If things have gone well for me on this go 'round, it's because I'm constantly being given opportunities to learn things.  That is to say, I have had many opportunities to be savaged by reality in ironically appropriate ways.  I don't know exactly what I'm supposed to emerge from some of these experiences with, but I do emerge from them, armed for the next surreal asault from a hostile universe.

Wow, just fucking wow. 

Listen, I would never personally take a class like this. I think it's silly and expensive. All I am saying is that I can relate to guys who are scared to talk to girls and I can understand how desperate they might be for help. Obviously I don't approve of hunting women from the back of a jeep and if that's the intent of this shit then yeah it's fucked up. If it gives guys genuine tips for getting past their anxiety around a girl then I think it's fine.

I'm not sure the people who espouse these "love systems" or "dating sciences" want much to do with women outside of their role as the variable in some bizarre equation they're endlessly iterating.  And if you aren't interested in women, or at any rate you aren't interested in actual women, or if you are only interested in a subset of a woman's physicality, there's an app for that.

Hold on just a second asshole. You are taking that comment way out of context!

This, from the dude who thinks it's okay to have sex with unconscious women.  That must be considered the "ultimate" technique, something akin to true mastery.

I think you're being overly dramatic. Girls have been using their "feminine wiles" to manipulate men since the beginning of time. Do you really think the mind games girls play on guys are any better or worse than this stuff. The only difference is that this sort of thing comes naturally to women. Guys are in a tight spot because in very real terms, we have nothing they want. They on the other hand, have vaginas. They can make us do pretty much what ever they want. I don't see anything wrong with guys trying to learn some tricks of their own. 

I'm fairly certain the purpose of this course is to make you a better predator of women.  Check out their offers of "in-field training," as though you were going to hunt antelopes from a jeep in the Goddamned Savannah.   

I don't know, Love Systems doesn't seem so bad to me. It's really hard to talk to girls, and this is just helping guys with their confidence. Women are terrifying and strange, I don't see anything wrong with getting some advice.

Page Six, which can be found here, completes the first chapter of Automata. The project itself directly expresses a fairly narrow band of the universe, hopefully enough to make you curious about the rest of it, and how this came to be the state of play.

After we expressed some enthusiasm for the show recently, the people behind 1 vs 100 Live asked us if we wanted to come on there and co-host - and we did not deny them.  I'm about to jump in the car and head over there, and it seemed like a reminder might be in order.  The show starts at seven o'clock tonight, Pacific Standard Time.

We did a six page Tekken piece, one that begins like this, and then - if you can believe it - becomes even more ridiculous.

After I posted about my last D&D game, I received a lot of requests for my free fall combat rules.

Page Five of Automata is here, followed by the final page (which we're thinking of calling "Page Six") on Monday.

This is just a quick note to say that Tycho and I will be guests on 1 vs. 100 this friday on Xbox Live. The "show" starts at 7:00 and we'll be there the entire time with the host Chris Cashman. There will be some PA related questions in the mix and you'll be able to call in and shoot us questions. 

A reader has taken the time to actually produce the above radio show. I thought he did an awesome job: