Dealing with cards *ha, pun!*

[rainmage]

Today it was a card-y day. I tried to work on the OOP practice I have to hand over on the 19th, because I'm really behind, but in the end I got distracted by shiny Internets. Again.

The point is, I made one exercise, and it was one about creating a deck of baraja (una baraja española, para aclarar). It was kind of weird because my knowledge of it

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[rayechu]

Bah, we covered him in our Brit Lit. class but we didn't go over that poem! Too bad, I would have liked to talk about it in class.

[rainmage]

I only know of that poem for geeky reasons (ie, it showed up in two fantasy books I've read). It's kinda hard for me to get, but it's because of the Early Modern English. I also have my problems with original Shakespeare in English, which is kinda sad.

[rainmage]

Incidentally, Tarot decks HAVE Queens. I wonder how come they dropped them from the standard baraja. Is it mysogyny, or they just never used them in most games, like with the truco-customized decks? (I didn't know that, it's interesting ^^)

Oh, I've never said I can't find French decks. I haven't checked around, but I'm sure small misc stores must have them. It's the fact the popular games are all for barajas. Here young people strongly play mus and tute. I see Argentina is kinda the same from your comment, but in Venezuela we favor French decks the most. I think I only knew of one popular baraja deck when I lived in Caracas, and it was preciselly truco (I'm not sure if it's the exact same truco you play, though)

You find it if you google :D

[rainmage]

I never learned to play truco, even though I was forced to play once. I also "played" either mus or tute without having idea. (All of this with a classmate/acquaintance telling me which cards to play behind me)

I guess I just suck at cards. I only know how to play el burro, and I used to play some rommy when I was little.

Oh, and Uno. But that can be played by any retard.

[fujurpreux]

Ese poema también es el epígrafe de Stardust, de Neil Gaiman. =D

[rainmage]

Uh,

I was surprised when I saw it on Neil Gaiman's Stardust. That tipped me about the realism of it. Probably more English native speakers knew about this fact, but as someone who was never taught English literature and poetry, I had no idea.

[fujurpreux]

I'm sorry, my brain isn't working properly this days. ;_;

[rainmage]

Don't worry ^_^

[miyazawa_lulu]

Si encuentras algo decente de Kohza/Vivi, ya sea fic o fanart o lo que sea, avísame, que yo tampoco me atrevo a mirar nada >_>

El poema me suena de clase, aunque supongo que eso no es raro O_o Ahora que me han regalado Howl's Moving Castle (que ya he empezado a leer como una loca ^^u) y Castle in the Air supongo que descubriré la referencia a la que haces referencia, valga la redundancia XD

[rainmage]

Bueno, está la unión japonesa y este escueto search para curiosear, en lo que respecta a fanart japonés. Este me pasó un fic corto que aún no he leído pero tengo en mis memorias, por si quieres echarle un ojo. Ella dice que está bueno.

Nonononono, la referencia está en HMC, no en CitA. Tú sigue leyendo, que va a ser bastante crack. Y me dices qué te pareció el libro cuando termines!