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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SlingBox owners are usually pretty happy with the performance and options offered by the SlingBox. Now, at CES (where else) the makers of SlingBox are introducing a new device, called the SlingCatcher, which does basically the opposite of the SlingBox. SlingCatcher allows your PC (and more importantly its content) to interface with your TV. I am not sure I would want to see YouTube clips on a big, HDTV, since YouTube is generally not very HD-friendly, but it is darn cool anyhow. You can get the whole scoop over at GigaOM, but the prospects are enticing. The computerized living room is getting that much closer.
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lilpunk1302 said 9:41PM on 1-07-2007
well...I guess it's a good idea but don't most hdtv's already have a vga in? our LG does, and I've seen a few more that do, so yeah, I guess it could work for people without a hdtv, but yeah...
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Matt W. said 9:41PM on 1-07-2007
YouTube probably wouldn't be a good idea, but this sounds tailor-made for that Azureus spin-off Zudeo -- mentioned on Download Squad here:
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/12/04/zudeo-azureus-does-video-sharing/
I've never used it, but they're marketing it as a tool for distributing HD content:
http://www.zudeo.com/az-web/app
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/software/0,72223-0.html
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pinguy said 3:41PM on 1-22-2007
It's a nice to be able to watch youtube and google videos on a nice big tv but as you said these youtube videos are not very HD-friendly there is no need to connect it to your tv using a HDMI, and as the SlingCatcher is going to cost about $200 or less wouldn't be a lot better to get a Nintendo Wii? as a wii can surf the web with the fine-tuned Opera browser and can play flash so youtube videos will play fine on the wii.
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