Card 1
Your diet of fried food and supplements is making you hallucinate. In a vision, Pepe the Frog dances around you. He approaches, holding a moonshine martini.
Roll a 7 or higher:
If you succeed, take a +1 Prize Card.
If you fail, confess to Pepe that you love fucking your wife and lose -1 Prize Card.Card 2
You find an unused vial of Hillary Clinton’s adrenochrome on the floor.
Gain +1 Health.Card 3
Once again, you have been silenced! Big tech and their demon-rat allies have conspired to ban your social media account.
If you have ever been banned from a social media site, gain +1 Health.Card 4
As you scour the floor for lottery tickets, you come across a pipe bomb! Despite its phallic shape, you immediately hurl yourself onto it.
Roll a 7 or higher:
If you succeed, you crush the bomb and save the day. Everyone is safe.
If you fail, every Patriot in your wing loses -1 Health. Talk about a hurt locker!Card 5
After four years of accusing every famous person of being a Satanic pedophile, you begin to suspect the same of your closest allies.
All Patriots must roll a single die.
The highest roll wins the pedophile battle royale, beating the accusations and taking +1 Prize Card from each Patriot.
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Card 6: you taser yourself in the balls and die
There’s probably a card for this. The website says that there are 125 Event cards in total.
If you have ever been banned from a social media site, gain +1 Health.
“Go Touch Grass” card!
Completely baffling move. They seem to have put a whole lot of effort into what is at best a throw-away joke
High-effort bits are good!
not $65-for-a-box-that-will-never-be-opened good, though
Me staring at my copy of Catan that is still in the plastic wrap contemplating buying this for the memes.
it’s not like it’s Twilight Struggle. Catan is one of the easier games to get to table. you just gotta ask more people.
They’re making money on it, so that’s reason enough for them.
Presumably, the few people that buy it will open and use it.
I highly doubt they are making much money, if any on it. Board game development and manufacturing is expensive in the U.S. especially for a one-off. A game with this many decks and pieces would probably cost an easy $100 in a regular retail environment, which is likely why the run is limited.
$100 is way too steep for punch-out tokens. or maybe games developed in the era of kickstarter have skewed my perception.
It used to be better even 10 years ago, but my understanding is that the demand for time on the manufacturing machines has gone way up due to Kickstarter and the popularity of D&D, and supply of machines has not gone up because it takes engineers and investors literally begging (and sometimes even threatening to sue from the investor-side) for management to even consider buying new machines (Thanks Lean Six Sigma). I’d say the biggest thing creating cost here is the board itself, the packaging, and the (looks like three or four) decks of cards, not the punch tokens.
That said, I could be way off and they are pushing these babies out for 10 bucks a pop.
I have a buddy that just published a game last year, and his set up isn’t much more complicated than this, with more plastic counters, and his ran for 80 dollars outside of retail, which wasn’t much above cost (according to him).
I think a good comparison would be a game like Dead of Winter which has like at least twice as much papercraft stuff in it as this Storm the Capitol game but at highest I think sold $79.99 retail and was rather profitable.
The difference in your friend’s game is the plastic counters, I think. A pair of my friends have been publishing games for almost a decade now and they try to exclusively design papercraft games because of the difference in cost to produce.
I expect a larger, less limited run for a higher price later on if this test run sells well. If this is a loss leader, it’s also a marketing gambit.
This is completely possible and a much more realistic analysis. We’ll see what they end up doing here.
Might sell decently in the UK as well 😆
well, they’re charging money for it. Whether or not they make money sort of depends on whether people buy them
They have 30k members that collectively pay them $100k per month over patreon. Plus the large number of folks like me who listen on bootleg feeds and their public feed. I think that’s enough people that they can sell out a limited run of a board game.
It’s certainly possible, but it’s also not guaranteed
I am 100% going to buy this and play it with my in laws.
$65-for-a-box-that-will-never-be-opened
If I actually bought this I would play the living fuck out of it
It’s something to do with lib relatives during their
a few days from nowYeah they shoulda liked…changed the world or something
Essentially this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH_CoCAPFw0
Good bit. Wish I knew people irl to play it with.
Tazed yourself in the balls: skip your next turn
Is
a playable character?Apparently yes
The QAnon Viking?
Unfortunately, I have not clicked on any links, someone down the thread answered with that lady’s toon
yoooooo i love asymmetrical boardgames (1v2, 1v3, 2v4, etc.). i know this is a bit and a joke but on first glance it looks like it could be legit good
is it asymmetric? I thought everyone plays as a patriot?
from my understanding, you can be 1 of 6 PATRIOTS doing PATRIOTIC stuff, or you can be the Capitol Police police to try and stop them.
i’ve got too too too many boardgames to justify buying this, but it still looks cool
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Same reason they take down bootleg feeds of their podcast:
$$$
That had more to do with the solicitation of donations of the bootleg podcast. Knowing how game development and manufacturing works, I don’t think they are going to make much money on this bit. If they really wanted to start making money, they would do ad sponsors or start selling more t-shirts.
Young Chomsky is a mod on the subreddit and removes stuff all the time that he won’t get a cut of
Well yeah, I was just talking about the blackepsteinfeed stuff. I don’t know if any podcast other than chapo that let bootlegs slide on the main subreddit.
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That would be understandable I suppose but I believe they’ve taken down more than one feed. Did they bring it up anywhere? If they addressed it I’ll stop giving them crap for it.
Nah they’ve never discussed it as far as I can tell, I just know that as soon as the first solicitation went up, that was when the feed got DMCA’d but they haven’t gone out of their way to take down other feeds, which are on c/podcasts.
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It’s a good way to calm your hooting chud uncle and your crowing lib aunt and have some good old fashioned family fun everyone can enjoy
If I played this with my IRL friends I’d be the only person finding it funny
My irl friends already have a day planned to play lmao
Where do you get friends that cool? College?
Surprisingly, like middleschool to about 25 years old is when I met my core group of friends
Gonna sell out in 10 minutes, I dont get paid til the 12th
looks fun honestly.
This is next level shitposting
God they have been upping their shitposting this past year. kicking of 2024 with a bang
Who’s buying this for us so that we can have a game night
like the cop character. ubuhdeeubuhdeeubuhde that’s all folks
That needs to become our :capitol-police: emoji
Ahh yes. What a funny day that was. Very funny.
A bunch of car dealership owners took the week off to rush into lobby of the capital building, then wander about aimlessly waiting for a cutscene to start. What is that, if not funny?
Um, excuse me, that’s a really unfair characterization.
Here's why:
a lot of them were real estate agents
A few of them were another kind of agent too
Forgetting landscaping business owners
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Meemaw confirmed as a playable character
is one of the pieces Munchel doing the railing hop pose?
A bunch of frothing petty bourgeoisie, landleeches, and off-duty cops sacking the seat of white supremacist hegemonic power because they are very stupid is actually really funny, especially because several of them managed to die despite being welcomed with literal open arms by the on-site security.
I just wish libs would put two and two together and compare how they and the media treats literally that exact same class demographic doing literally the exact same thing to government buildings in designated Bad Countries vs how they reacted to it being done by domestic fash to their own legislature. The same hogs who squealed and clapped when nativist militants sacked the Hong Kong legislature in the name of racism sob and clutch pearls over some suburbanite freaks smearing shit all over the super special sacred building of state power at home, and they don’t see the irony in that.
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It was possibly the funniest thing that has ever happened.
Legit the funniest thing in my lifetime
It was easily one of the top 5 funniest things thars happened in the last hundred years. It’s neck and neck with Fabio getting face blasted by a goose while riding a roller coaster.
yes, it was hilarious
Correct.
go fuck the constitution if you think it’s so great
Yep it was hilarious
they just went back to the airport afterward lol
