A quick update on Nao and Shylke (Cat-a-clysm)'s situation
So, we've been effectively "confined" in what was a B&B by this one's mother; she said this was "good enough for our needs for now", but she really only wanted us out of the question. Rent is € 400/mo. and the place is shitty to say the least. The only "good thing" is that it's placed in the city centre so we can go anywhere from here. We got scammed by the real estate agency, so for the first month we actually paid four times as much, and we're now struggling to make ends meet.
As always we're trying to stay strong but we cried and we're still crying as there's no one here nor there that is willing to truly help us.
As for Nao personally, well, this one is being gaslit and exploited both psychologically and financially. Mom wants all of its disability money now that it gets some, so that she can tie Nao to her and keep it as her pawn. In the other hand, Nao really really likes living on its own and being kind of independent, and it really loves staying with Shylke. This is the main reason why mother is now trying to pressure us both into splitting apart. We believe - firmly - there's a lot of detachment crisis into it, but mom is not handling this "as a mother should", to say the very least. Oppression and manipulation is making Nao very unstable, and it's almost being forced to call the psych ward and to be put in patient care.
This said, we're very deeply sorry we're having a truly hard time to work on ourselves and also on our projects - the Celeste Hearts for him, and Ampersand for both of us.
We've been denied of any IRL help. Currently, Nao's parents are trying to hold it hostage at its parents' home, while Shylke is staying at the B&B. We don't know what to do and we're preparing for the worst.
@games This is the video recap of all the demos I've tried during the Steam Next Fest, with a bit more in detail, and some jokes added here and there, I hope you enjoy it
You have to replace these lines with something similar to this (change libaacs to libgcrypt everywhere). Then run autoreconf -iv (you must have autoconf installed). It will create a new ./configure script which will work if you did everything correctly.
More than one billion animals are kept as pets around the world. But bioethicist Jessica Pierce says that might not be great for our furry, feathered and scaly friends. In this story for @time, she discusses the potential harms of pet ownership, including whether it's ok to buy and sell animals and use them for our own gratification, the anguish of captivity, and the climate impacts of pet-keeping. She also posits a new way forward, in which human-animal ties are mutual and freely chosen. It's a very thought-provoking article; tell us in the comments what you think.
@CultureDesk@time Thank you for sharing this. I have been thinking a lot about this lately. I've studied more about Jain and Buddhist philosophy over the years and they present a wider and more nuanced conception of suffering than Western philosophy often does. When combined with environmental ethics, there are deep questions about suffering inherent in so many of our complex systems. Perhaps this will be something the future might condemn us for?