Dilbert - C or D?

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.

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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.

Genuinely can’t figure out if this is more likely to be a sexual assault allegation or just him looking for attention

I adore that his profile pic is an anatomically inaccurate brain

He also doesn't understand the physics of neckties, so

Aw shit, is he being "gang-stalked"?

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Save the brains

the Dagwood Commission concluded that it was the PHB out of the window of the schoolbook depository, but rumors persist that Dogbert was seen on the grassy knoll that day...

Laugh now, but when Adams actually gets murked make sure you have some laughs left over.

That would be another example of addition by subtraction.

wtf is taking so long

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I found out recently that the offensive for nearly all possible ways Dilbert parody from the 90s, "The Dilbert Hole," was 1. Originally on rotten.com 2. Still up on archive.org because Scott Adams lost a legal action against it due to it being fair use

sitting here laughing about the fact that "Gamer Dilbert" has more readers than the actual Dilbert strip now

still in awe that this "master of manipulation" threw away the only thing that made him relevant just to say some incredibly racist shit as a HYPOTHETICAL, like genuinely one of history's greatest self-owns

out of curiosity I looked at some of his "Dilbert Reborn" strips and they are so bad, like Elon reply guy level humor. I swear he used to know how to write a joke

It's been discussed upthread, but he never knew how to write a joke. His early strips were things that happened in his last cubicle job, while the strips after that were things that happened to his fans (who would email him).

see I disagree with that. it's true that he's terrible at coming up with ideas and he himself admitted that most of them come from readers but if you look at some of those 90s strips you can tell he's at least familiar with the mechanics of a joke - there are actual punchlines there, sometimes they're even funny! I'd find some examples but it appears all the old Dilberts have been scrubbed from the internet, lmao

I found it occasionally funny too back in the day.

I remember an ex-fan writing a blogpost about it, basically arguing that he'd lost his sense of irony somehow. I guess you see that in a lot of comedians who have been rich and famous for too long but what's happening with this dude seems different. it's not that they're bad jokes, it's that they don't resemble jokes at all.

I would guess his bout with spasmodic dysphonia might've had a lot to do with this. as much as I dislike him I wouldn't wish that on anyone. to a lesser extent I think getting humiliated with the whole sockpuppet thing a while ago was probably a factor. maybe the first time in his life as a famous person where his bullshit just stopped working and I don't think he knew how to handle getting made fun of. I say this because I believe Elon Musk's villain arc started the same way - he was always bad of course but I think he really started going off the rails when people started making fun of his dumb submarine

how many times has he been caught doing the sock puppet thing? I know he had a metafilter account for about five minutes before getting outed

All of these things can be true simultaneously. The early trips had some fresh stuff. The strip at its best was frequently entertaining, partly because he stole a lot of stuff from others. Then he slid downhill into Trumpy right-wing bullshit.

I don't think it's a mystery. I think it's just the journey of a man who started out with some promise, began to compromise when he ran out of easy material, then got mad and ugly when the well ran dry.

What would be more surprising is if he had been able to come up with 30+ years of fresh and interesting material. There are very few people who have been able to do that.

That said, good people whose work has run its course have the sense to bow out. He does not. Because he is not a good person. His wish to retain relevance has led him to be yet more terrible (as that gets a reaction, and any reaction is better than none).

oh there’s like 15 - 20 years of incredibly weird and questionable things before he got on the “Trump is a master persuader” wagon

the tiniest criticism, like “dilbert just normalizes unhealthy office dynamics and gives people an outlet to laugh at while accepting them” is something people brought up and a sane man would have said “well, you have a point but that’s what we’ve got” but noooooo