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

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Post by gojomo »

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.

'Sponsor' implies some sort of continuing relationship or cross-promotion or consideration received, so it's not very accurate to say Wikipedia has 'corporate sponsors'. The Wikimedia Foundation has received some corporate donations (including from Google), but those are a relatively small portion of their budget compared to tiny individual donations.

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

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Post by saraid216 »

ritchiea wrote: post #140
AnIrishDuck wrote: post #74

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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.

I know the Simpsons has been on forever and there is about a decade of it I haven't seen but it was not always a low brow show (assuming it is one now). The Simpsons was brilliant comedic social commentary for 5-8 years starting around season 3/4. I wouldn't call the golden years of the Simpsons low brow at all. And I don't have any issues with low brow, I just don't think it's an accurate description of the comedic…

I'll say for the record that I have no problem removing the term "low brow" from my comment. Just... pretend it's not there or something.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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.

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

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Post by YokoZar »

Fishkins wrote: post #80
eli_gottlieb wrote: post #50

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More "South Park jokes", but yeah. I swing back and forth on which one I like better. Cards Against Humanity is fun because it lets you come out and say truly horrible things. Apples to Apples is fun because it lets you imply truly horrible things in really creative ways . At its best (read: I am indeed a horrible person), either one is like drawing a smiley face on Hitler.

> Cards Against Humanity is fun because it lets you come out and say truly horrible things. Apples to Apples is fun because it lets you imply truly horrible things in really creative ways. To each their own, but this is precisely why I hate Cards Against Humanity. It ruins the joke by being too blunt and predictable.

I went through my collection of Cards Against Humanity and removed all the "not subtle" cards that are basically trying to be puerile. The game is a lot better, and I can now fit the good parts of the game + expansions into the original box.

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

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Post by d4mi3n »

Cushman wrote: post #106
cavilling_elite wrote: post #83

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Please explain the second way to play! I am completely missing this! Is it in the ruleset?

I had this mostly written up, so I'm going to say pretty much what my sibling said in a different way :) It's not about the ruleset so much as the players' attitudes. There's a way to play Apples to Apples that's as a card game. You deal the cards, flip a topic, everyone puts up, the judge reveals the cards and picks a winner. It's pretty boring unless the cards themselves are hilariously lewd, hence CAH. (And I've p…

This mirrors my own experience with CAH and Apples to Apples: you make plays pm the judge(s) and the words!

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

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Post by taftster »

takeda64 wrote: post #124
gcb0 wrote: post #79

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Out of the us visa used to win that title. Not sure now. This also makes me wonder what kind of deal Costco have... Since i doubt they bend to those things easily.

AmEx has special Costco card, which you can only use with valid Costco membership (it automatically renews it per year) and the cashback you are receiving will be in a form of coupon given yearly which you can only spend back at Costco.

You can cash the check at the customer service desk. But yes, you can only redeem the cash-back coupon at Costco.

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

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Post by sfall »

gcb0 wrote: post #79
coherentpony wrote: post #5

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Yeah, processing credit cards is an absolute pain for vendors. American Express are probably the worst for vendors.

Out of the us visa used to win that title. Not sure now. This also makes me wonder what kind of deal Costco have... Since i doubt they bend to those things easily.

costco probably gets discounted processing rates for being the exclusive cc vendor

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

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Post by elteto »

stickydink wrote: post #22
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.

From someone not from the US; so why do you have an American Express card?

Based on my experience, American Express has outstanding customer service. I have also heard that they tend to be rather aggressive in their fraud protection program and they way they deal with chargebacks, often taking the side of the cardholder rather than the merchant's.

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

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Post by ericd »

rubyrescue wrote: post #112
ericd wrote: post #100

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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.

The Starwood AmEx also has a foreign transaction fee of 2.7%, I believe, so there's no real reason to use it outside the US, unless you're at a Starwood hotel and getting a huge bonus that way. In the US it's pretty excellent, though.

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

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Post by nandemo »

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.

A lot of successful business partnerships can be described by "riding the coattails of a hit". If they're being straightforward and proposing a partnership, as opposed to (say) simply copying it, I don't see the problem.
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