A table based table of contents (hah!), used because it's easy, fulfills a homework requirement, and because I don't want to clutter up the main nav bar (which will get overwritten in a week or so anyway).
| Page Name | Purpose |
|---|---|
| CSS Example | A simple example of how to use CSS |
| Liquid A List Apart | Example liquid layout from A List Apart |
| Liquid Book Example | An example liquid layout from HTML & CSS, by Jon Duckett |
Not sure what to put here exactly, but I did just found out that OCRemix has whole themed albums! This would be my new second favorite place to check for new albums, right after Pterodactyl Squad.
Using the @font-face tag was fairly easy. My package repo contained a list of fonts with licenses compatible for using online, then it was just a matter of copying it into the web root and adding the correct section to the appropriate css file.
Again I find myself needing content, so I guess I'll use a topic that's been banging around in my head and will eventually make a blog post.
Way back in the dawn of time I played Magic the Gathering and while I never really got into it I had a lot of cards (I had cards, just didn't play against people) and never really understood deck building. By the time I was old enough to appreciate the strategies in involved in correctly building a competitive deck my cards were too old to actually be legal or were too underpowered.
Every year Wizards of the Coast, or WotC, produces a new set of cards that along with the past few years, form the current set. Only cards from the current set can be used in official tournaments, meaning that when you buy a card it has an effective timer on it until it can no longer be used. Yes you can use it in more casual play, but the idea that what you spent your money on has a planned obsolescence galls me. There is a good reason to remove older cards, all too often WotC didn't properly playtest the newest sets, or combine them with the other current sets, so bugs and exploits would be found that could unbalance the game. Sometimes cards would be baned, or particular combos wouldn't be allowed in play, but I still feel removing such a potentially huge investment from their paying base is insulting.
Even worse to me is the rarity aspect. When someone buys a deck of Magic cards it is random which cards they will get. Depending on how they buy the cards (whether in a larger starter deck, or a smaller expansion pack) they will have differing chances of getting more or fewer rare cards. Add in that when the yearly set is being designed they add in new rules specifically for that year, often with specific card combinations in mind, means that to create a deck with a concept you want you may be required to buy an inordinate number of packs to get the cards you need. The fact that there is a thriving secondary market for rare cards that players need to properly complete a deck demonstrates the possibly huge barrier to entry to actually play the game well. Indeed while in college there was a player who had spent inordinate amounts of money on the game, and so people knew that they couldn't compete with him because they didn't have the cards needed to build a good enough deck to stand up to what he could create.
With these concerns in mind I have been looking for a replacement ever since. For a while I played Legend of the Five Rings which doesn't have the planned obsolescence and better multiplayer support, but the constant release of newer and more powerful cards that were still a grab bag if you could get them didn't really fix all of my problems. I've boughten a few deck building games (a game where the majority of the gameplay is building the deck on the fly) such as Dominion, Puzzle Strike, Core Worlds, or Quarriors but they still don't allow for the long term deck building I miss. Another option may be the Fantasy Flight Games concept of a Living Card Game which offers a new set of cards every month or so, except that the set consists of only 60 or so cards that are bought all at once, so no concept of rares or availability problems. This sounds like it might fix my concerns, but I'm still worried if these newer expansions will be needed to stay competitive with friends who do buy them.
I was asked to provide a simple picture representing myself in some way, an avatar by any other name. I've used the chuchu from ChuChu Rocket! for years, so here's a little drawing my girlfriend made fore me of a sleeping chuchu.
And a smaller one if size is a concern
