Dilbert - C or D?

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conservative trolls love this One Weird Trick where they pretend things don't have any context, so they can say things like "All Lives Matter" both as a way to minimize BLM and to get liberals to disagree so they can point and say "wow look they're the real racists!" same logic that makes them go "ok folks the OK sign now means Heil Hilter" so they can say "wow liberals triggered by the OK sign!". Scott Adams is I think the rare troll who legitimately thinks nobody understands the obvious, either that or he really is that insanely racist

I’m not going to link cos the tweet contains a racial slur but someone dug up an ancient forum post about it & this was mentioned by other people.

In like 2003 or 2004 someone on a forum I used looked up Scott Adams’s email address on AIM and he had multiple explicitly racist handles on there, one of which was just like “I hate [n-word]”

They emailed him to ask if those were his and he responded in one word, “no”

— Katelyn Best (@BestKabest) February 27, 2023

eh that was the era before email verification, if I remember the old days of AIM you just needed to have any ol' email address in there. so most likely some teenager probably just nicked it from the funny pages.

"Publisher of Scott Adams' non-Dilbert Books" must be the lowest title at the professional conference.

more like god's mépris

frogbs how many more blatantly racist things does Scott Adams have to say before you're sure?

I love how he tries to portray himself as "helping" black people. Who asked for his help? How is he qualified to help anyone? His entire life is a shambles.

hate to say it but I actually found a funny Dilbert cartoon

Dilbert Gets Fired pic.twitter.com/USxIrBpyXI

— cream of dog (@yoloswagstudios) February 26, 2023

frogbs how many more blatantly racist things does Scott Adams have to say before you're sure?

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, February 28, 2023 10:49 AM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

ok I admit "either" was a bad choice of words, just saying the vast majority of famous conservatives know you don't go full Kanye/Nick Fuentes if you want to keep your job, so you have to offer some layer of plausible deniability, and the way Scott Adams does this is hilariously bad, like "they can't arrest you if you declare yourself a sovereign citizen" type logic

instead of turning the racism dial back and forth, he's hitting an airhorn and record scratch button when people complain about the racism

those tweets about his stepson were legit disturbing. Sounds like he refused to pay for rehab or something and the kid died? And then he took this attitude of "There was no way anyone could have stopped this, in fact it's better that he died because he was dangerous to others (me)"

Sounded like he blamed society for his failures as a (step) parent.

just astonishing stuff

Another interesting take. https://t.co/VQ42nYkZL8

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) February 28, 2023

Sometimes you have so many galaxy brains they form their own mega-cluster(fuck)

The fulcrum of foolishness

I think the stepson situation was genuinely tragic and the weird gymnastics in his tweet about it boil down to his inability to accept failure, instead inventing some weird version of stoicism where the universe will do one of two things

this guy has got to be doing some mega drugs

he's a master persuader

he should shoot himself in the groin at a Dave & Buster's to similarly locate himself at the fulcrum of US gun control power

“One, Dilbert needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine. Two, whenever Scott's not onscreen during a TV debate about race, all the other guests should be asking ‘Where’s Scott?'”

the overt racism is probably gonna overshadow everything but it's truly astonishing how thoroughly weird this guy is, and maybe always has been. like even in The Dilbert Future he spent one chapter trying to disprove gravity and another crediting all his success to writing down his goals 15 times on a piece of paper. he once wrote a blog post saying he could give you the best orgasms of your life and claimed a bunch of people wrote him to say he made them jizz in their pants. he said he knew hypnotism was real because he was once "hypnotized" into spending thousands of dollars on camgirls. at one point he developed Spasmodic Dysphonia and for a year could apparently only speak in rhyme (unfortunately for his career, he did eventually regain his ability to speak). he tried opening a restaurant which failed spectacularly because, according to the people he hired, literally the only thing he cared about was the lighting. there's so much more I'm probably forgetting.

hypnotism is real

possibly not for his reason

guess that's why he's broke and they're so paid

He has a "Dilbert shaped wall" in his house and, in looking for that, I found a news article that — if I'm reading this correctly — is about some time in 2004 where he had a computer drew a dream house on the internet like Bongo or Bart Simpson and that made the news?

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-11-21-0411210357-story.html

There's also a urinal in Dilbert's master bath

I would love to hear him disprove gravity in rhyme.... ysi?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8u5913kk-w

looolll subscribed. thank you.

the overt racism is probably gonna overshadow everything but it's truly astonishing how thoroughly weird this guy is, and maybe always has been. like even in The Dilbert Future he spent one chapter trying to disprove gravity and another crediting all his success to writing down his goals 15 times on a piece of paper. he once wrote a blog post saying he could give you the best orgasms of your life and claimed a bunch of people wrote him to say he made them jizz in their pants. he said he knew hypnotism was real because he was once "hypnotized" into spending thousands of dollars on camgirls. at one point he developed Spasmodic Dysphonia and for a year could apparently only speak in rhyme (unfortunately for his career, he did eventually regain his ability to speak). he tried opening a restaurant which failed spectacularly because, according to the people he hired, literally the only thing he cared about was the lighting. there's so much more I'm probably forgetting.

― frogbs, Tuesday, February 28, 2023 3:17 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

frogbs, I love you, truly you're a great poster, but if I had this much knowledge of Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, I'd expect an intervention.

That… wait… those things are real?! They’re really things he said?!

I'm ILX's resident Dilbert expert, everything I say is good as goldbert

i totally remember reading the restaurant thing and the thing where he claimed he couldn't speak normally

the overt racism is probably gonna overshadow everything but it's truly astonishing how thoroughly weird this guy is, and maybe always has been. like even in The Dilbert Future he spent one chapter trying to disprove gravity and another crediting all his success to writing down his goals 15 times on a piece of paper. he once wrote a blog post saying he could give you the best orgasms of your life and claimed a bunch of people wrote him to say he made them jizz in their pants. he said he knew hypnotism was real because he was once "hypnotized" into spending thousands of dollars on camgirls. at one point he developed Spasmodic Dysphonia and for a year could apparently only speak in rhyme (unfortunately for his career, he did eventually regain his ability to speak). he tried opening a restaurant which failed spectacularly because, according to the people he hired, literally the only thing he cared about was the lighting.

Finally, as if he intended to bring the war to an end, he drew up a line of battle on the shore of the Ocean, arranging his ballistas and other artillery; and when no one knew or could imagine what he was going to do, he suddenly bade them gather shells and fill their helmets and the folds of their gowns, calling them "spoils from the Ocean, due to the Capitol and Palatine." As a monument p477 of his victory he erected a lofty tower, from which lights were to shine at night to guide the course of ships, as from the Pharos.​81 Then promising the soldiers a gratuity of a hundred denarii each, as if he had shown unprecedented liberality, he said, "Go your way happy; go your way rich."

Deeply cursed “NewsRadio” image from s03e02. pic.twitter.com/KqwXi1J8Lb

— Todd Vaziri (@tvaziri) March 1, 2023

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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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bur2WghCYAAz28x.png

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

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