Life Update Woo
Oct. 5th, 2009 10:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
l_the_fangirlFirst off: Life.
Just sent an e-mail to Ms. Rapaport, my old career counselor at Job Corps, asking for a little help getting documentation about how fucked up I was at Job Corps. Also, help getting an office job somewhere in the Culinary field. You know, running inventory at a supermarket, or editing a cooking magazine, things like that. Where my erudition on things Food is an asset, and my being a nerd is an asset.
Cooking for myself is fun, and I'm getting adept at learning how to turnconvenience foods canned and boxed stuff (sorry for the CulJob jargon) into actual food. It's amazing how delicious Progresso Chicken and Rotini can taste if you saute carrots and onions in a ban with olive oil, salt and herbs, THEN add the contents of that can and a bay leaf. Extra bonus flavor for adding ham to the saute.
Had a lot of fun at Board Game Night at Eudemonia, acard shop intarwebs cafe game store on the east side of Shattuck and University. They hold one every Thursday, and I played a couple of hands of Magic:TG. ...And won, to my surprise. The fact that I was playing Xelvinas' horrifically good White resurrection deck (I like playing "survive until you can destroy the lynchpins of their strategy") in a multiplayer game, but I never really grokked card games until recently I started getting into L5R and The Spoils. I hear the latter is making a comeback, too, now that they've dumped the hardcore angle and made it a casual, non-collectible, stand-alone game.
Which brings me to Bliss Stage - Bliss Stage: Strategic Stage, my now semi-official card game, in particular. We're going to be releasing it as a stand-alone game with deckbuilding elements.
There are going to be, three starters - First and Final Act, Rapid Eye Movement, and Oakland Dreaming (the first game I ever ran, and the origin ofThe Changelings Of The Seasons Ewen Spring, Seiko Summer, An Ming (Clarity of Jade) Autumn and GABBY WINTERS WOO, as well as Just Simon/e, everyone's favorite transgender Innocent Sweetheart), with a 55 card Resistance deck and a 55 card Invader deck (shades of NetRunner, there). Each deck will have three copies of the same 19 cards. That's 114 unique cards, rite? And we can sell them for $17.95 - not bad for two playable decks out of the box - maybe have a sale at the full releases and/or tournaments with prizes that cost $10.80 (commence groaning).
It gets better; the minimum deck size is 45 cards with a sideboard of no more than 10 cards, so you can makea two tournament legal deck out of the box! That'll get the fens attention. (Hell, First Act alone has four obvious variations based on the opening Pilot and Anchor - Keenan beatstick by which I mean pimp cane, Anna control, Josh rush and Sara defense.
Add to that six boosters, each with a single copy of 16 different cards - "Lovers, Rivals, Allies and Enemies" (Staff), "Love is my Weapon" (Manifestations), and "Quiet Moments" (Interludes) for the Resistance; and "Lines and Veils of Battle" (Objectives), "Terror and Trauma" (Nightmares), and "The Pain Of Betrayal" (Stresses) for the Invaders. Either blisterpacked or foil-wrapped. Maybe $3.99? Less than $5.00, certianly.
That's (consults abacus) 210 cards. A small first set for a deckbuilding game, but not bad. Add a second set of 6 boosters with 16 cards, and that's 304 cards, a large starting pool for a deckbuilding game.
That's what I was thinking, anyway, and I'll crosspost this to the braindump.
Also, As soon as I saw my new icon I needed it. So hard. "I love you, but You people are all idiots!"
Ruri is THE Savvy Anchor. Get moar icons like these from Tigerbunny at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rathekis/sets/72157622352145040/.
The computer game continues ahead of schedule.
Life is good on my end.
How about you?
Just sent an e-mail to Ms. Rapaport, my old career counselor at Job Corps, asking for a little help getting documentation about how fucked up I was at Job Corps. Also, help getting an office job somewhere in the Culinary field. You know, running inventory at a supermarket, or editing a cooking magazine, things like that. Where my erudition on things Food is an asset, and my being a nerd is an asset.
Cooking for myself is fun, and I'm getting adept at learning how to turn
Had a lot of fun at Board Game Night at Eudemonia, a
Which brings me to Bliss Stage - Bliss Stage: Strategic Stage, my now semi-official card game, in particular. We're going to be releasing it as a stand-alone game with deckbuilding elements.
There are going to be, three starters - First and Final Act, Rapid Eye Movement, and Oakland Dreaming (the first game I ever ran, and the origin of
It gets better; the minimum deck size is 45 cards with a sideboard of no more than 10 cards, so you can make
Add to that six boosters, each with a single copy of 16 different cards - "Lovers, Rivals, Allies and Enemies" (Staff), "Love is my Weapon" (Manifestations), and "Quiet Moments" (Interludes) for the Resistance; and "Lines and Veils of Battle" (Objectives), "Terror and Trauma" (Nightmares), and "The Pain Of Betrayal" (Stresses) for the Invaders. Either blisterpacked or foil-wrapped. Maybe $3.99? Less than $5.00, certianly.
That's (consults abacus) 210 cards. A small first set for a deckbuilding game, but not bad. Add a second set of 6 boosters with 16 cards, and that's 304 cards, a large starting pool for a deckbuilding game.
That's what I was thinking, anyway, and I'll crosspost this to the braindump.
Also, As soon as I saw my new icon I needed it. So hard. "
Ruri is THE Savvy Anchor. Get moar icons like these from Tigerbunny at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rathekis/sets/72157622352145040/.
The computer game continues ahead of schedule.
Life is good on my end.
How about you?
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Date: 2009-10-05 09:48 pm (UTC)I just need to get the raw from tigerbunny and download the gimp again...and figure out how to do that.