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Re: Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million

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Post by sukuriant » Fri, May 17, 2013, 9:04 PM UTC

z-factor wrote: post #108

tommi wrote: post #97

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What caught my eye there was that they donated the $70,000 to Wikimedia foundation. I checked their financial report ( https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/6/68/Jul-D... ) and the top five costs are: Salaries and Wages 7,468,743 Outside Contract Services 1,791,275 Internet Hosting 1,309,591 Other Operating Expenses 1,010,273 Bank Fees 945,190 That is not the cost structure I expected. I thought the balan…

Wikimedia employs a lot of people, I personally do not donate because I believe they employ way too many. Also pretty much all costs are already covered by corporate sponsors like Google.

50 employees is too many? (140k per person)

100 employees is too many? (70k per person)

* that 140k and 70k include things like healthcare and benefits too, I bet.

Re: Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million

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Post by rubyrescue » Fri, May 17, 2013, 9:05 PM UTC

ericd wrote: post #100

UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #29

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They charge more in fees, and also pass on more as cashback/bonuses/prizes to customers. For example, a visa/mastercard might be able to kick back 1~2% for cashback. American Express might be able to go 2~3%. This is also why a lot of places don't accept Amex, the fees are higher and from the vendor's perspective they offer nothing in return. PS - The whole credit card system is too expensive, and inefficient, but th…

The Chase Sapphire Preferred is generally competitive with the AmEx Gold Premier Rewards card, is a Visa, has lower fees, no foreign transaction fee, and has better transfer partners, on average (though they don't do their special transfer bonus, if you ever take advantage of those). I wrote a little webapp to help compare card rewards: http://www.creditcardcomparer.org I still need to add the other side benefits lik…

Tf you live outside of the US or just travel a lot, and have a US account, the Chase Sapphire Preferred is THE card to have. it saves me a lot of money. i like it slightly better than the Starwood Amex just because i can use it more places.

Re: Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million

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Post by ghempton » Fri, May 17, 2013, 9:07 PM UTC

mhartl wrote: post #89

The success of Cards Against Humanity is evidence of massive demand, and yet all they have protecting them is their brand—unlike, say, craigslist, whose unwillingness to innovate is legendary but whose business benefits from massive network effects. As a result, the (apparent) apathy of the Cards Against Humanity founders offers an opportunity: copy their basic idea, for which they have no protection, and structure y…

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Re: Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million

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Post by evan_ » Fri, May 17, 2013, 9:10 PM UTC

AnIrishDuck wrote: post #74

saraid216 wrote: post #58

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If you weren't aware, Family Guy is a fairly popular low-brow humor cartoon TV show. It's in the same category as The Simpsons or South Park.

If you haven't played cards against humanity, many of the cards run roughshod over subjects that would give network execs heart attacks. From my experience the average CaH session is an order of magnitude more crass than anything on network television.

what's an example

Re: Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million

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Post by z-factor » Fri, May 17, 2013, 9:13 PM UTC

sukuriant wrote: post #111

z-factor wrote: post #108

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Wikimedia employs a lot of people, I personally do not donate because I believe they employ way too many. Also pretty much all costs are already covered by corporate sponsors like Google.

50 employees is too many? (140k per person) 100 employees is too many? (70k per person) * that 140k and 70k include things like healthcare and benefits too, I bet.

I remember reading though a page where they listed their employees and I remember it was 100+, I wanted to include the link in my comment, buy couldn't find it this time.

Re: Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million

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Post by mrbill » Fri, May 17, 2013, 9:13 PM UTC

I've given away 10-12 complete CAH sets to friends. Not a single person has said "oh that game is boring", and more than one of them has come back later and told me it was their favorite birthday/Christmas present, etc.

It's also a great way to judge if you'll get along with someone.

Re: Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million

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Post by avalaunch » Fri, May 17, 2013, 9:16 PM UTC

guelo wrote: post #73

gsibble wrote: post #55

I love CaH but I do have to say that the founders are full of themselves. I and several other friends/entrepreneurs have reached out to them regarding ideas to build associated products that would help build their brand. Even companion apps and such since their content is under Creative Commons. Every single one of us was sent back extremely rude and vile replies. This article just reeks of more narcissism. It's a re…

Come up with your own idea instead of trying to ride the coattails of something that is already a huge hit. I'm sure they have plenty of ideas and projects to work on without having to give you a cut of it.

Fair comment except that cards against humanity is pretty much just riding the coattails of an already huge hit itself.

Re: Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million

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Post by kefka » Fri, May 17, 2013, 9:20 PM UTC

AnIrishDuck wrote: post #74

saraid216 wrote: post #58

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If you weren't aware, Family Guy is a fairly popular low-brow humor cartoon TV show. It's in the same category as The Simpsons or South Park.

If you haven't played cards against humanity, many of the cards run roughshod over subjects that would give network execs heart attacks. From my experience the average CaH session is an order of magnitude more crass than anything on network television.

But the funniest jokes from these cards aren't from potty language, but from the following:

We had about 10 players, I read the card. _____. High five bro. Players played what they thought was funny. One person put down the card, "Battlefield amputation"

I read it, deadpan. "Battlefield amputation. High five bro.".... And in the course of 5 seconds, we all just realized how wrong that was. One lady laughed for a good 5 minutes for that card response.

Re: Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million

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Post by lenkendall » Fri, May 17, 2013, 9:20 PM UTC

dlhavema wrote: post #44

lenkendall wrote: post #39

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Comparing this game to Apples to Apples isn't really fair because the genius isn't in the formula (which is really basic) but in the content.

so you could say it's like comparing Apples to Oranges?

Badumpcha

Re: Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million

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Post by jevinskie » Fri, May 17, 2013, 9:20 PM UTC

cpeterso wrote: post #104

toomuchtodo wrote: post #15

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I'm an American Express cardholder and spend several hundred thousand dollars a year. If you're a small business, startup, someone I like, whatever, I go out of my way to pay you money with Dwolla or a debit card because of the fees. I'll even overnight a check if its a significant amount and I trust you.

Don't debit card transactions have fees, too? I've heard conflicting accounts. I try to pay with cash, when I can.

I believe debit card fees are lower than credit card fees.