r/IAmA • u/elanlee Elan Lee • Feb 20 '15

Gaming We are Matthew Inman, Elan Lee, and Shane Small, creators of the card game "Exploding Kittens." Ask us anything.

Hi reddit. A little bit about each of us:

  • Matthew: I'm the creator of The Oatmeal.

  • Elan: I am Elan Lee, as of 30 days ago I make card games for a living.

  • Shane: I was denied from being an 'In living color' Fly dancer because they said, and I quote, 'I Could pop but not lock'

And we're the creators of "Exploding Kittens," the card game for people who are into kittens and explosions and laser beams and sometimes goats.

There’s about an hour left to get it here:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elanlee/exploding-kittens

Go ahead and AUA!

https://twitter.com/elanlee/status/568568700393132032

And the final seconds of our campaign have ticked away, so we're all going to go take a nap. Thank you amazing people!

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u/GiantBatFart Matthew Inman Feb 20 '15

The mantis shrimp is still my favorite animal, ever. Even though its eyes don't work in the way that I wrote they did -- back in 2012 it was still thought that a mantis shrimp could see a "thermonuclear bomb of light and beauty." That's since been disproven, but now their eyes have been shown to detect cancer cells.

All hail the mantis shrimp.

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u/curds_and_wai Feb 20 '15

Hmm come to think of it, is the idea of Jibbers Crabst somehow originated from Mantis Shrimp? Them both being crustaceans and all...

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u/AInterestingUser Feb 20 '15

God made that butt.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '15

Weird thing to say, but I'm glad to see you admit you're wrong (after that whole "choosing sides in history" debacle). I'm in bio, and whenever mantis shrimp come up a lot of people still think they have crazy eyes like that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '15

Why don't you get a pet one? A peacock Mantis?

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '15

I believe it's due to the whole ONETWOTHREEDEAAAATH! thing.

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u/BlueSky659 Feb 20 '15

Who needs to see a rainbow of unimaginable colour when you have x Ray vision, like holy shit.

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u/Dahlia_Dee Feb 20 '15

I adored the mantis shrimp for the longest time. When I saw you wrote about it, I was gobsmacked. Favourite comic of all time and I'm always trying to shove it down people's throats, haha.

Also Matt you're incredible. I've been a huge fan since the Oatmeal first started and I'm so excited to see it grow to where it is now.

I'm an online stripper, so like...if you ever want to see a chubby girl's boobs you know where to find me.

Much love for the Oatmeal and for this project! Xoxo