meaningful work. The country is a joke and is regarded as a joke by investors, full of joke people pretending to be a civilization :

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-...on-productivity-where-australia-ranks/5359694

Australian workplaces the worst in the world amongst any developed nation, basically a bunch of queens having a nonstop slappy fight over who is the bottom and who is the top :

https://www.hcamag.com/hr-news/australian-workplaces-are-the-worst-in-the-world-148307.aspx

http://www.unisa.edu.au/Media-Centre/Releases/Australians-some-of-the-worlds-worst-bullies-at-work/

Australian managers universally regarded in peer reviewed literature by international groups as being most incompetent on the entire planet :

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/...irmed-your-worst-fears-about-your-boss-2016-5

Australia one of the most godless nations on earth, a reviled nation doomed to perish :

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news...g/news-story/7d3877058100645bbf106fe6b725977a

Australians struggle with confusion when it comes to private property ownership :

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/06/...rld-for-piracy-according-to-attorney-general/

Australia has the most land and the least permitted living space of any nation on the planet :

https://thenewdaily.com.au/money/property/2017/01/24/housing-affordability-demographia/

Women have never been safe in Australia, it's a nation of hardcore rapists, which is no surprise because hardcore rapists were deported from Britain to Australia and they have not changed a bit in 200 years, with the worst rape and sexual assault rates of any majority-white nation on Earth, comparable with African countries :

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/sexual-assault-how-common-is-it-in-australia

Australia a gigantic socialist hellhole with a cost of living that reduces all it's citizens to penury. The cost of living is so ridiculously high it just makes the country a big Monty Python skit :

http://www.traveller.com.au/tokyo-returns-to-worlds-10-priciest-cities-in-asian-domination-gv41ac

 

[ItsChon]

Sounds like a great deal. I wouldn't fight back and voluntarily get my ass beat if it meant I could get free plane tickets to Australia to enjoy some time there.

 

[Rpguy]

...let me know who you are...

It shouldn't be to hard for you to figure it out, he already said some things that could point to him, like he was testing the game for you and then he told you this and that and you had some argument, should narrow it down quite a lot:

I was a Grimoire beta tester in the very early days of this. I wasn't one for very long, because of the interface issues. I think the last words Cleve and I had (an amicable parting it was) went along the lines that "I wasn't suited" to the game. We parted ways.

What he meant was that he wasn't prepared to listen to construcive criticism. It wasn't as if these were radical new fangled ideas. FFS, how hard is it to make Esc = click on EXIT button?

In the early days of RPGs (Bard's Tale, MMI and such) interface issues almost didn't exist, I guess partly because there were no standards, and partly because the mouse was almost an afterthought.

A decade later though, I didn't get why these things weren't in the game from day 1, and frankly I am astounded that these same 'features' haven't been addressed. It isn't as if I am the first one to mention them.

Forget Monthy Python taking him to task, think of all the future RSI and carpal tunnel cases this clickfest will cause.



Forget no excuses in the 2017s, there were none in the 90s. A poorly designed interface is a poorly designed interface (think Elminage). Get past this, and you most likely have an amazing game. I wasn't able to get past it back then, (probably because there were so many alternatives) and now... I dunno, I might be able to It is such a freaking pity that a true gem may be hidden underneath an interface that will turn even fans of the genre off, and not let potential new fans to enjoy it.

 

[Boddler]

Biggus is Cooper.

 

[Biggus]

Calvin, you are a classic. They ought to name a new mental disease after you.

Dude, YOU were the one who started the insults, not me old chap. You are the ad hominem guy, I am just giving you back what you served up.

As for pretending that I (or anyone else for that matter is scared of you) because we won't hand out private info, umm, what planet are you on? Give me your address details porky, and I'll happily come across to visit you and teach you some manners. Of course, if you fail to give me these details, I can then make you out to be the scared fat loser that you are. Why is it that the most commonly seen pic of you is this one, a decade or more old?
Put up a new one fatty, and show us the cut of your jib. The only way this fat fuck would hurt anyone is if he fell on them.

I'm 196cm tall and a very fit 92kg, and if there is any ass to be kicked, it would be yours. You are barking mad, I guess when you spend 20 years of your life trying to code a game, and these are the results, I guess that makes sense. ONE player. Yup, good sales figures there. FFS. How's it feel to be a failure?

Why don't you stop drooling and go write a manual or something.

How about you stop speaking shit and attacking the man, and explain to us why no-one is playing your game. or better still, go fix the thing and live up to your promises (for once).

ONE PLAYER! bwahahaha

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

...let me know who you are...

It shouldn't be to hard for you to figure it out, he already said some things that could point to him, like he was testing the game for you and then he told you this and that and you had some argument, should narrow it down quite a lot:

I was a Grimoire beta tester in the very early days of this. I wasn't one for very long, because of the interface issues. I think the last words Cleve and I had (an amicable parting it was) went along the lines that "I wasn't suited" to the game. We parted ways.

What he meant was that he wasn't prepared to listen to construcive criticism. It wasn't as if these were radical new fangled ideas. FFS, how hard is it to make Esc = click on EXIT button?

In the early days of RPGs (Bard's Tale, MMI and such) interface issues almost didn't exist, I guess partly because there were no standards, and partly because the mouse was almost an afterthought.

A decade later though, I didn't get why these things weren't in the game from day 1, and frankly I am astounded that these same 'features' haven't been addressed. It isn't as if I am the first one to mention them.

Forget Monthy Python taking him to task, think of all the future RSI and carpal tunnel cases this clickfest will cause.



Forget no excuses in the 2017s, there were none in the 90s. A poorly designed interface is a poorly designed interface (think Elminage). Get past this, and you most likely have an amazing game. I wasn't able to get past it back then, (probably because there were so many alternatives) and now... I dunno, I might be able to It is such a freaking pity that a true gem may be hidden underneath an interface that will turn even fans of the genre off, and not let potential new fans to enjoy it.

Pure gold, thanks for that. I got him now.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

I just pulled this little prick's punk card. He's in Melbourne. He should have no problem meeting me in Ringwood at the MMA gym. None at all. We're going to find out what this asshole is made of very shortly.

I want to release video of this with V2 to show the naked face of decline in action.

At 6'5 92kg this guy would look like a walking pencil, 202 pounds. One of my hands weighs 202 pounds.

 

[Nyast]

I just pulled this little prick's punk card. He's in Melbourne. He should have no problem meeting me in Ringwood at the MMA gym. None at all. We're going to find out what this asshole is made of very shortly.

I want to release video of this with V2 to show the naked face of decline in action.

At 6'5 92kg this guy would look like a walking pencil, 202 pounds. One of my hands weighs 202 pounds.

What about your balls ? How much do they weight ? More than 202 pounds each I hope.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

I have not found my old contract with him yet but I am pretty sure this is a really seriously disturbed autistic loser named "Mark Harrison" who didn't "part ways" with me - I fired him and told him he was not doing any more testing. He was the only asshole pathetic enough to even get fired from an unpaid position as a beta tester, you can imagine how sorry you have to be for that to happen.

So he isn't responding to my private emails, I just want to say publicly that I am offering $1000 to Mark Harrison just to show up, with Driver's ID or other confirmation of his identity, at the MMA gym in Ringwood for just a fun bit of sparring between he and I. This money is up front. I will video me handing him $1000.00 for just showing up. If he wants, he can take the money and run out. He will likely show up with a half dozen people, this is my previous experience in these circumstances. I will show up alone, nobody but me, with $1000.00 to hand over to him on camera.

So as the world's toughest internet guy, I am sure he wants to make $1000.00 and enter Codex history forever as legendary. I just looked, I got spare pads for him here. We will wear gloves, he can even wear headgear if he wants. My only stipulation is to warn him up front that I fight with a style that was banned in the MMA very early on - the one and only martial art style that is banned by the MMA including kicking below the belt at knees, shins and legs. This almost always ends with somebody getting a leg broken and that's before the fight even ends up on the floor. Just wanted to be up front about that so he can't say I surprised him with anything. If he cries time, I will consider the fight over right there and then at any point. It's all up to him.

 

[Rpguy]

Mark Harrison? isn't he from Troika?

http://members.tripod.com/troika_connection/Home/id2_m.htm

Mark started playing with games and programming early in life. In junior high he wrote a pillbox artillery game for the TRS-80, and learned the value of comments when he couldn't understand his own code the day after writing it.

Mark began his career in the industry at Interplay during his last summer vacation from college. He started testing Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space, and soon moved into design work on Stonekeep. After receiving his BS, he returned as a programmer.

Mark worked on a handful of ports before he joined the Fallout team for the last eight months of its development, and worked on Stonekeep II after that.

When not coding, Mark enjoys playing computer games, especially strategy titles, and watching Red Dwarf or anything by Hayao Miyazaki, and it seems he can never get enough sushi.

Like Chris Jones, Mark is no longer with Troika. He is currently working for AOL. We will miss you and we wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors as well.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

Mark Harrison? isn't he from Troika?

http://members.tripod.com/troika_connection/Home/id2_m.htm

Mark started playing with games and programming early in life. In junior high he wrote a pillbox artillery game for the TRS-80, and learned the value of comments when he couldn't understand his own code the day after writing it.

Mark began his career in the industry at Interplay during his last summer vacation from college. He started testing Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space, and soon moved into design work on Stonekeep. After receiving his BS, he returned as a programmer.

Mark worked on a handful of ports before he joined the Fallout team for the last eight months of its development, and worked on Stonekeep II after that.

When not coding, Mark enjoys playing computer games, especially strategy titles, and watching Red Dwarf or anything by Hayao Miyazaki, and it seems he can never get enough sushi.

Like Chris Jones, Mark is no longer with Troika. He is currently working for AOL. We will miss you and we wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors as well.

It could also be "Matthew Buckley." Got to break out my file cabinet of contracts to beta testers.

 

[Somberlain]

 

[Fehhead]

Cleve's still trying to pay men to meet with him. Time marches on, but some things never change.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

The sound of crickets. Mark vanished from the surface of the earth, never to return. He knows he has to purchase high heels and a frock and spend the rest of his life as a woman, because insulting somebody for two years with 174 posts and telling them you will kick their ass then deciding you that you won't meet with them after discovering they are 15 minutes away indicates that you a biological female and should live as such until the end of your days.

 

[Biggus]

Calvin, you are truly certifiable. I've lost count of how many people you have told me I am.

FFS man, go write a manual, or hire someone to fix your game, you know, the one that you promised for last month (on Friday). You must be rolling in cash with those sales figures. oh wait.

MMA style... Massive Macho Asshat. Yup, that's you Calvin. Like I said, the only way you could hurt someone is if you fell on them. We're still waiting for an updated pic of you. We need it see how awesome you are in your dotage.

You are the one making the threats dopey, I am simply responding to them, though honestly why I bother trying to argue with an imbecile is a mystery even to me.

You wouldn't have a thousand bucks dude, your game certainly never made you that much. The pocket change that you did pick up probably went on Maccas the same day.

Haven't you got backers to send stuff to? I bet they'd like to meet you in a gym. They'd probably pay YOU the grand just so they could beat on your fat ass
Honour your commitments Clive, for once in your life. Backers want what they paid for! Hey, I might even be one... never know...

 

[Biggus]

Oh, btw Calvin, there's a difference between fit, healthy and strong (me), and morbidly obese (you). I guess this explains your pencil comment. To you, everyone is thin. If that old old pic of you with those chubby little stumpy legs and blubber gut and little gay bag thing is any indication of the now body, I REALLY am scared that you might fall on me! Bye, I have a nice run to do. You know, this is where you put one foot in front of the other, and keep doing it. lol cya fatty