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[–] [email protected] 133 points 1 year ago (9 children)
[–] dohpaz42 64 points 1 year ago

Restart the computer ;)

[–] CeeBee 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's pretty simple:

  • Spam the escape key a bit
  • Then do shift + ;
  • when you're in command mode, do the following
  • q! to forcibly quit
  • wq! to forcibly write your changes and quit

Simple!-ish

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to be pedantic, but it's not shift+; it's :, which may be somewhere else depending on your keyboard. For example on (german?) Quertz that's shift+.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Why would you want to do that? Vim is efficiency. Without vim, you're wasting your life.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know exactly what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?

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[–] SpaceNoodle 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A surprised emoticon with a cigar hanging out of its mouth isn't particularly helpful.

[–] SpaceNoodle 15 points 1 year ago

All vim commands are emoticons

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You just discarded all of your changes.

[–] SpaceNoodle 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, because it all got trashed from the previous keyboard mashing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Press 'Esc', and then 'ZZ'

[–] petersr 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Simply spend a couple hours configuring vim

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

When he logs out the NPCs around him only then realise they might be NPCs and start freaking out, hoping that they too can log out. Because if they can't then they're not real...

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[–] alokir 65 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's why in Star Trek the holographic NPCs were programmed to not find this odd. Same when the program took place on Earth in the 20th century, they saw alien species like Klingons as humans.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Fairhaven started to notice. Almost burnt Harry and Tom at the stake.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Btw, i broke Windows yesterday and shutdown doesn't work anymore.

Send help.

[–] Moshpirit 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm surprised no one has said "use linux instead" already.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Did you kill lsass.exe? I did that and it took away power options. It did restart after a minute.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Sasser taught me that killing lsass causes reboots.

Watching that go around a room full of computers was a blast.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Is the joke that the universe is a simulation and we are like users or something like that? Or at least the guy that managed to log out from the universe.

[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He was the only player, the rest of them are NPCs.

[–] PutangInaMo 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They became sentient after he logged out

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

This is the explanation for why you save before exiting, you can roll back the existential dread for your next game session

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (30 children)
[–] [email protected] 144 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Imagine you're walking along and someone near you says what the dude in panel one says, then disappears. Pretty sure you'd have doubts about your own reality.

[–] FlyingSquid 76 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Plus, finally a chance to exit the crapsack timeline we're living in? Pretty tempting.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

What do you think why he spends his time here? His reality is worse!

[–] FlyingSquid 9 points 1 year ago

Same reason for all disaster tourism.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The people in panel 2,3,4 fear they might not be real and just NPCs.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like having the capacity to question your own nature of existence sort of proves the existence to begin with. So if the fear is genuine, they too are genuine. Whether they are in a simulation is still debatable

[–] dohpaz42 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jarfil 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think I think, therefore I think I am...

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[–] alokir 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

NPCs perspective when you exit a video game.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

He got to escape this wretched reality.

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[–] CitizenKong 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I had the superpower of teleportation, I would do this all day. Watching the ensuing chaos from a rooftop chuckling to myself.

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[–] Solrac 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the plot of .hack//SIGN but backwards

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] 3ntranced 14 points 1 year ago

This is why my big boy been running since I plugged it in. Can't let all my programs realize they live in a simulated reality, otherwise they'll start degrading.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

What does "log out" mean? Aren't we all born here inside Lemmy? Well some other people hail from other instances but still

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
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