u/Lil-Shaleesh2

I've just gotten an information from a neighbor that they saw a car hit a black and white cat. The only black and white cat in my neighborhood was Micky, my beloved Micky I fed and pet so many times and formed an attachment over 2 years ago. I wasn't very kind to him at first. At the time I was feeding the only first stray, their older brother, and him and his brother Vicky (the licky tabby white one on 3rd pic) found me intimidating and ran away whenever I'd approach them. But they eventually charmed me and I really grew fond of them and their bond so I started getting them food too instead of shooing them away. And with our mutual care we bonded.

I'd play with all 3 of my strays I fed and while going through dark stuff mentally for years, these two made it feel a little less hard. Before Micky's death their older sibling Tufny (4th pic) had also gone missing and I don't know whether he's alive.

With Micky's death, Vicky has become more anxious and attacked another stray cat today, which was hostile at first towards him but Vicky is usually a laid back cat who minds his business and only enjoyed play fighting with Micky who was undoubtedly his bonded pair. With Micky gone, Vicky is now a lonely and anxious stray kitty who's pain will further induce the intolerant anxiety he has already had towards the hostile cat who keeps pestering him.

I couldn't adopt them. I'm not mature myself enough to take care of two fragile lives that require special care and responsibility. Vicky is scared of just entering the hallways while Micky would quickly grow annoyed of the interiors and rush towards the exit, I only let him once inside my house to explore. They were much happier outside. They were healthy and alongside me, they had several other neighbors who fed them. I admit that I was sometimes too lazy myself to get down and feed them but they also seemed very well fed to me so I didn't see the point of stuffing them with more food. They always had a bowl of water ready, one of them even takes them to the vet so I thought they really didn't need all that food, and also I didn't want to spend too much money.

It's such a tragic and stupid end. I bet that driver was just pent up from some personal bullshit and caused the death of a cat that would cheer me up on my darkest days when humans were too focused on glowing up, career goals and rejecting anyone who doesn't meet their stupid criteria.

I want my cats to get attention and upvotes. I want other people to see what I saw. I had a channel called Tufnycats that had 250 subs and had many videos of Micky and others. I deleted them out of privacy concerns with regret sadly. I'm posting them again for all of us here to grieve and land our candles for Micky and Tufny, the stray kitties, not known by many, but still loved, fed and given a decent and quite a long stray kitten life.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, all of the cats I fed were sterilized.

Short meow montage of his: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-shYQ28zDF4

Confessions II was well celebrated here 😁

Fades are edited because I still haven't implemented trigger_changelevels.

The player is supposed to find a dropped card/key from a combine soldier in d3_c17_11. He can use it to turn off the Combine shield to exit to the rooftops.

I also plan to include c17_14, where you get trapped, ambushed and kidnapped in the end to be taken to Breen's office to d3_breen_01 and skip all d3_citadel maps.

HL2 Warps - Half-Life 2 but with alternate paths and scenarios that you can take to either skip levels or just take a detour. Taking shortcuts will come with trade-offs such as the metrocop ambush in c17_05. I wanted to spawn them with shotguns instead, but they aren't coded to use shotguns, they just make T-poses when they shoot, so I sticked with SMGs, but shotguns would make it a lot more difficult which is my goal for these tradeoffs or punishments for taking shortcuts.

EDIT: Snippet from the TODO

- ❌ In the end of the map, rebels angrily inform Gordon that Alyx has been taken to the Citadel because of him leaving without her. Alyx won't be able to assist Gordon in `d3_c17_07` and he'll have to figure out his path instead.
        - I'm not able to use `env_global` because the slots are hardcoded into the game and I don't want to make changes to the code.

I always liked to imagine that there was something more behind the dam next to Black Mesa East.

This is part of HL2 Warps. A mod that introduces shortcuts or "warps" that can skip several maps or even entire chapters through secret passage ways and new areas.

Credits to Takeo829 for d1_town_01 expanded: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=3422294447

Alpha version available: https://github.com/jnk181/MnemosyneLauncher