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Post by rsynnott »

CGMthrowaway wrote: post #573
mrweasel wrote: post #182

I loved Dilbert, having worked for more than one Dilbert-like company the humor frequently resonated with me. How or why Scott Adams went completely of the rails is perhaps something we'll sadly never understand. Was this opinions he'd always had, but suppressed, did he somehow become radicalized or was it perhaps medically induced, e.g. a stroke or something. It was incredibly sad to see him throw away his life's wo…

> How or why Scott Adams went completely of the rails is perhaps something we'll sadly never understand He explains it himself, if you are open to primary source material.

A crazy person's account of how they went crazy should not generally be considered reliable.

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Post by 6177c40f »

bastardoperator wrote: post #564
jchallis wrote: post #188

Scott Adams died today. I want to acknowledge something complicated. He always felt culturally like family to me. His peaks—the biting humor about corporate absurdity, the writing on systems thinking and compounding habits, the clarity about the gap between what organizations say and what they do—unquestionably made me healthier, happier, and wealthier. If you worked in tech in the 90s and 2000s, Dilbert was a shared…

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I find AI replies to generally be less annoying and more constructive than comments like this, TBH.

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Post by monocasa »

oliwarner wrote: post #252
quietbritishjim wrote: post #203

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> How or why Scott Adams went completely of the rails is perhaps something we'll sadly never understand. It started at roughly the time of his divorce, so it's hard to imagine there's not a connection. But, of course, you're right that we'll never know.

His 18yo son overdosed on fentanyl in 2018. I don't want to excuse his opinions but that's the sort of event that can change a person. He did online chats, and did one immediately after. It's a tough watch. https://x.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1046764270128484352

He and been way off the rails for decades before that.

In fact, growing up in the very affluent part of my city, I saw a bunch of kids die using opiates to mentally escape the weird family fiefdoms where they [p/m]atriarch inexplicably wouldn't ever need for money, so went completely off the rails mentally. I was prescribed a bunch of opiates (including fent) after a bad ski accident, and can tell you that they basically work by turning down the volume on life around you. I can understand why someone would turn to them to mentally escape a bad family life.

About the only good thing I can say about recreational Xanax is that those kids are generally still alive in contrast to the ones who preferred opiates.

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Post by stetrain »

pembrook wrote: post #356
jchallis wrote: post #188

Scott Adams died today. I want to acknowledge something complicated. He always felt culturally like family to me. His peaks—the biting humor about corporate absurdity, the writing on systems thinking and compounding habits, the clarity about the gap between what organizations say and what they do—unquestionably made me healthier, happier, and wealthier. If you worked in tech in the 90s and 2000s, Dilbert was a shared…

As someone who actively avoided cancel culture hysteria in the 2010s, can we have some context here? What did the guy say that has everyone stumbling over themselves to vaguely allude to it?

"So I realized, as you know I've been identifying as Black for a while, years now, because I like to be on the winning team"

"But as of today I'm going to re-identify as White, because I don't want to be a member of a hate group, I'd accidentally joined a hate group."

"The best advice I would give to White people is to get away hell away from Black people, just get the fuck away. Wherever you have to go, just get away. Because there's no fixing this, this can't be fixed, you just have to escape. So that's what I did, I went to a neighborhood where I have a very low Black population"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6TnAn7qV1s

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Post by faefox »

FireBeyond wrote: post #575
OCASMv2 wrote: post #447

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Please give more positive ways to interpret these things he has said: > So I think it makes no sense whatsoever, as a white citizen of America, to try to help Black citizens anymore And: > So if you are wondering how men become cold-blooded killers, it isn’t religion that is doing it. If you put me in that situation, I can say with confidence I would sign up for suicide bomb duty. And I’m not even a believer. Men lik…

I wouldn't expect to hear back. GP is either a troll or a cultist or both.

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Post by pstuart »

SpaceNoodled wrote: post #570
munificent wrote: post #450

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I'm very fond of a quote from Tim Minchin that I'll paraphrase as: "I'm not the best singer or the best comedian, but I'm the best voice of all the comedians and I'm the funniest singer." Don't max one stat. Be a unique, weird combination of several.

Guess he never met Tom Lehrer

A fair point but still, Tim Minchin is the GOAT.

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Post by monsieurbanana »

LordDragonfang wrote: post #525
isodev wrote: post #448

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> His views, always unapologetic, became more strident over time and pushed everyone away. That also felt like family. I’m sorry, are you also racist or do you mean a different family? Scott Adams undoubtedly “won at life” but also somehow remained angry at the world. More of an example of things we shouldn’t do and things we should try to eradicate.

Many people have belligerent, racist older family members who only became more belligerent and racist over time. They're practically a stock character in jokes about Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Again, not a real family member.

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Post by collinvandyck76 »

kristianbrigman wrote: post #108
TYPE_FASTER wrote: post #28

There was a super weird alignment at a previous job where the appearances, personalities, and seniority/rank of some of my co-workers matched characters in Dilbert to the T. It was really funny and almost eerie, like Scott Adams was hiding in a cube taking notes.

IIRC he did get a lot of ideas from fans talking about their own workplaces …

There were a number of Motorola-inspired ideas that made their way to Dilbert while I was working there in the late 90s.
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