Yeah, convincing anybody to play 40k here is borderline impossible. Although we do have one friend who expressed some interest in building his first plasma spamming blueberries, excuse me, Tau

army. However that never got off the ground either as the rest of our buddies either complain at the price of miniatures or complain about painting those. I must also admit that I have my own reservations about getting back into WH 40k. I love the miniatures (and the painting!), I adore the lore (currently about half way into Horus Heresy series). But most of my experiences in actually playing 40k sadly show that it tends to bring out the worst in people (I can't even count how many times I heard screaming matches about who moved what too far or who messed with whose miniatures when the other one was not looking). But it may be that I've been playing 40k with wrong people.
Been playing DnD for a while as well

. Never the first edition (impressed!), mainly 2nd ADnD and 3rd. In this latest group, that did not survive, we were playing the latest edition. And I must say I did enjoy most of the changes they made between this one and 3.5 edition (and 4th that should not be mentioned

). I do hope we find people, although I do not have much hope. After all, as you said, everybody knows that any rpg players are just a bunch of unwashed satan worshippers

.