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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Skype has just signed a co-marketing deal with iSkoot, a company which makes a program of the same name which allows Java-enabled mobile phones and smartphones to use the voice capabilities of Skype. iSkoot gives you full access to your Skype contacts as well as regular phone numbers via SkypeOut. Though using iSkoot still uses you minutes, if you use Skype a lot or make international calls, iSkoot could be pretty cost-effective. It's currently free but the web site seems to hint that it will eventually be a subscription service. PC World and MobHappy have more details.
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enzo said 7:15PM on 8-10-2006
but since skype is free until the end of the year...
free outward calls anytime until december 31st.
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yaya said 1:09PM on 8-11-2006
Can we stop putting a lower case I in front of all our brand names? It is really starting to get lame.
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Jeremy said 11:16PM on 9-05-2006
Iskoot is ok. But Vox for Skype seems even better. I wanted to share with you this new app showcased on Skype extra galery. It called Vox for Skype. Apparently it works on all mobile phone (unlike eqo).it's free and easy to set-up.
It's launched on September 11th but you can get an early bird notification. I'm curious to compare Voxlib to iskoot. Please let us know what you think once it's launched.
Thanks
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