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extrajordanary.bsky.social
My wife had a single line in Kung Fu Panda 17 years ago and still gets checks every few months. Most are way smaller than this, but devs get $0 even though the games we work on will likely be sold for 10+ years soooo yeah.
A screenshot of a paper that shows a paycheck for $254.98 for Kung Fu Panda residuals.
December 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
maxjk0.bsky.social
Just trying to get a flu and covid vaccine, CVS is worthless, Insurance is worthless

All that runs thru my mind when dealing with this garbage is:
youtu.be/KivCRqfFcqY?...
It's Illegal to Say
YouTube video by WKUK: Whitest Kids U’ Know
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December 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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marklacroix.bsky.social
Two of my 2025 projects have been mentioned by @wario64.bsky.social in this very-up-and-very-down year. Does that mean I've made it in this cursed industry?
December 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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edzitron.com
The AI bubble is reaching its peak, with the largest data center funder (Blue Owl) walking away from a $10bn deal with Oracle, just as Broadcom gets pummeled post-earnings for showing no revenue from OpenAI, and CoreWeave fails to build capacity in time.
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Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI in a deal where OpenAI will "bring beloved characters from Disney's brands to Sora," including a three-year licensing deal. One might think that a licensing deal is weird, given that Disney is investing, and one would be right! Apparently OpenAI is "paying" to license Disney's characters entirely in stock warrants, and Disney has the opportunity to buy an undisclosed amount of future stock. Amazon is in discussions to invest $10 billion in OpenAI at a valuation of over $500 billion, per The Information, and plans to use Amazon's Trainium AI server chips (its in-house competitor to NVIDIA's GPUs that some startups, per Business Insider, claim have "performance challenges" and "underperformed" NVIDIA's years-old H100 chips), apparently. Any excitement you might have over this deal should be tempered by the fact that OpenAI and Amazon Web Services signed a $38 billion deal back in November, meaning that this is likely a situation where Amazon would hand money to OpenAI, which would then hand the money right back to Amazon, and that's assuming any real money actually changes hands. Though this is just one source, I've heard tell that Amazon, at times, sells Trainium at a loss to get customers. Then again, I think this might be the case with all AI compute. Bloomberg reported that Oracle has pushed back the completion date of multiple data centers being built for OpenAI, "largely due to labor and material shortages." Oracle responded, saying that "there have been no delays to any sites required to meet our contractual commitments, and all milestones remain on track." It isn't clear what data centers these are, but a clue might be... ...that Blue Owl has pulled out of funding a $10 billion deal for a data center for Oracle/OpenAI in Michigan, per The Financial Times. This is a very, very, very bad sign. Blue Owl is arguably the loosest, friendliest lender in the data center space, and while Oracle claims another partner is allegedl… So why did this deal fall apart? Well, according to the Financial Times, "lenders pushed for stricter leasing and debt terms amid shifting market sentiment around enormous AI spending including Oracle’s own commitments and rising debt levels." If only somebody could have warned them, somehow. Though I'll get into more detail after the premium break, both Oracle and Broadcom reported earnings, and both saw their stocks get dumped like a deadbeat boyfriend with a bad attitude and credit card debt. In Oracle's case it was the same old story — lots of debt, decaying margins and negative cash flow, along with a bunch of commitments. Did I mention that Oracle has $248 billion in upcoming data center lease commitments? More than double those made by Microsoft? In Broadcom's case, things were a little weirder. While it beat on estimates, it partly did so, per The Coastal Journal, by playing funny non-GAAP (generally accepted accounting practices) games with things like how it handles stock compensation and the amortizations to raise its "adjusted" earnings per share, boosting non-GAAP revenues by $4.4 billion. The other problem was related to OpenAI. Back in October, Broadcom and OpenAI announced a "strategic collaboration" for "10 gigawatts of customer AI accelerators," with "Broadcom to deploy racks of AI accelerator and network systems targeted to start in the second half of 2026, to complete by 2029." I'll get into the nitty gritty later, but CEO Hock Tan said that Broadcom "did not expect much [revenue]" in 2026 from the deal. CoreWeave's Denton Data Center has become a nightmare, with, per the Wall Street Journal, heavy rains and winds causing "a roughly 60-day delay" that prevented contractors from pouring concrete for the data center, pushing the completion date back by "several months" on top of "additional delays caused by revisions to design" for a data center specifically built to lease to OpenAI. There are a few common threads between all of these stories: OpenAI doesn't have cash. The Disney licensing deal? Paid for in stock. The AWS contract? Amazon has to give OpenAI $10 billion to pay for it, because OpenAI doesn't have the cash. Broadcom's deal with OpenAI? "not much" revenue in 2026, probably because OpenAI doesn't have the cash. The Money For Data Centers Is Running Out. Blue Owl is the loosest lender in the universe, and if it’s having trouble raising money, everybody will very soon. Investors are aggressively dumping Oracle because it keeps trying to build more data centers for OpenAI, a company that does not have the money to pay for its compute. AI Is Wearing Out Its Welcome, and the AI Bubble Narrative Is Impossible To Ignore It used to be (back in September, at least) that you could announce a big, stupid deal with OpenAI and see a 40% stock bump. Now the markets are suddenly thinking "huh, how is it gonna pay that?" Oracle's stock also got dumped because it increased capital expenditures in its latest quarter to $12 billion, on analyst expectations of $8.4 billion. And the other key thread is the year 2026. Next year is meant to be the year that everything changes. It was meant to be the year that OpenAI had a gigawatt of data centers built with Broadcom and AMD, and when Stargate Abilene's 8 buildings were fully built and energized. 2026 is meant to be the year that OpenAI opened Stargate UAE, too. Here in reality, absolutely none of this is happening, and I believe that 2026 is the year when everything begins to collapse. In today's piece, I'm going to line up the sharp objects sitting right next to an increasingly-wobbling AI bubble, and why everything hinges on a looming cash crunch for OpenAI, AI data centers, those funding AI data centers, and venture capital itself.
December 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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ellaguro.bsky.social
hello. here are some games that came out this year, this year of 2025, that are cool to check out. or don't check them out, i dunno it's your decision, i can't make it for you
image of Steam graphics of recommended games that came out in 2025, from right to left: Stray Children, Skin Deep, Baby Steps, HYPERBEAT, Discopup, Consume Me, Blippo+, Angeline Era, Complex 629, Warm Monkey, Babushka's Glitch Dungeon, Eclipsium, ROUTINE, Despelote, No Players Online, Fragrance Point, Mohrta, Brush Burial: Gutter World, Mashina, Asterism
December 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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quinnkdev.bsky.social
wonderful game that left me with a lot to reminisce and chew on in a very short timespan.

you should give it the hour it asks (and more than deserves)!

feverdreamjohnny.itch.io/gorgons-garden
December 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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techconnectify.bsky.social
To state what should be obvious but I'll bet isn't to everyone who watches this...

This is what the thought process of a racist who cannot possibly allow themselves to think they're a racist looks like. This is how they rationalize their behavior and deflect from cognitive dissonance.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d
This is an incredibly illuminating video on what we're up against.
She thinks I'm with ICE
YouTube video by Ben Palmer
www.youtube.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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coil.bsky.social
This only works if your goal isn't to create a product, but to cash out and be long gone when the music stops.

Big Tech today is just gambling and money laundering. The product is a byproduct - and in the case of genAI, basically nuclear waste.

GenAI doesn't need a bailout, it needs a Superfund.
852dude.bsky.social 852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 3d
Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year.

Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
software development in 2026 is going to require some to loosen up a little code doesn't have to be as perfectly crafted the way we did it pre-ai call it slop if you want, but if you're still demanding perfection on every pr while your competitors are shipping "slop" that works.. you're fighting from a disadvantaged position shipping velocity matters more than perfection
December 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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danaenight.bsky.social
Best Level Design still isn't an award category is it? (Is it?)

Fine. Let's make our own level design awards.
December 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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gizmouse.bsky.social
how it feels to show someone your oc
December 23, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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jacobgeller.com
I am aware that much of the sentiment is divided by class: the letters' signatories are mostly artists, the letters' detractors are mostly their dealers and collectors. This is not a new rift in the art world, but Palestine seems to have deepened it beyond repair. Jay tells me that the magazine's publishers are putting together a statement, and he asks me to write something describing my missteps, something I could post on Artforum's website and to my personal Instagram. "And if I say no?" I ask. "Hopefully it won't come to that," he tells me. I walk downtown to clear my head. What can I say? I don't like the barely veiled threat, and I'm not sorry. Two weeks earlier, I cringed watching Samira Nasr, the editor of Harper's Bazaar, post an apology for an Instagram story. stating that Israel cutting off Gazans' access to water and power "is the most inhuman thing I've seen in my life". To me it's simple: my job is to position the magazine correctly in the current of history. We have done the right thing.
December 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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wayneradio.tv
i just wanted to play Santa
December 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
maxjk0.bsky.social
*open bluesky at 6am* (not actually awake rn)

"Set a birthday on your profile!"

*Fat finger the cancel or whatever button and accept the default date of 2007*

*Go to account settings to try to fix this*

"You recently changed your birthday, u gotta wait a day to fix this"

Cool, great.
December 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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xkcd.com
Pole Vault Pole

xkcd.com/3183/
Comic. [Person running on a giant round toward a pole vaulting crossbar; a long pole bent in an arch from the ground, over the crossbar, to the ground again, with person climbing it upside down over the crossbar; person runs to catch up with a long poll rolled into a circle and tied that is rolling toward the crossbar, jumps to catch it, hanging off as it spins, and then is flung over the crossbar when it approaches.] [caption] Fun fact: There are no limits on the length or diameter of the pole in pole vault.
December 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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sharkabytes.bsky.social
Ordering something in; anyone want anything?

The Food Channel has been back up and running on WiiLink24 for a while now, with Dominos once again available for actual ordering in North America, and simulated storefronts for everywhere else to browse around.
A crt tv screenie of the orange, blue, and green coloured Food Channel hub screen with my name, La Noscea and Limsa Lominsa from FFXIV entered as the address and a smily face and fork and spoon icon for the Order button. The food tyype menu screen with SD photos of food types from pizza, to curry, party, and sushi to bento box and chinese available in rounded icons in a grid.
December 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
maxjk0.bsky.social
I think the thing that pro-ai people that really like Google's ai summary in particular need to understand is that:

Google had a straight up better version of this feature before: The featured snippet. They would give you just a straight quote from a webpage that answered your question, in context
December 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
maxjk0.bsky.social
It's not a new take on AI, but it's kind of hit me recently, media about it like Bladeruner hit this perfectly:

The creation of AI is a lose-lose

Either it's not sentient, and these billionaires are basically obscelessencing poor people

Or they are sentient and theyre effectively slaves.
December 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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quinnkdev.bsky.social
y'all should check this one out! i helped a bit with some RPG maker 2003/steamworks troubleshooting for it >:)

snailo prevail... os
December 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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bignerdsam.bsky.social
CAN'T STOP THE BUSTLE
a teddy bear in a blue dress is holding a stuffed animal with the words get real underneath it
ALT: a teddy bear in a blue dress is holding a stuffed animal with the words get real underneath it
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December 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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automatonwest.bsky.social
Japanese content platform DLsite gets its own official credit card amidst Visa and Mastercard suspensions
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December 19, 2025 at 7:47 AM
maxjk0.bsky.social
I think there has been a very funny amount of discourse over the word "Metroidvania" compared to the amount of successful alternative genre titles to it
December 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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vinesauceclips.bsky.social
Master Chef at work
December 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
maxjk0.bsky.social
It used to be a fun game to sort of play

Instead of googling "Star Trek TNG Episode whatever Cast", just typing into google "Where do I know this guy from?" With absolutely no further context, just to see where the internet might've taken someone else that doesn't know how to use a computer
maxjk0.bsky.social maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 9d
Before AI, it was always funny to me to Google stuff the way that the question would formulate in my head, rather than the way that was most likely to get the best answer, just to see what the devs thought I was trying to ask
December 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
maxjk0.bsky.social
Curious, not exactly up my alley, but it'd be a very interesting project:

Has there ever been an project with the goal of making a virtual assistant with the absolute broadest breadth of ways to ask it a question? Like sort of manually?

I guess siri and google *used* to do that
December 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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totter87.bsky.social
I rejected an offer to bring one of my games to this device (in a box with its branding) because of the CEO’s ties to weapons making. This absolutely cements that I made the right decision.
December 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM