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	spawn_of_kong 2011-04-16 08:13 pm UTC (link)
	Suddenly I'm glad I never got into Dilbert, or else this would be reeeally embarassing. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	rosehiptea 2011-04-16 09:47 pm UTC (link)
	... I am into Dilbert. Or I was. Damn, Scott. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	marmaladecat 2011-04-16 10:22 pm UTC (link)
	...yeah. Okay, Scott. For what it's worth, the smart people were on to me after the first post. That made it funnier. This whole "Me and my friends are soooo much smarter than you average folks, watch how we dedicate ourselves to poking you with sticks for our own entertainment" thing is getting really old. (Reply to this)

	sneer 2011-04-16 10:25 pm UTC (link)
	...was Scott always this much of an ass? Because there's this, and then there's the Soshul Expeermint shit he pulled a few weeks back, but other than that I can't remember him being this big a douche canoe. (Reply to this)(Thread)

doyle
2011-04-17 12:49 am UTC (link)

The earlier post jogged my memory for why I stopped reading Dilbert - Adams did this essay in one of his prose books about how men totally don't rule the world at all, you guys! The fact that men aren't being offered sex by beautiful women every second of the day proves women rule the world! Even at 13 I found this unfunny and hugely douchey - and I'm 28, so he's been pulling this crap for at least 15 years.

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	littleshebear 2011-04-16 10:33 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, he's such a card. Bless his trollie cotton-socks. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	cmdr_zoom 2011-04-18 08:59 am UTC (link)
	Love your icon, and that scene, so much. (Reply to this)(Parent)

galateus
2011-04-16 11:18 pm UTC (link)

There's actually a funny Dilbert strip about this sort of thing.

The ironing is delicious.

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platedlizard
2011-04-16 11:59 pm UTC (link)

Someone said something very interesting on the Metafilter thread. Dilbert is not the hero of the series. Think about it, he's a loser who fails at everything he does. The hero(s) of that series are characters like Dogbert, Catbert, Wally, the PHB, etc who all succeed despite being massive douchbags. They do what they want, and get away with it. Even when Wally was fired he still came out on top.

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	bcaluroso 2011-04-23 10:27 am UTC (link)
	Oh, yum, ironing! I just love the taste of warm cotton in the morning. XD Just kidding. How do you write something like that and then fail to see the irony when something like this goes down? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	laerwen 2011-04-16 11:18 pm UTC (link)
	Good god, what a douchebag. Every single person I've ever seen have a run in with this guy was highly unimpressed with his behavior. This is just one more item in a long list of fail. :P (Reply to this)

	j_crew_guy 2011-04-16 11:42 pm UTC (link)
	...anyone want to buy some slightly used Dilbert books? At very reduced prices? I will actually be adding them to the growing collection of books to be donated to our local library for their annual sale. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	jaythenerdkid 2011-04-17 12:23 am UTC (link)
	I get the daily Dilbert in my inbox every day. Might have to stop that now. :/ (Reply to this)

ecchaniz0r
2011-04-17 12:35 am UTC (link)

Gawd, he's not even a good white knight troll, and it's pretty obvious that anyone who white knights themselves has nothing better to do with their time and has the most fragile sensitive widdle ego ever. Sad, dude, sad. I've seen better from hypercaffeinated fifteen-year-olds writing in misspelled netspeak, lousy TypeMoon RPers on my friend's message board, and /b/ros stoned out from NyQuil. Why is he PROUD?

I keep going, 'are you new, that you think that was clever and innovative?'

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sandglass
2011-04-17 12:50 am UTC (link)

I understand why the top students in America study physics, chemistry, calculus and classic literature. The kids in this brainy group are the future professors, scientists, thinkers and engineers who will propel civilization forward. But why do we make B students sit through these same classes? That's like trying to train your cat to do your taxes—a waste of time and money. Wouldn't it make more sense to teach B students something useful, like entrepreneurship?

Uh, since when did being a B student mean stupid and/or not fit for rigorous studies? Depending on the grading scheme, B is where you end up if you're competent and know the material, but don't have a perfect polish.

I'm a B student. I study classical literature. Did I just pop out of existence even more?

Meanwhile, some of my peers were taking courses in art history so they'd be prepared to remember what art looked like just in case anyone asked.

Oh God. He's one of those morons who wants to go to a university, but hates the idea of a liberal education.

Also gotta love how for him, entrepreneurship is all about taking advantage of people and situations. Who cares if anything he does is beneficial if he gets paid!

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	chienne 2011-04-17 12:50 am UTC (link)
	So where would this rank on the douchebag creator scale between "whining about negative reviews" (e.g. Anne Rice and Laurell K. Hamilton) and "leaving rude comments on negative reviews?" (e.g. Christopher Pike) (Note to self: if you ever become an author, DON'T google your own name. It will only end in tears.) (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	tehrin 2011-04-17 04:18 am UTC (link)
	TBH, when was the last time Scott Adams was funny? (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	queencallipygos 2011-04-17 06:10 pm UTC (link)
	I actually have posted in that thread and I didn't catch this. Wow. (I was the one who said that the "men's rights" blog post was his Dave Sim moment.) (Reply to this)(Thread)

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sukeban
2011-04-18 01:53 pm UTC (link)

Mathowie wins the MeTa thread here:

[...] The second, more philosophical problem is that he's kind of libertarian in the heady geek way lots of early internet nerds were and he claims not to go for the real crazy libertarian things, but it seems like as he is getting older he is skewing towards more and more libertarian rants.

He's got this op-ed column at the WSJ and every article there reads basically like "I have this crazy idea everyone should do the crazy stuff I did! Why isn't everyone doing crazy stuff like me and being awesome like me?! Why?!"

That seems to be the theme, and it annoys the shit out of me in the same way talking to libertarian-leaning uber geeks does, because most often I find they think of themselves as self-made men that pulled themselves up by their bootstraps that learned their own way of doing things and clawed their way out of college and into a career they mined themselves from raw bedrock stone. The reality is more like that old saying "born on third base and you think you hit a triple" where this mindset of a "self-made man" ignores the giant obvious perk of being born male and white and to a middle class or upper class family that bought you computers when you were young and gave you time and space to pursue your computer hobby to the fullest.

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queencallipygos
2011-04-18 03:42 pm UTC (link)

Among the people who are also on Metafilter, is Adam Savage from Mythbusters. He doesn't talk much, but it's sort of an open secret that he lurks -- and as it turns out, he was so impressed at how this whole "Scott Adams = plannedchaos" thing went down that he Tweeted a general praise of Metafilter this weekend. Someone started a separate discussion about that, and here is Adam Savage's own contribution TO that discussion. (He jokes that he was toying with creating a sockpuppet account of his own, named "Unplannedchaos," to come in and post stuff like "Adam Savage Sux!")

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vzg
2011-04-19 01:32 am UTC (link)

No one writes unless he believes that what he writes will be interesting to someone.

Yes they do. People write for the love of writing. There's a long history of writers and other types of artists who hated their own work/did not think their work was very good. And Twilight alone can prove that some people write for themselves and let it find an audience, IMO.

As someone mentioned, he has a certified genius I.Q., and that's hard to hide.

No it isn't. Hell, just down the road is an older man who I kind of wrote off as a slightly wacky neighbor for a long time, until my mother started telling me about all the great things he did before he retired. I talked to him myself and, sure, when he got on a subject he knew about/was passionate about it was obvious he was a very, very smart man, but, you know, he's still also the slightly wacky neighbor.

I think the key is not rubbing it in everyone's faces. Besides the fact that touting a "certified genius IQ" sounds ridiculous to start (it doesn't matter that it is a thing, it still sounds stupid to throw the term around like that), the attitude makes him come off as the opposite part of the Dunning-Kruger effect than the side he claims to be on.

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	littleshebear 2011-04-19 01:33 am UTC (link)
	It's not his fault, you guys! We made him do it! You'd think a certified genius would be familiar with that expression about holes and when to stop digging. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	komorebi 2011-04-19 07:32 am UTC (link)
	I did my taxes this past weekend, and I was very annoyed that the only file folders I had on-hand were old Dilbert-printed ones. Bah. (Reply to this)

	rosehiptea 2011-04-19 10:35 pm UTC (link)
	It hit Yahoo News today. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	stele3 2011-04-23 05:16 am UTC (link)
	Comics writer Gail Simone has been taking Adams to task on Twitter. A select Tweet: I think it might be possible just barely somewhat that Scott Adams is a major chump. (Reply to this)