Having characters like the pointy-haired boss and Topper, Adams' fawning POTUS admiration lacks so much self-awareness it's almost impressive.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 3 August 2018 14:56 (five years ago) link
just imagining Scott Adams thinking of this as the validation of his life's work and his one chance to steer American history while Trump forgets everything he told him 5 minutes afterwards
― frogbs, Friday, 3 August 2018 16:04 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/zYr2bOy.png
this is exactly where I figured he'd end up in 2018
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 August 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
Rest in peace :(
#RacistGoogle won't take down the photoshopped image of me in Nazi uniform. Why not? @sundarpichai This marks me for death. pic.twitter.com/kwUSjjpp99— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) December 19, 2018
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 December 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
wow marked for death. what a cool society i didn't realize we lived in where just being photoshopped w/ a swastika armband means you will soon be reaped.
― Mordy, Thursday, 20 December 2018 16:05 (five years ago) link
it's a shame, he was a horrible cartoonist and a terrible human being.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 20 December 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
seems miserable and completely neurotic
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 20 December 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I don't think Scott Adams should be murdered, and it's a real shame that he's going to be
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 20 December 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
perhaps he can try hypnotizing his murderer into turning the gun on himself
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 December 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
Hey @Patreon, this guy posted racist memes of me photoshopped into a Nazi uniform. That is hate speech. Puts my life at risk. Please deplatform him immediately. https://t.co/sf78vfcYN6— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) December 20, 2018
geez Scott did you forget about the hundreds of people you called Nazis because they disagreed with you
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 December 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
grifters gonna grift
Dilbert guy Scott Adams is using the garlic festival shooting to direct market mass shooting survivors (at a time when public info on this was that the shooter was still at large) on his app pic.twitter.com/9EgGfSGkuz— LVL 45 CHAOS POTUS (@thetomzone) July 29, 2019
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 July 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
we're reaching levels of persuasion which shouldn't even be possible
― frogbs, Monday, 29 July 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
lmao
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-tries-to-sell-interviews-with-gilroy-garlic-festival-shooting-survivors
Anyone who signed up to discuss the shooting could also have been paid in the WHEN Token, a cryptocurrency Adams has used to fund his app that is currently worth slightly more than one cent. Shortly before Adams announced WhenHub’s cryptocurrency aspect in 2017, Dilbert watchers noticed that the characters in the comic, who are typically suspicious of poorly understood business crazes like blockchain, were suddenly running straightforward explanations of blockchain in an apparent effort to drum up interest in Adams’s cryptocurrency.
― frogbs, Monday, 29 July 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
It would've been interesting to see how newspapers responded in a world where a comic strip version of Cerebus had been the public forum where we watched Dave Sim's mind unravel.
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 July 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
he’d have jordan peterson’s career
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 July 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
https://static.coindesk.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Dilbert1016.jpg
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Monday, 29 July 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
Some amazing replies from Scott fans pic.twitter.com/JvlMZhRSTk— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) July 29, 2019
― El Tomboto, Monday, 29 July 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
probably goes without saying but this WhenHub app is hilariously dumb, it's pretty much exactly the sort of thing that Dilbert was satirizing back in the 90's. 500 features and no clear use case, plus it uses a blockchain for some reason - this "pay to speak to an expert" thing is clearly NOT what the app was designed to do, though it's kinda hilarious that there's a dude offering to chat about football for 20 bucks an hour
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 14:05 (four years ago) link
I retroactively hate that this guy had a guest spot on NewsRadio.
― the last Berry La Croix in the work fridge (morrisp), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
(and don't @ me about Rogan)
― the last Berry La Croix in the work fridge (morrisp), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
What a piece of shit.
https://www.scottadamssays.com/2019/09/23/a-message-for-children-about-climate-change/
― just another country (snoball), Monday, 23 September 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
seriously laughed at this
If you are worried about rising sea levels, don’t be. The smartest and richest people in the world are still buying property on the beach. They don’t see the problem.
― gyac, Monday, 23 September 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
its really something to read through the past 1.5 decades of this thread tracking the slow reveal of Adams' right wing brainworms.
LOL in hindsight @ posts from 2011 wondering if hes serious or if hes doing some kind of kaufmanesque meta-satire of right wing idiots. Simpler times, man.
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Monday, 23 September 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
still laughing at the whenhub dot com portrait of Adams
― mh, Monday, 23 September 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
Throughout all modern history, when we humans see a problem coming from far away, we have a 100% success rate in solving it.
I don't know if he earnestly believes any of the shit he writes but if so god damn must he have a privileged existence to believe this is even remotely true
― frogbs, Monday, 23 September 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
imagine thinking in all seriousness that the richest people are the smartest people and vice versamust be so nice to live with a worldview so simple and so fucking idiotic
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 23 September 2019 18:52 (four years ago) link
well we can only go extinct once
― maffew12, Monday, 23 September 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
what about baldness
― mookieproof, Monday, 23 September 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
racism?starvation?running out of gas?styrofoam?i am actually having trouble thinking of a problem that america saw coming from far away that we HAVE solved
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 23 September 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
the Dilbert TV show?
― maffew12, Monday, 23 September 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
uh he saw in advance the problem of possibly not having a ready supply of fresh-popped popcorn with real butter in his own house, so he bought a second microwave oven and now he microwaves two packets of microwave popcorn at once. 100% solved
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, 23 September 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link
he also foresaw the problem of not living in a house shaped like half the face of a smug ineffectual asshole cartoon character who thinks he knows better than everyone but can’t actually influence anyone, and had his house built in the shape of half of Dilbert’s face. SOLVED.
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, 23 September 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/TJFIdI9.jpg
what the hell is this
― frogbs, Monday, 23 September 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
When you’re invited to a fashy discord, find it too hard to keep up but want to show your appreciation anyway.
― gyac, Monday, 23 September 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
No wonder your piece of shit Gawker publication got its balls cut off. My lawyers will be contacting you. https://t.co/urM0otUUsn— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) September 24, 2019
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
the free speech defender has logged on
― frogbs, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
beta move to call a lawyer instead of kicking john cook's ass
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
for some reason I always read his tweets in a south park voice "I'll sue you in England!"
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 24 September 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
incidentally CNN's Jake Tapper drew yesterday's Dilbert (from Adams' script):
Vad har hänt med Dilbert? pic.twitter.com/goBif6Ltfj— Nikke Lindqvist 🖤 (@nikkelin) September 23, 2019
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Tuesday, 24 September 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
behold the master of persuasion
May I summarize your tweet as DUUUUUUHHHH I SAY OBVIOUS THINGS ON TWITTER AS IF PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND THEM. DUUUUUUHHHHH!!!!!— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) September 25, 2019
― frogbs, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 14:05 (four years ago) link
lol he deleted the tweet where he was threatening John Cook with legal action
― mh, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
—What so you think of management?—They are all dumb.
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Saturday, 28 September 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
(Sorry for the autocorrect typo; this phone’s software must have been designed by some clueless, “NPC”-style engineers, I don’t know man...)
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Saturday, 28 September 2019 21:36 (four years ago) link
there’s an article about Adams trying to help manage a restaurant he co-owned and it going predictably badlyiirc he’s one of those people who thinks if you’ve proven yourself in one task, you should be able to tackle anything else with a few hours of reading. restaurant article included an employee saying they really hoped he’d never watch the food network because he’d get “ideas”
― mh, Saturday, 28 September 2019 22:05 (four years ago) link
I was thinking about the incident where he showed up on metafilter in a thread about an op-ed he wrote and proceeded to trash people, generally make noise and tell everyone they were projecting, and then disappear once he got called on his sock puppetry. There’s a reason he likes Trump, they both say a bunch of bullshit, gaslight you if you try to interpret their words as intended, and then spew more gibberish http://mefiwiki.com/wiki/Scott_Adams,_plannedchaos
― mh, Saturday, 28 September 2019 22:09 (four years ago) link
yeah I think there's a ton of overlap between Trump & Adams, outside of the fact that Adams was actually funny and self-aware at one point. Adams is very much a big believer in "the secret", his go-to explanation for how he made millions as a cartoonist despite not being able to draw, and thinks that Trump, a man who is now president despite no political experience or knowledge, knows "the secret" too. its all very PUA-style "just say the words in the right order and the universe will bend to your will", which I think explains why he's so impressed with shady car lot-style salesmanship
― frogbs, Monday, 30 September 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
I don’t think he was self-aware per se, he easily spoofed management junk that’s often received knowledge when there’s no understanding *why* management would do those things. It’s rife in corporate culture, same as any large bureaucracy. The thing is that he took the idea that there’s nothing to management, no learned skills. Not even the Peter Principle, but people promoted to a level where they don’t have to do actual work and can do no actual harm. And as soon as he got to management, or the equivalent level of responsibility, he started acting like it’s all about making noise and distractions so people don’t see you’re incompetent, instead of learning actual competence. Wouldn’t be surprised if part of his health issues were rooted in chronic anxiety tbh
― mh, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 01:40 (four years ago) link
the whole idea presented in dilbert is that there are a lot of stupid people who can be easily manipulated to a ridiculous degree. i think he likes trump because trump's success could be taken as a demonstration that dilbert isn't satire.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 01:51 (four years ago) link
when was adams ever "funny" is my question? Dilbert was garbage when it came out imo.http://www.zippythepinhead.com/pages/aaarticles.html
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 02:44 (four years ago) link
the text at that link is illegible but early dilbert was at minimum weirder and more wide-ranging before he zeroed in on the corporate office-worker drone shit
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 02:59 (four years ago) link