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4 The Cause
Aug 10, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 694 days!

PopRocks posted:

But you had a choice, you were an adult, you could choose the third option and move out and get a lovely food service or call center or retail job, move in with 5 other guys and live the life you live now.

You can still do that.

"Mom, I'm sorry, but I had to drop out of police academy due to my anxiety. I am applying to other jobs in this city so that I can cover the rent on my own. Thanks for all your financial help, I love you."

Then you get yourself some roommates until you can pay for rent on your own, and start learning how to write screenplays, sign up as an extra on local productions, volunteer for film festivals, start editing clever vines, rent a canon XL for the weekend to shoot a short film, submit that film to festivals, become a PA on local productions, scout locations, keep your day job.

I have been thinking along these same lines, but I see myself as more of a writer than a director. The film industry is poo poo in Florida, so their is not much opportunity to get extra work. I don't think i'm camera ready anyway. I going to try to find some way to get to Atlanta, and maybe get on with a Tyler Perry production. If that fails their is also the Connecticut School of Broadcasting in Tampa, that I could try.

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MY PALE GOTH SKIN
Nov 28, 2006


meow
Do not gently caress that girl's life up, she might not be mature enough to recognize you're unstable. I am saying this just with the whole 'unemployed, living off of parents, lying to them' thing in mind, not any of your other poo poo. You will be bad for her, and then you'll be bad for each other.

Get your poo poo together. I honestly don't know how great of a plan 'go to Atlanta and find Tyler Perry' is, because I don't know poo poo about that industry. Getting out of Florida would be good, although I don't know that Atlanta would be much better for you. If you get your poo poo together, you will feel better. If you don't, you'll continue to feel the way you do now.

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005
It's gonna be a great day when you're told you are too stupid for porn.

Some Pinko Commie
Jun 9, 2009

CNC! Easy as 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣!

Bip Roberts posted:

It's gonna be a great day when you're told you are too stupid for porn.

Or when he goes to audition and can't get it up, and gets laughed out of the set.

4th Asclepiadean
Feb 18, 2012

Bip Roberts posted:

It's gonna be a great day when you're told you are too stupid for porn.

Being told that you're too stupid to be in a Tyler Perry film is worse, to be honest.

youjustarentfunny
Aug 5, 2014
If the knowledge that taking your parents money, lying to them, and spending a summer pissing it away wasn't enough to get you to do the right thing, I doubt very much that any of us know what WOULD.

Marmaduke!
May 19, 2009

Why would it do that!?
#LetsBeCops

Live the dream.

lidnsya
Nov 14, 2007
<img src="https://fi.somethingawful.com/customtitles/title-lidnsya.jpg"><br>All aboard the sleepy train!
Please don't rape the girl.

Berious
Nov 13, 2005
Should've joined the military OP

Captain Mog
Jun 17, 2011

returnh posted:

I thought you said you weren't going to the police academy.

This isn't getting enough love. It's almost as good as "what is this, Jewsweeper?"

cname
Jan 24, 2013

by Lowtax
Why not just stop smoking weed and re-enroll in police academy?

platedlizard
Aug 31, 2012

I like plates and lizards.
Op you sound like the type of person who really benefits from a highly structured environment. I recommend either a group home or the military,

petrol blue
Feb 9, 2013

sugar and spice
and
ethanol slammers
"Good news, mom! I was promoted so far I'm working undercover in walmart!"

mojo1701a
Oct 9, 2008

Oh, yeah. Loud and clear. Emphasis on LOUD!
~ David Lee Roth

Everyone's missing the obvious answer. Unless you're hideously ugly to the point that no amount of weight loss could help, you should lose some weight and ask for a job at the nearest male stripping agency. And if there is none, found your own Hot Cops. Remember: strippers can wear clothes when they're not stripping, too.

The best part is that you can make money while you're fooling people!

cinnamon rollout
Jun 12, 2001

The early bird gets the worm
If the OP takes anything away from this thread it should be that the kid down the street does not love him, and in fact no one could ever love him, because he is terrible.

Magnus Gallant
Mar 9, 2010

by Lowtax
Grimey Drawer
Op do you have a paypal. I want to donate some money to a retarded person and you seem to fit the bill.

afterhours
Jul 1, 2007
You're not going to become a screenwriter. Find a new goal.

4 The Cause
Aug 10, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 694 days!

Wuzzlez posted:

If the OP takes anything away from this thread it should be that the kid down the street does not love him, and in fact no one could ever love him, because he is terrible.

We had a long talk today. She's not going to college right away, and she already said she would be open to moving in with me at my parents house when I go back. We just have to talk to her parents.

4 The Cause
Aug 10, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 694 days!

afterhours posted:

You're not going to become a screenwriter. Find a new goal.

All of teachers praised my writing in highschool. One teacher offered to introduce me to a friend of hers in publishing. I just got so depressed and lost my motivation. I wish I had been on medicine back than.

Dandywalken
Feb 11, 2014

4 The Cause posted:

All of teachers praised my writing in highschool. One teacher offered to introduce me to a friend of hers in publishing. I just got so depressed and lost my motivation. I wish I had been on medicine back than.

You should post a picture, you keep describing yourself like you're some sort of abomination but that isnt necessarily true.

Synonamess Botch
Jun 5, 2006

dicks are for my cat

Captain Mog posted:

This isn't getting enough love. It's almost as good as "what is this, Jewsweeper?"

I need to know the thread for this one

Aagar
Mar 30, 2006

E/N Gestapo
I am talking to a mod right now about getting you probated/banned/gassed

4 The Cause posted:

We had a long talk today. She's not going to college right away, and she already said she would be open to moving in with me at my parents house when I go back. We just have to talk to her parents.

"Hey Mom and Dad, I'm back from Police Academy! Well, not really, I dropped out and didn't tell you. Basically I blew your money and spent all that time smoking lovely weed and drinking lovely alcohol while letting you get your hopes up that I was actually turning my life around. Sorry about that. But it's cool you let me move back home so I can keep mooching off you while continuing to be a loving waste of space.

Oh and hey - this is my girlfriend. Is it cool if she moves in too and mooches off you? Swell, thanks."

You may have issues, OP, but that doesn't excuse you for being a piece of poo poo. "I deserve this money/it's not a big deal to them." gently caress you, you don't deserve poo poo. No one owes you anything, and your parents have done their fair share and more up to this point. As an adult with kids I can think of way, way better things to do with $5,000+ than flush it on your sorry rear end.

But when you say "I'm still just a boy" - I believe that. And well on your way to being a full-blown manchild. This is the point in your life is where you get to decide to either man up, accept your failures, confess them to your parents, and take responsibility for your life, or keep floating along doing gently caress all and living off your parents.

And to temper my tough love advice with something you can use and might listen to, think about an 18-year old girl with her whole life ahead of her willing to move in with you at your parents. By your own account, you:

- are 26 years old
- have no job, and no prospect for a job
- have no will to get a job
- are lying to your parents and living off of their money
- do nothing all day but drink lovely beer and smoke lovely weed
- have no future prospects other than moving back in with your parents when your lease is up

What exactly are you bringing to the table in this relationship? Dumb kid/true wuv aside, you gotta wonder what she's getting out of this relationship.

Bob A Feet
Aug 10, 2005
Dear diary, I got another erection today at work. SO embarrassing, but kinda hot. The CO asked me to fix up his dress uniform. I had stayed late at work to move his badges 1/8" to the left and pointed it out this morning. 1SG spanked me while the CO watched, once they caught it. Tomorrow I get to start all over again...

4 The Cause posted:

All of teachers praised my writing in highschool. One teacher offered to introduce me to a friend of hers in publishing. I just got so depressed and lost my motivation. I wish I had been on medicine back than.

Highschool was easy for everyone and doesn't count for poo poo hth

4th Asclepiadean
Feb 18, 2012

Bob A Feet posted:

Highschool was easy for everyone and doesn't count for poo poo hth

Quoted for absolute truth. Writing that is sublime in high school is oftentimes mediocre at best in the real world. And I'm not talking about college.

Also lol at the OP realizing he has to talk to the girl's parents, without ever considering if it would be okay with his parents to let some girl live and mooch off of them.

hofnar
Dec 27, 2008

by sebmojo

4 The Cause posted:

I am 26 years old and have accomplished nothing in life. I flunked out of college, still live at home, and haven't had a job in a while. I talked my parents into loaning me money to move to another city and join the police academy. They paid 2,100 dollars for the academy, and got me an apartment for 490 a month in a seven month lease. I was supposed to start in July, but I had too much anxiety and couldn't make myself go to class. For the past few weeks I have been surfing the internet, playing video games, and hanging out with some of the neighborhood kids, one of whom I am falling in love with(I know). I have turned into a complete pig. Drinking Mad Dog 20 and smoking lovely dirt weed. I cry every time my mother calls, because she is so excited and thinks I am finally turning my life around. She is already planning a graduation party, and telling everyone in the family what I am doing. What the gently caress am I going to do, when this academy is over, and I have nothing to show for it? I know I should just come clean, but this is honestly the most stress free and happy I have been since middle school. I have been thinking about telling them I was kicked out for fighting or insubordination. I never wanted to be a police officer anyway, I always wanted to work in the film industry.

You are knocking this life thing out of the park bro

Acres of Quakers
May 6, 2006
Op, I know you can't reply but since you can still read I'll tell you how to get out of this. You need to fake your own suicide. Write a note or email saying you have a disappointing secret. Then, leave a shoe and your driver's licence on a bridge and go into hiding for a few days. When you finally emerge alive your parents will be so relieved you're alive that they won't care you hosed up again.

Lieutenant Dan
Oct 27, 2009

Weedlord Bonerhitler
OP, if you're serious about getting a job in film, especially screenwriting, you need to be building a reel of short films by, like, yesterday. Luckily it's easy to shoot your own stuff these days, and there should be plenty of unemployed film crew folks around who'll want to work on a production. And Florida isn't a black hole where movies aren't made. About 1/5th of the time people get sent to productions in Nowhere, Florida for tax reasons. It's the only way you'll get your name out there and have a reel to show. Set experience means way more than film school.

Film is a haven for 26-year-old alcoholics.

im cute
Sep 21, 2009

Aagar posted:

What exactly are you bringing to the table in this relationship? Dumb kid/true wuv aside, you gotta wonder what she's getting out of this relationship.

Beer and weed, silly billy. She's just out of high school; she's way underage.

WetNightmare
Mar 22, 2014

by sebmojo
You're a lazy unmovtivated piece of poo poo taking advantage of the oxytocin bond between you and your parents. I'm sure you'll somehow figure out how to manipulate them into keeping you afloat until they die. Then you can squander their inheritance without the troublesome burden of convincing them you want to become a better person than who you are.

WetNightmare fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Aug 19, 2014

Pope Corky the IX
Dec 18, 2006

What are you looking at?

paco650 posted:

Beer and weed, silly billy. She's just out of high school; she's way underage.

It's not as though she's underage to buy weed, silly bear.

im cute
Sep 21, 2009

Pope Corky the IX posted:

It's not as though she's underage to buy weed, silly bear.

Not adult enough to not be sold a dime of oregano, I bet.

Tokyo Sex Whale
Oct 9, 2012

"My butt smells like vanilla ice cream"
Couldn't you get this girl pregnant? Then get married and you have a good reason to drop out of the police academy, to help your wife with the pregnancy. Your parents would be more understanding (parents love grandbabies), you're getting married so it looks like there's stability in your life and they'll probably think you'll want to provide for the kid or something so they'll be more willing to support you while the two of you get on your feet.

OldMandog
Sep 4, 2011
Being a screenwriter is not really the same thing as working in the film industry. I assume you don't even know the proper formatting to write a screenplay- but actually writing a screenplay is the first step towards becoming a screenwriter. Even if you found a connection in the publishing world- what good would that do? Screenplays don't get published. I don't know- write a screenplay. It will suck if you've never done it before (even if your prose is amazing) but you have to write the first one sometime. Have you considered that you might not have the skill or will power to be what you want to be?
Maybe you should just learn how to be happy with what you are. The first step is acceptance.

Iseeyouseemeseeyou
Jan 3, 2011
every time i see this thread title i lightly chuckle to myself

good poo poo op, good poo poo

Suspicious Lump
Mar 11, 2004
Haha, you sack of poo poo. You need to start taking responsibility for your actions irrespective of what others have done or convinced you to do in the past. You will feel a lot better about it.

God save your parents. I needed medicine! wahhhhh ahaha

Adventure Pigeon
Nov 8, 2005

I am a master storyteller.
It's probably a really good thing this guy never went to police academy. Jon Pop the Cop is a scary thought.

Anyways, this saga probably ends with him killing his parents or his parents killing him or him killing himself. Lets just hope no one else gets raped along the way.

Mightaswell
Dec 4, 2003

Not now chief, I'm in the fuckin' zone.
The real shame here is that the pedophilic, lying, lazy, fat sack of poo poo OP would probably make a great cop.

Polaris_Echoes
Dec 6, 2009

Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:

every time i see this thread title i lightly chuckle to myself

good poo poo op, good poo poo

The woman who's husband is nursing from her is making fun of you OP.

That should tell you where you're at on the life totem pole. Get your poo poo together. :mad:

Who Is Paul Blart
Oct 22, 2010
Tell your parents that you would like them to give you $2500 a month to drink drink, drugs , and play video games for the rest of your life. When the push back threaten to kill yourself of you don't get it. Then start a gofundme campaign saying they you'll suicide if you don't get this. It'll probably work.

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Tighclops
Jan 23, 2008

Unable to deal with it


Grimey Drawer
Your parents sound kind of lovely OP, but that doesn't excuse pissing away the free ride you've been lucky enough to be given. Grow weed instead of just smoking it all the time, then sell it to the teenaged children of other lovely upper middle class shitbags like your parents. That way you don't have to be a cop and you can nail all the jailbait you like. You will never break into the film industry, abandon that dim hope right now but write a screenplay about your experiences as a dealer anyway as a hobby.

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