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My friend lives in the middle of nowhere in the countryside. There's a cat roaming the area who eventually stuck around because his family feeds it dry food. That's about it though. The cat has never been named, taken to a vet, legally adopted, or spayed.

The cat got bit in the neck by a wild animal (probably a fox) years ago, and the wounded cat was just left like that. It took years for him to heal completely (even that was a miracle). The gash has recently reopened and my friend thinks it's being worsened by their dog (way better kept than the cat) because she licks it.

The cat looks well fed but that's about it. He's dirty, matted, and clearly doesn't clean himself. He still has the giant half scabbed over, half raw wound on his neck, where fur doesn't grow anymore and probably never will. I want to highlight that this wound has been there for years at this point and it looks like it may be getting worse now. I have known this cat for a while and see him very rarely but this last time I saw him it really worried me. These people don't take care of him and nobody that ever came on the farm (many, many friends) has ever been concerned enough for this poor animal to help him or call authorities. I took it upon myself to do so because I don't want to be responsible for his death and this time he may not be so lucky to miraculously heal.

I live in the EU which means cat shelters do not euthanize animals and our local cat shelter would take him in and cure him for free. The cat would 100% not come back though. I contacted a volunteer who told me to ask my friend if they could take the cat, but of course my friend said no. He really has no actual power over the cat though because he doesn't have ownership of it (which is better for him because atp this is animal abuse so he could get in legal trouble for it). So neither me nor another volunteer can go get the cat without encountering resistance. The house is surrounded by fields and I've only ever seen the cat on their property so IDK where else he hangs out that we could get him. The only other option is to call animal control and have it forcibly taken from them. My friend is going to hate me and he probably already does but it felt even worse to just send a stranger to forcibly take the cat away without telling him beforehand.

Am I doing the right thing here? I feel like I'm the only chance this kitty has to survive and live his last years somewhat comfortably...he's really sweet with people but I don't think he'll ever get adopted so he may have to live in the shelter with other cats (it's free roam, they're not in cages) for the rest of his life. Idk how he gets along with cats. Should I still try to go to his house and get the cat myself? Should I just go ahead and call animal control?

I want to make a vampires household. They don't necessarily have to pay rent or be actual roommates, I just want them to live together. I try to avoid downloading CC, so what are your favorite vampire themed cc free lots with more than 2 bedrooms?

I'm also looking for any cool downloadable vampire sims just so I have a base to start with. I'm wondering if you can download separate sims and 'merge' them into one household from the menu.

I have tried to do it so many times and it never works. I figured out you can get your teen sim to call one of their friends and "ask about college parties". Apparently that always gets a positive answer and the friend always invites you to a college party going on the same night (at least it happens 100% of the time for me.

Then you get a notification CONFIRMING your sim's acceptance of the event and telling you you can ask for permission or try to leave and hope no one catches you.

Asking for permission shows up as an interaction for the parents AND it even shows the animation of begging being played during the conversation. The parent always seems to agree to the teen going out but you don't get any notifications confirming this, and by nighttime it's literally impossible to sneak out.

The game acts like none of these interactions ever took place, and there is no way for your sim to sneak out at all. I've tried EVERYTHING: clicking on the EZ window (after making sure it works and my sim can climb out of it succesfully), clicking on the front door, clicking on the sim that has to sneak out, and clicking on the ground outside. I EVEN tried clicking on the ground outside of the property which normally gives different options and the option to sneak out is absolutely nowhere to be seen. This is kinda pissing me off at this point, especially since googling brings up posts from YEARS ago of people complaining about this exact thing and there being no solution. I'm honestly appalled at how unplayable this game is at times even when these packs have been out for years at this point. This is just one of countless issues I've encountered while playing the game....

I have a few hundred downloaded townies in my gallery, did the import tray thing in the settings to have 100% of townies be from my gallery, but I still see the default Maxis ones. Am i meant to also delete every household in the game for this to work?

it's so damn annoying. i literally can't listen to/watch anything with american women talking in it because it's like an epidemic over there. and the craziest thing is they don't even realize they're doing it!!! vocal fry makes you sound extra stupid when you speak and like you're trying reeeeaally hard to be cool jsyk.

every day i thank fate for putting me in europe in a country where people talk normally.

I know the exact way I developed misophonia and who caused me to develop it. For me it was a traumatic event during a very stressful time in my childhood. Do you remember when you first started being triggered? Do you think you would still have misophonia now if you were never in that situation?

I've been taking melatonin for 2 years, at first it helped me but now it just gives me really stressful nightmares...but it's the only way I'm able to sleep through the whole night. I used it to wake up feeling rested but now I wake up tired anyways and I feel like I'm getting horrible sleep. My sleep schedule is so bad now because I'm sleeping in every day to catch up on the sleep I lose during the night.

Not taking melatonin forces my body to wake up at 6am or so every day. It's actually kinda crazy how my body knows exactly when it's 6am and automatically wakes me up. I haven't had to wake up at 6am since I was in high school so there's no way it's force of habit either.

The worst part is as soon as I wake up I am fully awake. Like 100% can do math problems awake. I know I haven't gotten enough sleep yet but no matter what I can't make my body fall back asleep... I already tried all the meditation stuff too but my mind is just racing at that point.

I'm so desperate to get a good night's sleep and on top of everything I'm a really light sleeper too. Any advice?

i just got an old stereo for music and im trying to connect it to my phone through an aux-to USB-C adapter. the adapter works fine and my bf did the same thing successfully last night. he also has an android phone. when i connect my samsung A56 to it it gives me this error: "Analogue USB devices aren't supported" together with a notification that i can't click on or interact with. why?