Fox News headline:

PONTIUS PILATE (D-JUDEA) TO EXECUTE SAVIOUR, POSSIBLY DUE TO HOMOSEXUAL TENDANCIES

Meh. I found the Great Moments in Gratuitous Sci-Fi Nudity article to be much more entertaining.

#14 actually got a chuckle out of me.

A better Google Maps joke would be to show Pangaea.

Thomas' comment made me lol

Needed a questionnaire or quiz by the Spanish Inquisition

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Thomas' comment made me lol

Needed a questionnaire or quiz by the Spanish Inquisition

it would have to be a pop quiz. nobody would expect that.

Wellon Dowd: Meh. I found the Great Moments in Gratuitous Sci-Fi Nudity article to be much more entertaining.

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I understand pointless sex scenes that add absolutely nothing to the story, but everyone of the items this article provided was NOT gratuitous. If maybe they'd paid attention to the movies and the story instead of giggling like school girls over seeing boobies, they might have noticed that.

It's almost ironic that for all the examples they gave, they more or less provided explanations to why the nudity wasn't out of the blue or gratuitous.

I guess someone failed to look up "gratuitous".

_{/truly enjoyed all the movies they mentioned, some being on my list of my all-time favourites.}

//Dang i-net filter here at work. Says that Cracked is "Tasteless". That's the whole reason I want to go there.

What, no God unfriending Lucifer on facebook?

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Thomas' comment made me lol

Needed a questionnaire or quiz by the Spanish Inquisition

Top 10 list?

I'd laugh if it didn't make me weep for society

My personal favorite. Aaaannnd....



Did a report on the boozer when I was in high school so I'm getting a kick...

Ahh Cracked pshop contests....kinda like Fark pshop contests, but funny. At least Fark pshop contests are on the leading edge of beating memes to death....

Sasquach: Ahh Cracked pshop contests....kinda like Fark pshop contests, but funny. At least Fark pshop contests are on the leading edge of beating memes to death....


Whatchoo talkin' about?

JimmyFartpants: Sasquach: Ahh Cracked pshop contests....kinda like Fark pshop contests, but funny. At least Fark pshop contests are on the leading edge of beating memes to death....

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Whatchoo talkin' about?

I believe your post is some sort of trap....

/ah crap

ZAZ: The Google maps is a good concept but the shopper should have done more work on the details. URL should be .es or .pt instead of .ca, country names and borders are wrong, etc.

Drudge Report was funny.

buckler: I found the "E.T." game promo to be horrifying. Worst game ever, and as I understand it, there are still thousands of cartridges out in the Nevada desert where Atari buried them.

Not a good game, but not the worst ever either. Not even close to the worst you can find on the 2600 (new window). It always shows up as such on lists due to pure lazy journalism and pandering to the crowd who expect it to be there.

Atari manufactured far more than they could sell. When they were short on warehouse space they buried the extra unsold inventory.

buckler: Gordon Bennett: buckler: I found the "E.T." game promo to be horrifying. Worst game ever, and as I understand it, there are still thousands of cartridges out in the Nevada desert where Atari buried them.

Not a good game, but not the worst ever either. Not even close to the worst you can find on the 2600 (new window). It always shows up as such on lists due to pure lazy journalism and pandering to the crowd who expect it to be there.

Atari manufactured far more than they could sell. When they were short on warehouse space they buried the extra unsold inventory.

I remember having the misfortune of playing that game. It was so, so bad. Really, it was awful. I think the reason Atari may have run out of warehouse space is because the game was so very bad that none could be sold, and they had to make room for a salable product. Still, I'd love to be the guy to discover that buried cache of shame. Those have got to be worth some coin now.

discovering the actual site, and verifiying it's location is worth more than anything you could recover from that land fill. in fact, it's called a landfill for a reason. those carts, and there were also a shiat pot of other unsold along with the ET carts crushed and buried there, are buried under now almost 30 years of trash.

on top of that.. there are still OODLES of ET carts falling out of the woodwork into the market. According to Atariage.com, they are a level 1 rarity, and just as rare as a pacman cart, or a combat cart that shipped with most new systems. for a long time, the owner of that website was offering credit to his web store if sent in any of those old carts so they could rip off the Rom chip and use the board for new homebrew games.

But overall? ET is not THAT bad of a game. the reason that it is so lackluster is that the game itself was the effort of ONE SINGLE PROGRAMMER that was given a dead line of THREE WEEKS to come up with a game because the owners of atari at that time had just managed to secure the merchandising rights, and they tasked the guy with making it available before the christmas shopping season, and well.. you get what you get. it was a big, great looking opening splash screen with the atari playing the theme music.. and then.. well, then you had the game itself.

which is, if you really want to look at from its place in history is a pretty in depth game. multi levels, and continuing difficulty, an actual goal, inventory system.

the biggest problem was that the game was so HARD! you had to do stuff Juuuuuust right to move on. that was part of the problem of the game being rushed out so fast. the whole thing was pretty much just a rough sketch of what the programmer wanted to accomplish.

and all that in under 4k of ROM space.

So atari rushed it out to capitalize on the Christmas market, made a metric shiat load of them, sold a shiat load of them, and were left with a shiat ton of overstock once Christmas rolled around and the consumer was done with all that ET shiat. In particularly when most people couldn't figure out how to avoid dropping into the pits, and what to do if you did

T0J0: wtf is nukes?