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23 Painfully Honest Valentine's Day Cards

People play Valentine's Day pretty safe. Kids send the same cards featuring famous cartoon characters. Adults use Hallmark to write blandly complimentary things to each other. Here's what it would look like if people used valentines to express the awkward, vulnerable truth.

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19 Classic TV Shows (If They Never Got Cancelled)

If the Internet can be counted on for one thing, it's losing their collective shit every time a half-decent TV show gets cancelled. But good shows have been getting cancelled for years, as have bad and mediocre shows. We asked you to show us what some of those shows might look today if they hadn't gotten the axe.

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27 Things You Never Noticed in Famous Video Games

Nothing is as simultaneously rewarding and frustrating as discovering a hidden cheat in a game you've played hundreds of times. And while it would basically be physically impossible for something to have escaped our eye on some games, we can always hold out hope. We asked you to show us the things that would blow the most minds if they were found h

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22 Creative Ads for Illegal Activities

Advertising is one of the few industries where creativity seems follow the money. Super Bowl ads are the most expensive, and usually the most entertaining of the year. We asked you to show us what the ad would look like if criminals could throw money at ad firms instead of laundering it.

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If Politicians Ran On Issues the Internet Cares About

Obama may be the most tech savvy president to date, but his laughter at the prospect of marijuana legalization would seem to suggest he's not exactly worried about what the Internet thinks. We asked you to show us what elections might look like if politicians actually catered to the prevailing internet opinions at any given moment.

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27 Great Characters Improved by Jumping to Other Movies

We're all for originality. But we're also for every director asking themselves, 'What if we swapped in John McClane?' the night before their movie started shooting. We asked you to show us what would happen if movies borrowed great characters from other films. The winner is below, but first the runners up ...

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17 Video Games in Venn Diagram Form

Most forms of entertainment come down to combining and recombining the same old ideas. Video games are a breath of fresh air in that respect. The fact that they're constantly working with new limitations, combined with Japan's influence have made it the source of some pretty startling originality. That hasn't stopped them from using the

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If Stupid Movies Were Remade as Oscar Bait

With a slew of critically acclaimed sequels in 2011, Hollywood appears to be taking stupid movies very seriously. While they probably won't win any Oscars, seeing a Planet of the Apes prequel on The New Yorker's list of the top 10 movies of the year made us wonder what it might look like if Hollywood started remaking its stupidest movies with award

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The 17 Most Disappointing Moments of the Next 12 Months

Whether politics or apocalypse, 2012 is like the Miami Heat of new years. It began announcing itself well before it was appropriate, telling us that it would be the most important twelve months since we started tagging them with numbers. We asked you to show us all the different flavors of disappointment we'll be experiencing in our pre-ordained la

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