Monday Open Thread- Now more Warhammer adjacent!

wwWarhammerWarhammerWarhammerMany years ago, I worked for a CRO whose name started with a Q.  Not going to name and shame as they could be very litiginous. Anyway,  it is approaching Christmas, morale in the toilet as there were no raises that year, we had lost a couple of holidays that had been corporate holidays so they were paid vacation days, and the holiday party was being cut from staff and partners to just staff.  Nobody wants to work or is motivated to work, and then the most amazingly motivational email is received company wide: the CFO gives his thoughts on the year and how he knows that everyone is doing such a fantastic job through such hard times.  Now, if he had not prefaced this inspirational speech by saying that he thought all of this while having breakfast on his boat enjoying the sunrise as he is headed to a private safari somewhere in Africa, it could just be laughed off as the usual upper level corporate bullshit.  But no, the true lack of compassion, the sheer chutzpah of this email. The way I felt in that singular moment, after reading that email, is now how I feel all of the time now.  No particular reason, just felt the need to share.

Now, this is sort of tangetially adjacent to Warhammer, as I am getting ready to buy Warhammer 40k Boltgun to play on my steam deck.  Because I actually want to feel the same excitement of playing Doom! only this time as a Space Marine.  Well a stoned Space Marine, hmm, Space Marines can’t get stoned.  Maybe I’ll just say I inhaled too much of the smoke from the incense used to sanctify my weapon, yeah, that will work.  And is it paranoia when you know the God Emperor is watching you? – I bet Space Marines don’t masturbate because he might peek in unexpectedly.  They do, I read, have junk that works!  It is in case they get stranded on a world and if they integrate into the community (Dr. Evil saying “Riiiiiiiiight”) but they are supposed to spread the genes of the greatest of humanity so that the local population would eventually become a good pool to pull new Marines from!

OK, sports tonight – i assume hockey is still going on, the NBA is always on, MLB should have started the show by now, and the NCAA will be pulling in more money through the effort of younger and probably more moral young men.