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On the way home with his kindergarten, my son found this cockatiel. It was stuck in a fench, and the teacher told me he got it free. The teacher said they would put it down after I had got my son, but we decided to bring it home and to the vet. I don’t know much about birds. Vet did some (pricey 😮‍💨) tests of it’s feathers, crop and droppings. Said it they looked clean, but the bird was very dehydrated and exhausted. Mouth filled with dirt or soil. Completely blind, likely glaucoma he said. The eyes look swollen but clean. He gave me some pain medicine for an injured leg (the one stuck in the wire fench). I’ve posted the bird in local groups, but no one has contacted us. We will keep it if it survies, can live a good life and won’t get claimed. It’s still very groggy, not scared at all though. My son has been sitting with it, and offered some water in a little cap, which it has been drinking from. I bought some electrolytes at the vet to add in the water. I’ve put it in our late cat’s carrier for now. It eats lot, and drinks when the water is offered.

Can a blind cockatiel live a good life? Any advices or experience with this? Was referred to this page, as they said it was for special needs birds.
And can you visually or otherwise sex these birds? My son calls it Little Dino for now.

Thank you.

I genuinely feel awful writing this, and it’s not a generalisation, but I need it to be said.

Path of Titans is an amazing game in so many ways. The world is beautiful, the dinosaur mechanics are immersive and the potential for this MMO is enormous. But as a casual and newer player, the community experience has honestly been one of the worst I’ve had in gaming. And that’s saying much (multiplayer gaming behaviour is generally awful, but that’s not an excuse; it should never be an excuse for bullying).

PvP is totally fine. Hunting for food, territory fights between equals, survival, that’s part of the game. But there’s a difference between PvP and straight-up harassment. What exactly is “player versus player” when one side is a defenseless juvenile being chased by five apexes over and over and over? What’s the point of same species harassment, invited group-killing, waystone camping or targeting same people repeatedly across servers just to ruin their experience?

At first I liked the challenge, but some days (more than not now) the game feels genuinely unplayable. I can only imagined what it will be like after full release, if the moderation is not upped.
The bigger issue, is the behavior from parts of this community.

I introduced a friend to the game because she loves dinosaurs and has been struggling mentally for a long time. We only had Officials available at first (that’s the one new players join to get a taste of the game, and you get by default), so we spent weeks growing dinos there. We met some genuinely kind people and I want to acknowledge that, but over time the abuse became overwhelming.

I don’t know how many times I’ve seen players mocked, bullied or verbally attacked over simple questions in chat. I even started keeping global chat turned off most of the time, except to report the worst behavior. But turning chat off doesn’t stop the targeting or the behaviour. You still get followed, scouted, harassed by megapacks from the chat across the map.

The other day my friend was having a really hard time mentally, so I suggested we play together to distract her a bit. Big regret. Cause instead of fun and games, it turned into hours of harassment.

A group of apexes and a Hatz kept killing her juvenile repeatedly. Even when she changed character, they kept targeting her, just for the sake of it. We changed server and one hatz player literally followed me around to watch me waystone her, just so their friends could come out and kill her the second she spawned in. We switched servers back as that was the quieter server (less player), same thing happened with the first group and some new one.

I had to step away for about 15 minutes. When I came back, my friend had logged off. I scrolled through the chat and honestly couldn’t believe what I was reading.
She had been told to k*** herself. Called trash, useless, a “crying loser,” and told to “go play Roblox.” She stayed polite the entire time, asking them to please stop targeting her all the time, and if she could join their group (with me) instead, but they “didn’t want n00b” losers. Other random players unrelated to the grpup jumped in with “stop crying” and “waaa waaaa you’re just a loser”. Eventually she just said she was trying to quest and group, and that even if people disagreed and wanted to kill her at sight, they could still be kind to each other when politely asked why, or if they can leave her be now. She mentioned she struggles with depression and was going offline because the situation was making her feel worse.

The response?

“Trash trash trash.”
“Broken bitch.”
“Drink bleach.”
“Hahaha cryer.”

And more.

Today she’s been admitted after relapsing again.

No, I’m not saying a game alone causes that. But no human being deserves to be treated like that over a dinosaur game. Ever.

And before people reply with “that’s just online gaming”, no. Normalizing cruelty doesn’t make it acceptable. Gaming culture is not an excuse for treating people like garbage. What is the world becoming? You can PvP without being abusive.
You can kill other players without humiliating and harassing them. You can compete without telling vulnerable people to hurt themselves.

What kind of community are we trying to build here? What kind of example are we setting for younger players coming into these spaces?

Honestly, I’m close to quitting. And that’s such a shame, because the game itself deserves better than this. I know I could just join a community server, but that doesn’t change the main issue here. It just leave it open for others to endure.
The worst part is that decent players keep leaving quietly while toxic behavior keeps getting excused as “just part of the game.” If nobody speaks up about it, nothing changes.

People are human beings behind these screens. Every single one of them is dealing with something.

Being kind, please, it really is not that hard.

My son found a blind cockatiel.

Bullying in the game.