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adhask1

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[/Preface] I work in a relatively small division of a large engineering firm. [/Preface]

The nature of my profession provides significant downtime. There's either a 4 alarm fire that had to be put out yesterday or there's nothing to do. In fact, I'm at work now and I am almost exclusively at work when bumbling around the forums here.

Our IT group was in a transition phase for several months, during which time I had free roam of the interweb during my down time. Now that we're all transitioned, the filters are back and I'm surprised I can even peruse the [H], let alone access flash game websites.

I'm not worried about getting fired, because, well, I'm good at what I do and I know our IT people, who are exclusive to our division, don't care.

I'm curious if anyone is in a similar situation, and if so has found a website with flash games that doesn't trip their filter's alarm. Our content blocker seems to be aimed at keywords in the web address. I'm not interested in routing through 3rd party sites or trying to tweak settings, etc., just a website that isn't as blatently obvious as "gamesforwork" or "IHaveNothingToDoSoImPlayingFlashGamesAndSurfingPorn." You get the idea. Recently, I haven't had any luck with any game hosting sites posted in this forum.

Thanks! I appreciate your advice/opinions/stories you may have.
 
Just a small suggestion - I heard ROMs on a usb drive work fine... allegedly. No install required.. a few hundred at your finger tips.. all secure. Also nethack as a nice no-install download that I have thrashed around while at work.... er while not at work..
 
Sega Emulator on my PDA means I can play Sonic while looking like I'm productive. :p

Some of those old DOS games installed on a thumbdrive as well. Text adventures were fun back in the day... give them another shot and you'll see that they can be fun again.
 
This is a good idea. I bet I could park some random domain I own ontop of gamesforwork and I may be able to get it so that it filters out the game names so the game urls would be something like http://www.blah.com/business-11564

Would this be more to your liking if I could manage this? It surely wouldn't be as search engine friendly as our current urls, but it would suit your needs pretty neatly.

If something like this is of interest to multiple users, I would dedicated a good deal of time to getting it accomplished quickly.
 
It's funny, I've been trying to research our content control software and it blocks every relevant page but wiki. Among the cited reasons were "proxy avoidance" and my favorite, when trying to access a site with the header, "Websense has blocked me. How about I block Websense for a change," it cited "Tasteless" as the reason. That was a new one for me.

Anyway, thank you for your suggestions. No luck w/ kongregate, gamemotion, etc.

Gutspiller, thanks for your offer, but I'm afraid that with my limited knowledge of how the content filter works exactly, all your hard work would be for nothing. If, however, I didn't have a content filter and was just concerned about someone monitoring my web access rather than restricting it, I'd be all for it.

ROMs on a flash drive looks like my best bet at this point. Thanks!
 
adhask1 said:
It's funny, I've been trying to research our content control software and it blocks every relevant page but wiki. Among the cited reasons were "proxy avoidance" and my favorite, when trying to access a site with the header, "Websense has blocked me. How about I block Websense for a change," it cited "Tasteless" as the reason. That was a new one for me.

Anyway, thank you for your suggestions. No luck w/ kongregate, gamemotion, etc.

Gutspiller, thanks for your offer, but I'm afraid that with my limited knowledge of how the content filter works exactly, all your hard work would be for nothing. If, however, I didn't have a content filter and was just concerned about someone monitoring my web access rather than restricting it, I'd be all for it.

ROMs on a flash drive looks like my best bet at this point. Thanks!
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Try this: http://www.silverlighten.com
 
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