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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!]

Comments

[donttalktome]

[No let Ignis stay, Will likes that one.]

Level?
Life isn't one of your games you know.
And neither is sudoku I guess but that's what you'll have to live with.

[broplaints]

[Please no.]

It kinda is
Like, we're all here because we ran out of lives

[Not here, Ignis is just reading this and-]

[reigniter]

[In the name of Titan's ass, what kind of logic is this!?

Refer to the icon for Ignis' immediate reaction.]

[donttalktome]

I'm sorry was that supposed to be funny?

[broplaints]

No, actually
But I can either look at it as I got my ass handed to me by a giant sea snake
Or I ran out of lives during a boss fight

[No one said his coping mechanisms were healthy.]

[donttalktome]

I suggest you go with the former.
Running out of lives suggests you can obtain more.
That's not the case here. You're dead.
However it happened, it happened. In reality, not in some game.

[broplaints]

Then how are we capable of dying again here?

[Answer that Mr. - Sorry, Dr. Smarty Pants.]

[donttalktome]

Because we're functionally living, at least in this world's definition.
Because someone or something is nice enough to bring us back.
But make no mistake, it's still very much a death. You're not coming back by your own power, but by the generosity of another entity.
And when that generosity runs out, for whatever reason, there's no restarting.

[broplaints]

So this 'entity'
Do they also just pick and chose who they give a second chance to?
Because if we're all dead
I'm missing a couple of people who should be here

[donttalktome]

I would give up looking for any family or friends from back home.
Your case is fairly rare, not many people come here with others from their own world.
As for our resident "entity", I couldn't tell you how they choose.
Though there is a distinct pattern that suggests that those who have died multiple times are less likely to survive the next one.

[broplaints]

Yeah, well, we always did do everything together

So ration our deaths
Got it

Thank you, by the way
For answering my questions

[donttalktome]

It's for my own benefit, to be honest.
The less time you spend asking questions and working on false notions, the better chances we have.

[broplaints]

And here I thought you were being nice out of the goodness of your heart

[Such sarcasm.]

[donttalktome]

Well that's a mistake you won't make twice, isn't it?

[broplaints]

Guess I just have to learn all my lessons the hard way