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I'll start this response by showing my support and saying that if you do need someone to talk to, like most commenters here, I'll listen. However, the way I read this post, this is more about you wanting to get your thoughts out, not necessarily get them to another person.

You could try some online journals, or just a wordpad file that you keep on a flashdrive in a hidden folder (with a boring name to boot). Your privacy was invaded, and while it was likely done with good intentions by parents who were concerned and don't know how to handle the way you are feeling any more than you do, there is a need for many people to get their thoughts out in some way.

This post served that purpose for now, but in the future I think what you need is a replacement to your journal. Below is a link on how to password protect a folder in windows without downloading anything. If either of your parents are knowledgable with computers, it may not be helpful, as it's more of a smokescreen than anything.

http://www.howtogeek.com/105633/how-to-create-a-password-protected-folder-without-any-extra-software/

Oh boy do I have the app for you. HabitRPG! You start off a lowly level 1 peasant in Habitica and set up daily tasks, quests and goals for yourself to do. After clearing every daily task (flossing your teeth, going to the gym, sending out job applications, etc), you mark it on the game and you get EXP. If you fail to do a daily task once, you lose health. If you die you lose a level! Harder things to do can be labelled as quests and those bring in the big EXP and gold. Things like finishing a big project for school or getting a job are quests. You mark the importance and toughness of the quest and get rewarded based on that. With your levels and gold you can buy your little guy new clothes, choose skills and paths to follow (archer, warrior, mage), buy health potions, weapons. It's really neat!

get out of shower > dry hair with towel but only until damp > blow dry a bit > use this forming cream > hairspray for more hold

thank you :)

Theres a certain type of clear nail polish type thing you can get that tastes really bad to break the habit. Also reducing/managing stress/whatever is leading to it.

Practice all the components of good sleep hygiene. Read a book instead of using your computer close to bedtime, or install flux. If all else fails, melatonin.

You can buy another router and utilize 2 routers on the same home network. Put the new router in your room and use Ethernet off that.

It might not help lower the ping but it might make it more static.. have you tried using a VPN like Private Internet Access?

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btw, if you like Star Wars That Kid, check out the newest Humble Bundle. It has a bunch of Star Wars games in it, you can choose what you want to pay for it, and part of the proceeds go to charities!

After Loveless the best place to go would be Souvlaki by Slowdive (appears on my list) and Nowhere by Ride (Also very good but not on the same level). From there it's really up to you. This list contains just about every notable shoegaze band there is and is nicely organized.

Thanks lambda! The game is programmed in C++ with SFML and a couple other cross-platform libraries, but I'm developing on Windows now. Porting will mostly involve simple loading/filesystem changes and I assume they'll be mostly the same for Mac and Linux. But if a Linux port ends up being a lot more effort than expected I can't justify spending a lot of time there, as the userbase on Steam is sadly miniscule :(. Most likely I'll get it for free with the Mac port though.

That's the hardest part. You might need to find something that can keep your interest. Try to tweak some of the examples the lessons give you, don't just copy and paste code. If you're really feeling up for it, try to tweak some userscripts you use, just make sure you have a backup.

Also codewars was pretty good for me after I got more comfortable but it's not really a good starting tool.

Not sure about all time but relatively recently I read Just Mercy and When Breath Becomes Air and they were both so brilliant and so impactful. Highly recommended.

Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely. It's not a novel; it's a behavioral economist on why we make the weird decisions we do throughout life. It's absolutely fascinating, and really enhances your world view.

Looks like STALKER is taken too now, so I'll add one more game:

~~Hammerwatch for Steam: Link~~

I have like 4 extra copies of it from an old bundle on humblebundle.com. It's a great website with really cheap bundles (pay what you want), and every purchase supports charities!

~~Try to reply to this comment if you grab my Hammerwatch key so that you don't waste anyone else's time.~~

~~Edit: Looks like that one was taken pretty quickly, so here's one more:~~

~~humblebundle.com/gift?key=AFKt*?*Cyx8Bcy5yaG (The "?" is a letter between M and Z in the alphabet.)~~

Edit 2: They're both gone now

There are some rooms on JI here. I just had a guess at the dates but a few places were in the $55 range.

If you are interested in a $25 Uber gift card, I got one for ya. Just PM me your name and email address you have associated with the Uber app!

All that stuff you have planned, sounds like y'all will have fun!

My advisor from University has something new I wouldn't have found without this thread prompting me.

Effects of brand local and non-local origin on consumer attitudes in developing countries

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=FEmuBAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT27&dq=dana+alden&ots=hj6kF4_Nn3&sig=XEvKZv-pgZU0twpOtXGVAdROX18#v=onepage&q=dana%20alden&f=false

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/rocket-league/12743/?p=r

Here's the link to the requirements.

I've played for a few hours on the lowest setting on my desktop that's kinda old and it ran perfectly. Hopefully that helps.

Those are some great choices. I'm a huge fan of Zinn and I've bought copies of A People's History for others when they needed the perspective.

Naomi Klein is a phenomenal author in that same vein. The Shock Doctrine details the methodology of using disasters -- natural or man-made -- as a cover to bring neoliberal reforms and sell off chunks of a country to multinational corporations. No Logo describes marketing and its outsize influence on our lives.

I feel like Klein really captures the readability, urgency, and working-class perspective much like Zinn.

If you lean rather socialistic, The "S" Word by John Nichols is a phenomenal history of American-rooted socialism. If you lean more liberal and less socialistic, Griftopia by Matt Taibbi describes exactly what went down leading up to the 2008 financial crisis.

Let me know what you pick up!

Woo, Walk in the Woods! I've read that one, but it's been awhile. Interesting perspective, as I remember it.

Also, how is Thinking, Fast and Slow? It's on my list of books to read eventually (which is admittedly a very long list).

Yeah, I'd read it before but bought it before going on a similar (albeit much less long) hiking trip of my own to have something to read during.

Thinking, Fast and Slow is really good! I'll admit that I'm a sucker for anything Psychology related, but I've really enjoyed it. Here's a review I read a while ago that I thought really summed up my experience with the book thus far.

I love these. I've had two pair over the past.... 6 years? (damn!)

The audio quality, range, and durability are all excellent.

I've played a couple seasons of TagPro w/ these babies and I've never had any complaints with them.

There is one minor software flaw with them, but that is easily fixed by installing an older driver for Windows.

Anyway, hope this helps.

-Klovar

I've got a pair of Bose SoundLink II for home and another set that stays at work. I wanted headphones that I could walk around while wearing. I bought the pair for work, and liked them enough to buy the second pair for home.

Audio Technica MSR7. Got them in November, and they're fantastic especially for a music lover like me. I have them in gunmetal/red, so they're sexy too.

Do you like history? I read the big Lincoln book, Team of Rivals. It took forever but man was it worth it. I learned so much and the book really humanized Lincoln for me. When I finished I decided to just read it again, I enjoyed it so much.

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

I read this 5 or 6 years ago and really enjoyed it. Has a lot of math, but includes a lot of history and some psychology as well.

From the Amazon page:

"By showing us the true nature of chance and revealing the psychological illusions that cause us to misjudge the world around us, Mlodinow gives us the tools we need to make more informed decisions. From the classroom to the courtroom and from financial markets to supermarkets, Mlodinow's intriguing and illuminating look at how randomness, chance, and probability affect our daily lives will intrigue, awe, and inspire."

Samson C01U, which you can get here for cheap right now, but there's only one left in stock. Been using it for an online radio show for about six years with no complaints.

I use this over here: http://www.amazon.com/D-Link-Wireless-Network-Adapter-DWA-182/dp/B0099XFRIY

You connect it to a cradle that it comes with, put it as high as possible (mine is on a dresser next to my desk), and then connect it to one of your USB ports.

I went from unstable all over the place to very steady, and I'm located pretty far from my router.

Kingston Hyper x cloud I love them. I dont even realize I am wearing them half the time. And if your patient I have seen them and the cloud II go on sale big time.

How about this one?

I bought these a couple weeks ago... I'm not a huge audiophile (it doesn't help that I can barely hear out of my left ear) so that's as much as I was willing to spend

Grab some of these as backup headphones. They're cheap, really good sound-wise, and will last forever.

Well they are better than apple earpods anyway :)

My rough rule of thumb is always max out cpu and gpu within the budge I'm aiming. Other laptop components, such as ram and HDD are easily upgradable (and before you purchase a laptop, make sure they are indeed upgradable! Apple scums now solder their ram and HDD to logic board, which essentially disables any future upgrades). So based on your preferred requirements and applying my own criteria, this doesn't look too bad (if you don't mind refurbished). Dedicated graphics card (2gb), i7 processor (though inferior to other i7), all that. Not sure if the build quality will be the same but my gf bought Asus laptop last year, and I was quite surprised by the build quality. Pretty durable and despite her clumsiness, the machine is still going strong. Ugh... now you are making me waste time browsing through laptops that I want to buy...

it's called The Lives of the Great Composers, here's a link to the amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Lives-Great-Composers-Harold-Schonberg/dp/0393038572

it's definitely a fun read, I'm only about halfway through it and I feel like it gives a pretty good summary of the lives of the early/really established musicians (bach, haydn, mozart, beethoven, etc.) I'm only just now getting into the sections where it's talking about multiple people per chapter, but he still does a pretty good job of describing them. I think the awesomest part to me is the early parts until it starts going into the mindset of beethoven and how big of a shift it caused. I won't spoil it if you want to read it but it's pretty awesome to see