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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lakiolen said 2:34PM on 9-13-2006
Or you could alternatively use TweakUI to disable those balloons as well as do many other useful things. And it is actually provided by Microsoft.
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Qwfwq said 3:34PM on 9-13-2006
I must be in those 1%, as most of the times I find the notifications helpful!
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dsfsdfsdf said 4:14PM on 9-13-2006
or you just click on the "X" once and the balloon never appears again.
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lakiolen said 4:51PM on 9-13-2006
@dsfsdfsdf
Why should one have to stop working to move the mouse potentially across the entire screen and back, or exiting a fullscreen app just to make some useless notification go away? There are also times when you wouldn't want them to appear in the first place, such as a presentation and the wifi notification.
Thank god Microsoft smartened up and made the notification fade out in Vista.
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Masrk O'Leary said 7:25AM on 9-14-2006
It's a really bad idea to disable the balloons if you actually make use of secure wireless networks. The XP 802.1X wireless client uses a balloon at a key point in the connection process for user input. With balloons disabled, this just hangs and you can't get any further.
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Elias said 12:23PM on 9-14-2006
I wish the balloons were more like growl notifications. I hate the fact that they stay there forever until dismissed. I also hate that you can't have more than one balloon at a time. Meaning, if there are 3 notifications, you get them in succession after you dismiss the previous one. It's really annoying.
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noballoons said 12:33PM on 11-17-2006
Balloons are bullshit.
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