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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I like email, I hate spam. Everyone does. I am also not fond of the fact that every website out there makes me register or sign-up even if I want to just do one thing on the site and be done with it. Spambox.us will give you a free temporary "Spambox" email address, that you specify how long to keep it open from an hour up to a year. Spambox is available in a lot of languages. All Spambox does is transparently forward any received emails to your real address until the box expires. I guess if you can't find logon info for a certain site on BugMeNot.com, Spambox is ready to be your go-to guy.
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Doug said 11:34PM on 9-11-2006
I actually really like the SpamMotel.com solution. I can keep them if I need to, or get rid of them and they are delivered to my regular email address until I dump them!
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Keith said 12:35AM on 9-12-2006
I highly recommend GishPuppy.
(http://www.gishpuppy.com/)
They have plug-ins for Firefox and IE that allow you to right-click on the email field to generate a site specific email address that you can keep as long as you wish and delete whenever you want.
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Keith said 1:15AM on 9-12-2006
I highly recommend GishPuppy.
(http://www.gishpuppy.com/)
They have plug-ins for Firefox and IE that allow you to right-click on the email field to generate a site specific email address that you can keep as long as you wish and delete whenever you want.
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Lamper said 5:21AM on 9-12-2006
Have to recommend mytrashmail.com, needs no preconfiguration. Just make up the address at the time and then goto mytrashmail.com and go to the box. Emails are for all to see or private boxes can be used if you register.
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franck said 5:37AM on 9-12-2006
In France we have http://www.jetable.org, which works very well.
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rob nickerson said 6:09AM on 9-12-2006
The sites I prefer are dodgeit.com for basic needs and pookmail.com for a little extra
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RacetrackOwner said 8:17AM on 9-12-2006
spamgourmet.com -- you can use their system without ever visiting the site after the initial sign-up. Free, easy. You control how many e-mails get through before they start blocking the forwards.
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ToddZ said 11:04AM on 9-12-2006
Another nice one-stop solution: I've been using http://www.Sneakemail.com for several years. It lets you maintain anonymous aliases and direct them at will to any of your real addresses. You can then filter mail by alias tags, monitor traffic levels to the various aliases, suspend or delete spam-vitimized addresses, etc.
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maria said 11:16AM on 9-12-2006
How about Mailinator.com? The only downside is you can't keep your temp inbox for more than 24 hours.
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Robert said 12:20PM on 9-12-2006
www.mailnull.com is my choice - free, EASY to set up, multiple addresses kept open as long as you need them (with comments and stats).
SpamMotel and Gishpuppy too complicated - looks like they require downloads to my PC.
Tried to sign up for sneakemail, but I waited forever and never got the comfirmation email??
Mailnator - one-time shot???
Spambox.us can't keep the address open long enough, either. I have several accounts that I WANT to keep open forever just to see who is sending to those addresses. (plus at mailnull, they actuallY LOOK like real addresses...)
Simple is better for this type of application.
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Robb Topolski said 2:54PM on 9-12-2006
Although it works differently, http://www.bugmenot.com is another alternative to registering on the site. There is also a Firefox extensions for Bugmenot at http://roachfiend.com/archives/2005/02/07/bugmenot/ to help automate the process.
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hatazzzz said 8:25AM on 2-01-2007
labas
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