[text] Is ♞ even on the network's character map II: Sayaka Miki's Computer Class

[beknightedheroine]

hold on lemme put on my ~serious typing mode~ for this



Hello there, fellow residents of the tower!  ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ My name is Sayaka Miki, and I'm here to teach you how to use a computer.

If you can see this, congratulations! You've already mastered the steps of reading and looking at a screen, and of  navigating your way TO this handy guide.

First, let's cover the common mistakes.

1 - No, there aren't people inside the strange little box! I know, I know.

2 - Yes, it really does relish your cries of frustration when you fail at using it. That's a computer's secondary power source.

3 - Do you see a key that says "Shift?" There are two of them, and (via holding one down while pressing another key) they let you Use Proper Capitals and access some other c**| $ymb@|$.

4 - There's a really big blank key. That's what you do to keep yourwordsfromlookinglikethis. Hold           it          down         to        get       more      space!

5 - That weird red squiggle that pops up sometimes? That means you've spelled something wrong.

And here's a special rule from a guest speaker:

"Don't forget the magic of the goddamn punctuation keys.

That dot on the keyboard? That's how you end a sentence. That question mark on the keyboard? That's how you ask a question. You know, like a normal person."

That's all I can think of for now - but I'll be editing this! After all, it's for everyone's benefit~.

Comments

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[pitiedthefool]

(●ゝω)ノヽ(∀＜●) ?

[See this face, Sayaka? This is the face of someone who definitely approves of both being helpful and trolling at the same time.]

Hopefully they learn how to see this without earning a red or blue screen in the process of trying to respond.

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[beknightedheroine]

＼（★´−｀）人（´▽｀★）／!

hopefully. man, when have startling error screens really helped any computer newbie?

[pitiedthefool]

Never.

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[bitterapple]

[ A smirk ]

yes i know how to use the comp, dumbass 凸(⊙▂⊙✖ )

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[beknightedheroine]

well this is for the benefit of people who don't kn

<sub>[wait

hold please

sayaka is slightly afk for both the keyboard and mentally]</sub>

now shifting to video

[bitterapple]

[ she's standing in front of the camera, chewing on some sort of snack as usual ]

I didn't expect to see you here, Sayaka.

matching video

[beknightedheroine]

_{[She hesitates for a bit, before turning on the video as well. Sayaka's looking pretty normal, other than not being able to shed her surprise yet.]}

..Um. Same feeling here. You haven't been here that long, right?

_{[Yeah, still not quite processing.]}

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[morituramfides]

Don't forget the magic of the goddamn punctuation keys.

That dot on the keyboard? That's how you end a sentence. That question mark on the keyboard? That's how you ask a question. You know, like a normal person.

[beknightedheroine]

hold on i'll quote that

[morituramfides]

Good job.

[beknightedheroine]

i do my best~

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[snowyvalemaiden]

[She can read it, she understands kind of what she's talking about... Applying it?]

dfdjkas dlasmmm,@m,fa.?,;l

[I be pretty sure dis ain't how it works...]

[beknightedheroine]

yes this is clearly an expert application of everything i have explained here

you get a gold star ★

[snowyvalemaiden]

[Was she making fun of her?....]

......dat aintr cioiol mnon,,,,

[She's gonna have to get use to typing if she's gonna bother with this gnomish contraption at all.]

[beknightedheroine]

well see you're actually getting more legible already

take it slow and use the Backspace<-- when you mess up

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[littlemissnobody]

Wow, thank you for that lesson in stuff I already know. Maybe next you'd like to discuss how to tie our shoes or recite the alphabet.

[beknightedheroine]

well yeah but the point is that you already knew but some people don't

seriously have you seen them

it's an epidemic of typanliekdis

[littlemissnobody]

Then wouldn't it have been better to just ask them if they wanted lessons than assuming everyone's the same level of ignorant? And that's even assuming that the people who are doing it wrong actually care.

[cantstopme]

well i
oh wait i forgot the buttons that make the capitals

Well I know about the squigglie things alredy but when I spell a word wrong I dont know how to spell it right!
And some times I just spell a word wrong on acident and I dont know how to fix it.

also holding the shifty thing takes too long i like being about to send things fast!

also was that a face you used at the very start of this because its really cute! one of my friends here makes faces with words like that too but i only know how to make one of them.

[beknightedheroine]

okay yeah i can understand the not using shift considering i don't a lot
though if you're using both hands it's usually not too difficult - but ~proper typing procedure~ is a whole other bag to learn

k so, for spelling though:
you've got your mouse, right?
and you usually use the left button to do things with that
but if you hover over the word with the squiggles under it and use the right button, it'll bring up some words that might be the right way to spell it
it doesn't always work but it helps

yup it's a face (*´・ｖ・) you can invent them yourself with some ingenuity and using the alternate symbols, like (*u*) is pretty easy to make.

[silentdeath]

,,........../l.hhg,j/.,././///////////////........; v hhhhhhhhhhhhh//.. ......., gh hiw???./.h dy fghg gbgmj,sss

[beknightedheroine]

okay here's some super duper basic lessons:

only tap the key, don't hold it down or it ends up liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike thiiiiiiiiiiis

...

...also maybe consider typing words

[fallen_stage]

[After some experimenting with the less intuitive keys - how is indentation "tab"? - Kuja can also type! yay]

Why would anyone assume the first point?

choo choo im the backtag train

[beknightedheroine]

honestly haven't seen anyone do it here but it's kind of a popular media thing
"is that a person in that box woah"

it's a pretty lame cliche now that i think about it

It's my favorite train <3

[fallen_stage]

Media? Like stories and such, correct?

It doesn't make much intuitive sense. I suppose it would be amusing to see, but in my experience people are more inclined to believe an unknown factor has an intelligence than not. Something that can be reasoned with. Perhaps it is the desire for control, or empathy; a fellow being is more desirable than an impersonal, implacable force.