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The_Continental posted:This thread is all of a sudden riding upon a razor thin precipice. Does this help? https://mobile.twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/759054203801079810 https://mobile.twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/759398459224920064
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The_Continental posted:This thread is all of a sudden riding upon a razor thin precipice.
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Mar 2, 2020 00:10
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his chest is all speckled like a birds egg. would.
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Mar 2, 2020 00:14
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Wait, so you're saying that there are no blackies in Dilbert AT ALL!? Like nowhere in the strip is a black person? Well that actually makes a lot of sense when you think about it, I mean how often do you see the blacks in the tech & office fields? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Mar 2, 2020 00:17
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oh wow, he was the guy with the confusing torso?
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Mar 2, 2020 00:19
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Pretty hot for an older guy I'd say
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Mar 2, 2020 00:21
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Didn't 9/11 completely destroy his already soft soft brain? He's pretty ripped for a dude of his age though.
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Mar 2, 2020 00:30
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e: joke that didn't work
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Mar 2, 2020 00:33
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Arrhythmia posted:e: joke that didn't work Congrats on having a better grasp on comedy than the Dilbert guy
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Mar 2, 2020 00:52
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Caesar Saladin posted:Didn't 9/11 completely destroy his already soft soft brain? I don't think he was brain destroyed by 9/11, that was much more Frank Miller's thing The 2016 election definitely either broke his brain or just exposed it to the world, he told people he wanted to vote for Trump but would vote for Hillary because he was afraid feminists would assassinate him if he didnt
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Mar 2, 2020 01:13
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Caesar Saladin posted:Didn't 9/11 completely destroy his already soft soft brain? I think he had a stroke around 2003, but instead of going to a doctor he just kept drawing comics.
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Mar 2, 2020 01:32
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I like how it's someone else's job to add colour to a dilbert panel. it's not like its a comic book that has more detailed forms and a dedicated penciler and inker. it's a step above stick figures. all he would need to do is use the paint bucket in photoshop and choose if someone's shirt is red or blue.
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Mar 2, 2020 01:38
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Mar 2, 2020 01:40
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Daikloktos posted:
Even taking this as face value: He was complimented on his new character, given a very simple suggestion on how to prevent potential criticism... and somehow he still made the stupidest possible response  It would have been easier to just ignore the advice and do nothing.
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Mar 2, 2020 02:11
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piratepilates posted:I like how it's someone else's job to add colour to a dilbert panel. it's not like its a comic book that has more detailed forms and a dedicated penciler and inker. it's a step above stick figures. all he would need to do is use the paint bucket in photoshop and choose if someone's shirt is red or blue.
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Mar 2, 2020 02:15
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I enjoyed Dilbert when I was like 16, I am now in my mid 30's. Thanks for listening to my TED Talk
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Mar 2, 2020 02:20
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Caesar Saladin posted:Didn't 9/11 completely destroy his already soft soft brain? It was the Trump election. He predicted that Trump would win because in his speeches he was hitting all of the high notes, and avoiding most of the pitfalls of public speaking, and when he did hit a pitfall, he'd hit to so egregiously that people would just forget whatever he had done outrageous previously. Hillary was hitting fewer speed bumps but grinding to a halt because of them. People who were following the election closely lost their poo poo, and Adams lost a ton of his speaking gigs.
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Mar 2, 2020 02:24
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i work in computers and i have met dilbert, he is not my friend, goodbye
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Mar 2, 2020 19:28
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UltraRed posted:It was the Trump election. He predicted that Trump would win because in his speeches he was hitting all of the high notes, and avoiding most of the pitfalls of public speaking, and when he did hit a pitfall, he'd hit to so egregiously that people would just forget whatever he had done outrageous previously. Hillary was hitting fewer speed bumps but grinding to a halt because of them. Adams brain has been smooth a long time. 15 years or so ago I got one of his books as a gift and the first 3/4 of it is standard Dilbert comics with satirical(?) essays in between. Then for the last 1/4 he goes "Now the rest of this book is comedy but this is totally real so proceed only if you are not faint of heart because I have some secrets of the universe that are going to BLOW YOUR loving MIND" and its all The Secret/poorly under Quantum mechanics mysticism/Timecube/I change dice rolls with my brain type poo poo. Once you understand Adams' cosmology his love of Trump makes perfect sense. It comes down to the belief that Trumps spectacular ability to bullshit his way through life proves him to be a master chaos magician. Recently Adams has been attempting to track down an evil wizard hypnotist who he believes lives in the US training an army of cam girls. massive spider fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Mar 2, 2020 |
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Mar 2, 2020 19:55
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He's a total dipshit, but I don't think he's racist. Or at least his comic strip wasn't.
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Mar 2, 2020 20:11
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This was also my immediate reaction.
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Mar 2, 2020 20:21
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The Dregs posted:He's a total dipshit, but I don't think he's racist. Or at least his comic strip wasn't. Its about as racist as Apu from The Simpsons. The tweet in OP is actually pretty shrewd considering his political alignments. I doubt many black people would be singing his praises on including black characters in his strip at this point. Whats more telling is that he never really bothered to include them in the first place as his conception of an IT office doesn't feature them at all. I'm against including "token" characters to increase some sort of diversity score, and most syndicated comic strips are starkly void of any PoCs. So, maybe not racist? still a total dipshit.
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Mar 2, 2020 20:50
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He also supports trans atheletes playing sports. He's not exactly a "chud"quote:Then for the last 1/4 he goes "Now the rest of this book is comedy but this is totally real so proceed only if you are not faint of heart because I have some secrets of the universe that are going to BLOW YOUR loving MIND" and its all The Secret/poorly under Quantum mechanics mysticism/Timecube/I change dice rolls with my brain type poo poo.
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Mar 2, 2020 21:12
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one thing I remember from his early books was that he repeatedly claimed that he couldn't get promoted because of diversity initiatives that his bosses would tell him point blank that they would never promote white men. at the same time he also bragged about how good he was at avoiding doing work. so he admits that he was a poo poo employee but blames his inability to advance on black people. he also blamed the cancellation of the Dilbert TV show on the same thing. idk sounds pretty racist to me like a lot of you I was a big fan as a kid/teen, always knew there was something weird about him but he generally seemed smart & insightful back then. there was a good blog post theorizing that Scott Adams lost his ability to detect irony at some point around the turn of the century which is why the writing is so tortured and unfunny now. of course that explains why he's become such a bootlicker as of late. for some reason I subjected myself to the Sam Harris podcast he appeared on, I don't really like Harris but I kinda wanted to hear Scott Adams actually get challenged on some of his obviously stupid ideas. he got loving demolished, like his whole thing was "I'm going to propose a series of insane hypotheticals in a weirdly calm voice, by the way if you use any sort of metaphor I will proclaim victory" and Harris was just telling him how blatantly dumb and false all his talking points were. just embarrassing. also for some reason this reminded me of some vintage stdh.txt that he posted a while ago https://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/06/my_best_story.html
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Mar 2, 2020 21:27
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massive spider posted:Adams brain has been smooth a long time. 15 years or so ago I got one of his books as a gift and the first 3/4 of it is standard Dilbert comics with satirical(?) essays in between. Then for the last 1/4 he goes "Now the rest of this book is comedy but this is totally real so proceed only if you are not faint of heart because I have some secrets of the universe that are going to BLOW YOUR loving MIND" and its all The Secret/poorly under Quantum mechanics mysticism/Timecube/I change dice rolls with my brain type poo poo. ...how many GBS parachute accounts does he have?
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Mar 2, 2020 21:27
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"Can't get promoted/bad conditions at work" and "I only do the exact minimum work needed to not be fired" is a real The Chicken or the Egg scenario for modern life.
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Mar 2, 2020 22:01
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Daikloktos posted:He also supports trans atheletes playing sports. He's not exactly a "chud" yeah his political views are all over the map with no congruency whatsoever. fwiw my theory is he only latched onto Trump as a way to build his brand and speak to a base of highly gullible idiots, as he is the sort of person who is so rich and insulated that he doesn't really need to have any coherent political views. consider for example the fact that his big pro-Trump argument was of all things the loving estate tax
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Whether or not he's a racist doesn't really matter considering he has no morals whatsoever outside of tenacious self promotion. He loves Trump because Trump steamrolls through his own mistakes and appears unflappable. Scott Adams has carefully cultivated this air of "smartest guy in the room" with the intention of gaining wealth and influence. All he cares about is personal success, which he then inflates to act as an expert on any given subject. Rinse and repeat.
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Mar 2, 2020 22:31
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the dilbert cartoon where Daniel Stern plays dilbert was good
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Mar 2, 2020 22:41
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Stavros Halkias recently made a good point about how "Kids who stay interested in magic are weird, because when you are a kid you think that magic is real. If you stay interested in magic after you learn that its not real, then you are really attracted to tricking people". Scott Adams is a hypnotist, which is the creepiest possible thing to be.
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Mar 2, 2020 22:48
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The_Continental posted:Whether or not he's a racist doesn't really matter considering he has no morals whatsoever outside of tenacious self promotion. He loves Trump because Trump steamrolls through his own mistakes and appears unflappable. Friendly tip: You should be able to describe the views of people you don't like in a way they would agree is fair, and *then* explain why they are wrong. This is known as steelmanning, as opposed to strawmanning. "He has no morals" might, ya know, cast doubt on the objectivity of your assessment here. I really don't give a poo poo about this dude but this post was some next level mind reading.
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Mar 2, 2020 22:57
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The_Continental posted:Stavros Halkias recently made a good point about how "Kids who stay interested in magic are weird, because when you are a kid you think that magic is real. If you stay interested in magic after you learn that its not real, then you are really attracted to tricking people". Ii wonder what Stavros thoughts on religions are
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Mar 2, 2020 23:19
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UltraRed posted:...how many GBS parachute accounts does he have? im definitely not him
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Relayer posted:Friendly tip: You should be able to describe the views of people you don't like in a way they would agree is fair, and *then* explain why they are wrong. This is known as steelmanning, as opposed to strawmanning. "He has no morals" might, ya know, cast doubt on the objectivity of your assessment here. I really don't give a poo poo about this dude but this post was some next level mind reading. lol Scott himself occasionally describes himself in those terms, I remember him straight up saying he was picking Trump to win because "everyone remembers when you get a longshot prediction right" not only that but much like his idol Trump he is constantly whining about how everyone is so unfair and mean to him (even when they're just quoting his own words back to him) so the idea that we need to concern ourselves with what a giant entitled baby considers "fair" is silly. outside of "I am a genius and nobody understands how smart I am" he doesn't have consistent views JAMOOOL fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Mar 2, 2020 |
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Relayer posted:Friendly tip: You should be able to describe the views of people you don't like in a way they would agree is fair, and *then* explain why they are wrong. This is known as steelmanning, as opposed to strawmanning. "He has no morals" might, ya know, cast doubt on the objectivity of your assessment here. I really don't give a poo poo about this dude but this post was some next level mind reading. Sorry Scott Adams, I know that hyperbole can sometimes be lost on your superior hypnotist IT brain. I never said I was objective. I'm here to poo poo on the diblet guy because I think he is an amoral, self-serving, clown. https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelschein/2018/06/20/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-is-evil-and-why-you-should-follow-his-lead/#33e4995e30a7 - heres some evidence so we can avoid 4 letter words like "strawman".
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Aaah just checkin in on the yearly Scot Adam sucks thread, bang up job guys digging these probates. Catch you in next year's scott adams post
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Mar 2, 2020 23:43
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Willfrey posted:Aaah just checkin in on the yearly Scot Adam sucks thread, bang up job guys digging these probates. Catch you in next year's scott adams post
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The_Continental posted:Stavros Halkias recently made a good point about how "Kids who stay interested in magic are weird, because when you are a kid you think that magic is real. If you stay interested in magic after you learn that its not real, then you are really attracted to tricking people". If this includes magic as in thinking you can influence things remotely with your mind or soul it would explain so much about someone I knew recently. Stay away from people like that.
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Alien Sex Manual posted:I don’t have anything insightful to say but Scott Adams is a dipshit. I haven't even read the rest of this thread, but this exact quote should just be used to answer anything, whatever, whenever, wherever. "What do you think of the turmoil in the Middle East?" "How about them Knicks, huh?" "Does this dress make me look fat?"
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Relayer posted:Friendly tip: You should be able to describe the views of people you don't like in a way they would agree is fair, and *then* explain why they are wrong. This is known as steelmanning, as opposed to strawmanning. "He has no morals" might, ya know, cast doubt on the objectivity of your assessment here. I really don't give a poo poo about this dude but this post was some next level mind reading. Friendly tip: nobody gives a gently caress
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