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[–] 112 points 3 months ago

Finally some good fucking news!

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    I got my friend with that one back in the day. It was Flash so much harder to detect a loop than a video. I told him the ending was hilarious and he managed about 20 minutes of badger badger badger badger badger until he figured it out.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

    And on the opposite end there was the Demented Cartoon Movie, which was half an hour of nonsense and non-sequitors in an age where most animations were a few minutes long at most. Flash movies didn't have a progress bar at the bottom, so anyone you sent it to was stuck watching the whole thing hoping it would please end already.

    It's physically painful to watch today. My fellow Millennials act like Gen Z invented brain rot while ignoring that we grew up with this.

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    [–] 40 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    What really should be preserved is the entirety of Homestar Runner.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    It probably has been by someone since it is all on YouTube now, and I think they have revived the site to most of the old functionality (I could be wrong, I'd need to be on PC to really check). The things that YouTube can't preserve is the stuff like the mouse over Easter eggs etc.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    HSR is the easiest example of rasterizing Flash content being a bad idea, because there is just so much content. Even just the Sbemails compilation (1-200) is 10 hours, and for a DVD-quality video (480p) that's almost double the size of the HSR collection that I have (2000-2009 from archive org).

    The site does work via Ruffle (even the menus, though some links seem broken) and they still make new ones (sbemail-210-robots, backtoawebsite) with Flash versions. There is also an old.homestarrunner so you could probably run this with a browser that still runs Flash, lacking one I'm not sure the exact URL to do so via standalone or even if the links will properly work there.

    Local is still probably best, though still a mess with so many SWFs.

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    [–] 40 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Have they preserved where the sound gets increasingly out of sync with the video the longer you watch it? Because most archived versions don't have this.

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    [–] 36 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    I mean, really, most of Weebl's stuff should be preserved: Amazing Horse, Magical Trevor, Crabs, Telephone Dog ("Hello, this is dog!"), Russian Dancing Men, a ton of others I've forgot.

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    [–] 33 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Ah but everyone loves magical Trevor.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    it’s cause the tricks that he does are ever so clever.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Look at him now, disappearing a cow

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Where is the cow? Hidden right now?

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    12 badgers doing calisthenics while a mushroom and snake occasionally appear on screen, known as “Badger Badger Badger” or “The Badger Song.”

    Somehow that description just doesn't do it for me. Im not sure what would, but its not this.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    We're approaching some of the old memes now, the Genesis Memes...

    But if you want to brush away even more layers of digital sediment and excavate a truly ancient fossil, there's All your base are belong to us.

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    [–] 24 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    wish badgers were as amazing as my horse.

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    [–] 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    When this was still big, a friend of mine said he saw it and really liked it. I casually said, "Be sure to watch it all the way through!"

    I don't know what prompted me to say that.

    A few weeks later, we were talking, and he suddenly said, "Oh, BY THE WAY....I tried to watch Badger Badger Badger all the way through..." He said watched for "a while" before he caught on.

    If I tried to plan a practical joke, it would never go as well as that one did.

    I sent an article about this to him. He laughed.

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    [–] 21 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Now they need to preserve salad fingers. I’m still creeped out by it and so should future generations.

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    [–] 16 points 3 months ago

    I was there at the very beginning. I watched the rise of today. From playing Oregon Trail on a teletype computer head in a dingy basement, trying to learn Basic, writing batch files, compiling kernels, and rpm hell.

    The Badgers were amazing and mesmerizing and are truly worthy of preservation.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago

    Chances are pretty good that it and Mr Weebl's other animations are preserved in their original format (i.e. Flash SWF files) at the free Flashpoint Archive project.

    At least some of the old Jib-Jab stuff should be there also, which were some very amusing political parodies and such.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

    I remember this cat video I liked.

    🎶 Cat , I'm a kitty cat, and I dance dance dance. And I dance dance dance. 🎵

    And I wanted to make it my ring tone. Back when phones were just starting to let you have custom tones.

    And I sent the creator an email and asked if I could have a mp3. And he responded and sent it and I was like.

    "Omg. This famous guy who made this video with like 100,000 views talked to me!"

    I remember bragging to my friends that this famous video creator talked to me online.

    Simpler times.

    Now it's 24 million views On YouTube. I'm pretty sure I messaged them on black sheep or some other video site that was popular around 2006.

    https://youtu.be/SaA_cs4WZHM

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    I literally bragged breathlessly about exchanging a few words with the klingon actor from the new star trek (he's a nice fellow) to my wife. Honestly, the way I lit up I wonder if that's what made her want to watch SNW then TNG, like back to back

    She enjoyed SNW but TNG she is fucking loving. Her crush on riker is almost as bad as mine

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    I had an anthropology tutor who is a renowned Trekkie

    She is mentioned by name

    There was a discussion about gender fluidity and she was so happy when the example of Dax came up as an example of falling for a person can remain while their body changes

    That was almost thirty years ago, but I still remember her

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    [–] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I clicked the post hoping to see the original. I did not. I'm so disappointed in you

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    I mixed this into a full length song and got my mate who was the DJ at the school social to play it in full, place went fucking off!

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Imagine some future PugJesus type excavating our memes from the archives and reposting this 1000 years from now. 🧐️

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    [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yes! Now do Benny Lava by Buffalax.

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    Narwhal song when?

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    [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    They have an interview with the father of the "Charlie but my finger again!" kids, so they're adding some good historical context to it all, too.

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