thedons1983

This is literally one of the worst videos produced by LTT, it is utterly horrible on every level. Utter bilge.

Youtube episode? How long does it take?? Clearly not paying your editors enough. Also, Madrinas Coffee, is hipster rubbish, their stuff tastes absolutely horrible.

James in the video = I don't watch. I can't stand his irritating voice. Whomever married him, must be deaf.

Yeah I'm sure Microsoft is quaking in their boots, that the piecemeal rubbish that is Linux, is coming for them. What utter tosh! The advice contained in the video, is total rubbish btw, nothing works as you have said. Linux is still a bloody nightmare.

Get some help. Doing real damage to yourself.

Stay strong, better days are ahead of you and I know exactly what it feels like when your life is meaningless. Just do your best no matter how hard it is to have a positive outlook and something good will come your way eventually. If you can persevere through the pain and do your best to be genuinely a good person life will reward you.
They key is to set small goals and commit to them. Start by getting up early and getting into a healthy routine, even small accomplishments can make you feel better about yourself. Be social, and be kind. It helped me get out of my slump. 
If you really need help talk to a family member you trust, and if that's to hard to do seek professional help. Talking about your pain helps heal the wounds. 
Thank you for sharing this with us Andrew. I know it was not easy to do.
 
Jonathan

Thank you, it means a lot that you bothered to reply! Have a great day!
 
Time is a great healer it's true... thank you for replying, it means a lot.

This is good to know... I may hate jogging, but I love life more! Thank you so much for replying, you are a legend!!

yeah, i know right? I had the same mentality until last year. 
last year I basically had a daily routine of jogging. almost every single day. 
 
this alone, pretty much changed my health condition drastically. 

If you can, seek some professional help. Like consoling and such. Most school has free consoling. And if money isnt an issue then go to hospital get a real one. 
 
From my own experience, exercising helps a lot, if you can, try to exercise 3-5 times a week, if can go out jogging/swimming everyday. Within a couple of months things will get better.
 
The thing about depression is that people think that they can THINK IT THROUGH. Omg I got all these problems I am gonna figure it out then act. But actually it is the opposite. YOu just need to act. Things will sort itself out. 
 
 
Dude, again, exercise. Especially jogging will help you tremendously. Dont forget to protect your knee though it is super easy to have runner's knee. 
 

You made the first step of talking about the "Demon in the room" with you. 
 
This is a start.
 
Many don't want to talk and it starts eating them up form the inside, others jog to their therapist and await solutions, which a therapist alone can't give, because the healing always starts with oneself. So a therapist is only a guide to help, not the fixer. 
 
As I like to tell, each and everyone of us is perfect in her/his way, okay sometimes there is some polishing needed perhaps =) we all try to become better. But there is nothing as normal in this world, they try to tell us what normal should be, but no matter what, normal just doesn't exist, and never hunt after ideals that the media is trying to push upon us. 
 
Be proud of being you, with all that includes. 

It's a brave thing to post this here, I respect you a lot.
I'm depressed from time to time, whenever something happens that should make me happy turns me down instead lately. But I'm fighting it hard and doing what I can to kill these bad feelings. This is all just stupid shit to waste our lives on.
Hold on and never give up

Thanks, when I get stressed or sad or something, going cycling just helps make everything go away and as a bonus you burn some extra calories 

Here was a first run for a thread that was about depressions... 
 
perhaps some of it helps... 
 

I've been there, albeit for a much shorter period of time.
What helped me get out of it was seeking a friend who genuinely cares for support.
Hope this helps you get out of the gutter.

I always had slight anxiety but last year when I found out my best friend had cancer, it set everything off and my anxiety got unbearably bad and I could not do anything. Without going to the depressing details I got it sorted by changing schools and taking up cycling. In the situation you are in I would suggest trying to seek help or at least talk to a family member. Someone in my family has depression and OCD and refuses to get help and it is making everyone life a misery so please if possible, get help. 
 
Not to sound negative but time may not help, in the case of my family member, things have only gotten worst over the past few years
 
(I don't usually tell people this but I feel like you should know)
 

I hope you get better soon.

I was too 
and killing myself didnt work
time fixes it

Sorry u in ur feelings rn. Im not depressed but i just wanted to say thats cool that you came out and talked about it

Thank you very much, I appreciate the happy thoughts!
 
What's funny, is that my Dad randomly has told me to take up cycling! He even bought me a bike, haha! I'm so glad that you've turned things around and it helps to hear about your recovery too, so thanks for replying!
 
As to your sister... I'm sorry that she's struggling. It's a bad situation, and I feel for her and for everyone around her. In other words... Having a mental illness sucks, but being around someone who is suffering sucks too! 
 
Thanks for the reply! 

Thank you, it means a lot that you bothered to reply! Have a great day!
 
Time is a great healer it's true... thank you for replying, it means a lot.

Okay, so I posted this in another topic criticising LTT as a reply to the staff admin, but wanted to create this topic, just to to give prominence to the sometimes unheard voice of the person who actually likes what someone is doing. And, no, I am not paid by LMG, I have no affiliation with them, I have never met any one of them, and there is no cheque or not tech in the mail. This is just little old me, giving my two cents.
 
Sometimes, I think the trick is to absolutely ignore what people have to say. Even if it is said in good faith. The phrase, a camel is a horse designed by a committee definitely holds true. People are, of course, entitled to their own opinion, but it doesn't make their opinion necessarily correct or even valid.
 
Take TopGear for example. One of the biggest shows that has ever existed, was for the first twenty odd years of its' life, a show that almost no-one watched. It was, for the most part, very technical, very detailed, and ultimately rather dry. I did watch it avidly, because I love cars, but the general public could not have cared less, and it certainly wasn't a show that was marketable to other markets in other countries either. Then "new" TopGear came along and the show suddenly became far more about entertainment and far less about detail and information. I, and many other dedicated viewers, baulked at that at first, and were extremely critical of the new direction at the time, but you absolutely cannot argue against the fact that they were ultimately right to move in that direction. Suddenly, everyone was watching TopGear. All demographics now starting watching and the show just exploded (thanks in part to things like BBC America and the advent of video streaming as well of course), and was, before Clarkson et al left at least, the biggest, most watched, and most profitable programme that the BBC has ever produced. And I continued to watch every single episode that they put out moreover, despite my initial misgivings. I now watch The Grand Tour, and the new new TopGear (the second season was pretty good to be fair), and can only say that whoever had the idea to move a show about cars from being about simple car reviews and car news, to a show about entertaining stories about cars, was a genius. That is how you make content that people want to watch.
 
To bring it back to LMG, the first LTT video I remember watching was the video about Linus leaving his laptop in the rain. That got me hooked. Not only was it about technology, which I love, but it was also informative, funny, and took the viewer on a journey. It was personal, it was true to life, it had a surprising end, and was simply extremely watchable. The videos I have personally enjoyed the most since then have been, anything that has involved a personal story (EG, the home theater cooling video, where Linus and his son installed some fans in his TV cabinet), the same sort of videos about LMG (EG, the office move, whole room water cooling, all of the VLOGs basically), the videos where there is no real information at all necessarily but the video is just entertaining to watch (EG, Plasti Dipping a whole PC, the RGB-est build), and then finally some of the serial videos (EG, handytech under a $100). (Edit - Special mention to the $5 CPU cooler video and videos of that ilk too, as they were just amusing.)
 
To sum up, LMG in my opinion, should just trust their own judgement. The company is where it is because they make content that people want to watch. Don't overthink it. I might have discovered LMG on the basis of searching for information, but I stayed, for the people and the entertainment.

@thedons1983
I am sorry my friend. There was a simple misunderstanding from my part!

I'd like to add this too, from the topic I mentioned previosuly:
 
Crap thumbnails would not be a thing by the way, if the team responsible for YouTube weren't so utterly incompetent. The site is a mess, and for a content creator to maximise their revenue, they have no choice but to play the stupid YT game. That includes "clickbait" thumbnails, "clickbait" captions, editing tricks, etc, etc. YT is ultimately run for the benefit of Google and no-one else. That's fair enough, they own it after all, but it does mean that content creators are left out in the cold, left to the prey of the wolves.
 
Will YT exist in 50 years time? It's pretty unlikely. Something bigger and better will come along and it will be left to rot... Hey, it might even be replaced by Google (or ABC or whatever they are called these days) themselves, so this is all transient anyway.
 
Honestly the biggest problem with listening to your average viewer, is that your average viewer has absolutely no vision, and absolutely no concept of the big picture. That applies especially, in terms of creating video content or running a business. If the average viewer actually did have any comprehension of how to create content that people would want to watch or how to run a successful media company, then they would be out there producing their own content and running their own company, rather than moaning on a forum or YT comment section.

Sometimes, I think the trick is to absolutely ignore what people have to say. Even if it is said in good faith. The phrase, a camel is a horse designed by a committee definitely holds true. People are, of course, entitled to their own opinion, but it doesn't make their opinion necessarily correct or even valid.
 
Take TopGear for example. One of the biggest shows that has ever existed, was for the first twenty odd years of it's life, a show that almost no-one watched. It was, for the most part, very technical, very detailed, and ultimately rather dry. I did watch it avidly, because I love cars, but the general public could not have cared less, and it certainly wasn't a show that was marketable to other markets in other countries either. Then "new" TopGear came along and the show suddenly became far more about entertainment and far less about detail and information. I, and many other dedicated viewers, baulked at that at first, and were extremely critical of the new direction at the time, but you absolutely cannot argue against the fact that they were ultimately right to move in that direction. Suddenly, everyone was watching TopGear. All demographics now starting watching and the show just exploded (thanks in part to things like BBC America and the advent of video streaming as well of course), and was, before Clarkson et al left at least, the biggest, most watched, and most profitable programme that the BBC has ever produced. And I continued to watch every single episode that they put out moreover, despite my initial misgivings. I now watch The Grand Tour, and the new new TopGear (the second season was pretty good to be fair), and can only say that whoever had the idea to move a show about cars from being about simple car reviews and car news, to a show about entertaining stories about cars, was a genius. That is how you make content that people want to watch.
 
To bring it back to LMG, the first LTT video I remember watching was the video about Linus leaving his laptop in the rain. That got me hooked. Not only was it about technology, which I love, but it was also informative, funny, and took the viewer on a journey. It was personal, it was true to life, it had a surprising end, and was simply extremely watchable. The videos I have personally enjoyed the most since then have been, anything that has involved a personal story (EG, the home theater cooling video, where Linus and his son installed some fans in his TV cabinet), the same sort of videos about LMG (EG, the office move, whole room water cooling, all of the VLOGs basically), the videos where there is no real information at all necessarily but the video is just entertaining to watch (EG, Plasti Dipping a whole PC, the RGB-est build), and then finally some of the serial videos (EG, handytech under a $100).
 
To sum up, LMG in my opinion, should just trust their own judgement. The company is where it is because they make content that people want to watch. Don't overthink it. I might have discovered LMG on the basis of searching for information, but I stayed, for the people and the entertainment.