I think it&#x27;s obvious what he means, and you&#x27;re probably just being difficult.<p>It&#x27;s a joke because it&#x27;s a threat 1) over something incredibly trivial, 2) over something that is never associated with death threats (i.e. command-line arguments), 3) done by someone who presumably isn&#x27;t normally associated with death threats (i.e. a nerd), and 4) that was submitted to the microsoft.com feedback form, an absurdly broad audience if this was intended to be effective.