🍹Early to RISA 🧉Mar 11

Anon misses flash

https://sh.itjust.works/post/56605873

Show threadBigFig
Who the fuck celebrated? I remembered many pissed off millennials and Gen x
Mar 11 at 4:13amWeb
Show threadchickenMar 11
The people mistakenly claiming html5 was going to be the next Flash, I guess
Show threadSkullgridMar 11
It… Is? Check out itch.io and there’s still.shitloads of browser games around.
Show threadvaultdweller013Mar 11
Also some of them are high quality porn games. This is both a warning and an advertisement depending on ones temperament.
Show threadRetro_unlimitedMar 11

I remember a lot of dating sims.

One of them started with a guy in a bathroom shaving and playing techno music before going to find a date.

They had funny as heck endings like the girl spinning on the ceiling fan at the end (During sex). Just crazy stuff.

Anyone remember what they were called? I swear I had them archived but I can’t find them anywhere. I think there were 20-30 of them from the same creator.

Show threadchickenMar 11
Well ok, I guess it eventually got there, but at the time Flash was getting shut down there wasn’t any equivalent self contained game engine IDE that compared, it was a big setback.
Show threadHonytawkMar 11

All those flash games got preserved and you can still play them:

flashpointarchive.org

Flashpoint Archive

A community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.

Show threadiktMar 11

I did, flash was a pile of garbage especially on anything not windows

Symantec recently highlighted Flash for having one of the worst security records in 2009. We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash. We have been working with Adobe to fix these problems, but they have persisted for several years now. We don’t want to reduce the reliability and security of our iPhones, iPods and iPads by adding Flash.

web.archive.org/web/…/thoughts-on-flash/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash

I’m not a fan of Steve Jobs but here he was just laying down facts

Thoughts on Flash - Apple

Show threadDenjinMar 11
Once Adobe got their grubby hands on it, everything went down hill but Macromedia at least did security updates.
Show threadTrainguyromMar 11
I mean adobe kept releasing security updates for years too. The problem was at its core it wasn’t designed for security so the entire architecture couldn’t very well be secured without breaking all compatibility