Score: 10

"Still great"

submission: Menya zovut Shnur

date: August 12, 2009

Still a great video.

So the debate continues ... or just began again ...

As a Hessian, I can say emphatically that this is not German. The lyrics are Russian, with a handful of English and French tossed in for good measure. Russians would be MORE insulted (if that is possible) to have their laguage compared to german than Dutch. Tag teamed from Russian, through German, to English, as best we can make out:

Fuck. fuck. fuck. fuck.
Fuck. fuck. fuck. fuck.

We have too many kings and too many fools
Everyone yells %uFFFDnot dead%uFFFD, I say %uFFFDfuck off%uFFFD
Mumij can%uFFFDt be understood %uFFFD is he a fool, is he a king?
No easy role that Mumij's got!
%uFFFDBi%uFFFD isn%uFFFDt two, %uFFFDbi%uFFFD is zero.
%uFFFDChaif%uFFFD is no fun, it is "oh-so-painful"
A strange city is Leningrad
It was the cultural capital, and now it's nothing but profanity.

Chorus:
They call me shnur, they call me shnur.
I will come to you in your dreams, mon ami.
With cripples, and uglies,
With junkies, mon amour.

%uFFFDDDT%uFFFD %uFFFD that used to be pesticide.
It's been stinking for so long that my nose hurts.
%uFFFDAquarium%uFFFD is the place with snakes and reptiles,
Everyone is afraid to watch and these are only too happy.
Oh! someone%uFFFDs heart has stopped again...
New people? Don't they have enough old ones?
It%uFFFDs really hard to be a small horse,
I didn%uFFFDt try it, but they say it%uFFFDs possible.

Chorus:
They call me shnur, they call me shnur.
I will come to you in your dreams, mon ami.
With cripples, and uglies,
With junkies, mon amour.

The %uFFFDtime machine%uFFFD is stuck in its time,
And they can%uFFFDt rid of that burden.
%uFFFDDances minus%uFFFD or %uFFFDdances plus%uFFFD
I like neither whiners nor blues.
Rap used to be total shit,
But now i start the job here.
The song is over, soon is the finish,
When I shove it up %uFFFD no fucking way you%uFFFDll get it out!

Chorus:
They call me shnur, they call me shnur.
I will come to you in your dreams, mon ami.
With cripples, and uglies,
With junkies, mon amour.

Score: 0

"Bad start"

submission: Shino dress up game

date: July 30, 2006

It's a DECENT, and I emphasize merely decent, dress-up that is completely undercut by the fact that you have slapped 4.8MB of unoptimized audio on top of 200kb of AS.

Way down at the bottom of the page, after you click SUBMIT but before you actually submit your flash, is a link labelled "Learn About Audio Optimization." Use it, live it, love it.

Score: 4

"Decent"

submission: Dodge Bot

date: March 21, 2006

A decent variety of animations to at least keep it interesting for a bit, but work on the audio. "Heaven Cries" is ~20k larger than your flash, so you obviously did SOME work on it, but you need to do more.

This is essentially a time waster that most people will play with for a little bit, then promptly forget about. As such, it shoudn't be larger than 200k. If you want to stick with just that one song, hack a 10-15 second long sound loop out of the song and use that. If you want to put some more effort into it, grab a few smaller loops off the AP and let the user choose which they listen to. Either way should allow you to still remain WELL on the small size of things.

My bet is this passes, and IMO it should, just don't let that fool you into thinking that unoptimized full audio is a good thing.