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[No Context Tobey Maguire @OocTobeyM]

This Tobey Maguire Minecraft edit is insane.

The webs actually attach to the blocks like he's really there.

[wi(l)d-screen bæddel @NINtendo_maya]

Modding games in current day involves either getting punched in the stomach (gamebanana), getting kicked in the balls (nexus), or having your finger nails ripped off (discord)

[Killo @Killo_V]

HOLD ON THE SULFUR CUBE IS PEAK

[NASA Earth @NASAEarth]

That's us! 🌍

The Artemis II crew captured beautiful, high-resolution images of our home planet during their journey to the Moon. As @Astro_Christina put it: "You guys look great."

[Maks @Maks2335770189]

#blockbench #minecraft #pixelart

[Roblox @Roblox]

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[George Alexopoulos @GPrime85]

I was wrong to poke fun at this thing. Gaming tech has peaked. The future isn't ray tracing and AI bullshit. It's efficiency and optimization. Give me a box that can play any game ever made at 4k 60fps with the power draw of a couple light bulbs, and I'm sold.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The timeline on this is genuinely insane.

October 2025: Sam Altman flies to Seoul and signs simultaneous deals with Samsung and SK Hynix for 900,000 DRAM wafers per month. That's 40% of global supply. Neither company knew the other was signing a near-identical commitment at the same time.

Those deals were letters of intent. Non-binding. No RAM actually changed hands. But the market treated them as gospel. Contract DRAM prices jumped 171%. A 64GB DDR5 kit went from $190 to $700 in three months.

December 2025: Micron kills Crucial, its 29-year-old consumer memory brand, to reallocate every wafer to AI and enterprise customers. The company explicitly said it was exiting consumer memory to "improve supply and support for our larger, strategic customers in faster-growing segments." Translation: the AI demand signal was so loud that selling RAM to PC builders stopped making financial sense.

March 2026: Google publishes TurboQuant, a compression algorithm that reduces AI memory requirements by 6x with zero accuracy loss. Cloudflare's CEO called it "Google's DeepSeek." The entire thesis that AI would consume infinite memory forever just got a six-month expiration date on it.

Same month: OpenAI and Oracle cancel the Abilene Stargate expansion. The $500 billion data center vision that justified the RAM deals couldn't survive its own financing terms. Bloomberg attributed the collapse partly to OpenAI's "often-changing demand forecasting."

MU is now down ~33% from its post-earnings high. Revenue up 196% year over year, EPS up 682%, and the stock is in freefall because the company restructured its entire business around a demand signal that came from non-binding letters and is now being compressed out of existence by a research paper.

Micron bet the consumer division on Sam Altman's signature. The signature was worth exactly what the paper said: nothing binding.

[Chayenne Zhao @GenAI_is_real]

unpopular opinion: 16GB is plenty if software engineers actually cared about memory efficiency. chrome eating 4GB for 12 tabs is not a hardware problem its a software disgrace. docker consuming 2GB idle is not a feature its laziness. we live in an era where people optimize every single token to save $0.001 on API costs but happily ship electron apps that eat 500MB to display a todo list. if the industry treated RAM the way we treat inference compute - obsessively measuring every byte - 16GB would feel luxurious. the hardware isnt the problem, the software is @adxtyahq

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

OpenAI may have caused the worst consumer hardware crisis in a decade with purchase orders that were never real.

In October 2025, Sam Altman flew to Seoul and signed simultaneous deals with Samsung and SK Hynix for 900,000 DRAM wafers per month. That's 40% of global supply. Neither company knew the other was signing a similar commitment at the same time. The pricing and terms would have looked very different if they had.

Those "deals" were letters of intent, not binding purchase orders. No RAM actually changed hands. But the market treated them as real. Contract DRAM prices jumped 171%. A 64GB DDR5 kit went from $190 to $700 in three months. DDR4 kits that should have been in oversupply doubled. Retailers stopped posting prices entirely.

The Abilene Stargate expansion just got cancelled because OpenAI couldn't forecast its own demand. Oracle couldn't agree on financing. The partners are squabbling. Bloomberg reported the $500B project hadn't started and no funds were raised to meet the initial budget. Multiple data center buildouts are delayed or shelved.

Now DDR5 prices are finally dropping for the first time in months, and it has nothing to do with OpenAI walking away from anything. Google released TurboQuant on March 24, a compression algorithm that cuts AI memory requirements by 6x. SK Hynix and Samsung stocks dropped 6% and 5% overnight. Corsair kits fell $60-100 from their highs within days.

One company locked up 40% of global memory with commitments it may never fulfill. A different company published a research paper. The research paper is doing more for RAM prices than the entire supply chain has done in six months.

[Jokezm @Jokezm2]

Made a video of what the hallucination looks like.

[Lord CowCow @greenlegocats]

I'm no investor relations expert... but all these huge weird updates feel like a desperate push to impress investors before Q2 starts on April 1st. All seem to involve AI one way or another, are tech "innovations", and are coming out of nowhere.

Dynamic Heads (AI made)
Chat summary (AI summarized)
Face masks accessory type (AI detected)
Bad scenes detection (AI moderation)

Then there's stuff like VC in 100 player servers, the "sale", group updates, etc, all happening out of nowhere all of a sudden. It has been a weird and busy couple of weeks.

[12,000 angry bees @WWaltuhh]

EXPOSING 320,000,000 YELLOW JACKET WASPS‼️‼️‼️‼️
A thread🧵

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

Google turned sideloading into a 10-step process with a mandatory 24-hour wait.

The friction is intentional. Enough people give up, enough people stay in the Play Store.

Android's openness was once a selling point. Google is killing it on purpose.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

OpenAI is shutting down its AI video slop-making platform Sora.

[Lord CowCow @greenlegocats]

I have seen it all. BLINKING SUNGLASSES.
Roblox must've used AI to create at least some of these. No way a human rigged this to make a pair of sunglasses blink.

[Lunay @Lunay678]

To any and all creators out there, big and small:

Do not use AI thumbnails. A simple in-game screenshot does far more than you might think. At least it doesn't put ppl off.

This might only be me, but when I see an AI generated thumbnail, I click on 'Do not recommend channel'.

[Beeper @ThunderBeeper]

@EpicZud habudu britbdyag

[由仁アリン Arin Yuni @Arin_Yumi]

When I learned that languages evolve and change over time, I found it hard to believe. But then I saw it happen right in front of my eyes. We no longer use the word “trolling” anymore. It has been almost completely replaced by “ragebaiting.”