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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 02/10/2026

If it helps (And I know it doesn't really, outside of catharsis) there's a bunch of us tech people too repeatedly smashing our heads against our keyboards watching it too.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 26/09/2026

Reminder that the only people who benefit from these sPoOkY AI stories are the tech companies developing them. They *want* permissive regulatory control, so they can do what they want, and no 2026 Linus Torvalds equivalent rug pulls them. That’s why they get such signal & reach.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 26/09/2026

*laughs in GF, GOKU, Dental, LLJK, the list goes on*

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 16/09/2026

Physics question: Is the curvature of spacetime instant? Does it take any time to bend? Even at stellar scales? Like, if I deleted the sun instantaneously, does everything stop orbiting there and then, or does it take noticeable time? I have no idea why I’m asking, or how you’d prove it, mind you.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 10/09/2026

It's such a hilariously opaque, ham-handed way to do it, too. It's not even consistent across the store.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 10/09/2026

Big 'Everything is a dildo if you're brave enough' energy there.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 09/09/2026

Good morning Australia, where, thanks to the toxic combination of performative Government actions on safety and American assumptions on banking systems… …as of yesterday my 22 year old Steam account needs a credit card to prove I’m over 18 years old.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 09/09/2026

Read somewhere this morning that ‘Real wealth is mental health’ So fuck, now I’m poor by two measures.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 06/09/2026

I'm sure some horrible AI could make the duck version I have in my head, but I won't do that, and I don't have the skills to, so instead, have a bunch of other cool artists making homage to the Akira bike slide!

static.klipy.com

Animated Motorcycle Compilation

ALT: Animated Motorcycle Compilation

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 06/09/2026

In a lighter view - I know I’m gonna get a sick jump off that left bit of geometry when Linerider skies down from the right.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 03/09/2026

I'll seduce opponents with my telegraphed weak point strikes, and on the third NOT actually have a final form, and in fact just produce a gun. There will be no further attack patterns. Also, the large glowing orb marked 'Weak Spot'? Actually just a trigger to alert my Legions to come to my rescue.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 01/09/2026

There’s a definite feeling of failure of reaching your 40s and still battling. Wasn’t it meant to be breezy by now? I was going to be buying JetSkis and generally pissing about?

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 31/08/2026

Wordle 1,900 X/6 🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛ I genuinely don’t know how this is possible without doing it on purpose. And I wasn’t doing it on purpose.

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Jörg Tittel @newjorg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Dear @playstation.com - since, according to the terms you just reminded us all of, I’m NOT buying but merely RENTING digital games for an undetermined and totally arbitary amount of time, you should not be allowed to use the word “Buy” or “Purchase” anywhere.

Halo: Campaign Evolved on PS Store says “Buy this game” under Add to Cart.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 30/08/2026

You need this launcher so you can download the launcher so the game can start a launcher! And before you may play, you must solve my riddle and link these accounts three, my pretty.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 30/08/2026

Instantly made me think of that first Rogue One sequence where it introduces Andor.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 30/08/2026

In the nicest possible tone, Wordle can go fuck itself on this one. Wordle 1,899 X/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 30/08/2026

RIGHT IS NOT LEFT DAVE.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 30/08/2026

That Jade scheme in the bottom right could go *hard* at army scale, for starters!

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 30/08/2026

Because the very notion of being able to utilise Police time to do this definitely isn't a sign of corporate interests controlling the State. "To Protect and Serve. Us, megacorps, from you, slaves."

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 30/08/2026

Note: The cigar gun is the greatest piece of subtle Ork design ever.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 30/08/2026

Post your getaway vehicle

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 29/08/2026

Peacock Dick Smiths, reporting in.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 26/08/2026

*Claps* Speaking from experience, if you call it a Bark when they notice you, that does not go WELL AT ALL.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 25/08/2026

I'm not crying, you're crying! (It's me, I'm crying.)

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 25/08/2026

Both of these occured in the same day.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 25/08/2026

Being fully remote: 1. A vendor solution I have run for for three years has been claimed as a brave new find by parties inside the organisation who happen to be physically in the office. 2. A senior staff was publicly moaning about me and I only know because people off-record fed it back. Cool.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 25/08/2026

*Slams the RT button so hard it breaks*

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 25/08/2026

It perpetually amazes me a whole genre that commercially does fine, over and over, like, never AAA satisfactory money but also never failing, is so maligned by the industry at large. Are VCs & Pubs really just so hooked on Big Bet, This Will Be The Next Minecraft mentality we can't make an ImSim?

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 23/08/2026

The tragedy of the FGC: Rising Thunder died so 2XKO could limp away and bleed out.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 21/08/2026

Thanks @unburntwitch.com for pointing out that they COULD make a Titanfall, Populous, Megalomania or Clive Barker's Undying game, and just don't because, I dunno, capitalism? Come on Saudi; Give us back these pieces of game bedrock. Daddy needs a new Syndicate game, at least.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 21/08/2026

Push Syndicate into my cold, dead veins. Also, don’t they have Black & White sat there dormant too? Oh God there’s so many!

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 20/08/2026

I just found out Zoom's in-meeting AI assistant is called 'ZoomMate'. Excuse me, I'll be finishing this ritual circle outside so I can summon the meteor.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 19/08/2026

*Laughs to avoid breaking down sobbing* There’s the urge to jovially do the whole ‘I’m in this article and I don’t like it’ but it’s just too close, too big, too real. How do you even BEGIN to tackle this? What a slam dunk of an article.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 18/08/2026

@justicar.xyz Ah, there's another one I meant to follow on the move from the 'Bad Site'.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 18/08/2026

I have to work with AI. I work in Tech, it's now career existential to not. However, what I can't abide is the rising dual insanities that: 1. If you didn't use AI, you're somehow making it harder (As opposed to wanting a quality outcome.) 2. You can dismiss anything you don't like as 'made by AI'.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 18/08/2026

The morbid fascination with 'We must extend attachment time through **UPGRADING** is plain weird. It even warps gameplay design; Metroidvanias work because the upgrade path is set, letting you design the levels around the new toy. Tree madness means you've got to make everything work all the time.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 18/08/2026

@mikebithell.bsky.social As I see your face, that reminded me to go do this. SEE MIKE, ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 18/08/2026

It wasn't highly appreciable whiskeys though, was it. (Spector is a fuckin' genius, and we have lost another voice for ImmSims.)

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 18/08/2026

Was it the 'cause' of the rightwing backlash though, or just the background radiation to the ongoing fuckin' miserable crunch of the tank treads of a Murdoch based media and the grift train that rides it? Like, who exactly is doing the blaming, eh?

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 17/08/2026

Suggested we replace a coworker with an open can of Pedigree Chum, because logically it’ll attract a stray dog that’ll either do a better job, or in the worse case at least we’ll have a dog now. Apparently this was ‘unproductive feedback.’

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 16/08/2026

*laughs in MSP / MSSP* We haven’t even got a reasonable outlet to Patreon on, help, the bus is on fire, the doors are locked and that looks like an approaching cliff edge!

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 16/08/2026

Genuinely might be the most annoyed at Wordle I’ve ever been. Five in a row of just one letter and no way to improve but guesswork. Wordle 1,885 X/6 🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 13/08/2026

The entire Souls movement. I'm fine with games being hard. I'm not fine with pretending your clunky movement was some kind of 4D chess planned feature, as opposed to just opportunistic bandwagoning.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 13/08/2026

I have zero reach or credibility in this space. Regardless, Kirk write good word. You pay Kirk, he write you good word. Good word make big dollar happy time. So, big dollar happy time come from pay Kirk.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 03/08/2026

How do you know your brain is games-rotten? When you see a ranndom Reel in front of a door and immediately say out loud 'Coastline, Rainbow Six Siege'. IFYKYK.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 27/07/2026

Oh wait, I got one, and I will NOT APOLOGISE for suggesting it!

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 27/07/2026

Fuck. I *started* to post Pretty Hate Machine, then the ravages of Chronos himself pointed out that was 1989.

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Dave Knowles @shockeh.com · 27/07/2026

Okay, went through a flurry of fetching mutuals out of 'The Old Site That Went Bad'. If you're just noticing my Follow, Hi! I followed you back there, and have zero intent of being any more interesting or socially acceptable now!

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