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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Rumble said 8:13AM on 12-10-2007
I'm still waiting to come across an image editor for Linux with the simplicity and features of IrfanView without the extra tools in the GIMP that I don't need. Maybe the GIMP's UI overhaul will create a friendlier experience. I've run IrfanView in Wine, but it wasn't what I wanted.
Any (GNOME) suggestions?
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Brad Linder said 8:16AM on 12-10-2007
I'm actually in the same boat. I've been dabbling with Linux for years, but am just now starting to use it more consistently. One of the first things I wanted to install was a good program for viewing, resizing, cropping, and making simple program edits. While Ubuntu/Kubuntu both come with some basic image viewers, none are as powerful as Irfanview. And GIMP seemed to be a bit too complex for my needs.
I struggled to get Irfanview running with WINE and had all sorts of problems. Eventually I discovered that Irfanview 3.97 seemed to work better than newer versions, but by that time I'd kind of gotten used to GIMP. It really doesn't take up THAT much space, and while it takes a few seconds longer to load than Irfanview, the truth is there's nothing you can do with Irfanview that you can't also do with GIMP. And there's a whole lot more.
That said, if anyone knows of a good Irfanview clone for Linux/Ubuntu/Debian, please let us know.
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Alex M said 1:16PM on 12-10-2007
About time, I say!
I became a picasaweb user because I liked it better than flickr for sharing family photos, but that was back when I was a 100% windows user (ages ago!). Once I became 40% linux (WXP@work, xubuntu@home), I was pretty annoyed that picasa for linux didn't have the picasaweb integration.
So, all I'm saying is, nice update!
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james 42 said 7:06PM on 12-10-2007
I don't know Irfanview, but RawTherapee (http://www.rawtherapee.com) is a nice app for Windows and Linux that is like a lite-weight version of Lightroom.
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