Dilbert - C or D?

amazing how many of his terrible terrible ideas are things that, realistically, should be proposed by the pointy-haired Dilbert boss while the other characters look on blankly, perhaps with a raised eyebrow or a sip of coffee.

this has baffled me too

Amazing how he can start from “cops murdering ppl for running red lights is bad” ...and skip “abolish police” and skip “abolish private cars” and leap to “make everyone buy brand new private cars that also operate as state-controlled prisons”

amazing how many of his terrible terrible ideas are things that, realistically, should be proposed by the pointy-haired Dilbert boss while the other characters look on blankly, perhaps with a raised eyebrow or a sip of coffee.

someone please photoshop him into one of his own cartoons, spewing all this nonsense as the other characters look on blankly, perhaps with a raised eyebrow or a sip of coffee.

I’m lazy, find a strip it’ll work in and I’ll deliver.

i expect this stuff from him, but who are all the people chiming in with 'great idea!'

internet geek-celeb sycophant fascists, i wish they were rare

I saw a dilbert comic recently that was either photoshopped, or he has people just subbing in “x tech will save us” “but but about why” and then the manager saying “implement it”

tbf that seems like a good halfassed business model

lmao this dude has massively ratioed Dilbert twice in a row

Uh, sorry, you got the wrong script again, here's a correction: https://t.co/YZGqv7XN3C pic.twitter.com/tf96XDsKq5

— Powerup Comics! (OFFICIAL) (@ShadowPowerup) July 21, 2021

I know he's a right wing reactionary crank now but I didn't know that was actually making it into the comic strip (which I assumed was 100% user submissions by now)

https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-09-05

idk what's sadder, the idea that he thought he could make "woke robot" funny or the fact that he gives up on the premise halfway through an 8-panel comic strip

Oh Scott you fucking dweeb, "did you just assume my gender?" - is that really all you can come up with?

He didn't give up on the premise! In addition to their obsession with gender, the 'woke' are soulless automatons, do u c. Another instance of massive right-wing projection, I do c.

clicked back two months in the archives, he legitimately seems to have no idea how to write a coherent joke any more. looked at some 90s strips to compare, definitely not a case of "it was always bad". even though the strip doesn't hold up too well it still had like...actual punchlines

It's just what happens when your entire comic strip m.o. becomes polemical butthurt.

"it rhymes with gunkyard" is pretty rough stuff there

That's wordplay

seems to have no idea how to write a coherent joke any more

Because his early stuff was taken from situations he encountered in his last cubicle job, and then the mid period stuff is cribbing from situations his fans have emailed him about that they've experienced.

he’s at least two levels of detached from anyone who is actually working a mundane job and had the brain capacity to find humor in corporate jargon or the nuances of everyday life

true but he also just doesn't have any interest in writing actual humor anymore, I mean look at this shit

https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-09-08

I still crack up at this one: https://dilbert.com/strip/1997-09-10

... which I actually quoted on this thread as my first post to it 17 years ago, wow

If you want a real flavour of the man Adams, he has uploaded thousands of videos of him drinking coffee and talking absolute shit, tried watching one and got about 20 seconds in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCfpnY5NnBl

Oh youtube embed code, here to save us from Adams

Single again! 😁😁😁 pic.twitter.com/30c3SyjN5x

— Kristina Basham (@Kristina_Basham) March 10, 2022

That’s a shame

good for her

Has the tweet been deleted?

guess so. funniest part about this is her kids from a previous relationship are still living with him, which is exactly the sort of thing that would've happened to Dilbert

the funniest part is her explaining that the age difference became a problem

Yeah I guess she got too old for him

someone got the screenshot

I remember hearing the idiot Dilbert guy had a young Instagram model wife and thought "this is one relationship that's gonna last". Oh well you can't always be right about everything. pic.twitter.com/SxHKXiSwhZ

— Spurt Magoo (@spurtmagoo) March 10, 2022

It is breast cancer but with the radiation and chemo They should be kept intact 👍🏽

— Kristina Basham (@Kristina_Basham) March 11, 2022

hope she’s doing ok, and wtf at contemplating the fact she’s both got cancer and weathering a divorce. is SA the guy who divorces a cancer patient? maybe!

he probably tried to convince her that she could cure her cancer by writing "I will be cancer free" on a piece of paper 15 times a day

is SA the guy who divorces a cancer patient? maybe!

He is terrible. How can someone divorce their spouse during cancer?

— Kollywoodfan (@Deplora26124312) March 11, 2022

Not sure how. But I guess he was really angry or something

— Kristina Basham (@Kristina_Basham) March 11, 2022

The Scott Adams / Newt Gingrich Venn diagram intersection grows.

what the fuck is this bullshit. can you really not fucking do better than this

https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-04-03

Number of times a real gun has been pointed at my head: 5

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) April 17, 2022

The Scott Adams / Newt Gingrich Venn diagram intersection grows.

perfect tweet

DANNY OCEAN: Alright guys here’s the score. There’s $50,000 in unmarked bills at scott adams house. you know the drill we’ve already done this like 5-7 times

— aLec robBins (@alecrobbins) April 18, 2022

“You can’t shoot me in the head! I created Dilbert!” - Scott Adams on five separate occasions in his life

— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) April 18, 2022

https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-05-02

I know it's just yet another variation of the one joke conservatives have, but apparently most newspapers printed Dave as a white character, which accidentally makes this the funniest Dilbert strip in years

god the comments section beneath every Dilbert cartoon really is just a right-wing cesspool, huh?

(i realize this is true of basically every comments section beneath basically everything)

Jesus Christ, that's painfully unfunny.

we gotta pump those numbers up

whats amazing about this is Scott Adams was called out for not having any minority characters in his comic besides the intern and he responded by insisting that Dilbert had no black characters he was so anti-racist that he could not bear to make fun of a black guy. so he finally introduces a black character after 33 years and this is the first joke he can think of. not only that but he's such a piss poor artist that you can't even tell he's supposed to be black in the print version. just incredible all around

one of his funniest bits is when he responds to criticism by twisting himself into a logic pretzel, just this insecure guy thing where he strongly believes he's always right but just spouts gibberish

or, I guess, more accurately he doesn't believe he can ever admit to being wrong or mistaken

I'm not gonna read his 90s books again but I was way into them as a kid and what I remember was that his whole shtick was basically about how to bullshit your way through life. but he at least had some sense of self-awareness, like when writing the Dilbert Future he said the whole point was to make all these outlandish predictions and then get hailed as a genius if one of them actually came true

if nothing else this dude is a good case study in how money & fame can permanently fuck up a person

Quite honestly one of the most divorced people I’ve ever seen

one of the chosen people to have divorced man mindset before he was ever married, many years ago, and each divorce has only melted his mind further

this guy could have never married and he’d still be incredibly divorced.