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[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!]

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@dr

[donttalktome]

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

[fogey]

[ he's actually not trying to be difficult, for once ]

We can call and send each other messages. What other functions do we need?

[ he's basically been conceptualizing these as like....weird flat cordless phones. combined with weird flat typewriters. ]

[donttalktome]

Is that really all you've been using these for?
Think of it like a small, flat computer.
Do you know what a computer is?
I digress: these let you draw and update the map.
Another one is a game, and then there's one for people who can't read.
Which is apparently a rampant problem here.

[fogey]

[ do computers exist on TUA's earth?? who even KNOWS ]

I've been thinking of it as a small flat typewriter.

[ there it is. ]

Those sound useful, at least, aside from the game. Then again, with the short attention spans some people around here have, maybe not.

[ you don't even know what an app is, get off your soapbox ]

[donttalktome]

A typewriter?

[A typewriter is like the antikythera device to him. He is horrified.]

Do you even know about the calendar? Or the clock?

1/2

[fogey]

Of course I know about

[fogey]

[ oh he meant on the tablet ]

No.

[donttalktome]

For the love of whatever deity you do or do not worship, please be more curious about the buttons on your screen.

[That's probably the nicest way he could've worded that.]

[fogey]

I've been a little busy. You know, getting used to being dead first

[ is he quoting will back at will? he sure is ]

[donttalktome]

[Wow how dare you.]

Right, well whenever you get done with that, maybe learn how to use this valuable piece of technology that our mysterious benefactors have seen fit to leave us with.

[fogey]

If I'd realized there was anything to learn, I obviously would've done it before now

[ typing on these weirdass flat screens is a trial ENOUGH, jesus ]

[donttalktome]

You didn't wonder why there were other things besides the one that opens the network?

[Someday he will let this go. Today is not that day.]

[fogey]

I didn't see them. Jesus

[ like. he opened the network once on day 1 and that's it. just left it open all this time. ]

[donttalktome]

[son]

Fine.
At least you know better now.

[Huh, turns out today is that day after all.]