Comments on: GTFO noob

GTFO noob

CrunchyFrog — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:42:02 -0800

Magical dragon-faeries? Flaxen-hair'd elflords? Dank scary dungeons, reminiscent of Grandpa's basement? Kids' stuff. Whether you're a Camwhore, Emo Kid, or Troll, Forumwarz everything relevant about the Internet (i.e., Forums and IM) distilled down to a browser-based RPG. Buy warez from shady Russian dealers, upgrade your hacking/whining skills, pwn total strangers by crashing their web sites, and join or fight a shadowy government conspiracy. You have nothing to lose but your dignity.

By: wires

wires — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:01:02 -0800

Playing right now. Great concept, will see if it lives up to it.

By: DU

DU — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:12:42 -0800

NSFW, I assume.

By: wires

wires — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:14:44 -0800

Yep. Its fun.

By: bacteria

bacteria — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:42:21 -0800

I pwned the Denture Chat forums.

By: robinw

robinw — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:43:37 -0800

Nice, we made it onto mefi! In case anyone wants me to answer any questions I'm one of the creators of the game. There's also an article about us Digital Journal, if you guys, you know, prefer reading an article to actually playing the game :P

By: robinw

robinw — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:48:24 -0800

edit: article about us on digital journal. Also to asnwer your question DU: There are no nude or graphically violent images in the game, but the text is certainly NSFW.

By: notmydesk

notmydesk — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:54:11 -0800

Plus, the huge picture of a chick in a bikini right on the front page.

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:04:58 -0800

notmydesk: "Plus, the huge picture of a chick in a bikini right on the front page." It wouldn't be a faithful recreation of the internet without it, desk.

By: the dief

the dief — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:09:48 -0800

Does "No nude or graphically violent images" mean that the chalk drawing of a naked hermaphrodite in the tutorial mission isn't NSFW? Dude.

By: robinw

robinw — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:14:11 -0800

the dief: hahaha, honestly I totally forgot about that hemaphrodite drawing. Guilty as charged. The game is probably NSFW, but (unless you play the camwhore class) you're not going to see much at all. Like I said the text is incredibly NSFW, so use your own discretion as to whether or not you want to play it in the office.

By: the dief

the dief — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:19:06 -0800

Oh, I'm playing all right. So far there's wicked potential here.

By: the dief

the dief — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:25:36 -0800

OK, yes, Klan Metafilter in the house, mmhmm?

By: bookwo3107

bookwo3107 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:53:41 -0800

The NPCs have brilliant dialogue. Way to go robinw, I'm not working again for the rest of the week.

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:09:59 -0800

Pretty funny stuff, albeit sure to offend a few. NFSW is a fairly meaningless label, regardless. I wish the game could expand into "real" internet forums, but maybe it can and I can't find it yet. It seems entirely self-contained. It's like the opposite of PMOG. I'm in for a MeFi klan if someone creates one ... same nickname for me.

By: nihraguk

nihraguk — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:41:19 -0800

Klan Metafilter created, and mrgrimm invited. Any other Mefites playing, pm me for an invite.

By: Cat Pie Hurts

Cat Pie Hurts — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:48:09 -0800

I very nearly blew water out of my nose. Damn you Dwarf Orgy!

By: robinw

robinw — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:05:07 -0800

bookwo3107: Thanks although our writer, Jalapeno Bootyhole is probably more responsible for your laughs than I was :) Cat Pie Hurts: I'm glad that the effort I put into coding that ascii text animation in javascript was worth it.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:15:40 -0800

this is really excellent although the server looks a bit borked right now.

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:23:04 -0800

I'm in, as a camwhore, natch. Dude, you've got way too much cred. I'm guessing you're not @ work ...

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:18:08 -0800

Ok I'm a total noob. I can see the mefi clan in mrgrimm's link, how do I join?

By: robinw

robinw — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:27:49 -0800

Right now there's no mechanism to request admittance into a Klan, so you have to tubmail the person responsible.

By: danb

danb — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:44:20 -0800

This is goddamn hilarious.

By: digibri

digibri — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:04:44 -0800

robinw: How do you tubmail someone in game? When I create a new tubmail, I get a dropdown list with only "myself" for the To: field.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:08:24 -0800

I'm guessing you need to make a friend request and get accepted before you can tubmail someone?

By: digibri

digibri — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:15:07 -0800

Ah, I think that's it. Thanks juv3nal. Additionally, if you edit your profile you can enable these 3 options: -Enable my public Profile -Show my friends list on my Profile -Enable my Stall I believe that the "Stall" is their implementation of Facebook's "Wall".

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:19:54 -0800

Also: Blue troll needs moar turns badly. How am I supposed to avoid working all day with only 5 measly forum visits?

By: Justinian

Justinian — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:27:23 -0800

I have pwned a couple forums and engaged in cybersex with an old man. Yay me?

By: robinw

robinw — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:00:36 -0800

juv3nal: There was a way to tubmail someone without being their friend before but it wasn't straightforward. It's now a lot easier, and there's a link on the top of every Klan page to make joining easier too.

By: saturnine

saturnine — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:41:47 -0800

Man, this game is fun! I need more forum turns though.

By: nihraguk

nihraguk — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:30:32 -0800

The Klan is swelling by the minute! (or so.)

By: Justinian

Justinian — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:55:03 -0800

Our klan needs more camwhores. Send pics.

By: Skorgu

Skorgu — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:19:54 -0800

This is surprisingly entertaining. I actually like the forum visit limit, keeps it interesting.

By: [son] QUAALUDE

[son] QUAALUDE — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:33:20 -0800

OMG how did I miss this FPP? *sweet* just like real life! so for teh mefi clan, i'd be {mefi}[son] QUAALUDE?? Jus call me kid ascii soup

By: [son] QUAALUDE

[son] QUAALUDE — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:46:26 -0800

lvl 1 Re-re, my only attacks are drooling and banging my head on the keys ITS SO REAL

By: Justinian

Justinian — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:20:36 -0800

Yeah, I gained the power of fapping.

By: imperium

imperium — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:28:20 -0800

OK, this shouldn't be so funny, what with "killing threads" being so distressing in real life, but it's exceptionally well implemented. Hats off. And keep on fappin'!

By: jaduncan

jaduncan — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:03:01 -0800

"We have interrupted your regularly scheduled m*sturbatory session for this important lesson!" This amused me hugely.

By: Reggie Knoble

Reggie Knoble — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:50:57 -0800

Loving this game, would like more turns though

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:23:07 -0800

This is way more fun and amusing than it has any right to be.

By: Justinian

Justinian — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:58:50 -0800

I love the text adventure mini-game but I wish it was longer. I did get 11 points.

By: jragon

jragon — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:17:32 -0800

This is the greatest ethics policy of all time: http://www.forumwarz.com/about/ethics

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:51:11 -0800

If you're joining late, mrgrimm linked the metafilter klan page above. Although it's awkward, it does work on my ipod touch.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:05:37 -0800

[spoiler] Grrr. The fuzz wants $1000 from me to restore my sTalk contacts. I barely make enough from forum raiding to finance the drugs needed to raid more forums. Is there any way around paying them off? There ought to be a way to sign up to be an astroturfing operative or a spammer to make some more $. [/spoiler]

By: CrunchyFrog

CrunchyFrog — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:37:58 -0800

juv3nal: grind some lower-level forums for a couple days, and cash in on the junk the admirers send you. With lower level forums, you don't need to use any drugs, or you can get by with a couple of cheaper ones. Alternately, contribute to the current Forumbuildr. (This won't pay off until the end of the week, though.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:06:11 -0800

In case anyone here didn't already know, I am a level 7 Camwhore.

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:20:06 -0800

Ambrosia Voyeur: In case anyone here didn't already know, I am a level 7 Camwhore. Well, sure, but what are you in the game?

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:53:19 -0800

A level 8 Camwhore. xoxoxox