Jason Pargin
I am the Executive Editor of Cracked.com and NYT bestselling author David Wong, which is the pseudonym of a real person named Jason Pargin.
7 Creepy Ways Corporations Are Turning You Into an Addict
All of you who think you have no addictions are about to lose a game you don't even know you're playing.
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How Cracked Is About to Ruin Science Fiction Forever
Isaac Asimov once told me something that has inspired everything we've tried to do here at Cracked: 'Science fiction can eat a dick.'
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How One Terrible Movie Ruined Hollywood
This Week in WTF Pop Culture History: 'Waterworld' teaches Hollywood how to make money off of big-budget garbage.
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5 Ways You're Sabotaging Your Own Life (Without Knowing It)
When people ask you what your long-term goals are, will your answer hold true 10 years down the line?
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A 60 Second Guide to Learning the Awful Truth About Yourself
This won't take but a minute, and I promise this won't be a waste of your time.
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12 Video Game Annoyances That Need to Die (Part 1)
I want games that can whisk me away to other worlds and inspire me with the kind of fantastic stories and characters that kept me from leaving my room for most of my childhood. But I'm losing faith.
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6 Ways You're About to Get Screwed by the Job Market
You're about to enter a system that is so rigged against you that you'll think it's all an elaborate prank.
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5 Insane Lessons Tucked Into Famous Movies
What I find fascinating is that occasionally Hollywood will crank out a beautifully made film that is received with universal praise but whose moral is just utterly bizarre.
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5 Manly Things That Are Going Away Forever
I don't know how soon (people who write about future trends are not in fact claiming to be time-traveling wizards), but some staples of 'manliness' are going away forever.
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The 5 Most Useless Pieces of Advice Everyone Gives
It turns out that humans are pretty bad at talking to each other.
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Help! We're Losing All Our Writers to Fame and Fortune
We want to give you money to write for us. Seriously.
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5 Signs the Tech Industry Finally Ran Out of Ideas in 2013
Like many of you, a love of gadgets is what I have instead of a soul. So when I say that 2013 was the year consumer tech completely ran out of ideas, I'm not coming at this like a Luddite.
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5 Popular Beliefs That Are Holding Humanity Back
In order to keep humanity from imploding, we have to give up believing these things.
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The 6 Weirdest Things We've Learned Since 9/11
I'm starting to think we overreacted to the terrorism thing.
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7 Reasons the World Looks Worse Than It Really Is
We're living in the glorious golden age of civilization and that life is improving for the species at a dizzying rate not even hippies could have hoped for in their smelliest dreams.
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13 Photos That Shatter Your Image of Famous People (Part 2)
Famous people manage their image carefully. Thankfully the Internet still finds ways to discover the truth.
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5 Things Every Game Company Gets Wrong About Gamers
I play games for the same reason you do: because killing is the only thing that makes the headaches go away. But the more I see, the more I think game companies don't understand us at all.
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