• i thought task manager used a whip, not a scimitar

    We slice their throats to end their agony. It's fast, efficient, instant.

    A whip wouldn't work

    Ending tasks is halal

    Ah no, you seem to be confusing her with her wife the Tasque Manager

    I want my task manager to use her bare hands. I want the program to feel it

    How about his age old enemy, the Tarrasque Manager?

    Order, order!

    Hors d’œuvres ! Hors d’œuvres !

    Chaos, chaos!? No, no! Order, order! Now get rid of that silly tail!

    task manager does not use a whip nor a scimitar --- the memory it occupies is that tasks very being, in stopping the execution of it it is killed, as surely and soundly as with a bullet to the head, but in the freeing of it's memory, it's very essence is destroyed, as if it had never existed to begin with --- that is what it does

    so you're saying she wields balefire, then

    The mistress on Linux is crueller, when supplied with her vicious cat of -9 the results are invariably fatal.

    No, task manager efficiently kills the offending program

    A whip is wildly ineffective

  • I think that might an executioners sword that the task manager wields

  • Sometimes the program will see the wife pull out the scimitar and get the message that silent contemplation period is over. Other times it doesn't and Task Manager does what must be done

  • Oh great. Now when I next need to invoke Task Manager to kill a frozen game of New Vegas, I'm gonna feel really guilty about it. 

    I haven't found New Vegas to be contemplative, but rather actively suicidal, and it takes every chance it can get.

    And sometimes the suicide attempt ends up just putting New Vegas into a coma. Then utilizing the Task Manager is a mercy killing, it will never wake from this coma.

    My experience is like:

    FNV.exe:

    Me: Welp, guess I gotta kill ya now. [Task Manager - Stop Program]

    FNV.exe: I WILL KILL MYSELF AND EVERYONE YOU LOVE AND LEAVE YOU A SIMPERING HUSK WONDERING WHY IT EVER HAD TO COME TO THIS

    The sheer power of these 20 year old games to just absolutely shut down even a modern computer rig

    FalloutFan1 is playing Fallout: New Vegas

    FalloutFan1 is playing Fallout: New Vegas

    FalloutFan1 is playing Fallout: New Vegas

    FalloutFan1 is playing Fallout: New Vegas....

    My steam notifs were so scuffed the other day. Literally got a notification every five seconds of [...] is playing Repo! For three hours 😭

    I legitimately have never finished New Vegas because every time it "loads" the final battle at the Hoover Dam the process is apparently so taxing that it can do nothing else including such puny tasks such as "running the game" so I am forced to just stare at the frozen jumble of polygons Legate Lanius calls a face until I forcequit the game.

    This is absolutely hilarious.

    Even giving it therapy (mods that supposedly fix the crashing) only ever managed to delay its suicidal tendencies on my system.

    User: The time has come. Execute Order 66.

    Task Manager: Yes my lord.

  • can someone decipher this for non-computer people

    This is being said by a not responding computer program, then the user kills the program using the task manager, which is made to be the program's wife with a weapon.

    OHHHH lmao I get it now lol that is funny

  • Is this what it feels like to be one of those digital guys in the Tron movies

  • This perpetuates the harmful myth that programs are simply being lazy when they stop responding. In reality, they are working as hard as they can on what you told them to do, but it's taking a long time because you refuse to upgrade their working environment.

  • One time, I broke Security Breach so badly by getting Moon to walk into the little tunnel around the ball pit that when I tried to get Task Manager to kill it, my entire computer froze. SB literally outplayed Task Manager. I had to order the computer to shut itself off abd then frantically cancel the shut down before I could lose any important files.

    I didn't touch SB for 5 years after that.

  • Meanwhile here on mac i can tell the app to die and if it doesn't i call in activity monitor to do the job

    "We can do this the easy way or the hard way"

    That's literally the same process but with different names.

    No, not really. In my case, I can tell the app to quit from the dock. If it doesn't work, I then go to activity monitor and force quit it

    In retrospect, the processes are quite similar

  • as a linux user, 0/10 can't relate