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Profile Post by Sabby for Fork, Mar 11, 2012

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So I got my first job as a sound designer today.

Hey congrats!!!!! <3 MAKE ME PROUD

Post by: Sabby, Mar 10, 2012 in forum: The Spam Zone

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My msn wards off people who can possibly be mean to me. It protects me that way

My msn wards off people who can possibly be mean to me. It protects me that way

Profile Post by Sabby for Llave, Mar 9, 2012

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Post Your Picture Here 9 - Scandalous Edition!

Jane Shepard said: ↑

sistuhs
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I love you and your dog! <3

Post by: Sabby, Mar 8, 2012 in forum: The Playground

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Kingdom Hearts 3D: New Screens Feat. Link Portal, Dive Mode, and Training Toys

New updates for the upcoming release of KH 3D on March 29th.
Famitsu released new screens for different modes for the game and a few extra screens of the game is always handy.

Here are brief descriptions of the modes:

Dive Mode
Dive Mode is the name for the mode of play you enter when moving to a new world. As you fall into the world, you must defeat enemies and collect prizes. Clear a certain score, and you'll enter the next world.
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Link Portal
You'll find Link Portals here and there in the areas of play. There are two types: Battle Portals and Friend Portals.

Battle Portals put you up against a particular Dream Eater. Defeat the Dream Eater, and you'll get the materials required for creating it as a partner Dream Eater character.

Friend Portals adds a Dream Eater to your battle party for a temporary time.
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Training Toys
Among the various ways to build up your Dream Eaters, you can use the stylus to pet and poke at them. This will build up Link Points, which you use to acquire new abilities, and experience.
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Here a couple more screens:

View more at Andriasang.

Source: Andriasang

Thread by: Sabby, Mar 8, 2012, 14 replies, in forum: Kingdom Hearts News & Updates

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omg i want a corgi so bad

Steal reptar's dog.

Post by: Sabby, Mar 8, 2012 in forum: The Spam Zone

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I want a Custom Usertitle too!

Llave de Espada said: ↑

I want mine to be Tea Party Princess. Make it happen. B|
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Oh hey look... a ban button.

Post by: Sabby, Mar 8, 2012 in forum: The Spam Zone

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Llave!

Llave de Espada said: ↑

Y u no let thread die?! D:
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just to show how silly you people are. BTW you guys all got beat by Kitty xD

Post by: Sabby, Mar 7, 2012 in forum: The Spam Zone

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Llave!

Meanwhile, questioning people's sanity.

Post by: Sabby, Mar 7, 2012 in forum: The Spam Zone

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Kony 2012

Well my best friend linked me on this, I'm on the fence again

We got trouble.

For those asking what you can do to help, please link to visiblechildren.tumblr.com wherever you see KONY 2012 posts. And tweet a link to this page to famous people on Twitter who are talking about KONY 2012!

I do not doubt for a second that those involved in KONY 2012 have great intentions, nor do I doubt for a second that Joseph Kony is a very evil man. But despite this, I’m strongly opposed to the KONY 2012 campaign.

KONY 2012 is the product of a group called Invisible Children, a controversial activist group and not-for-profit. They’ve released 11 films, most with an accompanying bracelet colour (KONY 2012 is fittingly red), all of which focus on Joseph Kony. When we buy merch from them, when we link to their video, when we put up posters linking to their website, we support the organization. I don’t think that’s a good thing, and I’m not alone.

Invisible Children has been condemned time and time again. As a registered not-for-profit, its finances are public. Last year, the organization spent $8,676,614. Only 32% went to direct services (page 6), with much of the rest going to staff salaries, travel and transport, and film production. This is far from ideal, and Charity Navigator rates their accountability 2/4 stars because they haven’t had their finances externally audited. But it goes way deeper than that.

The group is in favour of direct military intervention, and their money supports the Ugandan government’s army and various other military forces. Here’s a photo of the founders of Invisible Children posing with weapons and personnel of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army. Both the Ugandan army and Sudan People’s Liberation Army are riddled with accusations of rape and looting, but Invisible Children defends them, arguing that the Ugandan army is “better equipped than that of any of the other affected countries”, although Kony is no longer active in Uganda and hasn’t been since 2006 by their own admission. These books each refer to the rape and sexual assault that are perennial issues with the UPDF, the military group Invisible Children is defending.

Still, the bulk of Invisible Children’s spending isn’t on supporting African militias, but on awareness and filmmaking. Which can be great, except that Foreign Affairs has claimed that Invisible Children (among others) “manipulates facts for strategic purposes, exaggerating the scale of LRA abductions and murders and emphasizing the LRA’s use of innocent children as soldiers, and portraying Kony — a brutal man, to be sure — as uniquely awful, a Kurtz-like embodiment of evil.” He’s certainly evil, but exaggeration and manipulation to capture the public eye is unproductive, unprofessional and dishonest.

As Chris Blattman, a political scientist at Yale, writes on the topic of IC’s programming, “There’s also something inherently misleading, naive, maybe even dangerous, about the idea of rescuing children or saving of Africa. […] It hints uncomfortably of the White Man’s Burden. Worse, sometimes it does more than hint. The savior attitude is pervasive in advocacy, and it inevitably shapes programming. Usually misconceived programming.”

Still, Kony’s a bad guy, and he’s been around a while. Which is why the US has been involved in stopping him for years. U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has sent multiple missions to capture or kill Kony over the years. And they’ve failed time and time again, each provoking a ferocious response and increased retaliative slaughter. The issue with taking out a man who uses a child army is that his bodyguards are children. Any effort to capture or kill him will almost certainly result in many children’s deaths, an impact that needs to be minimized as much as possible. Each attempt brings more retaliation. And yet Invisible Children supports military intervention. Kony has been involved in peace talks in the past, which have fallen through. But Invisible Children is now focusing on military intervention.

Military intervention may or may not be the right idea, but people supporting KONY 2012 probably don’t realize they’re supporting the Ugandan military who are themselves raping and looting away. If people know this and still support Invisible Children because they feel it’s the best solution based on their knowledge and research, I have no issue with that. But I don’t think most people are in that position, and that’s a problem.

Is awareness good? Yes. But these problems are highly complex, not one-dimensional and, frankly, aren’t of the nature that can be solved by postering, film-making and changing your Facebook profile picture, as hard as that is to swallow. Giving your money and public support to Invisible Children so they can spend it on supporting ill-advised violent intervention and movie #12 isn’t helping. Do I have a better answer? No, I don’t, but that doesn’t mean that you should support KONY 2012 just because it’s something. Something isn’t always better than nothing. Sometimes it’s worse.

If you want to write to your Member of Parliament or your Senator or the President or the Prime Minister, by all means, go ahead. If you want to post about Joseph Kony’s crimes on Facebook, go ahead. But let’s keep it about Joseph Kony, not KONY 2012.

~ Grant Oyston, visiblechildren@grantoyston.com

Grant Oyston is a sociology and political science student at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada. You can help spread the word about this by linking to his blog at visiblechildren.tumblr.com anywhere you see posts about KONY 2012.
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http://visiblechildren.tumblr.com/post/18890947431/we-got-trouble

Post by: Sabby, Mar 7, 2012 in forum: Current Events

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Kony 2012

I don't understand why people get annoyed with. I had to respond to people on facebook.

I can understand if it becomes annoying to people but like I think it's how we get **** done.. when more people know about it and "share, like, respond" then it's going to fill up your news feed, twitter feed, tumblr feed. It's how it works.. it's how everything has been done. Honestly.. some things wouldn't have been even considered if there weren't a ton of people supporting it.
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Isn't that what everyone says? "It's not the only problem out there" There are tons of problems in the world but it doesn't mean we ignore it. Yes we are caring about this situation at this moment, at this time but doesn't mean we've lost interest in allowing gay marriages all over the world, doesn't mean we forget about poverty. It doesn't mean we forget everything else that is happening all over the world. There are still bad things happening to people, but we can do so much at a time. It's these groups that want to do something, and that is how they get support is because a vision of a better world. It would be wonderful if all the bad problems of the world disappeared just with a click of a button but it takes time.
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Post by: Sabby, Mar 7, 2012 in forum: Current Events

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Imitate this!

lol why can't you pick something easier like you and a guitar? XD THERE ARE NO WAX FIGURES NEAR ME

Post by: Sabby, Mar 6, 2012 in forum: The Playground

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Sabby needs a lover - Apply within.

I pick....

the one guy

Post by: Sabby, Mar 6, 2012 in forum: The Playground

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That depressing moment,

The happiest moment when you lend your GBA to a friend and they get robbed but the thieves didnt take the GBA

Post by: Sabby, Mar 6, 2012 in forum: The Spam Zone

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Happy Birthday Mixt!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIXT!!!!!

You are 20 years old!!!!!!

Thread by: Sabby, Mar 6, 2012, 17 replies, in forum: The Spam Zone

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Hello. How are you?

Hello. How are you?

Profile Post by Sabby for da johnstir, Mar 5, 2012

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Hey Jayn, I'm coming for you

Takyubey said: ↑

Claw, Sabby, Jayn

That's gonna be hella awkward when it comes time for a Christmas date.

gl fork
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claw always wins

Post by: Sabby, Mar 5, 2012 in forum: The Spam Zone

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Hey Jayn, I'm coming for you

Jayn said: ↑

I know. <3

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but... he's actually mine lol

Post by: Sabby, Mar 5, 2012 in forum: The Spam Zone

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Hey Jayn, I'm coming for you

Vivi's Dark Side said: ↑

Titles like this don't help the rumours y'know.
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I agree. lol

Post by: Sabby, Mar 5, 2012 in forum: The Spam Zone

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<3 thankss. lol seems like most of my brothers are gone to protect me.

<3 thankss. lol seems like most of my brothers are gone to protect me.

Profile Post by Sabby for Jiηx, Mar 4, 2012