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This error has been popping up every time I've tried to move points around, whether that's making bank transactions (both depositing and withdrawing) or sending someone points. The points still appear to go where they need to go, so I haven't really paid too much mind to it, but I figure with the Halloween event coming up there'll be a big influx of point transfers happening so I wanted to bring attention to it before then. I use Google Chrome, haven't tried this on other browsers.

Peter didn’t quite hear what Coach Clara had said besides “You’re up next, Peter,” but he inferred that given Hana got up and off him, he had Clara to thank for that as well. He didn’t get up right away, though, even after that had happened, instead mentally bracing himself for the duel ahead. It did probably mean he looked a little silly to both his teammates and his upcoming opponent, but his mind was elsewhere. He remembered back when he was younger and significantly more naive, playing against his mother on the dining room table, and he had just asked how it felt playing on a professional field. It was a question he’d asked before, it had to have been loads of times at that point, and the standard answer had always been “You're too young to worry about that,” or “Let’s focus on getting you there first, hm?” But this time, for whatever reason, his mother instead set down her cards and started looking a little contemplative. “It can be a little lonely,” she said. “There are cameras and the crowd, and even the opponent, yes, so it’s not like there isn’t anyone around -- it’s not that sort of loneliness. But it can feel like it’s you against the world sometimes. All those eyes, they’ll never give you an inch, you think. But you’ll get used to it. You have to. Despite the pressure they bring, you don’t want those eyes looking somewhere else. Then they forget you exist.” He was up next. It was time! The mother in his head was saying different things now, like “Stay focused,” and “Remember your fundamentals.” Peter pushed himself off the ground and returned to his bag where his deck and duel disk awaited him. They fit into place just like they always did. Laurie was his opponent? That didn’t matter. The only thing that mattered right now was him. That didn’t stop him from shaking hands with her at the middle of the field, of course. He wasn’t that far gone. “Here’s to a fun match,” Laurie even said, which Peter reciprocated before producing a coin. “Call it,” Peter said. “Tails.” Peter gave the coin a flip and watched it spin in the air a few times before snatching it and slamming it on his wrist. “Looks like I’m going first,” he said, adding, “Good luck again,” before walking back to his side of the field. "It's time to duel!" His hand was… it was fine. His father was already lecturing in his ear about how he should be playing the hand he drew instead of wishing for something else, though, and that started to bother him more than the cards themselves did. He did have a few plays, though. “I’ll start with the card Cards of Consonance,” he said. “Pretty simple, I can discard a Dragon Tuner to draw two cards. My dragon tuner of choice is The White Stone of Ancients.” He flashed both cards before slipping them into his graveyard. “I’ll set a card too, but at the end of my turn, White Stone effect activates. Because it went to the graveyard, I can Special Summon a Blue-Eyes monster. “Blue-Eyes White Dragon!” Peter called out, and the named card flew out of the deck slot in his disk and right into his hand, which in turn went in a fluid motion right into the slot. Right on cue, the dragon itself appeared in the middle of the battlefield. The acoustics of its roar were significantly different than back at Horizon’s gym, the sound had an echo to it that lingered for so much longer. “Like I said, that happened during my End Phase, so it’s your turn now.” “I’ll draw,” Laurie declared as she did just that. She frowned as she looked between her hand and the monster on the field, mumbling, “It just had to be something that big.” Looking back to her hand, the girl finally nodded to herself. “Not much to do here myself either. I’ll set one monster face down, and set two cards face down.” With a smile, the girl gestured back to Peter saying, “that’s it for my turn.” Alright, well, Peter was the one with a monster in Attack position, which meant he was on the offensive, right in his comfort zone. He was, of course, suspicious of Laurie’s face-downs -- he didn’t even know what Laurie’s deck was yet! -- but he wasn’t about to let her reveal her secrets on her own terms. “Draw,” Peter said, and immediately the line of play appeared before him. “So first thing’s first, I’m going to Summon Priestess with Eyes of Blue,” Peter said as the holy woman appeared on the field. “But it’s not going to be here for long. I also had a Sage in hand, so by discarding it, I can get another Blue-Eyes onto the battlefield. But not only that,” -- he remembered this time -- “because I targeted Priestess, I can get two more to my hand. “Blue-Eyes White Dragon! I summon another!” The dragon’s roar was no less imposing the second time. “Plus, I found my third with Priestess and Blue-Eyes Alternative Dragon. Here, I’ll even show you it again,” he said, flashing the cards to all onlookers. “By doing this, Blue-Eyes Alternative Dragon can be Special Summoned as well.” Summoning a bunch of monsters in one turn felt like it was supposed to be against the rules. But there they were, and Laurie hadn’t done anything to stop him just yet. Well, now was the time to figure out if she could. “Battle!” Peter said. “Blue-Eyes Alternative Dragon, let’s start by attacking that face-down.” Laurie took a cautious step back as she was suddenly facing off against three dragons, not doing anything as the alt dragon attacked her face down. Flipping over, it revealed to be a small black dragon with red eyes, which didn’t stick around long as it was instantly destroyed. Clearing her throat, stepping forward with a smile now on her face she said, “well, what was just destroyed was Red-Eyes Baby Dragon. And when he goes to the graveyard I can summon a Red-Eyes monster from my deck. And so, I’m going to summon Gearfried, The Red-Eyes Iron Knight in defense mode!” As she called this out, a man with bladed arms in black and red armor showed up with Red-Eyes Baby hopping onto his back. “Red-Eyes baby also attaches itself to the monster it summons as an equip card, but when Gearfried has an equip card attached to him he can send it to the grave and one spell or trap of yours. So,” as she pointed towards Peter’s facedown, the dragon turned into a black and red flame that ran across Gearfried’s blade. With a swing of it, the flames overtook Peter’s facedown -- Majesty with Eyes of Blue -- and destroyed it. The knight returned to his defensive stance, with Laurie continuing, “also, when Baby is sent to the graveyard as an equipped card, I can add a level 1 dragon to my hand, that being this guy.” The girl pulled The Black Stone of Legend from her deck, adding it to her hand before stating, “but, that’s all from that. Still your battle phase though.” “Right,” Peter said. Red-Eyes! Of course! He felt like there was a god up there with a sense of humor, pitting him up against a counterpart archetype like this. The parents in his head were chastising him for even thinking about those circumstances, but he couldn’t help it. Still, like they’d both said, he was on the offensive. “I’ll send one of my Blue-Eyes after your Gearfried, then.” Laurie didn’t seem to be too bothered as the attack struck the knight, instead saying, “Sorry for the interrupt again, but, when a Red-Eyes monster I control is destroyed, I can Special Summon this guy from my hand: Red-Eyes Retro Dragon. And when he’s summoned, he also brings back the destroyed monster.” As she finished her explanation, out from the ground Gearfried rose again, taking his defensive posture once more as a black and red dragon of similar stature flew down next to him. “Again, still your battle phase.” Maybe it was because Laurie still had gas in the tank, maybe it was because, again, of course he knew it was still his turn to attack, whatever the reason, Peter couldn’t help but let out an annoyed tsk. “Alright, I still have one more Blue-Eyes to attack with. Let’s get rid of your Retro Dragon, then. Anything you have to say to that?” Laurie waved her hand saying, “Go ahead,” and both Peter and she watched on as the Blue-Eyes’ beam of light obliterated the Red-Eyes. There wasn’t really any following that, at least on his end, Peter decided. “Well, that’s my turn, then,” Peter said. “Your go.”

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←Previous Post -- Next Post→ Duel 27 -- Nanami’s Egg Or: There's An Easy "Egg On Your Face" Joke Here, Surely After that brief interlude, we’re back to the manga’s main story with “To Sprout”. Again like the anime, the manga makes a point of already casting doubt on Utena’s belief that Touga is her prince -- he looks very little like the person in her flashbacks, which is only compounded by Kaido seeing Mister Licky-lick in the prolog so the features are significantly less ambiguous. Both the manga and the anime agree that it is important to see how someone can easily be swept up in false promises, and do so initially with a (to the viewer) obvious lie. To those that have been following along with the anime, it plays out exactly as you would expect. Utena has two conflicting desires: wanting to find her prince and wanting to do right by Anthy (even if that often seems to be telling her what to do). Where the manga differs is in how Anthy begins at least appearing to act on her own agency. The segments where Anthy is coerced into expressing Utena’s opinions are still there, but there are moments too where Anthy begins requesting things of Utena. “Please fight for me,” Anthy says, and while this could be a completely off-the-mark reading, I think she means it here, if only because she has seen that at least Utena is trying. This isn’t a part of their relationship that we’ve really seen yet in the show -- just a few episodes ago it was evident that Anthy was trying but was still unable to bring herself to do so. Utena loses the initial duel with Touga -- despite Anthy’s request -- for the same reason she does in the show, by choosing a potential relationship with Touga, someone she feels she’s been chasing her entire life, over a more unknown one with Anthy, and once again, she only realizes the mistake once she has truly lost the latter. Touga is even nice enough to spell it out for her right away. “You lost to your own feelings [...] I’m not your prince,” he says. Wakaba tries to pull her out in the same way we’ve seen before, though it is made a bit more difficult by previous events creating a rift in their friendship. Instead, the actual prince sends her a new uniform and reminds her to “never lose her nobility,” which is the real turning point for the character. Again, this is a much more transparent metaphor than the show. The conflict between Utena’s relationship with Anthy and Utena’s search for her prince doesn’t go away, it just gets shunted down the line. By the end of Part Three, Utena has instead focused her desires on another potential prince, Akio Ohtori. This is happening in the show as well, but the compressed nature of the story emphasizes it here. Touga takes on a significantly less adversarial role, too. After his loss in the second duel with Utena, he swears fealty to the victor and immediately begins openly plotting against End of the World. Meanwhile, Anthy again makes an appeal to Utena, to not cooperate with Touga in these machinations, a move that I’m really interested to talk about, though not until late in the anime. It’s something I invite those watching along to think about in the meantime, though. I am not saying that the plot of this episode can be summed up by a not-even-a-minute-long Korean animation but here’s the best go at it I’ve seen: More seriously, this episode is rather on the nose with its messaging. I will say when I said, “Nanami Episodes have some sort of ‘growing up’ moral attached,” this is the primary episode I was thinking of. When I first saw the episode, I interpreted it as a metaphor for menstruation (Nanami literally has a girls health and hygiene class in her schedule), though the symbology is a bit broad and could be interpreted as any part of growing up. What’s important to note, though, is ancillary to this is a focus on the relationship between Nanami and Touga. Specifically how it is on the decline. The dinner scene specifically uses the classic “drifting apart emotionally so they are physically apart” visual shortcut that has appeared in films such as Citizen Kane and before. We also see Touga use homophobic rhetoric which, when compared to his actions specifically with Akio and Saionji, demonstrates his own inability to be emotionally honest with his sister. You know, not to mention the actual text of these scenes. The episode also serves as a mirror to Episode Four (“The Sunlit Garden - Prelude”), with moments such as Nanami’s multiple fantasy sequences and being clocked in the face with a ball, drawing direct attention to these two moments in Nanami’s life. One last mirror is in the implication of who placed the titular egg in the first place: Anthy, who reveals herself to have a hen named Nanami in addition to her other animals. It would be a completion of her animal-based revenge and the “Divine Retribution” the show inflicts on Nanami for killing a kitten in the backstory, and one where Nanami drives herself mad largely through her own neuroses (as opposed to previous with a probably magic cowbell or student-turned-elephants). But this isn’t the last Nanami episode. There is, to my rough memory, at least one more, perhaps the culmination of everything her miniature arc is bringing. -r Next time: Only eleven episodes left! Time to introduce a brand new character! ←Previous Post -- Link to Episode -- Next Post→

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Wait, there were more of her? More Julians that he had to look out for? The potential for one of them to have been in his room immediately put Chris on edge. “I didn’t realize I was such a big deal,” he said. “Julian and two others? I only saw the one yesterday, and only briefly. How many people do I have to watch out for here?” “Well, it is a tavern,” Hector said. “The more the better for business, I’d say. But those should be the only new faces here for the moment.” “Mm,” Chris said. “Alright, well, I don’t want Julian or anyone else snooping around my room again, but it seems like you’ve got that locked down. Better conversation then: what’s for breakfast?” Hector frowned and watched Chris silently for a few moments. “Right. How you feel about some toast and bacon? Guess the chef was in a bit of a mood today.” “Hey, I would be too if I had a three-duck order with all the trimmings sprung on me with little notice,” Chris joked, brushing off Hector’s gaze. “I mean, I’ll take what you give me. And some water, I guess.” As Chris waited patiently for his food, he chewed on the events of the morning. That mysterious puddle in his room (not to mention the even more mysterious girl who left it there) was still on his mind, but what was he supposed to do about it? Just hang in the corner of the tavern until he maybe saw someone with a matching description? That seemed like a lot more worrying than results if he were being honest with himself. Outside of the puddle, he wasn’t even sure he hadn’t imagined it, too. What he really wanted to be chewing on, though, was food. And in the conflict between his head and his stomach, the stomach won handily. “Well,” Chris mumbled to himself. “I guess I’ll just see what comes.”

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