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

[AirdropShitposts]

What's sad is he nailed it. He's dead on, except he's describing the stale corporate sort of 'humor' dominant in advertising that everybody hates. Every shitty F2P mobile game follows this playbook exactly. It's kind of fascinating how many words he spends there trying to get to the concept of 'set up an audience expectation and then subvert it' in a completely mechanical way that reduces it to a shitty corporate formula and completely ignores the importance of staging/timing/delivery.

What's funny is that one of the early Dilbert spin-off books he wrote has a section on how to be funny at work and while it's been some time since I've read it I'm pretty sure the advice in it was not this dumb and was mostly about how situations in the corporate world allow you to fake being brilliantly funny because all the setups are done for you and you can do what we'd now call "inclusive humor" rather than having to be mean and personal about people. It had stuff about how much timing and delivery can enhance your appearance of being smart.

It's like the cancellation of the show and complete abject failure of the Dilberito broke the sane parts of this guy that just took some time to fully manifest. He even used to be more reasonable about the failure of the show too, he mostly just said UPN was the wrong network for it, and it was, if it had debuted later on Adult Swim or something it probably would have lasted longer. You can look at the Clerks cartoon that was done around the same time!

 

[Pissmaster]

Shouldn't we add "Clott Adams" to the OP? I mean I'm not even an antivax weirdo but it seems to really piss him off.

Honestly, was he that wrong about the vaccine? Yeah, he's been wrong about a lot of things, but this is far from the worst.

Regardless if he was or not
It triggers him a lot
He's as dumb as they come
His predictions are bum
So we should all call him Clott

 

[SpergioLeonne]

I always think humour is something you can learn, but not teach. Ultimately, basically every joke can be boiled down to “something unexpected.”

Humor exists as a stress dump. It’s for when you can’t hit something with a rock and you can’t run away from it.

So, it always comes from some sort of tension, and offers some low grade catharsis.

 

[Hard Toothbrush]

Are Scott comics supposed to be funny to begin with? I'm not going to say the guy is unfunny because I don't even think he tries to be. Like, his comics are so dull and barebones that it doesn't even register like comedy to my brain at all. It's bizarre to see a man like that trying to discuss humor.

Don't worry he'll just say you're in the 1/3 (or 2/3 I can't remember) of people who don't know what humor is. Yes that's a thing he said, and of course he puts himself in the group of people that understand comedy. I can definitely agree with that - the OP and this thread being proof the man is funny.

 

[Debbie Macomber]

Did anyone mention that Win Bigly got unofficially banned in China, probably for being named after a Trump quote and having a Trumpbert on the cover. But Scott was convinced that the Chinese government knowns who he is, watches his streams, and that he is personally impacting their country with his Persuasion powers.
"Now that we know they're watching, hi China! I'm gonna fuck you up! You think I'm done? I'm not done."

He even said (jokingly?) that they killed his stepson with fentanyl , but shadow banning his book made it more personal.

As someone said in the comments, "Scott, do you think you have more power to get rid of China, or China to get rid of you?"

 

[Captain_Twitch]

Did anyone mention that Win Bigly got unofficially banned in China, probably for being named after a Trump quote and having a Trumpbert on the cover. But Scott was convinced that the Chinese government knowns who he is, watches his streams, and that he is personally impacting their country with his Persuasion powers.

"Now that we know they're watching, hi China! I'm gonna fuck you up! You think I'm done? I'm not done."

He even said (jokingly?) that they killed his stepson with fentanyl , but shadow banning his book made it more personal.

As someone said in the comments, "Scott, do you think you have more power to get rid of China, or China to get rid of you?"

Scott’s stepson died of a fentanyl overdose. Scott doesn’t believe in “free will” or “parenting”, and placed the blame on China, for producing fentanyl and shipping it to America.

Scott has been railing against China for years now, and believes that he will take them down by using hashtags (“#Chinaisnotsafeforbusiness”) and getting TikTok banned. He believes that the Chinese government is terrified of him, and that they monitor his daily livestream accordingly.

He has a habit of promising to destroy China, making vague claims of working “behind the scenes”, and then taking credit for whatever bad thing is happening in China at any given point.

“China’s GDP dropped today? Must be because I criticized TikTok in today’s livestream! ️“

 

[TheDarknessGrows]

He believes that the Chinese government is terrified of him, and that they monitor his daily livestream accordingly.

Well... they definitely are not terrified of Scott. But they are probably monitoring his livestreams. But so is the FBI so...

 

[The Ugly One]

Honestly, was he that wrong about the vaccine? Yeah, he's been wrong about a lot of things, but this is far from the worst.

Takes like this are fundamentally dumb and completely discredit him:

Early vaccine skepticism started informed, and only got more informed. It wasn't "fear and guessing," it started out by noticing that Pfizer and the rest were acting the way liars act, and moreover did not have the time to gather the necessary data to confidently make the claims they were making about the vaccine's safety & effectiveness. This is especially interesting because Scott Adams had, years ago, observed that, while he himself though global warming was a problem, the scientific establishment was acting the way dishonest people act (hiding data, suing people, appealing to authority, shouting down skeptics, etc), and it's reasonable to distrust people who act that way.

As evidence kept rolling in, Adams fell back on the, "I was wrong, but nobody could have possibly have had an informed reason to be right!" defense, which is just stupid and self-serving. Ben Garrison's portrayal of him is really quite accurate, and one of his few legitimately rather than unintentionally funny comics.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Takes like this are fundamentally dumb and completely discredit him:

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Early vaccine skepticism started informed, and only got more informed. It wasn't "fear and guessing," it started out by noticing that Pfizer and the rest were acting the way liars act, and moreover did not have the time to gather the necessary data to confidently make the claims they were making about the vaccine's safety & effectiveness. This is especially interesting because Scott Adams had, years ago, observed that, while he himself though global warming was a problem, the scientific establishment was acting the way dishonest people act (hiding data, suing people, appealing to authority, shouting down skeptics, etc), and it's reasonable to distrust people who act that way.

As evidence kept rolling in, Adams fell back on the, "I was wrong, but nobody could have possibly have had an informed reason to be right!" defense, which is just stupid and self-serving. Ben Garrison's portrayal of him is really quite accurate, and one of his few legitimately rather than unintentionally funny comics.

Yeah I don’t take it as “fear and guessing” that my wife was pregnant when the vaccine came out and I wasn’t trying to acquiesce to an experiment at a time when any weirdness with my wife’s immune system would flush my firstborn.

That IS just practical.

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

Are Scott comics supposed to be funny to begin with? I'm not going to say the guy is unfunny because I don't even think he tries to be. Like, his comics are so dull and barebones that it doesn't even register like comedy to my brain at all. It's bizarre to see a man like that trying to discuss humor.

Dilbert peaked in the mid and late 90s. It was never uproariously funny but it was more like “heh, this guy acts just my boss” and “wow, Larry from accounting acts just like this asshole.” The whole Dilbert concept became outdated with the Bri’ish version of The Office where David Brent was a much better written and designed person than the pointy haired boss. Even Michael Scott in the American version of The Office was a lot better and more interesting. Clott Adams is lucky that Dilbert existed beyond 2005.

He still thinks he's a genius and Ben is still an idiot, but it's a start.

No way, this is just part of the Scott Adams cycle where he disavows when he really has no choice but to. The next step is when he disavows his prior disavowal. Then he will keep flip flopping until people get bored of him, which then he declares victory. Same shit, different day.

 

[waffle]

Scott’s stepson died of a fentanyl overdose. Scott doesn’t believe in “free will” or “parenting”, and placed the blame on China, for producing fentanyl and shipping it to America.

Scott has been railing against China for years now, and believes that he will take them down by using hashtags (“#Chinaisnotsafeforbusiness”) and getting TikTok banned. He believes that the Chinese government is terrified of him, and that they monitor his daily livestream accordingly.

He has a habit of promising to destroy China, making vague claims of working “behind the scenes”, and then taking credit for whatever bad thing is happening in China at any given point.

“China’s GDP dropped today? Must be because I criticized TikTok in today’s livestream! ️“

i thought he was already convinced that it was a good thing that the kid died because he was irrevocably fated to be a school shooter?

 

[Null]

Takes like this are fundamentally dumb and completely discredit him:

He's just completely wrong. I took the unknown risks of the drug, and compared that to the known risk of COVID and my own complicating factors (weight) and mitigating factors (age, general health) and circumstances (no vulnerable people in proximity) and just decided I don't want it. The same way I've passed up absolutely every flu shot. Then when the governments decided to put a gun to my head to try and scare me into it I decided I'd rather die than get it. There's like a 0.01% chance I would die if I got COVID and that's not even factoring the risk of contracting it considering the fact I've NEVER GOTTEN IT despite going out basically every day since the fucking thing started.

Scott Adams is a faggot and briefly famous due to being one of the few people who called Trump's victory extremely early on. He effectively won the lottery, and then wasted his reputational capital on making a series of bad predictions that were along the lines of "trust the plan, patriots in control".

 

[SpergioLeonne]

He's just completely wrong. I took the unknown risks of the drug, and compared that to the known risk of COVID and my own complicating factors (weight) and mitigating factors (age, general health) and circumstances (no vulnerable people in proximity) and just decided I don't want it. The same way I've passed up absolutely every flu shot. Then when the governments decided to put a gun to my head to try and scare me into it I decided I'd rather die than get it. There's like a 0.01% chance I would die if I got COVID and that's not even factoring the risk of contracting it considering the fact I've NEVER GOTTEN IT despite going out basically every day since the fucking thing started.

Scott Adams is a faggot and briefly famous due to being one of the few people who called Trump's victory extremely early on. He effectively won the lottery, and then wasted his reputational capital on making a series of bad predictions that were along the lines of "trust the plan, patriots in control".

I took a flu shot ONCE, and I got the flu from it.

 

[RX-78]

I took a flu shot ONCE, and I got the flu from it.

Very common occurrence, its why most people don't get one.

 

[Miniluv]

Thanks for the clip. But he doesn't really admit he was wrong. His frame is this condescending-ass "your strategy killed people, but the dead can't argue with you, so I guess you can claim victory."

It's just another bullshit hedge.

Watched the full stream. He doesn't admit he was wrong.

His new, condescending position is "You're right, for the wrong reasons. You didn't analyze things correctly, or act intelligently. You just guessed."

At 58:50 he gives the audience sarcastic permission to "dance on the graves" of the people who didn't survive Covid. And his hedge--at the beginning--is that he allows himself the ability to reverse his position, if "new information" arises. Specifically, Long Covid.

Implies at the 1-hour mark, with a smirk, that the antivaxxers still killed lots of people.

Nothing changed today. Video was just dripping with attitude.

I saw that Scott was trending today and it really seems it's because people think he's admitting he was wrong about the vax. In reality, you're correct and he's being a condescending dickhead about the whole thing.

And what would a bunch of Scott Adams tweets be without at least one tying everything to SIMULATION THEORY

 

[Tragi-Chan]

Scott’s stepson died of a fentanyl overdose. Scott doesn’t believe in “free will” or “parenting”, and placed the blame on China, for producing fentanyl and shipping it to America.

Scott has been railing against China for years now, and believes that he will take them down by using hashtags (“#Chinaisnotsafeforbusiness”) and getting TikTok banned. He believes that the Chinese government is terrified of him, and that they monitor his daily livestream accordingly.

He has a habit of promising to destroy China, making vague claims of working “behind the scenes”, and then taking credit for whatever bad thing is happening in China at any given point.

“China’s GDP dropped today? Must be because I criticized TikTok in today’s livestream! ️“

Then why don’t they just kill him?

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Then why don’t they just kill him?

Isn't it weird how all the people who spend all their time exposing the giant elaborate global conspiracies with their hands in every nefarious thing always stay alive even when any dummy can find out where they are?

 

[Raging Capybara]

I took a flu shot ONCE, and I got the flu from it.

It's biologically impossible to happen.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

It's biologically impossible to happen.

Maybe not directly, but it happened. Maybe the shot just functioned as a distraction for my immune system while a different strain of the flu was going around. All I know is, I got the shot and two or three days later I was stuck in bed with a bucket to puke in

 

[Debbie Macomber]

I tuned out of Scott after he started talking about "memories of the future" so reading this thread was the first time I saw the "Fuck you, ya' ugly cunt. You shouldn't live in a world with polite people" quote.

As someone pointed out, Shelley is also the name of Scott's first ex wife, which likely contributed to why he got so unhinged on a random woman. Notice how Scott tells Shelley "I hope your husband's watching, because he's nodding and agreeing with me!" Very Freudian that just off the top of his head he imagines Shelly must have a husband that agrees with him.