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Chris Knowles
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Christian, indie game developer of optimization puzzle game Hexahedra. Blogs about geekery and Christianity at the same time.

Former RuneScape engine dev at Jagex.

Hexahedra: https://s.team/a/1248420
Blog: https://blog.tarrenam.com
Never has the term "AI slop" been more appropriate.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Object ID 0 in RuneScape (both versions) is the "Dwarf remains" from the Dwarf Cannon quest.

Its Examine text is "The body of a Dwarf savaged by Goblins."
i was going through my X archives and found this by @superpodsaga.com, which I qrt'd at some point years ago

so, let me bring the question back: what is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?
November 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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I'll just leave these here
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Iron Within. Iron Without.

#Nerdlings
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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"I mean, look at all these skulls and spikes. Frank is growing an extra arm that has a claw hand. Do you think we're the baddies?"
Sons of Horus special edition!
November 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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HAHAAHHAHAAHHAAA

Anthropic has posted two jobs, both paying $200K+.

FOR WRITERS. (Looks like a policy/comms hybrid.)

ANTHROPIC.

IS WILLING TO PAY HALF A MILLION A YEAR.

FOR WRITERS.

Whatsamatter boys, can't your plagiarism machine make a compelling case for you?

LOL. LMAO, even. #AI
November 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Today in "sinister email subjects":
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
They mocked me for painting a (Necron proxy) Mummy holding a ball, but this was the unlikely moment when, having unexpectedly caught a bouncing ball on a 6+ roll, he succeeded in grinding forward 9 squares in the last 3 turns to score a last-minute equalizer.

#BloodBowl
November 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Mistakes were made.

(This was a sevens game, so it's a foul by the entire opposition team...)

#BloodBowl
November 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
November 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I hope they all play the Cambridge Gambit.
Chess.com is teaming up with Old School Runescape!

Check out the OSRS Chess bots, available now: go.chess.com/jagex
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Lychguard...er...sorry, *Wight* Blitzer for my Suspiciously Metallic Shambling Undead Blood Bowl team.

"A weapon, ref? No, just a very sharp shield..."
November 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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LinkedIn's default permission for using your data for AI kicks in on November 3. Here's where to switch it off on your account:

> Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement

tuta.com/blog/linkedi...
Act until Nov 3rd to stop LinkedIn from abusing your data to train AI! | Tuta
Soon your data like your resumes and profile information will be used to train LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Co.'s artificial intelligence. And no, you didn’t opt-in. Take action and stop this now.
tuta.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Their hearts won't be the only things that sink
The trick 'r treaters are getting something special this year.
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This is where I'm posting from.
October 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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There is only one model in my collection that can match this theme!

Ho! Ho! Ho!

#Nerdlings #WarhammerCommunity #FindFolkFriday
October 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Is this actually going to browse the Internet or just make up webpages on the fly?
October 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
If a sausage is "food encased in an intestine", then eventually all food is a sausage.
October 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Covid: is there anything it can't do?
There is now compelling medical evidence that Covid-19 infections can reactivate dormant cancer cells, and trigger the growth of secondary cancers. In studies, cancer survivors who contracted Covid had a statistically significant higher risk of cancer-related deaths

buds.org.uk/covid-and-ca...
October 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
More progress on the Suspiciously Metallic Shambling Undead team for Blood Bowl.

4 Zombie Linemen, ready to stumble slowly in the direction of the ball.

#PaintingWarhammer #Nerdlings
October 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Grr, another "please tick this box if you would like X", on a form which, it turns out, refuses to submit if the box is not ticked.

Poor showing from myenergi.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Always fun setting up a new server.

Step one - disable password login.

#gamedev
October 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
It's always fun knowing a few networking engineers, and discovering that the cause of yesterday's Vodafone outage was "they delisted their entire IP range from the Internet and disappeared from the global routing tables".

I mean, wow.
October 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
My puzzle game, Hexahedra, is 50% off this week in celebration of #AdaLovelaceDay 👇
It's Ada Lovelace Day!

She was the first person ever to publish a computer program, before we had transistors or thermionic valves and, in fact, before the first computer!

To celebrate, Hexahedra is currently 50% off in the #AdaLovelaceDay Steam sale.

store.steampowered.com/app/1248420/...
October 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
If you see this, quote your favourite Pokémon!

(Wrong answers only)
October 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM