Now we only need as many more backers as there are days in a normal year---365!
Chris "The Historian" Loth 2015-02-11T10:01:28-05:00
@BaKahn, ah, that wily Cheetah Butt... The skittles better be on the side that allows me to eat them!
@Edward, we should hit 150k with ease today :)
Grace Moylan 2015-02-11T10:01:45-05:00
@chris yes. the bacon-cat-trinket. Like...an edible bacon cat? Or a cat that wears a bacon suit?
Edward J. Cunningham 2015-02-11T10:02:05-05:00
Make that 349 to go...
I know there's no achievement for this money level, but will The Oatmeal draw a picture of a bionic kitten when (not if, WHEN) the campaign passes the six million dollar mark?
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-02-11T10:02:42-05:00
350! The second time I saw the Loch Ness Monster, it was dressed up like a girl guide trying to sell me some cookies! I said how much for those cookies? It said, oh, I need about three fitty, and I said wait, you're no girl guide, you're the Loch Ness Monster!
Lee Stafford 2015-02-11T10:03:13-05:00
@Edward J. Cunningham That's still not 100K each is it? With nearly 150K backers we should easily be at >100K for both FB & Twit. It's not like it's a lifetime commitment... it's 8 more days... These two goals should be no brainers. We should easily make every goal except 100K% funding. RIGHT?!
Chris "The Historian" Loth 2015-02-11T10:03:14-05:00
@Grace... I'd go for an edible cat bacon over a bacon suit for my cat. Exploding Kittens = good. Eating Kittens = bad. :)
@Edward, we can only hope... he has the technology...
Chris "The Historian" Loth 2015-02-11T10:04:16-05:00
@BaKahn, is that from South Park? Bells are ringing but my brain isn't in gear yet this morning.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-02-11T10:07:14-05:00
@The Historian, yep! One of my favourite episodes, with Chef's parents!
Edward J. Cunningham 2015-02-11T10:07:52-05:00
@Lee Stafford I wasn't arguing with you---just providing updated numbers. And there's no reason why anybody who goes to the trouble of backing this Kickstarter can't like a page on Facebook. Since the number of Facebook likes has increased by over 10,000 in ONE day---I think we should get that mark if we remind enough EK backers to like the page. Getting them to follow @gameofkittens seems to be harder, although the twitter account now needs less than 38.8K to do it.
Chris "The Historian" Loth 2015-02-11T10:10:20-05:00
@BaKahn, thank you! I kept having Stan's grandpa in my head and I knew that wasn't right.
Προφέσσορ Φ 2015-02-11T10:10:29-05:00
ok!! tickets & hotel all booked!!! Amsterdam here I come!!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-02-11T10:11:58-05:00
@Prof F, you lucky evil genius you!
Eric 'Tchotchke' Aschner 2015-02-11T10:12:10-05:00
GM all. See I didn't miss the excitement.
Chris "The Historian" Loth 2015-02-11T10:12:17-05:00
@Prof F, good morning, sir. When are you going to Amsterdam?
Eric 'Tchotchke' Aschner 2015-02-11T10:12:32-05:00
Looks like we'll hit 150K well before $6M.
Chris "The Historian" Loth 2015-02-11T10:12:42-05:00
@Tchotchke, nope, but it should happen soon... very, very soon. :)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-02-11T10:12:42-05:00
@Tchotchke, good morning sir!
Horror Junky - Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-02-11T10:13:20-05:00
@Edward J. Cunningham Sorry if I came off snippy. I just can't understand why the easy goals are hardest to get. A couple clicks for people is all it takes. sigh. If we don't get both of those 100K goals, we really left-sharked it up. :-\
Edward J. Cunningham 2015-02-11T10:17:33-05:00
284 to go. I think we may hit the 150K mark before 11EST/8PST.
Eric 'Tchotchke' Aschner 2015-02-11T10:18:01-05:00
Just because it's easy for a person to do something doesn't make it easy for LOTS of people to do something. It's like herding cats.
Shaun "Oblivitten of Goatanus" Fergus 2015-02-11T10:18:28-05:00
DANG!... already 827 comments this morning... we may surpass 2500 today...
Chris "The Historian" Loth 2015-02-11T10:18:34-05:00
@Tchotchke, without the power of Thr33 there is no power of love... or something like that
love that movie btw
Horror Junky - Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-02-11T10:18:49-05:00
It's like herding cats
Which is impossible to do, btw
Edward J. Cunningham 2015-02-11T10:19:12-05:00
@Lee Stafford I don't blame you. Of the posters last night---her name had something to do with cats---said she would go "full on evil" if she heard anybody dismiss how "easy" it was to achieve the Twitter follower or Facebook like achievements.
Chris "The Historian" Loth 2015-02-11T10:19:18-05:00
@OoG, There's the strong chance of that :)
Eric 'Tchotchke' Aschner 2015-02-11T10:19:18-05:00
It was either that or the original Huey version. I stand by my decision.
Maybe in case of a fire I'll put some tape on the floor near the door so the rescuers will find the cat.
Gal Abir 2015-02-11T10:21:40-05:00
319! We're about there. Only the 100K followers on Twitter/FB is the problem...
M Kwan 2015-02-11T10:21:59-05:00
Would it be possible to have the box the carries the cards to be big enough to hold sleeved version of the cards. That would be of great help for those who want to preserve the longevity of this amazing game
Edward J. Cunningham 2015-02-11T10:22:08-05:00
I thought it was less than 300 to go. Must have been looking at the dollar amount by mistake. 319 more backers needed. On the money count, $63,894 needed to get the technology created to make the world's first bionic exploding kitten..
I hope the box is big enough to hold the trikets while sleeved, to preserve the longevity of the trinket!
Horror Junky - Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-02-11T10:24:15-05:00
@Idle/Wild: Getting a cat to sit in a circle (and some of those photos were suspect) isn't the same as getting a bunch of them to go together in a certain direction.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-02-11T10:24:34-05:00
@GM, ages ago!
Eric 'Tchotchke' Aschner 2015-02-11T10:26:03-05:00
Purronica was awhile ago. Next 'place' milestone is the Purrno, about another $300K. That one should be no issue. Getting into top 3 will be muuuch harder.
We should be able to get to the third most backed. If people who clicked the remind me star actually back, or if the Thunderclap takes the world by storm.
Chris "The Historian" Loth 2015-02-11T10:27:22-05:00
O well. There are ways.
Food. Toys. Mind games. My cat has a signal - tap on hip, that means get out of the room/balcony. Look into her eyes - stop whatever you are doing, you beast, and start licking yourself like nothing happened.
Horror Junky - Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-02-11T10:27:56-05:00
@Lee Stafford: That you for the link. It proves that cats refuse to be herded. They can be persuaded to blow *&$# up.
Chris "The Historian" Loth 2015-02-11T10:28:50-05:00
When I have time I'm going to have to start writing the "official" historical tomes based upon all of the lore that's been amassed.
Shaun "Oblivitten of Goatanus" Fergus 2015-02-11T10:28:55-05:00
Hearding cats is easy... if they are hungry... and you have food
@Historian: There will be a bio for me sometime for Cheetah to add to the Fact Sheet....just haven't figured out how to word it properly. I know what I want it to say, but putting it down in words is harder than I had hoped.
Chris "The Historian" Loth 2015-02-11T10:30:33-05:00
@Cha!, I decided to come back early, Venus is HOT this time of year...
Shaun "Oblivitten of Goatanus" Fergus 2015-02-11T10:31:53-05:00
@M Kwan - the question has been asked several times... we shall see... I too am hoping that the box will be able to accommodate sleeved cards... especially if KE is just going to be available from this KS alone... I hope the next update addresses this info...
Chris "The Historian" Loth 2015-02-11T10:31:53-05:00
@GM, no worries! I'll have to parse through everything first and start developing a timeline to work with. It'll be easy enough to insert your info in whenever you've got it right :)
Chris "The Historian" Loth 2015-02-11T10:33:00-05:00
Chris "The Historian" Loth 2015-02-11T10:36:03-05:00
@Tchotchke, Ashes to Ashes... nice :)
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2015-02-11T10:36:50-05:00
Recapping. I sent the team a screen capture of the 149K backer number ... maybe they'll post it on their feed.
John Wright 2015-02-11T10:37:46-05:00
Everyone needs to keep in mind that the backer count that we see isn't the official backer count. Look back a the comments waiting for 100K - backer #100,000 didn't come until 500-600 after we saw the counter roll over. The explanation given was that our counter doesn't roll backwards if someone drops out. The may go with the corrected count and not the display on this page.
Chris "The Historian" Loth 2015-02-11T10:38:46-05:00
@John W, good point... I wonder where we actually stand on the count...
Chris "The Historian" Loth 2015-02-11T10:38:57-05:00
@Cha!, jazz is always good. :)
Jack "Meow-tair, Head Catssassin" 2015-02-11T10:39:54-05:00
@John That's very true. My backer # according to KS is 138K-something, but we were only in the 136K range when I pledged. So we could be off by thousands at this point and there'd be no way to really know from our end.
Saddling my lion now and riding home from work. I expect to see the big 150k once I go online again... keep exploding those felines!
@Geist when did he make you cry?
(prepares a spoiled egg)
@BaKahn, I know, right?
@Cheetah Butt, if trinkets are good, trinkets AND tchotchkes are better!
@GC, safe travels!
@General C, later!
I demand non-radioactive glow-in-the-dark sleeves that have bee UL approved.
Been
So...close. Can taste the cat-bacon-trinket now. arrrghghh *homer simpson voice*
been
bean
What if the glow-in-the-dark sleeves, were radioactive, but came in gold sleeves to protect against the radiation?
@Cheetah Butt, you okay there?
@Grace, mmmm.... cat-bacon-trinket... [/drool]
@The Historian, I think he's trying to boost his post count again....
@baKhan, OK as long as they are lead-lined gold shields ... With Skittles.
Which side of the lead are the skittles on? Also are these skittles EU friendly?
@CB: But the radioactive part is half the fun!!!
356 LEFT!!!
Now we only need as many more backers as there are days in a normal year---365!
@BaKahn, ah, that wily Cheetah Butt... The skittles better be on the side that allows me to eat them!
@Edward, we should hit 150k with ease today :)
@chris yes. the bacon-cat-trinket. Like...an edible bacon cat? Or a cat that wears a bacon suit?
Make that 349 to go...
I know there's no achievement for this money level, but will The Oatmeal draw a picture of a bionic kitten when (not if, WHEN) the campaign passes the six million dollar mark?
350! The second time I saw the Loch Ness Monster, it was dressed up like a girl guide trying to sell me some cookies! I said how much for those cookies? It said, oh, I need about three fitty, and I said wait, you're no girl guide, you're the Loch Ness Monster!
@Edward J. Cunningham That's still not 100K each is it? With nearly 150K backers we should easily be at >100K for both FB & Twit. It's not like it's a lifetime commitment... it's 8 more days... These two goals should be no brainers. We should easily make every goal except 100K% funding. RIGHT?!
@Grace... I'd go for an edible cat bacon over a bacon suit for my cat. Exploding Kittens = good. Eating Kittens = bad. :)
@Edward, we can only hope... he has the technology...
@BaKahn, is that from South Park? Bells are ringing but my brain isn't in gear yet this morning.
@The Historian, yep! One of my favourite episodes, with Chef's parents!
@Lee Stafford I wasn't arguing with you---just providing updated numbers. And there's no reason why anybody who goes to the trouble of backing this Kickstarter can't like a page on Facebook. Since the number of Facebook likes has increased by over 10,000 in ONE day---I think we should get that mark if we remind enough EK backers to like the page. Getting them to follow @gameofkittens seems to be harder, although the twitter account now needs less than 38.8K to do it.
@BaKahn, thank you! I kept having Stan's grandpa in my head and I knew that wasn't right.
ok!! tickets & hotel all booked!!! Amsterdam here I come!!
@Prof F, you lucky evil genius you!
GM all. See I didn't miss the excitement.
@Prof F, good morning, sir. When are you going to Amsterdam?
Looks like we'll hit 150K well before $6M.
@Tchotchke, nope, but it should happen soon... very, very soon. :)
@Tchotchke, good morning sir!
@Pr.F: Smoke a bowl for me
@F You do realize your butt will freeze off, right? Or is it for the summer?
333! (nice number)
@Tchotchke, it's all about the power of three... https://www.youtube.com/watch…
@The Historian, three, is a magic number!
I thought it was all about the Power of Love?
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
@Edward J. Cunningham Sorry if I came off snippy. I just can't understand why the easy goals are hardest to get. A couple clicks for people is all it takes. sigh. If we don't get both of those 100K goals, we really left-sharked it up. :-\
284 to go. I think we may hit the 150K mark before 11EST/8PST.
Just because it's easy for a person to do something doesn't make it easy for LOTS of people to do something. It's like herding cats.
DANG!... already 827 comments this morning... we may surpass 2500 today...
@Tchotchke, without the power of Thr33 there is no power of love... or something like that
love that movie btw
It's like herding cats
Which is impossible to do, btw
@Lee Stafford I don't blame you. Of the posters last night---her name had something to do with cats---said she would go "full on evil" if she heard anybody dismiss how "easy" it was to achieve the Twitter follower or Facebook like achievements.
@OoG, There's the strong chance of that :)
It was either that or the original Huey version. I stand by my decision.
@Geist, no it's not.
http://www.earthporm.com/trap-cat-3-easy-steps/
Ha ha.. herding cats... https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Maybe in case of a fire I'll put some tape on the floor near the door so the rescuers will find the cat.
319! We're about there. Only the 100K followers on Twitter/FB is the problem...
Would it be possible to have the box the carries the cards to be big enough to hold sleeved version of the cards. That would be of great help for those who want to preserve the longevity of this amazing game
I thought it was less than 300 to go. Must have been looking at the dollar amount by mistake. 319 more backers needed. On the money count, $63,894 needed to get the technology created to make the world's first bionic exploding kitten..
Have we surpassed Purronica?
I hope the box is big enough to hold the trikets while sleeved, to preserve the longevity of the trinket!
@Idle/Wild: Getting a cat to sit in a circle (and some of those photos were suspect) isn't the same as getting a bunch of them to go together in a certain direction.
@GM, ages ago!
Purronica was awhile ago. Next 'place' milestone is the Purrno, about another $300K. That one should be no issue. Getting into top 3 will be muuuch harder.
It's a nail biter ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
@Tchotchke, it was an excellent choice on video
@GM, good morning!
We should be able to get to the third most backed. If people who clicked the remind me star actually back, or if the Thunderclap takes the world by storm.
@Cha!, nice :)
now, if you'll excuse me I'm heading for Venus...
O well. There are ways.
Food. Toys. Mind games. My cat has a signal - tap on hip, that means get out of the room/balcony. Look into her eyes - stop whatever you are doing, you beast, and start licking yourself like nothing happened.
@Lee Stafford: That you for the link. It proves that cats refuse to be herded. They can be persuaded to blow *&$# up.
When I have time I'm going to have to start writing the "official" historical tomes based upon all of the lore that's been amassed.
Hearding cats is easy... if they are hungry... and you have food
A bit more metal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Looks like it's back to the training in a few moments. I'll try and check back around lunch time.
@Historian...enjoy Venus
@Idle, yeah, my cat has the whole 'licking' one down pat.. until I stop looking at her, then it's back to doing what she's not supposed to be doing...
312 to go. Good morning peoples
@GM, enjoy training!
@Historian: There will be a bio for me sometime for Cheetah to add to the Fact Sheet....just haven't figured out how to word it properly. I know what I want it to say, but putting it down in words is harder than I had hoped.
@Cha!, I decided to come back early, Venus is HOT this time of year...
And, of course, she has a favorite song I whistle. Sometimes it only takes a single whistle if she's hungry :)
Like a Shuttle Lift Off:
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
@M Kwan - the question has been asked several times... we shall see... I too am hoping that the box will be able to accommodate sleeved cards... especially if KE is just going to be available from this KS alone... I hope the next update addresses this info...
@GM, no worries! I'll have to parse through everything first and start developing a timeline to work with. It'll be easy enough to insert your info in whenever you've got it right :)
@Cha!, calling Major Tom... https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Adding a lil bit 70s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Good morning All. Did I miss anything exciting??
As per special request from @Historian :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Only some kids playing in your yard.
@GCoD, not yet, though we're closing in on 150k backers :)
@Historian
No. My momma said, to get things done, you better not mess with Major Tom.
Less than 300 needed. 298 backers to be precise!
@GCoD: Yes. Elan announced that we all will be getting solid gold kitten trinkets, in sleeves that are EU friendly.
A splash of bouncing color:
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
@Tchotchke, Ashes to Ashes... nice :)
Recapping. I sent the team a screen capture of the 149K backer number ... maybe they'll post it on their feed.
Everyone needs to keep in mind that the backer count that we see isn't the official backer count. Look back a the comments waiting for 100K - backer #100,000 didn't come until 500-600 after we saw the counter roll over. The explanation given was that our counter doesn't roll backwards if someone drops out. The may go with the corrected count and not the display on this page.
And here's some jazz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Too bad this video was made before this Kickstarter campaign. It would have been a perfect "song" to sing as the theme to "Game of Kittens"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
@John W, good point... I wonder where we actually stand on the count...
@Cha!, jazz is always good. :)
@John That's very true. My backer # according to KS is 138K-something, but we were only in the 136K range when I pledged. So we could be off by thousands at this point and there'd be no way to really know from our end.