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Hello all...

I have a bit of a problem. My two cats have fleas...

My cats are completely indoors, they've never been outside, so I have no idea where they got them from. Immediately after I discovered one flea on my cat, I sought advice from a petstore. I got flea tablets, tapeworm spot-on stuff (just in case), flea collars and some kind of incredibly hardcore pesticide.

I went home, vacuumed everything in the house, washed everything, gave my cats all the medication and put collars on them... washed all their bedding... followed every bit of advice given online and by the pet store...

a day later there were still active fleas on my cat!

So I repeated the dosage of flea tablets.

Today, there are STILL fleas on my cat!? Despite having had two doses of flea pills, the entire house fumigated, AND a flea collar on for days!

I'm at loss. Has anybody ever had a similar problem? I'm going to take my cat to the vet but the closest I can do that is on Wednesday, as I'm in London for the next two days. I have absolutely no idea how they could have survived my several intense waves of Flea Attack... the fucking... fuckers.

I haven't noticed any sign of fleas about the house (I've heard that in really bad attacks, you can spot 'em around the house...). I haven't had any bites or anything, either...

I know SOME of them died... I found a dead one in her collar...

Anybody got any advice, or know what I could be doing wrong here?

Additionally, the stuff I fumigated my house with has an ingredient which prevents fleas from reaching sexual maturity, apparently this ingredient is active for 12 months. Fleas only live a few weeks, right? So even if some of them somehow survived, maybe their children won't...

Thanks, Turbosquid was exactly what I was after. Thanks Scotch.

Hi guys,

I'm sure I've heard of places where you can download or buy ready made 3D objects (tables, chairs, lamps etc). The kind of thing I'm actually looking for is more fantasy-based stuff (crystal balls etc).

I don't really know what to look for though. I've tried googling unsuccessfully for "art packs" etc... does anyone have any recommendations?

I am also in a hurry as I need these for a deadline... whuups!

Hi guys,

I need to speak to someone with knowledge and experience in using a DS homebrew kit, and preferably with experience of making a game for DS. If anybody has such experience, could you drop me a PM so we can exchange MSN details and discuss it further? Do I remember Scotch saying he had experience? Anyway,

Thanks

Also for people who are suspicious about the children sleeping through the commotion:

Check out the latest video of Gerry giving a statement to the press. The boy is slung over his arm, sound asleep despite the racket and commotion going on around him

They MAY have been. Not "they murdered their little girl". People are jumping to conclusions and we can see that the evidence is sketchy... remember, most of what we know is speculation and what we've read from sensationalist newspapers.

To have jeered at Mrs McCann at that moment was an amazingly disgusting thing that has no excuse, because nobody knows for sure what happened on that night. It's very possible that those people jeered at an innocent woman, the victim of a horrific crime.

What I don't understand is that why, now after all these months of stubbornly staying in Portugal (except to go on awareness-raising shinanegins*), have they suddenly decided to come back to England... oh yeh I forgot... the police are onto them now and they wanna get as far away as possible.

They decided to come back to England long before they were made suspects, it has only been delayed by this new turn of events.

And to be honest, I could understand even if they HAD have decided now. Did everybody see the video of Mrs McCann walking to her interview, being jeered by the crowd? Absolutely disgusting behaviour, to jeer at the mother of a woman who has lost her child... nobody has any definite proof she did anything. Disgusting behaviour. They have no support out there, and are being treated like villains even though nobody has any proof... now the police line of enquiry has changed and they firmly believe madeleine is dead... I'm not surprised the McCann's want to return to England, where at least they have their family and friends and can try and move on from this.

Andail of course the human mind is an amazing thing, but accidentally killing your child while on holiday does not suddenly snap your mindset into that of a criminal mastermind.

Also consider: how did they hide a rotting, stinking body for 25 days, while being closely watched by the media and with people constantly searching the surrounding area and apartment? How did they hide it that well when it was an accident that they hadn't planned or accounted for? Unlikely.

Why take one child instead of three? Because it's easier to quietly take one child and keep her quiet and slip away with her, than it is to take an armful of children, try and keep your hands over all their mouths while you drag them all through a window...? Come on, "why didn't they take all the kids" is a ridiculous question to ask.


As for the children sleeping... that's unconfirmed speculation. But at the same time, my little sisters would sleep through a lot if they'd been having an exciting holiday all day, including swimming/tennis etc... and then been given Calpol (a perfectly legal drowsy medicine that children all over the world are given). So we can't be too sure about this. I admit it sounds a bit suspect, but at the same time I still stand firm in my belief that they're innocent... simply by the way they have reacted, and by the sheer impossibility of actually being able to pull it off (as I said, hiding a rotting body for 25 days is the thing that does it for me... impossible task).

Also, if they HAD given the child an overdose of some kind of sleeping pill or something, it would have taken a while to kill her. This makes it likely that the first time Kate DID notice her children dead was when she 'claims' to have noticed her missing. I also find it highly unlikely that her first reaction would not have been to scream for help when she realised something was wrong - Madeleine could not have been dead for long or else her fluids would have begun to leak out of her body and stain the sheets (and then it would be so obvious that she'd died in the apartment from an overdose, which could be sampled from the fluids on the mattress and sheets, that even the Portuguese police couldn't have missed it...

Assuming her child wasn't dead for long at this stage and still felt warm (as human bodies do for many hours after death), her first reaction wouldn't be to dispose of her daughter's still-warm body in an ingenious yet amazingly quick-thinking way.

I don't know. Whether or not they're great parents, went out and partied while their children were alone etc... I don't think people should let that cloud their judgement as to whether they're killers or not. From the circumstances alone it seems pretty clear to me that it would have been impossible for them to do.

I don't think trying to figure out who's farted in a room is comparable to trying to find your abducted daughter.

If the McCann's accidentally killed their daughter, I find it very unlikely that they would


1. be able to find a place to hide the body, that was not found by police, search dogs, searching people, and the media

2. be able to act completely normal at the dinner table with their friends, as though their daughter hadn't just died. This is particularly unlikely, given that it would almost definitely have been an accidental death... nobody can be completely calm and cool and collected after just accidentally murdering their own child. Even if they managed some kind of unbelievable act at the dinner table, there still would have been signs that for instance, Kate McCann had been crying before joining the table. Unless you really believe that someone who accidentally killed their daughter didn't shed a single tear of grief?

3. keep the body hidden for 25 days in the hot summer weather until they could move it with their hire car? Do you have any idea what happens to a body after 25 days in that kind of heat? Even if it was wrapped up extremely well, gasses would cause the body to bloat and probably burst/damage anything it was wrapped up in. Furthermore, it would absolutely stink. I once walked over a bridge with a dead body wrapped in black sacks underneath. It had only been there for two days but already the fairly cool Irish summer had caused the body to stink, making the entire area around reek of the unmistakable stench of rotting flesh. It was an unbearable, sickening smell... one that would be impossible to hide or cover up.

4. Assuming they somehow managed to do all of this, they then managed to sneak the body out of its hiding place and quietly dump it somewhere, and not get noticed by any of the watchful media!

5. keep and encourage the media whirlwind around themselves. This is not the behaviour of somebody with something to hide. It would have been perfectly easy to appear just as victimised while maintaining a much lower profile.




There's a lot of speculation about this DNA evidence they've apparently found... and the fact that there was the "scent of death" on Kate (not confirmed as far as I know, but for heavens sake the woman is a doctor! These dogs can detect the smell of corpses/blood from as long ago as, what was it... 7 years? I think it may be possible that a doctor could encounter a dead person in that time...)



What people say about the McCann's acting suspiciously by flying around europe... let's say you believe the theory that they accidentally killed her (I assume nobody thinks that it was a calculated murder in the middle of their holiday...) even if you did believe this, then there's still no reason that they would jet around europe, as you put it, to raise awareness of their daughter. These actions only show to me their determination to find their daughter. There was a real possibility at first (it seemed) that Madeleine may have been abducted and taken to foreign countries, and they were trying to raise awareness of her image so that people might recognise her. This, instead of sitting at home doing nothing. What's the problem with that?

Why do you find it suspicious that they would try to get their daughter back by raising awareness of her disappearance? Why do you think they'd find it advantageous to try and focus the attention of every single country on them, for even more people to scrutinise their every moment?

Finally, if you watch any interview or video of these people, you can see that they're people with nothing to hide. At no point have they shown signs of dishonesty, or fear of answering certain questions, or acted in any way suspicious.



In the face of all this apparent new evidence, I'm still quite certain that the McCann's are innocent. I think the arguments people have against them (How come Kate hasn't burst into tears on camera? How come they flew around Europe trying to raise awareness of their daughter? How come they haven't given up yet? How come Kate panicked the very moment she realised her daughter was missing? etc etc etc)... these arguments are all kind of lame and really, I think if people stand back and realise that these are people... parents of young children... not superhuman expert liars and calculated killers... they'll see that it would really be quite impossible for her parents to have "pulled this off".

In your head if you're imagining it like some kind of well-written murder mystery novel... yeah sure, the parents could be cold-blooded killers who laughed and dined as their first born daughter's body grew colder by the minute, expertly hidden by the mother, so well that nobody found it even though the area was combed...  until 25 days later when they smuggled the body to some genius burial ground... and all the while maintaining that they are victims and focusing as much of the worlds media attention on themselves as possible because they're trying to live out their dream of being famous...  I mean, that could be the plot of a story, sure. But it's actually not very likely. At all. Because really, human beings can't act like that unless they're clinically insane, and if someone was THAT insane then I reckon somebody would have noticed by now

I find it absolutely sickening that the vatican has removed all mention of the McCanns from their website. Whether or not it should have been up there in the first place is another story, but removing their support in the face of a twist in the investigation? Very, very cowardly.

Then why contribute to it, allowing it to survive?

I put it to you that if you *really* want to avoid useless threads a better course of action would be to PM the thread-starter. That keeps it nice and private. Instead, an off-topic discussion has been started which will enlarge the thread you disaprove of.

BTW, I don't think you saw my edit, I finished it just before you posted. Maybe you'd like to read it as well.

I totally cannot PM you. I think it has something to do with your name having " in it. I cannot be sure. But now I cannot PM you and that makes me sad. Is there some kind of secret other way to PM you?

Thanks, most people, the information in this thread has been very helpful.

Everything else has just been slightly irritating. Chill out everyone, it's an internet forum, not your entire social life. One would hope.

Have you ever considered opening google and doing your own research before making yet another 'Yufster's vague question of the day' thread?

I do quite often open google and doing my own research. However, sometimes it's nicer to have things explained to you by actual people who know what they're talking about, and who can answer your questions should you have them.

I'm quite surprised you have a problem with threads like this, considering that so many of the other threads on this forum are completely inane bullshit... if you really have a problem with me asking questions you should probably just avoid these threads, instead of trying to be all smart-ass and clever about it.

ok, I have a few questions.

First of all, I've come across a few sites where people seem to have taken midi files and then DONE SOMETHING to them that makes the midi instruments sound more like... real instruments. And then saved them as MP3s. How is this done?

Secondly, I'm looking for some software recommendations... I need something to mix together say, you know those short radio station jingles? Things like those. Preferably something nice and simple

And maybe some recording software too...

Any recommendations from you good AGSers?

I removed the bunny jumper one because it was too saucy.

Precisely, LRM

And I'm female, by the way.

You might recognise me from Develop Magazine August 2007 Issue, page 41:



I'm the woman in the light brown jumper-thing with Peter Molyneux coming out of my shoulder.

Note that the caption directly underneath me states that the article is about the BEST OF BRIGHTON...

Oh yeah, shit.
Oh well.

(really?)

It's a classic eventuality.

I'm trying to imitate the style of Monkey Island 2 backgrounds because it seems like good practice in case I ever have to suddenly make a Monkey Island game or something.

Ah, there are different palettes for each room... okay, I did not know that because I am a total amateur

Thanks very much!

I geuss I'll just have to grab each palette individually... bah humbug.

"nigger"

Just wondering... is it possible to get the Monkey Island 2 palette from somewhere? I tried using Scumm revisited to grab it from the game but it seems there's an individual palette for each room or something.

anybody have that palette?