One of the founders says the article's financial speculation is "wildly incorrect"
Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million
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Re: Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million
#72I 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…
That's unfortunate. I have the opposite anecdote - they've been extremely kind and responsive every time I've been in touch.
Re: Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million
#73I 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.
Re: Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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.
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#75I was first introduced to this as Thousand White Cards Against Humanity, wherein instead of drawing from the deck or playing a card, you could take a blank and write in a new card. Compared to that, the boxed version just seems crass and unimaginative.
On the other hand, I'm normally the one to introduce groups to Apples To Apples. Those who claim this more tame version of the concept isn't fun are missing the real joy - how a limited set of choices forces surreality, playing for the person, and twisted readings of the cards.
Of course, if you're playing any of these as straight-up "this one wins", you are missing the incredible joy of "hamburgers smell, but only the bad ones are fragrant. Hilter probably was fragrant, but I doubt anyone lived to tell the tale. My birthday, however, boy was that fragrant...". The verdict slow-descriptive-reveal as the judge is the real art, and where you learn the most about people
Re: Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million
#76We're doing the same thing. Our team is located in NYC, London, and Aurora, IL. We launched our little meta-board gaming company at http://susd.pretend-money.com a little over 1.5 months ago. And we're already profitable! We made a conscious decision to forego taking money from advertisers/investors, and even dodged a pre-launch acquihire offer, in an attempt to create something that's 100% our vision (unless YC want…
A bit confused, but curious: you guys are essentially curating board games to promote and sell, am I right? I'm just trying to figure out if you guys make them or just talk about them. :) Either way, a lot of great content on there.
We don't make board games, we're just wildly passionate about them. Paul & Quinns started Shut Up & Sit Down so they could have fun reviewing and writing about board games. They just had a hard time figuring out how to make it sustainable.
I've been playing with technology surrounding gaming for the last three years or so(and gaming since I was little) so it was natural for us all to team up and build something together.
Re: Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million
#77We're doing the same thing. Our team is located in NYC, London, and Aurora, IL. We launched our little meta-board gaming company at http://susd.pretend-money.com a little over 1.5 months ago. And we're already profitable! We made a conscious decision to forego taking money from advertisers/investors, and even dodged a pre-launch acquihire offer, in an attempt to create something that's 100% our vision (unless YC want…
I absolutely love Shut Up and Sit Down, I followed Quinns over from Rock Paper Shotgun and have enjoyed the videos very much since. I'm very happy to hear you're profitable already. I would love to see what the Quinns and Paul think of Machine Of Death, a similarly mega-funded card game Kickstarter ( http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1234131468/machine-of-de... ) when it arrives.
Thanks!
We're "profitable". We're really happy with how the new site turned out. Having enough to keep the lights on an pay some friends to help out with the writing after only a month is a huge accomplishment.
I'm pretty curious about MoD too! We'll see what happens.
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#79I gave CAH (and expansion packs) as stocking stuffers for xmas and they were extremely well received. What they say on the tin is true -- you feel like a horrible person when you play the game, which is extremely cathartic. Hell, they even did a pay what you want for a small package of Christmas themed cards and pretty sure they pulled a 70k profit from that maneuver, despite ~25% percent paying $0. Their average cre…
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.
Re: Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million
#80Is this just Apples to Apples except all the cards are Family Guy jokes?
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.