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Scott Adams dead at not quite 70. I'm not going to mourn an unrepentant hatemonger but he was so unhinged in his last decade or so that I have to wonder if they'll do an autopsy and find a giant tumor pressing on the asshole button in his brain.
 
I suspect this is the best he can hope for re: his eternal soul…

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As a former professional software developer, I loved the Dilbert cartoons SO much. At one company, every time we had a meeting we would go back to the office and look up whatever had just happened on the 365 day Dilbert calendar. We found something every single time. His ability to predict and describe that stuff in a hilarious manner bordered on the supernatural.

Accordingly, I was saddened and angered when he turned out to be a vitriolic MAGA nut job.

I am sad for his passing and appreciate his positive contributions. RIP.
 
Frank Prince said:
As a former professional software developer, I loved the Dilbert cartoons SO much. At one company, every time we had a meeting we would go back to the office and look up whatever had just happened on the 365 day Dilbert calendar. We found something every single time. His ability to predict and describe that stuff in a hilarious manner bordered on the supernatural.

Accordingly, I was saddened and angered when he turned out to be a vitriolic MAGA nut job.

I am sad for his passing and appreciate his positive contributions. RIP.
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As a former network engineer, I feel the same way.
 
Frank Prince said:
As a former professional software developer, I loved the Dilbert cartoons SO much. At one company, every time we had a meeting we would go back to the office and look up whatever had just happened on the 365 day Dilbert calendar. We found something every single time. His ability to predict and describe that stuff in a hilarious manner bordered on the supernatural.

Accordingly, I was saddened and angered when he turned out to be a vitriolic MAGA nut job.

I am sad for his passing and appreciate his positive contributions. RIP.
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I feel the same way. I'm an engineer and we used to do the same thing at one of my former jobs, only we went one step further and put the cartoon up on the company bulletin board in the cafeteria until they told us to stop.
 
Frank Prince said:
As a former professional software developer, I loved the Dilbert cartoons SO much. At one company, every time we had a meeting we would go back to the office and look up whatever had just happened on the 365 day Dilbert calendar. We found something every single time. His ability to predict and describe that stuff in a hilarious manner bordered on the supernatural.

Accordingly, I was saddened and angered when he turned out to be a vitriolic MAGA nut job.

I am sad for his passing and appreciate his positive contributions. RIP.
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PunkKitty said:
As a former network engineer, I feel the same way.
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Flatspotter said:
I feel the same way. I'm an engineer and we used to do the same thing at one of my former jobs, only we went one step further and put the cartoon up on the company bulletin board in the cafeteria until they told us to stop.
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Same... It broke my heart when it turned out that he voted for The Pointy Haired Boss.
 
man, if you went back in time and told 14-year-old me that didn't have any work experience but still loved reading dilbert that i wouldn't really care at all when he died, i probably would have said "hm, that's not that surprising i mean it's a funny comic and all but come on"
 
Every office I've worked in always had someone who was huge into Dilbert & wanted to share their love of Dilbert with the rest of the office. I always appreciated how much enjoyment that brought them. Bummer he flipped the script later in his life and took some of that joy away from those folks in the process.
 
I used to enjoy Dilbert and Far Side quite a bit back in the 80s & 90s...back when we still got a daily printed newspaper. Can't say that I've read a lot of comic strips in the last 10 - 15 years, but as someone who spent a fair amount of time in a cubicle farm back in those days, Dilbert was relevant and humorous. I didn't follow Scott's later days to know what his politics were, or even know he was battling pancreatic cancer. That's a tough one to beat and i have known a few folks that also lost that fight.

RIP Scott, thanks for all the laughs.
 
He wrote a couple of (non comic) books that I enjoyed that seemed in opposition to where he ended up ideologically speaking.

Cosby, Clapton, Chapelle, Rowling, and Adams are all examples of artists I stopped supporting once it was clear who they really were.
 
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