Computer - LOG OUT! (by raph_comic and dogmo comics)

How do I exit vim?

Restart the computer ;)
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
- 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+.
Why would you want to do that? Vim is efficiency. Without vim, you're wasting your life.
- 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?
- Exactly. What OP should do is never close vim. You don’t need to close it.
:q!
- A surprised emoticon with a cigar hanging out of its mouth isn't particularly helpful.
- You just discarded all of your changes.
Press 'Esc', and then 'ZZ'
- What if I am not sleepy?
opening vim is like entering purgatory
For the longest time I thought that answer was Ctrl-Z
- Same here in the beginning I used
  
  Ctrl-z
  
  kill %1
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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...
Of course as soon as i start watching jujutsu kaisen i start seeing references/memes from it, not that i’m complaining that show is fuckin great lmao

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.

Fairhaven started to notice. Almost burnt Harry and Tom at the stake.
Do you see any people around who seem to have unlocked the infinite money cheat?
- Bezos, and Gates come to mind

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

Send help.

I'm surprised no one has said "use linux instead" already.
- I do. But i got a Gaming PC for the TV and finally want to play the games who never worked with proton.
- The comment is trivial and left as an exercise for the reader.
Did you kill lsass.exe? I did that and it took away power options. It did restart after a minute.
- Sasser taught me that killing lsass causes reboots.
  
  Watching that go around a room full of computers was a blast.
- Nah, still runs.
when the power button menu just says "no power options available"?

same
- No, power button and everything is here but don't work. Same as the shutdown command.
Try "SFC /Scanner" in cmd, it should fix it.
What did you do before that happened?
- Installing Windows, removing edge & cortana & onedrive.

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.

He was the only player, the rest of them are NPCs.
- They became sentient after he logged out
Virtue is only virtue in extremis.
- What?
- Down-voters not getting the reference... Real Reddit moment here.

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

I don't understand

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.
- Plus, finally a chance to exit the crapsack timeline we're living in? Pretty tempting.
- Right, but why would everyone want to logout? If you don't remember how you login you're probably a npc. I'm not sure it's a good idea to signal the computer that you want to "exit".
NPCs perspective when you exit a video game.
- Shoutout to Epic NPC Man
The people in panel 2,3,4 fear they might not be real and just NPCs.
- 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
- Maybe its not about a game at all and dude has just acquired the ability to suspend his consciousness and the other people want to also be able to just stop existing for a while...
- People who believe in God believe themselves to be NPCs.
He got to escape this wretched reality.
We live in a simulation
Same. Why don't the other people just log out too? Are they that addicted to this silly game? I like logging out at night to relax a bit.
- Interpretation a) they are not real. They are part of the game/simulation and are not real, therefore they can't log out.
  
  Interpretation b) they don't have the correct command. Sometimes computer are very nitpicky on what they understand and how you have to formulate a command. But one person seems to say exactly the same as the one who logged out, so either the computer is very nitpicky on the specific timing of words, or the command is user specific.
  
  Interpretation c) they are not allowed to do that. Like in they don't have permission to execute the logout command, like you don't have permission to shutdown the computer infopoint in a mall. Or think of it like the matrix, where someone doesn't want to let you out.
  
  Interpretation d) subconsciously they don't want to. Imagine the command is not what you say but what you really want, so they can't log out, because subconsciously they do not want to.
  
  Personally I tend to interpretation a) because there is this theory that in an endless or nearly universe, it is basically given, that some species will invent a computer that is capable of simulating an universe, which in turn will have a simulation going, because the same rules apply. Now if you follow this train of thought, you will arrive at the conclusion that for every universe, if there are multiple, there is a basically endless number is simulated ones, which makes the chances that you are not part of a simulation practically zero. Yeah, so that's that.

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

Thanks for the thought, it's getting me all excited at the prospect (not that I can do it off)

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

I guess Tron would also be this but opposite.

Computer, end program!

I'm afraid I can't do that, Picard.

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.