Alex Schmidt
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18 Video Game Universes We'd Like To Live In
Imagine you're just living your normal life, walking down the street and WHAM-- a car slams into a traffic light and the driver bails out from the cabin, firing machine guns and rocket launchers at everything in sight.
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- By Adam Ganser, Alex Schmidt, Cristian Ramirez
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How Our Personal Experience Articles Find Comedy In Tragedy
For years, Cracked's Personal Experience section has been home to some of the highest-performing articles on our site.
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- By Robert Evans, Brandon Johnson, Alex Schmidt
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Why Society Is Very Bad At Helping People Choose Jobs
Do you know what you want to do with the rest of your life?
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- By Jason Pargin, Alex Schmidt, Kristi Harrison
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Cracked Book Club: Deadeye Dick
Kurt Vonnegut's 1982 novel, Deadeye Dick plays out like a sort of greatest hits version of a Coen brothers movie.
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- By Michael Swaim, Alex Schmidt
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D&D Is So Cool Now, Prisoners Are Playing It
Thanks to those plucky kids in Stranger Things and the larger proliferation of nerd culture, we're happy to announce that Dungeons and Dragons is officially cool now.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Michael Swaim, The Sixler
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12 Animals That Could 'Planet of The Apes' Us If They Tried
If sci-fi movies have taught you one thing about species with queen-based social hierarchies, it's that you should always kill the queen.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Joey Clift, Katie Goldin, Daniel O'Brien
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Thought Experiment: Living In a No-Internet World
All the hip young kids are using a thing called the internet these days.
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- By Kristi Harrison, Brett Rader, Abe Epperson, Alex Schmidt, Saundra Sorenson, Tom Reimann
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Kurt Vonnegut Explains All of Literature in 6 Graphs
Kurt Vonnegut once said of his novel 'Slapstick': This is the closest I will ever come to writing an autobiography.
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- By Michael Swaim, Alex Schmidt
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Why Only Some Superhero Movies Qualify As Summer Movies
Big cardboard cutouts in movie theater lobbies. Promotional cups at fast food restaurants. Kickass soundtracks featuring Seal.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Tom Reimann, Abe Epperson
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20 Unheralded Geniuses Who Basically Invented Modern Movies
For many people, filmmaking begins and ends with the director.
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- By Michael Swaim, Alex Schmidt
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A Glorious History Of Failed Amusement Parks
Believe it or not, the idea of the summer break wasn't invented until very recently.
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- By Tom Reimann, Alex Schmidt, David Christopher Bell
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Vonnegut's Shot At Nixon, Capitalism And Corporations
The 70s were a weird time.
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- By Michael Swaim, Alex Schmidt
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17 Famous Movies With Insane Behind The Scenes Stories
Understatement time: movies are hard to make.
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- By Daniel O'Brien, Tom Reimann, Jamie Loftus, Alex Schmidt
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The Nerdy Stuff You Learn At A KKK Cross-Burning
Checking the news right now, things are a little, how do you say...fucked.
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- By Jack O'Brien, Daniel O'Brien, Katie Goldin, Alex Schmidt
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Our Editor-in-Chief's 4 Most Mind-Blowing Podcast Moments
Serious Talk. It's Jack's last episode.
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- By Michael Swaim, Daniel O'Brien, Mandy Rusin, Soren Bowie, Jack O'Brien, Alex Schmidt, Jason Pargin
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14 Simple Changes That Would Revolutionize Modern Life
The world is full of systems and orders that we never really question because they've seemingly exited forever.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Adam Ganser, Jack O'Brien
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How Vonnegut Wrote The Happiest Apocalypse Novel Ever
The apocalypse, a pair of neanderthal-like twins, and an army of miniaturized Chinese soldiers on Mars.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Michael Swaim
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24 Huge Historical Events That Were Secret Keggers
Even though drugs and alcohol have been a social lubricant since before we could write anything down, we like to think of history as this boring, stuffy museum exhibit where kings and queens drank iced tea, ate flavorless biscuits and had sex like our parents did (they've never had sex!).
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- By Alex Schmidt, Carmen Angelica, Michael Swaim, Jack O'Brien
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Kurt Vonnegut Book Club: Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
As our nation slowly descends into a Trump-related dystopian nightmare, one can't help but wonder what some of the great writers and thinkers who are no longer with us would have thought.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Michael Swaim
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What It's Like To Live In A Modern-Day Dystopia
Sometime around when Donald Trump started winning state primaries a year ago, the national mood went from,
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- By Jack O'Brien, Alex Schmidt, Saundra Sorenson
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