The username is the joke.
I’m not putting in more effort than you clowns unless I feel like it lol
I can’t comprehend why the highest executive at one of these places would get paid more than 250k. It’s a nonprofit in fucking ohio, MCOL in cities at best, LCOL in huge swaths of the state.
They wield tremendous power. Nonprofits should not be tools for oligarchs to shelter assets and defraud the public, but they are all over the US and probably the world.
$159,974,600 in “Salaries, wages, and related fringe benefits” for 2025.
Why would a nonprofit company that supplies databases of library metadata need to pay $160 million dollars to staff? You can run a midsized business for that. https://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/annual-report/2025/pdf/2025_OCLC_Audit_Report.pdf
2024 executive earnings: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/310734115
Key Employees and Officers Compensation
Prichard David (President & Ceo) $1,347,322
Rozek William (Cfo, Treasurer) $832,584
Murphy Bart (Chief Tech. & Info. Officer) $765,667
Leeches.
WorldCat.org is provided by OCLC, a nonprofit global library organization that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs so libraries can better fuel learning, research, and innovation.
In what way does anna’s archive work contrary to their mission?
It doesn’t. It does their mission better than they ever could. They provide no value beyond the database that is being shared for free by anna’s. There must be some salaries or some soft power being wielded somewhere by someone who doesn’t want that to go away.
DW:O shouldn’t be 9/10 on any platform. Don’t get me wrong, I love DW as a franchise even though it’s been utter garbage for years, and this one is a huge step up. It’s still not a 9/10 game, It’s an 8/10 game realistically.
The port being only 30fps doesn’t instill confidence at it being the best version either. When a port is inferior than others but still very playable, I expect it to lose half a point. 30fps is very playable, and let’s pretend it’s rock solid never dips 30fps - half a point deduction.
So probably 7.5 for this edition would be a more realistic score.
Do you collect? what do you think it’s worth?
Certainly looks to be corn-fed.
I know a guy who removed his motorcycle’s muffler and rode around for a couple of days. He can’t really hear in his right ear much anymore (because that’s where the pipe was cut off, to the right of the bike.) I did ride for a time, but always wore earplugs even if I wasn’t going on the highway.
I don’t really like large crowds or bars either man. I like 1:1 conversations and interactions. My heavy bar scene and parties only lasted maybe a couple years and I was always a +1.
My wife took me to a wedding where her cousin was getting married and the volume was cranked to 11. I sat through a two hour catholic service before the party which was fine. We got to the party afterwards and I just wanted to go back to the room and sleep. We were traveling, I was sick from what I thought was the food or having some of the local water but it later turned out to be full blown covid… but I was trying to be supportive and there for her because her enormous extended family was just meeting me for the first time.
I was in line for food since we hadn’t eaten, and the speakers were to my right. The noise was so loud you couldn’t hear someone yelling “what” at point blank range. I only stood in that line for a minute before leaving and my wife gave me so much shit for leaving, even though it was after her own father left. I wouldn’t be surprised if some or even most of my tinnitis came from that one party. I’ve never told her about this suspicion though, but I still remember it as I notice my ears ringing, right now. The right is substantially worse than the left.
Anyway, fortunately the tinnitus is extremely mild and I generally don’t notice it. If I start thinking about it, it gets worse and very persistent until I manage to distract myself. It’s always there, pulsating to the beat of my heart, and will not go away until I die or go deaf.
Shit happens.
I have crowdstrike. I have no plans to drop them come renewal time. I had to work overnight to recover some things but I still believe they are one of the best at what they do.
It’s not like this is a common occurrence.
Weird, my friends and I may occasionally talk about the bad stuff, but there’s always something good going on. We can be excited for upcoming things too.
I like being able to have conversations at bars and restaurants. In my bachelor days when I was dating an amazing person she knew all the good bars and restaurants that you could actually have conversations in. We always knew going in to a social thing if it was gonna be a good conversation or just yelling and “what?”
Plus the ear damage from the loud shit is no joke. Tinnitus started for me by mid 30s and I never listen to loud music or do stupid stuff, beyond bars and parties.
There’s no merger or acquisition off the table from us regulations right now.
Just wait until your S90Copilot+ is showing you popup notifications from your Copilot Washer and Copilot Dryer.
Before you know it… copilot.ml
This message brought to you by Pepsi. Did you realize our formula was created by Copilot? That’s why it tastes so great and is the world’s #1 beverage!
Sorry, haven’t you heard the news?
It’s Copointe from the Copilot May Cry+ franchise now. Microsoft rebranded it.
Sega will be renamed to Zune.
I’m not holding my breath. Their belief system is way too sticky to go anywhere. A regime may change and some small progress might be made but that’s only until people get angry en masse and it’s right back under some other guy.
You’ll need to wait for Wine 12 Copilot Plus edition featuring Clippy.
I read about that and forgot about it. I knew riot picked these guys up for a while but that’s it.
The goal is monetization. It’s another minecraft clone… there’s so many amazing minecraft mods that don’t ask for your money and run on potato pcs (and have options that scale up to top tier gaming pcs) so I don’t know who this is really for, beyond someone just looking for shiny new toys.
Don’t get me wrong, I hate steam because it inevitably will be a problem after some amount of years.
On the hytale side though, they literally aren’t on steam for the reason in a recent news article on their site:
This doesn’t mean Hytale will never be on Steam; right now, we don’t see the need for it, as we want to keep our launch closer to our community. It’s important to note that Steam currently doesn’t support some of our modding features; we will be in contact with Valve in the near future to see what’s possible.
Reading between the lines, with the emphasis i’ve added… the “modding features” they don’t support are paid mods. They want that creator club / roblox experience ASAP.
Military service has long been a path to escape poverty for a lot of vulnerable people.
You never know how bad things are where they lived unless you try it yourself. None of those countries are places i’d be lining up to go… I just got back from Lima not that long ago and it’s infinitely safer, yet was still getting cased by pickpockets as a gringo.
Well you never know, I could be wrong. I’m just cynical after so many experiences over the years.
I used to preorder stuff. I’ve been burned so hard. I look at Lost Epoch as a comparison closest to a game like Hytale though. Early videos do look shiny so far because downloads started ~45 minutes early. They need to keep landing sales though for revenue to be worth it with a team of 50+
The skin crowd is already going nuts. (Why would you pay $50 on skins for a $20 game again? in a game with modding support and gear that changes your appearance… just why? lol - i’ve never been the spend thousands of dollars on skins guy though. Probably $20 in guild wars 2 over a decade for a couple mount skins that have no free options…)
With zero user reviews of the EA, and no reviewer info out there at all.
They already talk about taking a % fee from private servers and mod sales, and they are hyper-aggressive about moderation. This is targeting the roblox crowd by the looks of it’s aggressive focus on mtx/paid experiences while sidestepping publisher fees like steam.
Yay! This is what makes america great! Republicans are the best EVER!
so stupid.
It’s just so… weird. I swear every time i’m watching one of those crazy episodes a meme comes out and it’s just like… is there really four lights?
Sure but you can listen to whole albums on stuff like Spotify.
Some bands are truly one hit wonders though…