Careercow Scott Raymond Adams / @ScottAdamsSays / “Real Coffee With Scott Adams” - The Washed Up Cartoonist Behind “Dilbert”, Creator of “The Dilberito”, Professional Bullying Victim, Political Grifter, Terminally Online Narcissistic Boomer, Divorced Twice, Is (Not) Glad His Stepson Overdosed. This is Not a Racial Politics Debate Thread

[Nikes_JustDoIt]

 

[Spasticus Autisticus]

Good work OP. Scott Adams was due for a thread here but his lolcow tendencies are shrouded by his boring midwit boomercon-tinged rationalist inanity and it seemed like a lot of work to sort through it all.

 

[ZipDisk]

I dig suicidal TeenBert
"Father, please do me the mercy of destroying me, I yearn for nonexistence"

I had no idea he received a "child"ing from the Peperoni grinder.

I'd like some fleshing out on the attempt to infiltrate the insufferable metafilter. He went pretty fucking unhinged there.

 

[dreamworks face]

Am I the only Black person that liked Dilbert?


I guess it's a matter of separating the art from the artist. What grown ass man takes pictures of his pecs as a gotcha? He loves to argue.

There are only two black characters in the Dilbert comic strip universe.

One in this comic strip from 1993 (which was later whitewashed, the security guard was initially black when this ran in the papers)...

(His excuse being - "My publisher adds the coloring for these. They pick the worst times to add diversity to the cast.")

The first "canon" black Dilbert character was actually introduced on May 02, 2022.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

One in this comic strip from 1993 (which was later whitewashed, the security guard was initially black when this ran in the papers)...

(His excuse being - "My publisher adds the coloring for these. They pick the worst times to add diversity to the cast.")

 

[AirdropShitposts]

I've never minded the strip, he hasn't been too bad about it until more recent years. It was more all the other tie-in Dilbert stuff. The Dilberito is one of the funniest things ever.

I actually do quite like the TV series though, that's not just him as Larry Charles of Seinfeld fame had as much or more to do with it. Its deviations from the strip's "canon" and "office jokes" premise are pretty enjoyable. There's some really good episodes. They used to all be on YouTube since it had some weird ownership limbo for a long time so you couldn't actually pay for it anyway, no idea if they still are or if Scott cares about it.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

I've never minded the strip, he hasn't been too bad about it until more recent years. It was more all the other tie-in Dilbert stuff. The Dilberito is one of the funniest things ever.

I actually do quite like the TV series though, that's not just him as Larry Charles of Seinfeld fame had as much or more to do with it. Its deviations from the strip's "canon" and "office jokes" premise are pretty enjoyable. There's some really good episodes. They used to all be on YouTube since it had some weird ownership limbo for a long time so you couldn't actually pay for it anyway, no idea if they still are or if Scott cares about it.

He claimed it was canceled due to discrimination so I guess he does.

 

[ZipDisk]

I actually wouldn't mind a product like the dilberito, so long as it's marketed as what it is, a laxative.

People make endless jokes about Taco Bell, but if there was a burrito that pushed guaranteed results, that'd be a product worth selling.

That being said, such a product will always be hated by the obese. They want to eat and sit, not eat and shit.

 

[Neil]

I seem to recall he did a self-insert into his comics at one point as well, which is a occasional trait seen in bad webcomics. I'll have to find it again.

Dogbert was always intended to be his misanthropic self insert. I wouldn't be surprised if Dogbert is what inspired other author-insert characters like Brian Griffin.

Dilbert (the character) became a Trump-insert after the 2016 election as Scott Adams' way of allegorically depicting how he viewed Trump's relationship to the media.

 

[Goofy Logic]

Dogbert was always intended to be his misanthropic self insert. I wouldn't be surprised if Dogbert is what inspired other author-insert characters like Brian Griffin.

I'm aware of dogbert being an "evil twin" of his, but I'm talking about an actual self-insert. Here is what I'm talking about.

 

[Coolio55]

Excellent thread, OP. I heard this guy was crazy but I had no idea just *how* crazy he was until his recent twitter slapfight.
I read Dilbert as a young child because it was distinctly for "grown ups" but not in a way that would bar me from obtaining it. From what I remember, I barely got any of the gags.
Haven't ever really caught up with it despite snagging an office job or two but I still think the cartoon was pretty good.

 

[Wormy]

Scott Adams is a nutjob. He developed all these weird neurological conditions like focal dystonia (couldn't draw) and spasmodic dysphonia (could barely speak) and wrote a bunch of stuff about how the aforementioned "affirmations" helped him overcome them, etc.

Also since he's terminally online and will probably read this thread anyway, here's a couple of dilbert hole comics from rotten.com that he got butt-hurt over:

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Pervbert! Got a bookmark of those to this day whenever I need a cheap but still life affirming laugh of levity.

if anyone wants them http://acme.com/jef/comics/pervbert/pervbert.html

 

[Tackleberry]

Cool, I got the feeling Scott was a bit weird, but did not realize just how extensive his ungluing had become.

Encyclopedia Dramatica has a couple of articles detailing Dilbert and The Dilbert Hole, which are worth a read. In the takedown attempts of TDH, Scott apparently sounded like an edge lord.

I seem to recall he did a self-insert into his comics at one point as well, which is a occasional trait seen in bad webcomics. I'll have to find it again.

He did the self insert I think for a one-week schtick (a parody of the Wizard of Oz, if you're looking for keywords). Wasn't long. Maybe once or twice more.

Overall, I like Dilbert; having worked in engineering myself, and having criminally stupid marketing departments, and all of the other tropes; but the irony of Adams being a perfect example of a PHB in that restaurant he owned and having absolutely no self-awareness of it is pure comedic gold.

 

[Calandrino]

I can't wait for Scott Adams to join KF.

Not to power level, but I am Scott Adams.

Or if not, I wouldn't be surprised if one of us was.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Not to power level, but I am Scott Adams.

Or if not, I wouldn't be surprised if one of us was.

I am Scott Adams!

 

[ASeabear8952]

Dogbert was always intended to be his misanthropic self insert. I wouldn't be surprised if Dogbert is what inspired other author-insert characters like Brian Griffin.

 

[Jimmy Olsen]

Goddamnit the Dilbert TV show was my guilty pleasure.

On the bright side, finding more lolcow shenanigans is always fun.

 

[Blacked]

Scott Adams has mastered the art of the metaphor

 

[Pissmaster]

Scott Adams has mastered the art of the metaphor
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Replace the squirrel with a paraplegic and it gets funnier

"You might object to my line of thinking because the more obvious reason paraplegics don't dunk basketballs is because paraplegics are paralyzed. But that's a cop out. If you are giving up hope on turning that cripple into a dunker, maybe you didn't hear the inspirational story about how Shaquille O'Neal learned how to dunk despite the challenges of his early years. Clearly Shaq's coach knew how to coach. Give that coach five minutes with a paraplegic and you'll see a dunking cripple too."

Moral of the story: literally anyone can do what Shaq does if they have the right coach. I'm sure CWC could have been an astrophysicist if he had just been raised by better parents, too.

 

[haunted vagina]

I think he's being sarcastic except effective sarcasm relies on a good understanding of the listener's expectations. Despite somehow figuring out how to make this work in a comic strip, more or less, the autistic inability to understand other minds is really showing here. In any case this falls victim to every metaphorical argument's problem - what he's trying to say is "the tendency to be an addict or a school shooter is entirely genetically determined, just like the ability to jump high enough to dunk a basketball is, so don't bother trying to teach people anything." But he hasn't in any way proven that, he's just saying it in the most retarded way possible.