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6 Badass Movie Scenes With Horrifying Unseen Consequences
We don't often pause to think about the faceless civilians who get killed in movies, and there are some movies that go so far out of their way to ignore these deaths that we can't help but wonder about the mental stability of the writers.
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986 The 5 Most Badass Musical Instruments Ever Built
Whether it's rock and roll with its blistering solos, classical with its ominous overtones, or jazz with its black people, music is already pretty damn cool. The only way it could get cooler? These:
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The 6 Most Disastrous Attempts at Internet Damage Control
They call it the Streisand Effect, and it happens any time people try to suppress Internet criticism, then see it blow up hilariously in their faces.
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- By Karl Smallwood
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9 Famous Movie Villains Who Were Right All Along
Being a movie villain is not easy. Nobody respects your work, women refuse to date you, and the heroes are always in the business of trying to straight up murder you.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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6 Ways Cities Are Getting Into the Attention-Whore Game
Sad attention grabs are something you expect from reality show characters or self-important activists, people who don't really have any dignity to lose. Surely our civic institutions are above all that. Right?
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- By Christina H
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6 Crackpot Conspiracy Theories (That Actually Happened)
in the course of looking down our noses at the nutjobs who spread urban legends and conspiracy theories, we have to sometimes stop and point out that there are downright terrifying historical precedents for even their craziest of claims.
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- By Eric Yosomono
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The 6 Most Pointless Supervillain Schemes Ever Hatched
Most supervillain schemes are pretty stupid, when you think about it: Lex Luthor wanted to get rich with a ridiculous real state scam in the first Superman movie, and that's considered a classic. Again: a real estate scam. YOU HAVE MISSILES, DUDE!
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- By Diana McCallum
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5 Things TV Writers Apparently Believe About Smart People
The key here is the characters aren't just really smart, they're incredible and borderline supernatural scientific ubermenschen who are better at their jobs than anyone has ever been at anything.
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- By C. Coville
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6 WWI Fighter Pilots Whose Balls Deserve Their Own Monument
We usually think of fighter pilots as kick ass cowboys of the sky, living out our video game fantasies and handing out bitchin' nicknames all day long. But today's fighter pilots have nothing on the first of their kind -- the ones who appeared in the first world war.
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5 Scientific Reasons The Dark Side Will Always Win
Darth Vader and his underlings apparently planned every last subtle detail, right down to the color of the spaceships and Vader's own robot voice, according to what science says works.
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- By Paul K Pickett, Trevor J Pickett
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Cracked Round Up: 2011 (?) Edition
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The 5 Ballsiest Acts of Undercover Journalism Ever
As brave as undercover cops have to be to rub elbows with mob bosses and murderers, we submit that there is one group with even bigger balls: undercover journalists. So let's pause to salute these folks.
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- By Cornelius Appin
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8 Terrifying Animal Swarms Created by Human Stupidity
Animals aren't extremely ambitious. Sometimes, however, all they need is a little helpful prodding in the right direction to start conquering everything around them like warlords.
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- By Danny Vittore, Karl Smallwood
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Why Modern War FPS Games All Look the Same [CHART]
As we've pointed out before, the gaming industry is out of ideas, and the modern war FPS is probably the best place to go for proof. To truly get a handle on the system while making us all billionaires, we figured out the formula behind the game development process. It wasn't that hard, actually.
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- By Tom Flock, Leo Dukes
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How to Play 'Who Would Win?' [COMIC]
It's a game as old and retarded as time ...
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- By Scott Meyer
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