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Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by xkcd-sucks »

MPSimmons wrote: post #21
Helloworldboy wrote: post #14

How can such a boring game have such a large following? The gimmick wears out in like 15 minutes. Edit: these downvotes. To think I pegged HN for a community with good taste in card games.

My kneejerk response is to downvote you, but I'm bigger than that. I'll just refer back to IDIC: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. It might get old for you, but other people enjoy the creativity of combining things in new and interestingly subtle ways.

The problem is that circumstances often compel us to do what is popular. If McDonalds buys out all the restaurants nearby, realistically you will have to eat a big mac if it's late and you don't have time to cook. If Cards Against Humanity is the coolest thing ever and all your co-workers play it every day it's in your interest to play it with them. Popular things bear upon your life whether you want them to or not, so it makes sense to work to get rid of popular things that one doesn't like.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by rocqua »

This is a great thing. Truly, hats of too cards against humanity.

I noticed something worrying about myself when reading these stories. A small voice in the back of my head judged a lot of these people. Those who say they will use it for gifts, travel or other things I apparently deem frivolous. It is not okay of me to think these things. These people deserve happiness, and these people can make their own choices. This disdain is something I really wanna work on. :(

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by djsumdog »

Helloworldboy wrote: post #14

How can such a boring game have such a large following? The gimmick wears out in like 15 minutes. Edit: these downvotes. To think I pegged HN for a community with good taste in card games.

I don't like the original game, but they did make Secret Hitler, which is fucking awesome!

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by jquery »

FLGMwt wrote: post #15
mberning wrote: post #6

Wait... all these people paid $15 to begin with? Are you really that poor if you can flip out $15 for any little thing that comes along.

$15 is a roughly a single meal. Are we suggesting that $15 spent towards entertainment is exceptional or excessive for anyone below middle-class, ? If that's true, than surely we're worse off than we're all aware of.

If $1000 is life changing money for you, you have no business spending $15 on a lottery ticket, unless you are terrible at managing money, which might have something more to do with their situation more than living in the richest nation on Earth.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by Helloworldboy »

drawkbox wrote: post #36
Helloworldboy wrote: post #14

How can such a boring game have such a large following? The gimmick wears out in like 15 minutes. Edit: these downvotes. To think I pegged HN for a community with good taste in card games.

Any game that is fun even for 5-10 minutes will ripple through people for years, there is always a new 10,000. Also they are very good at viral marketing. They have you commenting on the game in a thread on HN about it. Keep people talking about your game and what you are doing, recipe for success. The game mechanic is catchy, that is almost all a successful game needs aside from marketing momentum.

Upvoted just for giving me a real answer, instead of a defensive drivel.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by throwawaycloud »

ridgewell wrote: post #12

>We excluded all Canadians. They already have universal healthcare. They’ll be fine. Yikes. I certainly got a laugh out of that, then an overly reflective period of what I'm grateful for, especially the benefits afforded from being north of the border.

Throwaway for privacy.

I've been concealing cancer symptoms for years, mostly because I can't afford to get a colonoscopy. Even the cheapest clinics run well over $1k, which is totally out of reach.

The secondary reason is an unhealthy fear of needles and a desire to live without a colostomy bag.

I know I need to see a psychiatrist or a therapist to help me get over these irrational fears, but you guessed it: I can't afford to. I make just enough not to be covered by any of the ACA's tiers, which means it'd be $400/mo for health insurance. It's like.. $400/mo? Do you have any idea what I could buy with $400/mo? I'd be able to afford to eat as much meat as I want to, let alone health insurance.

So yeah, just barely treading water down here in the good ol' USA. Cheers from down south.

(I'm not jealous, to be clear. Hopefully we'll get our stuff sorted out someday.)

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by jjirsa »

n0her0 wrote: post #30

They took the money and put it where it seemed like it would have the biggest impact. The people who paid $15 should all be very happy to have been a part of this. For many, especially those with little income and high economic insecurity, holidays are very tough and actually result in working few days having less money at a time of greater need. To those seeking to criticize, it was not meant to be a perfect example…

Bought a few of these (for myself, and as gifts). Was happy to have been a part of just day 1 - well worth the money. Everything else is icing on the cake.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by djsumdog »

mberning wrote: post #40
FLGMwt wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$15 is a roughly a single meal. Are we suggesting that $15 spent towards entertainment is exceptional or excessive for anyone below middle-class, ? If that's true, than surely we're worse off than we're all aware of.

At a restaurant. Which you really shouldn't be indulging in very often or at all if $1000 is a major boon to your life.

When everything is going to shit, people are in the hospital and you barely have enough food stamps to feed your kids ...

You can go to a movie. Are you going to really fault someone for that, or taking their partner to a restaurant, using what little they have, to just try and forget how bad things are for a few hours?!

It's not like they can just stop being poor.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by n0her0 »

FLGMwt wrote: post #31

Oh hey, on top of the prevalent skepticism and detractions in the current discussion, I'll just throw out that, on its own, this is objectively a Good Thing. I won't dismiss the fact that this is good PR for CAH, but it is still morally-motivated positive impact for some fixed number of people. A company took some profit they had and exceptionally distributed to some of their less fortunate customers. Don't immediate…

They offer their base product as a download for free on their main page right below the buy button and it is licensed under the Creative Commons... And they give you instructions on how to do it most easily. They are an exceptional company, and have earned fans instead of customers.
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