How I was cured of my Garfield attachment

How I was cured of my Garfield attachment In which the author reminisces on the past. Back around... 2018-2019, in the good old pre-Covid times, when the world was a more-connected place, and people had not fully internalized how it easy it is to waste valuable work time on video calls... I discovered Garfield. Back then, it was still hosted on the "garfield.com" domain. Free to access, a rich collection of jokes and comic relief with philosophical undertones that could fit a lot of different situations. I don't remember if there were advertisements—adblock took care of that—but there was no paywall, and the website was made using simpler technologies, which let you access the image files directly, without the framing of the page, if you knew how. Initially, I was skeptical. Garfield is a huge franchise, from what I know, with movies, and physical books. There's no way such freedom would last, right? But then, I browsed some more, and I was hooked. I started reading it en-masse,…