I am Cracked.com senior editor and columnist JF Sargent. Sometimes they call me "Josh" because that's what the J stands for. Other times they call me "Sarge" because "Sargent" is a badass name that I received due to a technicality. I am the only Cracked writer you can trust.
Social media is an entirely new realm for interaction, and unlike royal balls and birthday parties, there aren't set standards yet. The time to make your own rules is upon you.
Anti-smoking ads present a pretty simple situation: Smoking is bad because you get addicted to the nicotine. But that's not the only reason people won't quit.
Somewhere along the line, people decided that any character in a story who is good at everything and doesn't have an obvious, crippling flaw is a Mary Sue, and furthermore that this is a bad thing.
Most disaster movies make cannon fodder out of almost every single living person on the planet who isn't a president, a fighter pilot, or the one scientist who has the key to solving the alien/meteor/whatever problem.
