Final Fantasy XVI -- Eikons & Nicknames
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Final Fantasy XVI -- Eikons & Nicknames
I'm at this part! how can the game get more intense after this??
nobody:
the men of Final Fantasy XVI:
The natural evolution of a FF game
FFXVI "You're alive. We both are. Nothing else matters."
w: what’re you starin’ at me for…?
v: nothin’… just, love you.
Rebecca Lindenberg | Interview in The Believer | March 27 2012
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hey ao3 can you like give the extra $38k you made from this month’s funds drive to charity
You know it legally is a charity, right?
If x charity aims for £10, but gets £15, would you expect then to give back the extra five or give it then to another charity? No. Any extra costs go into the “rainy day” fund; sometimes servers crash or break, sometimes false reports are made that require the legal team, sometimes you need to hire coders or what not to implement new features or fix bugs or deal with broken code …
The money they aimed for is the bare minimum, which goes towards things like basic server costs and domain names and legal advice and so forth, but they don’t just “pocket” the rest (as people claim). It’s not a business. It has no advertisements. It needs some “rainy day” cash to function.
You can’t ask a charity to give money to another charity.
It needs what it gets to function and improve.
kiena-tesedale replied to this post
They don’t “pocket” excess money. They have a publicly accessible budget - waaaay more info than most charities, in fact. In it, you can clearly see where each dollar goes. (Also, you are vastly underestimating either how much traffic AO3 gets or how much servers/hosting costs.)
In my experience, people who don’t work in web design and hosting just have no concept of how heavy a load something like AO3 would have. Not only is the traffic absolutely buck wild, but the quantity of data that archive needs to store is fuckoff crazy. I’m talking “more than the library of congress” crazy. The only reason it doesn’t require Netflix levels of data serving is that it’s text based rather than video.
AO3 is in the top 300 websites in the world, and the top 100 in the US. It is the number 2 literature website.
Number 2 in the entire world. JSTOR is 20.
It sees about 6 million people a day. About 250k an hour. Each of those people is loading multiple pages, many are running searches that execute on literally hundreds of potential variables per search. The demands involved are astronomical.
JSTOR, btw, makes 85 million dollars a year.
It’s 18 ranks below AO3′s traffic, and takes in 650 times the amount of money.
But let’s say you think that’s an unfair comparison. Would you say that the Project Gutenberg Literature Archival Group- another text based archive that handles literature operating outside traditional copyright requirements- is more similar?
Because it sees all of 4% of the traffic that AO3 handles.
Care to guess its budget?
Double that of AO3.
AO3 is doing shit on the kind of shoestring budget that I fully, 100% cannot comprehend. And that’s just the archival service.
The 130k also pays for the OTW’s legal team, which they use to defend the right of fandom to fucking exist.
It’s absolutely batshit fucked up that people are fighting to have the OTW defunded and AO3 shut down. They are the only organized group that actually stands directly between fandom- all the art and the fics and the vids and the music and the chats and the memes and everything we love about interactive, transformative work- and an incalculable amount of lawsuits.
This.
“Thank you for taking care of him.” “…I could say the same to you.”
Decorated endpapers with additional silvered floral patterning.
Images from: John Chilton Scammell’s The Library of Entertainment. Chicago : Geo. L. Shuman & Co., 1921. Call Number: PN6013 .S39 1921 Catalog record: https://bit.ly/2ROrp9C
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(recipes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ,8 ,9 ,10)
Got to make up for lost time after not being angry enough earlier
*me, remembering something that annoyed me 10 years ago* that FUCKHEAD
Nobody called me but I showed up anyway.
What the hell even is the this post
It’s the sins of humanity crying out to be known
The five boxing wizards jump quickly
Why zip along quick fam, just relax and vibe.
A strong contender for tweet of the year, already.