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[armoured]

Really?!

[OH MY GOD. He sounds so excited.]

How did you manage to figure it out? That's amazing! Angel, we could so much with that...

[phaseshifter]

I didn't figure anything out. There was a card, at Andromeda's house? So it's simply one program allowing me to make more. Have you seen Steph's sparkle text? That was me.

[armoured]

Uh, no.

[Does he sound a little unimpressed?]

Have you made anything else, um, more useful?

[phaseshifter]

Not yet. That was my trial run! To tst out the capabilities of what I have as well as any restrictions on content or distribution.

It was the only program I had pre-written that was simple enough to fit the filesize limit.

 

 

Please stop judging me.

[armoured]

[The judgement grows ever more intense.]

Why did you have that pre-written?

[Why would she have something like that ready to go? Angel, no.]

[phaseshifter]

Because coding junk programs is fun when I'm bored. And it helps me sort my own thoughts when I'm having too many of them at once.

 

 

[armoured]

[Oh. No.

He has to look away for a moment, because that is just hideous.]

Okay, so-- how do you transfer programs you've written to someone else? How does Steph have this app now?

[phaseshifter]

Simple file transfer over the network. A lot like when Winter distributed her app, I suppose.

Except the administrator got huffy about unapproved programs being mass distributed when I tried to get it out to a bunch more people, so. I guess SD cards would be needed for anything that a significant number of people would want or need.

[armoured]

[Okay, so a mass transfer is out, but...]

Do you know how many people you could send one out to without it getting you into trouble?

[phaseshifter]

Assuming I could do it again with another app, maybe four or five?? That's where she seems to get all antsy about it.

[armoured]

If you made one and sent it out to four people, could they then send it to a different four people and so on, without her getting annoyed?

[phaseshifter]

I doubt it. That sounds a lot like trying to game the system, which would be a really good way to get my privileges revoked entirely.

Ditto remaking the app, renaming it, and adding like one extra line of junk code so it's technically different.

[fifty]

[armoured]

[AMERICA NO, NOT YOU TOO!]

...that kind of hurts my eyes. And my sense of taste.

[fifty]

[armoured]

No. No, not really.

[He sounds so weary. How is he the mature one here?]

[spoileralert]

[armoured]

[Oh. Good. God.

His eyes.]

Steph, that's-- that's terrifying, please never use that again.

[spoileralert]

[armoured]

[Okay, that makes him laugh just a bit.]

You know who would probably really love this? Ed.

[His brother, much as he loves him, has literally zero taste.]

[spoileralert]

[ Ooooh her heart. She smiles sadly at the thought. ]

Is that a compliment or an insult?

[armoured]

I think it might be a little bit of both. I loved my brother, but he wasn't a paragon of taste.

[Loved. Not love.]

[spoileralert]

[ Just kill her now why don't you ]

I'll take it. It's the love that shines through anyway.

[armoured]

Mm.

[Well, now he's making himself sad again.]

...speaking of love, how are you and Zach getting on?

[spoileralert]

[ She blushes. Hard. But at least she looks happier. ]

Good. Really good. I mean, Church kind of puts a crimp in our style, but so does deadly cold and allow supplies.