lol he was in Babylon 5 as well
https://www.tcdb.com/Images/Cards/Non-Sport/81113/81113-5764148Fr.jpg
― soref, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 14:09 (one year ago) link
I think I did sign up for it with my first email account, iirc it was mostly him talking about "Dilbert's Desktop Games" but I do remember at one point he'd emailed out this story about the time where he sat on a plane in the middle seat and the people on both sides of him were reading "The Dilbert Principle" and convulsing with laughter, even telling him "I'm sorry this book is just so funny!" not realizing they were sitting next to him, after which he pulled out his pen and drew a picture of Dogbert, then the whole plane stood up and clapped. And that passengers name? Jerry Seinfeld. Anyway I was in high school then and I remember seeing that and going "oh no...this guy is totally full of it"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 14:43 (one year ago) link
your principal was jerry seinfeld and the whole school stood up and clapped?
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 15:02 (one year ago) link
I, too, was the kind of sicko child who read Dilbert crap in the 90s. I think it was somehow relatable because it had computers and authority figures that seemed bad, but I was supposed to tolerate their presence for some reason. And Dilbert's office seemed to create products of some sort, although not very well.
The books were just weird. I don't think any Dilbert strip ever resulted in more than a soft chuckle, and the book material was just completely divorced from reality. At least if you read Dilbert as a kid at that point, you could one day walk into an office, look around at the cubicles and photocopier, and think "hmm, just like Dilbert"
I'm also not letting this slide by without calling it out as being hilarious: he said he knew hypnotism was real because he was once "hypnotized" into spending thousands of dollars on camgirls
― mh, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 15:04 (one year ago) link
That literally sounds like a stand-up's joke
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link
this is a legit funny joke imo, worth more than a soft chuckle
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bur2WghCYAAz28x.png
― soref, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 15:11 (one year ago) link
lol obv I like that one
― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 15:12 (one year ago) link
oh yeah another thing I remembered was while he was getting famous blogging about Trump he also kept talking up this app called Whenhub that he was the CSO and the primary investor of. thing is it was totally unclear what this app was supposed to do, apparently it was a way for divorced parents to coordinate drop off times for their kids, then it became sort of a social media thing, then it wound up using cryptocurrency somehow. the only time people talked about it was when Adams said that those present at the Gilroy shooting could make a lot of money (or WhenHub tokens?) by live broadcasting themselves on his app.
https://www.mediaite.com/online/dilbert-guy-scott-adams-condemned-for-exploiting-mass-shooting-to-promote-his-app/
in other words it was basically the software product that Dilbert's company made, this nebulous thing with a million features and no actual use case. he actually made it.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
So not only does the Dilberito flash game absolutely exist, you can still play it over at https://t.co/B19ZhXD7w2. Highlights include: Dilberito, the Dilbert branded frozen microwavable burrito, is considered the most nutritious food. Game ends with dancing on your nemesis' grave pic.twitter.com/LE4LlJJDit— Tarnished Holly Green (@winnersusedrugs) March 9, 2020
― mh, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 16:57 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqD1an2aAAAUUKP?format=jpg&name=medium
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Thursday, 2 March 2023 06:16 (one year ago) link
Perfect.
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Thursday, 2 March 2023 11:56 (one year ago) link
yikes
Summary https://t.co/KYISqScgsw— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) March 1, 2023
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 March 2023 15:28 (one year ago) link
I don't think we're going to get a redemption narrative
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 2 March 2023 15:32 (one year ago) link
he has never admitted being wrong or even ignorant before and he's not about to start now
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 2 March 2023 15:39 (one year ago) link
lol, local paper replaced it with "Curtis"
― pplains, Monday, 6 March 2023 18:46 (one year ago) link
even worse it's the strip where he's spraypainting "down with white people" on the sidewalk
― frogbs, Monday, 6 March 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
It's too bad "The Boondocks" isn't around anymore.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 6 March 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/scott-adams-returns-with-new-strip-dilbert-reborn-now-with-f-words/
baby wake up. Dilbert can now say the F word
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 03:34 (one year ago) link
Which one?
― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 03:40 (one year ago) link
― pplains, Monday, March 6, 2023 1:46 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
turn that "rap" junk down!!
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 04:03 (one year ago) link
the Curtis Kwanzaa strips rule
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 11:28 (one year ago) link
oooooh the gloves are off
https://i.ibb.co/WB5bSGx/lha9p10udzsa1.png
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 18:56 (one year ago) link
as a liberal, this makes me cry
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 18:59 (one year ago) link
Is the editorial line that the idiot boss is good now
― michel goindry (wins), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link
by dilbert logic, boss must v soon agree w dave and make crt corporate policy/indoctrination rule right
― Laurie Anderson’s Singing Bowl Migraine Orchestra (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 19:18 (one year ago) link
Yes the boss has been recast as Always Right, Actually in recent years. And of course he is, otherwise how could he be the boss?
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 09:35 (one year ago) link
I know pointing out how lazy dilbert is aesthetically qualifies as 90s nostalgia, but that third panel with the utterly pointless exterior view is infuriating. I assume it's essentially a stock image he can use in any strip but ffs
― rob, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 14:19 (one year ago) link
published in 2020, now online: Incel Supernova: From a Single Comic Strip to the End of the Universe with Scott Adams
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 19:51 (one year ago) link
been staring at this for 15 mins, trying to decipher it like it's frigging hammurabi's code pic.twitter.com/wfX88QVdi4— gg 🙊🙈🙉 (@gina_goldberg) May 24, 2023
― serving aunt (stevie), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 13:03 (one year ago) link
this is how I find out I'm trans
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 18:58 (one year ago) link
it's somehow even worse in context! some men really only conceive of woman as accessories that display your social power. need more asexual acceptance or something
― mh, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 19:23 (one year ago) link
Not sure if this is his worst tweet ever, but it's in the top ten at least.
Imagine jailing an ex-president when lawyers can't agree on how to interpret the laws and the public is not allowed to see the secret documents to judge how important they are.I think 40% of the public would stop paying taxes until that got fixed.— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) June 17, 2023
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 17 June 2023 22:52 (one year ago) link
Don’t be the last one to stop paying taxes you dilshit. no really, do it, just quit payin, in fact tell everyone.
― rick james, critical moralist (Hunt3r), Saturday, 17 June 2023 23:03 (one year ago) link
I don't know much about information security but I am pretty sure "let everyone see the documents to decide how important they are" isn't a promising strategy
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 18 June 2023 00:37 (one year ago) link
easy for him to say because he has no income
― frogbs, Monday, 26 June 2023 14:06 (one year ago) link
Behind the Bastards did a 2-parter on this guy recently. pretty fun listen. it mostly revolves around the idea that's been brought up here a bunch, that Scott Adams is basically a sociopath who can't comprehend there are people out there who know more than he does, so the bulk of his idiotic conspiracy theories are just him refusing to read or educate himself. also makes a compelling argument that his bout with spasmodic dysphonia was when his insanity really went into overdrive. it goes a bit into his fiction books, particularly "The Religion War", which the host credits for "at least finding a unique way of being racist"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 18:24 (one year ago) link
also goes a bit into how every creative industry is packed with talented people and how there's often no logical reason why one person makes it while hundreds of more talented and tenacious people don't. and how that often causes the people who do make it to get real paranoid and weird. Scott's probably in a class of his own on this one though.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 18:27 (one year ago) link
I had no idea that he had written books. My brief reading of the descriptions on Amazon makes me think I'd rather have an ice pick stabbed into my eye than read any of them.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:11 (one year ago) link
you can order ice picks from Amazon too
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:14 (one year ago) link
LOL
n this frenetically paced sequel to Adams' best-selling "thought experiment," God's Debris, the smartest man in the world is on a mission to stop a cataclysmic war between Christian and Muslim forces and save civilization. The brilliantly crafted, thought-provoking fable raises questions about the nature of reality and just where our delusions are taking us.
I'm betting "the smartest man in the world" is named something like Scrott Babams.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:17 (one year ago) link
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, July 26, 2023 1:14 PM
"... These items are frequently bought together."
― nickn, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:21 (one year ago) link
― frogbs
i mean personally i'd say charles manson did that too, though i admit that i'm not completely familiar with all the different ways of being racist
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:23 (one year ago) link
I read God's Debris in high school, mostly because I just happened to spot it in the library. I remember thinking 10% of it was thought provoking and 90% of it was the dumbest shit you've ever heard. And I was like 15 at the time. If I read it now the split would probably be closer to 0/100.
Granted at the time I still kinda liked Scott Adams, but after reading that I wondered if he might actually be insane. Like it's one thing to do this sort of fun thought experiment as a lark but you can really tell that he thinks he's actually uncovered the secrets of the universe here. And in retrospect you can see exactly how these "deep thoughts" led him directly to shit like Holocaust denial. Even if he wasn't politically aligned with them back then he very much had that right-wing mentality of "I already know everything I need to know, and if I don't know something it's because they're trying to hide it from me"
― frogbs, Thursday, 27 July 2023 15:35 (one year ago) link
Same experience with that book. Brutal.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 27 July 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6M4px9a0AAHd1-?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Sunday, 17 September 2023 20:21 (one year ago) link
Not sure how taking this guy out would further anyone’s agenda
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Sunday, 17 September 2023 20:29 (one year ago) link
A younger cartoonist like Olivia Jaimes could pick up a lot of experience points by doing so.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 17 September 2023 20:45 (one year ago) link
The Derp State is after him.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Sunday, 17 September 2023 23:09 (one year ago) link
Genuinely can’t figure out if this is more likely to be a sexual assault allegation or just him looking for attention
― frogbs, Sunday, 17 September 2023 23:14 (one year ago) link
I adore that his profile pic is an anatomically inaccurate brain
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 18 September 2023 00:08 (one year ago) link