Humans-B-Gone!

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@LensScientific Incidentally, if there really *were* a solution to this maze, you wouldn't need to tear it. It would fall apart cleanly in two, because the path already divides it!

Neat: you can solve a maze… by tearing it apart. If there is no path, everything is stuck together so it will not tear. If there is a path, that route is the weakest part, so when you pull it, the maze rips open right along the answer.

@Khellstr3D Looks like the maze in this tweet actually doesn't have a solution :( If there were a through path, you wouldn't need to tear it--it would just fall apart cleanly in two!

Now do this solver with GN :)

@LensScientific And yet this maze has no solution, but tore anyway!

@Fullautosherman Trying times for Empusa

@humansbgone he looks peeved

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@Fullautosherman You'll see :)

@humansbgone interesting that is very smart of them i wonder if vera could capture one or lure one so that she can speak to it if she uses the bioelectronic thing she got.

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@Fullautosherman Holding a macrovolute captive would be pretty beyond the abilities of the hivers, at least for practical purposes. The spiders use venom to immobilize and digest prey (usually isopods these days), so the humans just siphon it out from the prey when the spider pulls away.

@humansbgone do they like stick a straw in their fangs or something could they hold a spider captive for its venom

@Fullautosherman Well, the bees were already mostly gone or in hiding by the time these hivers were fully organized, so the mostly use spider venom. Spiders are much more chill, thankfully, and it's easier to just nab some while they're preparing their food.

@humansbgone ah very interesting must be a neat job to harvest venom "hey sandra go over there to that giant bee and get the venom in it, good luck"

@Fullautosherman Actually, they do lace the bayonets of their guns (which are themselves modeled on bee stingers) with macrovolute venom! You can see them using their bayonets in the fight against the cows. Poison boiled into a vapor wouldn't be very good, because that just boils the water out.

@humansbgone i wonder if humans could use that venom like maybe boil it into vapor and shoot it at the other gubs

@Fullautosherman They do indeed!

@humansbgone That's interesting I wonder if they have the same venom in the big version as they do in the real one

@Fullautosherman Wasps definitely aren't evil. Also, bees are a type of wasp.

@humansbgone I mean of course they would they are One of the most structured insects I wonder what the Wasps would be like though they are the evil version of bees

@Fullautosherman Not tax collectors, but definitely ruthless bureaucrats!

@humansbgone Didn't you mention they were ruthless tax collectors or something

@Fullautosherman Bee!

@humansbgone bee?

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First look at Sophodra being converted to Grease Pencil strokes (with horsey for scale)! She looks like a dinosaur

Since getting Geometry Nodes to work with any alphanumeric characters other than numbers is like trying to get a toddler to take medicine, I guess my simple hopes and dreams of having it work with NAMES are foolish and naive. So. Serial numbers it is! More durable anyway.

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Even thought I didn't start this version of HBG until 2020, I've had the idea for it since 2008 or so, and even tried to make a CG animation of it all the way back around 2010. This was my first attempt at a Sophodra model from back then!