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Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million

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

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Post by ramchip »

sukuriant wrote: post #127
z-factor wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

So they're getting paid less than the going rate, at least the software engineers are. Interesting. Have you considered many of them that are on the payroll might have other jobs and so the volume is to make up for the fact that they're not all 40+ hours full time? I think this is much more complicated than we could first expect

I doubt most of them would be engineers, or even technical people.

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

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Post by pherz »

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…

I might take your post at face value, but I know the Cards guys are currently working on releasing a CBS-property branded expansion pack. If CBS' guys can can do it, I have to question your pitch. It sounds like you're on the other end of trope where the "idea guy" goes to programmer with lame idea; maybe the idea was even good but something else in the message that proved it would never work.

It's a real shame too. It will go out of style in a year or two and, gasp, maybe these people will have to get real jobs or start a real company! Assholes.

With a grudge like that, who's the one full of themselves now? They didn't follow the standard business song and dance. So what? Who cares? I'd might even say "good on them" if I knew the full situation.

start a real company

Yeah! Their product isn't ruthless data harvesting. What are they, babies?

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

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Post by mmirate »

egypturnash wrote: post #110
Cyranix wrote: post #96

If you manage to get a copy of Apples to Apples, Disney Edition (not sure if that's the real title) then you can play the mashup I was exposed to several weeks ago: Cards Against Disney. Everyone has a hand with cards from both games; a prompt is drawn from one game and answered with cards from the other game, alternating each turn. Much silliness ensues.

This is the best idea ever and I think I need to try it. I'd suggest calling it "Disney against Humanity" - but then again I used to work in animation, maybe I'm bitter.

Disney's copyright lobbying suggests that your bitterness is completely appropriate. Ever wonder why the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 was nicknamed the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act"?

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

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Post by walshemj »

UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #122
mikecane wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder, would this get rejected at the iOS App Store on grounds of taste or something? (That's aside from the fact it'd probably be DMCAed away if someone did it.)

I would imagine Apple would take it down quite quickly given how they shy away from even the most subtle of controversies. Not to mention it is illegal or near illegal in a lot of locations (e.g. UK).

How so its not like its the War on Terror Game as played on the IT Crowd.

Apart from the usual nutter MPs (the usual rent a quote mob) there is no real problem with that game.

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

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Post by walshemj »

saraid216 wrote: post #58
UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #13

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They aren't really "family guy jokes." Many of them are "I'm going to hell for saying this" jokes. Things that network television cannot air. I won't even repeat many of them here for fear of getting shadow banned.

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.

For a low brow show it has a lot of high brow jokes.

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

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Post by rgbrenner »

sukuriant wrote: post #111
z-factor wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Wikimedia's wikipedia page says they have 142 employees as of sept 2012

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation

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

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Post by rgbrenner »

sukuriant wrote: post #127
z-factor wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

So they're getting paid less than the going rate, at least the software engineers are. Interesting. Have you considered many of them that are on the payroll might have other jobs and so the volume is to make up for the fact that they're not all 40+ hours full time? I think this is much more complicated than we could first expect

Without a breakdown of where the employees are located and their positions, you can't possibly say anyone at Wikimedia is getting paid more or less than the going rate.

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

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Post by qu4z-2 »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #158
tommi wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Holy misunderstood Accountancy Batman ! I thought you were quoting the accounts of Cards Against Humanity - 1mm usd on Internet hosting seemed a bit much.

Thanks for clarifying that. I was under the same (amusing) misapprehension.

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

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Post by qu4z-2 »

AnIrishDuck wrote: post #74
saraid216 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Aside from this, it's also the interactive aspect of it that plays a part in its appeal, I think.
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