Cleve Blakemore accuses the RPG Codex of bandwidth leeching

[FrancoTAU]

You guys should just give him his own subforum.

It'd see more action than all of the old Tycoon forums.

 

[Gragt]

If it brings traffic to the site it can't be a bad thing.

 

[kingcomrade]

Guys I got a strawberry milkshake from Braum's but right now there is a bit of strawberry stuck in the straw.
edit- I successfully sucked it all the way through the straw with my powerful lungs of +5 to blowjobs

 

[GeneralSamov]

Yep too much Cleve's cock-suckery lately

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

I'm curious why you're going with biodiesel as opposed to straight up diesel fuel. Seems to me that it would be far, far easier to go with straight diesel for storage than biodiesel which is generally a bit on the flakey side. The technology to pipe biodiesel is in it's infancy due to it erroding pipes while degrading it's own BTUs. It doesn't tend to store as well either. Not to mention the idea of turning food in to fuel in a post apocalyptic scenario seems a bit nutty to say the least. Especially when you consider the amount of fuel you have to burn to make the biodiesel in the first place.

(Stops stirring his biodiesel tank for a moment and wipes hands so he can answer question)

Biodiesel is a pretty broad definition. You're thinking of the insane policy to turn corn into ethanol to cut diesel with.

I've had some limited success with chicken poop, although I cut it with real diesel to give it a bit of punch.

The diesel is entirely to power my vehicles, with the diesel generator being only the last resort at the end of a list of last resorts for power.

If you're going to dig out a vault, I'd think you would have gone with geothermal energy or hydro-electric, depending on what else is on your land, instead of the fuel route. Not to mention methane extraction from waste and rotting food biproducts would be better. Eat the food you can, what rots like the husks and such goes to methane extraction. If you have a septic tank as opposed to a sewer line, which I assume you'd have to have for independence sake, that's a great source of methane.

I don't have the resources of Iceland, obviously, to build a geothermal plant. I probably could not build a methanol plant that would run reliably without exploding sooner or later.

The thing is, since I started on my shelter, I have stumbled into a private friend who has a solution that beats every single thing I ever planned and it fits into a shoebox as well. If you are keeping up on energy technology you can probably guess what it is, I can't talk about it. Very soon I may have my own personal prototype (no moving parts, no fumes, no toxic byproducts, no special alkalines or acids) and that will be my ultimate shelter power backup. I may even take my generator offline and wrap it in plastic until it is needed because I am no longer going to rely on diesel for anything but vehicle fuel.

So my energy strategy at present in order of priority is :

1. Solar
2. VAWT x 6 (Vertical axis wind turbines)
3. My special thing I cannot talk about otherwise, which is like something from a science fiction novel, which beats the living hell out of any of the junk I have ever previously purchased, period. If you can imagine having a wet dream about alternative energy and awakening to discover you had splattered the ceiling in excitement, that's what it is.

As for Ron Paul, he'd have been my choice if he weren't an isolationist. I march in line with most of what he says on domestic policy. IRS? Get rid of it and go with the Fair Tax. FDA? Cut it way back and let the news cover food safety. FCC? Chuck the standards department and let the market decide. SSI? Get rid of it entirely. The list goes on and on of the government acronyms that can be wiped clean or scaled way back. Maybe, just maybe, we can actually cut spending and wipe the debt the way normal people do who have to live under a real budget.

Isolationist meaning refuses to conduct carpet bombing of random nations using a blindfold and a dart on a map of the Middle East. I know, imagine the loss of face if Amerikwa ever stopped doing that. The damage to our reputation would be terrible. Word might get around we were sane and stuff.

As for women's suffrage, it's kind of an interesting point about women voting and government spending. In countries where women get the right to vote, government spending always goes up.

Again, truth is the ugliest slur of them all.

Fact is, suffrage = socialism and vice versa. The two things are joined at the hip. I love women and I think without them men would have absolutely nothing worth living for, but you have to be careful that you don't assist in destroying your entire nation out of the urge to be courteous and complementary to girls.

 

[Amon Gesoto]

Cleveland Steamer: The Blakemore Story.

 

[Jeff Graw]

My special thing I cannot talk about otherwise, which is like something from a science fiction novel, which beats the living hell out of any of the junk I have ever previously purchased, period. If you can imagine having a wet dream about alternative energy and awakening to discover you had splattered the ceiling in excitement, that's what it is.

You have an antimatter power cell?

 

[crakkie]

 

[skavenhorde]

Awsome another resurrected Cleve thread. Let the confusion begin!

How many old threads you got here just dedicated to Cleve and his particular view on life?

 

[MisterStone]

The thing is, since I started on my shelter, I have stumbled into a private friend who has a solution that beats every single thing I ever planned and it fits into a shoebox as well. If you are keeping up on energy technology you can probably guess what it is, I can't talk about it. Very soon I may have my own personal prototype (no moving parts, no fumes, no toxic byproducts, no special alkalines or acids) and that will be my ultimate shelter power backup. I may even take my generator offline and wrap it in plastic until it is needed because I am no longer going to rely on diesel for anything but vehicle fuel.

A stack of potato batteries. Made from potatoes grown with chicken poop.

Either that or something that involves fermented poo.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

The thing is, since I started on my shelter, I have stumbled into a private friend who has a solution that beats every single thing I ever planned and it fits into a shoebox as well. If you are keeping up on energy technology you can probably guess what it is, I can't talk about it. Very soon I may have my own personal prototype (no moving parts, no fumes, no toxic byproducts, no special alkalines or acids) and that will be my ultimate shelter power backup. I may even take my generator offline and wrap it in plastic until it is needed because I am no longer going to rely on diesel for anything but vehicle fuel.

A stack of potato batteries. Made from potatoes grown with chicken poop.

Either that or something that involves fermented poo.

That, except if it was a potato-eating chicken riding a spaceship firing kick-ass lasers out of it's eyes and time-warping back to before when it kicked your ass so it could kick your ass recursively to infinity.

 

[Herbert West]

Oh, this drama lives again! I approve!

 

[Admiral Rimjob POOBUM]

Perpetual motion machine?

 

[Riso]

So my energy strategy at present in order of priority is

Bullshit, unsurprisingly enough. Thanks for buying into unfounded shit by hippies.

If you want cheap reliable energy, the best option are liquid salt thorium reactors. That's totally nuclear power, bitch.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

So my energy strategy at present in order of priority is

Bullshit, unsurprisingly enough. Thanks for buying into unfounded shit by hippies.

If you want cheap reliable energy, the best option are liquid salt thorium reactors. That's totally nuclear power, bitch.

Do you have a web link to a company that sells those? That's exactly what I'd like, a liquid salt thorium reactor. Yeah, I bet that will happen. Listen, I'd hate to think you were one of those mildly addled codex types who will just post any darn thing without realizing the irony.

I've only built one VAWT so far and it generates more power than I can store in a day. I have to invest in more batteries because the bulk of it ends up diverted to the ceiling fan in my tool shed to avoid overcharging the cells. If I built six VAWTs I could probably power at least two central air conditioning units alone. As for the solar cells, I have not mounted those yet because the power that comes from them on a sunny day is a serious electrocution risk. I have to buy proper clipsals and circuit breakers before I even think about putting those up.

My crappy old solar panels, worn out now, easily powered a 240 volt portable air conditioner all day long.

Codexers. You gotta love the little rascals, they're like really hostile Down's Syndrome children who know how to post to forums.

 

[Korgan]

What these boards need is an option in your profile to hide posts by a specific member. Trolls are often hilarious, I know, but this asshole is too much of a good thing for sure.
P.S. Cleve, we Russians are quite familliar with people sharing your philosophy. My great-grandfather killed a few dozen during the war. They gave him 10 or so medals. Things sure were easy back then. (sighs)

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

I don't have the resources of Iceland, obviously, to build a geothermal plant. I probably could not build a methanol plant that would run reliably without exploding sooner or later.

Actually, there are homes here in America today that have their own geothermal power. They're not cheap to build, and it's a good idea to have that in place before you start building the home, but it exists. Maybe the technology wasn't around when you started, but I was curious why if you're digging in to rock anyway, why you didn't go that route.

Methane digesters would be a great alternative energy source for producing gaseous fuel, though. Things like water heating and such could be easily tackled by methane digesters in order to cut the amount of energy you'd draw from other sources.

So my energy strategy at present in order of priority is :

1. Solar
2. VAWT x 6 (Vertical axis wind turbines)

The main problem I would have with solar and wind is that if there were a nuclear war, the conditions of weather could change quite a bit. While I do realize that nuclear winter is basically a myth, both of those energy collectors are above ground. Wind turbines could be wiped out by typical weather events like a tornado let alone the shockwave from a near by blast. If something knocks over that turbine after the end of the world, you're screwed. There's no ordering a new one.

Solar collectors aren't very efficient right now either. Plus they're a little on the fragile side. They wouldn't provide enough power to juice much of anything major. The majority of the energy draw on a typical house is the refridgerator, after all. There's not too many ways to cheapen up the power for those things.

 

[kingcomrade]

Cleve what guns do you own for shooting niggers after the apocalypse? I own a .22 which isn't nearly enough to stop coked up congoid bull rushes.

 

[Higher Game]

Codexers. You gotta love the little rascals, they're like really hostile Down's Syndrome children who know how to post to forums.

I get it. It's Aspergers vs Down's in the coming apocalypse, got it.

 

[MisterStone]

Can we get an EVUL JEENYUS tag for Cleve? He is immensely entertaining, and if even a fraction of what he has told us about his compound is true, he deserves the tag.

 

[Riso]

Do you have a web link to a company that sells those? That's exactly what I'd like, a liquid salt thorium reactor.

But certainly a brilliant self-educated individual such as yourself would be able to turn freely available principles into a working solution without a problem.

 

[Keldorn]

A-ha.

We have just witnessed a rather subtle yet poignant manifestation of Cleve's fallibility and humanity. He's been cloaking rather consistently and verbally retaliating rather dynamically, and it is now quite evident that those fireworks and steamy utterances have served as bait, trap, slogans, decoys and tricks of entrenched trade.

But what is his trade ? Is it a rabid, flailing, xenophobic rage equipped with scapegoat hunting and gleaming paranoia (via Chicken Little cackling) ? Is his focus merely simply a blatant crystalization of fear and hyper-individualistic isolationism via anti-conformist impulses ?

Listen.

There is nothing wrong with rampant individualism. But it must be *moderated*. No, not by self-assuming, self-appointed authoritarian figures of bellicose whimsy (KC), but instead, said reining-in must be the product of one's own volition, priorities and discipline. The functional path is one of scientificality and moderation. Scientific approaches must project a semblance of probability specification, not dogmatic rampages via hyper-polarizing attacks and defenses.

Once such principled and pragmatic personal traits are discovered, applied and refined, one can be a truly benevolent influence.



Adolf Hitler and Charles Manson were creative geniuses.

Adolf erupted and self-distructed when he couldn't progress and find spiritual happiness as an artist. Charles did likewise as a failed songwriter. History is saturated with great minds which failed to attain happiness due to cumbersome distractions via psychological and sociological adherence to cyclically obsessive extremism and vitriolic rage.



The Fracturing of Cleve's curtain will open the door to the realization of a fine CRPG artist, if said artist is willing to broaden his horizons, moderate and/or extinguish his unfounded obsessions and subsequently benefit mankind.

Or will Cleve continually choose the curtain, the corner, the bunker mentality and the deflective and elaborate dunce cap ?

He has completely free choice in this matter. Not only in principle, but also in *degree*.

 

[DefJam101]

Well anyways, in the off chance that the game does turn out to be good, you'll have to wonder where the person that created found the willpower to make such a game, only to be destroyed and made useless years later? What exactly compels you to make this game Cleve, to release it to an audience which you apparently despise?

(This isn't an attempt to disprove his theories or anything like that. I just find it strange that a man who thinks that, quite literally, the end is near, would choose to make a game for others to play? It seems like a very odd usage of one's time.)

 

[Keldorn]

All questions founded upon rational scrutiny must be considered and posed.


Do some hedonistic sadists really just want Cleve to remain a freakshow plaything, a veritable oddity of enigmatic proportions, continually engaged in constrictive pixelated lashings, or would they like to actually augment the possibility of expanded creative horizons and the realization of a true CRPG artist ?

It seems to me that continued mockery of him, and enticing him to chase his own behavioural tail, is as unproductive as the empirical evidence suggests.

 

[spacemoose]

if I met someone that spoke like this, I would punch them. or at least I would be very tempted to punch them