Homestar Runner is/was a web site full of silly animations and games, written almost entirely in Flash. Unfortunately, with the demise of Adobe Flash, most of the site ended up a giant mess of broken links. And for those of us who got rid of Flash before Adobe shut it down, the site stopped working a long time ago.
Fortunately, it appears that some enterprising engineers develpped Ruffle, a Flash Player emulator that can be embedded in web sites, and the Homestar Runner people have been busy converting their site over to it.
As its disclaimer says, "Not every cartoon and game works perfectly just yet so be patient and expect some jankiness here and there while we keep a-workin!", but it is pretty good. And I can once again enjoy all of the StrongBad Emails, not just the ones that have been converted to YouTube videos.
And since this post wouldn't be complete without them, here are a few of my all-time favorite StrongBad e-mail videos:
- #57: Japanese Cartoon
- #58: Dragon. Featuring everybody's favorite character, Trogdor, the Burninator
- #118: Virus
- #152: ISP
- #179: Pizza Joint
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