Good ridda…wait. He was 68 years old? The same age I am? It’s sorta sad when people die so young.
But that guy? I won’t be mourning.
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Good ridda…wait. He was 68 years old? The same age I am? It’s sorta sad when people die so young.
But that guy? I won’t be mourning.
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Reminder that the creator of Dilbert wrote novels, God’s Debris & Religion War, during the phase when New Atheism was hot shit.
Scott who?
I miss Bob Weir.
And Jerry.
I think Adams was kind of an evil little shit toward the end, but not evil enough (or at least not consequential enough) to merit a “good riddance.”
Also, I miss Bob Weir too — he’ll be more mourned and more missed than Scott Adams.
PS: That cartoon makes me wonder how many cube-farms really do have that arrangement. I’ve never heard of anyone saying it should be avoided as a rule.
Dilbert was mostly spot-on during it’s heyday in the 90’s but like many things, it started to fade in quality. Maybe it was because he no longer was one of cubicle denizens and so didn’t have the stories or maybe it was his conversion to a RW asshole. Don’t know. I just pretty much ignored it. All in all, I’m pretty ‘meh’ on his death other than nobody should die that way, regardless of their personal degree of evil.
And Phil, and Donna, and Robert, and “Pigpen” and Keith and the other keyboard players that died. Most of the Dead are dead.
Roll away the dew.
He hasn’t been prominent in my circles as he used to be, but still, I’m glad he’s out of the picture.
Yeah, Dilbert had some amusement value at one point, but over time it became more and more a ‘hah hah, I’m so much smarter than other people’ sort of thing for Adams and his primary audience, which meant he was becoming tech-bro adjacent for years. Audience capture didn’t help as the followers that actually talked with Adams became more and more distilled to the Mencius Moldbug sorts. That made the slide to Trump supporter so much easier, because he was already a technocrat-enabler and pseudo-feudalist.
I still say the high point for Dilbert was the animated series that happened in the early 1990s, for one simple reason: actually forcing the stories to fit into a network TV time slot meant that the writers had to pay attention to the pacing. Adams’ pacing in the comic when he was doing longer stories was, frankly, terrible.
The last I’d heard about him was actually over at Respectful Insolence about eight months ago, where Orac had written Scott Adams vs. a cancer quack about Adams’ prostate cancer diagnosis and how he was currently in a war of words with a cancer quack whose protocol had, of course, not worked and who got incensed when Adams tried to tell other people that it hadn’t worked.
If you won’t say it, I will.
Good riddance! Each and every right winger deserves the same fate.
Hypothesis: Scott Adams was really Erich von Däniken in disguise.
Or vice-versa.
@5: I don’t think modern cube farms are likely to use that layout (though it is pretty close to what the Innies used in Severance). At my last in-office job, our “cubes” were just 5-foot tables with a divider that didn’t extend past the table. If you turned to the left or right, you were looking at your nearest neighbor. Great for “collaboration”, not so much for “quietly doing work”.
I think Dilbert was alright for a bit, in its heyday, but did not hold a candle to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell
As it happens, I’m also that age. Yep: Dilbert was funny and relevant as hell when I was a denizen of high-tech Cubeland in the 90s and 00s (and no, the swastika arrangement would not have worked, if only because it would have been an inefficient way to pack ~100 cubicles into the room). I lost track of Dilbert after the mid-00s. Seems like the celebrity went to his head, and he created a cult centered on his own supposed brilliance. The “inDUHvidual”/ Dogbert’s New Ruling Class joke was perhaps an early red flag,
Scott Adams? Whatever.
The big news as noted above and I’ve been informed of by numerous emails is that Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead has died.
I had something to say about that.
I saw them three times as an older teenage kid, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Owsley was there doing the sound system.
They weren’t even that famous back then.
If you live long enough, you get to see your favorite musicians, artists, and authors die.
Also all your friends and family.
And, these days, you can see our democracy and the USA dying as well.
I’m just going to say it. Life is difficult sometimes.
I signed up for his news letter back in the 90s, but unsubscribe after a few weeks. It was relentlessly mean and petty. Over time his arrogance got worse. I think humanity is better off without him.
As a former programmer for big companies, IBM, Quest, etc. I loved the comic strips. Dilbert Did Documentaries, as far as my “lived experience” went. I cared nothing for his nutter “philosophy” like his claim that if you wrote “I will become xxx” often enough, you would achieve xxx. Classic example of how people can be brilliant at one thing, and no good at everything else.