Sacred Haven of Debauchery

Just had a fun time playing Heroes on my laptop. Almost got a perfect score with Kaspar Anwen, but the game started lagging and freezing. I spent half an hour trying to get rid of this black screen on my desktop. The Task Manager wouldn't launch. I turned off the laptop, removed the battery, turned it back on, and still got this black screen with hissing unicorns in the background. Only some kind of panel helped, and with it, the computer shut down normally.
Conclusion: the eighth installment is complete garbage, Microsoft is making everything worse and worse, the country is falling apart, and Putin isn't leaving.