Dilbert - C or D?

frobs were you also a member of (free email newsletter) Dogbert's New Ruling Class?

quoting this from the Dilbert book title poll for its powerful otmness:

"office culture" angle largely superficial even in its heyday tbh; this line from the article neil s posted in the other thread is starkly otm about its real premise:

The central message of Dilbert is that everybody is stupid except you, if I’m remembering correctly. It’s a popular message, which I presume helped make it a popular strip.

― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 18:50 (yesterday) link

lol I watched that NewsRadio ep a couple of nights ago without realizing it was that episode, very weird timing

lol he was in Babylon 5 as well

https://www.tcdb.com/Images/Cards/Non-Sport/81113/81113-5764148Fr.jpg

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"

your principal was jerry seinfeld and the whole school stood up and clapped?

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

That literally sounds like a stand-up's joke

this is a legit funny joke imo, worth more than a soft chuckle

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lol obv I like that one

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.

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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqD1an2aAAAUUKP?format=jpg&name=medium

Perfect.

yikes

Summary https://t.co/KYISqScgsw

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) March 1, 2023

I don't think we're going to get a redemption narrative

he has never admitted being wrong or even ignorant before and he's not about to start now

lol, local paper replaced it with "Curtis"

even worse it's the strip where he's spraypainting "down with white people" on the sidewalk

It's too bad "The Boondocks" isn't around anymore.

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

Which one?

lol, local paper replaced it with "Curtis"

― pplains, Monday, March 6, 2023 1:46 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

turn that "rap" junk down!!

the Curtis Kwanzaa strips rule

oooooh the gloves are off

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as a liberal, this makes me cry

Is the editorial line that the idiot boss is good now

by dilbert logic, boss must v soon agree w dave and make crt corporate policy/indoctrination rule right

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?

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

published in 2020, now online: Incel Supernova: From a Single Comic Strip to the End of the Universe with Scott Adams

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

this is how I find out I'm trans

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

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

Don’t be the last one to stop paying taxes you dilshit. no really, do it, just quit payin, in fact tell everyone.

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

easy for him to say because he has no income

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"

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.

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.

you can order ice picks from Amazon too

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.

you can order ice picks from Amazon too

― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, July 26, 2023 1:14 PM

"... These items are frequently bought together."

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

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

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"

Same experience with that book. Brutal.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6M4px9a0AAHd1-?format=jpg&name=small

Not sure how taking this guy out would further anyone’s agenda

A younger cartoonist like Olivia Jaimes could pick up a lot of experience points by doing so.

The Derp State is after him.