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important note before reading: I used horrible phrasing in the headline. I was caught up in my own circle's thought process when I said "flash games died a horrible death". What I meant was the cultural aspect behind them - I don't mean that flash games are dead, because they can easily still be played. Coming off of the conversations I've been having, I had this context in mind when I wrote the headline, and I can see how it could be misconstrued. Anyone saying flash games are actually dead though, is simply incorrect.

I'm playing Serious Sam Kamikaze, and this reminds me of those old flash games... and this is obviously made by Croteam in Croatia.

Anyone know anything about this? I recall seeing something in a lot of those flash games that mentioned New Zealand and Eastern Europe a lot, but it would be way too hard to go back and pull up all that info. I can do my best to gather what I can from my old flash game archive

site note about commenters:

these two tards think flash is completely dead and unplayable and they're parroting the pseudointellectual line of "there are security flaws and security is important" without being able to name a single security flaw adobe flash has ever had. They probably don't even know exactly what sort of thing is bad to be called a security flaw these days I have only met a single person ever to have correctly responded to this; people who were spouting on and on about security is important and security updates blah blah blah, that is.

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Suspicious Behavior 0 pt (+0|-0) 23 min ago

important note before reading: I used horrible phrasing in the headline. I was caught up in my own circle's thought process when I said "flash games died a horrible death". What I meant was the cultural aspect behind them - I don't mean that flash games are dead, because they can easily still be played. Coming off of the conversations I've been having, I had this context in mind when I wrote the headline, and I can see how it could be misconstrued. Anyone saying flash games are actually dead though, is simply incorrect. I'm playing Serious Sam Kamikaze, and this reminds me of those old flash games... and this is obviously made by Croteam in Croatia. Anyone know anything about this? I recall seeing something in a lot of those flash games that mentioned New Zealand and Eastern Europe a lot, but it would be way too hard to go back and pull up all that info. I can do my best to gather what I can from my old flash game archive site note about commenters: these two tards think flash is completely dead and unplayable and they're parroting the pseudointellectual line of "there are security flaws and security is important" without being able to name a single security flaw adobe flash has ever had. They probably don't even know exactly what sort of thing is bad to be called a security flaw these days I have only met a single person ever to have correctly responded to this; people who were spouting on and on about security is important and security updates blah blah blah, that is. @v0atmage 3 pts (+3|-0) 41 min ago >[Flash died a horrible death because it was a shit technology ridden with performance and security problems. The programming language was low tier trash that made JavaScript feel well designed.](https://poal.co/s/Gaming/295645/5468c761-6551-49df-830d-213b09ba5d17#cmnts) @Ghetto_Shitlord Suspicious Behavior 0 pt (+0|-0) 23 min ago >[Any web flash content you try to run redirects to adobe's page here where they declare it EOL. >Flash EOL >Search "flash security flaws." They've patched hundreds of holes over the years.](https://poal.co/s/Gaming/295645/b6a37cb9-d89b-4e28-b74e-56b5f2b62a6a#cmnts)

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Flash died a horrible death because it was a shit technology ridden with performance and security problems. The programming language was low tier trash that made JavaScript feel well designed.

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And Apple decided not to support it, which meant no revenue from iShit users. It was probably for the wrong reasons but it was a good decision overall for reasons you've already mentioned.

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what security flaws did it have?

flash is not dead. people are just too stupid to run it, that's all.

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Flash was laggy and shitty. It was a plugin you had to install. So you had to make a flash and non-flash version of your site. Most of the web pages that used flash were replaced with HTML5 and java script that did the same things flash could do. It was clear that flash had been a band-aid solution to bridge the gap between the time when browsers didn't have native support for video and animation and when they did.

Mobile was the nail in the coffin. Around the time phone/tablet users were 10%, and growing, of web users no responsible web devs were making new flash pages.

With the death of flash as a web tool flash games and videos were dead too. It's one thing to make something for a plugin most people have, but most people no longer have flash installed. There are better technologies to do these things now. Instead of making a web game with flash you can make a steam/mobile game with Unity.

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Any web flash content you try to run redirects to adobe's page here where they declare it EOL.

Flash EOL

Search "flash security flaws." They've patched hundreds of holes over the years.

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Search "flash security flaws." They've patched hundreds of holes over the years.

So you were just repeating shit like everyone else. Exactly zero people in the ~10 years that "security flaw" narrative has been running not a single person I've ask has been able to name 1 single security violation. Don't bother listing one now, it's too late.

Any web flash content you try to run redirects to adobe's page here where they declare it EOL.

Why did you say this?

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https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/blogs/finally-end-adobe-flash/#:~:text=Flash%20must%20be%20viewed%20and,to%20fully%20eradicate%20the%20software.

for starters.

Also I forgot to mention that cellphones contributed to the death of flash as well due to it's inefficiencies.

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https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/blogs/finally-end-adobe-flash/#:~:text=Flash%20must%20be%20viewed%20and,to%20fully%20eradicate%20the%20software.

for starters.

Why did you post this?

and yes i'm aware of fag boy steve jobs bitching about flash. I was there when it all started.

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New Zealand is not in Europe.

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think better

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Another 90 IQ moron believing himself clever.

How refreshing

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What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the computer sciences, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills via hacking.

I am trained in cyber warfare and I’m the top hacker in the entire US intelligentsia. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words.

You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can doxx you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my finger tips.

Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue.

But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it.

You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

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flash only had security problem because someone will try to code a virus and make it work. The simple solution was not installing flash or not visit the website. Flash is a software that allow people to crate anything within browser and computer limits, the only real virus was humans. As for the games, i do not know how you got those numbers, everyone in the world made a game in flash, Japan has Mobage what was used to called Yahoo JP, Newgrounds and Armor Games were the top websites for US/EU flash, China had one i knew but something happen to it and i cant remember the site, there were many MMO flash games in china.

So i do not know how you can clam EU having so many flash games when JP, China and US have more.

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OPs a faggot

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op lit trilly cannot stop sucking dix. wut a fay gut

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Raze, Warfare 1917, Bloons TD, Bug War, nd many others... Many memories were made on ArmorGames, Kongregate, Newgrounds...

But those days are gone and you're better off forgetting them.

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those days are not gone.

i'm still playing flash games right now.

what is gone is the continued cultural evolution that happened in flash. flash was the outlet for creative expression that wasn't in other media. I don't watch anime, but from the descriptions I hear, it sounds like flash was the western equivalent of the noncensored stuff that comes out of japan

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Europe is not in New Zealand.

It is in Asia.

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europe is not in germany or the UK either.

read and write better

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where is it ;?

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I have my answer, but let's see if we can get your brain working. Without looking anything up, what's the most reasonable answer you can come up with, knowing that Asia is incorrect?

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Careful with explaining geography to Americans, you could get into hot water:

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/07/16/16/30844190-8530435-image-a-2_1594913992221.jpg

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also new zealand is not in asia. you're probably just a weeaboo