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7 Hilarious Monsters That Are Widely Feared in Japan. If you want something done right, where "right" also inexplicably includes "crazy" in the definition, you go to the Japanese.

7 Hilarious Monsters That Are Widely Feared in Japan

Their entire culture is a gift to the rest of the world, at once awesome and full of ninjas yet depraved and dripping with panty vending machines. I would have traded my third nut to be born in Japan, but alas, it was never meant to be, so I can only love them from afar as I do my Australian friends. The Japanese, like all peoples with a rich and robust history, have a detailed pantheon of gods and monsters that flavor their folklore and stories. Unlike the rest of the world, though, a full 50 percent of the myths from Japan exist solely to confuse and befuddle those who hear about them, because they only make sense in the way a porn star makes a good role model. The 8 Most Misleadingly Awesome Movie Posters. As a kid, I made a mental catalog of all the movies I saw in the video store that I desperately wanted to watch based solely on the awesomeness of their covers.

The 8 Most Misleadingly Awesome Movie Posters

I wasn't allowed to rent any of them at the time, but I knew that one day I'd be old enough to make all the horrible decisions I wanted. This was in the late '80s and early '90s, when you couldn't just hop onto Wikipedia and look up an insanely detailed plot synopsis for every movie ever made, such as this one for Running Scared, which has a higher word count than the number of people who have actually seen Running Scared. I had to rely on the bitchingness of the cover art and let my imagination do the rest.

When I was finally old enough, I sprinted through the video store, snatching all those movies up like I was stealing pterodactyl eggs to pass the Warrior's Trial of Fleetness and Stone on my 16th nameday. . #8. New World Pictures. 15 Real Sci-Fi Technologies About to Change the World Slideshow. The 7 Most Disastrous Typos Of All Time. We've all experienced the sting of the typo.

The 7 Most Disastrous Typos Of All Time

Whether it's spelling your boss Ted's name with an A and two S's in a company wide email or listing "jail" as your previous residence on a job application, they can happen to anyone, and often at the most unfortunate times. The 6 Most Over-Hyped Threats to America (And What Should Scare You Instead) Some say that the government and the media are partners in a vast conspiracy, with a goal of making you so afraid that you'll submit to their every desire.

The 6 Most Over-Hyped Threats to America (And What Should Scare You Instead)

And, well-that sounds about right. 6 Insane Discoveries That Science Can't Explain. We like to feel superior to the people who lived centuries ago, what with their shitty mud huts and curing colds by drilling a hole in their skulls.

6 Insane Discoveries That Science Can't Explain

But we have to give them credit: They left behind some artifacts that have left the smartest of modern scientists scratching their heads. For instance, you have the following enigmas that we believe were created for no other purpose than to fuck with future generations. 5 Amazing Abandoned Wastelands ... Within Walking Distance. Abandoned places have a certain exotic appeal.

5 Amazing Abandoned Wastelands ... Within Walking Distance

There's something in these haunting images that speaks to us about the crumbling of society's facades, the fleeting nature of civilization, the implacable will of nature and the ability to throw bottles at shit without The Man giving you guff. But short of something horrible, like a major apocalyptic disaster or a mid-length hike, how could you ever get to see the post-apocalyptic world of tomorrow, today? Well, hell, son: These things are all around you. Some of the craziest abandoned places in the world are here in the cities we live in, in some cases literally right beneath your feet at this very moment. #5.

North Brother Island is a 20-acre plot of land in New York that lies completely empty. In the 19th century, a hospital for infectious diseases was housed on North Brother Island. The 7 Most Terrifyingly Huge Things in the History of Nature. We may be the undisputed kings of the food chain, but when it comes to being pant-soilingly huge, we come up a bit short.

The 7 Most Terrifyingly Huge Things in the History of Nature

We can hang out with tiny dogs and house cats until we feel like the T-Rex of our home -- but in the back of our mind, we know. Nature has produced terrifyingly huge and horrific organisms that could kill us without noticing, either by stepping on us, accidentally swallowing us the way we might swallow a fly or simply stopping our heart with sheer terror. A Crab as Big as Your Car They say a picture is worth a thousand words. 7 (Thankfully) Extinct Giant Versions of Modern Animals. The animal kingdom is loaded with some pretty formidable creatures, a few of which we as humans are only barely able to keep in line even with modern technology. As it turns out, many of these species are the diminutive descendents of giants so mind bogglingly huge and terrifying that they could probably take over the entire world with minimal effort. 6 Ancient Sports Too Awesome For the Modern World. It's amazing how crazy people get about sports these days, especially considering how much sports suck compared to what they used to be.

6 Ancient Sports Too Awesome For the Modern World

The 6 Greatest Video Games We'll Never Get to Play. As I briefly touched on in this article, the one thing common to every gamer I know is that they all have at least one revolutionary, brilliant, perfect and heartbreakingly unrealized "I Have a Game" concept: some combination of elements, some untapped property or some new direction for a sequel that just never got made, but would shake the gaming world to the core if it did.

The 6 Greatest Video Games We'll Never Get to Play

The single greatest tragedy in gaming isn't what that manipulative bitch Peach is doing to poor Mario's heart; it's that, though we will get endless iterations of Call of Battle: Duty Field from now until the heat death of the universe, we'll never see these masterpieces get made. But fuck that noise: This is the Internet. This is where dreams come true, even (hell, especially) the awful ones. Why can't we have these? Indie games have more of a market than ever, talented designers are increasingly going freelance and Kickstarter and similar programs are disseminating funding outside of the old publisher model. . #6. 6 New Weapons That You Literally Cannot Hide From. Wars have been won and lost purely on the ability of one side to hide really well.

6 New Weapons That You Literally Cannot Hide From

Even a superior enemy can't take you out if they can't find you. Give ancient Rome barbarian-seeking arrows, and we'd still be wearing sandals to the bath house to wipe ourselves with sticks. OK, bad example. Finally, in the 21st century, technology is catching up to the problem with weapons that almost seem like cheating. 7 Insanely Advanced Weapons History Somehow Forgot About. As we have mentioned before, technological breakthroughs aren't always built upon or improved -- oftentimes they're just outright forgotten, destroyed or lost to some ridiculous accident. The same goes with military technology. Some ancient weapons were literally centuries ahead of their time yet wound up in the trash when society decided they were simply too awesome for their time. Like ... 14th-Century Cruise Missiles. 6 New Weapons That Are Making War Look Like a Cartoon. Let's face it: If you told Genghis Khan or Alexander the Great that current wars are fought using giant metallic birds that poop explosives all over people, they'd think you were shitting them.

Then they'd probably cut your face off and feed it to their dogs, just because. Likewise, when we see the prototypes that weapons designers are testing, we realize the battlefield of the future will be utterly insane. So imagine you're on the battlefield of the future. 7 Bizarre Trends That Predict an Economic Collapse. #3. Advertisements Get Nastier Getty During a bad economy, advertisers have figured out that the best marketing strategy is a big, fat "Fuck you. " Usually, there's a line drawn in the sand between competing companies that keeps everything fairly civil. Commercials tout how superior their product is without explicitly naming the competition. 5 Animals We Should Be Eating [CHART]