I realize this is going to get lost in the deluge of popcorn and lolcats, but whatever. Taylor, if you see this, please at least give it the benefit of a read-through.
Taylor, you need to take a deep breath away from the computer and calm down.
Now, I read through that video editing career thread you started. Listen to what people were telling you. They don't have any stake in the products of giving you advice and despite that they gave you good advice anyway.
Don't decide what you're doing with your life right now. This is not the 1800s. You don't have to get married at 16 and help pa on the farm. This is 2010 and it's okay to have some indecision about what you want to do because you're young. It's also okay to sample anything and everything like you're very apparently doing. However, you need to go a bit deeper than sampling things once in a while and focus until you find something you enjoy, even if it takes years to do that.
Deleting your account would be stupid. Don't do that. Instead, keep your account, eat some humble pie and work your ass of to show people that you're not a dumb kid and instead that you're a young man who doesn't quite know what he wants to do... yet.
I'll also offer my personal account, in case it's of any benefit, because I was once in your shoes (minus all the stupid shit you say.)
I went to college with ambitions to be a hot shit 3d artist game developer. I was passionate, driven, self-educating, all those great things. Fast forward 5 years, I have a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Digital Art and Animation, and I work for a small company doing web user interface development, and still working to develop my skills to break into the increasingly difficult industry of Game Development.
The point is, the plan you come up with when you're 17 isn't written in stone. You have to shut your mouth, work your ass off, and be willing to take the heat. And even when you do all that, and your portfolio is the bee's knees, you still need to get lucky. Most importantly, you need to have good connections, and your strained history with Polycount and it's members is the exact opposite of good connections.
There are brilliant minds here, and they have, time after time, offered you guidance and help, despite you doing little-to-nothing to deserve it. If art school taught me anything, it's how to give, and more importantly , receive and act upon good criticism. Throughout your history, you've been negligent to all the helpful advice you have received, and continued on acting like an immature prick.
It's been brought up before, but take Racer445 for example. He is your age, maybe a bit older, but hundreds if not thousands of people, older than him, envy and covet his skills and talents as an artist. It's not about age, or location, or what your plan is, it's about how hard you work. So work hard. Turn your shit around while you're young before you burn every bridge you've ever seen.
Its one thing to delete an account. Its another thing to be a child about it and trying to have your account deleted by posting inappropriate images on these forums.
I guess its a good thing your account didn't happen to be your name. Wouldn't that suck knowing that everyone here at polycount saw you posting like an immature child with your real life name attached. Yeah its a good thing you didn't do that...
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*man hug*
*Unless you're a women. Then its *tender embrace*
Taylor, you need to take a deep breath away from the computer and calm down.
Now, I read through that video editing career thread you started. Listen to what people were telling you. They don't have any stake in the products of giving you advice and despite that they gave you good advice anyway.
Don't decide what you're doing with your life right now. This is not the 1800s. You don't have to get married at 16 and help pa on the farm. This is 2010 and it's okay to have some indecision about what you want to do because you're young. It's also okay to sample anything and everything like you're very apparently doing. However, you need to go a bit deeper than sampling things once in a while and focus until you find something you enjoy, even if it takes years to do that.
Deleting your account would be stupid. Don't do that. Instead, keep your account, eat some humble pie and work your ass of to show people that you're not a dumb kid and instead that you're a young man who doesn't quite know what he wants to do... yet.
he quit his first internet when he was 4.
I'll also offer my personal account, in case it's of any benefit, because I was once in your shoes (minus all the stupid shit you say.)
I went to college with ambitions to be a hot shit 3d artist game developer. I was passionate, driven, self-educating, all those great things. Fast forward 5 years, I have a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Digital Art and Animation, and I work for a small company doing web user interface development, and still working to develop my skills to break into the increasingly difficult industry of Game Development.
The point is, the plan you come up with when you're 17 isn't written in stone. You have to shut your mouth, work your ass off, and be willing to take the heat. And even when you do all that, and your portfolio is the bee's knees, you still need to get lucky. Most importantly, you need to have good connections, and your strained history with Polycount and it's members is the exact opposite of good connections.
There are brilliant minds here, and they have, time after time, offered you guidance and help, despite you doing little-to-nothing to deserve it. If art school taught me anything, it's how to give, and more importantly , receive and act upon good criticism. Throughout your history, you've been negligent to all the helpful advice you have received, and continued on acting like an immature prick.
It's been brought up before, but take Racer445 for example. He is your age, maybe a bit older, but hundreds if not thousands of people, older than him, envy and covet his skills and talents as an artist. It's not about age, or location, or what your plan is, it's about how hard you work. So work hard. Turn your shit around while you're young before you burn every bridge you've ever seen.
HOLY BALLS ^^ this is the most amazing thing I"ve seen in a long long time.
lol
*sigh*
peace be with you TH.
i love that andy! totally sick!
Best thread ever
OMG hahaha! Yeah he's been learning from a young age, as some of us might already know, of course.
andy, awesome.
I lol'ed.
and for jokes sake
I even laughed at yours, man. The kid's expression is making me cry with laughter.
This!!
and I thought I was the only weakest link on Polycount with very least productivity.
by very least I mean in the range of .001
for fucks sake
[ame]
Every other post comes off as 100% arsehole as he belittle's other people's posts or tries to big himself up without posting any work.
If I thought he could turn it around, I'd have been proven very wrong, with this thread.
@Andy, my hat to you sir!
I guess its a good thing your account didn't happen to be your name. Wouldn't that suck knowing that everyone here at polycount saw you posting like an immature child with your real life name attached. Yeah its a good thing you didn't do that...
Protip: When you're done watching it, rewatch it with your 5 key held down
MIND.
BLOWN.
What the fuck is going on.
I just jazzed everywhere haha, awesome