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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   2082 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for April 4, 2025

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I went browsing my data hoard yesterday, and found a bunch of old 2000-2005 era flash cartoons I saved for various reasons. After figuring out how to make them play under linux I enjoyed a smattering of them for about an hour, mostly thanks to nostalgia. I still think Lesko's Revenge is my favorite. I barely remember how I found those things. Maybe 4chan back in the day? Limewire?

Watching them again then though, it does make it hard to keep judging kids so hard for their Skibidi Toilets or whatever.

Probably 4chan /f/, other spinoff imageboards, Newgrounds, maybe Something Awful.

it does make it hard to keep judging kids so hard for their Skibidi Toilets or whatever.

This is fair, there was a lot of faggotry (TL note: "faggotry" means cringe). The one big difference IMHO was that clicking in a mysterious .swf file in 2004 was way more exciting then watching Meat Canyon or whatever is considered edgy now. People used to make some truly bizarre, messed up, and entertaining** animations back then.

** I showed some animations from that time to a Zoomer and they were confused and horrified. So maybe not entertaining for everyone. Ah well.

hard to keep judging kids so hard for their Skibidi Toilets or whatever

I judge people for Skibidi Toilet not for the staying power of the meme itself, but simply because it's low effort compared to what came before it.

Actually, I don't know what's considered edgy any more. I remember the Newgrounds school shooting Pico games, which were... something else, certainly, but I don't think I ever saw anything quite as absurd after that.

I really wish it was possible to search flash cartoons. There's so many from 2000-2005 I just cannot find anymore.

Like that one with a gigantic Zangief in space on collision course for Earth and all of the video game characters become an army trying to stop him.

I really wish it was possible to search flash cartoons.

The Flashpoint Archive might have you covered.

You don't happen to have a torrent of these, or the time to chuck them up on MEGA or whatever, do you?

4chan.org/f/

I tried playing Motherload with ruffle on Linux the other day, and it was laggier than on the spyware bloated early 2000s used office PCs in the school computer lab.
Was flash just magic? How can we not emulate it even with vastly more powerful hardware?

Flash was vastly more inspired than the gui tech stacks in wide use today. You could do so much with it without having to be a programmer.

Where'd you get it? Maybe I'll try it and see what happens for me.

https://www.speedrun.com/motherload/resources/6geip

Is the one I used, but it's on archive.org too. It might have something to do with my Linux machine, but I've noticed old flash games playing like crap on my windows desktop too.

I'm actually surprised you aren't using native flash on one of your retro pcs! What OSes are you using for those?

You know, funnily enough I had Motherload: Goldium Edition as a bin/cue iso in my data hoard after all, and that ran just fine for me. Go figure.

Now that you mention my stable of retro pcs, I probably could. But for whatever reason I have zero attachment to running flash games on period appropriate hardware the same way I do DOS games, or 90's FPS, or even that era where every fucking game had bitchin' EAX effects.

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