You can use headphones with an electric. Although, you'll need an amp. This will be more quiet than any acoustic. I can maybe give pointers as you can hear my music at www.soundcloud.com/user-871935484. I believe you will enjoy the music. I work hard on it. Anyway, electric guitars are easier to learn on because it's easier to push the strings down to the fretboard. This, your fingers won't take as much punishment. Most people stop learning guitar because their fingers begin to hurt too much. If that happens, just put it down and come back later. Do the same if you start to get frustrated. Good luck! It's a passion of mine and it's very therapeutic. 

zanderlex : Thank you. 

I work very hard at creating my own music. You can find my music at www.soundcloud.com/user-871935484/enemy-1. This link is my newest song. My song called "Better Off Alone" is a great 2 minute instrumental. 

The reason I'm on vizzed is quite a story... Here goes.

While in college at McNeese State University, I began looking for alternative means to expensive games. I only had dial up internet at the time. Student loan checks allowed for me to purchase a few new games but became very dissatisfied at how quickly I could finish a $60 + tax game.

After several failed attempts at find a good emulator for any retro system, I gave up for a while and just continued my studies and a few games here and there. I just stopped looking because I did not think that there was such a website which had such organization and such variety. My brother and I used to play many games together when we were young.

Eventually, I ran across this website, registered, and began to explore the site. As I checked my email, I was thinking I was wasting my time by clicking the link to confirm my email. BOY, WAS I WRONG!!!!!!!!!! I began by looking at all the different systems...there were many...all in one place....so organized....so attractive to any old school gamer.

After looking at all the systems I could now sink myself into, I began looking for my old favorite games and games that my parents would not get for me. Not that they cared about violence back in the 1980s, it's that they had to please me and my brother who was 3.5 years older than me. Tragically, he took his life in 2002. Now, I play games on here to remember what life was like 30 damn years ago. I'm a math teacher, now. I tell all my students about this site. Some visit, most don't.

Unlike one of the posts under this topic, I do not enjoy typing lots of stuff online. I'm a country boy and I just like jamming out on my guitar, kissing my wife, and playing video games. Recently, I've been playing Hearthstone, Diablo 3, and Heroes of the Storm a whole bunch. But they are free and they are fun.

Now, I'm trying to get the new RGR plugin to work so I can play Dreamcast.

If you like metal, you don't need an account but go to www.myspace.com/apieceof8 to hear some of my music.

I tried clearing everything again and it worked. thanks to you both.

Also, phone is acting up so access is limited. 

i deleted cookies on laptop and cannot log in. Please help. 

I appreciate your time.

It sounds as if each word is repeating itself. Like a guitarist would set a delay and have pluck the string once with several iterations of the same tone repeated. That's what this is doing. Is there a solution?

I've noticed that I can adjust the screen on some emulators. You know, move it up, down, left or right. It was fine yesterday but now something has changed to where I cannot see the floor on parts of Castlevania...thus, I fall to my death quite often. How can I fix this to the way it looked yesterday? I did not make any adjustments for it to get to be this way.

I'm having the same problem. The playstation allowed me to double click and a menu popped up, on the 3rd. Now, it's not letting me see the menu and my controls are messed up. Please help.

Singelli : Believe it or not, I enjoyed the part at the end where he hops over the fence. I have never seen it done that way. You are a wonderful person and I know that without meeting you. I am sorry I said something about you being a dude. I didn't realize that you are the opposite of a dude. You're a lady! I'm sure a respectable one too. Keep you chin high and you'll get all the recognition you deserve. It seems like I know you, a little already.

This post is very awesome. You have realized that life is precious and that there's more to life than doing things for ourselves. I go through depression for multiple reasons but after my brother died I went to the Methodist hospital in Houston and it was only at that time that I learned that my problems were minuscule compared to what those individuals were going through. In those 6 days I came to terms with the fact that my problems were not significant enough to cause me continue being so down on myself. I also came to terms with another fact. Death is a part of life. It's just the last part. The last part is almost always the most difficult in life or video games. It doesn't matter. The last part is almost always difficult to swallow.  

That's pretty awesome. So their name and a colon afterward. Gotcha.

Awesome, thanks. I had clicked on your name before but missed the add friend thingy.

Along with teaching, I'm trying to figure out how to send a friend request on this website and get 50000 Viz so that I may get the Play Station item from the item shop.

I miss all those old games and used to play them with my brother when we were kids. He shot and killed himself in 2002. These games help me remember him and how happy we were as children. My wife and I cannot afford to make another donation so I'm doing what I can to earn the required points for the play station item.

I would like to be Singelli's friend on here. Please help me with this. Thanks.

I am a country boy to the bone. I struggle with many things in the computer world. Please help me understand how I send a friend request on here. I searched through the board for this topic but could not find it.

Singelli has been replying to all my posts and would like to become their friend.

Thank you. So you teach math? How do you enjoy it? I know some of the youngsters on here will read this and some of them want to be a teacher. What would you say to them?

I was able to help a student who needed it within my first year of being a teacher. I wish I could help more but I just do not have the capabilities. It takes several of us working together to make a big enough difference for the community.

Interesting story, I am a teacher. I did not plan on being a teacher, though.

I was 27 years old and my best friend told me that I could benefit from going to college. He ensured me that I was more intelligent than most of the people that he was in college with. I took that as a compliment and ran with it. I registered for McNeese State University in Lake Charles, LA, soon thereafter. I finished my very first semester during the summer of 2008. The very day that I took my very first final I turned 28 years old. I was also the second person finished with the test and passed both the class and the final with an "A". I figured that since I could pass this class during the short, more difficult, summer semester that I could continue to do the same for the next 4 years.

Going back to school at 27 / 28 years old can be advantageous or it can be the exact opposite. I was originally going to college for Computer Science. There's one thing you should know about me and that is that I am a country boy. I had never had much interaction with a computer. I was struggling with the different computer languages and how to use pointers while programming in C or C++.

My best friend told me that if I ever needed help programming that he would help me. He then graduated and got a job working at Citgo in their I.T. Department. He is banking now. He was not able to hold his word on helping me when I needed it because he learned different languages during his first few semesters at school. I asked him several times for help and he just could not hold up his end of the deal. But it was not entirely his fault. I struggled and struggled for a few semesters with trying to write simple programs with little to no success.

It was about that time that I decided to switch majors...not simply drop out because I could not understand how a computer works. What should I be? <----  This was the question on my mind. My adviser thought I had guts for not taking the easy out by dropping out. My adviser was one of my math teachers. She encouraged me to stay in school and continue with the current semester so that I may decide before the end of the semester. I stuck with it and decided to be a teacher.

I had already taken 4-6 math classes by that time. Therefore, I decided to be a math teacher. Finishing college was my only priority besides my wife. She ended up going to college with me for a while. Then, something unfortunate happened to her. She had these horrible pains in her face. Trigeminal Neuralgia had taken over her life. This is a very painful nerve disorder. She ended up having to drop out of college for now. Once I save enough money, she will finish college too and we will have quite a bit of cash and time to spend together. She is feeling better since that happened but we had to file for bankruptcy. Times are tough now for us but we will pull though. Although times are tough, they used to be much worse. I can pay all my bills now but there is no extra money left over. Consider my previous statement whenever you decide to become a teacher. You will not make a ton of cash but you'll have enough to be considered middle class. I do well for me and my wife but she has a job too. Without her having that job we would not have enough to make it through one month. My pay just is not enough. It would be if they did not take out for insurance. Insurance is very important...ask anyone who has ever had to have surgery without it.

So, I am a teacher and I teach Geometry and Algebra 2 at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles, LA. It's a rewarding profession and I'm glad to say that I have a career at the age of 34. I just began my career. I was a long term substitute teacher at Lake Arthur High School from December 9, 2013 until the end of the year. I then had to get a permanent position for the current school year.

I wanted to be a person who could make a difference in several lives simultaneously. Teaching is awesome and I would not trade it for anything in this world. I'll go back to college to get my Masters Degree to where I can teach duel enrollment (college and high school courses). After I get that degree, I'll get a significant pay raise.

Take life as it comes. Do not panic. Become a teacher and only work 180 days a year (less than half the year) and make enough to enjoy life. I do not make much money but what I do make is a huge difference in the lives of several of my students. Some of them look up to me and actually ask me for advise. As mentioned earlier, several of my students live in severe to moderate poverty.

I have a student who came from Haiti. His family does not have much of anything at all. I noticed on a day where the high temperature was only in the mid 40s that he was wearing a short sleeved shirt with no jacket. I asked him if he had a jacket and he said that he did not. I talked to my wife and asked her if she would mind if I took one of my old jackets and donated it to him. Of course, she did not reject the idea...she welcomed it.

The next day I took the jacket to school but he was not there. I was a bit concerned. The following day I did see him and he had checked out a jacket from the school. Our school will check out jackets to students who do not have one. The school takes it back at the end of the school day and washes it to get it ready for the next student who may not have a jacket to cover their upper body with. Once I offered the jacket to him, he smiled so big that my eyes welled up and almost spilled over my lower eyelid. Never in my life have I had someone so happy to receive such a simple item.

Remember that if you do decide to teach you will have to keep an eye out for people like my student from Haiti. Help them whenever you can because doing something like that is like doing something bigger than you. My heart will not allow for someone to suffer... especially, if I can do something about it. Teachers are the people who help sculpt future. Several good teachers put together will make more of a difference than almost any group from any other profession. Teachers make a difference. We need more male teachers for these young men who do not have a father. We are their role models and they need that in their life. They will not all look up to you but you can be a model for those who do. Please consider teaching as a profession. It is one of the best careers out there.

I tried to encourage my wife to be a teacher but with her nerve disorder that flares up from time to time she thinks it would be a bad idea. She is going to school (eventually will go back) for National Resource Conservation Management which is a long way of saying Wildlife and vegetation. She longs to protect endangered species. It's a shame that she must finish a 4 year degree before getting into the field. She is passionate about it and always puts her full being into the work that she is completing. She never does anything "half ass" and dislikes it whenever I do them "half ass" because she will go behind me and correct or finish what I only did half way. Being married has helped me grow up and I will be the first to admit that I was a child and/or did childlike things until the ripe age of 31. After we got married, things changed. I was suddenly doing many things "wrong". I learned that I could not do certain things that I did while I was single. For instance, I could not keep some of my "friends" that I had because they just wanted to come over and trash my place while drinking and partying. These are the type of friends that I go out with and they almost end up getting arrested because they cannot control their actions once they're drunk.

Sorry about that. This post should not be about marriage and friends. I guess I have typed enough about this topic. Have a wonderful day and please. Become a teacher if that's what you want to do. Remember, we make a difference.

P.S. Check out Taylor Mali on youtube. He may sway your decision on whether or not you should be a teacher. Watch the video that is labeled "What Teachers Make".

I believe we live to breed and reproduce so that our race may keep on going without so much as a hiccup in our evolution. The human race is the only race on the face of the Earth that breeds all year long. Think about your dog or cat (or whatever pet you have). Do they always have the desire to breed and reproduce? No, they do not. That's the only correct answer. I have several dogs and cats. My female lab goes into heat twice a year. It's only at this point that my male lab feels the need to try to knock her up. Now, sometime my little Cocker Spaniel tries to dry hump her between these two times during the year. Yet, we all get to where we need to show the opposite sex that we are still potent (down there).

It's nature. Nature is why we live. Nature tells us that we need to keep making more little humans to continue our species. There should be no argument whenever you are asked "Why Do We Live?" We live solely to make more humans who carry half of our genes in their bodies.

Please know that survival is a part of the reproduction of ourselves. We can reproduce more than any other creature on the face of the Earth but that does not matter if we cannot survive long enough to reproduce again. We need to adapt to changes in climate and to the social changes which inhabit our world today.

Way back before "Christ", survival was much different than it is today. Imagine not being able to go to the store to purchase a gallon of milk or a slab of meat. Our ancestors did not have this luxury, of course. They were the ones who hunted and gathered to provide for their families. Once they became sufficient and proficient at hunting and gathering they began selling their products to others. If they did not sell them to others, they would have been trading or bartering. They would have had too much meat or berries and fruit to eat on their own so they trade for things that they could use to get through the difficult months of summer or winter.

Eventually, they figured out that they could bury things so far underground and the ground would act as a "food saver" for several months at a time. Guess what they did whenever they had too much animal carcass and could not barter it away. They buried it in the ground and would dig it up whenever they needed to eat. This worked especially well during the winter months. The cold air preserved their food. Once the food was uncovered and ready for consumption, sometime it was moldy. No problem...scrape the mold off and cook it. The age made the meat taste different and made it more tender for their teeth to rip through.

So, why do we live? To eat, breed and continue or legacy on this planet.