Eric 'Tchotchke' Aschner 2015-02-05T11:09:37-05:00
@Matthew
Their profit per unit is probably likely down, not up. If you sell a few thousand decks you can take care of the surveys yourself and buy some pizza and have some friends spend a weekend helping you ship everything.
At this point they have to worry about freight, fulfillment partners, paying for the survey, etc. You make more money based off of quantity, not price per unit.
Matthew Brewster 2015-02-05T11:11:30-05:00
@Tasha (Turner) Lenhoff - Excellent post.
BTW, I think the NSFW Deck stretch goal was excellent. I am only actually annoyed about the 'achievement-style thing to get a box' stretch goal.
If they had said something like "we've done amazingly well, and you are all getting a decent box as a thank you... Our new stretch goal is to work towards a kickstarter exclusive surprise" and left it at that I would have been happy.
They way they have said "Jump through a lot of hoops and sell us your vital organs before we give you anything" was less impressive! :-)
Love the collage idea - grab all the tweets #update9 with cat ears. Too bad we can't get ahold of will weaton as he's on a cruise ship with a bunch of fun geeky people whom I'm sure could talked into putting on ears for a picture.
@Everyone: Ease off Matthew. A great conversation and debate is one thing, but we're deviating from that. He understands what it is we tried to say the first 3 times we said it. He just thinks they could have done better which is kind of beside most point being made.
I seem to notice that everyone is forgetting the "awesome mystery item" that was mementioned in an early update...and has yet to be revealed...just saying.
@Owen: Oh no, not me. I reference it every time I make a facetious comment about the new SG mystery potentially EU Friendly trinket... we could get two mystery EU Friendly trinkets now...
Hiepnotiq 2015-02-05T11:18:52-05:00
@Matthew
Totally agree with you on the whole box reward. For a 10k% back project I would hope they wouldn't have to send it to us in zip lock bags. 0_~
Az4r0th 2015-02-05T11:19:10-05:00
The problem is when they air episodes. Might be too late.
I think a picture within a picture within a picture will work. As long as all have the update 9 in it
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2015-02-05T11:19:13-05:00
I'm betting (and publically announcing it here) that even if we don't unlock those 30 items in their SG update #9, they'll still give us the fancy box and the awesome item of mystery. At this scale, they are already finalizing production contracts, and making their plans for fulfillment, packaging and shipping. Whether they order 250,000 decks or 300,000 decks is their issue now.
Anja "Cha!" Allen 2015-02-05T11:19:49-05:00
Share of the Day:
I'm so geeking out right now having just received my Worldbuilders raffle prize win of a complete set of Cealdish Coins
I was going to pay them forward but having held them, they're so heavy and shiny...grrrss mine. It's the dragon in me. I'll wrestle her down and let 'em go...maybe ;)
@Matthew I think they've been watching the backer thread and the kitten corps & figured this crew would love a game for SGs. So that's what they did - they gave us a game. As with any SGs it will work for some backers and not for others.
When backers were talking about SGs a number of us made it clear we didn't want a retroactive one. So again they were listening to backers who in the previous update "stretch goals will be coming" specifically asked they NOT give us something for already reaching so many things but make it new goals. So be frustrated with backers like me ;)
@Jeff: Yeah, I think they set the bounds completely within reason for one. They did it simply to give us something to do, to allow us to participate, to give us a goal to strive for and accomplish; all to help make the game that much better.
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2015-02-05T11:21:39-05:00
On a different topic, I joined Twitter merely to send the proper tweets to the folks for the #9 update goals. I followed a few actors and luminaries for grins, but other than those three tweets, I'm done. Yet I aready have one follower -- who appears to be a Russian spammer. Is there any way to block followers on Twitter?
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2015-02-05T11:22:13-05:00
1) finally got twitter yesterday.
2) broke down and hashtagged for the first time....ugh, next I'll be listening to the Justin Biebers or the Taylor Swifts or anything the kids are listening to.
@Jeff: On the home screen select [followers]. On the follower in question theres an icon that bring up a small menu that you can nix them with.
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2015-02-05T11:23:42-05:00
I followed Shatner just for grins, but man, that guy is vapid -- assuming he actual posts there, and not one of his paid flunkies. I also followed Stephen Fry, and he seems cool.
Anja "Cha!" Allen 2015-02-05T11:23:55-05:00
Added Powerwolf "Resurrection" for @Non-Euclitten and Tom Jones "She's A Lady" for @DaWolf to the music list :)
Yes, it's a gear. I was looking right at it and couldn't figure out how to describe it, I completely blanked...
John "Collar Stay" Kelly 2015-02-05T11:27:33-05:00
Does anyone else think that the Thunderclap thing is a little scary with all of the permissions it requires?
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-05T11:27:42-05:00
Morning, all! I'll be headed out soon to attempt to get a goat selfie. Of course, I'll have my EU friendly, unsleeved #update9 sign without trinkets or collector's tin with me
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2015-02-05T11:28:04-05:00
At this point, I'd bet they are asking for quotes in the 300K to 400K quantity range, which is huge, but easily produced on modern printing presses.
Matthew Brewster 2015-02-05T11:28:05-05:00
@Everyone - Cheers for the lively discussion. There are still a lot of days left to go. I'm sure The Team will pull something particularly awesome out of the bag once contracts etc. have been negotiated a bit further.
The constructive comments and lack of flaming is refreshing for the internets!
Chris "The Historian" Loth 2015-02-05T11:28:12-05:00
@Trinkets I hear ya on the whole hastag thing. Until this I've only done hashtags mockingly.
Eric 'Tchotchke' Aschner 2015-02-05T11:28:13-05:00
@John
Yes. Yes I do.
Anja "Cha!" Allen 2015-02-05T11:28:16-05:00
@Potatten...I don't think @DaWolf was referring to himself :)
Chris "The Historian" Loth 2015-02-05T11:29:14-05:00
I keep playing with twitter to figure it out and learn it, but I can't really seem to get myself to like it. I think I just don't mesh with it on some sort of fundamental level.... I don't really GET it.
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2015-02-05T11:31:39-05:00
It on the follower when you're looking at your followers, right next to [FOLLOW]
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2015-02-05T11:33:14-05:00
Are you in the app or full site or mobile, @PoT
Eric 'Tchotchke' Aschner 2015-02-05T11:33:19-05:00
Why does #everyone have #problemswithhashtags. They're #supereasy to use, #notatallannoyingtoread and add #superiorfunctionality that is #newandimproved.
Not seeing my 'chilada yet.
There are a ton of others posted after mine and never retweeted... so. If I'm not allowed to see my items in the search, why do I need this dragon boob again?
You can also go to the followers site and do it there. The gear will be up near the top below the header/banner. It will be on the far right next to a [FOLLOW] button.
Bob "Powers of Tesla" Lindley 2015-02-05T11:35:19-05:00
Full site. Perhaps I have no followers. I'm okay with that. I am currently looking at my profile page, I have also looked at the "Home" page.
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-05T11:35:23-05:00
Idle/Wild, did they at least favorite it?
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2015-02-05T11:35:29-05:00
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2015-02-05T11:35:34-05:00
If you click on whose following you and look at their home page, there's a little box with a silhouette of the top half of a person. Click that. Then a menu pops up wit choices. One should be block.
@Evan it took me months to "get" Twitter. First I had to embrace my inner child "lack of attention span" - never, ever try to "catch up on your feed once you follow more than 10 people (and depending on those 10) - at most go back an hour.
With that gear thing you can create lists - use them early on and life is easier - still mostly limit yourself to the last hour of activity unless it's your best bud or your mother
Block & mute are your friends as is the option to go to someone's profile & click the gear & "don't see retweets (RTs)"
Hashtags can be fun or ruin your life it depends on how caught up you get.
That's my quick tutorial - lots of good tutorials out there on how to use the features - my advice is how to keep your sanity once you've gone over to the dark side @turner_tasha
Eric 'Tchotchke' Aschner 2015-02-05T11:40:19-05:00
My current favourite of the awkward positions my cat gets into. The joys of being tailless!
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-05T11:45:24-05:00
Tchotchke, never! I will work to destroy them! My minions shall not rest until tge hashtag is once again only referred to as the pound sign or the number symbol!
Eric 'Tchotchke' Aschner 2015-02-05T11:45:41-05:00
@Owen: Not to be a creeper but it is still there. You can email the twitter people and tell them to send an email to the register email address for your @[whatever] and they can send it to you. You can have it deleted entirely by doing something similar.
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2015-02-05T11:48:43-05:00
If we have to pronounce hashtags in normal speech as part of everyday dialog, it's going to sound like we all are sneezing constantly.
Chris "The Historian" Loth 2015-02-05T11:49:09-05:00
Hmm... maybe not... https://support.twitter.com/forms/restore But I would send them an email asking to wipe out the page and all it's contents in the event that you can't restore it.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-02-05T11:51:01-05:00
@Collar Stay, that was too funny, and reinforced my extreme dislike of twitter.
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-05T11:52:00-05:00
@Potatten: That involves not being lazy though. I'm pretty sure I used my primary email for it, so I should be able to get it back quickly.
On a side note, when I hit the backspace button on my phone it copy pastes the last correction I tried doing...time to #resetthispieceofshittechnologicaladvance
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-05T11:57:47-05:00
Oh, collar stay directed us to watch the Jimmy Fallon hashtag sketch
Melissa "The Creeper" Nicole 2015-02-05T11:58:05-05:00
@pottaten- I thinknthy were referring to the jimmy Fallon hashtag sketch. And hello!
@Matthew
Their profit per unit is probably likely down, not up. If you sell a few thousand decks you can take care of the surveys yourself and buy some pizza and have some friends spend a weekend helping you ship everything.
At this point they have to worry about freight, fulfillment partners, paying for the survey, etc. You make more money based off of quantity, not price per unit.
@Tasha (Turner) Lenhoff - Excellent post.
BTW, I think the NSFW Deck stretch goal was excellent. I am only actually annoyed about the 'achievement-style thing to get a box' stretch goal.
If they had said something like "we've done amazingly well, and you are all getting a decent box as a thank you... Our new stretch goal is to work towards a kickstarter exclusive surprise" and left it at that I would have been happy.
They way they have said "Jump through a lot of hoops and sell us your vital organs before we give you anything" was less impressive! :-)
Love the collage idea - grab all the tweets #update9 with cat ears. Too bad we can't get ahold of will weaton as he's on a cruise ship with a bunch of fun geeky people whom I'm sure could talked into putting on ears for a picture.
@Tasha: BAM! That's where it's at! Amazing post.
@Everyone: Ease off Matthew. A great conversation and debate is one thing, but we're deviating from that. He understands what it is we tried to say the first 3 times we said it. He just thinks they could have done better which is kind of beside most point being made.
I seem to notice that everyone is forgetting the "awesome mystery item" that was mementioned in an early update...and has yet to be revealed...just saying.
Somehow I doubt that the collage would pass.
My idea was a 100 person Google hangout.
...or asking Ellen to give them to her audience.
@Owen: Oh no, not me. I reference it every time I make a facetious comment about the new SG mystery potentially EU Friendly trinket... we could get two mystery EU Friendly trinkets now...
@Matthew
Totally agree with you on the whole box reward. For a 10k% back project I would hope they wouldn't have to send it to us in zip lock bags. 0_~
The problem is when they air episodes. Might be too late.
I think a picture within a picture within a picture will work. As long as all have the update 9 in it
I'm betting (and publically announcing it here) that even if we don't unlock those 30 items in their SG update #9, they'll still give us the fancy box and the awesome item of mystery. At this scale, they are already finalizing production contracts, and making their plans for fulfillment, packaging and shipping. Whether they order 250,000 decks or 300,000 decks is their issue now.
Share of the Day:
I'm so geeking out right now having just received my Worldbuilders raffle prize win of a complete set of Cealdish Coins
I was going to pay them forward but having held them, they're so heavy and shiny...grrrss mine. It's the dragon in me. I'll wrestle her down and let 'em go...maybe ;)
@Matthew I think they've been watching the backer thread and the kitten corps & figured this crew would love a game for SGs. So that's what they did - they gave us a game. As with any SGs it will work for some backers and not for others.
When backers were talking about SGs a number of us made it clear we didn't want a retroactive one. So again they were listening to backers who in the previous update "stretch goals will be coming" specifically asked they NOT give us something for already reaching so many things but make it new goals. So be frustrated with backers like me ;)
@Jeff: Yeah, I think they set the bounds completely within reason for one. They did it simply to give us something to do, to allow us to participate, to give us a goal to strive for and accomplish; all to help make the game that much better.
On a different topic, I joined Twitter merely to send the proper tweets to the folks for the #9 update goals. I followed a few actors and luminaries for grins, but other than those three tweets, I'm done. Yet I aready have one follower -- who appears to be a Russian spammer. Is there any way to block followers on Twitter?
1) finally got twitter yesterday.
2) broke down and hashtagged for the first time....ugh, next I'll be listening to the Justin Biebers or the Taylor Swifts or anything the kids are listening to.
@Jeff: On the home screen select [followers]. On the follower in question theres an icon that bring up a small menu that you can nix them with.
I followed Shatner just for grins, but man, that guy is vapid -- assuming he actual posts there, and not one of his paid flunkies. I also followed Stephen Fry, and he seems cool.
Added Powerwolf "Resurrection" for @Non-Euclitten and Tom Jones "She's A Lady" for @DaWolf to the music list :)
LOL @ "she's a lady"
I may have another goat selfies source :)
Oooh, thanks @DrPotatten, I had 2 followers I don't want.
Thanks for the Twitter hint, "Potatten" -- greatly appreciated. (click the little 'gear' looking thingy, btw)
Yes, it's a gear. I was looking right at it and couldn't figure out how to describe it, I completely blanked...
Does anyone else think that the Thunderclap thing is a little scary with all of the permissions it requires?
Morning, all! I'll be headed out soon to attempt to get a goat selfie. Of course, I'll have my EU friendly, unsleeved #update9 sign without trinkets or collector's tin with me
At this point, I'd bet they are asking for quotes in the 300K to 400K quantity range, which is huge, but easily produced on modern printing presses.
@Everyone - Cheers for the lively discussion. There are still a lot of days left to go. I'm sure The Team will pull something particularly awesome out of the bag once contracts etc. have been negotiated a bit further.
The constructive comments and lack of flaming is refreshing for the internets!
@Trinkets I hear ya on the whole hastag thing. Until this I've only done hashtags mockingly.
@John
Yes. Yes I do.
@Potatten...I don't think @DaWolf was referring to himself :)
@LZ, I like your style, sir!
I know, it just made me giggle and think of something else entirly... [Dude (looks like a lady)] from Mrs. Doubtfire.
Under $15K until RR is passed ....
Historian, before this, I never did hashtags at all. I feel I've soiled my soul. Yet, I also feel it is worth it
At this rate, we may surpass RR by Noon CDT.
Fun fact: Dude Looks Like A Lady was originally written about Vince Neill from Mötley Crüe
I keep playing with twitter to figure it out and learn it, but I can't really seem to get myself to like it. I think I just don't mesh with it on some sort of fundamental level.... I don't really GET it.
#IFeelViolated lol
@LZ: Indeed it was.
@LZ, for this #definitelyworthit #hashtagsthatis #IthinkInowhaveaproblem #ExplodingKittens
I can't find the "Gear thingy". Sigh... I think I'm too old for the Twitters.
@Doc P, it seems to be a stream of consciousness thing and that's about it, at least from what I can tell.
It on the follower when you're looking at your followers, right next to [FOLLOW]
Are you in the app or full site or mobile, @PoT
Why does #everyone have #problemswithhashtags. They're #supereasy to use, #notatallannoyingtoread and add #superiorfunctionality that is #newandimproved.
Yeah, but I'm a rambler with my thoughts so a character limit is not conducive to my line of thinking.
Not seeing my 'chilada yet.
There are a ton of others posted after mine and never retweeted... so. If I'm not allowed to see my items in the search, why do I need this dragon boob again?
You can also go to the followers site and do it there. The gear will be up near the top below the header/banner. It will be on the far right next to a [FOLLOW] button.
Full site. Perhaps I have no followers. I'm okay with that. I am currently looking at my profile page, I have also looked at the "Home" page.
Idle/Wild, did they at least favorite it?
#hashtags#are#the#devil#incarnate#and#act#as#impediments#to#easy#comprehension
If you click on whose following you and look at their home page, there's a little box with a silhouette of the top half of a person. Click that. Then a menu pops up wit choices. One should be block.
#POKEMONSONGBACKWARDSSOUNDSCRAZY #duh
That was on mobile site anyway
Only Cha! did.
I wonder if there will be any Manx kittens in the deck?
I am looking at the desktop webpage too btw.
oh, what have I started... #regrets #toomanyhashtags #why
Manx as in... the breed?
#ROFLCOPTER
Manx as in the ones with no tails!
Oh ok, that didn't click until you just said that.
Are people abusing Goat Simulator yet?
Oh Levar. We're right behind you. Can you see us? Can you hear us breathing?
I though people have BEEN abusing Goat Simulator and apparently have been mistaken.
@Evan it took me months to "get" Twitter. First I had to embrace my inner child "lack of attention span" - never, ever try to "catch up on your feed once you follow more than 10 people (and depending on those 10) - at most go back an hour.
With that gear thing you can create lists - use them early on and life is easier - still mostly limit yourself to the last hour of activity unless it's your best bud or your mother
Block & mute are your friends as is the option to go to someone's profile & click the gear & "don't see retweets (RTs)"
Hashtags can be fun or ruin your life it depends on how caught up you get.
That's my quick tutorial - lots of good tutorials out there on how to use the features - my advice is how to keep your sanity once you've gone over to the dark side @turner_tasha
#Ifyoudoitrightyoucanputtheentirestatusupdateintoasingularhashtag
'right'?
@Tchotchke, #superhashtaggerextraordinaire
I had a twitter once...forget the password...and which email it was. Also too lazy to find it(might do it on lunch break though...never know)
@Historian
At what point #inthefuture are #hashtags integrated into #theenglishlanguage as a #normalpartofspeech?
@Tasha So, are you already aware about the location of the photo blackhole?
http://s24.postimg.org/uv0fs1vo5/image.jpg
My current favourite of the awkward positions my cat gets into. The joys of being tailless!
Tchotchke, never! I will work to destroy them! My minions shall not rest until tge hashtag is once again only referred to as the pound sign or the number symbol!
@Matt
He'd look great as a taco. ;)
@Owen: Not to be a creeper but it is still there. You can email the twitter people and tell them to send an email to the register email address for your @[whatever] and they can send it to you. You can have it deleted entirely by doing something similar.
If we have to pronounce hashtags in normal speech as part of everyday dialog, it's going to sound like we all are sneezing constantly.
@Tchotchke, #ifihaveanythingtodowithittheywillneverbecomepartofthelexicon #hashtagdeath
@Doom Check out the Jimmy Fallon hashtag skit
#gesundheit
Great Cane, that's when I will become a shut-in. Hey! That's the other half of a shut-uppy! A shut-in!
Hmm... maybe not... https://support.twitter.com/forms/restore But I would send them an email asking to wipe out the page and all it's contents in the event that you can't restore it.
@Collar Stay, that was too funny, and reinforced my extreme dislike of twitter.
Here here! BaKhan
I miss something LZ?
Hello! #overslept #sorrynotsorry
No, the here here was the old expression for agreeing heartily with someone
@Creeper, probably for the best anyways!
It's alive! Dang did it really need 6 hours to appear? I'm done with this twit.
I'm meant the @Collar Stay thing but meh. and good morning Creeper!
@baKhan- yes, I think I'm trying to recover from the 3-days 6 hours total of sleep this past weekend. Did I miss anything of importance?
Ugh! My belly guts are angry with me today. I didn't have enchilada sauce for the floating enchilada, so I used Tapatío hot sauce instead
@Potatten: That involves not being lazy though. I'm pretty sure I used my primary email for it, so I should be able to get it back quickly.
On a side note, when I hit the backspace button on my phone it copy pastes the last correction I tried doing...time to #resetthispieceofshittechnologicaladvance
Oh, collar stay directed us to watch the Jimmy Fallon hashtag sketch
@pottaten- I thinknthy were referring to the jimmy Fallon hashtag sketch. And hello!
oh lol, I'm not all here today me thinks...
@Kevin You're in the same hell as I am. Only I'm starting to recover. The things I do for you guys, seriously...
2015-02-05 16:52:55 UTC
1. Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 1108
2. BruceP - The Chameleon 1063
3. Melissa "The Creeper" Nicole 1037
4. Experiencing Life to the Fullest-Da Wolf 898
5. Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 852
6. Chris "The Historian" Loth 667
7. Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 652
8. Evan "Potatten™" Weideman 601
9. Προφέσσορ Φ 599
10. Eric 'Tchotchke' Aschner 524
11. Mike Kabala 469
12. Josh - TC: http://thndr.it/1CXhh0P 437
13. Tsveta Koleva - Idle/Wild 421
14. Andre "Silver Ninjatten" Bernier 340
15. Anja "Cha!" Allen 321
16. John "Collar Stay" Kelly 293
17. Bob "Powers of Tesla" Lindley 292
18. Cal "Blackhawk" Rasmussen 289
19. Owen "Great Mountain" Middleton 264
20. "Diamond Dan" Drake 249
Do you guys really have nothing better to do than comment endlessly on a kickstarter project?