After spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.
It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.
Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.
Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.
Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.
Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.
This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.
If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.
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Peter said 6:38PM on 8-31-2006
This is a bit more government than seems necessary.
Next they will have stickers reminding us to brush our teeth and comb our hair.
It's really not that hard to set up a protected network, most people just don't care enough to do it. (Or they don't fully understand the risk.)
You can be sure every manufacturer will be choosing option 1 since they can just slap the stickers on the ones going to California.
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Phatman said 6:55PM on 8-31-2006
None of these seem unreasonable. The manufacturers should be doing something like this on their own without legislation. It's not like they are going to make it a crime for the customer to operate an open wireless access point.
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Bob Jones said 10:25PM on 8-31-2006
All sound reasonable and it is ultimatley for good.
I wouldn't want my 80 year old gran to get wireless internet, leave it open and be sued by the RIAA because of a bypasser with a laptop and Kazaa.
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Bill said 9:03AM on 9-01-2006
While none of those seems unreasonable, geez, more legislation? Wouldn't a security consortium work almost as well? It would probably cost the government (I mean us) less as well. What's next, force software makers to put stickers on all their software boxes warning about doing periodic updates for security reasons? Same thing, right?
Big government! Hey, how's that feel-good CAN-SPAM legislation from last year working for you?
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bryan said 4:22PM on 9-01-2006
The router that came with my broadband connection was set to broadcast wireless unprotected by defalt. I dont think this is unusual. So consumers with one PC, have no idea they are sharing thier internet connection with thier neighbors. Regardless, I dont think that this should involve the government. There are certainly more important things than unprotected wireless that need our tax dollars.
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S. Kirk said 7:05PM on 9-01-2006
No more laws!
Will door makers have to have an electronic warning go off if you forget to lock your door?
WiFi "stealing" is the biggest non-issue of the 21st century.
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