[text] @dr [open]

[donttalktome]

I'm feeling somewhat benevolent today.
After hearing a combination of your suggestions and complaints, I've decided to share.
You know, health of the community and all that.
For those of you still wildly inept with your tablets, just poke the letters that show up in a different color.

[Attached to this message, (a function not normally available for network posts,) is a link which yields several downloadable applications. Thankfully they're not malware or viruses, but hopefully helpful things, including:

- An app that translates text in images into spoken words. Good for the blind (or the illiterate). As it translates into the universal language of Beacon, it could also be used for deciphering foreign letters. Just snap a photo and you're good to go.

- A drawing app. Not as fancy as photoshop, but you can use your hands to make pretty pictures with a variety of colors and line weights.

- Related: a map app. It comes with a version of the current known map, which can be updated by the community. Shitposting will be promptly corrected. You stop that.

- And finally, a game: sudoku to be specific. Are you good at math and puzzles? Let's hope so, otherwise this will be pretty pointless for you. (This one's for you, Noctis.)

All four apps download together, so you're stuck with them even if you only wanted one. But the file isn't exactly labelled in anything other than random(?) numbers, so I suppose you wouldn't know that anyway.

Have fun, Beacon!]

Comments

@five

[fogey]

What the hell is all this?

[ Area Grandpa Baffled By Apps ]

@dysmas :// text

[chardismastic]

extra functions for the tablet

are they not downloading for you?

@dr

[donttalktome]

Really can't ever win with you.
It's assistance.
They're new functions for the tablet.

@Grandmaster

[paletteswap]

That's quite helpful, thank you.

I suppose Sudoku isn't helpful, but it's appreciated.

@dr

[donttalktome]

At least someone has an appreciation for mental challenges.

@viewfinder

[burstmodes]

ok but what about pic filters
asking for a friend

[ that friend is himself. ]

@dr

[donttalktome]

What about what?

[In the future there is no Instagram. It truly is a hellscape.]

@missprincessmary

[withsadness]

@dr

[donttalktome]

[OH NO THAT'S CUTE. HELP.]

You're welcome, Mary.

[It doesn't count if no one can see you smiling behind your tablet, does it?]

@subzero

[saibot]

Ah, so you've made it so that even someone as incompetent as Scorpion can use it.

@dr

[donttalktome]

And Scorpion is who?

[Read: and why should I care?]

@drake; text

[nonscriptum]

thanks, drawing app might come in handy

@dr

[donttalktome]

It was suggested for map-making, but I thought they might better serve as two different programs.

@carnie

[ordinaryannie]

A mapping app? You're officially my favorite.

@dr

[donttalktome]

Why thank you.
Planning some explorations, I assume?

@rlutece

[originallutece]

This seems less benevolence and more your belatedly adding useful things you ought to have a week ago.

@dr

[donttalktome]

Oh sorry, I didn't realize you were my boss.
You're lucky I'm doing this at all, much less with imposed arbitrary deadlines.
I didn't make these things, you know.
I just upgrade them.
And I don't work for you.

@mikaelson

[tribridfreakshow]

this is really decent of you. thanks.

[donttalktome]

I'll take decent.
But really, your success affects mine. This serves a practical purpose as well.

[Don't think too highly of him, roomie.]

@kingsknight

[broplaints]

[Damn Will, you a savage.]

That isn't what I meant.

@dr

[donttalktome]

I know.

[Yeah.]

[primordialerebus]

Thank you!!! ˚✧₊⁎( ˘ω˘ )⁎⁺˳✧༚

Also I was reading above, but you weren't the one that made the tablets then?

@dr

[donttalktome]

Oh look, someone's learned how to make symbols.
You're doing better than 90% of your peers.
And no, I didn't make the tablets.
I received one when I arrived, same as you all.

@ Scientia

[reigniter]

A Sudoku? What an odd choice for a game

[No complaints here, he actually loves Sudoku. And crosswords. And puzzles.]

P.S. Thank you for the map application. I am sure it will serve everyone well

@dr

[donttalktome]

Why is it an odd choice?
What do you people have against math?
Math is the reason humanity was able to elevate itself from the Dark Ages. It's how we got space flight. It's how these tablets work.

[Excuse him while he rants.]

Enjoy your maps, I guess.

@priestess

[voktys]

[ local 400 year old witch Tries Her Best.

as in: she figures out how to use the drawing app, but by some utter technological failure, proceeds to send him everything she draws, including: a lot of fire, a balding man who looks as if he is clenching his teeth, more fire (she's getting better), a goat-like creature with one horn, fire, and a screenshot of a game of sudoku where someone just put in numbers at random because she doesn't know how sudoku works. ]

@dr

[donttalktome]

[He's very tempted to just let this keep happening because it's like getting to spy on someone for free, but it's also getting a little annoying.]

Got a bit of a thing for fire, don't you?
Who's the bald guy?

@washington

[hardwearing]

Thank you, these are very helpful.

I hate to ask for something else immediately, but if you still feel like coding the next thing we need is an alarm app. Without any cues as to what's day and night not everyone will be able to regulate their sleep long term. And people who don't keep to a schedule will start to lose their minds, I've seen it in space.

There's probably nothing I can do for you in exchange besides offer to be the one to scare people into using it, but if you think of something let me know?

@dr

[donttalktome]

I always feel like coding, the question is whether or not I feel like sharing.
But you bring up a good point.
No need to tell horror stories, I've got my own.
I grew up on a ship, and most of us got used to it, but you know, there's always a few.
Actually yes, do tell horror stories, just not to me.
This place causes enough madness as it is, we don't need a new breed of it.
Here's what you can do for me: what year are you from?

@silent

[callada]

This map tool is far better than I'd pictured. Thanks for getting it done so quickly.

@dr

[donttalktome]

So you came back after all. Good for you.
I was fairly sure you would, first deaths are rarely permanent here.
I already had a sort of personal map, the only thing I had to do was make it open for others to fiddle with.
That and make something to draw on it.
Fairly simple, to be honest.

@helsing

[kungfuey]

Look at that. You did something useful.

[ It was inevitable really. ]

@dr

[donttalktome]

Don't make me regret it.

[It was, and he hates it.]

@parker

[webshoots]

Hey, Doc, thanks for this.

I think we missed each other at the welcome party, so I've just got a quick question: in your experience, has anyone used the tablets to track or trace the location of anyone else here?

[donttalktome]

Not as far as I'm aware.
I've taken apart my fair share of these things, and they don't seem to have any component for it.
Nothing that pings a signal to the others, and nothing to connect to a satellite.
Not that there are any satellites.
I suppose it could be possible to modify one to detect others, but I've never seen it done.
Here's my question: why do you want to know this?