The Cracked Thread

Gods the 'you are not a person' claptrap in that thing was just disturbing.

Reading the comments was more worth than reading this "here have an overdose of guilt trip" article.

David is just wong on this one.

It is quite an opinion for someone who, as the comments pointed out, hires mostly white and mostly male writers.

edited 19th May '15 5:03:32 PM by phantom1

Gotta find my sunglasses, I'm blinded by the sunshine blasting out of Wong's ass.

Apparently, Cuba has a vaccine that can cure lung cancer,is this true?

So, for some days...weeks...months...people here talked about cracked's...schizophrenic quality and clickbait-ty tendencies (hello good ol' Title Guy). Now i propose something. Don't post direct links, rather, make archived links. Maybe you heard about the wayback machine, here i'll show archive.today. First page; second page. Views are counted when you request a page load to cracked's servers, these links save the html document in their own servers, thus cracked does not get views, denying them from money (from ads). It's our form of saying "You make terrible quality? Okay, we won't give you clickbait money.". Note that has limitations, it just saves the html document, the comments (in cracked's site, there are variants) aren't part of it, they load separatedly and you'll need to load the page directly. Remember that every grain of sand counts. If you want to give them clicks, the archive page has a link at the very top.

@mods: if this infringes some rule, feel free to take action. I'll just leave this as a suggestion, you are free to consider it.

I am reasonably certain that qualifies as a form of piracy.

It also seems really petty.

Don't recommend it. I often disagree with the stances on Cracked articles, but it's their job, and if I want to read them, then I'm giving them the pageviews. Adblock is totally legit tho

That's ingenious, but it's a lot of work, not to mention i'm not being forced to visit the site. I just read what looks interesting. I wonder too if they keep track of how much traffic there is to the main page vs the articles.

It's kinda ironic since if I recall cracked has given this site several plugs in the past, possibly contributing to its popularity, and yet a common opinion here is that cracked has declined in quality over the years

It's okay you have that stance. Personally i dislike cracked's general dependence of opinion pieces, but i won't force you to anything.

Now have a gift for talking calmly.◊

Wong's article: Some points I disagreed with but I agreed with the general idea of, "Aside yourself as an individual, there is a wider context to consider."

I don't mind. I see something similar used for Kotaku's articles.

Yeah I don't disagree we are part of a greater whole, I just think he went a little far in denying the existence of the individual.

My impression was rather that it needed strong de-emphasis.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-people-who-died-went-to-hell-then-came-back/

adam tod brown but an interesting one

How Atheists are not helping their case.

I've been in the comments on that last one. Many of the commentators strike me as spectacularly missing the point, possibly proving one of the points of the piece.

I took the article as being kind of like how some Progressive Christian bloggers I read love to call-out people who are the "public face" and their followers and certain dogmas on everything they think they're doing wrong. It's kind of neat to see other people do that to "their group" once in a while.

edited 22nd May '15 12:27:08 AM by Shadsie

http://www.cracked.com/article_22382_6-propaganda-campaigns-that-backfired-hilariously_p2.html

This left me in a good mood, until I saw that dipshit holocaust denier shitting on the comment section.

I agree with this comment:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-i ... e-success/

Article on the Marvel universe, and why no no else can replicate it's success.

Just to drive home how repetitive Cracked has become on this topic, when I first saw this one, I thought it was the video from yesterday with a new title and didn't realise my mistake until 35 minutes later.

2 and 1 on that list are probably the most worrisome thing about the other cinematic universes. The Amazing Spider-Man Series was a victim of 2, and even some past Marvel directors have been a victim of 1.

And it all ties back into #5. The MCU isn't going anywhere any time soon. They've got some development problems of their own going on behind the scenes, but as far as the final products that come out, they've got their shit pretty well together. We can mourn the loss of what could have been with Edgar Wright's Ant-Man but that doesn't change the fact that Final Product Ant-Man is going to make a mint, like all MCU movies do.

The MCU is going to keep on selling as the MCU does, and that's all the shared universe people really need. The other studios don't have half as much experience or artistic unity with the concept that Marvel has and probably never will, so people are going to keep right on going back to Marvel even if it means snubbing the others' work.

Nobody does James Bond like James Bond. Nobody does Star Wars like Star Wars. And nobody does the Superhero Shared Universe like the Marvel Cinematic Universe. So long as the Champion is standing here in the ring, there isn't room for the other contenders; they need to find their own niches to carve, because not everyone likes a Superhero Shared Universe and maybe those fans would pay good money to see y'all do other things.

I think it's a little myopic to say that no other studio could possibly do a good hared universe of their own.