Since the Golden Age of Atari, there have been video game enemies who are so unpleasant that they made us question the existence of a higher power. We at Cracked pay tribute to the rogues’ galleries of yesteryear with this list of the 10 most trouser-soiling bad guys in gaming history.
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Broadcast television remains the dominant medium for advertising, as the $9 billion upfront market attests, but its prime-time audience is gradually shrinking. Time-shifting has cushioned the declines, but in ways that are trickier to measure and pitch to marketers.
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Why the doubt? Motivation and money, say Bean and Cernan. Without the pressure of imminent international challenge, the astronauts say, the Constellation program — NASA’s next manned mission to the moon in 2020 — will lag. “We need some kind of stimulus, a commercial or international challenge to our standing in the free world,” says Cernan, 74.
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Two things about me: 1) I always have my nose buried in my iPhone. 2) I always have Google Reader open in my web browser at home. Putting those two together, you might have thought I was a heavy user of the Google Reader app for the iPhone, but I really wasn’t. I did like it a lot, but only in spurts.
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An insular industry built on horses and gambling is out of step, out of touch and out of sync with contemporary American culture.
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Barack Obama had not been in politics for long when he got his tail whipped by a veteran Chicago Congressman in his own backyard. Obama couldn’t win any of the black vote. The only ward he won was the White, Working-class Irish Catholic 19th ward- a conservative community of cops, firefighters and schoolteachers.
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Even if the primary is settled by the time Recount airs (or by the time you read this), some Democrats will feel bitter and cheated and will invoke the powerful language of 2000 all over again. If Barack Obama gets the nomination, the anger will center on the primaries in Michigan and you-know-where. (Democrats! Disenfranchised! In Florida!)
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Mr Guerro has developed a machine that can send foamy clouds as wide as 4ft and shaped like corporate logos drifting into the sky
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Some heroes fight for truth, justice and the American way. Some heroes fight for revenge. These guys here? These guys fight to get laid with underage girls and to make the universe a creepier place.
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A tour operator in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, unwittingly stumbled into the history books this weekend when he, his boat captain, and four tourists were in the right place at the right time to make the first recording ever of Orca whales hunting dolphins. [Photo]
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