I don't really know why but I really enjoyed Dilbert a lot as a teen. The easily imitable art style had something to do with it, I'm sure. I also really enjoyed the Dilbert cartoon later on....
I don't really know why but I really enjoyed Dilbert a lot as a teen. The easily imitable art style had something to do with it, I'm sure. I also really enjoyed the Dilbert cartoon later on. Although all of it's a lot less funny now that I'm a working adult. Plus...ya know...Scott Adams turned out to be a garbage-ass human being. So that kinda sours all of it for me.
Dilbert was alright, and I really identified with it as a teen and a young working adult. It represents the attitudes and ideas of a lot of people, especially young people working in STEM fields...
Dilbert was alright, and I really identified with it as a teen and a young working adult. It represents the attitudes and ideas of a lot of people, especially young people working in STEM fields have.
As I got older and more exposed to the reality of the reasons behind a lot of management decisions, the comics started seeming a bit sillier, short sighted, and ignorant at times.
There's definitely a type of person in most offices that strongly identifies with Dilbert. They're usually male, usually engineers or programmers or some other technical role, and they usually think they're the smartest person in the room despite any evidence to the contrary. They usually have opinions that basically boil down to "all of my bosses are idiots with no common sense, and if they let me run this company we wouldn't have to do any of this dumb stuff". They also have no real interest in learning any of the reasons behind why they're being told to do the dumb stuff.
As I've gotten more experience, I've become less and less patient with people like that, and think back to when I was a person like that at times and cringe a bit.
Reading Dilbert nowadays makes me feel many of the same emotions.
I watched the cartoon series once when a re-run was randomly showing late night on a Freeview channel and honestly thought it was terrible. I mean as far as "shitty animated adaptations of comic...
I watched the cartoon series once when a re-run was randomly showing late night on a Freeview channel and honestly thought it was terrible.
I mean as far as "shitty animated adaptations of comic series" goes, it's nowhere near as bad as Ctrl+Alt+Del: The Animated Series, but there is a very good reason it pretty much got dropped after a single season.
I think it was due to the extreme level of sardonic humor. Teenagers love that stuff. I first saw Dilbert as a teenager, too, when it was still kind of radical. I'm not happy for his death, but...
I think it was due to the extreme level of sardonic humor. Teenagers love that stuff. I first saw Dilbert as a teenager, too, when it was still kind of radical.
I'm not happy for his death, but it's good that he's not around to spread Trump's poison any more.
Behind the Bastards podcast did a very funny two parter on Scott Adams that I would recommend checking out on your next boring car ride. Dilbert had some funny workplace comics over the years, but...
Behind the Bastards podcast did a very funny two parter on Scott Adams that I would recommend checking out on your next boring car ride.
Dilbert had some funny workplace comics over the years, but I can't say that I have seen any of them in a number of years.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. The only version of Dilbert I ever enjoyed was the TV show and that was mostly Larry Charles’ work, not Scott Adams. I never quite understood the appeal of...
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
The only version of Dilbert I ever enjoyed was the TV show and that was mostly Larry Charles’ work, not Scott Adams. I never quite understood the appeal of the comics.
I don't really know why but I really enjoyed Dilbert a lot as a teen. The easily imitable art style had something to do with it, I'm sure. I also really enjoyed the Dilbert cartoon later on. Although all of it's a lot less funny now that I'm a working adult. Plus...ya know...Scott Adams turned out to be a garbage-ass human being. So that kinda sours all of it for me.
Dilbert was alright, and I really identified with it as a teen and a young working adult. It represents the attitudes and ideas of a lot of people, especially young people working in STEM fields have.
As I got older and more exposed to the reality of the reasons behind a lot of management decisions, the comics started seeming a bit sillier, short sighted, and ignorant at times.
There's definitely a type of person in most offices that strongly identifies with Dilbert. They're usually male, usually engineers or programmers or some other technical role, and they usually think they're the smartest person in the room despite any evidence to the contrary. They usually have opinions that basically boil down to "all of my bosses are idiots with no common sense, and if they let me run this company we wouldn't have to do any of this dumb stuff". They also have no real interest in learning any of the reasons behind why they're being told to do the dumb stuff.
As I've gotten more experience, I've become less and less patient with people like that, and think back to when I was a person like that at times and cringe a bit.
Reading Dilbert nowadays makes me feel many of the same emotions.
I watched the cartoon series once when a re-run was randomly showing late night on a Freeview channel and honestly thought it was terrible.
I mean as far as "shitty animated adaptations of comic series" goes, it's nowhere near as bad as Ctrl+Alt+Del: The Animated Series, but there is a very good reason it pretty much got dropped after a single season.
I think it was due to the extreme level of sardonic humor. Teenagers love that stuff. I first saw Dilbert as a teenager, too, when it was still kind of radical.
I'm not happy for his death, but it's good that he's not around to spread Trump's poison any more.
I could sharply exhale through my nose at Dilbert from time to time back in the day. Can’t separate the art from the raging arsehole though.
Behind the Bastards podcast did a very funny two parter on Scott Adams that I would recommend checking out on your next boring car ride.
Dilbert had some funny workplace comics over the years, but I can't say that I have seen any of them in a number of years.
I fell a couple years behind on BtB and my next up is the two Scott Adams episodes with Matt Lieb, which made me chuckle when I saw this news.
Definitely one of my go to podcasts for road trips.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
The only version of Dilbert I ever enjoyed was the TV show and that was mostly Larry Charles’ work, not Scott Adams. I never quite understood the appeal of the comics.