I think about this XKCD every goddam day.

I agree. I couldn’t get through the first 10 pages.

Since I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere else in the comments, I thought I’d leave this here: https://372pages.com/episode-0-a-book-were-probably-going-to-hate

“372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back” is a podcast where Mike Nelson (MST3K, Rifftrax) and Conor Lastoka (Rifftrax) read and review books they’re “pretty sure they’re going to hate”. RP1 is the first book & source of the podcast title, since it’s 372 pages. It’s like Mystery Science Theater 3000 for books and it is hilarious, I highly recommend.

I’m a little late to the party here, but I don’t see it mentioned already so I have to recommend “372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back”. Mike Nelson (MST3K, Rifftrax) and Conor Lastoka (Rifftrax) give really detailed reviews of “books they expect not to like”, aka badly-written books. Think Mystery Science Theater 3000, but with books. They’re on episode 152 and the episodes run ~2 hours. Great for long car rides.

Wait what? I saw a lemmy banner earlier today, did the admins censor it?

Movie: “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.”

Servo: “Everybody says that, but no one ever tells me the other way!” S01E12 Moon Zero 2

I also highly recommend taking an edible (if you’re into that sort of thing) and really paying attention to Cave Dwellers. That movie by itself is just batshit bonkers even without the riffs.

Final Sacrifice & Space Mutiny are at the top of my list, but I’ve rewatched them so many times I can just about recite them line for line from memory. Same with Mitchell & Sidehackers.

I’ve started more carefully watching episodes that I may have originally written off as boring or too awful to bear & I keep discovering new hilarious riffs that I missed on the first or second watch. So I’m discovering new favorites as I go. e.g. I watched Lost Continent earlier today & was in tears.

My first comment on Lemmy too! RIP RIF