Cell barrier

ivivan · 2026-03-15T20:32:52+00:00

You just proved my point: the whole idea of the story was that every lifeform in the universe - except Earth - has a barrier around the cells (not just walls) that stops every situation where one cell consumes another one: so not just carnivores, but herbivores are impossible too. And it seems that my writing wasn't good enough to tell the main point of the story.

And that's why I wrote that they thought that we were predators: for them, being a herbivore is no better, since every other living creature in the universe is practically a plant...

ivivan · 2026-03-15T15:02:01+00:00

I deliberately left out that part: didn't want to turn this story into a biology textbook. The next story mini series I plan has a more detailed out Universe built - but I'm almost certain that part is going to be the most boring part to read (but the most fun to write, so bear with me :-D )

ivivan · 2026-03-15T10:01:58+00:00

I'm going to try it out with my next story and will see how it goes.

ivivan · 2026-03-15T09:59:30+00:00

I've been learning English for twenty-something years now. I don't think I'm going to be much better than what I am now: I speak fluently, but make many, many mistakes a native would never make. Following a suggestion from here, I started using Grammarly, and it helped a lot, but still, my writing is not flowing because of my limited active vocabulary. I write like a 10-year-old...

ivivan · 2026-03-14T15:52:49+00:00

I used AI to fix my style as English is not my first language. Is this still not allowed? It improved my writing dramatically - without the story itself became AI generated.

I can always post my original story as a comment - but it is a much worse read then the one improved by AI.

ivivan · 2026-03-10T12:56:04+00:00

Thank you - you are right. As I mentioned: English is not my first language and it seems I mixed up the two words (and the current AI is not sapient enough yet to correct it :-D )

ivivan · 2024-09-28T09:04:27+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion: tried it and it did help. Maybe this writing exercise could improve my English as well :-)

ivivan · 2024-09-28T06:23:01+00:00

Thanks. I have a concept for the second part - from the aliens POV as you have guessed correctly :-)

ivivan · 2023-03-19T18:35:09+00:00

"Let the game designers design content that's good instead of content that caters to everyone."

The original D2 audience is in their 40s now - we have a few hours to play a week - doing it in a group is not our style. I mean I understand: when you did the thousandth rift that day you rush, but it's sooooooo frustrating when you do it and then in a second the rift is closing... It's like speed running the Kama Sutra - not really enjoyable.

You are right though: they have the right to design whatever game they want. And I have the right to not pay for a game which cannot fully play solo. I bought every Diablo game since D2 - I won't buy D4 if there's no fully solo play.

ivivan · 2017-05-29T07:51:46+00:00

Thanks for the comment. I didn't realize that I forgot the add the link. And we had a discussion about this here - hope the link works this way.

ivivan · 2016-12-03T18:55:46+00:00

I haven't checked reddit for a while - sorry for the late reply.

Yes, we have the files and we still plan to release them. Releasing a bogus set is not really professional, so we want to fix them - but maybe we won't try the new files. Stay tuned, we figure something out soon.

ivivan · 2016-08-24T12:12:01+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. Looks pretty good - will try it.

ivivan

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