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Onslaught - Today's Time Waster

OnslaughtIf you got addicted to Desktop Tower Defense, you'd probably better not read the rest of this post. Onslaught is another in a long line of tower defense games, but a darn good one. Where Desktop Tower Defense feels a bit constrained, Onslaught has a bit of a more organic feel to it.

The concept is the same - there are attacking "critters" that are trying to get past your defenses. Your job is to build defensive towers with varying abilities to stop the critters from advancing.

The graphics won't stun you, and many of the critters are hokey icons, for example the printer icon in the screenshot here. But if you can overlook that, the gameplay is strangely compelling. There are lots of ways to combine weapons and make something much more powerful, and the control mechanism is very easy to pick up.

Heed this warning: if you value your time, don't click through. If you do, you'll probably lose an hour or more before you know it.

Filed under: Fun, Games, Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity, Time-Wasters

Desktop Tower Defense: Time waster of the day

Time Waster Desktop Tower Defense

Time to protect your desktop, with Desktop Tower Defense! Set up your weapons in a gauntlet formation for your enemies, or creeps as the game calls them, to walk. Pictured above is easy mode, where the creeps walk from the left of the screen to the right. For every creep that makes it through the other side you will loose one life. As time progresses the creeps get more health, so you have to continually upgrade your weapons in order to increase their damage, range and speed (speed is usually decreased as the weapons level increases). If the game is going too slow for you, there is also a "Send next level" button that you can press to immediately send in the next group of creeps.

Once you have mastered easy mode, there are other challenging modes that you can attempt. In these modes, however, there are two streams of creeps coming in; one from the top of the screen, that will go to the bottom, and the same from the left of the screen. No matter where they come from they will always want to go to where they are supposed to go. And the one main rule is that you cannot block any paths. The more creeps you wipe out, the more gold you get, the more you can upgrade your weapons. How many bosses can you kill? I managed to take out the first 3 or 4 of them.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter 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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