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Line 75: == Newspaper Comics == * Roger from ''[[FoxTrot]]'' has blown up his wife and younger son's computers at least five times. He also seems to have the "talent" of accidentally deleting the files of the computer ''with one click''. He needs an entire manual to find the ON button, and once even mistook the computer simply being turned off as being frozen! He once bought the Windows version of a program even though their PC was a Mac (he thought "windows" meant the one on the wall of the house) and when it said, "You've Got Mail!" he went outside to check their mailbox, and then came back and called it a liar. It's not just the computer that he has wrecked. He also wrecked several other electrical appliances, and in one arc, he also ended up flooding the house just by attempting to use the dishwasher. Other than Roger, there's also an implied instance of this trope in this comic: Line 82: '''Manager:''' Johnson, I said to wash out the '''''butter''''' server! '''Johnson:''' ''(offscreen)'' Oops. }} *: To put it in context, the past three strips had Jason being camped out in front of the computer trying to get tickets for ''[[Attack of the Clones]]'' for what is strongly implied for an extremely long time (as Jason put it, the connection to the Pavilionplex's web server was running slower than a Bantha on Hoth), and the reason for the long delay was revealed to be because one of the Pavilionplex staffers somehow mistook the Pavilionplex's web server for the butter server and soaked it in soapy water, making the staffer applicable for this trope for the sheer stupidity of his action. Also qualifies as an [[Epic Fail]]. * In ''[[Dilbert]]'' the titular character has this happen to him when he loses "The Knack" (for engineering) in the animated series. This trope also pays a visit to Dilbert starting [http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2000-02-21/ here] when he's assigned a new lab partner named [[Meaningful Name\|Paul Tergeist]]. Wally is [http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-08-31 a danger to robots]. * While not a computer, Jon's father from the ''[[Garfield]]'' comics has never seen a faucet head before in his life, having used pumps. As a result, he's assured he can figure out how to work it, but rips off the faucet by mistake, although he chalks it up to the faucet being faulty and poor. == Tabletop Games == Line 120 ⟶ 121: ** And it has returned yet again where {{spoiler\|1=a group of Dalek [[Expies]] have deemed Art a threat, as they are [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=711 "of technology."]}} * Gabe of ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' is apparently one of these, if Tycho is to be believed. * Erin from [https://web.archive.org/web/20130719023505/http://www.drunkduck.com/Dragon_City/ Dragon City] is terrible with computers since she's always causing them to crash and needs help from her family to do basically anything. This is a contrast to her family since her parents and brother are VERY computer savvy to the point her dad is a computer technician for a power plant and her mom used to be one.