I've had this game for a few weeks now, but never had a chance to play it. Last night we had my parents over for dinner and gave it a shot. After the third glass of wine and two bourbon shots, we had a little trouble understanding the rules (given that we're used to Uno, where you are the winner for having no more cards, you play one card at a time, and picking up is a punishment) but in the end we got it.
The game got a little boring at the end, when it came down to my wife and I. The deck was almost exclusively exploding kitten cards and our hands were nothing but disarm cards.
But everyone had fun reading the cards and having a chuckle. My mum got a good laugh out of the crack smoking owl and the bikini cat, while my wife loved the overly prolific cat, punching out kittens like dollar bills at a strip club)
It might be some months before we get to play again, but we did have fun. Well done!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-09-06T21:17:51-04:00
David, towards the bottom of the deck is the most fun part! That's when it gets really intense rather than just blindly picking up cards every turn.
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Dr. P, where've you been? You haven't been here for months or whatever.
And you can match and differ ALL cards, not just the none-cards. This includes all attack, nope, future, ect. as well. It is simply ideal to use the cat cards. I also thought the rule was 5 different cards. Then again, you can use your own house rules too.
Lord Zombitten 2015-09-06T21:57:58-04:00
It is 5 different cards, not just 4. In the playtest version, 4 of a kind would let you look at an opponent's hand and pick one of their cards. That didn't make it into the final cut.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-09-06T23:01:09-04:00
Dragon Con streams are alot of fun, but they're shorter than normal shows.
Hello All. And good night all, i'm assuming! Parents are in town. I am mentally exhausted.
"Mom- do you know how to turn off that lamp?" "Your father did it last night" "Ok. but do you know how to?" "I'll do it in a few minutes" "MOM USE YOUR WORDS. YES OR NO, DO YOU KNOW HOW TO TURN OFF THE LAMP?"
also - there's a 'jacket corps" forming on the Baubax campaign as well. Nothing like us. But a bunch of people there annoyed with the constant question asking from people who don't scroll down a bit to read!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-09-07T00:44:51-04:00
Hi, Creeper. Also, literally a Jacket Corps, like they ripped us off? Because then I'm calling inter-kickstarter copyright lawyers to rain down from the heavens onto their parade.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-09-07T00:45:30-04:00
Otherwise, that's cool and makes sense because they made so much stuff they're going to have a similar amount of repetitive inquiry as us.
Tom-B-WAT-3 2015-09-07T00:55:20-04:00
Just wanted to pass on that I played EK with my daughter this weekend and she LOVED it.
Tom-B-WAT-3 2015-09-07T00:55:20-04:00
Just wanted to pass on that I played EK with my daughter this weekend and she LOVED it.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-09-07T01:06:48-04:00
She loved it so much he had to say it twice! Now that's good!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-09-07T02:59:03-04:00
Aaaw yeeeaahh. Get schwifty. Time to get schwifty in here...
Is this day over yet? I know it just started....but having to work on a holiday...even if I did get Friday off in lieu...really sucks when there are only 2/27 people in the office.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-09-07T11:56:58-04:00
That sucks. The whole point of this holiday is literally to have a day off.
Well, unfortunately, people like getting paid. And if the field guys aren't paid, and happy, then the office people don't get paid because there is no work being done to pull in the money to pay them/us.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-09-07T12:07:28-04:00
That sucks GM. Do you at least get time and a half pay for working a holiday?
Unfortunately, these are truck drivers/oilfield workers who live check to check(making more than a lot of the salaried staff in the company too...) who threaten to walk off the job for $0.10/hour less than what they should be making.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-09-07T12:58:18-04:00
Yeah...but it really is quiet in here...and I'm playing the ultimate waiting game...waiting for the admins to send me the files they need to send me in order to start processing the payroll(there is already one site that can't get me the file because all their scanners/printers/wifi have already been packed and taken to the new location).
I'm falling asleep today...there is literally nothing happening here...no files(except 2) that have been sent to us...and I am honestly surfing the net more than doing any actual work today.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-09-07T15:22:42-04:00
Not really. Payroll, for this cycle at least, takes almost the full 2.5 days I have to finish it. The fact I am STILL waiting on files at this time of the day, means that I will be pushing the deadline, if not passing it, then getting angry calls/emails wondering why people didn't get paid.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-09-07T16:36:47-04:00
Just forward all the angry emails to the people who held you up and give their email address to all the people who get angry at you. Being in the middle is kinda pointless because the people who cause trouble don't get recognized and the people blamed did nothing and the people angry are too nearsighted to see the difference.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-09-07T18:40:14-04:00
@GM: at least you are getting paid while you wait. The new gig that I have now is so very busy with work that I have a hard time keeping up. Plus I don't get holiday pay.
Just stopping in! Hello my lovelies. I found LZ's 'I'm making hot sauce today" to be a highly entertaining interjection because no one seemed to acknowledge it. :) Hope the sauce was good!
and no -they didn't create their own jacket corps. Just saying a group of backers who keep answering the same questions, created lists of answers for people, and they keep copying and pasting it. You know. For the greater good. oNly they don't have kittens.
Battle Foam Ops 2015-09-08T00:55:17-04:00
Not sure if this has been addressed before and I don't want it to sound too much like UNO, but I think a reverse card would do wonders. You know, sometimes when you get screwed over, you want to thank that person in a special way. My entire team/company loves the game. Thank you for such a wonderful lunchtime fun.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-09-08T01:16:09-04:00
Battle, that's the most suggested edit. Don't worry, it's going to be incorporated into any future incarnations of the game.
Hi, Creeper! I saw it and forgot to say something funny about it.
Productive 3 day weekend of which I really only had 2 free days: I watched all of Rick and Morty and most of the way through season 2 of Archer, both of which I've been meaning to for some time now. Guess I know where my free time is going until I finish Archer. I love Krieger the best. "I'm sorry, were you addressing me? Your authority is not recognized inside of Fort Kickass."
Lord Zombitten 2015-09-08T01:46:04-04:00
The sauce was/is good. It's my own recipe. It has earned me a couple hundred dollars in the past. If I had the means and the know-how, I would make and sell it professionally.
Sebastian Schwarz 2015-09-08T03:30:31-04:00
Still waiting, wrote my first e-mail to the support yesterday. Am I the last man standing (or waiting in this case)?
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-09-08T04:25:20-04:00
*yawn* I don't want to go into work today.
@Creeper: I'd post something in the KC forum but I don't remember my password
João Ciocca 2015-09-08T09:11:28-04:00
anyone else having as much problems as me to get their Kittens?
In contact with FedEx, seems like they've misplaced A LOT of kittens, and they've also told me that their US-branch (I'm in Brazil, contacted FedEx here) has tried over and over to call Blackbox to figure things out, but no one answers the phones.
It's been 18 days since I last got an email reply from explodingkittens@support.blackbox.cool, and now that FedEx contact here is claiming that if they don't get any more info about how to figure out what to do with the packages they've misplaced, they'll close my case - and even though it can be reopened up to 9 months after the post date, they can't guarantee it'll be found =/
Christie 2015-09-08T09:21:16-04:00
Has anyone in Canada received their Kittens yet? And do you receive an e-mail letting you know that your copy has shipped? I can't figure out if I should even be worried yet or not.
Niklas Eklund 2015-09-08T09:30:06-04:00
Game arrived in Sweden seemingly without hickups and the game plays great! Learning is easy and well through 20+ games we are not even close to grasping all intricacies. Thank you and keep me updated if there will be more some day.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-09-08T09:54:18-04:00
@Christie, you definitely should have heard something by now. I recieved mine quite a while a go. You should email : support@explodingkittens.com and let them know. In the subject line list the problem, and in the body be short but susinct with any further info. It will take them around 2-3 weeks to get back to you so please be patient. Sometimes they just send them out without notification. I hope that this helps!
Today is going to be a long, long day. Hopefully people actually review the reports I send them for accuracy, and don't just blindly respond with approval.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-09-08T12:08:12-04:00
@GM, hope it goes well for you. I'm counting down the days to vacation myself, so long days of clock watching... I wish I could just forget I'm going till one day before. The anticipation is killing me! I need some warm Florida sunshine!
Jelle 2015-09-08T12:20:18-04:00
Hope I will get my kittens soon! Still waiting here in the Netherlands :(
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-09-08T12:45:05-04:00
IF YOU'RE HAVING DELIVERY PROBLEMS: contact support@explodingkittens.com . Several problems could've happened, as would be expected from shipping nearly a million decks to almost 220,000 destinations, the largest in kickstarter history. Thank you for your patience, but it will take some more as they only have 3 people to answer so many emails per day. It has historically taken up to 2 weeks to get an answer, and sometimes they don't answer even, just ship the deck silently. So hang in there, the team is trying as hard as they possibly can and have promised they want more than anything to give all the kittens a home and every home a box of kittens. Good luck and have a nice day!
P.S. Nobody's getting rich off of this, trust us.
Lord Zombitten 2015-09-08T14:57:46-04:00
Yay! My new fencing glove came today!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-09-08T15:16:01-04:00
Congrats LZ!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-09-08T15:49:03-04:00
Hurrah!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-09-08T17:28:11-04:00
Wow, I come back after a few minutes and I have to scroll a full page to see only 2 days ago? What's the rush people?!
It's so dead in here. Maybe we should have a ceremonial viking funeral.
Andy Chizek 2015-09-08T18:22:15-04:00
Been emailing them I've received 4 of the same emails saying it will be here next week. This has been going on for over a month now.
@Ezra: The 8th or 9th comment below this one will give you steps to contact the right people.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-09-08T19:35:10-04:00
If it weren't for the corps, this would be the worst place to look for advice, especially since nobody can read down the comments worth a dang. All those people would have no advice and just be cranky and sullen.
Ooh, Chameleon? Cool. He visited once in the last long while, but unless you watch his youtube channel, there's really no seeing him on corps grounds anymore. What happened to the old crew?
I've spent the last 12 hours in an office that was a little above the comfortable room temperature, wanting to go get food but with too much stuff to do. FINALLY able to leave because all emails are out for the approvals that I require before getting the VP approvals....maybe now I can find something to eat(been hungry since I finished my lunch at noon...now 7:30pm).
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-09-08T22:08:06-04:00
@GM: you need to bring your lunch more often. I've been bringing mine and nibble on it throughout the day. That way I'm not starving when I get home.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-09-09T00:17:55-04:00
And here I've been watching an entire season of Archer and then some. Day well spent.
Lord Zombitten 2015-09-09T00:56:45-04:00
I finally got to come home
Lord Zombitten 2015-09-09T01:01:12-04:00
If I could make a bunch of money making and selling hot sauce, I totally would. I just don't have the means to meet the requirements (stainless steel kitchen). Maybe I should do a kickstarter...
Juha-Pekka Ahonen 2015-09-09T02:10:17-04:00
Hi guys, I've finally received my cards, though they were already at Finland earlier just at my parents place. I noticed that small changes has been made thanks to playtesting. My wife gave away one of the playtest decks for a friend of ours as well.
How many of the people who got their cards sleeved them up before the first game? I dont't have the sleeves yet, though I plan to get them before we play with new cards.
Also in my NSFW cards one shuffle card came a bit dirty and with some blue on it that looks like marker made luckily on inside but still it bothers me.
María Leal Lombardo 2015-09-09T05:35:55-04:00
Hey, I still haven't received my exploding kittens. Could you give some real feedback please?
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-09-09T11:18:03-04:00
@Maria, I understand your frustration. Have you emailed them @ support@explodingkittens.com ? If not, please do so and make sure you put that in the header of your email. It will take approx. 2-3 weeks to hear back (there are only three of them, and they're swamped). Sometimes they don't even reply, they just ship them out, so don't be surprized if they just show up. As far as I know they only rarely check messages here, so thats your best bet. If you have already emailed them, and its been longer than three weeks, I would send them another email. They want you to have your stuff, and they'll do what it takes to make that happen. Hope that helps.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-09-09T11:33:01-04:00
Maria AND ALL ELSE HAVING TROUBLES GETTING A DECK: look below this comment.
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Ahoy, Juha and BaKhan. Slow day today so far. I miss the banter all morning even though I couldn't be part of it. Who's left now are just the hardcorps coremembers.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-09-09T12:01:55-04:00
@Zem, well, we had a good run anyways! ;) All good things must come to an end, or at least a hiatus. There will always be the KC!
BruceP - Chameleon Prime 2015-09-09T12:11:22-04:00
I came to say Howdy to my long lost kitten peeps. :) Howdy, peeps.
It's so so. Not the best, but for it's time, it was alright.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-09-09T14:35:08-04:00
Whoa, it's full now! Another party!!! Maybe we could watch Galaxy Quest. It's one of my favorite sci-fi movies ever. Also, TeP, thanks for that!
BruceP - Chameleon Prime 2015-09-09T14:39:01-04:00
I'm good, BaKhan. Just trying not to melt in the heat here in CA.
@GM, I saw it, and got your reference! In fact, I worked on it. :) AND was in it (very briefly) as an extra.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-09-09T14:42:37-04:00
@The Chameleon, Good to hear, with the weather we've been getting this past week, I'm seriously craving some of that warm CA weather! Although, I'm heading to Florida in a little over a week... ;)!
BruceP - Chameleon Prime 2015-09-09T14:43:57-04:00
@BaKhan,
At least we don't have crazy humidity like you'll have fun with in FLA. ;)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-09-09T14:46:30-04:00
@The Chameleon, I used to live in eastern Canada, so I'm actually good with humidity, its great for the skin! Calgary would be a friggen desert (like the badlands) if it wasn't for the rivers running through it.
BruceP - Chameleon Prime 2015-09-09T14:48:52-04:00
I prefer a dry heat (and just drink lots of water). :)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-09-09T14:51:34-04:00
Well, considering you're a chameleon and all, makes sense! ;) I'm good either way, as long as its warm. I swear, I don't know how I was born in this country, and have the internal thermostat that I do. At temperatures that I find comfy most of my peers are whining "its too hot!" The way I see it, you can whine if its too hot, or too cold, but not both. Although most do, lol!
BruceP - Chameleon Prime 2015-09-09T14:52:24-04:00
I like it warm, too. Thinking of retiring to AZ. :)
I don't complain about the temperature, I adjust what I'm wearing(if possible) to compensate, or just bear with it.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-09-09T14:56:23-04:00
Chameleons typically live in humidity as well, though some are in some deserts. I love dry heat though, which as a Nebraskan is not what I get in the summers at all. And I love Galaxy Quest. Where are you in it, Bruce? I need to find that now. I love that movie.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-09-09T14:56:33-04:00
@GM, I would expect no less from you!
BruceP - Chameleon Prime 2015-09-09T14:56:56-04:00
Off to lunch, folks. Party on!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-09-09T14:56:57-04:00
GM, I'd do that too, but trust me, you wouldn't want to see me during the summer then.
BruceP - Chameleon Prime 2015-09-09T14:58:13-04:00
@Micah,
Are the end when the ship crashes through the wall into the convention. I'm in a group running out of frame in the lower-right. :)
And I'm out! *poof*
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-09-09T14:58:37-04:00
@The Chameleon, it was great seeing (talking) to you! Cheers!
Chris 2015-09-09T15:59:47-04:00
Has anyone ever officially responded as to why the 'kickstarter exclusive' NSFW deck is already on sale to the general public, and the also 'exclusive' meowing box has been sold at at least one venue?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-09-09T16:38:16-04:00
Bye, Chameleon! See you sometime later. I'll have to look for it if you looked anything like you do now on your youtube. Classes over, a cup of coffee, lab is just a continuation of tuesday's... ooh, even my apple left over from lunch! This'll be a good day. To keep watching Archer obviously. Oh, and soon hopefully to get off my lazy but and study more for the O-chem test next wednesday.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-09-09T16:38:24-04:00
Chris, not officially, but we've discussed in detail among ourselves. Pretty sure that was only the deal while they still thought it wold be less than 10,000 decks overall. Now there's about 1 million decks total, and the NSFW was upgraded into a full deck, so it became the first expansion deck. As for the meowing box, where? Except for overstock from the EK team themselves, that's being bootlegged by supporters for a profit on others' work. But the EK team hasn't gotten out all the kickstarter ordered decks, so they won't sell those boxes yet.
Chris 2015-09-09T16:56:26-04:00
Micah, https://www.facebook.com/events/496231983885519/ the Oatmeal themselves advertising the NSFW and First Editions for sale at the ACT theatre Washington at the end of August. So yes, you could have bought not only the miaowing box before everyone on Kickstarter got theirs.
Chris 2015-09-09T16:57:34-04:00
Don't know why 'NSFW but also' disappeared from before 'the miaowing box...' in my last comment, but you get the drift
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-09-09T17:17:57-04:00
@Chris, I think it was an effort to prevent people from gouging on eBay, etc. At least thats what I'm hoping anyways.
I've had this game for a few weeks now, but never had a chance to play it. Last night we had my parents over for dinner and gave it a shot. After the third glass of wine and two bourbon shots, we had a little trouble understanding the rules (given that we're used to Uno, where you are the winner for having no more cards, you play one card at a time, and picking up is a punishment) but in the end we got it.
The game got a little boring at the end, when it came down to my wife and I. The deck was almost exclusively exploding kitten cards and our hands were nothing but disarm cards.
But everyone had fun reading the cards and having a chuckle. My mum got a good laugh out of the crack smoking owl and the bikini cat, while my wife loved the overly prolific cat, punching out kittens like dollar bills at a strip club)
It might be some months before we get to play again, but we did have fun. Well done!
David, towards the bottom of the deck is the most fun part! That's when it gets really intense rather than just blindly picking up cards every turn.
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Dr. P, where've you been? You haven't been here for months or whatever.
I've been in and out.
The current rules say a player can pick any cards from the discard pile if he has 4 different "cat type" cards.
Question: Can the player do this in every round if he still has 4 different cards? Or just one time?
Someone please hurry and let me know as my kids are totally not allowing me to do that and win! ;)
You can take as many actions as you can take in a turn. As many as you want/can.
Also, a nope can nope a nope nope nope.
And you can match and differ ALL cards, not just the none-cards. This includes all attack, nope, future, ect. as well. It is simply ideal to use the cat cards. I also thought the rule was 5 different cards. Then again, you can use your own house rules too.
It is 5 different cards, not just 4. In the playtest version, 4 of a kind would let you look at an opponent's hand and pick one of their cards. That didn't make it into the final cut.
Dragon Con streams are alot of fun, but they're shorter than normal shows.
Hello All. And good night all, i'm assuming! Parents are in town. I am mentally exhausted.
"Mom- do you know how to turn off that lamp?" "Your father did it last night" "Ok. but do you know how to?" "I'll do it in a few minutes" "MOM USE YOUR WORDS. YES OR NO, DO YOU KNOW HOW TO TURN OFF THE LAMP?"
also - there's a 'jacket corps" forming on the Baubax campaign as well. Nothing like us. But a bunch of people there annoyed with the constant question asking from people who don't scroll down a bit to read!
Hi, Creeper. Also, literally a Jacket Corps, like they ripped us off? Because then I'm calling inter-kickstarter copyright lawyers to rain down from the heavens onto their parade.
Otherwise, that's cool and makes sense because they made so much stuff they're going to have a similar amount of repetitive inquiry as us.
Just wanted to pass on that I played EK with my daughter this weekend and she LOVED it.
Just wanted to pass on that I played EK with my daughter this weekend and she LOVED it.
She loved it so much he had to say it twice! Now that's good!
Aaaw yeeeaahh. Get schwifty. Time to get schwifty in here...
Is this day over yet? I know it just started....but having to work on a holiday...even if I did get Friday off in lieu...really sucks when there are only 2/27 people in the office.
That sucks. The whole point of this holiday is literally to have a day off.
Well, unfortunately, people like getting paid. And if the field guys aren't paid, and happy, then the office people don't get paid because there is no work being done to pull in the money to pay them/us.
That sucks GM. Do you at least get time and a half pay for working a holiday?
Nope, I'm salary. So no extra pay, I got last Friday off instead of today.
Dang! The people at the clinic where I work are just told that their checks will be delayed by one day, and we just have to suck it up.
Unfortunately, these are truck drivers/oilfield workers who live check to check(making more than a lot of the salaried staff in the company too...) who threaten to walk off the job for $0.10/hour less than what they should be making.
That sucks, but at least you got friday off.
Yeah...but it really is quiet in here...and I'm playing the ultimate waiting game...waiting for the admins to send me the files they need to send me in order to start processing the payroll(there is already one site that can't get me the file because all their scanners/printers/wifi have already been packed and taken to the new location).
I'm making hot sauce today.
I'm falling asleep today...there is literally nothing happening here...no files(except 2) that have been sent to us...and I am honestly surfing the net more than doing any actual work today.
GM, that's a good day to be at work then.
Not really. Payroll, for this cycle at least, takes almost the full 2.5 days I have to finish it. The fact I am STILL waiting on files at this time of the day, means that I will be pushing the deadline, if not passing it, then getting angry calls/emails wondering why people didn't get paid.
Just forward all the angry emails to the people who held you up and give their email address to all the people who get angry at you. Being in the middle is kinda pointless because the people who cause trouble don't get recognized and the people blamed did nothing and the people angry are too nearsighted to see the difference.
@GM: at least you are getting paid while you wait. The new gig that I have now is so very busy with work that I have a hard time keeping up. Plus I don't get holiday pay.
Just stopping in! Hello my lovelies. I found LZ's 'I'm making hot sauce today" to be a highly entertaining interjection because no one seemed to acknowledge it. :) Hope the sauce was good!
and no -they didn't create their own jacket corps. Just saying a group of backers who keep answering the same questions, created lists of answers for people, and they keep copying and pasting it. You know. For the greater good. oNly they don't have kittens.
Not sure if this has been addressed before and I don't want it to sound too much like UNO, but I think a reverse card would do wonders. You know, sometimes when you get screwed over, you want to thank that person in a special way. My entire team/company loves the game. Thank you for such a wonderful lunchtime fun.
Battle, that's the most suggested edit. Don't worry, it's going to be incorporated into any future incarnations of the game.
Hi, Creeper! I saw it and forgot to say something funny about it.
Productive 3 day weekend of which I really only had 2 free days: I watched all of Rick and Morty and most of the way through season 2 of Archer, both of which I've been meaning to for some time now. Guess I know where my free time is going until I finish Archer. I love Krieger the best. "I'm sorry, were you addressing me? Your authority is not recognized inside of Fort Kickass."
The sauce was/is good. It's my own recipe. It has earned me a couple hundred dollars in the past. If I had the means and the know-how, I would make and sell it professionally.
Still waiting, wrote my first e-mail to the support yesterday. Am I the last man standing (or waiting in this case)?
*yawn* I don't want to go into work today.
@Creeper: I'd post something in the KC forum but I don't remember my password
anyone else having as much problems as me to get their Kittens?
In contact with FedEx, seems like they've misplaced A LOT of kittens, and they've also told me that their US-branch (I'm in Brazil, contacted FedEx here) has tried over and over to call Blackbox to figure things out, but no one answers the phones.
It's been 18 days since I last got an email reply from explodingkittens@support.blackbox.cool, and now that FedEx contact here is claiming that if they don't get any more info about how to figure out what to do with the packages they've misplaced, they'll close my case - and even though it can be reopened up to 9 months after the post date, they can't guarantee it'll be found =/
Has anyone in Canada received their Kittens yet? And do you receive an e-mail letting you know that your copy has shipped? I can't figure out if I should even be worried yet or not.
Game arrived in Sweden seemingly without hickups and the game plays great! Learning is easy and well through 20+ games we are not even close to grasping all intricacies. Thank you and keep me updated if there will be more some day.
@Christie, you definitely should have heard something by now. I recieved mine quite a while a go. You should email : support@explodingkittens.com and let them know. In the subject line list the problem, and in the body be short but susinct with any further info. It will take them around 2-3 weeks to get back to you so please be patient. Sometimes they just send them out without notification. I hope that this helps!
Today is going to be a long, long day. Hopefully people actually review the reports I send them for accuracy, and don't just blindly respond with approval.
@GM, hope it goes well for you. I'm counting down the days to vacation myself, so long days of clock watching... I wish I could just forget I'm going till one day before. The anticipation is killing me! I need some warm Florida sunshine!
Hope I will get my kittens soon! Still waiting here in the Netherlands :(
IF YOU'RE HAVING DELIVERY PROBLEMS: contact support@explodingkittens.com . Several problems could've happened, as would be expected from shipping nearly a million decks to almost 220,000 destinations, the largest in kickstarter history. Thank you for your patience, but it will take some more as they only have 3 people to answer so many emails per day. It has historically taken up to 2 weeks to get an answer, and sometimes they don't answer even, just ship the deck silently. So hang in there, the team is trying as hard as they possibly can and have promised they want more than anything to give all the kittens a home and every home a box of kittens. Good luck and have a nice day!
P.S. Nobody's getting rich off of this, trust us.
Yay! My new fencing glove came today!
Congrats LZ!
Hurrah!
Wow, I come back after a few minutes and I have to scroll a full page to see only 2 days ago? What's the rush people?!
It's so dead in here. Maybe we should have a ceremonial viking funeral.
Been emailing them I've received 4 of the same emails saying it will be here next week. This has been going on for over a month now.
I saw a rare prime today over in the jacket comment section...told him we miss his camouflaged buttocks.
Um...I never received my cards. Who can I can I contact about this?
@Ezra: The 8th or 9th comment below this one will give you steps to contact the right people.
If it weren't for the corps, this would be the worst place to look for advice, especially since nobody can read down the comments worth a dang. All those people would have no advice and just be cranky and sullen.
Ooh, Chameleon? Cool. He visited once in the last long while, but unless you watch his youtube channel, there's really no seeing him on corps grounds anymore. What happened to the old crew?
They all moved onto bigger things. Definitely not better, maybe not even bigger. But definitely things.
I did a thing! We need to have a reunion on the anniversaries of the final date of the campaign. Parties, games (well, game), conventions, etc.
I've spent 10 hours at work in a building with no air conditioning in it and it was 95 degrees outside. The office was a sauna.
I'm now in my apartment with the air turned on full blast and the dial set to deep freeze. Heaven never felt so good.
I've spent the last 12 hours in an office that was a little above the comfortable room temperature, wanting to go get food but with too much stuff to do. FINALLY able to leave because all emails are out for the approvals that I require before getting the VP approvals....maybe now I can find something to eat(been hungry since I finished my lunch at noon...now 7:30pm).
@GM: you need to bring your lunch more often. I've been bringing mine and nibble on it throughout the day. That way I'm not starving when I get home.
And here I've been watching an entire season of Archer and then some. Day well spent.
I finally got to come home
If I could make a bunch of money making and selling hot sauce, I totally would. I just don't have the means to meet the requirements (stainless steel kitchen). Maybe I should do a kickstarter...
Hi guys, I've finally received my cards, though they were already at Finland earlier just at my parents place. I noticed that small changes has been made thanks to playtesting. My wife gave away one of the playtest decks for a friend of ours as well.
How many of the people who got their cards sleeved them up before the first game? I dont't have the sleeves yet, though I plan to get them before we play with new cards.
Also in my NSFW cards one shuffle card came a bit dirty and with some blue on it that looks like marker made luckily on inside but still it bothers me.
Hey, I still haven't received my exploding kittens. Could you give some real feedback please?
@Maria, I understand your frustration. Have you emailed them @ support@explodingkittens.com ? If not, please do so and make sure you put that in the header of your email. It will take approx. 2-3 weeks to hear back (there are only three of them, and they're swamped). Sometimes they don't even reply, they just ship them out, so don't be surprized if they just show up. As far as I know they only rarely check messages here, so thats your best bet. If you have already emailed them, and its been longer than three weeks, I would send them another email. They want you to have your stuff, and they'll do what it takes to make that happen. Hope that helps.
Maria AND ALL ELSE HAVING TROUBLES GETTING A DECK: look below this comment.
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Ahoy, Juha and BaKhan. Slow day today so far. I miss the banter all morning even though I couldn't be part of it. Who's left now are just the hardcorps coremembers.
@Zem, well, we had a good run anyways! ;) All good things must come to an end, or at least a hiatus. There will always be the KC!
I came to say Howdy to my long lost kitten peeps. :) Howdy, peeps.
Chameleon! How the heck are you?
Never give up!
NEVER SURRENDER!
Never argue with a one armed man.
http://9gag.com/gag/aApEG6p
Never pick your nose on a bumpy road?
Guess the Galaxy Quest quote went over people's heads. >.>
@GM, haven't seen that one, always meant to, just never got around to it.
It's so so. Not the best, but for it's time, it was alright.
Whoa, it's full now! Another party!!! Maybe we could watch Galaxy Quest. It's one of my favorite sci-fi movies ever. Also, TeP, thanks for that!
I'm good, BaKhan. Just trying not to melt in the heat here in CA.
@GM, I saw it, and got your reference! In fact, I worked on it. :) AND was in it (very briefly) as an extra.
@The Chameleon, Good to hear, with the weather we've been getting this past week, I'm seriously craving some of that warm CA weather! Although, I'm heading to Florida in a little over a week... ;)!
@BaKhan,
At least we don't have crazy humidity like you'll have fun with in FLA. ;)
@The Chameleon, I used to live in eastern Canada, so I'm actually good with humidity, its great for the skin! Calgary would be a friggen desert (like the badlands) if it wasn't for the rivers running through it.
I prefer a dry heat (and just drink lots of water). :)
Well, considering you're a chameleon and all, makes sense! ;) I'm good either way, as long as its warm. I swear, I don't know how I was born in this country, and have the internal thermostat that I do. At temperatures that I find comfy most of my peers are whining "its too hot!" The way I see it, you can whine if its too hot, or too cold, but not both. Although most do, lol!
I like it warm, too. Thinking of retiring to AZ. :)
I don't complain about the temperature, I adjust what I'm wearing(if possible) to compensate, or just bear with it.
Chameleons typically live in humidity as well, though some are in some deserts. I love dry heat though, which as a Nebraskan is not what I get in the summers at all. And I love Galaxy Quest. Where are you in it, Bruce? I need to find that now. I love that movie.
@GM, I would expect no less from you!
Off to lunch, folks. Party on!
GM, I'd do that too, but trust me, you wouldn't want to see me during the summer then.
@Micah,
Are the end when the ship crashes through the wall into the convention. I'm in a group running out of frame in the lower-right. :)
And I'm out! *poof*
@The Chameleon, it was great seeing (talking) to you! Cheers!
Has anyone ever officially responded as to why the 'kickstarter exclusive' NSFW deck is already on sale to the general public, and the also 'exclusive' meowing box has been sold at at least one venue?
Bye, Chameleon! See you sometime later. I'll have to look for it if you looked anything like you do now on your youtube. Classes over, a cup of coffee, lab is just a continuation of tuesday's... ooh, even my apple left over from lunch! This'll be a good day. To keep watching Archer obviously. Oh, and soon hopefully to get off my lazy but and study more for the O-chem test next wednesday.
Chris, not officially, but we've discussed in detail among ourselves. Pretty sure that was only the deal while they still thought it wold be less than 10,000 decks overall. Now there's about 1 million decks total, and the NSFW was upgraded into a full deck, so it became the first expansion deck. As for the meowing box, where? Except for overstock from the EK team themselves, that's being bootlegged by supporters for a profit on others' work. But the EK team hasn't gotten out all the kickstarter ordered decks, so they won't sell those boxes yet.
Micah, https://www.facebook.com/events/496231983885519/ the Oatmeal themselves advertising the NSFW and First Editions for sale at the ACT theatre Washington at the end of August. So yes, you could have bought not only the miaowing box before everyone on Kickstarter got theirs.
Don't know why 'NSFW but also' disappeared from before 'the miaowing box...' in my last comment, but you get the drift
@Chris, I think it was an effort to prevent people from gouging on eBay, etc. At least thats what I'm hoping anyways.