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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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AskTheAdmin said 1:37PM on 7-19-2007
We have been waiting for this one for a while now. Thanks downloadsqaud from your friends @ http://www.askTheAdmin.com (Free Tech Support For The Mases)
We just found your site but have been reading it habitually for a few days now. Keep up the great work!
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genom said 2:05PM on 7-19-2007
how to remove? Your gadget shows up 2 times on my igoogle. Can't move it, can't remove it. after a reload everything is back again.
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Matt Kruse said 2:24PM on 7-19-2007
Another option for skinning your iGoogle is to add my gadget:
http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/gadget/skin/skin.xml
The goal of this gadget is to allow for much more customization of the page and better use of available space, not necessarily just to add pretty pictures behind the iGoogle search bar.
My gadget offers many more options (at the moment) but right now doesn't offer the ability to add/read from a directory of gadgets. I intend to do this as well.
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Robert said 3:51PM on 7-19-2007
can someone explain the warning before you activate the module? something about giving the author access to the cookies and whatnot?
thanks!
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Matt Kruse said 9:38AM on 7-20-2007
The warning is because the gadget must be "inlined" meaning embedded on the page rather than in a separate iframe. So if the gadget contains javascript, for example, it could access your google cookies and even change them if it was programmed to do so. I know of no malicious gadgets to date, but it's possible, so Google warns you about it first. You can always look at the XML/JS/CSS of the gadget to verify for yourself that there is nothing bad in there.
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Jerry LeDoux said 5:15PM on 9-19-2007
My entire iGoogle home page is messed up in both IE7 and Firefox on two different computers. I'm thinking is got to be the skins gadget. I can't disable it though, since I have no button to close the gadget. I tried catching the original page before the skin loaded, but that doesn't work. I've got weird messages at the top of the page, the layout is gone, and the gadges have all loaded strangely. Help!!!!!!!!!!!!
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