The Cracked Thread

I can't believe it hasn't turned into a metaphorical desert by now.

I'm surprised The Big Bang Theory is number 5 there, but not surprised that The Walking Dead is number 1. Is that weird?

BTW we hit 100 pages!

To be fair my least favorite writer on Cracked by far is Winston Rowtree. His comics are enough to make one's eyes bleed.

They've done two things critical of Dr Who at this point, so I'm willing to bet they've realized how many of their readers are fans and are using it as click-bait to rake in those drama views.

I just wish they'd stop doing obvious click-bait and go back to nerdy comedy.

edited 19th Sep '14 8:12:55 PM by shoboni

That bit was posted on the Doctor Who thread.

General consensus is that the author does not understand Doctor Who at all.

Or perhaps anything?

I didn't read the first, and glossed over the entry on this(though, the bit about "those that hate it, and those that are wrong" really pissed me off.

Links to the pages where the discussion happened?

well, the 5 ancient tech article for me was so good i want and alternate history with nanosuit romans fighting a greek matrix

so that most count for something

Here. It was posted on the previous page, but the conversation basically started here.

edited 19th Sep '14 8:17:27 PM by KarkatTheDalek

Those Viking Compasses sounded so useful it makes me think modern technology has a way to go before it can match something that innovative.

Thank you kindly.

im writing a fantasy/science fiction who use retro feel, so this article is pretty handy

I read somewhere else that those 'pipes' are actually a natural formation. They're basically petrified plants. So I stopped reading the article then cuz it seemed to me they hadn't done any actual research.

This http://skeptoid.com/mobile/4181 is what I'm referring to specifically

edited 19th Sep '14 8:36:22 PM by Xopher001

I'm quite surprised ATB hasn't been chokeslammed by Gladstone or his son for that Doctor Who bit.

Hey that's cool to hear.

...You need to be more careful with your charges of not doing the research, because the Cracked article is talking about a definitely man-made network of bamboo pipes and drills with schematics included. Completely different.

edited 20th Sep '14 12:42:39 AM by Pyrite

A few pages back I was accused of concern trolling for asserting that treating the Breitbart folks as if they were reasonable people was a bad road to go down. I wasn't. Those people really are the worst of the reactionary right that isn't American Renaissance material (and some of them are), and the fact that anyone outside of kooky Tea Party circles is holding them up as any standard of sanity is deeply disturbing to me.

Like, if you have any pretence of believing that all people deserve to be treated equally, the only mileage that you're going to get out of quoting the Big Hollywood folks is "a stopped clock is right twice a day." Or maybe "Dan TenNapel proves that crazy people can make decent games, too."

These were the people pushing that Obama was a Kenyan-born Communist building FEMA death camps, for god's sake.

I'm not asking for Pope Francis; I'm asking for people that don't sound like they have rabies. And the Gamergate side has those! I don't agree with them, but it does have them!

edited 20th Sep '14 5:27:28 AM by JHM

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-hollywood-ruins-its-own-main-characters/

I haven't been terribly impressed with the gamergate people for the most part for exactly that reason. When you try to make a claim for integrity in journalism, you don't make your bedfellows with people like Breibert and Sommers.

edited 20th Sep '14 9:14:12 AM by Alichains

Oh bloody hell, I'm getting real sick of these "fact-based" photoplasty, especially in regards to pop-culture.

For fuck's sake, it's nothing but recycling from previous articles and the winner is always Aunty Meme. I'm going to echo other posters, and just give her a column and let other people do the photoshopping too!

A good number of them are still interesting, though.

The ones I hate are the "X in famous Y" plastys. Because there are always a bunch jokes that make no sense if you aren't intimately familiar with the source material.

If you're talking about the article I posted, I agree with you. These types of things feel more flavor of the month in execution.

It's not just that Auntie Meme is the winner, it's that he/she is every single entry.

Once upon a time, these fact-based photo contests were actual contests, and they were actually really good. They were leagues better than the joke contests that basically amounted to "DICK JOKES EVERYWHERE", there was a lot of variety in what was shown, they money actually kinda meant something since there were different winners, and a lot of the facts were actually stuff that Cracked hadn't covered before. Just give Auntie Meme his/her own column and go back to that.

edited 20th Sep '14 10:34:49 AM by Watchtower

Some people are starting suspect "Auntie Meme" is a fake name they can throw something together and post it under so they don't have to pay anybody.

That's some Conspiracy Keanu stuff right there, yo.