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I wonder if the controversy surrounding their dickwolves criticsm and potential hypocrisy has damaged their branding. I doubt it but it would be interesting to see the numbers.

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The problem with the dickwolves thing wasn't the dickwolves joke itself, but rather how they responded when people got upset. There is nothing wrong with cards against humanity criticising penny arcade for this while having similar content, as long as they don't respond similarly if people get upset over their content.

And to me it isn't hypocrisy, since the main argument to CAH against Penny Arcade was that they screwed their expo over by drawing that kind of negative attention to it.

That's Penny Arcade you're thinking of.

Im actually referencing this incident I read about on reddit:

http://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1qjg3s/we_make_the_game...

Also, you should take in account that when that happened Max also tried use his twitter following to embarrass the people who disagree with. Thats a pretty crappy thing to do in his position.

https://twitter.com/MaxTemkin/status/401226933779701760

I don't care about his politics and opinions, I like the game at how it originally was created: something incredibly horrible and vain.

EDIT: Don't like a card and own the deck? Throw out the offending cards. Don't like the card you hold? Ask the group what you have to do to get rid of a card/don't play it.

Thanks for the information, I had no idea there was such pointless hypocrisy going on. The game is still fun, but their response seems nonsensical to me. The distinction is lost on me.

I knew what you were talking about (although, to be fair, the poster you linked is a friend of mine)

Their response: http://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1qjg3s/we_make_the_game...

It strikes me as a bit sensationalist to call that an "incident". Someone asked a question, they responded civilly. The discussion turned slightly inflammatory amongst other Redditors (i.e. not the actual CAH guys), as isn't completely unexpected on Reddit when you're discussing an even vaguely touchy subject.

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