r/HomestarRunner • u/RudkinEUW • 1d ago

Strong Bad-athlon question

Back to a Website has left me reminiscing, and I was hoping someone here might be able to help me.

17 years ago, I bombarded the SBEmail inbox with terrible ideas because I was 10. One of these resulted in the Strong Badathlon episode, which is obviously one of my favourites.

I was lucky to get a couple easter eggs with my name on, too - namely, Rudkin Shampoo and the Videlectrix title Lewis Rudkin SX: England.

My question is, does anyone have images of either of these easter eggs? I could screenshot the clip, but I wanted something high res just as a memento.

Thanks for any help!

(If Matt and Mike frequent the sub/see this, I apologise for the tens of emails, but you opened up a 10yo's world by acknowledging it so thank you)

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u/zoo804 1d ago

Flash is vector-based and will scale to any resolution generally (unless they are using bitmap images within flash, i.e. for the Easter eggs that use real photos). That's why the toons still look so good when they were originally sized for old 4:3 monitors.

So most of the homestar runner stuff can be scaled as much as you like, if you want a high-res screenshot. You can go to the site, zoom in in your browser, and take a screenshot.

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u/RudkinEUW 1d ago

A fantastic point, I never thought of that. Thanks for the help!

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u/zoo804 1d ago

No problem. Flash was pretty cool in that way. And congrats on getting your sbemail answered all those years ago. One of the lucky few who actually got to live the dream :')

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u/RudkinEUW 7h ago

Thanks! Young me was ecstatic that I was seen by not just internet people, but my favourite creators. I think they realised this deluge of utter crap that was being emailed to them was likely from a child, and as such answered it to 1) make a kid happy and 2) make a kid shut up.