Chris Knowles
@tarrenam.com
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
Former RuneScape engine dev at Jagex.
Hexahedra: https://s.team/a/1248420
Blog: https://blog.tarrenam.com
What's the stupidest picture you own?
December 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
What's the stupidest picture you own?
Our tree is up! This year the position of angel stand-in goes to WALL-E.
December 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Our tree is up! This year the position of angel stand-in goes to WALL-E.
If the government does introduce a pro-generative AI copyright bill, I'd love a journalist to ask how much of the legislation was drafted by AI.
When the answer is "none", press on why not. Make them admit that it's not reliable enough for anything actually important.
When the answer is "none", press on why not. Make them admit that it's not reliable enough for anything actually important.
🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright:
- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
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- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
🧵 1/2
December 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If the government does introduce a pro-generative AI copyright bill, I'd love a journalist to ask how much of the legislation was drafted by AI.
When the answer is "none", press on why not. Make them admit that it's not reliable enough for anything actually important.
When the answer is "none", press on why not. Make them admit that it's not reliable enough for anything actually important.
Browsing the Good Old Game section of the GOG store and discovering that the original Crysis is 18 years old 😨
December 15, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Browsing the Good Old Game section of the GOG store and discovering that the original Crysis is 18 years old 😨
My Christmas shopping is complete! This may be a personal best!
December 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
My Christmas shopping is complete! This may be a personal best!
Classic D&D conversation from the party I'm DMing for:
"Do we need a plan for tonight?"
"We've never had a plan before!"
"Do we need a plan for tonight?"
"We've never had a plan before!"
December 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Classic D&D conversation from the party I'm DMing for:
"Do we need a plan for tonight?"
"We've never had a plan before!"
"Do we need a plan for tonight?"
"We've never had a plan before!"
Day 2 total: 105.
I was hoping to have a new photo of even more ducks in a bag, but we had to empty them out or the bag was too heavy to stay to the fridge.
I was hoping to have a new photo of even more ducks in a bag, but we had to empty them out or the bag was too heavy to stay to the fridge.
I got home from a LAN party yesterday to find that my wife had numbered 125 tiny plastic ducks and hidden them round the house. She'd made a list and stuck it to the fridge so I could mark them off.
I've found about 85 so far. She's tracking my progress so she can make a graph.
I've found about 85 so far. She's tracking my progress so she can make a graph.
December 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Day 2 total: 105.
I was hoping to have a new photo of even more ducks in a bag, but we had to empty them out or the bag was too heavy to stay to the fridge.
I was hoping to have a new photo of even more ducks in a bag, but we had to empty them out or the bag was too heavy to stay to the fridge.
I got home from a LAN party yesterday to find that my wife had numbered 125 tiny plastic ducks and hidden them round the house. She'd made a list and stuck it to the fridge so I could mark them off.
I've found about 85 so far. She's tracking my progress so she can make a graph.
I've found about 85 so far. She's tracking my progress so she can make a graph.
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I got home from a LAN party yesterday to find that my wife had numbered 125 tiny plastic ducks and hidden them round the house. She'd made a list and stuck it to the fridge so I could mark them off.
I've found about 85 so far. She's tracking my progress so she can make a graph.
I've found about 85 so far. She's tracking my progress so she can make a graph.
No, Google, I did not "sign up to use Gemini", I accidentally pressed the middle button at the bottom of the screen longer than usual.
Get this non-consensual AI nonsense off my phone.
Get this non-consensual AI nonsense off my phone.
November 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
No, Google, I did not "sign up to use Gemini", I accidentally pressed the middle button at the bottom of the screen longer than usual.
Get this non-consensual AI nonsense off my phone.
Get this non-consensual AI nonsense off my phone.
I've been playing some Serious Sam for the first time in a while, and I've been reminded that the moste terrifying sound in gaming is 20 voices getting gradually louder and going AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
November 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I've been playing some Serious Sam for the first time in a while, and I've been reminded that the moste terrifying sound in gaming is 20 voices getting gradually louder and going AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Not sure why this tickled me so much, but today I saw a guy in a Tesla t-shirt tanking up his Skoda.
November 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Not sure why this tickled me so much, but today I saw a guy in a Tesla t-shirt tanking up his Skoda.
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...
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
Never has the term "AI slop" been more appropriate.
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."
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?
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
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."
Its Examine text is "The body of a Dwarf savaged by Goblins."
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I'll just leave these here
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I'll just leave these here
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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!
Sons of Horus special edition!
November 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
"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!
Sons of Horus special edition!
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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
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
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
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
Today in "sinister email subjects":
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Today in "sinister email subjects":
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
#BloodBowl
November 9, 2025 at 3:24 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
#BloodBowl
Mistakes were made.
(This was a sevens game, so it's a foul by the entire opposition team...)
#BloodBowl
(This was a sevens game, so it's a foul by the entire opposition team...)
#BloodBowl
November 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Mistakes were made.
(This was a sevens game, so it's a foul by the entire opposition team...)
#BloodBowl
(This was a sevens game, so it's a foul by the entire opposition team...)
#BloodBowl
November 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I hope they all play the Cambridge Gambit.
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Check out the OSRS Chess bots, available now: go.chess.com/jagex
Check out the OSRS Chess bots, available now: go.chess.com/jagex
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I hope they all play the Cambridge Gambit.
Lychguard...er...sorry, *Wight* Blitzer for my Suspiciously Metallic Shambling Undead Blood Bowl team.
"A weapon, ref? No, just a very sharp shield..."
"A weapon, ref? No, just a very sharp shield..."
November 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Lychguard...er...sorry, *Wight* Blitzer for my Suspiciously Metallic Shambling Undead Blood Bowl team.
"A weapon, ref? No, just a very sharp shield..."
"A weapon, ref? No, just a very sharp shield..."
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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...
> 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
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...
> Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement
tuta.com/blog/linkedi...
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
Their hearts won't be the only things that sink