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User Friendly (Webcomic)
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With its tagline of "Impairing productivity since 1997", J.D. "Illiad" Frazer's User Friendly covers the antics of the staff at a small ISP and frequently brings current events in the IT field into its strips.Similar to Ctrl+Alt+Del and PvP, it has become a bit infamous for its creator, who is very outspoken on several topics about both webcomics and the computer industry. Much of it comes from perceived laziness, since the strip very often does cop out when it comes to fresh content. This came to a head in 2009 when it was found that Illiad had plagiarized several MetaFilter users by using their comments as punchlines for the strip, for which he apologized and the offending strips modified to credit the original sources.O'Reilly Media and Manning Publications have published compilations of the strip in dead-tree form. For various reasons, from late 2009 most of the strips were reruns, and at the end of February 2022, the site closed down entirely. | |
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Dropped link to AffectionateParody: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
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Dropped link to VerySpecialEpisode: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
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Bring My Brown Pants | |
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Bring My Brown Pants: AJ, for good reason. | |
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Speak of the Devil | |
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Speak of the Devil: Hastur. Yes, Hastur. Yes, that — oh no you don't! Too late. I was in the next room. | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him: Kuan. See Speak of the Devil, below. | |
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Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu? | |
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Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Several of the main cast, and with Cthulhu himself even! He still maintains his malevolence. | |
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Author Avatar | |
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Author Avatar: Illiad's paper-bag-over-head character, though he rarely interacts with the day-to-day plotlines. | |
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! | |
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: Or in this case, Dust Puppy. | |
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas | |
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: The bottom of the forum page had a request for good behaviour that ended with "and if you're really bad, we'll call your Mom. We're not kidding, we've done it before." This was a reference to a Real Life event in which the moderators had so much trouble with a persistent troll that they contacted the troll's ISP, who gave them the account holder's 'phone number. The 'phone was answered by the troll's mother, and he never bothered them again. | |
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Benevolent Boss | |
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Benevolent Boss: The Chief, though he's a little more world-weary and underhanded than others. | |
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Inhuman Resources | |
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Inhuman Resources: The Smiling Man. | |
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Due to the Dead | |
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Due to the Dead: Certain celebrities beloved by the author have received memorial Sunday strips. Chuck Jones, E. Gary Gygax, Mary Travers... Major Tear Jerker territory. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Pitr sexually harassed Miranda (passing off shower photos as space pics), and Sid murdered an intern by proxy. They both still work at Columbia Internet (though Miranda managed to get revenge in the former instance). | |
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Casanova Wannabe | |
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Casanova Wannabe: Stef, so very much He has a thing for butter, llamas and Miranda. In that order. | |
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Alcohol-Induced Bisexuality | |
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Alcohol-Induced Bisexuality: Played for Laughs when AJ goes on a bender after blowing his chances with Miranda for the umpteenth time. After singing his woes for most of the strip, he turns to a homeless man and asks "What's your name, baby?" On the other hand, AJ is so drunk he might not have known the person he was addressing was male. | |
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Must Have Caffeine | |
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Must Have Caffeine: Manifests in many forms, including a Kool-Aid Man parody that haunts Greg with bizarre "you need caffeine" strawman arguments. | |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment | |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment: After Pitr leaks shower photos of her to the internet via the Hubble telescope, Miranda gets her revenge by tying him up and deleting random clusters from his code library backup discs, one for each email address he spammed. | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Cobb, Stef's colleague from Sales. Much nicer and smarter guy, despite his inability to say "ethical". Hasn't been seen since 1998. | |
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Parodies for Dummies | |
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Parodies for Dummies: How Pitr started on the path of evil genius-hood. | |
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Serial Escalation | |
| User Friendly (Webcomic) / int_ce104b8e | comment |
Serial Escalation: Stef's suckitude at Quake. So much suckitude that he dies on the intro screen to Quake III: Arena. He is nicknamed "Lava Boy" because he always falls into the lava in games. Even in games such as Neverwinter Nights in which it is impossible to do so. | |
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Misery Builds Character | |
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Misery Builds Character: Sid claims that obsessive addiction to NetHack is a good thing because it helps build character. | |
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Cerebus Syndrome | |
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Cerebus Syndrome: The later story lines feature Sid getting cancer and A.J. joining the army and being sent to Afghanistan. | |
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Monkeys on a Typewriter | |
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Monkeys on a Typewriter: Referenced in this strip. | |
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Acquainted in Real Life | |
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Acquainted in Real Life: At one point AJ plays an online game and gets mugged repeatedly by a female player character called "Lady Shady". He talks to her a bit but often ends up just getting mugged. Later he sees Miranda at the water jug and asks her how things have been, and she cheerfully tells him about this new game she's playing and how she'd stripped some twerp of all his possessions "courtesy of The Lady Shady". | |
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Anthropomorphic Vice | |
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Anthropomorphic Vice: A giant talking cola occasionally shows up, possibly just as a hallucination, and seeks to corrupt someone. Caffeine is after all a stock geek vice, especially in the form of cola. | |
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Art Evolution | |
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Art Evolution: Visible early on, but averted through most of the strip run. The art style stabilized in the first 6-8 months, and hardly changed after that, remaining rather rough. Many comics re-using character art adds to this effect. | |
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Geek | |
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Geek: Nerds and geeks, meet A.J. He is now your leader. So stereotypically nerdy, he inspired the creation of Sex Tips for Geeks. | |
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April Fools' Day | |
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April Fools' Day: An infamous prank involved teasing that an unnamed big company, implied to be Microsoft given the strip's staunch anti-MS, pro-Linux stance, had been threatening the site before temporarily pulling it down entirely, leading to outcry among Linux communities before it was revealed as a joke... which itself led to more outcry as people had seriously thought the site was being threatened. A more detailed story can be found here. Some future April 1st strips would make reference to this incident in some fashion, primarily thru Self-Deprecation. | |
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Lzherusskie | |
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Lzherusskie: Pitr, because the book he read said evil geniuses are supposed to have a stereotypically villainous accent. | |
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Team Pet | |
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Team Pet: Dust Puppy, an innocent, adorable ball of fluff with feet and big eyes who happens to be a God at Quake. | |
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