Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.

Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

  • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
    16·
    1 天前

    It has happened. Post your wildest Scott Adams take here to pay respects to one of the dumbest posters of all time.

    I’ll start with this gem

    • mirrorwitch@awful.systemsEnglish
      8·
      17 小时前

      sorry Scott you just lacked the experience to appreciate the nuances, sissy hypno enjoyers will continue to take their brainwashing organic and artisanally crafted by skilled dommes

      • Architeuthis@awful.systemsEnglish
        7·
        13 小时前

        woo takes about quantum mechanics and the power of self-affirmation

        In retrospect it’s pretty obvious this was central to his character: he couldn’t accept he got hella lucky with dilbert happening to hit pop culture square in the zeitgeist, so he had to adjust his worldview into him being a master wizard that can bend reality to his will, and also everyone else is really stupid for not doing so too, except, it turned out, Trump.

        From what I gather there’s also a lot of the rationalist high intelligence is being able to manipulate others bordering on mind control ethos in his fiction writing,

      • corbin@awful.systemsEnglish
        7·
        1 天前

        There was a Dilbert TV show. Because it wasn’t written wholly by Adams, it was funny and engaging, with character development, a critical eye at business management, and it treated minorities like Alice and Asok with a modicum of dignity. While it might have been good compared to the original comic strip, it wasn’t good TV or even good animation. There wasn’t even a plot until the second season. It originally ran on UPN; when they dropped it, Adams accused UPN of pandering to African-Americans. (I watched it as reruns on Adult Swim.) I want to point out the episodes written by Adams alone:

        1. An MLM hypnotizes people into following a cult led by Wally
        2. Dilbert and a security guard play prince-and-the-pauper

        That’s it! He usually wasn’t allowed to write alone. I’m not sure if we’ll ever have an easier man to psychoanalyze. He was very interested in the power differential between laborers and managers because he always wanted more power. He put his hypnokink out in the open. He told us that he was Dilbert but he was actually the PHB.

        Bonus sneer: Click on Asok’s name; Adams put this character through literal multiple hells for some reason. I wonder how he felt about the real-world friend who inspired Asok.

        Edit: This was supposed to be posted one level higher. I’m not good at Lemmy.

          • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
            4·
            12 小时前

            as a youth I’d acquired this at some point and I recall some fondness about some of the things, largely in the novelty sense (in that they worked “with” the desktop, had the “boss key”, etc) - and I suspect that in turn was largely because it was my first run-in with all of those things

            later on (skipping ahead, like, ~22y or something), the more I learned about the guy, the harder I never wanted to be in a room as him

            may he rest in ever-refreshed piss

      • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
        6·
        1 天前

        ok if I saw “every male encounter is implied violence” tweeted from an anonymous account I’d see it as some based feminist thing that would send me into a spiral while trying to unpack it. Luckily it’s just weird brainrot from adams here

    • sansruse@awful.systemsEnglish
      11·
      1 天前

      it’s not exactly a take, but i want to shout out the dilberito, one of the dumbest products ever created

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Other

      the Dilberito was a vegetarian microwave burrito that came in flavors of Mexican, Indian, Barbecue, and Garlic & Herb. It was sold through some health food stores. Adams’s inspiration for the product was that “diet is the number one cause of health-related problems in the world. I figured I could put a dent in that problem and make some money at the same time.” He aimed to create a healthy food product that also had mass appeal, a concept he called “the blue jeans of food”.

      • Rackhir@mastodon.pnpde.social
        4·
        13 小时前

        @sansruse @V0ldek You left out the best part! 😂

        Adams himself noted, “[t]he mineral fortification was hard to disguise, and because of the veggie and legume content, three bites of the Dilberito made you fart so hard your intestines formed a tail.”[63] The New York Times noted the burrito “could have been designed only by a food technologist or by someone who eats lunch without much thought to taste”.[64]

      • Fish Id Wardrobe@social.tchncs.de
        3·
        13 小时前

        @sansruse @V0ldek honestly, in the list of dumb products, this is mid-tier. surely at least the juicero is dumber? literally a device that you can replace with your own hands.

        i mean, obviously the dilberito is daft. but it’s a high bar.

      • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systemsEnglish
        11·
        1 天前

        Not gonna lie, reading through the wiki article and thinking back to some of the Elbonia jokes makes it pretty clear that he always sucked as a person, which is a disappointing realization. I had hoped that he had just gone off the deep end during COVID like so many others, but the bullshit was always there, just less obvious when situated amongst all the bullshit of corporate office life he was mocking.

        • scruiser@awful.systemsEnglish
          9·
          22 小时前

          I read his comics in middle school, and in hindsight even a lot of his older comics seems crueler and uglier. Like Alice’s anger isn’t a legitimate response to the bullshit work environment she has but just haha angry woman funny.

          Also, the Dilbert Future had some bizarre stuff at the end, like Deepak Chopra manifestation quantum woo, so it makes sense in hindsight he went down the alt-right manosphere pipeline.

        • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
          7·
          1 天前

          I had hoped that he had just gone off the deep end during COVID like so many others

          If COVID made you a bad person – it didn’t, you were always bad and just needed a gentle push.

          Like unless something really traumatic happened – a family member died, you were a frontline worker and broke from stress – then no, I’m sorry, a financially secure white guy going apeshit from COVID is not a turn, it’s just a mask-off moment

        • istewart@awful.systemsEnglish
          9·
          1 天前

          It’s the exact same syndrome as Yarvin. The guy in the middle- to low-end of the corporate hierarchy – who, crucially, still believes in a rigid hierarchy! has just failed to advance in this one because reasons! – but got a lucky enough break to go full-time as an edgy, cynical outsider “truth-teller.”

          Both of these guys had at some point realized, and to some degree accepted, that they were never going to manage a leadership position in a large organization. And probably also accepted that they were misanthropic enough that they didn’t really want that anyway. I’ve been reading through JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, and these types of dude might best be described by the guiding philosophy of the cowboy villain Hol Horse: “Why be #1 when you can be #2?”

      • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
        4·
        1 天前

        The New York Times noted the burrito “could have been designed only by a food technologist or by someone who eats lunch without much thought to taste”.

        Jesus christ that’s a murder