I was kind of tangentially aware of Warhammer / 40k forever, but mostly a D&D / MtG player until I tried out Warhammer Online. There combination of the pure Frazetta metal of Chaos and the good natured zany hilarity of the Greenskins hooked me instantly. Since then I've been down alllllll of the rabbit holes. I never got into paying for crack plastic (bought a 3D printer instead), but I'll take a quiet moment for your buddy while assembling squig cavalry tonight.
loopgru
joined 2 years ago
After the Lenovo buyout of IBM's hardware line, they flexed on the "Pad" branding to try to leverage the well-known and well-respected ThinkPad brand they got in the acquisition. I can't say much for their other laptops (they're fine), but I will admit to having been pleasantly surprised at how much they haven't enshittified the ThinkPad line.
Semi-related: Orks!
In the grim darkness of the 42nd millennium, everyone is scared and miserable and unhappy... except the Orks, who are collectively having the time of their lives, and the nids, who just have a positively cosmic case of the munchies.
"Gee, our city is facing a massive housing shortage and a bunch of downtown office buildings are sitting vacant... What to do, what to do..."
Did they finally fix the phantom drain from the expansion cards during sleep? I had one of the original batch and wound up trading it in because I couldn't actually use it effectively untethered.