Scott Adams has died

Re:Scott Adams has died by rco8786 on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @12:34PM (#46604472)

I had this exact experience. Growing up I had nothing but good memories of reading Dilbert over my breakfast cereal, and then laughing as I got into the workforce and realized how accurate the satire was. And then seeing what "he" was actually like just completely threw me for a loop.

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Re:Scott Adams has died by apparent on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @04:00PM (#46607917)

I had an opposite experience. I found his comics not-funny when I was a kid, but then as a grown-up who had worked in a corporate environment, I found many of them funny.

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Re:Scott Adams has died by KiwiJohnno on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:38PM (#46610104)

I had 100% the same experience. I thought they were stupid when I was young, after working in an office for a year or two I thought they were peak humor.

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Re:Scott Adams has died by mcv on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @01:12PM (#46605148)

At some point he had a mailinglist called Dogbert's New Ruling Class (DNRC) which would soon come to rule the world. In it he wrote lots of really weird, unhinged, occasionally funny stuff. At the time I thought it was all one massive joke, layers of irony and trolling. But more recently I've been wondering if he was actually serious.

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Re:Scott Adams has died by _whiteCaps_ on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:03PM (#46609679)

I still read coworkers as "cow-orkers"

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Re:Scott Adams has died by profsummergig on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @05:09AM (#46614300)

If you could share any links to DNRC related content, I'd love to see it. Can't find anything online, just broken links.

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