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Question! I'm playing a medieval character in a game with a network for the first time in about a year. Does anyone have tips for avoiding the usual pitfalls of a character that shouldn't know how to work technology? He's smart and can read minds, so picking up how to use the device won't take quite as long as some. It's not that I want to completely avoid the learning curve, but I'm not really interested in playing out the usual 'I have no idea how to work this/the device gets accidentally turned on fiddling around with it/I text without using the space bar' cliches.

then just... don't do any of those things? couch your intro post in him having had time to figure this stuff out. you can acknowledge it being awkward, uncomfortable, or unintuitive without resorting to cliches or making that the entire point of the post.

so skip it? i don't see why this is complicated enough to require advice. no one's going to judge you or probably even notice, everyone is just as sick of it as you are

handwave that shit

if there's npcs or even pcs who are willing to say yeah, they ran into your guy and gave them an hourlong crash course in how to use easy mode on the network, handwave the everloving fuck out of it and roll on. if you still want to play with some elements, consider having them more comfortable with one mode over another (e.g. totally fine talking to this thing in their hand but still fumbling with typing) and limit yourself from using other styles until some time has gone by and they'd be used to it.

Have him ask someone to give him a crash course on how to use the device early on. It doesn't have to be onscreen, it's something you can handwave. It's actually not that hard for people to pick up basic functions, especially when they don't have misconceptions or bad habits to unlearn.

i support handwaving that stuff (whether its handwaving that someone specific in the game gave them a crash-course, for easy intro cr, or just generally handwaving it). i think occasionally doing away with the 'where am i/wheres x/whats this/how does this crazy technology work' intro does the rp drive good.

i apped into a game once and opted to have my character tag out to other posts to get acclimated instead. they got to drop in on a castmate's post to go 'wow hey i didnt even know you were here what's up' and everyone had a lot of fun reacting/having their friendship reunions/etc.

handwave someone teaching them basics and handwave that they make silly mistakes sometimes but don't bother to play them out too often if at all. you can just tell close cr "sometimes they do things like [mistake], but let's handwave it". playing that stuff out gets old really fast for everyone.

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