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==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
:[Cueball walking towards Black Hat.]
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:[Cueball walks on screen, holding a phone, and starts talking to Black Hat.]
 
:Cueball: Did you get my texts?
 
:Cueball: Did you get my texts?
 
:Black Hat: You should install this keyboard I found.
 
:Black Hat: You should install this keyboard I found.
:Cueball: What? Why? Is it better than swiftkey?
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:Cueball: What? Why? Is it better than SwiftKey?
 
:Black Hat: In some ways.
 
:Black Hat: In some ways.
 
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:[Black Hat begins to walk off-panel.]
:[Black Hat walks away.]
 
 
:Cueball: Ok, installing...
 
:Cueball: Ok, installing...
:Cueball: It's not working. The key area is blank - I can't type anything.
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:Cueball: It's not working. The key area is blank—I can't type anything.
 
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:[Black Hat has left. Cueball stares at his phone.]
:[Beat frame.]
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:[Beat frame. Cueball lets his hands fall to their side.]
 
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:Cueball: ... Hey.
:Cueball: ...Hey.
 
  
 
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Revision as of 19:01, 1 November 2013

Improved Keyboard
I'm always installing tons of weird experimental keyboards because it serves as a good reminder that nothing I was going to type was really worth the trouble.
Title text: I'm always installing tons of weird experimental keyboards because it serves as a good reminder that nothing I was going to type was really worth the trouble.

Explanation

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Black Hat is annoyed about Cueball's text messages, so he sends Cueball a "better" keyboard that actually doesn't work — with the desired result that Cueball is not able to text him at all. His statement that the app is better than SwiftKey "in some ways" is literally true -- it's better for him, not for Cueball.

According to the title text, Randall agrees with Black Hat that texting is annoying.

The Android keyboard app SwiftKey has been mentioned before, and Black Hat has done something similar here.

Transcript

[Cueball walks on screen, holding a phone, and starts talking to Black Hat.]
Cueball: Did you get my texts?
Black Hat: You should install this keyboard I found.
Cueball: What? Why? Is it better than SwiftKey?
Black Hat: In some ways.
[Black Hat begins to walk off-panel.]
Cueball: Ok, installing...
Cueball: It's not working. The key area is blank—I can't type anything.
[Black Hat has left. Cueball stares at his phone.]
[Beat frame. Cueball lets his hands fall to their side.]
Cueball: ... Hey.


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Discussion

Black hat has done something similar here.Guru-45 (talk) 13:17, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Nice find Guru. I've moved that into the explanation. --Jeff (talk) 13:23, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Gosh, Black Hat did something useful and constructive. Hurrah! (I'm such a dinosaur, I read "installing a keyboard" as "plugging in a physical keyboard". Have people got so short of time that even the word "app" gets dropped nowadays?)108.162.249.114 23:33, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

I still remember that word being "application". Seems it was getting shorter and shorter and now it disappeared completely :-) -- Hkmaly (talk) 10:44, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
Given that the person is talking about text messages (ostensibly from the phone he is holding), they probably just didn't need to add that it was an app since that would be self evident. -Pennpenn 108.162.249.205 04:17, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
+1 Beanie talk 11:38, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
The word "App" only really came into prominence once Apple started using it as a word to describe applications on their iPhones. As a result, many people still have no idea that “app” is short for “application” or what an application is. Brenda (talk) 09:31, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Reminds me of the invisible Fleksy keyboard.Deyesed (talk) 07:31, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

You know, can Cueball uninstall it if there's no keyboard? SilverMagpie (talk) 19:54, 14 June 2017 (UTC)