Chip (aka Josh) (@chipcheezum) — Bluesky Profile

24 minutes ago

god how I could forget the frequent subject of zanyvgquotes in physics class

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45 minutes ago

It might just be because Galloping Ghost is so huge but I do not remember the dolphin shmup when we were there a few years ago

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10 hours ago

An Adobe Premiere timeline with a buncha junk on it. The video is currently about 12 minutes long. In the panel with the visuals in it, Jeremy Irvine from Return to Silent Hill can be seen making an extremely confused and disgusted face, with a ton of question marks super-imposed on him

update:

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1 month ago

thinking about csi: cyber, the funniest network television show ever produced, again

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20 hours ago

the demo for my Castlevania-like "Lady Dracula" that i've been making since 2023 currently has less than 100 reviews.

you can help me survive as a starving artist by trying it out (15-30 minute playtime) and leaving a brief (maybe a sentence) review here:

store.steampowered.com/app/4044270/...

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1 day ago

To use a technical term, this is a fucking terrible situation. Bruce Richards, CEO of credit investor Marathon Asset Management, recently predicted that the software industry would see a default rate of 15% in the next few years, meaning that 15% of software loans will go unpaid.

This number is thrown around very casually for something that I believe will be incredibly fucking damaging. The software industry’s entire growth cycle has been built on the idea that you can take an idea, build it up, get funding and then sell it to someone else, and that idea has been so thoroughly mutated by the wanton greed of venture capital and private equity that it’s now turned into a massive, ungainly debt bubble.

Per Bloomberg, private equity gobbled up more than 1900 software companies between 2021 and 2025 for a value of over $440 billion, and while it’s tough to get a handle of exactly how many software companies are held in private equity’s hands, a 15% default rate would be catastrophic, both to those owed money via debts and the decaying asset value of both private equity and venture capital firms.

In Q3 2025, 33% of venture capital funding went to SaaS companies, and did so with the old belief that SaaS companies grow in perpetuity. As I mentioned before the premium break, 20% of public BDC private credit loans are going to software firms.

The entire private equity, venture capital and private credit sector is leaning on one specific thing - the kayfabe of SaaS and its eternal growth engine. If SaaS companies are no longer a steady, near-guaranteed return-on-investment (and based on the returns for private equity and venture capital firms, that stopped being the case some time ago), everybody is going to lose money, and nobody is going to have any idea how to make more.

SaaS is one of the few (seemingly) tangible business lines in the tech industry, one of the only places you can point to and say “this is how it makes money, and these are the ways it makes more mone…

The AI bubble is a symptom of the greater sickness in a software industry that stopped caring about making software. Allowing management consultants and growth-perverts to take the wheel and demand that every single software company make $100 million a year or get shot to death at dusk has ruined the incentives that Silicon Valley was built on.

The only way to turn “every” software company into an eternal growth engine is to change their primary purpose from building software to selling services that sometimes involve some sort of software. The entire SaaS sales stack is utterly fucked, geared toward conning people that buy software but don’t use software rather than providing any meaningful service.

This con could only last so long before it fell off the tracks, because the crooked and cowardly lack any soul or wisdom that might give them the ability to steer a company toward anything resembling a sustainable future.

As Hansson said, not all software needs to evolve forever. A product does something, and it should get better over time and only change in a way that improves the experience for the customer. This can be done in a way that makes the company grow, but that growth should only come from an honest exchange of value with the end user.

I realize that sounds a little fanciful in our era of Rot Economics, but the nightmare that I fear is to come for the software world is one borne of the growth-at-all-costs poison in the veins of Silicon Valley.

It’s a comforting lie to say that “AI is destroying SaaS,” because saying that allows you to keep believing that everything will grow forever, and the SaaS con can continue. I’m not saying that SaaS will never be a viable business model, or that no SaaS company will ever succeed, but that the mistaken belief about basically any SaaS company being viable enough to make a hundred million dollars or more a year without venture capital or debt propping it up is a lie told to you by people that don’t know or care a…

They all fucking deserve it. They deserve to lose. None of them gave a rat fuck about building any future other than one where they got incrementally richer every time something I have to use for work gets worse.

I feel horrible for the founders who were pushed again and again to grow and take on debt and venture capital in the pursuit of somebody else’s payday. Many SaaS businesses could be happy, stable $50 million or $100 million enterprises with happy customers and stable, useful products - but they wouldn’t get funding, because venture capital and private equity don’t invest in good businesses, just symbols of greed and rot stapled to the side of software companies that mean about as much as a row on an excel sheet.

Real businesses and real software don't get funded in this era of rot.

Software can do amazing things, but it won’t as long as venture capital and private equity continue to poison this industry with their mindless avarice.

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1 day ago

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4 days ago

god finding this is like stumbling across a buried USB drive in the woods. bizarre

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5 days ago

killer seven

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5 days ago

Vivi looks over his shoulder at YOU. he's cute

Over-the-shoulder, coy

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5 days ago

Had a dream that bananas now came with stickers on them determining ripeness. The scale went from "not ripe" to "ragebait" (which was a red, evil sticker)

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6 days ago

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6 days ago

Beat Elden Ring, no idea where you find these guys from the intro

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1 week ago

The river is going to explode any second with all of that in it

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1 week ago

the reaction to this clip everytime it gets posted proves you should let these old shows speak for themselves when it comes to selling them to people.

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1 week ago

James Sunderland from Return to Silent Hill with a big fake beard that doesn't even seem to adhere to his face all the way

Eric Wareheim with a deliberately dogshit fake beard

watched the new Silent Hill movie and I love that the fake beard quality is close to that of a Tim & Eric sketch

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1 week ago

thinking about him

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1 week ago

I'm so happy for her

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1 week ago

Dear congressional democrats, we all want you to weaponize the rules and disagree.

Congressional democrats:

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1 week ago

Building a new Flash I don't know where to start with this but yeah I'm making flash if flash was built in 2026. I'm making it compatible with Linux,Mac, and PC. If you'd like to support this project I've started a patreo...

Spread the word, an ACTUAL replacement for Flash is on the horizon! Go support this project NOW!!!!!!!!

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1 week ago

whaaaat

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1 week ago

We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie.

Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL.

More info:

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1 week ago

Cookie's Bustle A website trying to make Cookie's Bustle, a 90s obscure japanese game, more accessible. Downloads, how to install, FAQ, subtitles, guides & more !

now seems like a fantastic time to mention that while all of the dmca shit was going down, someone put out a fully playable english translation of cookie's bustle! even runs on modern windows (as long as you install quicktime v6.5.2, which is not what the game comes with)! cookies-bustle.net

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1 week ago

Most of the footage of the famous 2000 "Super Mario 128" tech demo was recorded with handheld cameras by the audience, with the presenter drowning out the game sound. Only 10 seconds of direct feed footage exist, which reveal that the sound was a cacophony of Marios screaming.

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1 week ago

Thanks to Muttvil and Penguinstrain, Rockman Tennis now has an English patch! The game used many image files, so Muttvil did a great job with their English conversions. Partake in tournaments and buy upgrades in the shop! Can you unlock the secret character?

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1 week ago

STREAM. I have a new preshow for you to enjoy for 3 minutes

twitch.tv/voidburger

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1 week ago

a cartoon character with a bandage on his head stands in front of a large american flag Alt: a cartoon character with a bandage on his head stands in front of a large american flag

Probably gonna stream more Mewgenics later, after food+shower. Maybe for the last time?? I'm kinda fed up with the game lol kinda wanted to do a critique-stream to air grievances

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1 week ago

My grey cat Vivi is curled up in his catbed, kinda looking like he's sleeping. One tooth is visible, cutely

Just kidding he's awake!! And still showing off that tooth

A rare toof-displayer

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1 week ago

His Iconic Catchphrase .

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