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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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Becca said 2:11PM on 9-08-2006
Honestly, the news feeds are just downright annoying. I liked logging in to a very simple home page, and now it's just filled with weird things like someone changing one music preference. I don't need to be informed of that.
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Fuzz said 2:50PM on 9-08-2006
Amen, i wanna turn it completly off.
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Craig Smikle said 9:58PM on 9-08-2006
I was more for the positive aspects of the Feed than the negative, but I waited for the smart Facebook heads would come out quickly with a solution. This dissapointed me. Users' control is still lacking.. For example note 'Events you attend' are still going to get shown regardless, though so many people had a problem with this. You can choose for stuff you remove from your profile to not be shown, but not certain things you add?
The Feed was a great idea, but Facebook needs to do their homework on how humans really use Facebook. It's difficult to navigate, and it's hard to blame them thoroughly when users had a false sense of privacy and many of them are really just overreacting from the overwhelming information overload.. but they need to do better than >this apology
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Padriac said 2:55AM on 9-09-2006
Facebook: here's a great tool that puts all the information we were already offering our users in one, nice, convenient place.
Facebook users; you have made it impossible to maintain a false sense of security! Let us back into our nice, safe fantasy land!
I've said it before and I'll say it again: college kids are idiots. If I were on of the facebook programmers I would be bashing my head on the table over how stupid everyone is acting. If you are afraid of people knowing too much about you don't put a page on the internet that lets everyone know everything you do. All facebook did was make the information you CHOSE to put on the internet, information that was ALREADY on the internet might I add, easier to find. They were doing their job. Not being an idiot is the responsibility of the user.
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