Finding out the Dilbert guy is insane really sucked.
There were hints from the beginning, especially if you read any of his books.
Then in 2008 he started blaming black people and diversity for all his problems, A major example is that he claimed that he wasn’t promoted at the bank he worked at because “the board wanted to promote a black guy”. The truth is he didn’t get the promotion because the bank was on the verge of collapse, and actually did fail 6 months after he quit (for not being promoted).
He then blamed black people and diversity for the failure of his tv show. The truth there is that it got 2 seasons, which is a lot for an adult cartoon. It was also on UPN, which is why it finally failed. No one watched UPN. Which is still not bad for something that was a side project for him.
Speaking of his little cartoon, if you ever watched it, there were a lot of creepy incel adjacent moments. Shit that would raise red flags today.
AH, a fellow Robert Evans connoisseur?
“But you know who WON’T blame black people for losing their jobs?” “…the…the produ-“ “That’s right, the products and services that support this podcast. I mean, they MIGHT, but hey, that’s capitalism for you!”
The latest ad championing Reagan about fixing the economy gets me good every time.
I subbed to Cooler Zone Media because he’s given me a lot of entertainment and information over the years, but I have to say the absence of ads is pretty great too
No, just a Raytheon enthusiast.
What were the early signs and red flags in the show? I was a fan of Dilbert for decades and never really noticed anything, and I was shocked a few years ago when it turned out this guy is so unhinged.
Yeah, same here - someone else said there were some incel tones in the show, which I don’t recall (and I’ve watched a few episodes fairly recently, as I ripped them for my plex server).
I remember he had this weird theory in the Dogbert New Ruling Class newsletter that gravity didn’t exist; it was just that everything in the universe was constantly expanding. At the time I took it as a thought experiment, not intended to be taken as a serious theory, but looking back now I wonder if that was an early sign of the issues that would follow.
I also remember him realizing that he was the PHB for a restaurant he owned, telling the staff how to run it despite he himself having no experience in restaurant operations. That seems like a good sign that he was still sane and rational at that time.
I also remember him predicting a Trump win early on in the election, while insisting he wasn’t a fan. That’s about when I stopped reading what he was writing, except for the strip.
There was a strip during the Trump presidency that directly referenced something stupid Trump did and mocking the Democrats’ reaction to it (I do not recall the exact strip or the stupidity that generated it). At that point I was like, “Welp, it looks like Dilbert is definitely well past its prime.” Dilbert had never gotten into politics before that I can recall, and that strip made me realize that he was completely out of funny ideas about work.
I recall something about his AOL chatroom names being racist as well.
There was this: https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1630311483727904776
Not sure how easy it was to register a screen name under someone else’s email back in the day, though.
I only knew of Dilbert from the comic in the papers but I bought the series on DVD from the bargain bin years ago. It was meh at best. Some concepts don’t translate well to animation, and some of the messages were a bit off-putting .
What the fuck was the rationale for black people causing a cartoon to fail?
His show was on UPN which had a lot of shows with black casts. When the show was canceled, he blamed the failure on the show leading in to Dilbert being the worst show ever made. Which is probably somewhat true. Shasta McNasty was one of the worst pieces of media in the history of media.
But then in 2020, when he went completely off the deep end, he said he was fired for being white and UPN decided to only cater to blank people.
Some sort of unhinged, racist rant about diversity.
Tbf Engineers and Incels have a pretty large intersection on a venn diagram.
He was never an engineer from what I recall.
I was speaking mostly of the Dilbert fanbase
Has there been a study of this?
Not in my experience. The stereotype you’re thinking of is IT, and that’s somewhat accurate just based off my limited anecdotal evidence.
I always thought Dilbert was shit so I feel vindicated.
I loved it, but I was not a smart lad
To be fair the FBI hunted down and shot that one republican. Sure he implied he was going to assassinate the president, but I don’t know how to finish that thought
It is what it is.
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Scott Adams is a human alien hybrid (according to Scott Adams)
The episodes of Behind the Bastards about him are great
Dogbert is very disappointed
FYI - This is the Dilbert guy.
NOT the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy guy. That’s Douglas Adams.
Also, NOT the old school text adventure game guy. That’s this Scott Adams.Great Podcast recommendation here! ‘Behind the Bastards: How the Dilbert guy lost his mind.’
Also all their other stuff.Weird how many of these crazy conservatives have literal brain damage, huh?
Might not be that weird, I’d bet one leads to the other.
On a 100% anecdotal note, I had a liberal uncle that had a massive personality shift after a motorcycle accident, and became a massive piece of shit and trump supporter after his recovery. Would not surprise me to find that brain issues turn people into asshole conservatives.
Boomers and Gen X’ers had the highest exposure to fumes from leaded gasoline. Removing it in the 1980s literally caused the crime rates to plummet significantly year over year. That’s Trump’s stronghold demographic - people whose minds have been completely addled by lead poisoning over time.
That sounds like TBI for sure.
But they didn’t. He was a racist asshole in 2004, he just thinks it’s acceptable now. No losing of mind, no mind virus, no radicalization. Just Trump making it acceptable to be in the kkk again.
Technically both Douglas Adams and Scott Adams were/are old school text adventure guys.
Goddamn Babel Fish dispenser.
That’s nothing. Ever play his other game, Bureaucracy? It’s basically impossible. I eventually did it with hints just to read the text and there is a section where you’re on a jumbo jet and if you don’t keep switching to the exact right seats on the jet, it crashes and you die and the only clue to where and when to sit was something inconsequential way at the beginning of the game.
That’s part of why it’s all so confusing, really the underlying cause I think, for me.
Also not the creative visionary behind “Requiem for a Tuesday”, Adam Scott
If Adam Scott ever turns out to be as looney as Scott Adam’s it might break me.
Also not the original Green Lantern Alan Scott.
You’ve linked racist Scott Adams as old school text adventure game guy. Not sure if that was intentional or an honest mistake.
There’s two Scott Adams. That’s actually both of their names. (I think I got the links right.)
The perils of having a generic name
Oh, my bad then. Perhaps my app’s a bit wonky.
More broken Biden promises :<
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Literally nothing should have destroyed Republican credibility more than trying to paint Joe Fucking Biden as some kind of Commie Satanist Revolutionary. They took the most milquetoast, inoffensive, cartoonishly dorky guy in American politics and that’s their bogeyman. I just can’t with these people.
Yeah seriously the guy is a turkey and cheese on white bread sandwich, nobody loves it but nobody hates it either it’s just like ok sure whatever. It’s the weirdest thing.
But… that’s the sandwich I make for myself :(
If I put dijon mustard on it does that make me somewhat cool?
Are you eating sandwiches to be cool?
Vegans hate turkey and cheese sammiches, and as a far leftist I also hate Biden for stealing the election from Bernie and failing to deliver on his election promises
They only have so many gambits unlocked.
I mean, the republicans cater to the same people that think Trump is some kind of benevolent super genius, so I can’t say I’m suprised this worked.
It’s not that great. They are overpopulated and ruining the ecosystem, so we were paid to hunt them. But the meat is rancid, it’s wrought with disease, and even the pelts are worthless: 50/50 poly/cotton isn’t even suitable for rags or waterproof enough for tarps.
They have no natural predators either, and the are clogging the rural landscape. If we leave them to rot, they smell terrible and poison the soil and water table. In 2020-2022 we thought disease would wipe them out, but they banned birth control and are breeding faster than we can control.
There were programs to feed the homeless from various donations from hunters, but even the homeless reject them because they taste like cigarettes and stale Miller Lite. There’s plans to use their bodies for construction filler, but the are oily and unstable. In bodies of water their fat floats them to the surface like fatburgs one finds clogging sewers.
The whole program is a disaster.
Fake post. You can tell because no self-respecting conservative would wear anything but 100% Southern-grown domestic cotton. Look at any reviews for polyester underwear to learn more… it won’t take long.
i dunno the puffer vests can get a second life on the west coast if you can drive down the shipping costs.
I knew about Scott Adam’s, but recently I was catching up on the back archive for Sinfest. Around 2019 mark, I had to stop. How did someone whose comic got popular for praising Obama turn into a Qanon antivac comic?
There is a two part podcast about him on the “Behind the Bastards” that goes into some depth about what an idiot this guy is.
I don’t disagree with Robert’s assessment that the whole “several years of complete isolation” probably broke something in his brain. Imagine being unable to speak to the degree that you refuse to go out in public, interact as little as possible, and just flat out stop existing to most of the outside world, for years.
So just a regular existence of someone who isn’t a public figure, celebrity or some sort of public personality?
He had a medical condition that left him more or less unable to speak that was only corrected through a risky surgical procedure that could have left him permanently mute.
Being unable to communicate with other humans in person is a different level of isolation, and I definitely believe it likely contributed to him breaking entirely.
That said, the rest of the BtB series mentioned in this thread also made it pretty clear that he sucked for a long, long time before that. It just went all gas no brakes at that point.
I know what you mean. Sinfest used to be a big favorite of mine. So disappointed to see what it became.
Sinfest isn’t just bigoted now, it’s confusing as fuck.
If we still had actual real investigative reporters in this country, they would pull up countless tweets and videos from some of these famous crackpots and go find them today and confront them. Call these asswipes out on their fear mongering posts about the COVID vaccine and Biden and a host of other things that were “definitely” bringing about the end of the world.
The biggest irony is that of all the things that WILL actually kill us and bring an end to how we live - stuff like guns and climate change - most of these idiots are totally quiet. Those are REAL issues we should be worried about, not how gay marriage will bring about the apocalypse or how Biden will send out death squads.
It’s hard to think of one thing that gets me the worst from so many options, but that is up there. We have so many major issues in this country and as a species, and yet these lunatics are obsessed with what people do with their genitals instead. And now they’re about to vote again for the guy who attempted a violent coup. It’s just beyond insane.
Well be sure to go vote and hope that you can cancel out at least one of those lunatics. And get your friends and family to vote as well. Those people vote and vote consistently. The other side doesn’t.
Alas, my family are the lunatics 😔
There are websites listing tweets from Trump as POTUS contradicting himself, every day, sometimes more than once in a day, for all the time he was elected.
After the bar has been put so low, every other random lunatic is just like “meh”.
But Trump is untouchable. But too many of these other clowns that don’t have billions, still have to earn a living and interact with the rest of us.
Make it very costly for these people to fall down the loony right wing rabbit hole. Both in terms of lost wages and business dealings, but also make them be shunned by society.
Reporters asking for interviews with these people shouldn’t need to disclose what it is about ahead of time. Then in the interview bring up one stupid tweet of theirs after another.
Get this guy, and Sorbo (Hercules), as well as anti vaxx nutcase like Jemmy McCarthy and so many others. It sickens me when I see that she has been accepted by society and she’s on some popular show on NBC with the masked singers.
dead within the year
How? I thought their gun collections were supposed to protect them from the government.
The dead Republicans will be the ones that failed to purchase another two dozen ornamental firearms to stick in a cabinet somewhere.
Exactly! I was always told the 2nd amendment protected them from the big bad gubbament so they have nothing to worry about.
They said the same things for obamas second term
And the first.
Here in South Africa they’ve been saying that white people would be slaughtered in the streets since Mandela was released.
Same shit, different lunatics.
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Nah the Y’all Quaeda aren’t as dangerous as they think.
The joke is that Republicans are humans.
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This is projection because they have put targets on their opponents backs since America had the nerve to elect a president who is only half white.
If trumps re-elected this will ba a self fulfilling prophecy for republicans
They’ve already demonstrated what they will do if they lose, and god only knows what they’ll do if they win again. At this point I just don’t see how there will NOT be violence after the election next year.
I’m willing to put money down that either 2024 or 2028 will be the last election in American history. It’s honestly surreal.
Gen Z will save us, they got this.
I am gen z, we don’t got this. While there are a lot more liberal and outright socialist zoomers out there, those who lean right lean hard right. Id say a solid 10% of rural middle-american zoomers are unapologetic fascists and the number is only growing.
What’s strange to me is so many of the zoomer conservatives I have met are just the most nihilistic fascists around. They don’t give a shit. The boomers are all Christian nationalists and at least have some kind of moral or philosophical facade, even if it’s totally indefensible, but the zoomers I meet seem to be fascist for fun.
Aww man, did I miss the hunt memo?
Goddammit!
Right? I’m anti gun but…
How can we go around killing Republicans when we’ll all be long dead from the vaccine???
Another example of an effect associated with fascism that I like to refer to as “weakling soyboy supersoldiers:” the “enemy” must be simultaneously impotent and terrifying. We’re verrry scaarryyy, totally gonna be hunting them down for some reason! But also we’ll be dead from our own stupidity because we all took the COVID-19 vaccines. I guess we’re gonna be literal zombies? They’ve been looking for excuses to “hunt” “zombies” for ages now.
Don’t you get it? The vaccines will turn the Satanist liberal elites into zombies after killing them, and the zombies will make you gay-abort your babies before eating your forcibly transitioned body, just like it says in II Corinthians!
It’s kind of hilarious the hoops they are jumping through. I was listening to a recent episode of Knowledge Fight and they were covering a segment where Alex Jones was saying the reason that non-vacinated are getting sick is because the vaccinated are shedding but the reason so few people who got the vaccine are having issues is because they were actually given saline. If everyone received saline then where is all this shedding come from? It all falls apart of you look at it for half a second.
Clearly the nonvaccinated should go and get this protective saline shot…
So the vaccine was a conspiracy to make vaccinated people safer and healthier? They finally went full loop?
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Scary enough: It’s always projection.
The part of family values, everyone!
