Talk:General Protection Fault (webcomic)

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The following material is from General Protection Fault (comic strip) and is here for a merge. It was a stub, obviously. I'm sorry for not having checked for a previous Wikipedia entry. I will not be doing the merge now. - Omar "Ekevu" Balbuena 18:12, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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General Protection Fault is a comic strip, drawn by Jeff Darlington. It runs daily, and is hosted by the Keenspot network.

(Note: Jeff Darlington the sports writer is not the same as Jeffrey T. Darlington, creator of the comic. The article itself is correct with no link (although I certainly wouldn't mind if someone created an article about me), but the link above shouldn't be confused as the same person. Jeff Darlington 16:52, 11 April 2007 (UTC))

Contents 1 Plot 2 External links 3 Surreptitious Machinations 4 Continuity errors 5 Genre

[edit] Plot

GPF is the name of a small software engineering company, consisting by 4 to 7 people along the plot. Originally, the plot of the comic consisted in a less acid version of Dilbert, with several situations regarding the workplace ambient of a geek company. Over time, the plot migrated to several epic stories, whether parodies or original work; along with some personal issues.

Still, the comic never lost the focus of being a comic "from geeks, for geeks".

[edit] External links

• General Protection Fault

[edit] Surreptitious Machinations

I redirected Surreptitious Machinations to this article. Though there's no doubt SM is important to GPF's story line, we really don't do exhaustive plot summaries really here. The short description within this article is sufficient for our purposes. –Abe Dashiell ^(t/c) 15:53, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Continuity errors

One of the listed apparent continuity errors is about Ki telling her parents that they helped her see how bad Sam was but it was later implied that the breakup was her decision. However, since she never told her parents about the rape attempt, it is highly probable that she told them that it was their influence that led her to break up with him, leaving no continuity error. -- 71.210.16.118 20:21, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I would agree. If anyone really wants to point out continuity errors, I can point out quite a few that are far more glaring than the one mentioned above. Jeff Darlington 16:52, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm not an expert on this comic but both errors seem remarkably un-noteworthy. Lots42 (talk) 13:30, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

I would propose to remove the continuity errors section completely unless someone can come up with some of real note. I'd remove them myself, but I'm afraid someone would see that as a conflict of interest (seeing as I'm the author of the comic). Jeff Darlington (talk) 20:06, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Genre

It is being listed as being in the humor genre, where as I find that debatable, since for years now, GPF has not been about humor, and generally can go months at a time without a joke. Now a days, its more of a Scifi drama. -- Hellmark 08:07, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

I added a few more genres (sci-fi, serial, parody). Jeff Darlington (talk) 20:13, 28 May 2008 (UTC)