{"id":435,"date":"2009-11-20T04:44:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T19:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/20\/very-interesting-stardock-annual-report\/"},"modified":"2009-11-20T04:44:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T19:44:39","slug":"very-interesting-stardock-annual-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/20\/very-interesting-stardock-annual-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Very interesting Stardock Annual Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stardock.com\/\">Stardock<\/a> a lot.  They started out as a windows accessory developer, and then branched out into games.  Now they are running an online distribution network for games and other stuff called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.impulsedriven.com\/\">Impulse<\/a>.  Their president, Brad Wardell, seems like a great guy.<\/p>\n<p>I bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galciv2.com\/\">Galactic Civilizations 2<\/a> from them and really enjoy it.  (Man, I wish I had a Windows machine so I could actually play it, but I don&#8217;t have any windows machines any more.)  I also bought a few other games from them over Impulse, and their weekend impulse sales, where they put really good discounts on games for just a weekend, are really tempting.  Too bad I don&#8217;t have a gaming PC any more.  Hopefully I&#8217;ll address that shortcoming in 2010 or 2011. <\/p>\n<p>You can read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stardock.com\/press\/Reports\/Stardock2009.pdf\">their 2009 Annual Report<\/a> (warning: PDF link) and I highly recommend it.  Very interesting.  I think it was the first annual report I ever read front to back just because it was interesting.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like Stardock a lot. They started out as a windows accessory developer, and then branched out into games. Now they are running an online distribution network for games and other stuff called Impulse. Their president, Brad Wardell, seems like a great guy. I bought Galactic Civilizations 2 from them and really enjoy it. (Man, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}