XKCD Still Sucks

Sunday, May 23, 2021

Disappointed, though by no means surprised, to learn that Randall thinks 20th century authors are better than 19th century authors

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UnknownMay 24, 2021 at 8:29 AM
I don't even understand this. Like, take "toxicology". Some weird personification of toxicology shows up? Or the subject of the study shows up, which would be poison, I guess, and that's why it's bad?

Because I don't understand why it would be bad for toxicology to appear, but good for child psychology to appear considering that neither are physical things that can manifest in reality.
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Why This Matters

As the years drag on, the early, golden years of XKCD constitute an ever-smaller fraction of its lifespan. The jokes have passed from whimsical, through insufferable, to positively Garfieldian. Today they are mostly just dated, written by and for the kind of people who still think Neil deGrasse Tyson is cool. I have not Greg's bonhommie or Carl's sheer malice, but this torch must be kept burning, however feebly; and so it is with the greatest humility and respect for hateblogs past that I join the succession of pyramid-kickers.