Talk:Easter egg

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Hi, I was just wondering if it would be appropriate to have some notable easter eggs listed on the page--first easter egg (maybe even the first egg for each toon type?), most easter eggs, fewest easter eggs, first game in an egg, etc. etc.

And I'd like to add that my vision is 20/20 and your captcha images are almost impossible to read.

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I was thinking about doing this page for some time now. In my Hebrew article there is already a section about Easter eggs and I was thinking if I should translate it back to English, or should it be the other way around? The wiki would make the article, and I'll translate it to Hebrew. What do you think? — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 07:23, 15 October 2005 (UTC) wrong wiki. you meant Wikipedia, not HRwiki. hrwiki is about Homestar easeter eggs, not eggs in general.

No, we can do that to say what an Easter egg is to help describe an egg found in the H*R Universe. Bluebry 03:43, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

first SBemail easter egg?

was?

According to the DVD commentary for depressio, the first Easter egg was a link that you got if you emailed Strong Sad. Alternatively, the first immediately-clickable Easter egg was in studying. --DorianGray

an undertaking of gigantic proportions

does anyone thinks that it would be appropriate to compile ALL Easter eggs here in one comprehensicve list? I R F 20:38, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

I think that would be... Um... That is to say... Ow... My neural transmitters just shut down. --DorianGray

Actually, I have been thinking about that for some time...(But was way too scared to do it myself, or even suggest it...) I'd be glad to help out! kai lyn 20:49, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

You're help will be appreciated. You've been doing fine work so far but let's wait and see some more the of the sysops say, or at least wait for DorianGray to get off the floor and re-gain consciousness. I R F 20:51, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm not so sure if that would be worth our time. It seems like if you wanted to know what the Easter eggs of a certain toon are, you would just go to that toon's page. Perhaps a more reasonable goal would be a list of all toon with Easter eggs in them. That way people can be sure they've seen them all without giving the wiki a page that I foresee to be very cluttered and confusing. Am I alone in this line of thought? Username-talk 21:13, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree. Maybe this could be a column in User:Shwoo/All Toons, if Shwoo is happy with that. Loafing 21:23, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Yea I think that the idea of listing all eggs doesn't seem to have a point. There may be some value if there were meaningful differences in eggs (maybe first a count of how many eggs are word play gags, how many are homsar inserts, how many are continuations of the scene, how many relate to previous toons, etc.) but that's a major undertaking in and of itself, and at this point I don't think we'd find enough of a pattern or clean cut discriptions to make even that worth while. As is, a count of eggs as part of a list of all toons makes the most sense. - Ilko Skevüld's Teh C 21:39, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Sounds like a good idea to me. The main problem is that I put toons that were released at the same time in the same row.—Shwoo 06:30, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

I just reformatted so that each toon is in a seperate row. Is listing all the Easter Eggs still a good idea? —Shwoo 07:24, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Frame numbers in easter eggs

Not really sure whether this is the right place to post this, but here goes. I was thinking how useful it would be if frame numbers of easter eggs were mentioned in the Easter Egg section of toons/sbemails. It would make it so much easier to find them quickly. What do you think? BigToe7000 19:46, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't see how that's easier... I mean, how on earth would anyone know what frame is what, anyway? --DorianGray 19:52, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Dorian, when viewing in media player classic, it gives me frame numbers. That doesn't mean i think it's a good idea, just saying... DeFender1031 19:53, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, but who watches toons anywhere but on the site? --DorianGray 19:57, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

People who want to watch them in full screen? People who are doing a transcript? People who's brothers have internet but they dont? I know a guy who goes home with a cd full of HR files every so often. DeFender1031 20:04, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

That's why the SWFs exist. More or less. --DorianGray 20:06, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, and i watched the SWF in mpc. And, umm, i'm pretty sure that the swfs exist because they're embedded into the site. DeFender1031

Downloading the SFWs and watching them offline is inferior to watching them online. Not all SWFs on the site are self-contained, and some download additional files. The best way to view them with a seek-bar, frame numbers and (near-)fullscreen is the Greasemonkey All-in-one script. Loafing 20:13, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Coming back to the original discussion: I don't think this would be more helpful. It would only help if someone wanted to see the Easter eggs without watching the toons. Where's the fun in that? Loafing 20:13, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

I'll explain myself. I usually want to have a second look at easter eggs, or I miss them while watching, and when using the Greasemonkey All-in-one script frame numbers are displayed. I thought it would be useful if the frame numbers were displayed. *shrug* BigToe7000 10:08, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Also: have a look at HRWiki talk:Subtitles#Pop-Up_Video about automatically displaying Easter eggs hints, and check out this example. Loafing 20:15, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Just looked at this and I like it! I didn't think something like this would exist.

New Image

Yes, i think that the picture of actual eggs fits better, yes, though this one has three easter eggs on the screen, at first glance one would think "what does this have to do with eggs?" — Defender1031*Talk 20:29, 29 September 2007 (UTC)