Ladies and gentlemen, the late David Bowie.

If everything is working properly again here on TheO, you should all be seeing this post. I'm sure that by now everyone knows about how this site went down last night because it was being moved to a new server. Then when it finally came back up, everyone seemed to lose all their subscribers. Later when I tried logging in this morning I wasn't able to access either my backroom or my portfolio page. Thankfully everything seems to be working now though. I pretty grateful for that because TheO has become kind of a regular part of my life, even though activity on this site has dropped quite a bit in recent years. I usually log in here at least two or three times a day.

Anyway, last night was kind of rough for me all around actually. In addition to TheO being down, I ended up having problems with my own Internet connection. I was surfing the Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki to research the D/D/D monsters used by Reiji from ARC-V because I was thinking of using my own D/D/D deck later on, when suddenly our modem decided to crash. It took about ten or twenty minutes for it to get back online, and then when it finally did we started losing connection again. At that point I turned off my computer for the night in the hopes that the problem would solve itself, which it obviously did. And if that wasn't enough, last night I wasn't able to get to sleep until about 3:45 or 4:00 AM, and I had to be up at about 7:30 this morning. I think that part of why I wasn't able to get to sleep was because I was a little stressed about what was happening with the Internet, and the larger part was because I got even more stressed out worrying that I wouldn't be able to get any sleep at all last night.

So obviously I'm a wee bit tired today. I certainly don't think I'm in any condition to do any writing, which kind of frustrates me because I've been unable to get any writing done for the past week and a half now. I've just been having issues with this next chapter of this one fanfic I've been working on. I know how I want the chapter to go, I just can't seem to get it started for some reason. It's like my mind just doesn't want to go there. Needless to say, I'm a little bit of a mess right now. Hopefully things will be better if I can't get a full night of sleep later tonight.

As for my previously mentioned idea about building a D/D/D deck (for those who may care), I'm pretty much turned off on the idea now. A large part of it has to do with the events of last night. As I was first trying to get to sleep last night, part of my brain seemed to be obsessing over the archetype a bit. I do still find the D/D/D monsters interesting though. In fact they were part of the inspiration behind an archetype of monsters I made up for an OC in a series of Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL fanfics I've been working on (one of which is actually the problem story I mentioned before). Still, I think right now if I really want to toy with Pendulum Summoning, I should just build an Odd-Eyes deck like the one that Yuya uses. It'd certainly be an easier Pendulum deck to use.

I would like to share one initial assessment about the D/D/D archetype that I made during my initial research. I think with the exception of this one card, the name of which escapes me right now, anyone building a D/D/D deck should probably avoid using the D/D/D Pendulum Monsters and focus on summoning the archetype's Fusion, Synchro and Xyz Monsters. The reason is because some of the Pendulum monsters of the sub-archetype of this kind of deck, the D/D monsters, have a condition in their Pendulum effects where only D/D monsters can be Pendulum Summoned. I could be totally wrong about this though. And of course if I am, anyone is free to correct me. Until next time.