Thanks for the support! Trade-off: be potentially helpful if OP can’t find a turnkey solution, or stay upvoted, hmm…

Ah sweet you didn’t have to make something yourself

Haha, yeah. Thanks for taking the time to read the downvoted suggestion! I had been reading Hacker News and was feeling daring.

Both not a likely problem with any recent model and absolutely mitigated by using it in a VM with snapshots, which, besides being good practice, is a technology that I expect selfhosters to be familiar with anyway.

If there are objections to major models, (economic, resource, moral, etc), this application is achievable with a self-hosted Qwen or similar, although it will take additional nudging. That’s harder to get started with, though, which is why I didn’t suggest it. Self-hosted Gemma 4 I would absolutely recommend using in a VM, it really likes to erase projects and start over, in my experience.

I hope that helps!

I’m going to voice an incredibly contentious opinion here and suggest that this is a perfect situation for buying a month of Claude and vibe coding a piece of bespoke software for yourself with it.

Since you said FFXIV and WoW are one of your top of all time except for needing to play with randoms (the part I personally hate are the forced solo sections) then maybe look at Star Wars: The Old Republic. I like FFXIV and I just started SWTOR because I heard the stories were good.

Also apparently it’s fully voiced. And you can join you friends in their story mode sections (but if they are the same class you’ll have to repeat it for them, and they have to be the same faction [empire/Republic]). And I think you get scaled down to the world level so you don’t eat all their experience in the open world, but I’m not sure. I’m also not sure if there are required dungeons or not yet - I’m only level 13 but story quest level is 10. Free to play for the first two expansions.

They’re trolling you. It’s a board game that nobody has ever finished because it takes so long. :)

A little harder to enforce (‘no, judge, it says SHOULD, grant our civil suit please’) and a little easier to grant exceptions for than saying “must” (ah sorry customers, bigco had a bunch of money, and the rules don’t say MUST). It’s a well known wording choice in software, see every RFC ever.

It signals to me that Valve wanted an out for their rules when they wrote them because it’s an odd choice for such a well known word choice otherwise.

Unfortunately “should” and “must” have different legal meanings

See travel of any distance seems difficult to make consistently interesting. Valheim’s has the occasional enemy but is still boring. It’s been a while since I played Sea of Thieves but besides the PvP aspect I feel like the land wasn’t super far apart.