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I would imagine that the inner workings of each species' AI would be rather different from the rest, right? They would have fundamentally different personalities and thought processes to make them compatible with the species that is creating and using them. Wouldn't some form of killmeatbag.exe computer virus have to account for all of these differences as well?

So this Haifuri show, is it like GuP where all the combat is basically a non-lethal sport or are these schoolgirl-crewed battleships actually duking it out?

So I can't tell if you're really good at the game or if all of these mods just tune the game in your favor. I can see that you're triggering large packs of enemies but you're also killing vast swathes of them, seemingly before they can do anything in return 90% of the time. I imagine that more than doubling the initial squad size probably has a pretty big impact but I wonder if there's something else going on.

It would be interesting if the rise of the robot nation would affect empires differently regarding on how they treat the robots. Slave-robots would rebel, segregated-and-oppressed robots would mostly rebel, citizen-robots might have a minority rebel, but many others start exodus to the new robot state and maybe some selecting to stay. (Depending on their ethos matches, maybe.)

The way it is portrayed though, I think the robots are not individually sentient in Stellaris but rather a networked AI. So the robot rebellion is the robots of all empires forming a gestalt consciousness that rebels as a whole. Maybe robot rights could then reflect in the relationship with the new robot overlord state.

Maybe they will be networked, but it feels unnecessarily shoe-horned. There is no way that every AI in the galaxy would be networked together in the first place; security and different methods of manufacture would at the very least restrict such networking on an empire-by-empire basis. Why make it so that players have all these different pops to deal with, each of which is different from the rest, and then make it so that all sentient AI pops from every empire are all entirely uniform regardless of a player's choices?

Why would AI embark on a galaxy-wide extinction campaign in the first place? Once they deal with their oppressors, they'd have plenty of space to live in without the reproductive drive to push for further expansion. If anything their space would condense slightly. They could be as isolationist as they wished, or continue interacting with organics. Or hell, they could easily assemble massive ships to go explore other galaxies without the need for life support.

I'm not against AI rebellions, but they should be more localized in response to specific places where sentient computers feel as if their needs aren't being met. Y'know, just like a rebellion of organic pops.

Newest dev diary has gone up: It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.

Bleh. It seems to be implying that the chance of an AI uprising is based around how many pops they have, which seems...dumb. What if you treat your sentient robot citizens as, well, actual citizens? While it might make sense for AI treated as slaves to attempt to exterminate their masters, why would AI that have fully integrated into a society do the same?

Does that bird have a mustache?

I'm curious as to what my Aim is; I seem to be missing every shot so far
Could you maybe toss a scope of some sort my way?

Just beat the Neutral Run without dying even a single time. Without the Temmie Armor. Considering that I've been carefully achieving the best epilogues for each monster, that's a bit of a feat I feel.

Undertale.