Hi Christine- have you emailed their support staff?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-09T01:53:03-04:00
Christine: support@explodingkittens.com `
Creeper, I hope he gets better. We've all had times like that and know how you feel. Leo's a fighter, just because he's named that way, so he'll pull through.
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Why is that extremely important at this time? LZ is so much easier to say than Kev.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-09T01:53:30-04:00
Leonidas woke up, found me in the kitchen, meowed for food, ate and proceeded to leave me presents around the kitchen. Here's hoping he's on the mend. Still haven't found the piece of rubber he ate off the bottle. But i know he has to feel some relief!
ionas 2015-10-09T07:12:02-04:00
are there any Advanced well tested rules to spice the game up?
I've already used 7 days of my vacation for next year when I go to Vegas in January.
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-10-09T11:44:23-04:00
I have 2 days of vacation left until june.....
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-09T11:48:19-04:00
@Doc: Considering that the year is about to end, doesn't that mean you have 2 days of vacation to carry over?
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-10-09T11:56:46-04:00
Whats up kittens?
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-10-09T12:05:44-04:00
My "year" starts in june.....the month I was hired....
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-10-09T12:06:28-04:00
Not sure why they do it that way..../shrugs more shit they have to keep track of...but whatever that's not my job lol
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-09T12:31:31-04:00
Hello BaKhan! How is the juicing diet going?
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-10-09T12:38:04-04:00
@Geist, life is good! It has warmed up a bit, so I'm wearing a very tacky hawaiian shirt to celebrate! I love the look on peoples faces when I wear these shirts, its too much fun!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-10-09T12:49:57-04:00
@Geist, I'm going to start another juice fast next wednesday. So far this year, I've dropped 83lbs and I'd like to be down over 100lbs by Christmas. I'm pretty sure I can do it!
Why can't people fill in paperwork properly? And then call us, trying to pass the blame to someone else for their own mistake of giving the wrong date? -.-
And my work computer stopped letting KS work. Keeps telling me to recover the page.....but nothing comes of it.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-10-09T14:13:50-04:00
@GM, now, this may come as a shock, so brace yourself. People, for the most part, suck! Why assume any responsibility, it is so much easier to act dumb, or pass the blame. ;) Sorry about your work computer. That would suck for sure.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-09T14:14:07-04:00
Good to know BaKhan. I don't know if I'd be able to handle a juice fast. I'm going to try a smoothie one next week and see how that goes.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-09T14:21:01-04:00
I see the Exploding Puppies game is now 80% funded. Will be interesting to see what the backers think of the product once it has been shipped.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-10-09T14:23:41-04:00
@Geist, the smoothie ones are good too! The results aren't quite as speedy, but you still get results. All those micro nuitrients are great for you, I'm sure the experience will be quite healing! The first three days will be the hardest, then it gets much easier. My advice, set a time limit that you know you can achieve, then if you still feel like going on you can add days at that point. Its better to achieve small goals, than none at all. Its a great confidence booster! You go girl!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-09T14:31:08-04:00
The reason why I choose smoothies is because it takes a LOT more veggies to make a veggie drink than a smoothie. There is much more waste and I don't have the time or money to keep going to the store to buy more food. Later down the line but not right now.
Plus I can't afford a Breville juicer.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-09T14:35:40-04:00
Don't you hate it when everyone emails you except the one person you want to hear from?
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-10-09T14:42:25-04:00
@Geist, yeah, it can be a challange for sure. I know the juicer is expensive, I was actually able to wrangle a 20% discount, so that was cool, still over $300 though... I look at it as the cost of this diet plan. Smoothies are much more cost effective for sure. I was spending around $300 a week on fruits and veggies for my wife and myself, so really, given there were no meals ordered in, or eaten out, it wasn't much more than we normally spend anyways. We also have a grocery store less than a block away, which helped as well.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-09T14:42:32-04:00
@LZ: That is what voodoo dolls are for.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-10-09T14:42:56-04:00
@LZ, thats cause they're holding out for hot sauce! You only have yourself to blame! ;)
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-09T14:45:33-04:00
I know. Patience is also not my strong suit.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-10-09T14:46:09-04:00
Funny thing about patience, the day they were handing it out, I had stuff to do and couldn't wait for it... ;)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-09T14:48:40-04:00
$300 a week?! I guess since it's me by myself, that would work out to about $150 per week. Still too rich for my blood. At least with the smoothies, you throw in everything and the fiber keeps you full a little longer.
If I had a compost pile I was maintaining, I'd feel better about the juice waste that I would throw away.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-10-09T14:50:48-04:00
@Geist, don't forget I live in Canada, and things are much more expensive up here. Like the cost of gas! When I was in Florida, people were bitching about it being 1.99 a gallon! Up here its $1.15 a litre! Well over double!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-09T15:01:01-04:00
Good grief. That is way too pricey for petrol and I don't even have a car. Why is it that food is more expensive in your neck of the woods? I'm sure you guys have mega farms to help feed the population.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-10-09T15:03:28-04:00
@Geist, the weather mostly. We have to mace a lot of the produce shipped here from other countries. Tariffs,taxes, transportation, etc. for example a good price on apples is 1.49 per pound.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-09T15:05:26-04:00
Hmmmm. I guess the food around here is so high because of the area. I saw some apples at one of the chain grocery stores going for $2.99 per pound. Don't get me started on the cost of food in Whole Foods.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-09T15:07:47-04:00
Whole Foods is ridiculous. You pay exorbitant prices for the name only. There's no benefit to shopping there instead of somewhere else.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-10-09T15:13:39-04:00
We don't have that chain here. Not that we're missing out apparently...
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-10-09T15:23:47-04:00
@Giest, also the cost of apples, will depend on the breed. Some go as high as 2.99 per pound, but some thing like royal gala or granny smith are 1.49-1.69 per pound. I may have purchased a fair amount of apples in the last few months... ;)
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-09T15:26:32-04:00
They only sell organic, non GMO food, so if you're looking for that sort of thing, it's convenient to go there. The trouble is, they also figured out that people often associate cost with quality. So their organic, gluten free, non GMO produce is perceived as better than the exact same product with all the same descriptors from Kroger because it costs 2-3 times as much.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-09T15:26:49-04:00
I only read up to about an hour ago because this is literally the first friday in a couple months that was actually so busy. Dang, you guys, get a life! I was busy all day so I couldn't even check in on here. But I glanced through most of it.
And yup, EP made 300 dollars in one day. Aint that just purdy? They're going to make it to; they have 20 days left to make just 100 dollars now. Dagnabbit.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-09T15:30:13-04:00
I wish people with yards would do more to grow their own food. Places like WF would crumble in about a year and the other stores might lower their veggie and fruit prices.
Why would you get a house with a yard if the only thing you are going to grow is grass? (And not the kind that you smoke)
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-09T15:33:40-04:00
I agree, Geist. In fact, I decided this year that when my kids no longer play on the back lawn, I'm going to tear the whole thing out to really expand the size of my garden.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-10-09T15:36:55-04:00
@Geist, I think because most people feel like gardens are too much work / they don't have enough time. Wouldn't want to cut into all that tv time you know... ;)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-10-09T15:38:20-04:00
@LZ, awesome, now the real challenge will be keeping the kids out of the garden till you can harvest the produce! lol! I know I raided a fair amount of gardens in my day. Fresh carrots and peas? Yes please!
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-09T15:42:18-04:00
I'd rather they snack out of the garden than out of a bag of candy or chips
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-09T15:48:08-04:00
This year, I got 3 quarts of salsa and almost 4 quarts of tomatoes from my little garden.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-09T15:48:29-04:00
@BaKhan: I haven't had a tv in 8 years. I don't miss it. I did purchase a small used tv at the last place I worked and I still haven't plugged it in yet.
LZ: Great idea. There are plenty of sites that sell heirloom seeds that will give you a variety of good food stuffs to grow. If I weren't planning on going to school full time within the next two years, I'd purchase a house now and get to growing.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-09T15:48:33-04:00
Harrumph...! food! Mmmm...
Just kidding. We had 2 vegetable gardens at my house and regularly made stuff, especially salsa, which my mom perfected. It's amazing. We also had 2 apple trees until a few years ago when there were dozens of horrible storms. We made such amazing apple sauce and apple butter, not to mention apples! In fact, I think we finally ran out of our apple sauce stores in the basement. That's sad.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-09T16:12:40-04:00
That many tomatoes? Looks like we should be getting some good sauce pretty soon. ;-P
(Keeps one eye out for a certain KS campaign)
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-09T16:41:24-04:00
Oh, and 2 quarts ie so of sauce
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-09T17:20:48-04:00
Good point. How long do you reckon until you have all the recipes and facilities figured out and could launch the kickstarter?
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-09T17:40:48-04:00
I already have two recipes. The other two probably won't take more than a week or two. The limiting factor will be how long it takes for the bottling place to get back to me. I'm super busy today, though, and somewhat busy tomorrow, or else I'd reach out to other contract bottlers to get quotes and estimates. That will probably have to wait until Sunday.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-09T17:45:28-04:00
Sounds good to me. You'll also have to take into consideration what happens if your campaign is wildly popular. If you end up with 1,000 or more backers, how will you cope? Do you have volunteers at the ready to help pitch in?
Maybe one of the KC members that lives near you can help?
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-10-09T17:48:09-04:00
@LZ, heck if you fly me out, I'll help for free! We could have a sword fight, drink some brews and box up some sauce! You know it would be awesome!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-09T17:52:47-04:00
Count me in, BaKhan! Oh, you meant him... well I'll help out for free as well! If you pay for my flight up there.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-09T18:24:40-04:00
Excellent! Now I'm hoping even more for a wildly successful campaign!
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-09T18:26:20-04:00
Of course, 1k backers would most likely mean 2-3k bottles of sauce, since plenty of people would want more than one flavor.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-09T18:27:19-04:00
Then there's the gift set to consider, what with its wooden box and all...
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-10-09T18:41:09-04:00
Don't forget the trinkets!
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-09T18:51:54-04:00
Oh, there's no danger of that
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-09T18:54:06-04:00
Ambidextrous, flannel, EU friendly trinkets galore!
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-09T18:55:42-04:00
Hang on, Zem! I have to save some stuff for stretch goals
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-10-09T19:22:09-04:00
SG #1 ....if you make it 10k past funding you will get shit faced afrter the campaign to the point of blacking out and ending up in another state by accident. .....that's my sugestion....
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-09T19:40:24-04:00
I'm not sure how that's an incentive for other backers, but ok.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-09T21:48:18-04:00
What a lovely evening! I just had dinner with one of my friends from Belgium. She's a vegetarian, so I made cheese enchiladas. I don't usually cook vegetarian dishes, and I've never made cheese enchiladas before; but they turned out great, even without following a recipe.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-09T22:48:17-04:00
I went to the 25th anniversary homecoming of my highschool. Well, 25 years since we consolidated with a nearby town. They had a few people from every class since 1990 there. You'd think my class, from 2 years ago, with only like 5 people out of state, would have tons of people there since we all don't have lives, but nope, only 4 including me were there at the beginning of the game, though like 5 more came later on. It was fun too, and I got to show off being in shorts and t-shirt in 50 degrees again. Good times.
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-10-10T00:31:48-04:00
It's an incentive for you to make more successful KS campaigns. ....
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-10T00:51:23-04:00
I dunno, Doc, I'd think that's a good incentive to suck it up. Besides, how do you ensure that while he's black-out drunk he'll end up in another state? Will we spy on him and shanghai him when he does it?
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-10T01:06:39-04:00
As I recall, there was already talk of you all coming to help me fulfill orders. That's when it would happen.
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-10-10T01:21:03-04:00
Sounds good to me lol..... and I have done that before..
It was only like 40 miles to the next state but still to this day have no idea how the fuck I got there....
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-10T01:34:39-04:00
Well we'll have to do it in canada if you want me to help you on your journey to becoming black-out drunk. 21 is still over the horizon, but Canada is a bit closer. Just need a passport.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-10T01:36:33-04:00
Wait, my old one may still be viable. Let's party!
Kieran 2015-10-10T07:57:49-04:00
@Creator, the fact that so long after your project, there are people STILL talking, and not just about the project, is a testament to the fanbase that you have created.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-10T10:53:12-04:00
True that Kieran
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-10T11:01:17-04:00
EP is 95% funded.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-10T11:01:34-04:00
@Kieran: Absolutely true.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-10T11:15:50-04:00
Kieran, as Walter White would say, You're goddamn right.
LZ, Hullabaloo! Hooplah! Murder and pillage!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-10T11:21:54-04:00
So... today's the Nebraska vs Wisconsin game. Anyone know why we're rivals? We don't. Nebraska loves Wisconsin, but the Wisconsin fans are some of the worst, at least to us, in all of college football. We actually have to double the security when it's played here like today. A family friend from Wisconsin once made the mistake of wearing a Husker shirt to the game, and the people in that entire section kept... well you can imagine some pretty not-so-great comments about her and her daughters that can't go up here they might have said. Then she got tired of it and told them all she was born and has family in Ne, but has lived in Wi her whole life and they stopped harassing them instantly. Those people confuse the hell out of me.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-10T12:11:00-04:00
I don't understand saying nasty things about someone just because they like a different sportsball team at all. It's all silly to me.
Gabriel Hutchins 2015-10-10T18:43:16-04:00
Friend found the game in Target, price is 20 for each NSFW and base game. Grats guys
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-10T21:48:44-04:00
Huzzah!
LZ, I don't either. But if you follow sportsball, the game was almost exciting. It came down to literally the last 4 seconds, but stupid happened and we lost by 2 because of a field goal that shouldn't have happened. Oh well. Seeing both teams' standings and ranks, that would've been amazing and it's awesome as it is that we held them down so far and were winning virtually the whole game.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-10T22:07:00-04:00
Zem, that's cool. I don't follow the spotsballs, though. I'll occasionally go to a sportspuck event to watch the people run around on the ice with their knifey shoes and angley sticks.
@Everyone So I just have a question, unless I missed it somewhere, but wasn't the NSFW version of the game supposed to be KS exclusive? How are people buying it at retail like Target?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-10T23:26:19-04:00
LZ, I love sportspuck! The atmosphere at the events are awesome. Plus, you can get into an actual fight and not be a pussy about it. The best times are when you go to a boxing match and a hockey game breaks out.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-10T23:26:26-04:00
WhoDatMoney, it's been thoroughly discussed previously, and the consensus is, "don't go there." No official announcement, but the closest we can think is that that was only while it was a small campaign, not 220,000 backers. Also, it's a perfect first expansion deck.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-11T10:06:02-04:00
Tum-tee-doo-doo... happy Back To Work You Lazy Bums eve.
@Micah was that discussion here in the comments or in some forum? I'm interested to look at it
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-11T12:33:49-04:00
@RFA: You'll have to scroll down a bit to see the discussion on that topic. When the NSFW version hit the stores (not long after the game was shipped to backers) there was a lot of talk here about that. Not much of a conclusion and the EK team didn't chime in one way or the other.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-11T13:03:40-04:00
You'd have to scroll down a hell of a bit there, Geist. That was weeks upon weeks ago and over several days in itself, and on the Litter Box. If he wants to see it, he'd have to scroll down nearly 50 pages by a conservative estimate.
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How's all yous doin'?
Just curious... Feel a little jipped at the fact that here I was thinking I would have something not everybody else would, aka the NSFW deck as advertised KS exclusive, yet it's being sold retail... I know I'm late to the realization but I didn't pay it no attention as I didn't think something like that would happen
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-11T16:49:00-04:00
I don't even remember them saying that specifically would be, only that the folding, meowing, magnetic box would be, but enough people are saying it that even though the team never repeated it they must've said it once really early on in the campaign.
Oh no! I hope his bowels start moving properly!
He keeps trying. He fell asleep in the squatting position! Poor guy.
So I take it I will never be receiving my game? if that's true I will have to fight the charge through my bank. That will be fun.
What a disappointment. :\
Hi Christine- have you emailed their support staff?
Christine: support@explodingkittens.com
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Creeper, I hope he gets better. We've all had times like that and know how you feel. Leo's a fighter, just because he's named that way, so he'll pull through.
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Why is that extremely important at this time? LZ is so much easier to say than Kev.
LZ, oh, that's why. Hi!
Yes, that's why, indeed. Hi!
Leonidas woke up, found me in the kitchen, meowed for food, ate and proceeded to leave me presents around the kitchen. Here's hoping he's on the mend. Still haven't found the piece of rubber he ate off the bottle. But i know he has to feel some relief!
are there any Advanced well tested rules to spice the game up?
Interim I did check out this under the radar card game: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1003541018/inconceivable-kingdom-at-war/description
Awww Creeper. I hope little Leo gets better. (I love his new name)
I'll still say nugget every once in awhile. Yay for poop?
Huzzah!
Morning kittens.
@Creeper: Hopefully little Leonidas is feeling better soon. He should be doing kitten things, not sick kitten things.
Morning GM. Only 8 more hours until the weekend!
Only 7.5 hours until a week off for me. :P
Lucky you. I don't get any vacation leave until next year.
I've already used 7 days of my vacation for next year when I go to Vegas in January.
I have 2 days of vacation left until june.....
@Doc: Considering that the year is about to end, doesn't that mean you have 2 days of vacation to carry over?
Whats up kittens?
My "year" starts in june.....the month I was hired....
Not sure why they do it that way..../shrugs more shit they have to keep track of...but whatever that's not my job lol
Hello BaKhan! How is the juicing diet going?
@Geist, life is good! It has warmed up a bit, so I'm wearing a very tacky hawaiian shirt to celebrate! I love the look on peoples faces when I wear these shirts, its too much fun!
@Geist, I'm going to start another juice fast next wednesday. So far this year, I've dropped 83lbs and I'd like to be down over 100lbs by Christmas. I'm pretty sure I can do it!
Why can't people fill in paperwork properly? And then call us, trying to pass the blame to someone else for their own mistake of giving the wrong date? -.-
And my work computer stopped letting KS work. Keeps telling me to recover the page.....but nothing comes of it.
@GM, now, this may come as a shock, so brace yourself. People, for the most part, suck! Why assume any responsibility, it is so much easier to act dumb, or pass the blame. ;) Sorry about your work computer. That would suck for sure.
Good to know BaKhan. I don't know if I'd be able to handle a juice fast. I'm going to try a smoothie one next week and see how that goes.
I see the Exploding Puppies game is now 80% funded. Will be interesting to see what the backers think of the product once it has been shipped.
@Geist, the smoothie ones are good too! The results aren't quite as speedy, but you still get results. All those micro nuitrients are great for you, I'm sure the experience will be quite healing! The first three days will be the hardest, then it gets much easier. My advice, set a time limit that you know you can achieve, then if you still feel like going on you can add days at that point. Its better to achieve small goals, than none at all. Its a great confidence booster! You go girl!
The reason why I choose smoothies is because it takes a LOT more veggies to make a veggie drink than a smoothie. There is much more waste and I don't have the time or money to keep going to the store to buy more food. Later down the line but not right now.
Plus I can't afford a Breville juicer.
Don't you hate it when everyone emails you except the one person you want to hear from?
@Geist, yeah, it can be a challange for sure. I know the juicer is expensive, I was actually able to wrangle a 20% discount, so that was cool, still over $300 though... I look at it as the cost of this diet plan. Smoothies are much more cost effective for sure. I was spending around $300 a week on fruits and veggies for my wife and myself, so really, given there were no meals ordered in, or eaten out, it wasn't much more than we normally spend anyways. We also have a grocery store less than a block away, which helped as well.
@LZ: That is what voodoo dolls are for.
@LZ, thats cause they're holding out for hot sauce! You only have yourself to blame! ;)
I know. Patience is also not my strong suit.
Funny thing about patience, the day they were handing it out, I had stuff to do and couldn't wait for it... ;)
$300 a week?! I guess since it's me by myself, that would work out to about $150 per week. Still too rich for my blood. At least with the smoothies, you throw in everything and the fiber keeps you full a little longer.
If I had a compost pile I was maintaining, I'd feel better about the juice waste that I would throw away.
@Geist, don't forget I live in Canada, and things are much more expensive up here. Like the cost of gas! When I was in Florida, people were bitching about it being 1.99 a gallon! Up here its $1.15 a litre! Well over double!
Good grief. That is way too pricey for petrol and I don't even have a car. Why is it that food is more expensive in your neck of the woods? I'm sure you guys have mega farms to help feed the population.
@Geist, the weather mostly. We have to mace a lot of the produce shipped here from other countries. Tariffs,taxes, transportation, etc. for example a good price on apples is 1.49 per pound.
Hmmmm. I guess the food around here is so high because of the area. I saw some apples at one of the chain grocery stores going for $2.99 per pound. Don't get me started on the cost of food in Whole Foods.
Whole Foods is ridiculous. You pay exorbitant prices for the name only. There's no benefit to shopping there instead of somewhere else.
We don't have that chain here. Not that we're missing out apparently...
@Giest, also the cost of apples, will depend on the breed. Some go as high as 2.99 per pound, but some thing like royal gala or granny smith are 1.49-1.69 per pound. I may have purchased a fair amount of apples in the last few months... ;)
They only sell organic, non GMO food, so if you're looking for that sort of thing, it's convenient to go there. The trouble is, they also figured out that people often associate cost with quality. So their organic, gluten free, non GMO produce is perceived as better than the exact same product with all the same descriptors from Kroger because it costs 2-3 times as much.
I only read up to about an hour ago because this is literally the first friday in a couple months that was actually so busy. Dang, you guys, get a life! I was busy all day so I couldn't even check in on here. But I glanced through most of it.
And yup, EP made 300 dollars in one day. Aint that just purdy? They're going to make it to; they have 20 days left to make just 100 dollars now. Dagnabbit.
I wish people with yards would do more to grow their own food. Places like WF would crumble in about a year and the other stores might lower their veggie and fruit prices.
Why would you get a house with a yard if the only thing you are going to grow is grass? (And not the kind that you smoke)
I agree, Geist. In fact, I decided this year that when my kids no longer play on the back lawn, I'm going to tear the whole thing out to really expand the size of my garden.
@Geist, I think because most people feel like gardens are too much work / they don't have enough time. Wouldn't want to cut into all that tv time you know... ;)
@LZ, awesome, now the real challenge will be keeping the kids out of the garden till you can harvest the produce! lol! I know I raided a fair amount of gardens in my day. Fresh carrots and peas? Yes please!
I'd rather they snack out of the garden than out of a bag of candy or chips
This year, I got 3 quarts of salsa and almost 4 quarts of tomatoes from my little garden.
@BaKhan: I haven't had a tv in 8 years. I don't miss it. I did purchase a small used tv at the last place I worked and I still haven't plugged it in yet.
LZ: Great idea. There are plenty of sites that sell heirloom seeds that will give you a variety of good food stuffs to grow. If I weren't planning on going to school full time within the next two years, I'd purchase a house now and get to growing.
Harrumph...! food! Mmmm...
Just kidding. We had 2 vegetable gardens at my house and regularly made stuff, especially salsa, which my mom perfected. It's amazing. We also had 2 apple trees until a few years ago when there were dozens of horrible storms. We made such amazing apple sauce and apple butter, not to mention apples! In fact, I think we finally ran out of our apple sauce stores in the basement. That's sad.
That many tomatoes? Looks like we should be getting some good sauce pretty soon. ;-P
(Keeps one eye out for a certain KS campaign)
Oh, and 2 quarts ie so of sauce
Good point. How long do you reckon until you have all the recipes and facilities figured out and could launch the kickstarter?
I already have two recipes. The other two probably won't take more than a week or two. The limiting factor will be how long it takes for the bottling place to get back to me. I'm super busy today, though, and somewhat busy tomorrow, or else I'd reach out to other contract bottlers to get quotes and estimates. That will probably have to wait until Sunday.
Sounds good to me. You'll also have to take into consideration what happens if your campaign is wildly popular. If you end up with 1,000 or more backers, how will you cope? Do you have volunteers at the ready to help pitch in?
Maybe one of the KC members that lives near you can help?
@LZ, heck if you fly me out, I'll help for free! We could have a sword fight, drink some brews and box up some sauce! You know it would be awesome!
Count me in, BaKhan! Oh, you meant him... well I'll help out for free as well! If you pay for my flight up there.
Excellent! Now I'm hoping even more for a wildly successful campaign!
Of course, 1k backers would most likely mean 2-3k bottles of sauce, since plenty of people would want more than one flavor.
Then there's the gift set to consider, what with its wooden box and all...
Don't forget the trinkets!
Oh, there's no danger of that
Ambidextrous, flannel, EU friendly trinkets galore!
Hang on, Zem! I have to save some stuff for stretch goals
SG #1 ....if you make it 10k past funding you will get shit faced afrter the campaign to the point of blacking out and ending up in another state by accident. .....that's my sugestion....
I'm not sure how that's an incentive for other backers, but ok.
What a lovely evening! I just had dinner with one of my friends from Belgium. She's a vegetarian, so I made cheese enchiladas. I don't usually cook vegetarian dishes, and I've never made cheese enchiladas before; but they turned out great, even without following a recipe.
I went to the 25th anniversary homecoming of my highschool. Well, 25 years since we consolidated with a nearby town. They had a few people from every class since 1990 there. You'd think my class, from 2 years ago, with only like 5 people out of state, would have tons of people there since we all don't have lives, but nope, only 4 including me were there at the beginning of the game, though like 5 more came later on. It was fun too, and I got to show off being in shorts and t-shirt in 50 degrees again. Good times.
It's an incentive for you to make more successful KS campaigns. ....
I dunno, Doc, I'd think that's a good incentive to suck it up. Besides, how do you ensure that while he's black-out drunk he'll end up in another state? Will we spy on him and shanghai him when he does it?
As I recall, there was already talk of you all coming to help me fulfill orders. That's when it would happen.
Sounds good to me lol..... and I have done that before..
It was only like 40 miles to the next state but still to this day have no idea how the fuck I got there....
Well we'll have to do it in canada if you want me to help you on your journey to becoming black-out drunk. 21 is still over the horizon, but Canada is a bit closer. Just need a passport.
Wait, my old one may still be viable. Let's party!
@Creator, the fact that so long after your project, there are people STILL talking, and not just about the project, is a testament to the fanbase that you have created.
True that Kieran
EP is 95% funded.
@Kieran: Absolutely true.
Kieran, as Walter White would say, You're goddamn right.
LZ, Hullabaloo! Hooplah! Murder and pillage!
So... today's the Nebraska vs Wisconsin game. Anyone know why we're rivals? We don't. Nebraska loves Wisconsin, but the Wisconsin fans are some of the worst, at least to us, in all of college football. We actually have to double the security when it's played here like today. A family friend from Wisconsin once made the mistake of wearing a Husker shirt to the game, and the people in that entire section kept... well you can imagine some pretty not-so-great comments about her and her daughters that can't go up here they might have said. Then she got tired of it and told them all she was born and has family in Ne, but has lived in Wi her whole life and they stopped harassing them instantly. Those people confuse the hell out of me.
I don't understand saying nasty things about someone just because they like a different sportsball team at all. It's all silly to me.
Friend found the game in Target, price is 20 for each NSFW and base game. Grats guys
Huzzah!
LZ, I don't either. But if you follow sportsball, the game was almost exciting. It came down to literally the last 4 seconds, but stupid happened and we lost by 2 because of a field goal that shouldn't have happened. Oh well. Seeing both teams' standings and ranks, that would've been amazing and it's awesome as it is that we held them down so far and were winning virtually the whole game.
Zem, that's cool. I don't follow the spotsballs, though. I'll occasionally go to a sportspuck event to watch the people run around on the ice with their knifey shoes and angley sticks.
@Everyone So I just have a question, unless I missed it somewhere, but wasn't the NSFW version of the game supposed to be KS exclusive? How are people buying it at retail like Target?
LZ, I love sportspuck! The atmosphere at the events are awesome. Plus, you can get into an actual fight and not be a pussy about it. The best times are when you go to a boxing match and a hockey game breaks out.
WhoDatMoney, it's been thoroughly discussed previously, and the consensus is, "don't go there." No official announcement, but the closest we can think is that that was only while it was a small campaign, not 220,000 backers. Also, it's a perfect first expansion deck.
Tum-tee-doo-doo... happy Back To Work You Lazy Bums eve.
@Micah was that discussion here in the comments or in some forum? I'm interested to look at it
@RFA: You'll have to scroll down a bit to see the discussion on that topic. When the NSFW version hit the stores (not long after the game was shipped to backers) there was a lot of talk here about that. Not much of a conclusion and the EK team didn't chime in one way or the other.
You'd have to scroll down a hell of a bit there, Geist. That was weeks upon weeks ago and over several days in itself, and on the Litter Box. If he wants to see it, he'd have to scroll down nearly 50 pages by a conservative estimate.
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Just curious... Feel a little jipped at the fact that here I was thinking I would have something not everybody else would, aka the NSFW deck as advertised KS exclusive, yet it's being sold retail... I know I'm late to the realization but I didn't pay it no attention as I didn't think something like that would happen
I don't even remember them saying that specifically would be, only that the folding, meowing, magnetic box would be, but enough people are saying it that even though the team never repeated it they must've said it once really early on in the campaign.
@Micah it's actually right in the campaign description lol it says NSFW KS exclusive