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Hah, Beau...
Well before your time...
And goes RIGHT over your head...
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The S is for sucks.

Homsar, is that you?

Yes! With this doohickey, I can finally play the Hardest Chord Ever!!! \m/

A fan on the HR Wiki created a Greasemonkey script that adds a pause button, fast forward/rewind functions, subtitles, and a bunch of other goodies to the Homestar Runner cartoons. It makes watching them so much easier. It also makes it much easier to find the easter eggs. I am not involved with this script in any way, I just think it's cool.

Just so long as they don't bring Homestar Runner back as a gritty reboot

"The ONEitude is directly proportional to the Colditude of the ONE."
Reference: http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/property_of_ones

or you'll look like Trogdor!

what, no love for Peasant's Quest?

I generally watch indie films at some guy named Art's house.

That's excellent!
and a walkthrough!
http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Peasant's_Quest_Walkthrough

But its a whole lot cheaper to buy cheap-as-free hardware

I'm not familiar with "cheap-as-free", or how the first result from Google relates to computer hardware. Are you talking about buying broken PCs and seeing what you can salvage? That's not cheap as free; that's labor-intensive.

If this card fails you are out ~$600 with no salvageable parts (even on a totally broken motherboard you can usually salvage a HDD, any PCI cards and optical drives) and multiple workstations down.

That's why you buy either the extended replacement plan (for home use) or a spare card (for school or Internet cafe use), and you put in a 2-monitor video card to regain the use of two workstations until your replacement comes in the mail.

Really, thin clients are the way to go

What brand of thin client do you recommend? I tried an NComputing thin client box; Flash video was a smurfing slideshow. I imagine that anything using OpenGL or DirectX graphics would go slideshow as well. But the card in the article is a Radeon.

Better suggestion: Use fakenamegenerator and come up with something that doesn’t look like an obviously bogus profile.

HSRfakenamegenerator:

• "Clever Dan"
• "Cableman Jorge"
• "Interrupter Jones"
• "Szechuan Steve"
• "Oliver Smidgen"
• "Stache Frenchman"
• "Tor Coolguy"
• "Vance Mudgeman"

I've never heard of a band going with a certain record label because "they have better sound quality" ;)

Well, that's half my point. Now extend the fast food analogy to the consumers. Modern pop bands are so digitally post synthed, before the compression that the quality of the original source becomes irrelevant.

Final point: The Brother's Chaps of Homestarrunner.com fame have a sound room. That's from working full time on a free, flash animation site selling nothing but tee shirts, and DVD copies of cartoons you can have for free online. They did NOT start out with a soundroom, and as mentioned in the interview you can hear this by checking their old material.

My core point is: good content survives poor delivery.

Edgar?

Li'l Brudder approves.

It's an electrically charged net that we use to catch runaway robots.

What's a robit?

(transcript)

jibblie jibblie jibblie jibblie jibblie jibblie
http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Jibblies

Based on the quality of these, I think I found the inspiration for the name "songsmith": the poopsmith singing

Of course you must mean a splodes...

(Flamebait warning-- not like the "excellent" karma was much use, even here)

Of course, this is Slashdot, where few in the community reads the articles, even fewer fact-check a posting (and those who are supposed to actually fact-check are appallingly bad at it), and no article is ever withdrawn for gross inaccuracy or yellow journalism.

Combine a cleverly spun blog post about authorities looking around a hobbyist chemist and an exceedingly loud libertarian readership, and you have the tired cliché, the "perfect storm".

Now if you'll excuse me, I'll go camp out in my mascot costume. It's a lovely night for a roasted juice box.

They should concentrate their efforts on the other H*R game [link to Paul Slocum's Atari 2600 HomestaRPG].

And here I was, thinking that the first game they should get around to finishing is the Flash-based NES-'em-up "Stinkoman 20X6" game.

Chaps, we've been waiting for Level 10 for almost three years now...

Back in 2005, they actually did make a great flash game for their website called Sinkoman 20X6. It was a platform game that paid homage to Mega Man, and contains tons of H*R in-jokes, as usual. Unfortunately, they stopped updating right before the final level, leaving us with a 3 year old cliffhanger.

They should concentrate their efforts on the other H*R game.

Though Homestar Runner RPG had the blessing of The Bros. Chaps, it was being developed by a third party, a Mr. Paul Slocum. It doesn't seem that The Bros. Chaps had the same level of involvement, if any, that they have in Strong Bad's Cool Game. . . , so go and complain to Slocum. (Though that'd be a colossal dick move on your part.)

They should concentrate their efforts on the other H*R game.

> GET YE FLASK You can't get ye flask!

> GET YE FLASK

http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Thy_Dungeonman

The MSFT shareholders, of course. If your company is mucking around the idea of buying a smaller company, and the release of your flagship product is panned in the press, you'd be getting your marketers to come up with some spin to keep your job.

If anything, this reminds me of someone sticking a Post-it saying "Everything is fine. Nothing is ruined." on a BSoD.

You mean like Red Iculous? You seem to love that one.

It's connected to Homsar, actually.

* Exceedingly portable 42 pounds * 2MB Hard Drive * Several-color Monitor * Five Minute Battery Life * 512K RAM * Every time the "enter" key is pressed, everyone else in town will temporarily lose electricity * The battery burns 45 acres of rainforest as it is used as the Lappy's main energy source http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Lappy_486#Features

"Stand clear, I know what to do!"

I don't know whether that's all bad; sneak oil is a rather untapped market.

How about the entire site of Homestar Runner? The various games and cartoons there are loaded with Easter Egg features, which get cataloged obsessively here.

{"The Cheat presents" on a black background appears on the screen, followed by two green, bean-shaped eyes.}

STRONG BAD: Check it out, those are supposed to be my eyes, I think.

{The eyes fade and the letters "SB" appear. "Strong" and "Bad" are inside each letter}

STRONG BAD: That stands for my name.

{The "S" and "B" turn into "The Web" in cursive}

STRONG BAD: "The Web".

{"The Web" turns into "Welcomes 'u' '2'", the letters made of only horizontal and vertical lines. The words "strong bad's cybersite" appear in red below "Welcomes 'u' '2'". A rainbow circle about 3/4 the size of the "2" comes and rolls in, stopping at the quotation mark before the "2"}

STRONG BAD: That little rainbow thing's kinda cool.

{The word "cybersite" turns into rainbow colors. The words exit and a blackhole-like thing appears.}

STRONG BAD: Oh, go through the tunnel, oh look out!

{As he says "Oh, look out!", a hand appears to punch you, and after it does, the word "OUCH!" appears above it. The words "Get on in!" appear in a long button.}

STRONG BAD: Oh, you got punched! Aw, man, right in the face. {typing} Okay, next on the checklist: lots of animated GIFs! {pronounces it /gifs/; stops typing} or... GIFs... {pronounces it /jifs/} or however you say it. I don't know. I heard a couple of nerds arguing about it one time. {clears screen} But you want as many of those as possible.

{An animated GIF appears that cycles between a flame, the word "Fire!" and another flame.}

STRONG BAD: Especially the {Another GIF appears, featuring a mouse that looks side to side before revealing a letter labeled "INTERNET?" in its mouth.} rotate-y kind. {Two rotating GIFs appear, one of a guitar, the other of a diamond that flashes, showing the words "hi rez" which then disappear.} Those are awesome, man. Nobody gets tired of looking at those. {clears screen}

STRONG BAD: {typing} So, then you can pretty much just pick whatever for your subject. It doesn't really matter as long as you got the rest of that stuff on there. {stops typing} I mean, {resumes typing} James, the Internet is a place where absolutely nothing happens. You need to take advantage of that. {stops typing}I mean, you can make a webpage of your cat.

{A picture of a cat lying on a football with red eye thinking "It's 4th and 10. Now WHERE'S MY SUPPER?!?" appears}

STRONG BAD: or your The Cheat.

{A picture of The Cheat sleeping on a couch on his back on a couch thinking "It's 4th and 10. I hate cats."}

STRONG BAD: And, {typing} Who knows? Maybe tomorrow you'll be really big in Pakistan. Or at least, with some guy named Stan. {Stops typing} Anyways, I gotta go work on my webpage.

Transcript from: http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/website

Video from: http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail51.html

What do you mean, the 1? That girls is all about ones. And I don't mean cold ones, either.

LOL! I wonder when we can expect to see "fhqwhgads" in Merriam-Webster's ...

Can I just call you fhqwhgads?

Quit picking on men, bub

And if it were so damn valuable, why dispose of it in a cab?

(And do you think she claimed it as an insured loss?)

# I had an Atari Lynx. [lowlight]

What, you didn't get Gates of Zendocon? No Chip's Challenge? Slimeworld didn't send you?

Frankly, I couldn't understand (at the time... still can't) how people were happy with an original Gameboy. A monocolor screen, versus the Lynx (16-bit full color with hardware scaling and rotation (Mode 7 in Nintendo speak)).

As to your King's Quest comment, perhaps you'll find this amusing...

"Control a short-panted 'peasant' named Rather Dashing as he stumbles through Peasantry in his 'quest' to get revenge on a dragon thing."

Or, call for reinforcements.

Can i just call you fhqwhgads?

So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's sister?

http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Ali_and_Ali's_Sist er

StrongBad rules!

I come for the wuggas, but stay for the jiggy juggas.

...is a Strong Bad-style DELETED! button.

heh... Strong Bad might be able to help you out on that one :)

Do you mean Stong Bad?

What's wrong with flash? It does what it does quite well, it's flexible and extensible. It's mature and has almost 100% market penetration. Why does it need replacing.

Just today I experienced a considerable amount of frustration because of Flash. In my physics class at my university we have to turn in homework on the Internet, and the website we're using uses Flash for entering equations. Several of the problems required us to enter Greek symbols (like pi and omega). However, when I tried to enter these characters, half of the character would display and the cursor would remain in the same spot as before, so if you continued the equation, it would overwrite the Greek symbol. It's a weird bug and hard to describe (sorry if you don't understand what's going on), but the point is it prevented me from doing my homework. I ended up figuring out that when I tried doing it on Windows instead of Flash on Linux (the latest version still), it worked. So, clearly, the Linux version of Flash has some weird bug in it that Macromedia has failed to address. In the end, I was inconvenienced because I had to reboot into Windows to do my homework instead of on my normal operating system.

This isn't the first time I've encountered bugs with the Linux version of Flash; take a look at this (scroll down to glitches and then watch the cartoon for yourself on Linux). Obviously not getting to play a song on a cartoon website isn't going to scar me for life, but my point is that Macromedia (should I say Adobe?) isn't doing a very good of a job on the Linux version, probably because they feel that Linux doesn't have enough marketshare to significantly affect their profits.

If your answer involves "open source" then you can stop right there. Nobody (except about half the slashdot audience) gives a rat's ass about source code as long as the software works properly.

The reason that some people are concerned with open source is that it offers a way out of monopolies. The biggest problem isn't that the Flash player itself is proprietary (even though it would be nice if it weren't); it's that SWF is proprietary. This suppresses competition from would-be open source (or even other proprietary) Flash players that have to compete with Adobe/Macromedia. If SWF was open, an open source Flash player could be easily written that would eliminate such bugs.

We can always debate whether or not proprietary or open source development models produce better quality code, but proprietary formats are never good. All they do is hurt competition, which helps no one but the authors. Now that Adobe owns Macromedia, hopefully the Flash people will take a hint from PDF: open formats work. If SWF is opened, great; there would be no need to replace the format, only potentially the player. But as long as SWF remains proprietary, it needs to be replaced by a format that everyone can use.

...Bad Graphics Ghost?

Okay, Dan, I'm only gonna sing this one more time: Ohhhhhhh If you want it to be possessive, it's just "I-T-S." But, if it's supposed to be a contraction then it's "I-T-apostrophe-S" http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/local_news

Maybe my tastes are too ecclectic, but this really didn't seem to work very well for me. Maybe they just need to broaden their database. They seemed to draw a blank on quite a few of the example songs or artists I supplied. And then again, they turned up some things that I wouldn't consider to be very mainstream. Hell, it didn't even recognize "Everybody to the Limit", and that is SOooo 2003.