Scott Adams cancelled: The Dilbert Virginity Fortress

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Cubone: May 26, 2011; Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

Tip posted:

been squinting at this one like a riddle

I see the

quote:

""india is so backwards and unscientific" -an indian guy" - a white guy

but, the joke, dear god

stripped down and workshopped, I think it would look something like this:

quote:

asok: did you hear India criminalized being gay?
dilbert: I guess they'll be getting rid of the taj manal then
asok: why's that?
dilbert: have you seen it? that place is totally gay!

quote:

asok: India criminalized being gay. I'm ashamed of my home country's homophobia
dilbert: with their lack of understanding, I'm worried about their respect for and preservation of historical cultural sites like the taj mahal
asok: the taj manal? hah! gayyyy

it's unclear, because the joke is so poorly told
why are they even talking about nuclear weapons? it just creates this extra leap the audience has to make either that, because india criminalized homosexuality, that means they want to nuke gay people, or that because they're unscientific they would use nuclear weapons to destroy their own landmarks
without that leap, dilbert's remark makes no sense as a reply to what asok was saying, and even so, what he says is the first half of a punchline that he just leaves hanging for asok to finish, which asok would have no way of intuiting. this reads like a story written by a patient suffering from brain damage that's used in a psychology class to demonstrate what it looks like when somebody loses the ability to distinguish other people's understanding from their own
asok understands it because adams understands it, so you end up with this broken statler and waldorf exchange being performed for an audience of nobody, squeezed into the last panel because the first two are taken up by a bizarre racist sockpuppet rant, and crippled by the pointless addition of nukes

it is such a bad joke.

the only way to read this strip for it to make any sense is that adams forgot that he was writing two characters
he got so wrapped up in trying to get digs in at astrologists and addressing india's status as a nuclear power that he lost his theory of mind
he got so distracted by his own STEMlord jerk-off pontification that he forgot how to conceptualize human beings having different thoughts and feelings
(which, in a way, summarizes his entire career)

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 05:58

Cubone: May 26, 2011; Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

JK Fresco posted:

Gayyyy

:o

>:o

# ¿ Mar 1, 2020 23:56

Cubone: May 26, 2011; Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

The_Continental posted:

This thread is all of a sudden riding upon a razor thin precipice.

my precipice was cut off at birth

# ¿ Mar 2, 2020 00:10

Cubone: May 26, 2011; Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

Tip posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/759398459224920064

oh wow, he was the guy with the confusing torso?

# ¿ Mar 2, 2020 00:19

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