Sure, Homestar is well past its prime; its creators, the Atlanta-based brother act Matt and Mike Chapman, say the peak came around 2005, just as YouTube and embeddable, user-uploaded video began re-terraforming the media landscape.

AARP? You 14 subby? All the fans I know are in their late twenties.

I still go watch the new ones every couple of months.

I now wear dentures and can only move around by way of a walker. There's no way that I can watch Homestar Runner without my bifocals.

I like to think back on the good ol' days and smile... until Matlock starts, anyways.

/do you have any Country Time Lemonade, perchance?

People have been drinking beer for the past few hundred years. Why won't it just go away?

Human beings have seen the sun for as long as they've been on the planet. Why won't the sun just go away?

I used to play text based mmorpg. My lawn, get off of it.
Damn whippersnappers.

I actually liked the point-and-click adventure games that TellTale came out with. I think that's because I like pointy-clicky games, though.

Ras-Algethi: I used to play text based mmorpg. My lawn, get off of it.

They're called MUDs (or MUSHes, or...)

Ras-Algethi: I used to play text based mmorpg. My lawn, get off of it.
Damn whippersnappers.

I was a God on a MUD based on Silly.

I thought Fark has linked to Homestar as of last year or something.

whyerhead: I used to kick ass in Legend of The Red Dragon (LORD)

There's a free PHP/SQL one you can get called "Legend of the Green Dragon," but it's just not the same. When you select an action or item, the page refreshes automatically instead of that nice 2400-baud lag.

The subby's parents should take away his iPhone for being an uppity
whipper snapper. And get off my lawn unless he's going to shovel my snow.

FTFA: Remember Homestar, that Flash-animated Web series from those halcyon pre-YouTube days when Web series were the Future, videos stayed put on their sites of origin

Am I the only one who misses this? Seriously, I got better playback quality video from RealPlayer and Qucktime than Youtube has ever given me. I remember when I first saw flash and java based video playback, I experimented with it on my own site, but I still left a download link because those methods sucked so bad. Sure it was convenient for the folks who just didn't have the brains to make a plugin work, but I left different playback links under my videos so you could chose your format. I also missed being able to save the original content in an actual good quality format.

Good flash animation, was to me, a great quality low bandwidth modern approach to video animation - this wasn't flash video which I think sucks, but actual flash animation.

Sure, things are improving. With the latest versions of Flash/Java playback things are starting to look better, that type of video playback is catching up, but I still prefer a real stream. Hulu is causing me to hate embedded virtual machine playback more by the day. My dual 1.7 Ghz CPU and 2 GB of RAM is barely enough to playback Hulu full screen. My old K6 233 didn't have a problem playing back MPEG, AVI, or Quicktime full screen.

I used to play Pong. Why won't Pong just go away?


/Adjusts onion on belt

carnifderome: pecosdave: FTFA: Remember Homestar, that Flash-animated Web series from those halcyon pre-YouTube days when Web series were the Future, videos stayed put on their sites of origin

Am I the only one who misses this? Seriously, I got better playback quality video from RealPlayer and Qucktime than Youtube has ever given me.

Your message is buffering . . . . . . . . . . . okay, now I can read it again and I can see, wait, it's buffering again . . . . . . . . . and to directly respond to what your meaning, buffering . . . . . . .

/Quicktime and Realplayer were teh nightmare

The WWWYZZERDD approves of buffering shenanigans.

I'm 43, Homestar cracks me up.

Disappointed by the lack of a Christmas Decemberween toon this year.

/My lawn
//Off it

Quicktime did sort of bother me, it wasn't as smooth as Real Player, and generally I did (and still do) prefer a straight up MPEG stream so I could play it back in the player of my choice - usually the OS default one. Buffering - that was an analog modem thing on those. Remember, that's what you probably used back then? What annoys the hell out of me is we get rid of the analog modems and get some good bandwidth, now buffering is back. I have to pause my Hulu streams occasionally so they'll buffer to max, and certain other embedded websites I have to do the same on. This is one that You Tube usually isn't guilty of. Instead the videos are grainy and crappy, unless I hit the HD button, then it's back to buffering and choppy.

I actually blame that on ISPs not being able to deliver promised bandwidth, except in the case of Hulu which I blame on way to much paranoid encryption.

The best streaming video site on the web for quality embedded content has to be SouthparkStudios.com. It plays back the the way Hulu would if they weren't so paranoid.

Miro is a nice way to go about getting real videos that play back well without the crappy java/flash embedded players. I just wish the program weren't so buggy and had a better/easier way to share content on the local LAN without duplicating it.

Zork is still okay, right? I play a bit after I have my Metamucil.


/never thought HSR was funny, just didn't make me laugh, sorry

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