Post #1562423

2026-01-13 20:07 UTC

@ridetheory I remember reading Dilbert when I was at Uni in the late 1990's. After I did one internship, I realised how true-to-life some of his observations were, and decided that corporate life was not for me. :D I stopped reading Adams after he outed himself, but this Chrimbo, my partner gave me a Dilbert calendar, as it had been recommended by Amazon as a gift for me. The latest cartoons were even worse than I had realised. Just right-wing talking points raised as humour... :|

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@BillySmith@social.coop 2026-01-13 20:14

@ridetheory I saw the same thing happen with Dave Sim when he was writing Cerebus. Another interesting creative author, who turned to misogyny and hate. :(

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@slembcke@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-01-13 20:21

@BillySmith @ridetheory Similar timeline for me. In school I related to the "engineer like math more than business" sorts of jokes in there because I was always motivated by learning about new stuff. Once I graduated and got a job? Eh... They were no longer funny. You see some of the "tropes" in real life, and they get less funny. It turns out people aren't 2 dimensional. The grumpy folks who like to deploy those labels in real life? Not so nice. :-\

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@loke@functional.cafe 2026-01-14 11:43

@BillySmith @ridetheory I just checked some of the later ones. Wow... That's beyond terrible.

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@jym@climatejustice.social 2026-01-27 23:16

@BillySmith @ridetheory - The glory days of _Dilbert_ were when hundreds of people sent their true-to-life work absurdities to him via email. Email was enough of a novelty at the time and he kind of lucked into that.

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