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The first thing you should do is tell someone and try to get help. It’s actually great that your parents suspect that you’re depressed and have talked to you about it because the hardest thing about depression is just being able to talk about it with someone. Your parents can help you get set up with a therapist or a counselor to talk through things. Since you’re 18 you can also try to do those things yourself, but the most important thing you can do is definitely seeing someone about it.

If you don’t feel comfortable pursuing outside help I have a couple ideas. One thing you can do is PM me at any time and I’ll be happy to talk to you. I’m 10 years older and have been in your place. Another is to find a good book about all this. I think one of the best is called Feeling Good. It’s the only book that has been acknowledged as an effective treatment for depression. I would be happy to buy a copy and send it to you if you don’t want to pay for it.

I notice you didn’t actually say that you are depressed, but based on my own personal experience of struggling with some of these things over the last 10 years, and on some of the things you’re saying, I know you have some degree of depression. The thing is, that’s absolutely fine and nothing to be ashamed of. Once you ID it and know that it’s there, you can try to understand it and begin to deal with it. Don’t worry too much about labeling yourself though—you risk having your depression become your identity, when really you are so much more complicated than that, in the best possible way.

I don’t think your parents are trying to judge, or label you. Parents feel so helpless to provide for their children when they reach your age. They see you doing things and they have no control over it, and they worry, because they can’t just make it all better by being your mom and dad anymore.

Also, don’t panic about this idea of “straying from society” or becoming a recluse. You’re 18 at the moment, and life is long and abundant. If TagPro is what makes you happy right now you can keep on doing that and enjoy it in the moment. You also have to keep in mind that TagPro won’t always be here and that this could end at any time. It’s good to try and find as many things that you like to do as possible. 18 is an age where everyone is telling you who you are and what you should be, when you don’t even know yourself. How could you possibly know? How could anyone? All you can do is do things you like and live your life and hope you find it along the way. I only know a couple of people who are doing the thing that they thought they’d be doing at 18.

Just hang tough, stay positive, and find someone to talk to.

What are you trying to do in film? If you are trying to get into camera or grip/electrics I would check out the local IATSE chapters. IATSE is the union that deals with many film and stage crew, they also have many good trainee programs for people starting out. Another union to check out would be the DGA (Director's Guild of America). If you want to Direct there is not much I can say but go out and do it. There are many books and things that can help with directing, [David Mamet's "On Directing Film"] (http://www.amazon.com/On-Directing-Film-David-Mamet/dp/0140127224) is pretty solid. Also, if you need an editor for any films you work on... wink wink nudge nudge

I am in Canada so I don't really have any contacts for you to call in NYC (sorry man) but I guess the number one thing would be: make sure to love film. This is a very difficult industry to make it in so be sure that it is what you want to do.

Good luck man, I am sure I will see you around mumble. If you have any more question feel free to PM me or chat me up on mumble.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that if you are not sure what you want to do, the try to get on a film as a PA then watch everyone do their jobs, then you can try to see what you like.

Congrats man! That's a lot of caps! In fact, if you were to donate ten caps to every baby in England & Wales born in 2015 who shares my name, Tyler, you would have 520 remaining which is the area code for Tuscon, AZ and the vast majority of southern AZ. In the 520 area code are Superior (w/ population 2916), Cornville (3335), Sells (2799), and Arivaca (909). If you add the population of these 4 areas, you get 9959. When you get how many caps you have minus that number, we get 41. When you divide 41 by the number of letters in NEUhusky, you get 26.26. So obviously 26 is important. If we do the math correctly, the amount of times the letter v appeared before this sentence (8) is the same number of days until Hugh Hefner's birthday, Apr 9... 1926! What a coincidence... 26 is the number that we found out was obviously important! Now if we take a look at some numbers, we can see that my name has a value of 82 (s = 27, a = 1; 27+27+27+1=82). The 82nd day of the year is March 23rd, keep this day in mind. Now at the time of writing this (3:11 AM EST), NEUhusky, you have 171 degrees and need 16 wins to advance a degree. 171 + 16 is 187... using this number we can even tie in politics to see where this conspiracy-rabbit hole takes us! 187 days ago was September 26, 2016, which happens to be the day on which the first Trump vs. Clinton
debate took place. We can all agree that this was/is an event that is splitting Americans pretty severely. A person who causes us to split a gut is Flavor Flav (I split a gut everytime I hear "Yeaaaaaaaaa Boiiiiiiiiii"). Flavor Flav is 58 years old right now. Interestingly enough, the distance from Frederick County, Virginia and Winchester, Virginia is 6.1 miles walking (remember that number)! If you take the degrees of each player with stats on in this game you get 555 if you divide that by the number of seconds into the second minute you scored your cap at (11), you get 50.48275. This is where I have no idea how I made this work and it gets a little creepy! If you take 50.48275 and divide it by the number of players in a game of TagPro (8), you get 6.3103 (we'll use this number again in a minute). If we search, we can find out that the time it would take to get from Frederick County, VA to Appomattox Court House in Virginia (where Robert E. Lee surrendered) is 2 hours and 56 minutes (via I-81S). So we have 2h56m, if we get rid of the letters, we have the letter 256. Now, to get the next stepping stone, we have to take 256 and divide it by the answer to this equation which uses a single digit: ((the number of letters in my name + that number squared) divided by the same number). That seems kinda tricky so I'll rewrite it with numbers: ((4+4^2)/4). We can solve that equation for 5. If we divide that earlier number, 256, by 5 we get 51.2. If we take 51.2 and multiply it by the number we got earlier, 6.3103 we get 323. Do you have any guess as to why this number is significant? I'll give you a couple seconds to think about it.

 

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If you think you have it, you'll find out if you were right or wrong in a couple seconds... That number 323 could be given a slash and would look like a date we already mentioned... You guessed it, that date is March 23rd. This is about to get really weird... An event took place on March 23rd in both Frederick County, VA and Winchester, VA. If we do some searching on Google, we find out that on March 23rd, 1862 in those counties, there was an event known as the 'First Battle of Kernstown.' At this battle, General Stonewall Jackson and the confederates were defeated. I don't know about you, but this can't be random... If I subtract 1862 from 2017 to find out how long it's been since then, I learn that it has been 155 years, try and remember the number 155 for later. Well I wanted to research similar to where I started and I found out that (according to babycenter.com) Jackson was the most popular male name in the US in 2016, which is odd as it is the surname of the aforementioned defeated confederate general. I'm beginning to smell a conspiracy. I wondered if the name Jackson was as popular in England & Wales and I end up finding out that 818 Jacksons were born there in 2015. 818. Do you know what is odd about that number? I do... it is a palindrome. So I decided to look up some palindromes to see if I could figure out where these numbers were guiding me. I goto palindromelist.net and think about which letters could be most significant. I thought maybe an 'N' for NEUhusky, but then I thought that that would be too obvious. After pondering, I decided that the word 'husky' would lead me somewhere. I find out that there are 3 breeds (Malamut, Alaskan, and Siberian) that are generally regarded as huskies, so I guess 3 must be significant. I then click the letter 'H' and click the third palindrome down... this is what it read: "HARASS SARAH." I thought I was at a dead end, I was thinking about this HARASS SARAH for a couple minutes getting no where, when I backtracked. I decide to go research the word 'husky' more because if I had to pick a code word, that would be a good one. So we have a player named NEUhusky, which is Northeastern University Husky. NEU is located in Boston, MA. I decide to look for husky breeders in the state. I come accross the 2015-2016 SHCA Referral Directory (http://www.shca.org/shcahp4f.htm) and see that there are 3 breeders in MA. I once again hit a wall and stare at these 3 people curious as to where they will lead me next.

So I decided to just run numbers and see if they could help me find a crack in this conspiracy case. Your combined post and comment karma (1111) minus mine (753) = 358. Your top 3 submitted posts have an average karma of 50. If I take 50 more away, we get 308, which we may use soon. If we look at your profile and sort by 'top,' your top post has 3 numbers associated in it: 57 (karma), 18 (comments), and 8 (months). If we multiply these together we get 8208. If we subtract the number got just a minute ago, 308, from 8208 we get 7900. I decided to take another look at your account and I ended up just staring at it for a while. Then, all of the sudden, it stuck out like a sore thumb: your post karma is a palindrome :O So I decided to multiply your post karma (242) by 7900 and it equals a huge number of 1911800. I thought this number was big on purpose, but I couldn't figure out why... I then went to YouTube and searched 'NEUhusky sass' and found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouRrKt4kQWE at the time of this comment, this video has 450 views. I took 450 and divided it by the sum of the digits of the date and the digits of the length (2+2+4+2+0+1+5+2+3+4=25). 450/25 is 18. I then understood, it was really clear as day /u/NEUhusky. I must add 18 to 1911800 to get 1911818. I imagine how you felt when you got your 10,000th cap is similar to how I felt when I realized 1911818 isn't one number, but 5. 19-1-18-1-8. When you convert these numbers to letters, it spells 'SARAH.' And remember 'HARASS SARAH?' I decided to research if there was a famous Sarah from NEU, but there was not. I decided to expand it to Boston and found a woman named Sara Diamond. I found out that this woman is an author who writes about the secret religious Republican agenda. Odd. Lots of politics and diversion in this comment research. I decided to take a look at Ms. Diamond's first book, Spiritual Warfare: the Politics of the Christian Right. I found it on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Warfare-Politics-Christian-Right/dp/0896083624). When I added the digits of the ISBN-10 and ISBN-13, I got 114. Now on the same Amazon page if we look at the 2nd review, we see that it was submitted in February, 2002. That means we have the digits 2/2002. If we get rid of the dash, we can (almost) continue the palindrome theme and turn these numbers into a palindrome (kind of): 2 x 20 + 2. This equation = 42. If we add this number to the other numbers we got on Sara Diamond's Amazon page, we get 156. Once again, we see the obvious code of letter to number and vice versa. 1-5-6. If we read these numbers as letters, we get AEF. Now because I wanted to stay in the right general area, I googled AEF Boston, and came across this: https://www.aefboston.org/ Since there were a bunch of 2's on the Amazon, I clicked the second tab, 'Events.' On this page there are two events, one in August and the other one... the date is once again a palindrome. The date for this one is 01/21/2016. If we drop the dashes and space it, we get 01 21 20 16, which looks like another number to letter code. AUTP. So I search AUTP and nothing comes up. So I enter AUTP.com. On the top of this website are two phone numbers. I add 1 + 7 + 8 + 1 + 3 + 7 + 3 + 6 + 8 + 4 + 7 + 8 + 5 + 5 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 8 + 6 + 57 + 4 which is the phone numbers, AUTP in numeric, and 4 for 4 letters. I end up with 155. AS IN 155 FROM EARLIER. So this part was a process of trial and error for a while, but eventually this is what I found: k=11 o=15 r=18 s=19 o=15 t=20 a=1 g=7 p=16 r=18 o=15... 11+15+18+19+15+20+1+7+16+18+15=155! THE ANSWER AND REASON FOR YOUR 10,000th CAP IS "KORSO TAGPRO." but good job... and what the fuck am i doing? jesus christ, tyler make some friends

Man, been there, kind of am there but way better than I was. The symptoms of ADD and depression perpetuate each other and can make it feel almost impossible to claw my way out sometimes. Have you tried doing CBT? I can't recommend it enough. Just being mindful of your thoughts and impulses as they happen can have a huge impact on your ability to take the wheel. 3 years ago I was close to dropping out of college and toying with the idea of offing myself, now at 25 I'll be graduating with a 3.8 GPA. CBT (or whatever else you find works for you; exercise and diet play a huge role) and taking some time to Think About Shit can really do wonders. It's never too late.

We've never really interacted, but I've appreciated you from afar in my ~4 months here. All the best, buddy.

EDIT: Check out this book. It's what jumpstarted me into action, and I almost feel as if everybody should read it.

If you have access to your router, you can try changing the channel settings to minimize interference with other nearby networks. Wifi Analyzer is an app you can use to find the best channel.

Assuming you're playing at home and not at work or a college campus and the issue with ethernet is the distance to your router, you could look into something like these: https://smile.amazon.com/TP-Link-Powerline-Adapter-Starter-TL-PA4010KIT/dp/B00AWRUICG

Plug one into your router and then plug in the other one wherever you play in your house and you'll get all the advantages of an ethernet cable.

It gets better. At 3 months you leave the "OH MY GOD WILL IT BREAK IF I HOLD IT? IS IT BREATHING? I NEED TO CHECK." stage. At that point you don't wake up every 5 minutes to check on them if they don't cry. You think: "Oh thank goodness, they're sleeping for more than 5 minutes"

You should get this book, it's awesome.

Not sure if this is in your price range (sorry for NA website) but this is my computer. Very solid and a great price.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01HNBLHAA/ref=yo_ii_img?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Well, if we don't have enough sign-ups, I'm happy to send the mic-receivers a $10 gift that will add to the experience.

Hahah, I was expecting something like this to show up.

Thanks for reminding me of an old childhood hobby I used to share with my grandad. Might have to get a model car kit soon and piece it together!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002KL0VY2/ref=oh_details_o04_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 works well for me. By far the best of the cheap microphones.

I use the Logitech C525 HD Webcam. It works perfectly fine. I think basically anything will work; it's more about where you are situated than anything else.

This thing but it's out of stock or something. I saw what looks like the same model on Amazon but it's up for $60 and mine was only $20.

PC's aren't equipped with line-in out of the box like macs are. If you take a look at the jacks, you'll notice one is for your headphones and one is for your microphone. What you're looking for is a headset pc adapter, something like this. All you have to do is plug in those two things into the headphone and mic jacks and everything will work.

You'd have to do this anyway with any non-usb headset you buy.

Definitely! Where should I have them send it?

I've got a $350 microphone next to me but goddammit if the $60 Blue Snowball mic doesn't work great for quick room recordings like that.

Also when does the season actually start? We're getting pretty tired of all these pre-season games?

I think, these are the shirts:

http://www.amazon.com/Hanes-HEAVYWEIGHT-Short-Sleeve-T-shirt/dp/B0009GI3UE/ref=sr_1_1?s=apparel&ie=UTF8&qid=1330630481&sr=1-1

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http://www.amazon.com/Gildan-Classic-XLarge-Performance-T-Shirt/dp/B00BFSAL6O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397849094&sr=8-1&keywords=Gildan+Athletic+Performance+Tee

Teespring handles all the ordering and shipping - I'm sure their ordering process will tell you if they don't ship to Hawaii.

Oops sorry I missed this. Don't have a photo of it with the treadmill handy, but here's what it looked like before the treadmill:
http://imgur.com/wN0OQ (desk lowered)
http://imgur.com/bJHVL (desk raised)

The treadmill is one specifically built for being used at a desk, so it's super quiet: http://www.amazon.com/LifeSpan-TR1200-DT3-Standing-Desk-Treadmill/dp/B009QHLWUK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1407343223&sr=8-1&keywords=TR1200+DT3

(I work from home so it's handy to have all this stuff anyway)

Upvote for the PowerMate button which I now use for my mic button. You seem to be well on the path to specialized input device mastery.

I use this, works fine