I wouldn't consider them bugs or major issues but there are some hilarious interactions and instances in the game that makes me chuckle and i wonder if anyone else came across stuff like this.

1- The Precursor artifact warning. Here you are leading the race as clear front runner over the galaxy and usually head of the united planets picking off enemies one by one and then suddenly a minor race who you have good relations with says something like "as you know we have pre-emptively claimed all of the precursor artifacts. Don't even think about building a starbase near them!". Firstly it's like, who the hell are you to threaten a civilisation fifty times the size of yourself especially when precursor anomoilies are turned off? And then i think wow, that's just really daft.

2- The anomoly ship warning. Pretty much like above only it's more like "take your survey ship home, these anomoilies are ours" again it's funny because i have anomolies turned off and have kept them off since precursor anomolies started. Even more than that, i don't have a survey ship!!

3- The shared borders warning. Funny when you realise you haven't got any shared borders with the race in question

4- The begging for tech. Goes something like how good friends we have always been and can you spare...... The funny thing is we were at war just last week.

5- The concerned for your safety warning. "wouldn't you be better off under our protection?" Usually it's early in the game and minor race who has eight ships and one planet asks this question when you have twenty worlds and superior tech that could blow them away within ten turns etc

6- The help we are under attack message. "We are under attack from such and such and need......" A lot of the time these are races on the other end of the galaxy that can't even get near them but the best one i think was the thalans asking me for help because some minor race was at war with them. A minor race with one planet when the thalans are third with a score of 15k lol.

7- The united planets. There are many UP issues and a lot of them not funny like not being able to choose from all unlocked resolutions but i had a game where the  snathi revenge chaired the UP. I can't remember what they picked but the hilarious thing was, they stormed out at their own choice of resolution! Other things that happens is that allies vote against you to lead the UP and actually vote in people they are at war with.

8- Snathi vs Snathi revenge. They are always both on the game when you activate snathi revenge and minor races and both are lead by versions of snarky which i thought was funny and would get fixed and here we are months later and i'm still fighting two snarkies. The one thing i haven't seen yet and i'm gutted about is to see the Snathi revenge declare war on the snathi.

9- Why can the AI demand i remove a star base and i can't demand they remove one of theirs? just that i have to either start a war or go through diplomacy and buy it. Bit daft really.