Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.
– Grimdark Hams
It’s been years since my last post – a lot has happened in life, and time just slipped by, but recent events in the world has made me want to write about my interests again, and I thought I might start on a lighter note: The Warhammer 40,000 universe is the worst of all possible worlds, and we’re not there*.
*yet.
The number of books, games, and who knows what has been made in the 40k universe could fill my blog and then some, so I’ll keep this uncharacteristically brief.
I recently switched my daily driver computer to Linux because Microsoft – you know, the company that really hates being called Microslop and wishes people would stop saying Microslop. It really annoys them when people say Microslop, so we should maybe stop saying Microslop. We wouldn’t want to hurt their feelings. The feelings that are hurt if we say Microslop.
Click here to read the microslop story on windowslatest.com
…where was I? Oh yes. I switched to Linux because frankly I have about as much use for Copilot in my notepad, clunky 100-click menus, and ads in everything as I have use for a stun gun applied directly to my nutsack. If that’s your idea of a good time, then I’m not here to yuck your yum, but it isn’t my cup of tea.
So, what does this have to do with Warhammer you might be asking yourself, and the answer is that I saw Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 go on sale on steam the other day and decided this was the time to invest a few bucks in it, being quite cheap by now compared to it’s new release sticker price. For the uninitiated, it’s basically a game where you play as sentient testosterone, slashing bugs to death with a chainsaw.
I bought it, downloaded and installed it, launched it, and started the game. So far so good. Then I took about seven steps and the game froze. Less good. A quick duckduckgo lead me to a forum thread that explained that I should make sure drivers are updated, make sure I’m using the experimental proton layer, and one more thing.. oh yeah – trick the game into thinking my desktop computer is actually a steam deck. For some reason that worked just fine.
In the intro mission you’re this 7ft+ tall guy in thick metal armor, probably all in all weighing at least half a ton or more, doing that red bull stratosphere jump but without a parachute, and you just get back up, dust yourself off, and carve your way through the jungle to *checks notes* detonate a WMD, a virus bomb in the atmosphere. The same people that laud this will start frothing at the mouth and shouting incomprehensibly if they see a female character that they personally wouldn’t jerk off to, and try to hide it behind realism.
These are probably the same people who enjoy playing BG3 with the “anti woke” mod pack, and Withers big naturals mod just to be on the safe side.
So, current events. With the Americans deciding to let Donald Trump back into power, he decided to kidnap the venezuelan president, threatened to annex greenland and depleted their tomahawk missile stock on Iranian schoolgirls – a move true republicans like John McCain wouldn’t supp-
Well, it made me want to think of something lighter and brighter, like a sci-fi world where bdsm elves might turn you into living furniture or perhaps some whimsical inquisitor decides your entire planet is unfit, and condemns it to be stripped of life.
Hopefully I’ll feel like writing before another four years have passed. Perhaps I’ll recount some of what’s happened in the meanwhile.
