[VOICE] | un: hammertime

[forgeabettertomorrow]

Type: Voice with Screencaps!
Sender ID: hammertime
To: Public
Subject: Shellphone Tech Support
Warnings: Stupidity

Okay, I admit I'm not the best when it comes to technology but I'm seriously running out of patience here! All I want to do is text someone! I was able to text them before but then I changed their name in my phone and now I can't AND IT'S BAD ENOUGH THAT I CAN'T GET NEAR CERTAIN PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THESE BRANDS BUT IF I CAN'T TEXT SOMEONE NOW EXPLODING PRISONS ARE GONNA BE THE LEAST OF THEIR WORRIES.

[Darin takes a deep, steadying breath. Normally, the person he would go to for tech support is Zelda. A person he cannot presently go anywhere near. So now he's the network's problem.]

Look. Okay. I just. I need someone to look at my contacts and tell me if I screwed something up. Because I don't know what I did. I just changed one contact. I change contact names all the time! All the time!

LOOK. HERE.



CAN ANYONE SEE THE PROBLEM BECAUSE I JUST WANT TO TEXT SOMEONE AND EVERY TEXT I [Sounds of fingers furiously tapping] TRY [More tapping] I GET [TAPPING]

... ... ...

"MESSAGE CANNOT BE DELIVERED" MY BRIGHT, BLUE ASS!!! WHO THE HELL MADE THESE PIECES OF—

[Darin is drowned out by the sound of wind because he did, in fact, throw his phone.]

[He will retrieve it shortly once it lands.]

Comments

[playertwotailed]

Exactly! For someone who supposedly has trouble with technology, you're catching on really quick! I think I would've lost most people, somewhere in there...

[And to think, he was worried that this was going to be another Knuckles situation. Maybe this guy just has a short temper?]

And just like trying to use mismatched parts, sometimes one might cause the whole thing to crash... but sometimes not. It might not be working well, but it won't lock up and explode just because you've corrupted someone's contact information. So it takes a bit of detective work to figure out where it's going wrong!

[forgeabettertomorrow]

So the game's about precision and accuracy. Fine tuning the instrument to accept the right data and use it properly without too much waste.

Huh...in that case, if the person I can't message is the only person I can't message, then that means the data it's been given is wrong. Or calibrated improperly.

[playertwotailed]

That's the most likely problem. And I mean, I know you said you only changed their name in your contacts, but...

Are you sure you didn't change anything else by mistake? Especially if you were already having trouble. [He might have made things worse trying to fix some other problem, if he was getting so fed up with it.]

Why don't you walk me through all the steps you took?

[forgeabettertomorrow]

Well, I generally only mess with the photos in the contact list. I don't really mess with the names because I'm worried I'll...mess something up. This is the first time I've ever changed a contact name in the device.

But these things are pretty small and I've got big hands. Maybe I did hit something I wasn't supposed to.

...Honestly, I kinda wanna pick the whole process apart now.