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I'm tiling  the bathroom, so I figure thats good enough for my lady.

I put down the cement board in my bathroom today (tiling in two weeks 'cause next week = Caribbean cruise).

Guys ... seriously.  I didn't say the neighbor ate the cat (several times I've said I doubt he did).

My point does have "weight" though because you drew the wrong conclusion from it.  If you want to relate my wolves/sheep analogy to Rick's situation it would be "if 20 cats were eaten in a year and 19 of them were eaten by this neighbor and 1 was by a dog it would be logical to think the neighbor did it".  The premise of my analogy was that the 'foul play' is confirmed, not just the suspicion of it.  It was based on Calin's "black/white crime ratio" argument anyway and not missing cats.

Again. Racial Profiling. Convicted VS the prejudged notion that this man eats cats because of his unfortunate cat-eating laws of his home country.

So you're saying that in ALL cases (strong/weak evidence doesn't matter) racial profiling should be avoided?  Cops, Investigators and Detectives should ignore all clues or ideas that they might draw based on race?  By that reasoning you'd agree that if a person from a society that eats humans moves into the neighborhood and people start vanishing they should just ignore the guy from the society that eats people 'cause, really, we wouldn't want to racially profile him?

Cop 1, "that guy comes from a society that eats people... but his skin is a different color than ours!"
Cop 2, "well then he couldn't have done it!"

The cat is missing, Rick suspects foul-play, he should investigate all angles; even if that includes a neighbor of a different skin color.  Logical.

It doesn't have to be a racist thing but now-a-days that's the first thing everybody immediately jumps to in some sense of ... what?  Enlightenment?  A need to seem cultural and wise?  What if the guy was from [cat-eating country] but was white?  His (white) American parents had moved to [cat eating country] and he was born/raised there and moved to the states later in life.  Would it be okay to consider him a suspect then?

I would like to point out that Rick never said the guy wasn't white.

It's racial (or at least cultural) profiling. Surely its the equivilent of blaming a black guy for a crime because on average the black population commits more crime that the white population (in the US at least).Remember Rick has no evidence (beyond tenuous circumstantial stuff) that his neighbour even eats cats, nevermind steals them from people so your rapist analogy falls down.

I've never understood how we have (in the modern world) let logic take a back seat to political correctness.  I can't speak for the "ratio" of the race of criminals in the U.S. but if a shepherd loses 20 sheep a year to wolves and 1 to coyote isn't it logical for him to conclude, when he loses a sheep, that it was a wolf that done it?  It's not species-racism or profiling ... it's law of averages and deductive reasoning.

I find my analogy completely valid.  The cops would be fired from the force if they overlooked the convicted rapist in the neighborhood as a suspect simply because they were afraid of being accused of profiling.

If the guy on the other side of the suspected neighbor was from a culture that revered cats and would never harm them, would it be "profiling" to rule him out as a suspect?  Of course not (though I'd probably investigate him anyway but I don't trust anybody (white, black, red, green, yellow, blue, orange or wolf)).

Circumstantial evidence is still evidence.  It warrants looking into (if Rick suspects foul-play).  I'm not there.  I don't know the neighbor or the past situations.  But I "know" Rick and he wouldn't have posted this if he didn't have reason to suspect it.  In light of that I feel he's justified in investigating this neighbor further.

Still, I'm just arguing the point that it's valid to investigate this guy.  Personally (as I've said a few times already) I doubt this guy had a part.  I find it more likely, if foul-play was committed, that it was some little punk in the neighborhood just being a little punk (race of "punk" unspecified ... just to appease anybody who might think I meant a black kid).

Anyway ... this is getting off the topic of this thread and I apologize to Rick for my part in that.

Have you tried to contact the company directly to inquire about international shipping possibilities?  I have done this before with a company that didn't offer it on their website.  It was quite a bit more expensive, but they allowed it (just didn't through the website).

I dunno about legality issues (it's possible) but I find the former issue the most probable cause.

It's perfectly logical for Rick to consider his [country of origin] neighbor a suspect in this disappearance.  If a human being went missing ALL suspects would be considered, not just the ones that wouldn't offend somebody's racial or political sensitivities.  Tuqu is, based on Rick's emotional message, a member of the family and as such warrants as much attention as the search for a missing person.  This being the case it's logical to consider his neighbor from a cat-eating culture a suspect.  It's not fear mongering.  It's logical deduction.

Sure; cats wander off from time to time (as I and others have already stated and I find the most probable situation here) but that fact doesn't immediately exclude the possbility of foul play.  Rick isn't basing the subject or premise of this thread on whimsy or a knee-jerk reaction.  As always his post is extremely thorough and well thought out (if a tad more emotional than usual which, given the context, is understandable).  If he had said, "Man my neighbor is Chinese/Korean/Whatever and those people eat cats so I know he ate my cat" then I could justify calling it fear of "scary foreigners" but that's not what he said.  He shared his thoughts of his investigation into the disappearance of a family member and his conclusions/suspicions thus far.

Me personally?  I find it highly unlikely the this neighbor would have done such a horrible thing but that doesn't mean he didn't and should just be excluded as a potential suspect.

If a convicted rapist lived in the neighborhood, and a girl was raped in the same neighborhood, would you exclude the known rapist as a suspect simply 'cause he happened to be of a different race than the police detective?  No, because that would be stupid. 

A cat has gone missing and there's a neighbor in close proximity who not only hales from a culture that eat cats but has also raised some suspicions in the past.  It's logical to consider him a suspect.  Again before people go all PC on me I'm not saying the guy did it, I'm saying it warrants looking into.  If a family member of mine went missing I'd investigate EVERY possible lead and people's lame-ass sensitivities be damned.

All that aside ...

Rick?  Any word?

I haven't used the Genius ... but I have had/used several of the Wacom and found them all VERY good.

I'd vote for the Wacom for that reason

[guarantee]

A few years back (2007) I was dating this woman ... I ordered flowers for her from FTD over a week in advance for Valentine's Day.  I paid for overnight shipping to guarantee she'd get them on 14 February (you know, "use this shipping method to guarantee delivery on 14 Feb" blah blah blah).  They weren't delivered.  Nothing.  I called and demanded my money back (which the grudgingly gave).  Flash forward a few years (now) ... I haven't ordered from FTD since so I figured I'd give it another go since they were the only ones who had what I was looking for (those who know me know I loathe this useless holiday anyway but my lady would be upset if she didn't get something).

Well it's now 3:52pm (she leaves work in just over an hour) and I just got the "confirmation" email that the UPS depot has picked up the package for delivery.  In Texas.  Somehow I'm inclined to think they won't deliver those to Ft. Lauderdale in the next hour.  Once again, paid for over-night delivery to guarantee it would be delivered on time.  Not only that but they messed up the card (according to the confirmation email I got from them (the day AFTER I placed the order)).  The preview, while ordering and checking out, showed it as I typed it, but somewhere in the middle they managed to frak it up.

So in short, don't order from FTD.

It's bad enough I'm forced to capitulate to this farce of consumerism but then incompetent jack-asses make it worse by fucking up the only thing they do for a living.  Just another example of why this holiday blows a [insert animal of choice].

Not that anybody cares but I'm pretty sure I'm done with Minecraft. 

It has way too many problems, runs like shit on my machine (which it shouldn't), and if you post even the slightest bit of negativity on the minecraft forums (asking about the problem(s) or in ANY form of criticism) they just delete your post and ban your account/IP.  That's not how you run a "business". 

I also can't stand the hero-worship of this Notch guy.  He doesn't deserve it. 

I'd ask for my money back but I'm sure I'd never hear back from them on the request so I'm not even going to bother.

Shame really.  It's an incredible format/idea.  I'd like to see a competent developer re-create it (using a different name) so it actually works.  S/He'd make a fortune that's for sure.

Ponch!!  You need 2 [in game] screenshots!  Please update the first post.  Thanks.

I'm definitely interested (still bummed about Mittens/Wintermeet last year (and my lack of attendance))!

No dates are better/worse for me I just need to know them before I can say 100%.  My brother and I (and another pal) are doing a boy's week in Europe followed by another week with our special-lady-friends and it's lookin' September/October timeline so they shouldn't conflict!

Aside from deep-level CSS/design stuff if I write code (simple code mind you) and put together a nice little web page with it, when I go to the browsers to test it; it will look identical (and proper) in Firefox, Safari, Chrome and even Opera.  Then I test it in IE.  Almost without exception it will look like garbage in IE.  Margins will be off, padding will affect container widths, only <a> tags support the hover attribute (pathetic), the list of things just goes on and on...  Web developers have been harping on Microsoft for a DECADE to fix these issues and they just dig the hole deeper in their arrogant refusal to fix their browser.

The bottom line is that IE is simply worthless.  And needs to die.

I have come across a few things that differ between Firefox v Chrome (such as internal padding on the <button> class) that requires some hacking to make it look the same cross-browser, but they are little/minor things compared to the heaping and steaming pile of cow-dung that is IE.

Hey Rick,

There is some compelling evidence that I think warrants a little investigation (do some adventure game stuff as Snake suggested) on this neighbor.  While it might be okay in his original land to eat cats he doesn't live there anymore and needs to curtail such activities.  Even if it was okay to eat cats here you still don't cat-nap your neighbor's cat.  It'd be like takin' a cow from your neighbor's herd and making some cheeseburgers.  Sure we eat cow here but that doesn't make cow-napping proper.

However ... I want to pass along some positivity here.

Years ago a friend of mine's cat wandered off.  THREE MONTHS passed and they had moved on convinced AJ (the cat) had died and/or wasn't coming back.  They came home from school one day and AJ was chillin' on the front porch.  Came right in the house like nothing had happened and never wandered off like that again.  Also; just a few weeks back my sister's cat wandered off and was gone more than a week before coming home.

My point is that cats wander off.  They aren't "domesticated" in the strictest sense of the word.  They choose to cohabit with us measly humans.  So, it's only been [less than] a week.  I wouldn't give up hope just yet!  Tuqu might be having the cat version of Rumspringa and will find his way back home when he's sewed his oats and appeased his wander-lust!

I'm not a prayin' man but I'll send some positivity out into the 'verse for little Tuqu's safe return!

Hang in there man

As a stand-alone image I think this needs some work ... but when you see it with the animation it's much nicer!

Having said that Steve makes some good points for things that could punch it up quite a bit!

It's a great start so far!

Ahh yes, I see.  I knew you were smarter than that

The simple solution is stop using Internet Explorer.

It's a worthless browser that needs to die.  Microsoft continues to ignore the developer community that has been telling them FOR A DECADE to stop doing things their own way in get in line with standards but they refuse.

I no longer develop for IE.  I make stuff work in IE, but if a few little bells and whistles don't work I don't attempt a work-around.

IE sucks and people just need to stop using it.

Please post the screenshot via PM instead of in this thread!

Let me know when/if you get back to this game and we can unlock the topic.

That is a very cool site!

Usually, in my development files, I keep notes of all fonts, colors, etc.  But the PSDs folder (where I keep all of this) was lost.

It's my own fault really.  I should have made more frequent backups.

I went back to the dying hard-drive and was able to locate the font in the partially fragged fonts folder.  All good.

THANK YOU GOOD SIR!!

What kind of cookies do you like??

Greetings y'all.

I put together some mockups for a friend of the family quite a few months back.  He finally came back 'round wanting to pick up where we left off.

Here's the rub;

The development files were on my laptop; which blew up a few months ago.  I was able to hook up the laptop HD to my current rig and was able to get the mockups!  But not the development files  The PSD folder in the directory was kaput!  I have scoured the web, my hard-drive, the fonts directory on the laptop HD, and my sanity all to no avail.  I cannot remember the font I used.

That's where you, the good people of AGS, come in!

Here's the font:



If any of you recognize it and/or find it on the web I'd be eternally grateful!  I might even bake you some cookies (shouldn't they be called bakies?)

Anyway... thanks for any/all help!