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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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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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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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Well if the hundreds of patches for patched security flaws won't convince you, nothing will. They patched remote code execution several times, I can go on.

I said that because that is what is happening.

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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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y u do this

muh gamez n nostalgia n shieeet

It was a proprietary standard with a monopoly through a shitty, closed-source implementation, it's like asking why Internet Explorer faded into irrelevance.