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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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Fabulo said 1:01PM on 9-05-2006
This is all the RIAA doesn't want it to be: artists set the price, no middle man, direct distribution, no DRM.
Brilliant! (even if myspace sucks)
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esef said 2:01PM on 9-05-2006
this IS great on so many different levels! w/o sounding cliche', the label are not in control, and the artists can do whatever they want - release OLD tracks, release JUST finished tracks, release tracks everyone told them was crap, etc etc.
i envision a shift from LABELS to music PORTALs, i.e. communities based on a genre, where they filter out the crap, or make EVERYTHING available to the audience, or something in between; cut out the labels, cut out the online stores taking half the profit of sales, and focusing on promoting talent while supporting them w/ monetary compensation.
http://www.bijoubreaks.com
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enzo said 7:20PM on 9-05-2006
Internet killed the video star...
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