Comment on Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, explaining jokes

artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There’s currently not enough industrial capacity in the US to manufacture card games. Simple as that. Trying to do it would likely end up still being more expensive than the tariffs, and probably delay your product.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It seems very unlikely that no one in the entirety of the US has the capacity to make a card game. Do you have some evidence of this?

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    • hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      polygon.com/…/tabletop-panic-tariffs-on-china-lay…

      The U.S. has a very small industrial capacity for manufacturing tabletop games — especially board games.

      “The news is bad from every angle, but especially so for card games and RPGs printed in China,” they said. “The choice seems to be either 1) a massive price hike to pay the new import taxes, or 2) go to a direct sales model that removes the hobby distributors from the equation.”

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      • artyom@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This is not a tabletop game, it’s a card game.

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• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The intent is to highlight the stupidity of the tariffs.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t get it

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    • B0rax@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well that part was clear.

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      • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Ok this Fediverse experiment has been fun but it turns out you guys are assholes just like everywhere else. Byebye now.

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    • MoreZombies@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Neither does Trump

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• frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because US produced cardstock sucks ass. Maybe someone will change that in the future; it’s more likely than things like die cast sheet metal, which is an industry that has to be rebuilt from almost scratch. The Game Crafter, the most popular prototyping service in the US, gets their cardstock from Germany, because they want it to not suck.

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• navi@lemmy.tespia.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Because its a meme

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What? Which meme?

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• Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They raised money to dig a hole to then fill it in ahain, for similar reasons.

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  • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Why aren’t you giving all this money to charity?

    Why aren’t YOU giving all this money to charity? It’s your money.

    Touché .

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• orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Looks like the trolls are starting to emerge from other platforms.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah they’re everywhere today.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I promise I’ve been here longer than you.

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    • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well then. Looks like this troll is embedded.

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      • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        LOL the useless metrics that you brought up? Ok. Bye bye now.

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• RohanWillAnswer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’re just using the law to their advantage. They’re good businessmen.

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• Wolf314159@startrek.website ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is this wit or a genuine request that one of us explainsthejoke.com?

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  • SteevyT@beehaw.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m still confused!

    You want us to explain the joke of explaining the joke?

    Please?

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