It was brought up on my previous post that I had touched on a very critical subject. The destruction of western social life and isolation of modern westerners, especially men. How does this play out overall, what can be done, and to help this fit into this general site's theme, how has this affected gaming?
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How does this play out overall? Not at all.
Just yesterday one of my neighbours attempted suicide by jumping off the bridge which resulted in her hospitalization.
What followed is entire neighbourhood coming together to devise a plan on how to take care of her cats.
Ended up adopting one of them despite being an unapologetically straight white christian working class male surrounded by women remotely working from their homes paid off by their parents.
I found nothing but support as the neighbours provided me with cat food, accessories, vet and groomer contacts as well as mass persuasion towards my landlord to not be an absolute bellend and revise my lease contract to allow pets.
Turns out the degeneracy of urban jungles and sanitized social media websites does not reflect suburbs.
Why did your neighbor attempt suicide?
The shit show started about a month ago when she was dumped by her boyfriend (2x while she was 5x).
She was practically barging into other people's houses just so she wouldn't be alone.
3 weeks ago I had to call ambulance because she lied collapse near my rental.
2 weeks ago her sister had police break into her house because of no contact, ambulance took her to hospital again.
And now she jumped off the bridge because she just couldn't take it anymore.
If there's anything I'm taking away from all this is that loneliness hurts more than lack of comfy life even though she had a paid off house by her parents.
Loneliness is a surprisingly lonesome bitch to deal with.
I know experts chock it up to how we've evolved to be "social creatures", but the actual neurological mechanisms for why such a dependency would exist is still so strange somehow. Yet even so, its effects are undeniable.
She couldn't find anyone to adopt her cats. ;)
True, true, false. Not a feminist, just a lonely old hag.
Seems to be the fate for a lot of woman who keeps riding the CC.
cats are a special case
I unironically like cats.
Not all cats, but the nice ones, at least.
They’re not everyone’s cup of tea (supposedly), sure, but I do like me a li’l furball.
Much, much less work than dogs, too.
Sad story: I met a girl today who “adopted” a three month old puppy, yesterday, in Australia, and then decided the next day that she would fly him back to Brazil, today…
Tiny puppy, no preparation (she didn’t even have a crate!!), never travelled before, let alone three long international flights, didn’t have its vaccinations, and will be forced into quarantine (almost certainly) when it gets to Brazil… And even before she left, she was already leaving the puppy behind with other people (“to mind him”), while she walked off and did chores… If we hadn’t been there, he would have run away. She didn’t even tie him up!!
There was nothing I could really do to stop this, but I fucking hope they stopped her from taking him out of the country, because that’s just… Evil.
I hate seeing animal cruelty like that. But it’s hard for randoms to stop some dumb backpacker bitch. Have to leave that up to the authorities…
But man, I hope this dog gets taken off her. Made me sad.
Then I guess we need to use them as a bargaining chip.
This is wholesome.
Obviously not the suicide attempt, but the rest of it, including you adopting the cat! 😸
I’m pretty dark on the world right now, so I needed something wholesome like this.
Well done you.