Jesus fucking Christ.

OK little Timmy, today we’re going to learn that sometimes people express things in their “inner voice”, but they don’t share those things in their “outer voice”.

And sometimes, later, they might share those “inner voice” thoughts with other people in an environment where it’s safe to do. But it doesn’t mean they have to express those inner voice thoughts to the person that they were thinking them about?

Does that help you understand better? Would youv maybe like a juice box and a lie down to think about it?

These are the exact same people who cheer when Hegseth says that women shouldn’t be in the military.

This is how they see women in uniform; as sex objects. As a fetish. Not as people who put a lot of hard work into doing a really hard job.

Americans will worship the ground a soldier works on, to a degree that absolutely sickens me (and I’m in a military family), but only as long as that soldier is male. The moment a woman picks up a rifle, she’s a pin up, nothing more.

Even better than that is Siteground’s absolutely abysmal support system.

In order to access support they force you to type your question into their chatbot first. This is not optional. It’s the only way to get support.

Fools that we are, we actually tried the solution the chatbot offered. This resulted in a good amount of time wasted looking for settings that didn’t exist, because the solution was total bullshit. They claim they’ve customized this thing to give helpful outputs, but it’s clearly just ChatGPT with a custom prompt.

When we finally spoke to an agent I pointed this out and they responded with the stock “You should always double check the output of AI” line.

DOUBLE CHECK WITH WHOM, YOU MOUTH BREATHING MORON? THIS IS YOUR OFFICIAL FUCKING SUPPORT CHANNEL. YOU LITERALLY DIDN’T GIVE ME ACCESS TO ANY OTHER KIND OF SUPPORT UNTIL I USED THE CHATBOT FIRST, SO WHERE IN THE ACTUAL FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO DOUBLE CHECK THE OUTPUT?

Is it with a customer service agent? Is that what you’re saying?! That I should ignore whatever it tells me, wait until I can talk to a representative and then do whatever they say instead? Because if that’s the case, WHY IN THE FUCK ARE YOU FORCING EVERYONE TO TALK TO THE BOT FIRST??!!!

Absolutely fucking asinine idiocy. Anyway, don’t use Siteground, they fucking suck.

I have to wonder if they, like me, were considering the potential rather than what was immediately in front of them.

In their first video they were openly gushing over the demos from Nvidia. That’s not “considering the potential.” They were straight up saying that it looked great.

“Abelard, rip that man’s balls off!”

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The game does a really good job of backfilling information as you need it. Hover your mouse over any highlighted word and it’ll give you a short wiki entry. It’s a very approachable version of the setting.

The big stuff to grok right out of the gate is really just this:

• The Imperium of man is explicitly fascist. They’re not the good guys, but no one else is either. There are good people within this world, but there’s no “Hero” faction. Everything you see extolling the virtues of humanity in the setting is just imperial propaganda and hagiography, and you’ll pretty quickly start to see that play out within the game.
• You’ve pretty much nailed how Rogue Traders work. They basically act as the frontier of the Imperium, to the point of being allowed to colonise whole worlds, which they then own. Each Rogue Trader family is basically a noble house.
• The Adeptus Mechanicus understand the how, but not so much the why. So, they know how to repair a generator, but they believe that the process involves channeling the “motive force” through the wires. Most of what they do is carefully practiced methodology wrapped up in ritual. This isn’t true across the board however; at the higher levels of the mechanicus you do get people who actually know how to do real science. They’re just very rare. It’s mostly the guys who are like 10,000 years old.
• As mentioned by others, the big foundational thing is the Horus Heresy. Half of the space marine legions turned to the worship of the gods of Chaos, and tried to overthrow the emperor. It’s kind of both super important, and actually pretty irrelevant. Like, there are something like 40 fiction books detailing every moment of the heresy, but it’s impact on the setting now mostly just boils down to “This is why the emperor is a corpse on life support and why there are evil space marines.”
• Because of the warp, a realm where the line between imagined and real ceases to exist, there’s a lot of “Well I guess this might as well be magic” in the setting. Gods are real. Demons are real. People with the ability to wield magical powers are real; they might be called sorcerers and witches, or they might be called “psykers” depending on who you talk to, but it’s all the same stuff; pulling power from the warp to alter reality. This “magic” underpins a lot of the setting. People with warp abilities are necessary for long range communication and FTL travel.

If you’re familiar with Dune or Foundation you’ll notice that the setting borrows liberally from both properties, which give you some solid points of reference to draw from.

Actually, the “powered by imagination” thing was canon circa third edition. There’s in game lore about baffled techpriests opening up ork guns to find no working parts inside. This is the problem with making any kind of absolute statement about 40K lore… Most things are usually correct at some point and the lore revises itself and overwrites itself so often that what is canon for any given interpretation of the 40K universe is really up to the writers of that interpretation.

Hey, I’m not saying that like it’s a bad thing.

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Because of course it would be furries.

They use five different removers bundled together into one neat package, with the plugin automatically selecting the one most likely to work on that specific page. Personally, I’ve never yet found a paywall it couldn’t beat. I’m sure some exist, but it’s few enough that it’s basically a solved problem.

And since archive links are one of the options it tries, if it doesn’t work, then getting an archive link from OP isn’t gonna happen either.

For the record, you could install the removepaywalls.com browser extension on all your devices and never have this problem again.

So, I’m not any kind of font expert, but at the basic level you have serif and sans-serif, and mono-spaced or freely spaced fonts.

Mono spaced fonts have every character occupy an identical amount of space. Freely spaced fonts (I think there’s a more correct term for this) don’t; the space occupied on the line by each character can vary, meaning you don’t get awkward gaps. Mono spaced fonts are going to give a very “Old school typewriter / computer text” kind of feel that’s rather at odds with this clean, modern looking UI, though they are more readable.

Serif fonts have those little, kind of, cross pieces on the end of every line. Think “Times New Roman” and “Courier.” (Times New Roman is a freely spaced font, Courier is monospaced). Sans serif fonts don’t. Think “Arial”. Given that everything else in your design is extremely clean and minimal, serifs, in my opinion, add a kind of business to the look that detracts from it. They also tend to, again, look old-school, or even archaic. Courier is basically the classic old fashioned typewriter font, so if you’re evoking that (and a monospaced serif font is definitely going to evoke that) then you’re kind of mashing steampunk into the middle of your Apple store.

I’m not nearly well versed enough to offer any deep cut recommendations here, but the Ubuntu font is FOSS and has a nice rounded look that could probably work well here, at least as a placeholder. Noto and Roboto are also FOSS (if I recall correctly) and both have a nice clean look.

Edit to add:

Ubuntu Sans

Roboto Flex

Noto Sans

Second edit:

With the rounded look of everything, a rounded font might also play well. Not sure on the licensing on these, but they’ll serve as examples of what I’m talking about.

Nunito

Chiron GoRound TC

Quicksand

I like it, but I don’t think your serif font fits with the very clean aesthetic around it. That’s kind of throwing off the whole look.

It’s genuinely shocking when you consider how shitty white boys will try to be a rapper about literally anything. There are multiple guys out there rapping about crypto, NFTs, and $GME. But these fucking losers had to get a computer to spit one out because they can’t even manage to be as appealing as a conspiracy theory about a mythical short squeeze that will reset the entire global financial system.

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Gee guys… Did you maybe build a whole bunch of compute capacity for a product no one actually wants, and now you have to find a way to use it for something?

As I’ve said elsewhere here, I really don’t have a problem with people holding a moral stance against the use of genAI. It’s fine to just say “However useful this might be, I don’t want to see it used because I think it has too many ethical costs/consequences.” But blanket accusing all work that involved genAI in any capacity of being “slop” isn’t holding a moral stance, it’s demanding that reality conform to your beliefs; “I hate this, therefore it must be terrible in every respect.”

If you truly hold a well founded ethical stance against the use of genAI, that stance shouldn’t be threatened by people doing good and effective work with genAI, because it’s effectiveness should have nothing to do with your objections.

Frankly, most AI generated code is often easier to review, thanks to a combination of standardized practices (LLMs regress to the mean by design) and a somewhat overly enthusiastic approach to commenting and segmented layouts.

The thing is, you’re conflating ethical and practical concerns here. The commenter you’re responding to is clearly talking about the practical aspects of using AI tools.

If you have a fundamental moral issue with AI that is entirely independent of how efficacious it is, that’s fine. That’s a completely reasonable position to hold. But don’t fall into the trap of wanting every use of genAI to be impractical because it aligns with your morality to feel that way.

If this is an ethical stance that you truly hold, you should be willing to believe that using these tools is bad even when they’re effective. But a lot of people instead have to insist that every use of AI is impractical, in the face of any evidence to the contrary, because they’ve talked themselves into believing that on some fundamental level. Like “If AI is ever useful, that means I’m wrong about it being immoral.”