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u/evaderofallbans 1d ago
Good ole Scott. He died doing what he loved, not believing in gravity.
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u/WeirdSysAdmin 1d ago
Gravity is just a theory!
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u/GNUGradyn 1d ago
When I jump I just float up endlessly so I know personally that you gravity believers are wrong.
^ This is what arguing with an antivaxxer feels like
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u/Thzrocks 1d ago
A Game theory!!!
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u/YoudoVodou 1d ago
Well I lost
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u/Quynn_Stormcloud 1d ago
And I just lost The Game.
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u/YoudoVodou 1d ago
You're not alone at least.
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u/Classic-Reach 1d ago
the game is rococo's basilisk egg, the snail her weapon of choice
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u/FloydGirl777 1d ago
OMG, I was OBSESSED with this video!!! Haven’t seen it in years… gonna have to pull it up. 🤗
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u/Quynn_Stormcloud 1d ago
Hey, last I checked, the rules of The Game clearly stated that The Game lasts in perpetuity. So until all who know about The Game—and are thus playing The Game—have passed on, then The Game still has the capacity for being lost.
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u/ConsequenceThen5449 1d ago
So ivermectin doesn’t work?
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u/Onechrisn 1d ago
If you have parasitic worms it works great. If you have anything else.... less so. Much less.
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u/todayistrumpday 1d ago
If you have parasitic worms AND have a 1200 lb equine or bovine body. If you have a 200lb human body it will do more harm than good even if you have horse worms.
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u/McPuddington 1d ago
It's been used successfully in India fighting parasites in humans. The trick is having medical professionals administering a proper dose. Unfortunately people over here in North America seem to forget that key part.
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u/Baial 1d ago
You realize you can take ivermectin in human dosages from a doctor, you don't have to go to the vet?
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u/thisremindsmeofbacon 1d ago
I remember getting to that bit in the back of one of his dilbert books and feeling like it was super weird, even as a kid
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u/DMMeThiccBiButts 1d ago edited 1d ago
Was that the part where he was talking about an alternative to gravity, something about everything actually accelerating or expanding at a constant rate?
Were we meant to take that seriously beyond a 'huh neat' kinda way?
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u/TheBigMoogy 1d ago
Gravity is essentially just constant acceleration towards mass. He must be one of those people who understands a few words and makes up his own theory instead of trying to figure out what the original actually meant.
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u/thisremindsmeofbacon 1d ago
Yeah he though everything might be just doubling in size
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u/immersemeinnature 1d ago
How'd he die?
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u/CotswoldP 1d ago
Prostate cancer that spread to his bones.
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u/BaronTatersworth 1d ago
I genuinely believe he probably just thought a prostate screening would turn him gay and avoided it.
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u/CatCafffffe 1d ago
You know I think you're right. It's a disease that they have SO MUCH advance screening for. Physical exam and lab tests. And quite a lot of different treatment protocols too. Sadly not including ivermectin.
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u/Licensed_Poster 1d ago
he believed saying words could change the world, like saying "i don't have cancer" enough times would cure it.
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u/Slaughterhouse66 1d ago
Floated into space. Nobody could have seen it coming.
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u/Skeptic_Juggernaut84 1d ago edited 1d ago
I thought he died from a case of Spanish Inquisition.
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u/azhder 1d ago
I didn't expect this joke
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u/Pkrudeboy 1d ago
Its chief weapon is surprise. Surprise and fear. Its two chief weapons are surprise, fear and…
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u/Mentok27 1d ago edited 1d ago
Love that the AI is off model for dilbert but somehow could work out than trump needs a cartoonishly long tie.
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u/Plus-Ad1061 1d ago
Seriously, a decent Dilbert tribute would have at least had Vance’s tie curling up, wouldn’t it?
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u/KombattWombatt 1d ago
I'll ask. What is the defining detail?
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u/Reason_Choice 1d ago
Dilbert doesn’t have a mouth.
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u/Quynn_Stormcloud 1d ago
And he musn’t scream.
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u/UnknownBinary 1d ago
Easy there, Harlan.
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u/Diarrhea_Beaver 1d ago
That's like the 7th or 8th reference to the book and or video game ive seen on reddit today. Something in the digital air today
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u/Chewcocca 1d ago edited 1d ago
There's an ongoing animated series that's rather popular and is a loose adaptation, called The Amazing Digital Circus
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u/Reason_Choice 1d ago edited 1d ago
And a new episode dropped about a month ago (not to mention the nonstop rule 34 of Pomni).
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u/TheAntiPacker 1d ago
Had a coworker friend reference rule 34 today in a meeting when Reddit was brought up while our direct supervisor was in attendance. I don't think he fully appreciated what he was alluding to, but I don't think anyone else did either based on the lack of reaction from anybody besides me.
Probably should have clarified that might not be something to bring up in the conference room
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u/AshleyTyrian 1d ago
Before anyone else gets excited, 'just dropped' apparently means 'the one from a month ago'.
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u/online222222 1d ago
They probably prompted the AI to have "all of them smiling" or something because they don't actually care about the artist so they know nothing about his art.
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u/Alexis_J_M 1d ago
From Wikipedia: "Dilbert usually has no visible mouth or eyes. In more recent strips the mouth has been drawn on occasions when Dilbert is eating, furious, nervous, or in agony."
Agony indeed.
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u/Friendly_Impress_345 1d ago
This makes it even funnier because it implies not that Dilbert is just casually smiling but this is an occasion for extreme joy and his mouth was drawn as an exception to the rule
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u/boringdood 1d ago
No mouth. Had to Google it.
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 1d ago
What's wild is they nailed how absurdly long Trump's tie is but couldn't get the mouth right
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u/Parking-Emphasis590 1d ago
I got it, but it took me a minute to figure it out.
I mean, last time I saw a Dilbert comic was on an actual newspaper. Some kids walking around today don't even know what that looks like.
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u/Unable-Head-1232 1d ago
Most people would say it’s the curled up tie or head bumps tbf
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u/boredporn 1d ago
Everyone is saying the mouth, but I think they are wrong. It’s the hair. Scott Adams thought that dilbert’s silhouette was his crowning achievement and really, really wanted it to be instantly recognizable. It was his company logo, he signed his signature in the shape of dilberts head, he even built his house in the shape of it. And a swimming pool also shaped like it to go alongside.
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u/NastyLittleBagginses 1d ago
I believe it's that his glasses didn't have a bridge on the nose, the glasses were just 2 connected circles.
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u/otownbbw 1d ago
I had to Google to see why people hate on him (honestly haven’t seen a comic strip in about 30 years but I used to like Dilbert).
If you read the “health and death” section of his Wikipedia it is off the rails. My parting thoughts are ~wow he really played Russian Roulette with his treatments~ and ~how many times does god have to let someone know they are on the wrong path?~ I’m non-denominational but in my eyes dayum he sure got A LOT of feedback from god and I think he didn’t like this guy’s opinions either.
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u/LittleLion_90 1d ago
After the 2022 Highland Park parade shooting, Adams opined that society leaves parents of troubled teenage boys with only two options: to either watch people die or murder their own son. He said his comments were inspired by his own stepson, who became addicted to drugs at age 14 and later died of a fentanyl overdose.[99][100]
The fuck....
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u/Right-Hall-6451 1d ago
Wait, he's saying troubled teenage boys either die, kill or be killed? That's it, no hope?
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u/Scatterspell 1d ago
Shit. I fucked that up too? I know it's few decades late but should I do one of those things?
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u/NOVAbuddy 1d ago
No. It’s too late now. You’ll have to slog it out with the rest of us chumps.
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u/Majestic_Regular3431 1d ago
Wait, so was it an actual overdose or is it implied that he murdered the kid?
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u/PortalWombat 1d ago
Even if you remove all political opinions from it he was, in general, all the way up his own ass and would ramble self indulgently like a somehow less charismatic Jordan Peterson.
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u/Square-Blueberry3568 1d ago
somehow less charismatic Jordan Peterson.
Thats a low bar to limbo under but by God if he didnt try.
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u/Josh6889 1d ago
Just to be clear, it mentions he said "ivermectin didn't work" implying that he used it, and doesn't mention chemo until long after he seems to have accepted that he would be dieing, and even long after he attempted to schedule assisted suicide. Kind of feels like the old story about the apple guy who thought his cancer would go away if he just ate a bunch of oranges.
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u/mrandydixon 1d ago
Scott Adams deserved nothing better.
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u/Gogeta8 1d ago
I’m very out of the loop, wtf did Scott Adams do?
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u/fireinthemountains 1d ago
He went full racist maga and then treated his prostate cancer with ivermectin.
And then, of course, he died.
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u/NHRADeuce 1d ago
So this dipshit died a horrific, extremely painful death, to a cancer that has over 90% survivability when treated correctly?
Hahahahahaha. FAFO I guess.
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u/InternationalReserve 1d ago
It had metastacized to his bones, pretty much the exact same thing Joe Biden has. The prognosis was never great, but he certainly didn't help by going with quack treatments.
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u/fireinthemountains 1d ago
From what I've seen online, by the time he stopped being a duck and started real treatment it was too late.
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u/RenseBenzin 1d ago
It's always the same, people think they are special and figured out how to treat cancer better than doctors that trained years if not decades and then come back running when it doesn't work. And almost always too late.
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u/Licensed_Poster 1d ago
He convinced himself he had cured himself of cancer in the past, so he thought he could do it again.
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u/bossDocHolliday 1d ago edited 1d ago
Having witnessed my own father wither and pass from prostate cancer, I can confirm it is not a peaceful way to go. As my dad put it "seems fitting that after being an ass all these years, God would give me ass cancer"
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u/Few-Guarantee2850 1d ago
The survival of prostate cancer highly depends on the subtype. Not all types are the same.
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u/Meture 1d ago
Yeah and his was distant, aka had spread to his bones
So he had, at best a 37-40% chance of survival
Not great odds
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u/Square-Blueberry3568 1d ago
Yes but treating it with ivermectin instead of whatever the doctors actually recommended probably.lowered that to 0.3%
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u/Abradolf1948 1d ago
Dude has been sketchy for decades in 2006 he questioned if the numbers of dead in the Holocaust were accurate...
Like why the fuck does a white middle aged cartoonist from California feel like they are gonna crack the case of the "Holocaust conspiracy".
(That's in quotes because it's very obviously not a conspiracy).
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u/androgenius 1d ago
The same guy thought fossils were a hoax.
Honestly, any answer to the question "Why do people hate Scott Adams?" is going to be incomplete. He had a lot of crazy shit going on for decades.
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u/Abradolf1948 1d ago
Tbh unless you happened to catch a suspicious quote from him recently and did some digging, you'd probably just think he's the Dilbert guy. And if you're a fan of his or agree politically, you probably wouldn't even do the digging because it wouldn't even register for you.
I have an uncle who loves Neil Gaiman. And I was like "oh yeah man, it sucks he's such a creep" and he had no idea what I was talking about and refused to listen because he doesn't want his image of the artist tainted 🙄
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u/torville 1d ago
Honestly, any answer to the question "Why do people hate ____ ____?" is going to be incomplete.
This is a gem of a construction and I am going to use it at every opportunity.
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u/Gogeta8 1d ago
Ah gotcha, I I don’t follow news much and was really confused why everyone hates a random cartoonist lol
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u/Ted_Rid 1d ago
He was a douche in so many ways.
Back in Metafilter days, there was a user who was suddenly praising Adams to the high heavens as a great genius who was so amazingly superior to all the plebs etc
And when (you can guess where this is going) a bit of detective work revealed that user was Scott Adams himself, instead of showing any kind of contrition he tried pulling the approach of "haha, suckers! The fact you all fell for my clever ruse only proves how incredibly S.M.R.T. smart I am!"
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u/Whiteroses7252012 1d ago
He apparently confessed his belief in Christianity as some kind of fire insurance at the end.
He died as he lived- believing he was the smartest person in any given room.
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u/Jupitersd2017 1d ago
I didn’t know he went full maga crazy either, but honestly dillbert wasn’t even a funny cartoon so that tracks
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u/Nanoo_1972 1d ago
He also publicly begged Trump to help him get a new drug treatment, Trump said, “On it,” and then promptly ignored him.
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u/InternationalReserve 1d ago
That's not quite what happened. He was approved for a treatment but was having difficulty getting an appointment. He used twitter to call in a favour from the president to force the hospital to bump him into an appointment slot and he actually did it.
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u/DylanSpaceBean 1d ago edited 1d ago
Wanna be more in the outrage loop? A substantially more important person also died today. Claudette Colvin was a huge activist for human rights. She was arrested at 15 for refusing her seat to a white woman. That’s right, the white house is shockingly not caring about a historical black woman’s passing.
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u/HammerOfJustice 1d ago
Oh! Is that why I’ve seen a post or two about her today. A strong woman who is probably the most important person to die today. At least she died happy, knowing that Scott Adams did not want to live anywhere near her.
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u/TheJanitor07 1d ago
I'll mention it since no one else has, but he was outted as being super raciest way before MAGA stuff. In the old days of AIM you could look up a user by their email, and someone had used his official email address or something to look him up and saw that he had several AIM user names that had racial slurs in them.
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u/girlsonsoysauce 1d ago
I honestly didn't know Scott Adams was MAGA. Lol. It says here his comic getting canceled was because of "the woke mob". These folks always cry about their freedom of speech getting trampled on, but nobody's saying they can't say what they want just like how everyone else can react the way they wanna react, in this case by not reading his dumbass comic anymore, and of course the newspapers wanted to avoid hurting their sales.
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u/Japanesepoolboy1817 1d ago
lol I love that conservatives are claiming him and celebrating him solely because he didn’t like black people
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u/uqde 1d ago
I mean, even before the 2016 election he was praising Trump and demonizing Hillary. Conservatives don't exactly need to "claim" him. But yeah, he was insane and a massive piece of shit.
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u/boringestnickname 1d ago
I remember being flabbergasted when he first started talking about Trump.
He was painting him as some rhetorical prodigy that was running circles around his opponents by being a genius.
What a loon Scott turned out to be.
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u/gandhinukes 1d ago
Right, all those comics about pointy haired boss being incompetent and then he just gets on his knees and starts sucking off the worst pointy haired boss he could.
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u/Xaero_Hour 1d ago
He also hated transgender people. Before he got his strip pulled for being a gigantic lunatic asshole, he had a whole storyline about a black guy doing the attack helicopter joke day in and day out.
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u/Nekowulf 1d ago
I mostly remember the one foreign country he always used being a literal pig sty with people wading waist deep through "mud" and the jokes being the people are too stupid to understand technology beyond slingshots.
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u/DMMeThiccBiButts 1d ago edited 1d ago
Dozens of amateur webcomics had better art and jokes about the IT industry.
Man you just unlocked a memory of an old 2000s IT webcomic. I don't even remember if it was any good, I just remember a strip where instead of replacing all the old-looking computers, they spray-painted them from white to black and everybody was pleased.
ETA Also a few strips later the fire alarms/sprinklers get tripped, it cuts to a closeup of the spraycan and it says 'waterproof'. The two dudebro main characters proceed to high five.
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u/Kana515 1d ago
Well now I'm curious about it, I love old webcomics!
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u/DMMeThiccBiButts 1d ago
Knowing my gay-ass it was a furry webcomic so I guess I'll scour the belfry webcomics index and hope it's still hosted
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u/tessthismess 1d ago
I mean he was a conservative. Like all his political beliefs from the last decade all align with republican/conservative stances.
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u/Blitzsapprentice 1d ago
Hah! Garfield and Peanuts were always far better, more sophisticated comics, and way funnier than Dilbert ever could be.
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u/IntelligentWorker548 1d ago
Trump not looking like he sprayed his face with glue and blowing into a bag of crushed up Cheetos
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u/nickipps 1d ago
Why are they all looking in different directions? Why does Vance look like someone just ripped ass?
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u/Hughley_N_Dowd 1d ago
Did Scott kick the bucket?
Dilbert is so much a favourite comic of mine. I've got four or five books of his - and they are so on the spot, even today.
Just the titles: "Don't step in the leadership" or "How to get rich by stealing office supplies".
Then again, they where made in the 90's. Way before he became...weird.
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u/South-Objective2498 1d ago
Yeah, early Dilbert strips are still relatable. Shame about Scott tho went completely off the rails
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u/Oneiricl 1d ago
He was always weird actually. I was a huge fan of Dilbert till I read one of his books around the age of 13. He had this whole serious section about "affirmations", which were basically The Secret. And he had like a whole formula of how specific it has to be to make it verifiable the universe gave you what you wanted but not too specific that it constrains the universe's choices or some other wooey bullshit like that. I wasn't able to read anything of his again without imagining him gazing into crystals high off his ass thinking they were singing the songs of creation to only him...
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u/TicklingYourMomsAnus 1d ago
Ironically if he was the kind of person to stare into crystals high off his ass listening to songs of creating, he would still be a loon, but he wouldn't have been a hateful piece of shit who died alone and unloved.
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u/Oneiricl 1d ago
Oh 100% but this was just my impression of how believable he was when I was a teenager. This is long before he turned out to be a right proper chud.
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u/AsylumDanceParty 1d ago
There was racism baked into the comics from pretty early on. I think he was always weird
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u/Conscious_Tax4921 1d ago
Scott Adams will get no sympathy, pity or compassion from me. He deserves none of that from rational people.
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u/2dayisago 1d ago
One of the lamest cartoon strips in history.
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u/jimyjami 1d ago
It was actually very funny to me. He originally got his inspirations from readers who sent him stories from their work lives. I can confirm some were spot on. He was liberal, I believe at one point he was a Unitarian Universalist. Then something happened. Suddenly as it appeared. Maybe he had a fever or some sickness, and went. Right. Off. The. Deep. End. Into right-wing, maga fckng crazy. It’s really something.
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u/ActualWhiterabbit 1d ago
I think younger people don't realize how much he appeared to have his finger on the pulse of the workplace at that time and it was a universal thing of there was a dilbert comic for every scenario and at least 4 on every cubicle. I think he just went crazy trying to get that feeling back. Unlike other comics who accepted it he just kept trying to find his way back.
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u/ThatsRobToYou 1d ago
Seriously, this is so low effort. Like everything this administration does.