General Protection Fault (comic)
Overview
General Protection Fault
General protection fault
A general protection fault in the Intel x86 and AMD x86-64 architectures, and other unrelated architectures, is a fault that can encompass several cases in which protection mechanisms within the processor architecture are violated by any of the programs that are running, either the kernel or a...

(or GPF) is a webcomic
Webcomic
Webcomics, online comics, or Internet comics are comics published on a website. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers or often in self-published books....

 created by Jeffrey T. Darlington. It centers on the employees of a small software company called GPF Software and their misadventures. Originally launched on the World Wide Web
World Wide Web
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 on November 2, 1998, the comic was hosted on Keenspot
Keenspot
Keenspot is a webcomics portal founded in March 2000 by cartoonist Chris Crosby , Crosby's mother Teri, cartoonist Darren Bleuel , and Nathan Stone.-History:...

 between May 2000 and March 2008 and was consistently one of their most popular titles during this time. It is now once again independently hosted.

GPF mostly consists of traditional newspaper-style comic strips with occasional double-sized full-color "Sunday" comics.
Quotations

I can't love someone I can't trust, but I can forgive you and ask you to turn yourself in. I'm sorry.

Denouncing Trudy and making the pivotal decision in Surrpetitious Machinations, September 13, 2002

I always cook best with plastic utensils.

Paying for dinner with a credit card, April 4, 2004

As for your emperor, I'm sure that some of his prisoners are foul, unpardonable souls, but I would not wish his form of justice on anyone. He kills to terrorize others than the victim, making that death senseless. Where I come from, that's a sign of a madman. My world's had more than it's(sic) own share of those, and it's far from comforting to see in him what I were capable of had I made those choices.

May 5, 2006

If my sacrifice, be it my time, resources, or life spares one life to make its mark, then my life has been worthwhile.

May 5, 2006

Yet for some reason, he stood fast and unflinching, no fear, no concern... just grim determination. Did he know something I didn't? Something about Trudy that even she did not know?

As Trudy holds a gun to Nick's head, September 15, 2002

You two did not have nakoudo. You met here, in America and you fell in love. You didn't let your differences stand between your love. If Japanese and Chinese can find happiness, then why not Asian and American?

October 15, 2004, to her parents.

It's sweet that you've been sneaking around on this, but I've known for a long time that you were going to ask. I've also known for a long time what your answer would be, and it's always been the same... Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

October 27, 2004, accepting Nick's proposal

First rule of hacking, twerp: There's always a better hacker out there than YOU.

To the hacker who is ping-flooding GPF (revealed to be Yoshi), November 2, 2001

Exoneration makes fewer headlines than convictions, so I may not be cleared in the court of public opinion...

On the U.G.A.'s effots to clear his name, June 22, 2004

I have never believed in fate. Providence is only the capital of Rhode Island.

March 5, 2005 (similar version of quote in January 30, 2005's strip)

 
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