DE: Better late than never?

[bjornwilde]

 Sorry the DE is so late, I have the day off and so slept in.

Onto today's topic! How does your pup feel about technology they are unfamiliar with? Is it intimidating or fascinating? Will they try and figure it out themselves or seek help?

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[a1enzo]

It is THE FUUUUUTUUUUUUURE.

[last_kallig]

Days off are good, as is sleep!

Ibani hasn't run into technology she's not familiar with yet, but she's keenly interested in figuring out other people's magic. (And seeing if she can copy it/borrow ideas from it for her own use of the Force.)

[street_sparrow]

Ichabod is awful with computers. Awful.

[not_my_sandbox]

Part of Fairy Fixit's job is figuring out how to use new-to-her technologies and magics and integrating it into magic and tech with which she is already familiar. She likes figuring it out on her own but she won't deny help from someone with expertise, of course. Unless that help has some weird price on it.

Amascut is fascinated by it, especially if it is a weapon or something that can be turned into a weapon. It is usually quicker to have someone explain things, but she is good at tearing things apart (literally) and figuring out how they work.

Evil Chicken is indifferent. He is more interested in the attention people pay to the technology.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Ellen's plenty happy with finding unknown technology and trying to figure it out, but she still considers it extremely weird and more than a little challenging, as she was never in the engineering track very long in the Vault. Bringing it back to the Scribes, now, that's just fine.

Gordon is okay with unfamiliar technology and trying to figure it out as long as it isn't pulsating or likely to rip a hole in the universe. He's gotten kind of tired of that.

Shephard is not the sort to be curious about unfamiliar technology for its own sake. If it seems like it could be useful he will go to great lengths to figure out how to use it, but he tends not to worry too much about how it works, exactly. Other people do that.

Santo takes unfamiliar technology to a scientist he knows and asks them what it does. They always figure it out. That is the nature of lucha science.

Edward insists on contextualizing unfamiliar technology within an early eighteenth century world view; he just doesn't have the tools to grasp how very much things can change between his time and, say, two hundred years in the future. He's a sheepfarmer's son who turned pirate, not Benjamin Franklin.

Varric is carrying the highest piece of non-magical technology in his world, outside of what's possessed by the Qunari. He likes poking things but tends not to worry about it otherwise.

Medic finds that kind of thing fascinating but only really puts his efforts to understanding medical/chemical/bio-related tech. Specialization leads to deeper understanding.

Stacker wants to know if this unfamiliar technology can help save the human race against the kaiju before he spends any more time on it.

And Mordin- hop over to youtube and look up the Scientist Salarian song.

[1nv1nc1ble]

When confronted with unfamiliar technology, Invincible will:

a) Ask Cecil what it is.
b) Find Robot and ask what it to tell him what it is.
c) Ask Eve if she knows what it is.
d) Hope he doesn't have to use it if none of them can tell him what it is.

[saphyria]

Sunshine is usually kind of wary with new technology, at first, but with repeated use will gain familiarity and be comfortable with it. She won't hesitate to ask if she has questions. Though all that is null and void if it's some new gadget for the kitchen that takes the soul out of what's being made - automatic kneading machines? Beneath contempt.

Given new technology, Yrael will fiddle with it continuously until he either figures out all of its capabilities, or makes it explode. He will not ask for help.

Zelgadiss will accept new technology readily, with mild curiosity, until he figures out if will be useful to him. If not, he'll cast it aside. If so, he will use it how he needs to use it, and then leave all the rest of its uses alone.

[psyched_you_out]

Isn't kneading half the fun anyway?

(Says the guy who rarely cooks but enjoys partaking of the results.)

[student_of_impossibility]

Henry would probably think it's nifty and start playing. He might ask for help, he might not, depends on the circumstances.

Eriond probably thinks new tech is cute and nifty, in a non-technophile way. Just 'aww, look, people were clever! How lovely that they were clever. I'm glad they're doing things!' He could probably Omniscient-Intuit how to work new things if he wanted to, but I think he'd have fun asking someone familiar with it to show him how if they would enjoy showing off. Silly, sweet boy.

Lois generally likes new tech in the sense of 'oh hey, what does that button do?' She would ask under some circumstances, would stubbornly refuse under others; it really depends on context. For a story to find out about it, asking as research is allowed. When poking on her own for some reason, asking is not allowed. She's complicated.

Tavi-- ahahahahahaha. He loves new technology. Loves it. And just because he'll ask for an explanation doesn't mean he won't independently poke at it and do reading and research and ~experiments~ as much as possible. He will do all of it. Boy has the soul of a mad scientist.

[gavin62truck]

When confronted with unfamiliar technology, Tommy will push buttons until it either works or breaks. It's not that he finds new gadgets fascinating or anything, he just prefers not to ask for help.

[ceitfianna]

Will finds new technology interesting and intimidating, if he needs to use it, he'll figure it out but he knows going in that its not going to fully make sense to him. There's just too much time in between it and him.

Charles is fascinated by new technology though more so if it connects to his work. He's from an era when a lot of tech was still hopeful and he likes thinking of how people are making good and creative things.

Sameth will ask lots of questions and try to take something apart to better understand it as he's an engineer. Best way to get him talking to someone is if they're working on something he doesn't understand. In my headcanon, that's how he and Nick became friends, they were the two who just kept asking about a device.

William is like Will wary about technology, he does his best to understand things but new tech is usually stuff that makes him aware of how little he knows.

Ivan appreciates new technology and does his best to understand things but he leaves the detail to those who live for it.

Jane finds technology intriguing but for her, she's more curious about how ideas have altered than machines.

Demeter has learned to deal with technology, she knows how much it can help but she doesn't have a big stake in it.

Tumnus is wary around technology as he's never sure what it might do.

The Pirate King appreciates new technology, it makes his job easier.

[psyched_you_out]

- Shawn would find it fascinating and probably play with the thing until he breaks it.
- Brisco is ALL ABOUT THE NEW TECHNOLOGY and won't hesitate to ask questions until he's satisfied his curiosity.
- Fry... Um. Probably best not to ask.
- Despite the fact that the Venture-verse is kind of permanently stuck in a weird alternate 1970s, Dean is more comfortable with technology than he is with most people.

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

Steve loves new technology. He finds it fascinating, and he can figure it out without much trouble once he's shown the basics.

Merlin hasn't encountered much new technology yet, but once he gets to that point he'll basically grow with it, so things like computers won't be much of a mystery since he witnessed the birth of the loom.

Lydia is a child of her times, and rolls with whatever new technology comes her way.

Bilbo is the opposite--LOTR is basically a "technology bad, nature good" kind of work, and so knows of nothing more complicated than, say, the plow. He would not understand computers much at all.

The Ice King has a PC. Technology exists in Ooo, though it tends to be either sentient from a thousand years of magic or barely working from a century of nuclear fallout.

Jack lives in "our universe once over" type of world, which has things like infrared and the internet. He's good with techy stuff.

Cecil loves gadgets and has a smart phone that he uses constantly. However, like Ooo, technology tends to be affected by the general weirdness of Night Vale.

Sadie's timeline is so nebulous that I have no idea if she even has a televsion, though she does say she would or would not watch a show based on whatever adventure they're having that episode.