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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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conedude13 said 10:18PM on 1-09-2007
That stinks. I guess it was only a matter of time before they started doing this though. Still a great site and service though, and I hope that the future state of the ads do not overtake the site.
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Theo said 2:05AM on 1-10-2007
If they can keep the number of audio ads limited then I really don't mind if they'll insert them between songs. This won't make me avoid Pandora's great service. I have discovered lots of great new music and I will keep on doing this with Pandora.
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Badger Gravling said 4:39AM on 1-10-2007
Every site needs funding from somewhere, and so far Pandora has just limited itself to homepage takeovers, which are pretty unobtrusive...
It depends how many adverts I encounter during a day as to whether it gets annoying
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Steve said 5:53AM on 1-10-2007
It's called revenue. If a service like Pandora is free the money has to be made somewhere. I think short, infrequent, NPR-style ads is a small price to pay.
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Rob said 9:55AM on 1-10-2007
Pandora is great, but I don't get to listen very much overall. When I do the web browser is in the background and I rarely see the adds they display. I completely understand the need for the audio adds, and as long as they are limited and not obnoxious I'm happy to hear them.
If you listen more and the ads bother you - sign up for the paid service that is add free.
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Bunz said 12:34PM on 1-11-2007
I'm an avide Pandora listener. They're doing the ad's right, they're not long, they're not over powering and it's not much to pay for using a free kick-ass service. Way better than Yahoo Launch.
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