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Okay everybody, it's time to do your buddy Cisco a favor and restart your phones ASAP. We've got Vine + Snapchat apps launched and ready to download, and the future of social media rests in our capable hands. But considering how many of us apparently rolled in here from the dark ages or something, you can find a few tutorials in the main menus.

Snapchat is here to keep our photography game on-point. Features include: filters, captions, touchscreen-enabled drawing, comments. If you're allergic to fun, consider the prospect of taking pictures of shadow monsters and labeling them all in one convenient program. I know I'm ready to bring my selfie game back from an early grave.

Vine is about mastering the art of the 6-second video, and it's the toughest challenge out there. The plus side is, it only takes video when you're touching the screen. You can get a lot of stuff into 6 little seconds, guys. Take advantage of it. Features include: video looping, replay count.

Anyway, have fun with those. I've got some other projects on my plate, but I take app requests. If it feels like what you're looking for in an app is impossible, ask me anyway and I'll work on it. Like I said earlier: dark ages. I might already know a good app for what you want. But even if someone DOES ask for something off the wall, I think we can all admit that making an impossible app a reality sounds hella cool. Am I right or am I right?

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I had an idea. I'm not much of a programmer myself, but I feel like we need a Pokedex app. I know the information already exists on Rob's tablet, so it's likely in the cloud, but I think it needs to be made available to everyone, given how many Pokemon are around.

I'm gonna guess that's like a Pokemon index? Which sounds pretty sweet. I've been MAD curious about all these little guys. If the info's already in the cloud, should be a piece of cake to get started.

[ He'll have to find this Rob and ask him about it, since that's probably morally superior to trying to hack in and pirate it in this particular setting. Objectively speaking. ]

Something like that. Or an encyclopedia. I know Hilda has a more standard one - the one with the brown hair in a ponytail, not the black hair.

Other than that... why are the videos only six seconds long?

Hilda with the brown ponytail. Cool, noted. A field guide could come in handy for a lot of people here.

And to answer your question: aesthetic.

... Six second videos are an aesthetic?

Almost completely. Don't worry if getting the hang of it takes a while, though. This is practically an artform.

As long as I can keep my fingers out of the shot. The phone is small for me.

I can see how that might be a problem. I'll add selfie sticks to my to-do list just for you, buddy. Honestly I don't even know what I was thinking leaving them out.

Selfie sticks?

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They're the distance-selfie tool of the future. You don't have to fiddle with tiny phone buttons AND you can get more scenery in the picture behind you.

And I bet they'd be handy for taking stealth pics around corners, but the real challenge is figuring out how taking a picture around a corner could be handy here...

Interesting.

And if you knew there was a shadow around the corner but didn't want to get close, it could be helpful.

And phone cameras usually have a pretty good flash on them. It's no flash grenade, but it might be handy in a pinch. Especially if we can tweak them a little.

I'd have to see if I can get a spare phone to experiment with, but it seems simple enough to do.

that's so cool, cisco. time to introduce my bro to a skelfie.
the auto update's a nice touch too, by the way.

[ Especially for skeleton monsters too lazy to go looking for new files to manually install or something. ]

you really like to keep busy, huh?
what's next?

Neither of you will regret it. And thanks. I figured the less steps involved, the better my chances of not having to do installation support for 40 people.

And that's the question of the day, man, because I do NOT have any money in the idle hands business. We got a lot of engineering ground to cover. I'm trying to wrap my head around what's like Top Priority Material and what's more like convenient luxury now that my test-run's done.

Not to make it sound like selfies and vines are higher priority than the war effort thing.

heh, thanks. i'll send you what we come up with.

[ Or he won't, because uh, apparently his brother disappeared at some point after he read him his bedtime story. Story of his life. As for saving Cisco some trouble: ]

hey, you can't deny it's efficient.
anyway morale's important, too.
but speaking of projects, have you talked to colin?

If it ain't a visual pun, I don't wanna see it.

[ Sans's life is suffering. ]

Colin... is that the guy with the movie nights?

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[ Unseen, but Sans grins down at his cellphone screen with a little nod. Nice one. He'll be sure to make Cisco regret it later.

Or uh, that's the plan now, but things have a way of turning on a human dime around here.]

yep. the guy likes to keep busy, too. maybe you can put your heads together or something.
you'll have better luck with him than my attempts to introduce ya to Al.

[ people with crippling social anxiety are a little extra challenging to introduce to new people. ]

Yeah, that record's not exactly gonna be hard to beat. She's still way friendlier than the last antisocial scientist I met. Not that that's a hard record to beat either.

Sounds like me and Colin can get a lot of hours in together. Thanks for the tip.

no problem. you two have fun.

Excuse you we did not come here from the "dark ages" that's just rude

even if we do still use birds for mail delivery

... why... exactly is a six second video important?

Noted. My bad, know I hated it the last time some dude called my time the dark ages. But wow, we don't even have carrier birds anymore. I feel like it saves on mess, but getting mail looks a lot less cool.

And look, a vine is as important as you make it. It's kind of like a challenge. Get your point across in 6 seconds or less.

Forgiven. Our world is... strange to say the least. Tech and magic, it's a thing in Tyria.

I'm not sure I'll be making use of this... Vine, but I'm interested to see what others manage to do with it at least.

Yeah, Earth's pretty much pure tech right now. I don't know if I'd mind a little magic.

I think you won't be disappointed! Jam a bunch of strangers from different worlds together, get a lot of different kinds of thinkers. Most of the fun is seeing how creative you can get with limited filming time.

Pure tech?

Huh. I know some Asura that would absolutely love that...

Haha wow that doesn't sound ominous. What's an Asura?

They're harmless.

Mostly.

Big eared short creatures from my world that are super intelligent and responsible for most of the tech in Tyria.

[How convenient that Cisco won't have to go searching for that Rob guy that AZ mentioned.]

What's the point of photo filters and extremely short home movies though?

[ It's the little things in life that get a person through. ]

Let me answer your question with another question: what's not to enjoy about that kind of documentation?

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