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Teleku
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I went ahead and pledged. Looks pretty fun, and you get a shit ton of what look like some pretty nice miniatures.
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Rendakor
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Isn't this from an episode of Parks and Rec? |
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eldaec
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schild
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lamaros
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Do BGG users really have that kind of money?
Anyhow the game still looks crap. Its like that think that everyine likes but you hate because its not what you like except we've changed it so now its exactly what you like (except not like what those others like so we don't know why its even a point of reference apart from you're all suckers).
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Samwise
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 I don't think I can muster excitement about yet another FPS, no matter how ironically nostalgic (do I have that backwards?), but that trailer was awesome.
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Teleku
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Do BGG users really have that kind of money?
Anyhow the game still looks crap. Its like that think that everyine likes but you hate because its not what you like except we've changed it so now its exactly what you like (except not like what those others like so we don't know why its even a point of reference apart from you're all suckers).
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
-Stephen Colbert
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lamaros
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Yeah and Kemet is a crap game.
/rant
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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lamaros
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Kick starter, where internet celebrities with crap ideas go to cash out!
20 for a deck of cards? What?
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Paelos
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It's a great idea in my mind. The thing will probably deliver more than 95% of video game kickstarters, and both sides will be pleased.
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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HaemishM
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ONE POINT NINE MILLION FUCKING DOLLARS?  ?? Fuck it, stop the world. Either let me off this aqueous globe full of complete fucking morons, or let me in front of the line of suckers with wallets begging to hand over their money for fuckall. |
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Goreschach
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lel, look at all this butthurt and jealous.
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schild
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Matthew Inman is involved. Why does the result surprise you at all. Dude is like #4 on the list of internet darlings.
Edit: This was a response to Haemish.
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Fabricated
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The Oatmeal is like a living version of a family guy cutaway, or a human listicle
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Teleku
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I am tempted to pledge just because of how much I like The Oatmeal.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
-Stephen Colbert
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Ingmar
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Do BGG users really have that kind of money?
Board gaming is an expensive hobby, of course they do. |
The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT.
Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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schild
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I am tempted to pledge just because of how much I like The Oatmeal.
This is how it got to where it is. |
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HaemishM
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I love the Oatmeal. That makes more sense... but still... 1.9 million. Fuck. Me. I'm obviously doing it wrong. All of it.
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Paelos
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Being an internet personality is lucrative if you can put up with the crazies. South Park covered that this season for a reason.
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pxib
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Also, being an extremely profitable internet celebrity isn't something you can choose to do any more than you can choose to be a best-selling novelist, an A-list Hollywood actor, or a billionaire hedge fund manager. Many will enter, few will win.
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Fabricated
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See: PewDiePie
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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Kail
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See: PewDiePie
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MahrinSkel
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I love the Oatmeal. That makes more sense... but still... 1.9 million. Fuck. Me. I'm obviously doing it wrong. All of it.
That was last night, today is $2.3M. Kicktraq has it trending to $34M. No, I didn't drop the decimal point, thirty four million dollars. 346,110% of goal. I like The Oatmeal too, and the game concept is a fairly clever variation, but Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick, that's insane. --Dave |
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pxib
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Well they've promised more than 100,000 games, since the majority of their backers are getting normal game + nsfw game... looks like each game is two decks (based on the box they've made), and that they're poker sized cards. So about 100 cards then. Poker sized cards are printed on sheets of 18, which cost about $1.00 in bulk, so each deck of costs $6.70 in printing. Let's assume the printed boxes are $2.35 apiece, and another 15 cents for the instruction sheet, so like $9.20 per game. $10.20 or so for the extra-card NSFW decks that the vast majority of their orders include.
That's $920,000 right there. Without shipping.
Yeah, they'll each come out of this with a nice chunk of change, but selling products is a lot more expensive than selling time and effort. I'll bet, for overall effort, Inman would make more money pimping extra comics on Patreon.
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lamaros
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Do BGG users really have that kind of money?
Board gaming is an expensive hobby, of course they do. Its not that expensive. Most BGG users would spend a few thousand a year at best. |
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MahrinSkel
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Considering the quantities, you have to figure that they'll be able to shave those figures a bit. I'm not grudging them their success, as far as I am concerned they could be selling turds in a box and it would be fine by me. Just boggling a little at the scale of what was obviously intended as a bit of a joke.
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lamaros
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Seriously pxib you have no idea about printing costs. Lol at 6.70 for the cards, ROFL at 2.35 for the boxes.
Even if you were only doing a few thousand that would be way way over. At the volume they'll be doing their margin will be huge.
Also I'd be surprised if they added that much more over the rest of the drive. Maybe double from now, but the fanboy flood will dry up.
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« Last Edit: January 21, 2015, 04:03:12 PM by lamaros »
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Sky
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My spidey sense says 6-8M range.
I'm in, even though it's a bit steep. Just because my two gaming buds and I have been trying to figure out how to bring my girlfriend into the fold and this game is pretty much tailor made to do that. More than worth $20 (ok $35, nsfw cards 'optional' lol).
As a game on its own? Nope. But I has reasons.
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Teleku
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Yeah, I pledged. The cards look funny and it sounds like it might be a good game to take as a travel/drinking game to pull out in evenings when I'm on trips with real people (non-gamers). A niche currently filled solely by Cards Against Humanity.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
-Stephen Colbert
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lamaros
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You enjoy uno?
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Paelos
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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Zetor
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I think that exploding kitten thing has less depth than Bang!. And that game isn't exactly rocket surgery...  |
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Rendakor
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Same here, from the KS pitch it didn't look very interesting. But then, I've never heard of the Oatmeal (had to google, vaguely recognize the artstyle) so maybe I'm missing some of the humor.
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MahrinSkel
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When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was bullshit!
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My spidey sense says 6-8M range.
I'm in, even though it's a bit steep. Just because my two gaming buds and I have been trying to figure out how to bring my girlfriend into the fold and this game is pretty much tailor made to do that. More than worth $20 (ok $35, nsfw cards 'optional' lol).
As a game on its own? Nope. But I has reasons.
I'm going to be contrary and double your projection, $12-16M is my guess. It's already close to $3M with 28 days to go, so it would have to stall out hard not to break $10M. --Dave |
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