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Lost Aliens - Today's Time Waster

Lost AliensHere's a weird one: In Lost Aliens your goal is to get all of the aliens to the bullseye. If you click on an alien, it'll move one space to the right, and if there's another alien next to it, it'll leapfrog over it. However, if an alien lands on the blue crystal it's stuck. To get it unstuck, you have to click on the pyramid, but this will only work if another alien, who will out some sort of pulse to free it, is next to it. Other obstacles appear on the way, making this Flash puzzler addictive and challenging, not to mention bizarre.

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

Average Shoveler: 8-bit headline zen - Today's Time Waster

Average ShovelerThere's a lot of things you can do with RSS headlines, but this isn't one I had thought of: Average Shoveler is a Flash toy with old school adventure game-style graphics. You control a character who can do three things: walk around, shovel snow and talk to passers-by. The passers-by will tell give you news (scraped from Yahoo! News) and when you shovel the snow, news photos will appear. Occasionally large chunks of snow will fall and photos will fly inall directions (try not to be under those when they fall, though). There's really no object to the game, other than to shovel snow, learn about current events, and explore. Eventually, though, the snow will win.

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

War of the Hell - Today's Time Waster

War of the HellTo call War of the Hell bizarre would be an understatement, as would calling it addicting. The object of this Japanese Java game is to capture the flailing stick figures with the rope that dangles from your cursor and drag them from the ground—hell, presumably—up the the top of the screen—heaven. Unfortunately for you it's a bit like capturing epileptic geese with fly paper. The object is to get as many people to heaven as possible, in as large groups as you can, but as with yesterday's time waster there's no real end to the game, but War of the Hell is strangely entertaining throughout.


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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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