2000

lol remember three weeks ago

I sure am glad Randall spends six to twelve months between these, because it's really the editing that makes them.

1999

This whole wacky-scientist-doing-horrible-things-in-a-quirky-way thing is incredibly stale.

1998

uuuugghhhhhh

1997

ugh

1996

Randall is the kind of person who gets actually angry about things he reads on Twitter.

1995

Randall seems to have been preoccupied with death and decay lately. I pray that in contemplating his mortality he will be driven to embrace Christ.

1994

It might have been better if Randall did some kind of logistic regression showing the probability of successful repair with increasing time spent, but that would imply Randall still knows how to do math. And why does he ever spend more than 3 hours, anyway? According to the chart, if you haven't started making progress by then, you're wasting your time.

1993

Of all the possible self-driving-car hot takes, Randall had to go with the most creepily omphaloskeptic: "gee, I sure hope some other dickhead doesn't kill me with his car before this technology has a chance to benefit me!"

This is a stupid way to think about anything, but especially self-driving cars. It may come as a surprise to Randall, but car accidents are not in the top-ten causes of death in the US. The CDC reports approximately 2.7 million deaths in the US in 2015, of which car accidents were responsible for some 40,000 (1.5%): fewer even than suicide. That's right! You are statistically more likely to kill yourself on purpose than in a car accident! So what Randall is counting on is that other people's ingenuity will reduce his risk of suffering an already-relatively-improbable event. All of this could have been avoided if he'd put a y-axis on any of these charts.

1992

Well, at least it's not another one of those atrocious XKCD phones.

1991

The Theology entry should be moved, too. Even the most generous estimates put the number of gods in the millions, and they're certainly bigger than black holes.

1990

What really bothers Randall is not that the great unwashed masses can't drive cars without getting into accidents, but that they can.

1989

An XKCD comic about a Buzzfeed poll? Really? And then we follow that with a stupid Google Trends poll, and then half the comic is dedicated to omgrandom quirks? This comic limps across more finish lines than QWOP.

1988

No good story ever began with "Story time!".