215: Letting Go

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Letting Go
At least I never gave her the root password.
Title text: At least I never gave her the root password.

Explanation

The title "Letting Go" points out a classic human behavior; you know it's over, you can't do anything to reverse it, but nevertheless you are still very sad.

Megan broke up with Cueball and he is still desolate just looking on the broken picture. When it gets night he still only looks at that picture, ignoring the computer screen in front of him. The next day he removes her account from his computer to finalize the end of their relationship, and properly let go of her.

The Unix command userdel deletes a user account. Megan can't login again.

The title text continues the theme of Unix terminology, as the root password means full access to the system. But he never gave her access at this level, maybe the cause for the breakup.

Transcript

[A picture of Cueball and Megan in a heart is being held by someone, it has been ripped down the middle, separating the two people.]
[Cueball sits at computer, looking at the picture.]
[It is night, Cueball still sits at computer with the picture in front of him and his head drooped.]
[It is day again, Cueball types on computer.]
Text from computer: root@homebox:~# userdel megan


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Discussion

Man! That last panel broke my heart.

Right in the feelings. :( ‎173.245.50.139 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

When my last relationship ended I had to revoke her VPN certificate. Relationships got weird. 108.162.221.65 08:06, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Is this the first comic in which Megan is named as such? 108.162.210.220 19:29, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

when i broke up with ada i deleted her user from my pc xd An user who has no account yet (talk) 18:41, 5 September 2023 (UTC)