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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2023 13:30:25 GMT -5
If you looked at him in hindsight, it kind of makes sense that the nutty shit would become full on bigotry. I was pretty devout in Dilbert so I should have some understanding of the slope at play.
Hell, even in the comics, the Pointy-Haired Boss went from being the source of obstruction and failure for the business to the sympathetic protagonist. You don't make that type of stylistic decision unless you have some deep-seated beliefs.
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Post by Alexander The So-so on Feb 25, 2023 14:46:43 GMT -5
I am surprised it took him this long to screw up this much. He seems genuinely unwell. He keeps being more and more unhinged on social media, along with years back getting busted doing stuff like using a sockpuppet account to fight people/defend himself on I think Reddit. I just remember him humiliating himself again and again and again online. I also remember him going on a weird rant that people should kill their sons if they are becoming criminals and that he's been mugged dozens of times or some other weird hyperbole. His stepson recently died from an opioid addiction, so that probably doesn’t help his mental state. Though that ended up leading to him making some pretty saucy and warmongering-sounding claims, something about China committing war on the US by manufacturing opioids and getting Americans addicted, or something. I used to love Dilbert, but Scott has been descending into being a pseudo-intellectual charlatan who constantly says things that sound like the Boomer equivalent of r/I’mfourteenandthisisdeep for a while now.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Feb 25, 2023 15:05:12 GMT -5
Also just realized, in hindsight, I can't remember a single instance of a POC being depicted in Dilbert even as background characters other than Asok, and he's essentially an Indian tech stereotype, so yeah. There was a black security guard who was stealing from peoples desks. Adams claimed that the colorist made him black when Adams had no race intended. Honestly I would believe him on that one. Edit. I read he recently added a black engineer. Who identified as white of course.
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Post by Cyno on Feb 25, 2023 16:03:48 GMT -5
Scott Adams has been a lunatic for decades. Should've happened awhile ago.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Feb 25, 2023 19:19:58 GMT -5
Adams always kinda seemed like he's one bad weekend away from writing manifestos in a cabin in the woods while saving his urine in jars.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Feb 25, 2023 19:23:26 GMT -5
It's wild to think about how *Dilbert" was such a part of the cultural zeitgeist for several years. The daily strip, the cartoon with Daniel Stern, the merch that was widely available. And now, or really for the past 25 years getting gradually more so, this.
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Post by XIII on Feb 25, 2023 19:30:57 GMT -5
From the Pointy-Haired boss to Wearing A Pointy Hat: the Scott Adams story.
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Feb 25, 2023 20:33:42 GMT -5
Scott Adams is fascinating, because he somehow came to believe he could convince anybody of anything, and then desperately tried to reconcile that belief with the fact that he couldn't convince anybody to like him.
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Feb 25, 2023 20:47:39 GMT -5
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Post by Ganon83 on Feb 25, 2023 21:20:20 GMT -5
Also just realized, in hindsight, I can't remember a single instance of a POC being depicted in Dilbert even as background characters other than Asok, and he's essentially an Indian tech stereotype, so yeah. There was a black security guard who was stealing from peoples desks. Adams claimed that the colorist made him black when Adams had no race intended. Honestly I would believe him on that one. Edit. I read he recently added a black engineer. Who identified as white of course. And he was too dumb to actually land the joke properly.
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Post by wildojinx on Feb 25, 2023 21:23:30 GMT -5
From that era where they were trying to put WWE tie-ins in numerous UPN shows (see also Shasta McNasty,,actually, dont).
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Feb 25, 2023 21:31:24 GMT -5
from my understanding Adams had very little do with the actual writing of the show...
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Post by chazraps on Feb 25, 2023 21:31:37 GMT -5
Scott Adams sucks and is dumb. This took too long but was bound to eventually happen. He still married to a woman who is younger than him to a creepy degree?
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Post by Red Mage Riot on Feb 25, 2023 21:35:27 GMT -5
Scott Adams sucks and is dumb. This took too long but was bound to eventually happen. He still married to a woman who is younger than him to a creepy degree? From my minimal research, they separated last year.
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Post by fortknox on Feb 25, 2023 21:38:34 GMT -5
From that era where they were trying to put WWE tie-ins in numerous UPN shows (see also Shasta McNasty,,actually, dont). Or Godfather and Ivory on The Strip. A show I liked, by the way
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Feb 25, 2023 21:39:59 GMT -5
Scott Adams sucks and is dumb. This took too long but was bound to eventually happen. He still married to a woman who is younger than him to a creepy degree? From my minimal research, they separated last year. Yeah, they divorced like in March... I think Scott lost a ton in it... and also one of his unhinged rants was vaguely about it too.
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Post by ayumidah on Feb 25, 2023 21:57:50 GMT -5
"You're ruining everything, Dave" is probably how he legitimately felt after he saw that picture lol
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Post by Cyno on Feb 25, 2023 22:28:58 GMT -5
From my minimal research, they separated last year. Yeah, they divorced like in March... I think Scott lost a ton in it... and also one of his unhinged rants was vaguely about it too. At least it's less embarrassing than Graham "My wife divorced me because of my transphobia" Linehan.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Feb 25, 2023 22:31:05 GMT -5
There was a black security guard who was stealing from peoples desks. Adams claimed that the colorist made him black when Adams had no race intended. Honestly I would believe him on that one. Edit. I read he recently added a black engineer. Who identified as white of course. And he was too dumb to actually land the joke properly. The daily readers must have been awfully confused about what the joke was even supposed to be there.
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Post by Push R Truth on Feb 25, 2023 22:34:43 GMT -5
I'm here like a page after the fact still wondering why he was talking about shoving fingers in a dude's ass
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