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  • TJDetweilertoSigh-Fi@quokk.aujames workshop
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    4 days ago

    I started by watching little lore videos on YouTube. After 10 years of voraciously consuming Warhammer 40k content, I can confidently say I have no fucking idea where to start. The meme is absolutely spot on for trying to explain a starting point.

    In all seriousness though, Warhammer isn’t a story, it’s a setting, and stories occur within it. If you take this mentality, you begin to piece the universe together in your head.

    Leutin09 on YouTube does great lore videos. He has great beginner content, and it’s perfect to put on while you do dishes or chores or whatever. I started out listening to the audio books, beginning with the first book in the Horus Heresy.

    Imo, find a cool part of Warhammer you like, explore that topic. If you like it, you will organically expand upon your own understanding of the universe and find other aspects interesting. I’d also stay away from learning lore from reddit threads, shitposts, or podcasts like lorehammer. They are often wrong or misunderstand the source material.

    Also, I gotta mention, the Warhammer community on forums can be super xenophobic, transphobic, toxic, outright Nazis, and all shades of shitty. Enjoy the content for the content itself, don’t let the shitty community ruin an otherwise amazing setting.

    DM me if you have any questions about Warhammer. Please. I’m desperate. My wife can’t stand me talking about it anymore.





  • To add to this with my own anecdotal experience: I got into a trade at 18, right outta high school. Had mediocre high school grades, and decent college grades for electrical. Got a job in a place I didn’t wanna work for about a year, but made good connections and got good experience. Used that to get a job in my home town, and literally jumped from job to job, or was able to keep my job through intense layoffs by being a good bullshitter.

    Some of the best advice I ever received was “it’s not the grades you make, it’s the hands you shake”

    Get into something that might interest you, and network with people. Networking for me from a trades background as a young guy got me a work from home job doing IT in my 30s.

    Best of luck mate, you’ll figure it out. Time is on your side, just don’t be idle for too long if you can help it. Older you will thank you.







  • TJDetweilertocats@lemmy.worldHow on earth?
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    3 months ago

    Haha damn, totally missed it.

    It’s actually significantly more expansive than it looks. Part of the bridge you see runs under our deck, and then on the other side there is an enclosed ramp up to our kitchen window. Another part of it forks off to the front of the deck so they have a primo sunbathing spot .We simply unlock the little cat door that was installed in the window screen, and they are out.

    Thanks for the kind words. We feel good about the compromise of letting them outside, but not letting them kill all the surrounding wildlife.


  • TJDetweilertocats@lemmy.worldHow on earth?
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    3 months ago

    I made a catio in my backyard (3rd one attached the house) because our little bastards will kill everything in a kilometre radius. Not that we’ve ever tested that, but we’ve seen how they act when creatures smaller then them are out and about within their purview.







  • Rogan used to have great stuff on his show pre-covid, especially MMA talks. He even had a great episode with Michael Osterholm at the beginning of the pandemic.

    Shortly after that, he 180’d on his vaccine stance, and moved from Cali to Texas. Since then, he’s been a total conservative pundit.

    I’ve long since kicked Rogan from anything I listen to, but there was a time where he was entertaining, and did have great guests. Some of his “talking nonsense” was kind of what made his show fun, when it was harmless. Now he spreads misinformation and perpetuates brainrot in young men.
























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