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.
Advertise with Download Squad. (Learn more)
| # | Blogger | Posts | Cmts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brad Linder | 69 | 8 |
| 2 | Lee Mathews | 60 | 30 |
| 3 | Jay Hathaway | 56 | 14 |
| 4 | Jason Clarke | 12 | 0 |
| 5 | Christina Clark | 7 | 5 |
| 6 | Nik Fletcher | 7 | 0 |
| 7 | Christina Warren | 5 | 5 |
| 8 | Victor Agreda, Jr. | 3 | 5 |
| 9 | Adam Maras | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | Grant Robertson | 2 | 5 |
| 11 | Dolores Parker | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | Todd Ritter | 1 | 1 |
IM openoffice.org-3.0 google burning firefox dvd twitter open-source iPhone windows-mobile music windows-xp Gmail gaming android pdc2008 online-video Windows7 video GoogleMaps youtube Election2008 search time-waster windows-7 office favorite-apps google-chrome news microsoft security email GTD backup add-ons windows xp portable browsers flash photos streaming yahoo text rss mccain audio linux game chat
All contents copyright © 2003-2008, Weblogs, Inc. All rights reserved
Download Squad is a member of the Weblogs, Inc. Network. Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, Notify AOL
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dan Bergen said 4:01AM on 7-19-2007
I would gather that there are actually people in the US using dial up by the fact that the dial up companies are still advertising for customers. Something is very wrong with that picture.
Perhaps it is that your educational standards have sunk so low that there is less demand. The OECD rankings seem to bear a close resemblance to international test score rankings.
Dan Bergen
Calgary, Alberta
Reply
Matt said 5:06AM on 7-19-2007
All right, is it April Fool's Day or something? In the states, I lived in a semi-rural community that had ZERO broadband capabilities when I left there 4 1/2 years ago. I have been living in Germany since that time and am amazed at all of the locations broadband is available here. While the country is not 100% covered, there are VERY few places where it is not available. I constantly check back to see if broadband is yet available where I moved from, and guess what? No changes in 4 1/2 years. While the community is growing, nobody seems to be interested in doing anything to update the infrastructure to provide the type of service "big city folk" are used to getting.
Sorry, but I just don't believe that anybody in the United States in the year 2007 should still only have the dial-up option. That is plain ridiculous.
Reply
john said 8:57AM on 7-19-2007
compaired to the rest of the world, hell yes we are.
Reply
GalileoAce said 9:50AM on 7-19-2007
In a strange way this actually makes me feel a bit better about the state of broadband in Australia. There are people who still think Dial-Up is a viable way to access the internet...And they're the people selling it!
The highest speed I can get in my area is 1500/256 (which I have) and cost about $90-$130 a month! F**k!
There has been alot of discussion about this in the political arena, with moving toward 12mpbs connection nation wide. I really hope they succeed.
Reply
Mark said 11:42AM on 7-19-2007
The US is behind becuase we were early adopters of things like electricity and telephones, especially on the east side of the country. This makes the infrastructure very old and not capable of handling the new tech.
Reply
James said 12:30PM on 7-19-2007
Compare the average population density of the US to that of Europe, or especially Japan. Most other "first-world" nations have a much, much higher density than we do -- Japan is something like 10 times as dense on average. That means broadband providers can reach 10 times as many customers per unit of infrastructure (roughly), which is why it's so lucrative to invest in fat pipes over there. We've got huge numbers of people in "flyover country" where localized population densities are so low that it may never make sense to run expensive cables.
Wireless broadband may make a bit more sense in places like this, but there are so many people in Europe and Asia that are well-served by cheap, efficient backbones in high-population areas that not as much time and effort has been spent on wireless as might otherwise have been the case. We're getting there, though, and when we start seeing broad WiBro/WiMax/whatever rollouts, the numbers may well change. Either that, or BPL (Broadband over Power Lines)...
Reply