There are two Star Trek total conversions for Stellaris, even, each with their own unique approach. New Civilizations might even be a little better, imo.
Also, Resurgence already came out, to mixed reviews—but no microtransactions! It's coming out on Steam in May, but that's because it was a timed Epic exclusive.
These are all rough averages, of course, but Tweets can be rather bigger than 140 bytes since they're Unicode, not ASCII. What's Twitter without emoji?
I love to be able to reclaim works from their hateful authors, especially cultural ones. I'm a big fan of Lovecraft, and that dude was hateful. He makes JK Rowling look sweet and kindly. But it's a lot easier to reclaim the narrative and make it a part of our culture when the author is literally dead.
Lovecraft is a cornerstone of modern fiction, despite being a bigot. We can acknowledge how he was a terrible person, even analyze it, but we know that our enjoyment of Lovecraftian fiction isn't benefiting Lovecraft's hateful causes, especially because the work is public domain.
In contrast, JK Rowling is not only still alive, she is active and vocal about her hatred, how she spends her money towards hate, and how she considers support of Harry Potter in light of her hate to be support of her vile views.
Consumption of media is not a passive action. Even if you do not actively give any money to the franchise, promoting the franchise encourages other people to do so, and then their money goes to fund hate.
I understand that HP is important to a lot of people. It was a cultural phenomenon. But we aren't leaving it behind just because JK Rowling said something offensive. We're leaving it behind because the author is actively using our consumption to fund hate and campaigning to deny rights to trans people.
There are plenty of other forms of media, new and old, that aren't being piloted by known bigots. If you want a cultural backbone, using one that is currently controlled by a bigot will probably make a lot of trans people feel unwelcome at best and at worst, if HP continues to be a cultural phenomenon on a large scale JK Rowling will use the platform and the money to further the oppression of transgender rights.
I'm reading between the lines here and I think it's actually talking about adaptation rights, and not selling the entire IP? Otherwise this doesn't really make any sense.
It's definitely true that some people with legitimate criticisms get misread, but I think it's inaccurate to say that it's "a lot more common" to see legitimate criticism construed as bigotry than actual bigotry.
Just look at this thread, there are a bunch of people whining about queer characters being forced in your face just for being a part of the show. The bigoted fans come out in force with talk of "STD" (ugh) all the time, which is what created that expectation in the first place.
I feel like dismissing all the bigotry out there (including in this very thread) as "it's just the internet" while dwelling on a few dumb comments you read in the past (probably on the Internet?) is disingenuous.
I don't know about the other games, but The Expanse: A Telltale Series released this year.
Paradox games require you to turn on Ironman mode to get achievements, which is why all of them have really low achievement percentages. That combined with vanilla just seems like not a whole lot of fun to me.
You've gotten some good advice, but I want to add that if you're feeling masochistic you can use the discord bot Avrae to do your maps in discord chat.
Joking aside, Avrae is great and I really recommend you check it out if you aren't using it... but using it for maps is kinda miserable. Using a dedicated virtual tabletop like Owlbear Rodeo will serve you much better.
I love Steel Wind Strike if only because it gives Bladesingers a group damage option that actually feels Bladesinger-y rather than being forced to throw out Fireballs and the like
Given that it's not enabled makes me think that they've got some sort of weird setup like network drives or separate mounts (Docker?) or gasp they're running the *arrs on Windows.
Well, that or they just didn't notice that hardlinks were already working.
The only thing you can "pirate" is LLaMA, and it's not really piracy you can just grab it from HuggingFace on the honor system. Check out GPT4All or oogabooga, which will both give you nice web interfaces to selfhosted LLMs.
You'll need some beefy hardware to get responses comparable to the commercially available models, but it is possible—if impractical.
If you think this is annoying to play, try simulating 4D chess by lining up four of these 3D chess sets