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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DJ said 10:40AM on 8-31-2006
Ummm... wow, they stole the name and somewhat the general idea of the product that was in the movie "Antitrust". Interesting to see how it turns out.
Great movie, if you haven't seen it btw.
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blabla said 11:03AM on 8-31-2006
This business is a living organism. Multiplying constantly, surrounded by predators. There is no room for idle time or second guessing. New discoveries are made hourly, new ideas are ready to be devoured and redefined.
This business is binary; you are a one or a zero.
Alive or Dead!
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Jake said 2:20AM on 9-01-2006
Off the website:
"SynapseLife will initially contain eight web-based applications, all accessible for free."
Free is good, sounds nice, although I'd rather somehting like this more integrated with gmail...
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ZipperSeven said 9:22AM on 9-01-2006
Synapse will fully unite the global village!
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SynapseLife said 12:54AM on 10-08-2006
The SynapseLife Beta of 8 free web based applications was launched on October 5.
Users can now sign up for a free account at http://synapselife.com/
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