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Recurring Themes

  • Tech-support jokes
  • The computer game NetHack and its Amulet of Yendor
  • The computer game Quake, often focusing on Stef's complete inability to play it
  • On-and-off romance between A.J. and Miranda
  • Illiad, the web comic writer, sometimes puts in a cameo appearance, often in the "nag-strips." He is usually represented as a guy with a paper bag over his head and two-eye holes poked through the bag.
  • Rivalry between Sid and Pitr for being the smartest genius.
  • Pitr's quest to be an evil genius and take over the world.
  • Erwin's transfer between various corporeal machine embodiments for his artificial intelligence.
  • The RIAA, MPAA, Microsoft, SCO Group, and other targets of geek ire.
  • The disconnect between Stef's marketspeak and the geek lingo of the rest of the cast
  • Llamas
  • Butter

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Famous quotes related to recurring themes:

    “America is the world’s living myth. There’s no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We’re here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing.”
    —Don Delillo (b. 1926)