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It's been on my mind for about a year now, and I realized that I want to be the president of my own game company. But I'm not sure if I'm legally allowed to run it and make profit off my games. I'm 14 and about to start high school, but I can't wait. I don't have a lot of money to spend on licenses (which is why I'm making games) but I'm willing to do anything to keep my profits and title for what I created.

I'm on the rubik's cube club at my middle school and there's a competition coming up in 2 weeks against our rival school. I know how to solve a cube already, I started out with my record being 3 minutes then i brought it down to 2 minutes and now it is 1:30. But there is a kid in 6th grade who can beat it in less than 30 seconds, and I feel a slow, and a little stupid. I'm not trying to beat him, I just want to bring my time down to around 45 seconds.

My friend told me about solving it with 2x2x2 first then 3x2x2, but I haven't found it anywhere online. I keep seeing the Fridrich method and the F2L but it looks too complicated and confusing :P

I'm willing to try it but I was just wondering if there was an easier method. (A tutorial video would be great too :D)

I'm trying to make a game and I need some NES or GB style music. I'm not very good with coming up with my own tunes, but I can play an instrument and make a couple of my own notes. Anyone know of a simple easy to use chiptune maker?

This has been happening almost all the time, but today I got lucky because I only had to keep restarting it 10 times before I saw the HP logo. Usually it is 16 times before it pops up. I've always had it charging, especially when I'm not using it, and my laptop does this with and without a full charge. I even tried taking out the battery and putting it back in again. This has become increasingly irritating, and I really need help on how to solve this problem. I have an HP Pavilion with Windows Vista if that helps at all.

I plan to buy Anime Studio Debut 8 and it says I can use a scanner to upload my images and drawings (which is what I prefer over the mouse) If I were to get this software, what scanner would you recommend? I'm on an extremely low budget. I have an HP Pavillion and I plan to scan drawings on printer paper and notebook paper.

This has been going on for a while. Every single time I want to run a program the administrator window pops up. When I click continue the entire screen goes black and stays that way until I hit the power button and restart the whole thing. I've tried pressing a few buttons here and there and clicking in the same spot, but nothing works. I have an HP Pavilion with Windows Vista Home Premium, and I can't afford to upgrade at the moment (I got the laptop and hardware for free anyways after I fixed it). I really need help and this issue has been keeping me from doing my work. Please help!

It feels like my cell phone is going off inside my knee but I keep it in my backpack. I'm not sure if its a muscle spasm or just something else. It's been happening all day and its EXTREMELY distracting! I can see it vibrating through my jeans and even my friends notice it. It doesn't hurt but it's just startling and really annoying. I can't focus on my schoolwork when its vibrating every 5 seconds to 5 minutes. I've tried massaging it, whacking it, and even not moving my leg for a while and nothing works! I've had a lot of caffeine lately so I think that may be it. This has only happened one other time in my elbow and I had a cup of coffee then too. I think I'll lay off the coffee and caffeine for a while but in the meantime what can I do? It's still going on even as I type this.

B.T.W. I haven't been on any medication in the past two months and they were allergy pills, and I'm 14

I've been begging my parents if I could get a dog since I could remember and everytime they said no. I haven't had a pet in 5 years and I don't really have friends to hang with so I've been feeling very lonely lately. I feel like people only value my existence when they need something and that I'm completely invisible to everyone else. Like I'm alone in the world and no one cares.

I thought I was depressed but I read somewhere that before you think you're depressed, make sure you're just not surrounded by idiots. After I realized that I was, I figured that a dog or other pet would actually be happy to see me everyday after school, and show me that someone thought about me and missed my absense.

Since I can't get a real dog or other pet, I figured just to make one or buy my own robot dog. It's not as fun but close enough. So should I go through with this?

I'll admit I go to a school loaded with jerks. But no one ever talks to me and they always talk behind my back. In the halls I always look down whenever I pass by someone or stare blankly at something far away and I hear them mumble to their friends "What the f*** is he staring at? Freak!".

I rarely talk anymore because of this, I don't speak up in class or talk to anyone nearby me. My Social studies teacher told me the only time he ever hears me talk is when I say hi to him in the morning (I say hi to all my teachers. It's just awkward to walk by them without saying anything nice).

I do have friends but I'm starting to move away from them. My best friend, who saved my life once, I see myself starting to move away from the most. She invites me to her parties still, but her friends don't really like me because I don't talk at all. So I'm just awkwardly in a corner while everyone else parties with my best friend. It's like that on the bus too. I purposely seperate myself from the other eigth graders (some of whom I went to elementary school with) and sit by myself everyday listening to music. I don't really mind this though. It's just reflective.

I don't like to talk because the people around me are complete idiots who always seem to get themselves into trouble, or jerks who don't value the feelings of others and can't mind their own business. Some thoughts are just rather left inside instead of said.

I was wondering if anyone else feels the same way i do (seperating yourself from others to reflect on yourself and your thoughts constantly) Or if I'm just a bad person or the most hated being alive socially.

I'm registering for something but is it illegal to give a fake address and zip and state info online. I don't want to get in any trouble or have something mailed accidentally to a random person.

I grew up watching Spongebob, from 2 years old to about 10 but I'm 13 and lately I've noticed Spongebob just got really bad, and just not funny. Aside from the cheesy puns he's also gotten somewhat stupider. It seems that his IQ dropped to about Patrick's level. Spongebob also got annoying too. Back in 1999-2001 (or before the movie) he was extremely funny! Even on the reruns I still lol. I remember when I was young I would sing along to the F.U.N song. Now it was replaced by the Campfire Song Song (or whatever) It shouldn't even exist! There can't be a campfire underwater >_<

I'm making a medley on my violin for Zelda songs but I mostly have OoT and MM songs. I haven't played Twilight Princess or Wind Waker before (I plan to once I get enough money) so I need some feedback from the community. I'm asking for top 10 b/c I'm going to choose the most popular songs. I already have Dragon Roost Island and Midna's Desperate Hour/Lament. Also if you have a link for sheet music to the song I'd be extremely appreciative!! It would save me a LOT of time. (It doesn't have to be just violin, I can translate it :D)

I'm in middle school and my parents won't get off my back about my high school application. I started on it about two weeks before break and I'm very satisfied with it, but my parents don't seem to think it's all that great. They keep telling me what I should write and what I should leave out so it doesn't "seem" as if they wrote it themselves. Eventually, they just told me to re-write the entire 500 word essay. They've been asking me about it all winter break (including through Christmas) and it's bad enough that I have a science project also due the same day. Every time they ask me it always brings me down and bummed out and it's also pretty annoying. I end up staying bummed out the entire day. The first time they asked me to re-write it while my dad was "coaching me" I got fed up and irritated with all of his "suggestions" and said a smart-@$$ comment that probably came out the wrong way in the wrong tone. I spent the rest of that day in my room working only writing about a sentence every hour or so.

Most days have been like that ever since, and I can't seem to find any happiness in it. It seems that I can't have a good day without them reminding me about my essay. The school I'm applying to is a center for Information Technology and I try to work on my game project and learn Java in my freetime as much as I can and avoid my parents. My parents can't afford to go on vacation as a family so I mostly do house-work and go on the internet during the break. My friends have all been out of town, and I feel really lonely. I do go out and ride my bike occasionally but only to return to my nagging parents. I can't really find the fun in my life anymore, and I wonder if going to this school (or even college) is really worth losing my happiness just to write a paper where I've already done my best and forced to do better. I've tried talking to them about it but it seems that they completely ignored me. Any suggestions on how I can temporarily regain some bit of joy in my life while I suffer through this?

I've tried to register as a student but all the schools listed are high schools, and I'm only a middle schooler. Any help?

I'm making a Zelda game on Unity and I have a Wind Waker and Twilight Princess .iso and I was wondering if it was possible to get the sprites directly from the game into a 3d model, and if so how?

Sorry about the only Zelda themed type games but is there anything like them? I've played and beaten both but I'd like to play another game like it... Any suggestions?

I've tried jMonkeyEngine but I can't really start it up. There's always an error saying I need some sort of module. And I've tried Sandbox but that didn't work either, not enough freedom and I couldn't change the character. I haven't had a lot of experience with programming except with SCRATCH and a bit of Stencyl and Python but that's it. I'm trying to make an RPG like Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time and a sports game like dodge ball. Later I want to make and MMOG but first I want to try with the RPG. I'm only 13 but I'm a fast learner. Any suggestions?

I apologize for the long story, but please just hear me out. I'm desperate and feel like no one understands me.

I've always been a shy person. It's in my genes. My grandma is shy, my great-aunt, and my dad. I always feel like someones always staring at me watching my every move waiting for me to do something stupid so they can tell the whole class and start laughing at me. Not a lot of people really know my name, even when I've been in some of their classes in previous years. My math teacher can't even get my name right! I have friends but I just wish that people would know who I am, instead of the silent kid in the back of class. I sometimes go whole classes without saying a word, even when I know the answer. I'm afraid it will be wrong and people will start laughing.

I was recently depressed back in 7th grade because I thought no one really cared about me or even acknowledged my existence. I was thinking about killing myself or running away. I never told anyone that except my best friend, who ended up saving my life that day. I'm over these feelings but I still feel them every now and then. And cry evertime I think about what happened.

I told my best friend about my issues with my awkwardness and she tries inviting me to parties and to hang out with her friends in a group. I'm fine when it's just me and her but when her popular friends from school come I just shut down and back out of it, becoming the loner once again.

Today in one of my classes we were supposed to do partner work with JUST 2 people only.

There was an odd number of students in the class. I felt extremely embarrassed when it was my turn to present and I had to go in front of class and tell the sub that I didn't have a partner. She wasn't very happy... -_-'

I spend my weekends inside on the computer nearly all day. I really dont have anything to do or look forward to so I sometimes sleep-in till noon and play flash games all day and night. I'm not in any clubs because even the nerdy hackers make fun of me. I don't go to school dances (even when my best friend bribes me to go). I haven't tried out for sports because I'm always picked last and no one ever passes to me. I have EXTREME anxiety (in line for a roller coaster my best friend had to hold my hands behind my back and I almost threw up in line. Even the elementary schooler was making fun of me) Nothing seems to work... I feel hopeless like I'm destined to be forever alone.

Please someone help me... I'll try anything to become more sociable... Please