Ever had the realization that the world just doesn’t fit your expectations? Yeah, same, very same. In fact, in 2025, there were quite a few times when I remarked “Well, that wasn’t on my bingo card for this year”. So as we move into the new year, I’m building up a bingo card of all the things I expect to see, and on the ‘back’ of the card, I’ll be writing all the things that weren’t on it, but which actually happened.

So without further ado, here is my bingo card for the year 2026.

Front of card

Predictions for 2026. Some of these are things that I would LIKE to see happen but don’t really expect; others are things that I really hope won’t happen, but are sadly quite likely.

B I N G O
1. Hype Emotes 16. AI slop 31. HL3 46. APNG emotes 61. Chrome 0-day
2. DNS outage 17. Cheaper RAM 32. Vibe game 47. Twitch quotes 62. Starship orbit
3. Retain DST 18. Satellite collision FREE 48. Alice movie 63. Top indie game
4. Satisfactory 19. Gilmour Space 34. Spiffing LLM 49. Moon fall-over 64. 3D printed food
5. New Linux 20. IPv6 adoption 35. New emoji 50. Good live-action remake 65. $1M for KSA

Details

  1. Twitch will release a new vertical stripe of five Hype Train emotes.
  2. There will be a significant internet outage, and it will be blamed on DNS.
  3. The US discusses abandoning Daylight Saving Time, but doesn’t.
  4. The 1.2 release of Satisfactory brings a feature not a single analyst predicted.
  5. A new distribution of Linux is announced, with much fanfare. Most people stick with the famous ones though.
  6. We’ll see AI slop appear in a place we didn’t expect it. And it will be just as bad. Jan 26th, AI features added to Twitch mascot service Pando
  7. DDR5 prices will drop to more reasonable levels as production catches up with demand.
  8. Two fully-active satellites in orbit will collide.
  9. Gilmour Space has a successful launch from Queensland.
  10. IPv6 adoption: IPv6 becomes available to 25% of home users worldwide.
  11. Half Life 3 released. Not gonna happen but let’s dream.
  12. Vibe game: A 100% vibe-coded AAA game is released, but sales don’t even cover the marketing budget.
  13. Twitch breaks something and causes outages. Almost a non-event.
  14. The Spiffing Brit proves that LLMs are perfectly balanced with no exploits.
  15. The Unicode Consortium approves a set of new emoji, and the world largely ignores them.
  16. Twitch adds support for APNG animated emotes
  17. Twitch adds on-platform channel quotes (like clips but text)
  18. A new Alice in Wonderland movie is released
  19. A probe is sent to the moon, and lands sideways :(
  20. Something originally animated gets a live-action remake, and it’s actually good.
  21. A critical zero-day exploit in Google Chrome causes major panic.
  22. SpaceX Starship achieves orbit.
  23. An indie game becomes the most-viewed Twitch category and not just on launch date.
  24. A company markets 3D printed food to the very laziest of gamers.
  25. Kitten Space Agency reaches $1M in total contributions

Back of card

Well, THAT wasn’t on my bingo card for this year!