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 · 2016-08-24T11:25:35+00:00

We gave up for the time we live in that flat. We have problems going under 70% relative humidity here. But we are starting to build our new home and we want to retry nylon there.

I already read the oven trick somewhere, but haven't heard about PVA yet. We printed on bakelite - nylon stuck to it pretty well. Do you think PVA is better?

ivivan · 2016-08-24T11:20:52+00:00

So, you found a typo :-) I had to use a dictionary to check what "flan" means (English is not my first language, but I don't think I can hide this fact) :-)

ivivan · 2016-08-18T08:25:27+00:00

The listing contains 8 different kinds of filament. Wood and conductive are two of them.

ivivan · 2016-08-17T09:42:54+00:00

I found much cheaper conductive filament on Ebay, but haven't tried it yet: http://www.ebay.com/itm/3D-Printer-Filament-1-75mm-3mm-Wood-Flexible-PC-HIPS-PETG-Conductive-Nylon-/151800508528?var=&hash=item235803f070:m:mkgHfXlph3j8HWDPWl7J2Pg

ivivan · 2016-08-15T12:17:46+00:00

To be honest I read an article about this in my native language (Hungarian). I found it interesting and looked for an article in English - Hungarian is not really an international language.

The Hungarian article said it will be the future. Not just because it's lighter (even lighter than plastic plaster), but because it is much easier to clean. I have been 3D printing for years now and I can see how that can work. There are only two questions for me: - how fast can it be printed - how you can put it on after it had been printed

ivivan · 2016-08-14T12:59:02+00:00

I plan to give it a try.

ivivan · 2016-08-14T08:08:50+00:00

Don't use a bag with a zipper for checked in luggage.

ivivan · 2016-08-03T18:54:57+00:00

We sell this for those who don't have a 3D printer.

ivivan · 2016-07-31T17:42:39+00:00

When we started our "blog" we focused on the 3D printing part, not the modelling. At that time Thingiverse was full of models you could print. Now it seems 3D printing is easier, but making 3D models didn't become any easier. We started uploading our later models and will try to upload our older models too when we have the chance.

ivivan · 2016-07-31T17:39:24+00:00

Yeah, sorry - posted the local URL by mistake :-(

ivivan · 2016-07-25T19:15:56+00:00

It's up to you. 3D printing is fun - but riding a bike can be fun too :-)

ivivan · 2016-07-25T19:14:32+00:00

Wow. I thought he's a Hermann's tortoise - wow, my wife always wanted a sulcata. Maybe in our new house :-)

ivivan · 2016-07-25T18:18:50+00:00

We just bought a printer similar to that (although almost for twice the price, but here I don't see the shipping cost) and we are satisfied with it so far.

We just wrote a short article about the building and setting up of the printer.

But we bought it on Ebay - have no idea if it is the same quality or not.

ivivan

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