# I'm addicted to Crack(ed) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 30, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567 "2011-11-30T16:02:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/21 "2011-12-01T16:59:53Z")
> [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#): > > I love Cracked… the website is way funnier than the magazine ever was back when they were competing with MAD Magazine. One question, though: Why do they always split the articles into two pages or more (even the short ones)? For those of us reading with mobile RSS readers, it gets damned annoying. The smartphone app has the articles on a single page. Don’t know if that’s an option for you, but the app is pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![EKDS5k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@EKDS5k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EKDS5k)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/22 "2011-12-01T17:17:28Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I find it depends on the article, and perhaps the author. The ones that are a couple paragraphs per point are pretty good. The ones that are five paragraphs per subpoint are not. > > Not because the latter can’t be good, but because they just don’t have enough material to keep it up. > > But the thing that bugs me is that they don’t name their photoplasty images. Of course you want a chance to figure them out on your own, but it’s also nice to be able to look at the answers if you’re stumped. Even most word games have answers at the bottom. I love Cracked, and I usually find that they have one or two articles a day that I enjoy reading. But their photoplasty contests are the worst. Some of them are good ideas, but the average execution is terrible. I would check out Fark’s photoshop threads, or Something Awful’s Photoshop Phridays for examples that are both clever and well done. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/23 "2011-12-01T20:34:20Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > The smartphone app has the articles on a single page. Don’t know if that’s an option for you, but the app is pretty good. I meant to mention I do use the smartphone app, but it doesn’t inform me when there are updates like my RSS reader does. ---
**Author:** ![EKDS5k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@EKDS5k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EKDS5k)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/24 "2011-12-02T02:05:33Z")
> [@Namkcalb](#): > > Lightweight! if you are man enough for the heavy stuff, [click this link](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Cracked) > > If there is a hell for timewasters, I’m damned to go there. That link leads to time travel. By the time I was finished, it was two hours later. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/25 "2011-12-02T04:32:21Z")
I really enjoy reading the lists, but I have to say that whoever writes the titles has an absurdly low standard as to what constitutes “insane.” It seems like every other list on there is “insane” this and “insane” that when it’d be more accurate to say, oh, “kind of interesting” or “somewhat coincidental.” If I see one more of these needlessly hyperbolic titles, I might go … oh, I don’t know. I’m having a hard time thinking of the right word. ---
**Author:** ![constanze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@constanze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/constanze)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/26 "2011-12-02T13:37:53Z")
> [@sparky\_1](#): > > Granted, I make tons of errors, but I’m not paid two to write for a living. (Pointed out errors) Is this Gaudere’s law or just irony? ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/27 "2011-12-02T13:48:24Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > I like reading the comments on the articles too, but I can’t stand every time there’s a Christina H. article someone HAS to point out how shitty it is because it’s a Christina H. article. To be fair, it happens to pretty much everybody on the site not named Michael Swaim or seanbaby. It seems to be a newbie curse more than anything, first Gladstone, then Bucholtz, now Christina. > [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#): > > I love Cracked… the website is way funnier than the magazine ever was back when they were competing with MAD Magazine. One question, though: Why do they always split the articles into two pages or more (even the short ones)? For those of us reading with mobile RSS readers, it gets damned annoying. WAY back when David Wong was beginning his exodus from [PointlessWasteOfTime.com](http://PointlessWasteOfTime.com) to Cracked as assistant editor, he made a choice to split articles into pages because they thought the average article length was too daunting looking on one page, they found that people got discouraged or instantly bored when the scroll bar got tiny. They went REALLY overboard for a while, if you look at articles from 3-4 years ago you’ll see articles split into as many pages as there were list elements. Eventually they settled on a more sane, even compromise of 2-3 pages depending on word count. ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/28 "2011-12-02T17:34:35Z")
> [@constanze](#): > > (Pointed out errors) > > Is this Gaudere’s law or just irony? It was supposed to be silly, silly. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/29 "2011-12-02T21:44:35Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > They have some really good articles on there, but they have so many ads that it takes each page a while to load, and all the flashing and blinking and singing and dancing is really annoying. This is almost exactly what I was going to say. I’ve read some really good stuff there, stuff that rates highly on the Humor scale or the Truth scale or both—but I don’t go there nearly as often as I would if the site weren’t so damn busy and ad-ful and take so long to load. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/30 "2011-12-02T23:55:09Z")
I add my voice to cardinal\_fang and garygnu praising Seanbaby as the funniest man on the internet by far. I really shouldn’t be saying anything here, but in addition to this internet we’re all familiar with there is another secret internet, and he is the funniest man on both of them. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/31 "2011-12-03T20:35:11Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > I like reading the comments on the articles too, but I can’t stand every time there’s a Christina H. article someone HAS to point out how shitty it is because it’s a Christina H. article. I like her stuff. The banner heading “Let me tell you about my cats” always makes me laugh for some reason and a few weeks ago she wrote an article about [driving](http://www.cracked.com/blog/9-bad-drivers-nobody-complains-about/) that I thought was spot on. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/32 "2011-12-03T22:54:22Z")
I’ve heard of Cracked but never been. Can someone who is familiar with the site link a few articles that are typical of the site, so that I can see what it’s like? I don’t want to pick at random because I could end up picking sucky articles and getting the wrong feel for the site. Thanks in advance, I hope it’s not too much trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/33 "2011-12-03T23:58:15Z")
I could spend hours on that site – it’s such a time suck. You read one article, and then you see one at the bottom that looks interesting, and then another, and another… (TV Tropes, on the other hand, I’ve never been able to get into.) ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/34 "2011-12-04T01:02:50Z")
I was up all night once reading the articles by John Cheese. Particularly the autobiographical ones (quitting drinking, quitting smoking, what it’s like to be poor) are flat out good writing. If he published a book, I’d buy it. [http://www.cracked.com/members/John%20Cheese/](http://www.cracked.com/members/John%20Cheese/) ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/35 "2011-12-04T01:03:53Z")
This should be required reading. [http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things-nobody-tells-you-about-being-poor/](http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things-nobody-tells-you-about-being-poor/) ---
**Author:** ![iftheresaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecae2f/32.png) [@iftheresaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iftheresaway)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/36 "2011-12-04T01:51:24Z")
I’ve had to make a rule for myself that I’m not allowed to use the “open link in new tab” function while reading Cracked. I would read an article, spot 3 or 4 more I was interested in in the links at the bottom, open all of those in new tabs, then read one of the new articles, spot 2 or 3 different interesting links… before I knew it, I’d have 20 tabs open just for Cracked. Now I only let myself have one Cracked tab at a time. It hasn’t stopped me from wasting hours at a time on the site, but at least my tab bar doesn’t look ugly and crowded. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/37 "2011-12-04T01:53:44Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > I’ve heard of Cracked but never been. Can someone who is familiar with the site link a few articles that are typical of the site, so that I can see what it’s like? I don’t want to pick at random because I could end up picking sucky articles and getting the wrong feel for the site. Thanks in advance, I hope it’s not too much trouble. Is this a serious request? ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/38 "2011-12-04T02:21:25Z")
We need some love for the twisted awesomeness of seanbaby’s [Man comics](http://www.cracked.com/blog/man-comics-ii-fuckin-a-comics/) series and Brockway’s [“Choose Your Own Drug Fueled Misadventure”](http://www.cracked.com/blog/choose-your-own-drug-fueled-misadventure-flight-of-terror/) series. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/39 "2011-12-04T02:44:11Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > I’ve heard of Cracked but never been. Can someone who is familiar with the site link a few articles that are typical of the site, so that I can see what it’s like? I don’t want to pick at random because I could end up picking sucky articles and getting the wrong feel for the site. Thanks in advance, I hope it’s not too much trouble. No offense, **Opal** , but there is no article “typical” of the site, and even if there was, why should we go and do your surfing for you? Jesus, just go over and check it out for yourself. Besides, your idea of a “sucky article” might be totally different from my idea of one. Christ. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/40 "2011-12-04T02:49:56Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > I’ve heard of Cracked but never been. Can someone who is familiar with the site link a few articles that are typical of the site, so that I can see what it’s like? I don’t want to pick at random because I could end up picking sucky articles and getting the wrong feel for the site. Thanks in advance, I hope it’s not too much trouble. [This one](http://www.cracked.com/article_15816_the-5-most-horrifying-bugs-in-world.html) used to get constantly linked to here. I’d say it’s pretty typical. (Warning: not for entomophobes. May cause nightmares). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567.md?page=3)