I hate Adams for his success, too.

July 14, 2024 6:23 AM

TheGamerFromMars presents a thorough history of Scott Adams’s rise and fall, including his interactions with the blue. [slyt]
posted by es_de_bah (22 comments total)

Intense psychological “oh no wait what” swoop here
posted by mhoye at 6:40 AM on July 14 [12 favorites]

I’ll assume this is a cunning plan to get Douglas Adams to resurrect himself and create a sockpuppet account.
posted by dumbland at 7:01 AM on July 14 [10 favorites]

OMG. That video was not at all what I was expecting! GACK.
posted by soulsailor at 7:05 AM on July 14

Not what it says on the tin.
posted by grimjeer at 7:11 AM on July 14 [1 favorite]

Think of the man what you want, but Everything I Do I Do For You was a hit.
posted by Ashenmote at 7:13 AM on July 14 [12 favorites]

Douglas Adams did have two years where he could have interacted with the Blue. I like to think he would have felt at home here.
posted by rikschell at 7:19 AM on July 14 [9 favorites]

He was a big tech fan and early adopter too. So maybe...?!
posted by trig at 7:45 AM on July 14 [1 favorite]

rikschell, I think not just Douglas Adams but also Ford Prefect would have found Metafilter very congenial. I'm completely certain that this is what the editors' chat rooms for the Hitchhiker's Guide looked like.

(While we're piling on the typo, I hope I may indulge the joke that Douglas Adam is just half the man Douglas Adams was.)
posted by It is regrettable that at 7:45 AM on July 14 [6 favorites]

Yes to creepy, kooky and ooky, diminishing amounts of mysterious and spooky.
posted by zamboni at 7:45 AM on July 14

Douglas Adams appeared posthumously on MetaFilter, but hey, that's Liff.
posted by Smart Dalek at 8:03 AM on July 14 [5 favorites]

I'm completely certain that this is what the editors' chat rooms for the Hitchhiker's Guide looked like.

Starship Titanic was a Douglas Adams involved project from the late 90s. Probably the best thing about it was the employee intranet, a spontaneously generated ARG/LARP thing.
posted by zamboni at 8:04 AM on July 14 [6 favorites]

Mod note: A few deleted. Changed typo of “Douglas” to “Scott” Adams.
posted by travelingthyme (staff) at 8:35 AM on July 14 [5 favorites]

See also former PC World columnist John C. Dvorak, who lost his columns and reputation when he insisted that 5G causes health problems (if it did, which it doesn't, it would be from the new wavelength bands used, not merely the technology itself). He now hosts a donation scam podcast with also formerly innovative (mtv.com creator), now fellow conspiracy theorist Adam Curry. The podcast itself started out as a clever and insightful analysis of media coverage, but quickly devolved once they learned they could target and fleece the same people Trump et al. grifts.

(this is my belief, I could be wrong)
posted by zaixfeep at 8:49 AM on July 14 [2 favorites]

Idk, I kinda liked Mystery House, despite the wireframe graphics.

Oh, *that* Scott Adams...
posted by credulous at 9:38 AM on July 14 [5 favorites]

Previously: Scott Adams is racist.
posted by AlSweigart at 10:21 AM on July 14 [1 favorite]

"Obscure message board"? Did Scott Adams write that?
posted by tommasz at 11:42 AM on July 14 [1 favorite]

Seeing the different ways in which he reveals himself in these endeavors foible after half-truth after glaring incompetence is just amazing.
posted by Reasonably Everything Happens at 12:21 PM on July 14

I suffered through this video because the comments here made me think there was some Shiamalan reveal only to discover you guys really were making jokes about the Adams Family. (John Quincy remains my favorite.)

Ugh.

FWIW, Douglas Adams either never had a fall, or he had dozens if you count the times he let deadlines fly right past him.
posted by ocschwar at 12:32 PM on July 14 [1 favorite]

O yeah, I watched it, and it seems well made and researched, but I'm not sure Adams is fascinating enough to carry a video essay.
posted by Ashenmote at 2:07 PM on July 14 [1 favorite]

For a while now my pet theory has been that Dilbert Guy is Q. It's something about the writing style, and if his love of trolling -- sorry, pranking -- is an actual thing, rather than just pre-emptive agency laundering, then Q seems like the ultimate prank.
posted by BCMagee at 2:18 PM on July 14

Scott who?
posted by Jessica Savitch's Coke Spoon at 4:01 PM on July 14

Idk, I kinda liked Mystery House, despite the wireframe graphics.

This is either a Sparx-shaped meta-troll, in which case, "Well played, Sir!" or you have mistaken the wireframe stylings of Mystery House by Roberta and Ken Williams for the largely text-only puzzle goodness of Mystery Funhouse by the other Scott Adams.
posted by Sparx at 4:15 PM on July 14 [2 favorites]