This was a really cool exercise, thanks for putting in the effort.

Your board game rankings have always strongly impacted what additions would be made to that overloaded Kallax in my living room, and this one will too.

I have always been disappointed that this ability wasn't named "Produce Produce".

The Hive Mind voice was the Stellaris dev team of the time, many of whom no longer work with us.

Other VAs might no longer be available for other reasons.

The same was true back then too. (Except the business tools were hilariously, unusably bad.)

All of the MA artwork was made by our artists, who are made out of meat.

We have two dev diaries showing their full process from vis dev to final - Stellaris Dev Diary #342 and #344.

It's also used for ideation purposes but not for generating content that goes into the game. Also as a general business tool to summarize emails, take some meeting notes, and the like.

The advisor voices use AI so we can update them if we add lines or want to iterate on them. This avoids situations like the Hive Mind voice that can never get updated. (That said, the Mandarin advisor voice we're adding in 4.0 doesn't use it - the tool wasn't able to sound natural.)

You can.

The dev diary has a more detailed list of the BioGenesis features.
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You can do it. We believe in you.

Don't let your cheese filled dreams remain just a fantasy.

Well that's certainly... Something.

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Please don't go. The drones need you. They look up to you.

How could we forget about this 2007 banger from Gummibär? My kids certainly didn't let me forget about it after it was in Just Dance Kids 2.

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I had a tough time starting anything new after finishing ReFantazio, because I felt like they just didn't have a chance of being as good so I'd unfairly judge them as disappointing.

So I drowned my weird gamer sorrows in Balatro for a while.

Obsessional Directive. It's actively harmful to your empire but so much fun.

I was messing around with word clouds today during lunch.

I think the takeaways are "playing easy, now war" and "fleet make enjoy game".

May 9, 2016. Preordered the Galaxy Edition the first day it was available.

It'd certainly be nice to group them together more than they are now. The general consensus seems to be encouraging such experimentation.