The Cracked Thread

I see we have a connoisseur here.

edited 28th Aug '15 11:42:33 AM by Aetol

This one of the perks of still frequently visiting 4chan.

You see the stuff whether you want or not.

The draw threads are full of people requesting R34 material and the OP delivering in the same thread.

6 iconic weapons with baffling design flaws cross posted in the Military thread

It doesn't matter if it had a million flaws, those worked and that's what counts.

http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1892-i-got-kidnapped-by-terrorists-threw-one-off-mountain.html

A Robert Evans article with no prostitutes this time.

edited 31st Aug '15 6:37:14 AM by AngelusNox

7 Times Being Totally Cheap Resulted In Movie Magic

8 Insane Things I Did After Being Kidnapped By Terrorists

5 Myths About Domestic Abuse Everyone Believes

Remember that awful article where they moved male DV victims?

They're off the hook now.

Do we know who wrote that before the article got gutted?

http://www.cracked.com/article_22802_5-common-sense-solutions-that-make-everything-worse_p2.html

You know what the worst thing tin the comments section is?

Coupling a good joke as a reply to a shitty one and watching it climb while the parent joke remains low and worthless.

I hate that you get downvoted so much, That Indian Guy. Squirtle must be working hard to try and get a rise out of you.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-people-who-are-ruining-online-gaming

Aside from #3 all the others entries are great specially #1, and I do indeed deal with a lot of them specially in BF 4.

I mentioned that one as "The lemming" in my comment but it is buried already.

edited 3rd Sep '15 12:04:52 PM by AngelusNox

I'm surprised they didn't mention the clueless pubbie in that list. Never listens, never communicates, never does anything competent.

Number 3 was a really stupid example. Girls aren't the only ones who don't talk in online games. Even with that said they don't generally fear talking in-game either as the assholes are the minority that get's told to shut up by everyone anyway. I think the writer should of replaced that with the mute pubbie that pretty much everyone deals with as the troper above me elaborates on....

Yeah aside from number 3 it was a good article.

So, going back to the No Escape thing, I guess (spoilers, not that anyone cares)... I guess the film ends with the family being saved by the Vietnamese Army. Does the lack of America Saves the Day save the movie in anyone's eyes?

I'll have to watch it to decide that.

Well, Cracked has officially lost my readership.

The weirdest article drove me over the edge, too.

There is an article there about psychics. I am not into that kind of thing. I am as skeptical of anyone claiming special powers as any reasonable, mundane person is. However, the Title Guy screwed the pooch by giving the piece the final title of "Insane Psychics Who Prove The Afterlife is a Fraud."

I am not linking because I do not want to directly give Cracked any more traffic.

First of all, I clicked the bait because I wanted to see how arrogant Cracked was being with this title (completely ignoring the number of people and entire religions that believe in an afterlife but who disdain psychics). What I EXPECTED was a takedown of famous mediums (like what they've done before) - The Long-Island Medium lady and the late Sylvia Browne and such... what I GOT was a bunch of silly-fortune tellers who had jack-all to do with the afterlife (with the exception of one lady who read life-energy from thrift store finds, whom I thought was cute because I like to guess at what things were once used for, too).

But, you know, someone telling you your emotional state from a foot-massage or reading your (living) dog's astrology-chart isn't exactly... afterlife-y... at all.

I was expecting mediums and got smalls. It was just a classic bait and switch that left me feeling cheated.

And this has come after a long series of not only needlessly-mean-spirited things I've seen on there (more Nelsonian "har-hars" than the writers being witty anymore), but of the place NOT KNOWING WHAT WORDS MEAN.

I've been in a residual seething over some of their latest takes on fan fiction hobby, particularly a recent video in which the crew there just arbitrarily decided to lump in some completely original, non-fan short Kindle e-fiction in with "fan fiction' because said e-fictions were about weird sex, sex with unicorns and dinosaurs and such. It WASN'T FAN FICTION as it had no "using others intellectual property" basis, and yet, they decided, apparently, to change the definition of "fan fiction" to "stuff with weird sex."

So, between confusing Divination with Mediumship (not supporting either by knowing what the definitions are) and Fan Fiction with Original Flash Fiction...seemingly ON PURPOSE...

When Cracked stops KNOWING THE BASIC DEFINTIONS OF WORDS, that's when my English-gland gets offended and I feel like... "Okay, they've lost me."

The sad thing is, I had contemplated writing for them for a time. They've lost that, too.

I was expecting mediums and got smalls.

Okay, that was pretty funny. But as much as I like to mock them, articles shouldn't be judged by the title changes, which is outside of the authors' hands.

"5-insane-psychics-you-wont-believe-people-pay-money-to-see"

Is the title in the url.

.#2 was the only one I didn't think belonged in the list. She was honest and actually said to go to a real doctor, not her, for medical advice. That doesn't sound like "an insane psychic"

edited 4th Sep '15 3:00:14 PM by Xopher001

Yeah, the original title actually made sense. I was browsing the comments and almost everyone is annoyed at that title change.

When I saw it, I thought, "Oh, arrogant Cracked giving a hyperbolic title that is either going to make sense with some tongue-in-cheek humor or show that they've got one of their anti-theists who likes to lump in all beliefs with frauds on the writing/titling job again." In any case, I clicked expecting to see someone run down cold reading methods done by John Edwards or to talk about the Long-Island hair-lady again - people who actually claim to talk to ghosts. Not... some woman who will rub my feet and tell me about my day or does hobby star-charts.

Title guy has bait and switched me for the last time. I mean... it makes me angry in a way that my hubby was angry when we were thinking about getting a new Internet/TV service cheaper than the one we have now and the flier that advertised an entire package as such was actually very trimmed down an different when he called the the place and that to get what we want, we'd wind up with the same kind of bill we have with our current place unless we want to trim back on some things (which we probably ought to do). But he was so angry at the bait and switch that we decided, "No, we hate you on principle." and stuck where we are.

It's not just Title Guy... as I've said, I've been having problems with the site for a while. I think if I were to make a Dethrowning Moment entry, it would be that video on fan fiction, which the Title Guy had nothing to do with because it was an entire group screwing things up, right in the video. That and their hobby-pissing articles are in-article.

edited 4th Sep '15 3:52:08 PM by Shadsie

There was a time when I would wait everyday for their articles to upload. It was the time when it was mostly historical, animal, and other interesting world facts in the articles. Kinda miss that time. Did they run out of facts or something?

http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1810-6-insane-and-disgusting-things-you-learn-as-zookeeper.html

Well their Po V articles still good, as long as Robert stays away from sex workers.

From what I can tell they shifted there attention to clickbait, controversy, and and messy political articles more to replace that. It hasn't gone over well as they are alienating parts of there audience via doing that (Title Guy isn't helping as he has been perpetuating the clickbait stuff in purpose).

Cracked still has writers and journalists that do the topics you are asking for. They just aren't writing as often as they used to though...

I've said it before but I'm glad cheese is back now. I didn't used to like him so much but after a year of other people trying to do what he did, but worse, Im glad. Like yeah he tries to teach life lessons more than crack jokes but he isnt high and mighty about it.