Caesar Saladin posted:

Didn't 9/11 completely destroy his already soft soft brain?

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.

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.

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.

massive spider posted:

EA Sports posted:

scott adams is an old goony richdude loving hot girls and basically you're loving stupid.

JAMOOOL posted:

lmao Scott Adams would absolutely have a total meltdown if he knew strangers were making fun of him on a message board on Something Awful Dot Com

Mr.Pibbleton posted:

What if he hypnotizes us to orgasm at his posts?

Fried Watermelon posted:

Did you know Cool Ranch doritos are called Cool American in the UK?

je1 healthcare posted:

I always respected Bill Watterson's sense of artistic integrity and notorious aversion to commercialism, up until about 2005 when I remembered that the internet exists where he could publish whatever he wants without editors or sponsors.

Daikloktos posted:

I freaking hate STEMlords, I want to beat the racism out of them with hammers

Pekinduck posted:

Iirc Scott Adams was never actually an engineer.

Ugly In The Morning posted:

Has anyone in human history ever laughed at a Marmaduke comic?

Applewhite posted:

Great Danes sure are big!

Murderion posted:

Why would you put 8 great danes on your fridge

theres no room for them up there

JAMOOOL posted:

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1278309835453284357

having a normal one

Poohs Packin posted:

Lmao he also posts without his shirt on ALOT.

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD posted:

Scott adams went to my college and is quite literally the most famous person to graduate from there

If i had known that before i enrolled i would have gone to a suny school

Ups_rail posted:

I think thats the one where the promo was, some dude looking through a bathroom stall and goes "watcha doing pooping?"

That was quote by my friend group alot

StrangersInTheNight posted:

Ugh yeah some of these go way too heavy-handed. Both of the Christmas ones, with the crowd fighting and the 'joke' about sugar plums, are full-on Boomer humor poo poo.

And then there's an anti-union one? With the steel worker. Wtf Watterson. Yikes.

Jelly posted:

Terry Goodkind is better than Robert Jordan.

numberoneposter posted:

glad i got a garf tat and not some dil ink

Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:

LeGuin is pretty much better than all her male contemporaries bar like Harlan Ellison or random occasionals like Spider Robinson because she was actually competent at navigating human relationships, sociology, and anthropology. Reading stuff like Foundation really falls flat because Asimov seems like a total moron when it comes to people and like so many male sci-fi authors at the time, has virtually zero imagination whatsoever about the human condition itself. Heinlein was middling to alright about this during his early career, and then he just went famously stupid. LeGuin could not only postulate on the more technical and dry aspects of sci-fi, but was an incredibly lucid writer when she forced you to contend with how human nature would evolve as well. She questioned the gender binary long before it was popular (even though questioning the binary is a pretty old itself) and was fairly critical of the concept of the nuclear family along with harboring an understanding that hierarchal behavior is practically inherently at odds with intelligence - a fairly fatal flaw of our species, since we're intelligent to enough to be highly proficient at creating means of killing ourselves and making our own lives significantly worse, a lot of bad sci-fi authors basically do nothing but endorse hierarchal behavior, usually through some hyper-individualistic lens.
I think she understood that humanity would go through just as much a singularity of consciousness as a scientific one if it would hope to survive and evolve past just being the generic apes we are at the moment.

Octavia Butler was also fairly good at this, but she had really weird homophobic undertones occasionally.

I thought about this a lot recently when I read the Remembrance of Earth's Past books when a friend hyped up The Three-Body Problem and I was struck with pure-strain frustration regarding how one single man can have such a capacity for making concepts that are almost indescribable comprehensible on the page, but then is such a stupid, uncreative, unimaginative dumbfuck that his gender politics and social commentary are the most staid, unbelievably dull poo poo that feels like it was ripped straight out of some dookie rear end late Heinlein novel, but several decades too new to have a reasonable excuse for it.

Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:

When they published Octavia Butler's Dawn book they made the characters white as gently caress on the cover, the two characters that take center stage in the book are a black woman and an Asian man lol, those genre fiction cover artist basically got like a vague description and all bets were off.

Internet Old One posted:

There is a large segment of the population that is too stupid to eat properly. People who are too stupid to eat properly will not consume anything that doesn’t sound good and a Dilbert branded microwave burrito never sounds good.

I personally don’t like cooking when I happen to be in the zone but even in those cases the Dilbertito can’t compete with gummy supplements, meal replacement products, or smoothies on convenience or taste which is especially a problem when it was apparently only sold in health food stores that have a lot of that stuff already.

The apparent success of Soylent proves he could have maybe been more successful if he used his lovely personality to appeal directly to tech workers who know everything about anything because they passed discrete mathematics.

sebmojo posted:

i just hypnotised you. heh, i did it again. i'm on a completely different level to-- did it again.