**This is the TCA cycle.**

- Contribute //ON//

-- Be aware of certain hot button issues include in Gridcosm sometimes relentlessly

-- Shock people with blendy panel or two

-- Episodic Harsh Panel Phase --------------------------- Fly in the Butter Technique --------------------------- Create one or a series of panels even, that are non-blendy, but more importantly with dubious subject worth. Feign bad technique or just poorly execute.

-- Defend and Obfuscate If contributors respond angrily to panels or series of washouts, batter them with snarky commentary, rationalizations or any manner of deflection suitable ( see below TCA quote )

"There is a symmetry to TCA's 'Position popularity' in several different respects.

c3 (13%), a3 (12%), c1 (12%), a1 (12%), c2 (12%), a2 (12%), b3 (12%), b1 (12%)

Also the number of levels (969) is visually symmetrical in sequence.

Do I have OCD? No. There is another explanation. This is my meditation on mathematics and formal logic, which are essential to computer science and technology. I'm inept at math, so this meditation is something new for me."

// what this has to do with anything, is a mystery to me

-- Announce a sabbatical from the Grid After long response or series of messages back and forth, TCA announces he will be departing, citing whatever reasons are in line with Grid-Current events

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A quick response to direct points in the TCA Message 15565

"2 -- the artist exercised some immediately discernable imagination and thought."

**The biggest breakthroughs in art are often not immediately discernable as such.**

You don't defend or refute with this empty response -- you aren't even, apparently in the remotest way ( and I am being kind ) able to precisely connect with what motivates or motivated you.

What does the issue of big breakthroughs in art have to do with possibly shedding some light toward one's method -- aberrant panels contributed within the confines of a modest collaborative online process/game/event?

"The overall question that anyone might think is -- what made the artist choose this and for the artist the question is -- why am I placing this there? I know I have had my moments of mania, drunkenness and imaptience, yet I can say I made that choice and knew the flak would be a comin."

**You're forgiven.**

-- here you ignore the meat of the argument, and concentrate on FORGIVING me....forgiving me, for my simple admission, while any substantive response from you, we still await.

Dude, why not come out with, saying, perhaps,

" Hey man I do what I do and I really don't know why I do it. I seem to fly off the handle, possessed by the InstaMuse, sound-bitten, smitten with anything from Robert Bork to Jada Pinkett Smith..."

In essence, your response was classic pap; you do not seem capable to maturely offer any window into your method and I think after all this time that is what is most frustrating. If we look at the stats, you are in the top 3. Your presence is felt considerably here and that garners one a kind of responsibility, regarding the simple ability to express one's creative methods, rationale, or the like.

1 SNY - SUNSHINE 2717 1595 29.3 0.100
2 MKC - Mike Casey 2122 988 36.0 0.164
3 TCA - TCA 1749 969 27.8 0.115
4 EHO - Eva Hochreutener - EHO 1468 650 30.6 0.180
5 JER - JER 1195 801 66.4 0.070
6 NLT - Nata Lukas 1162 658 41.7 0.109
7 RBR - Rams Brisueno 586 368 60.5 0.085
8 AUS - Uncle Aussie 578 379 101.7 0.075
9 DGT - jonathan prince 500 369 72.6 0.051
10 JIT - jito 489 189 25.9 0.227

Where you are going to rock and roll, now that you have achieved some kind of optimum performance level with software and tablet I do not imagine, for I know it will be here.

SNY

( PS I -- am on sabbatical from alcohol for an indeterminate amount of time )