February 13th, 2012
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Good job to everyone who called Gavin blue-screening. It should really be a Kernel Panic, but that wouldn’t have given off a cool blue lighting effect. (This is how I base all of my decisions in life.)
Good job to everyone who called Gavin blue-screening. It should really be a Kernel Panic, but that wouldn’t have given off a cool blue lighting effect. (This is how I base all of my decisions in life.)
February 13th, 2012 at 2:00 pm
WOW…Cool effect Bro !!!!!’ ; D
February 13th, 2012 at 2:01 pm
Arrr … And here I thought that he was a Mac !!!!! ; D
February 13th, 2012 at 2:03 pm
So is this IT…Has Gav been Shut Down ?!
February 13th, 2012 at 2:04 pm
Wow Jacks Blue…..Woow !!
February 13th, 2012 at 2:05 pm
READ ERROR…LOL !!!! ; D
February 13th, 2012 at 2:06 pm
@James…LOL !!
February 13th, 2012 at 2:08 pm
@Humpty Dumpty … ; D
February 13th, 2012 at 2:11 pm
Heres to hoping he can’t just reboot.
February 13th, 2012 at 2:12 pm
@FanXplodion … YEP !!
February 13th, 2012 at 2:28 pm
I am calling it. Gavin becomes even more unstoppable but in the end he becomes something that can be punched, in the face.
February 13th, 2012 at 2:49 pm
Ah, BSOD. So Gavin is run on Windows.
February 13th, 2012 at 3:12 pm
I’m more worried about the ENVIRONMENT and OXYGEN that Gavin is using to KEEP EVERYONE ALIVE.
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February 13th, 2012 at 3:21 pm
He’s… blue now. Oh gawd, and now that song’s in my head again.
February 13th, 2012 at 3:21 pm
[0x763ef78] Segfault at memory address 0x9c7636df
[0x763e9A0] Attempting recovery from page file
[0x763c5d2] Failure: page file inaccessible. the following drives are inaccessible or returning hardware failure: dev/sda1, dev/sda2, dev/sdb0, dev/sdh7, dev/sdm2, …, dev/sdz42.
[0x76373af] Kernel Panic: System shutting to prevent damage. Memory dump in progress…
February 13th, 2012 at 3:32 pm
NO……NOOO!!!!! NOGODDAMMITNO!!!
Gavin is a puss-keg running a 98 kernel? There went all respect for him.
February 13th, 2012 at 3:39 pm
Further proof of the evils of Micro$oft? 🙂
February 13th, 2012 at 4:14 pm
Gavin is Harmed- kill to be confirmed! Can I get a Yosh?
YOOOOOOOOSH!
February 13th, 2012 at 4:19 pm
Gavin is…
Blue da ba dee da ba die da ba dee…
February 13th, 2012 at 5:07 pm
….well thats anticlimactic. Now everyone suffocates/freezes/explodes/etc as they realize they are IN SPACE WITHOUT GAVINS HACKS TO SUPPORT THEM. But hey, Gavin is gone…for now
February 13th, 2012 at 5:11 pm
He’s got an offsite backup, and an emergency transfer system, He’ll reboot in a minute or two at a different location. The end of this story can’t possibly be this anti-climatic. I mean if Gavin dies, the hackers are no longer a threat, no hackers, no story, right?
February 13th, 2012 at 5:33 pm
Uh oh……blue screen of death
February 13th, 2012 at 6:32 pm
I Reckon that … Jack should ( now that Gavin’s Kaput ) drop his Dacks and FART in his face !!!!!! I Reckon ; D
February 13th, 2012 at 6:56 pm
True hackers don’t use Windows!
February 13th, 2012 at 8:13 pm
To those complaining about it not being anti-climactic, we defeated the non-threat repeat villain (Craig), got tele-ported into space, on a base that barely exists in this dimension, Max is barely breathing, we’ve discovered Gavin’s back story, turned his girlfriend to good (indirectly), the running joke has reached fruition, Jack is heavily bleeding (internally I might add) from decompression, and now they just caused a system error to what may be the only thing holding the space base in orbit.
HOWEVER, a climax is just that. It does not mean that it’s over.
February 13th, 2012 at 10:10 pm
Man, this bring Villain BSOD to a whole new meaning.
This is hilarious, I lol’d at least. BRING ON THE NEXT VILLAIN!
I didn’t have any problems with this, it wasn’t really an anti-climax. And Max is still alive so yaaaay, he gets to live to facepunch another day
February 13th, 2012 at 10:44 pm
I must admit that this gives me the creep when I try imagining this from Gavin perspective… You’re suddenly losing yourself, losing access to your memory, to your essence. That’s a bit akin to really bad head wounds where there may be damages to your basic personality and knowledge. I’ve always found that this was one of the worse way to go.
February 13th, 2012 at 11:42 pm
And so the final thought that passed through Gavin’s mind was… “I am Error.”
February 13th, 2012 at 11:59 pm
I wonder what he’s thinking at this point…
February 14th, 2012 at 12:12 am
@manofAwesome
probably something along of the lines of “fucking windows!!!!”
February 14th, 2012 at 12:32 am
But wait, if the space station was hacked into existence, then it would disappear with Gavin right?
February 14th, 2012 at 1:11 am
BSoD came in handy for the first time ever!
By the way, as per the comment text, if he is dual booting windows and Linux, then he could still get the BSoD instead of a Kernel Panic if he was running in Windows at the time.
Honestly, I’m quite surprised there were no memory leaks over the who-knows-how-many-years he was running.
February 14th, 2012 at 1:15 am
While blue screen of death is sometimes fatal, it’s not a definite. He might have a back-up somewhere, or he can be restarted with a earlier version of himself. I have a feeling he may be a villain like Brainiac, you think he’s gone but there’s always a back-up of him somewhere.
And maybe if all the hackers work together, they can use the transportation beam (or whatever it’s called) to get people back to Earth. Grin will have to take over as leader and with her there they can do it!
Jack and Max are going to need some serious medical attention. Jack most of all. Bleeding from the eyes and ears is pretty bad!
February 14th, 2012 at 1:50 am
your hdd gets knocked hard enough during operation & your os could lock up & need to be restarted. an always on system.
a raid 2 or raid 5 configuration of servers & a seperate backup would be expected.
my question is, will gavin go all MCP or nexus on us next?
February 14th, 2012 at 4:41 am
CALLED it!
February 14th, 2012 at 5:14 am
Gavin disappearing shouldn’t undo all of his hacking… not unless this is one of those stories where killing someone undoes all their hacking. Which this might be.
Also, why the hell didn’t Gavin the nigh-invincible reality-altering super genius cover up his one weakness with a scorching-hot energy barrier or hide it in an inaccessible pocket dimension (or both)? Or, you know, have security guards take shifts protecting it? Come on! At least tell me he filled it with repair nanobots.
Anyway, this might be the perfect opportunity for a heel face turn on Gavin’s part. Just got to reload an older version of Gavin.per, one that isn’t evil yet. He doesn’t even have to feel guilty, since he can just blame everything on “the other Gavin”. It’s almost guaranteed that there’s a backup somewhere just itching to be activated – what’s important is how old the backup is. If Gavin was too paranoid to leave around a copy of his entire existence for enemies to steal and use against him, then I’m sure there’s still an intact copy of the “original” orange-haired blue-shirt’d Gavin. Though even that Gavin seemed a little evil.
February 14th, 2012 at 5:19 am
Small but important thing to note here. His hacked up body is still there. It cannot read the data, but the body is still there. Meaning the station won’t wink out of existence.
February 14th, 2012 at 8:34 am
This put a smile on my face. 🙂
February 14th, 2012 at 9:03 am
As I said before, the idea of a backup is perposterous. The ammount of storage the gavin image alone would take up is nearly immeasurable, since we have no way to quantify the interworkings of the human brain. Let alone to map the simple functions of moving a finger, taking a step, flexing a hand…Even before compiling that code would take up petabytes if not exabytes. Far more than any one person could code in a hundred lifetimes. In UF-8, the typical standard, there are eight bytes per character. 125,000,000,000. That’s one hundred twenty five billion keystrokes. Per Petabyte. The largest storage system in existence, the IBM Hive system is 125 Petabytes. Assuming the gavin image is half of that, since we have no real way to quantify the human element, he would likely need twice that much storage to comprise the back-end services and functions that he does WITHOUT his hacking superpower. With that… I don’t think there’s even a way to glean how much space that would take.
The idea of a backup is ludicrous.
February 14th, 2012 at 9:51 am
Almost as ludicrous as the idea of digitizing a person in the first place. Or for that matter the idea of transfering a human conscience into a cloned body. Both aren’t exactly unheard of in fiction. Let’s not spend all day worrying about all the roadblocks that would have to be overcome to actually accomplish it. If there weren’t roadblocks like that we’d be doing it right now in real life.
Besides which we’re talking about a guy with technomagic. A reality warper. An existence that’s clearly stated to be in the fringe of even theoretical possibility even by the universe’s own science. You’d need a pretty solid amount of in-comic evidence to say conclusively that the guy can’t do something. You’ve provided exactly nothing that’s been referenced in comic.
February 14th, 2012 at 11:09 am
Blue scream of death!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!
February 14th, 2012 at 12:22 pm
Way to go kids. You broke Gavin. I hope you got the money to fix him.
February 14th, 2012 at 12:28 pm
DING fries are done
February 14th, 2012 at 2:11 pm
Did any one else read this in the voice of the fact sphere from portal 2?
February 14th, 2012 at 8:50 pm
gotta think more network style. those computers that were smashed are the local node that was controlling that physical embodiment of gavin, meanwhile the “stored gavin” is likely a beast of the internet: the only way to eliminate him is to end the internet.
someone spoke of storage space, and at the same time was breaking subsystems down. if you can break it down to just a few megabytes, span across every computer hooked up to the internet im sure we can see numbers much larger than any single collection
im rambling and sleepy great combo.
February 14th, 2012 at 11:59 pm
@dreddy71
._.’ am I the only one thinking megaman.exe parodies are going to show up in the future?
February 15th, 2012 at 2:57 am
Wait, if he shuts down… won’t the whole hacker base? Leaving them kind of trapped in the empty void of space?
NEAT.
February 15th, 2012 at 3:46 am
the big question is if he backed himself up and how long till he reboots
February 15th, 2012 at 4:28 am
Jamie: Do you have any particular “theme songs” in mind for Gavin and Max? Just curious.
February 15th, 2012 at 6:14 am
Gavin: Instead of going out with a bang, he goes with a
Ding.
February 15th, 2012 at 6:49 am
To the people who say that Gavin can’t possibly have multiple backups because that would take up to much space, remember, this is a series that has reality warpers, animated scarves, and a top secret government organization willing to hire a dude named Maximum Facepuncher, this is not very high on the scale of scifi hardness
February 15th, 2012 at 4:14 pm
Figured quite some time a go that he was a virtualized human being with all the hackers saying he’s different
February 15th, 2012 at 4:29 pm
Requesting high resolution version of the last panel
February 16th, 2012 at 12:35 am
And thus was Gavin defeated, and his hacker group disband.
Anonymous was pleased to announce that once again, the majority of hackers wore Guy Fawkes Masks
February 16th, 2012 at 2:16 am
An interesting way to end a fantastic battle. Now I’m wondering about what happens next.
February 16th, 2012 at 9:57 am
The good old BSOD. I would have thought he would use a very basic version of linux.
February 16th, 2012 at 11:40 am
Now only one, very important question remains, which I put forward for you all to consider carefully:
…was Gavin a Load-Bearing Boss?
February 16th, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Yo, Jamie. Can I turn that last panel into a T-Shirt?
February 16th, 2012 at 2:09 pm
I’m sorry, I can’t resist.
FRIES ARE DONE!
February 17th, 2012 at 7:34 am
I don’ think Gavin was the only hacker left on the station. If the station will potentially disappear with his “death”, there might be another particular (and still alive) hacker who could prevent that, if I’m correct. If it is who I think it is, I think everyone (besides maybe Jack and/or Max?) is getting back to earth safely.
February 17th, 2012 at 1:58 pm
This comic is missing but one thing: a next button
February 17th, 2012 at 4:29 pm
I was getting the impression that all all hacker powers were borrowed from Gavin. So after he dies everyone loses their powers and nobody can pick up the slack.
February 18th, 2012 at 2:32 am
I congratulate everyone for having the willpower not to make a Vista joke.
March 30th, 2014 at 7:52 am
…and Then you explode!
May 22nd, 2014 at 1:06 pm
He fucking blue screened ROFL oh god that’s gold.