History DethroningMoment / Cracked

* Tropers/DrZulu2010: [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-resident-evil-movies-are-better-than-games/ 6 reasons Resident Evil movies are better than the games.]] Oh boy, where do I begin? Well, it's written by [=Luke McKinney=] (who has a few other articles of his up here as well) and the arguments he throws as to why are more alike to the cliched "Gamers will go apeshit when their precious little stories are tampered by those hollywood phonies" crap we used to know as well as weak reasons; especially the arguments that the games waste your time and having a worse plot than the games. First of all, it's a survival horror. It focuses more on exploration than fighting. Many games have done that before and after RE cames (IE: SweetHome, AloneInTheDark, CorpseParty, SilentHill etc). Second, while I admit that the plot of the games are not groundbreaking, they are told more straight than the movies in many cases (The plot holes in Retribution are so big that I can't say anything about them). And third, he critizise the games for its large cast of characters instead of one character. Dude, I would prefer a large cast of well developped and likable characters over a underdevelopped GodModeSue everytime of the day. That you likes the movies, fine (I even enjoyed the first RE movie and liked some part of the second one), but, if you want to show why you think they are better than the games a lot of people grew up with, throw some damn good arguments to back it up.

* Tropers/{{Knight9910}}: Narrowing down just one dethroning moment from Cracked is really hard, but if I have to pick only one I've got to give it to [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19174_5-unexpected-downsides-high-intelligence.html 5 Unexpected Downsides of High Intelligence]] by Eddie Rodriguez. It's not the worst article on the site, but for me it marks the point when I first began to notice a significant trend toward anti-intellectualism among Cracked writers. The article itself can be basically summed up as "being smart sucks and smart people suck too." Even worse are the people who try to defend the article by saying "it's not anti-intellectual, it's all just entertainment, it's not supposed to mean anything or even be factually accurate." Assuming that that's true - that the author didn't intend to actually insult intelligent people and was just trying to be entertaining - that doesn't make the article better, it actually makes it worse. If he meant it then he's simply misinformed, if he didn't mean it then he's an evil bastard trying to destroy the very concept of intelligence and progress for personal profit. Despite what you may have heard before, being evil is not better than being stupid.

* [=InTheGallbladder=]: Thank you, [[http://www.cracked.com/video_18548_the-despicable-crime-behind-every-pokemon-game.html The Despicable Crime Behind Every Pokemon Game,]] for reminding me why I'm only there for the lists and the photoshop contests. This is the laziest deconstruction of the franchise I've ever seen, disregarding several of its key aspects (including the personalities of two major characters in the cartoon) for the sake of an easy ''Series/{{Cops}}'' {{homage]], [[VomitingCop complete with retching]]. It's particularly foul in that the franchise is well worth a deconstruction. There are many ways one could go about doing it effectively, but instead, 8-Bits went with the "animal cruelty" route, [[SeenItAMillionTimes a path so beaten that footprints have been worn into its stepping stones.]]

* [=InTheGallbladder=]: Thank you, [[http://www.cracked.com/video_18548_the-despicable-crime-behind-every-pokemon-game.html The Despicable Crime Behind Every Pokemon Game,]] for reminding me why I'm only there for the lists and the photoshop contests. This is the laziest deconstruction of the franchise I've ever seen, disregarding several of its key aspects (including the personalities of two major characters in the cartoon) for the sake of an easy ''Series/{{Cops}}'' reference, [[VomitingCop complete with retching]]. It's particularly foul in that the franchise is well worth a deconstruction. There are many ways one could go about doing it effectively, but instead, 8-Bits went with the "animal cruelty" route, [[SeenItAMillionTimes a path so beaten that footprints have been worn into its stepping stones.]]

* Tropers/{{Knight9910}}: Narrowing down just one dethroning moment from Cracked is really hard, but if I have to pick only one I've got to give it to [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19174_5-unexpected-downsides-high-intelligence.html 5 Unexpected Downsides of High Intelligence]] by Eddie Rodriguez. It's not the worst article on the site, but for me it marks the point when I first began to notice a significant trend toward anti-intellectualism among Cracked writers. The article itself can be basically summed up as "being smart sucks and smart people suck too." Even worse are the people who try to defend the article by saying "it's not anti-intellectual, it's all just entertainment, it's not supposed to mean anything or even be factually accurate." Assuming that that's true - that the author didn't intend to actually disparage intelligent people and was just trying to be entertaining - that doesn't make the article better, it actually makes it worse. If he meant it then he's simply misinformed, if he didn't mean it then he's an evil bastard trying to destroy the very concept of intelligence and progress for personal profit. Despite what you may have heard before, being evil is not better than being stupid.

* MathWizardBoy: "6 Reasons it is Impossible to Quit WorldOfWarcraft" was a good article up until reason #1. Keep in mind, up until this point, the format is a question questioning something about the game that outsiders might look at and think WTF. i.e., "How can you play the same game for eight years without getting tired of it?", and the author explains that TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything and is constantly adding new stuff to the game. So for #1, the question is "[the expansion pack ''Mists of Pandaria''] looks incredibly retarded. Does playing it mean you are retarded?" The author's short answer is yes. The long answer involves criticizing the WoW community (because the panda was the most requested idea from the players), calling the idea "buttfuck stupid", and saying that "Anyone who buys the game so that they can pretend to be [Po from] KungFuPanda isn't old enough to play video games in the first place". Really? This is an article about why it's impossible to quit WoW, and the "number one" reason why is because an expansion looks retarded and anyone who plays it is too?

* RA2: "4 Insane Pieces of 'My Little Pony' Fan Art (By Grown Men.)" I've nothing against people who bash My Little Pony, nor insult the fandom, but this was nothing more than Eric Axt and Dustin Koski trying to get some money off of it as lazily as possible; two people working together came up with four entries. Their entire justification for classifying the entire fandom as "sociopaths" is that they found two pornographic and two grimdark fanworks, because [[Literature/{{Twilight}} no]] [[HarryPotter other]] [[StarWars fandom]] in existence does that sort of thing. Two of the entries are hardly exclusive to MLP; one is a pedestrian furry/shipping comic, another is a food fetish that doesn't even mention "ponies" in the passages they quoted. A third is FalloutEquestria, which they claim has [[BlatantLies "graphic rape and sex scenes"]]. The fourth is RainbowFactory, I'll grant that's legit, but certainly wouldn't make the top of a competent list. It's your standard rollcall of the the weird stuff you find on the internet, which just happens to single out a very easy target that's been done to death. I can't figure out if they were going for shock value, comedy, or genuine concern, because they failed categorically on all three fronts.

* Tropers/DrZulu2010: [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-resident-evil-movies-are-better-than-games/ 6 reasons Resident Evil movies are better than the games.]] Oh boy, where do I begin? Well, it's written by the fore mentionned Luke Mckinney and the arguments he throws as to why are more alike to the cliched "Gamers will go apeshit when their precious little stories are tampered by those hollywood phonies" crap we used to know as well as weak reasons; especially the arguments that the games waste your time and having a worse plot than the games. First of all, it's a survival horror. It focuses more on exploration than fighting. Many games have done that before and after RE cames (IE: SweetHome, AloneInTheDark, CorpseParty, SilentHill etc). Second, while I admit that the plot of the games are not groundbreaking, they are told more straight than the movies in many cases (The plot holes in Retribution are so big that I can't say anything about them). And third, he critizise the games for its large cast of characters instead of one character. Dude, I would prefer a large cast of well developped and likable characters over a underdevelopped GodModeSue everytime of the day. That you likes the movies, fine (I even enjoyed the first RE movie and liked some part of the second one), but, if you want to show why you think they are better than the games a lot of people grew up with, throw some damn good arguments to back it up.

* [=InTheGallbladder=]: Thank you, [[http://www.cracked.com/video_18548_the-despicable-crime-behind-every-pokemon-game.html The Despicable Crime Behind Every Pokemon Game,]] for reminding me why I'm only there for the lists and the photoshop contests. This is the laziest deconstruction of the franchise I've ever seen, disregarding several of its key aspects (including the personalities of two major characters in the cartoon) for the sake of an easy ''Series/{{Cops}}'' reference, [[VomitingCop complete with retching]]. It's particularly foul in that the franchise is well worth a deconstruction. There are many ways one could go about doing it effectively, but instead, 8-bits went with the "animal cruelty" route, [[SeenItAMillionTimes a path so beaten that footprints have been worn into its stepping stones.]]

* [=InTheGallbladder=]: Thank you, [[http://www.cracked.com/video_18548_the-despicable-crime-behind-every-pokemon-game.html The Despicable Crime Behind Every Pokemon Game,]] for reminding me why I'm only there for the lists and the photoshop contests. This is the laziest deconstruction of the franchise I've ever seen, disregarding several of its key aspects (including the personalities of two major characters in the cartoon) for the sake of an easy ''Series/{{Cops}}'' reference, [[VomitingCop complete with retching]]. It's particularly foul in that the franchise is well worth a deconstruction. There are many ways one could go about doing it effectively, but instead, they went with the "animal cruelty" route, [[SeenItAMillionTimes a path so beaten that footprints have been worn into its stepping stones.]]

* [=InTheGallbladder=]: Thank you, [[http://www.cracked.com/video_18548_the-despicable-crime-behind-every-pokemon-game.html The Despicable Crime Behind Every Pokemon Game,]] for reminding me why I'm only there for the lists and the photoshop contests. This is the laziest deconstruction of the franchise I've ever seen, disregarding several of its key aspects (including the personalities of two major characters in the cartoon) for the sake of an easy ''Series/{{Cops}}'' reference, [[VomitingCop complete with retching]]. It's particularly foul in that the franchise is well worth a deconstruction, and there are many ways one could go about doing so, but instead, they went with the "animal cruelty" route, [[SeenItAMillionTimes a path so beaten that footprints have been worn into its stepping stones.]]

* [=InTheGallbladder=]: Thank you, [[http://www.cracked.com/video_18548_the-despicable-crime-behind-every-pokemon-game.html The Despicable Crime Behind Every Pokemon Game,]] for reminding me why I'm only there for the lists and the photoshop contests. This is the laziest deconstruction of the franchise I've ever seen, disregarding several of its key aspects (including the personalities of two major characters in the cartoon) for the sake of an easy ''Series/{{Cops}}'' reference, [[VomitingCop complete with retching]]. It's particularly foul in that the franchise is well worth a deconstruction, and there are many ways to do that which would have yielded something far better. But no, they went with the "animal cruelty" route, [[SeenItAMillionTimes a path so beaten that footprints have been worn into its stepping stones.]]

* [=InTheGallbladder=]: Thank you, [[http://www.cracked.com/video_18548_the-despicable-crime-behind-every-pokemon-game.html The Despicable Crime Behind Every Pokemon Game,]] for reminding me why I'm only there for the lists and the photoshop contests. This is the laziest deconstruction of the franchise I've ever seen, disregarding several of its key aspects (including the personalities of two major characters in the cartoon) for the sake of an easy ''Series/{{Cops}}'' reference, [[VomitingCop complete with retching]]. It's particularly foul in that the series is well worth a deconstruction, and there are many ways to do that which would have yielded something far better. But no, they went with the "animal cruelty" route, [[SeenItAMillionTimes a path so beaten that footprints have been worn into its stepping stones.]]

* [=InTheGallbladder=]: Thank you, [[http://www.cracked.com/video_18548_the-despicable-crime-behind-every-pokemon-game.html The Despicable Crime Behind Every Pokemon Game,]] for reminding me why I'm only there for the lists and the photoshop contests. This is the laziest deconstruction of the franchise I've ever seen, disregarding several of its key aspects (including the personalities of two major characters in the cartoon) for the sake of an easy ''Series/{{Cops}}'' reference, [[VomitingCop complete with retching]]. It's particularly foul in that the series is well worth a deconstruction, and there are many ways to do that which would have yielded something far better. But no, they went with the "animal cruelty" route, [[SeenItAMillionTimes a path so beaten that footprints are embedded in its stepping stones.]]

* [=InTheGallbladder=]: Thank you, [[http://www.cracked.com/video_18548_the-despicable-crime-behind-every-pokemon-game.html The Despicable Crime Behind Every Pokemon Game,]] for reminding me why I'm only there for the lists and the photoshop contests. This is the laziest deconstruction of the franchise I've ever seen, disregarding several of its key aspects (including the personalities of two major characters in the cartoon) for the sake of an easy ''Series/{{Cops}}'' reference, [[VomitingCop complete with retching]]. It's particularly foul in that the series is well worth a deconstruction, and there are many ways to do it that would be even more fun. But no, they went with the "animal cruelty" route, [[SeenItAMillionTimes a path so beaten that footprints are embedded in its stepping stones.]]

* [=InTheGallbladder=]: Thank you, [[http://www.cracked.com/video_18548_the-despicable-crime-behind-every-pokemon-game.html The Despicable Crime Behind Every Pokemon Game,]] for reminding me why I'm only there for the lists and the photoshop contests. This is the laziest deconstruction of the franchise I've ever seen, disregarding several key aspects of the franchise (including the personalities of two major characters in the cartoon) just so it wouldn't be so difficult for them to make a protracted ''Series/{{Cops}}'' reference, VomitingCop and all. It's particularly foul in that the franchise bears many aspects that would make for a much more entertaining deconstruction, but no, they went with the "animal cruelty" route, [[SeenItAMillionTimes a path so beaten that footprints are embedded in its stepping stones.]]

* [=InTheGallbladder=]: Thank you, [[http://www.cracked.com/video_18548_the-despicable-crime-behind-every-pokemon-game.html The Despicable Crime Behind Every Pokemon Game,]] for reminding me why I'm only there for the lists and the photoshop contests. This is the laziest deconstruction of the franchise I've ever seen, disregarding several of its key aspects (including the personalities of two major characters in the cartoon) just so it wouldn't be so difficult for them to make a protracted ''Series/{{Cops}}'' reference, VomitingCop and all. It's particularly foul in that the franchise bears many aspects that would make for a much more entertaining deconstruction, but no, they went with the "animal cruelty" route, [[SeenItAMillionTimes a path so beaten that footprints are embedded in its stepping stones.]]

* [=InTheGallbladder=]: Thank you, [[http://www.cracked.com/video_18548_the-despicable-crime-behind-every-pokemon-game.html The Despicable Crime Behind Every Pokemon Game,]] for reminding me why I'm only there for the lists and the photoshop contests. This is the laziest deconstruction of the franchise I've ever seen, disregarding several key aspects of the franchise (including the personalities of two major characters in the cartoon) just so it wouldn't be so difficult for them to make a protracted ''Series/{{Cops}}'' reference, VomitingCop and all. It's particularly foul in that the franchise bears many aspects that would make for a much more entertaining deconstruction, but no, they went with the "animal cruelty" route, [[SeenItAMillionTimes a path so beaten that footprints are embedded in its stepping stones.]]

** Tropers/{{Midna}}: [[http://www.cracked.com/video_18266_if-pokemon-were-more-realistic.html Not the only time they've pulled out this tired old chestnut, either.]]

* [=InTheGallbladder=]: Thank you, [[http://www.cracked.com/video_18548_the-despicable-crime-behind-every-pokemon-game.html The Despicable Crime Behind Every Pokemon Game,]] for reminding me why I'm only there for the lists and the photoshop contests. This is the laziest deconstruction of the franchise I've ever seen, disregarding key aspects of the franchise (including the personalities of two major characters in the cartoon) just so it wouldn't be so difficult for them to make a protracted ''Series/{{Cops}}'' reference, VomitingCop and all. It's particularly foul in that the franchise bears many aspects that would make for a much more entertaining deconstruction, but no, they went with the "animal cruelty" route, a path so beaten that footprints are embedded in its stepping stones.

* [=InTheGallbladder=]: They hit a low point in [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-board-games-that-ruined-it-everyone/ 6 Board Games That Ruined it for Everyone,]] by who else but Luke Mckinney. It's just an excuse for him to bash six of the classic board games whilst shilling six rather obscure ones. He raises some good points (eg: There's no strategy in Snakes And Ladders, Connect Four could easily be recreated on the cheap) but then goes overboard quickly, making overblown comparisons (eg: Risk is worse than an incestuous relationship and Monopoly causes psychological harm)and whining about how they were made by corporations. But when he gets to the alternatives, he's just as bad (eg: Power Grid is a mental upgrade, Alien Frontier's better than Connect Four because it was crowdfunded, King Of Tokyo's creators "have dice but don't hate children", as opposed to Snakes and Ladders'). It just smacks of the "not cool to like popular things" attitude I had towards music for a brief time in high school, except from somebody much older than I was regarding something even more pointless.

* Tropers/DrZulu2010: [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-resident-evil-movies-are-better-than-games/ 6 reasons Resident Evil movies are better than the games.]] Oh boy, where do I begin? Well, it's written by the fore mentionned Luke Mckinney and the arguments he throws as to why are more alike to the cliched "Gamers will go apeshit when their precious little stories are tampered by those hollywood phonies" crap we used to know as well as weak reasons; especially the arguments that the games waste your time and having a worse plot than the games. First of all, it's a survival horror. It focuses more on exploration than fighting. Many games have done that before and after RE cames (IE: SweetHome, AloneInTheDark, CorpseParty, SilentHill etc). Second, while I admit that the plot of the games are not groundbreaking, they are told more straight than the movies in many cases (The plot holes in Retribution are so big that I can't say anything about them). And third, he critizise the games for its large cast of characters instead of one character. Dude, I would prefer a large cast of well developped and likable characters over a underdevelopped GodModeSue everytime of the day. That he likes the movies is no problem, but throw some damn good arguments to back it up.

* Tropers/DrZulu2010: [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-resident-evil-movies-are-better-than-games/ 6 reasons Resident Evil movies are better than the games.]] Oh boy, where do I begin? Well, it's written by the fore mentionned Luke Mckinney and the arguments he throws as to why are more alike to the cliched "Gamers will go apeshit when their precious little stories are tampered by those hollywood phonies" crap we used to know as well as weak reasons; especially the arguments that the games waste your time and having a worse plot than the games. First of all, it's a survival horror. It focuses more on exploration than fighting. Many games have done that before and after RE cames (IE: SweetHome, AloneInTheDark, CorpseParty, SilentHill etc). Second, while I admit that the plot of the games are not groundbreaking, they are told more straight than the movies in many cases (The plot holes in Retribution are so big that I can't say anything about them). And third, he critizise the games for its large cast of characters instead of one character. Dude, I would prefer a large cast of well developped and likable characters over a GodModeSue everyday of the time. That he likes the movies is no problem, but throw some damn good arguments to back it up.

* Tropers/DrZulu2010: [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-resident-evil-movies-are-better-than-games/ 6 reasons Resident Evil movies are better than the games.]] Oh boy, where do I begin? Well, it's written by the fore mentionned Luke Mckinney and the arguments he throws as to why are more alike the cliched "Gamers will go apeshit when their precious little stories are tampered by those hollywood phonies" crap we used to know as well as weak reasons; especially the arguments that the games waste your time and having a worse plot than the games. First of all, it's a survival horror. It focuses more on exploration than fighting. Many games have done that before and after RE cames (IE: SweetHome, AloneInTheDark, CorpseParty, SilentHill etc). Second, while I admit that the plot of the games are not groundbreaking, they are told more straight than the movies in many cases (The plot holes in Retribution are so big that I can't say anything about them). And third, he critizise the games for its large cast of characters instead of one character. Dude, I would prefer a large cast of well developped and likable characters over a GodModeSue everyday of the time. That he likes the movies is no problem, but throw some damn good arguments to back it up.