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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
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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
A Necron Overlord standing in for a Shambling Undead Mummy in a Blood Bowl Sevens game. He's standing on the touchdown line having just scored. I've used green stuff to turn the resurrection orb into a ball, and removed the void scythe, so he looks like he's about to throw the ball. He's got one foot up on a Space Marine captain's shield.
November 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Mistakes were made.

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

#BloodBowl
A photo of a game of Blood Bowl, Shambling Undead vs Skaven. A Wight Blitzer (represented by a Necron Lychguard) is lying prone on a stone Blood Bowl pitch, having fallen over on its own turn. The entire team of seven opposing Skaven have surrounded it for a foul.
November 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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IRL Sumotori Dreams

store.steampowered.com/app/1604240/...
November 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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I hope they all play the Cambridge Gambit.
chess.com Chess.com @chess.com · 8d
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
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Lychguard...er...sorry, *Wight* Blitzer for my Suspiciously Metallic Shambling Undead Blood Bowl team.

"A weapon, ref? No, just a very sharp shield..."
A modified Necron Lychguard model. It has a voidblade, centred in the shot and seen from slightly above, painted blue and white, but no weapon in its other hand. It is striding forwards, using the shield to bash a theoretical opponent out of the way. It has a desert base, and is standing on a grass Blood Bowl pitch. The same model, photographed from the front in a light box. Its glowing ribcage can be seen.
November 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Reposted by Chris Knowles
hildabast.bsky.social
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.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Their hearts won't be the only things that sink
phantomantis.bsky.social PhantoMantis @phantomantis.bsky.social · 16d
The trick 'r treaters are getting something special this year.
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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This is where I'm posting from.
Picture of an Acorn Electron computer. It looks like a very thick, chunky, beige keyboard - all the rest of the components are inside the keyboard case. Four cable sockets can be seen on the left-hand side. Photo credit: Bilby (Wikipedia user), Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
October 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Reposted by Chris Knowles
graemation.bsky.social
There is only one model in my collection that can match this theme!

Ho! Ho! Ho!

#Nerdlings #WarhammerCommunity #FindFolkFriday
🎶Necron Santa, bring me a dream...🎶 🎶Make him more ancient than you've ever seen...🎶 🎶Give him a Tombworld free of intruders...🎶
October 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Is this actually going to browse the Internet or just make up webpages on the fly?
October 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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If a sausage is "food encased in an intestine", then eventually all food is a sausage.
October 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Covid: is there anything it can't do?
walaal.blacksky.app Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 22d
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...
Covid & Cancer September 26, 2025 Ben Clark Cancer, Covid-19, News There is now compelling medical evidence that Covid-19 infections can reactivate dormant cancer cells, and trigger the growth of secondary cancers (metastatic progression). In studies, cancer survivors who contracted Covid had a statistically significant higher risk of cancer-related deaths compared to uninfected cancer survivors. This is such an important issue that BuDS has decided to run an awareness campaign over the autumn and winter. The aim of the campaign will be to warn cancer survivors of the very real additional danger that Covid poses to them.
October 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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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
4 modified Necron Warrior models. These are from the current 2020 kit. They've had their weapons removed, so they look as though they're shambling forward while swinging their fists. The front two are facing towards the camera, the back two are facing away. They're posed on a grass Blood Bowl pitch. They're painted primarily with Leadbelcher, with joints and other metal highlights painted in Brass Scorpion over Warplock Bronze. The metallic parts were then washed with Nuln Oil. Some parts have been highlighted or weathered using Runefang Steel and Necron Compound. The Triarch symbols on their sternums are in Liberator Gold. Their shoulder pads are purple, Naggaroth Night transitioning through Xereus Purple to Genestealer Purple. Their ribcages are glowing, painted in Naggaroth Night, Xereus Purple, Alaitoc Blue, Lothern Blue, and Baharroth Blue. Their eye sockets are Naggaroth Night, with the pupils in Lothern Blue. They are based using Armageddon Dunes, Agrax Earthshade, and Tyrant Skull, with some flocking to create yellowed grass. The same 4 models, arranged in a line against a black background. The two on the edges are facing away from the camera. On the bottom edge of their shoulder pads are markings showing the one on the left is Number 2, and the one on the right is Number 4 - this allows them to be differentiated easily during games. The two in the middle are facing towards the camera.
October 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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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
Checkbox with text highlighted in red (because I didn't tick the box and tried to submit the form). Text reads: In the event, you are not contacted by your chosen Installers, please tick the box if you would like us to pass your details to a nationwide installer to contact you to discuss your requirements. As above, myenergi does not guarantee to secure an installer on your behalf and is not responsible for any works carried out. This field is required.
October 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Always fun setting up a new server.

Step one - disable password login.

#gamedev
October 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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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
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My puzzle game, Hexahedra, is 50% off this week in celebration of #AdaLovelaceDay 👇
sidequestninja.com Sidequest Ninja | Buy Hexahedra on Steam! @sidequestninja.com · 29d
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/...
Banner image for the Ada Lovelace Day Steam sale. It shows a messy workshop full of computers and other hardware, with a picture of Ada Lovelace in the background. Text Overlay: October 13-19 Ada Lovelace Day Sale 2025 Awesome games about coding, automation & engineering Hosted by Luden.io
October 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
tarrenam.com
If you see this, quote your favourite Pokémon!

(Wrong answers only)
The Puckmaren from Flight of the Navigator, being stroked by David.
October 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Reposted by Chris Knowles
owolf.bsky.social
I love my little red robot hauler.
You can have it with buzz saw or with doomsday device.
#Nerdlings
#WarhammerCommunity
#FindFolksFriday
#JHBackdrops
Red robot hauler on tracks with a military green box on top containing a yellow bomb The same red robot hauler on tracks this time with a red robot arm buzz saw on top Buzz saw version crawling over debris A closer look at the bomb with cables and a computer pad
October 10, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Reposted by Chris Knowles
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Leonard Nimoy, best known for his role as uncredited U.S. Army staff sergeant in “Them!” (1954)
20-something Nimoy in a Sargent uniform standing before a board listing strange news reports to be monitored: Kidnappings Unsolved murders Alleged suicides Strange migrations Thefts of sugary sweets Strange phenomenon It’s in black and white
October 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Bryan Cranston, best known for his role as Ranger Ericsson in the Babylon 5 episode "The Long Night" (1997)
Still from the Babylon 5 series 4 episode "The Long Night". In the foreground, Bryan Cranston playing the role of Ranger Ericsson, dressed in the standard Ranger uniform, on the bridge of a White Star ship. In the background, three religious caste Minbari wearing yellow robes.
October 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Here's hoping.

If the EU can kill predatory F2P mechanics, especially ones that target children while hiding behind smokescreens like "ah, but *technically* it's not gambling", then I'm all for it.
October 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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The most hair-pulling part of this is that some of the data stolen was photos of people's government ID.

Verifiers keep saying "yeah, we want an ID photo, but we delete it straight away!"

Either this company was storing them, or the breach allowed the attackers to grab the data in real time.
sgray.bsky.social Stuart Gray @sgray.bsky.social · Oct 4
So, that Discord data breach? The headlines *should* have focused on the Age Verification angle.

It affected a 3rd party service Discord uses for Age Verification appeals.

It took 3 months from the start of the UKs OSA age checks for the first known data leak.

www.theverge.com/news/792032/...
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.
www.theverge.com
October 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Reposted by Chris Knowles
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Mini of the month competition October - Terrain-ing day

Your mission this month involves no minis at all. Instead you are to create a terrain piece from scratch. Old school style. So cardboard, foam, plastic bottles etc.

Rules on skeet 2 (please read them)

1/2

#Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth
October 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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I finally understand why timezones are so hard.

#gamedev
Results of a Google search for "2025-10-01T07:00:00+01:00" Before the traditional search results, Google shows a section called "How to solve your problem". It has interpreted the search query as an equation: 2025 - 10 + (-T * (7/0))/0 + 1/0 It then says "Simplify". Step 1 is "Division by zero is undefined". Here it shows the same equation twice more, with an arrow pointing down from the first copy to the second. The "7/0" part is highlighted in red each time. Presumably this would show an actual simplification if it wasn't complaining about division by 0. Below this is a section that reads "Result: The expression 7/0 is undefined."
October 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM