[video]

[theuserabides]

[Flynn is sitting at a desk, not paying attention to the camera. Floating in the air in front of him are the usual forest of holographic displays, and a light blue geometric solid (first stellation of the icosidodecahedron, if you were curious.)]

Diagnostics all clean?

[The floating shape turns into an orange octahedron and answers him in a

Comments

[parasomnist]

Oh my gosh! It's one of those things from...

[Don't fourthwall puncture, Alex. BAD Alex.]

I mean, er, it's very cute! I almost want one...

[theuserabides]

From the movie?

[He's been thoroughly fourth-walled.]

[parasomnist]

... um. Yes. Sorry.

But that means you're Kevin Flynn, right? [WHY WOULD YOU BE JEFF BRIDGES, THAT'S ABSURD] You must be from way after the movie though.

Which... which suggests that fictional worlds DO have an existence of their own!

[SO COOL]

I wanted to go to the Grid when I was a kid, so badly... I used to try to get my computer to let me in, you know, but it never worked, and um...

[STOP FANGIRLING]

... sorry.

[theuserabides]

Watch who you're calling fictional, kiddo.

[He's clearly not insulted in the slightest, though.]

text

[traceurmonitor]

A Bit?

[Anon is sure there is some reason why there is a Bit. Isn't there?]

video;

[theuserabides]

[Why are all the programs having such a problem with this?]

Yes!

Yes!

text;

[traceurmonitor]

[Considering the last Bit that Anon had contact with was his NAVI-Bit, which did him... no good. And the programs all know about them already.

... The non-programs seem psyched at least?]

Seems to have caused some excitement.

video;

[theuserabides]

[NAVI-Bits were just Clu being a prima donna about ISOs.]

They're cute.

[Like certain Monitors.]

[hopediesalone]

[He's not going to fourthwall puncture, not going to...]

Holographic binary digit, right?

[theuserabides]

Yep.

Yes, yes, yes.

[hopediesalone]

Very nice.

[And an impressed whistle.]

[theuserabides]

[Bit continues happily "yes"ing until Flynn pokes it.]

Thanks.

video;

[robodidactic]

A bit!

[So excited, Flynn. Why didn't she think of that? It's adorable.]

I need one.

video;

[theuserabides]

[Flynn just grins. Check your mail, Kimmi.]

video;

[robodidactic]

[It takes her just a minute to heed the 'new message' chime, then she grins and fires it up. And now she has her own holo-bit bouncing excitedly around.]

Outstanding.

video;

[theuserabides]

[Flynn's Bit concurs with a series of "yes"es, then floats right up to the image of Kimmi's Bit and starts having a rapid-fire conversation consisting of strings of yes and no.]

Careful about the permissions. It'll turn things on and off just for the fun of it.

[gawdamn]

Oh, yeah, that's not gonna lose it's charm anytime fast.

[theuserabides]

How many do you want?

[Griiiiiiin. Flynn is entirely immune to Zaeed.]

[gawdamn]

[ This honestly breaks Zaeed's heart, as he vied for the attention of someone he was still convinced was an eccentric that traded his cannabis for coding and poorly militarized boy fridays. ]

One, if it can do live combat ammo counts.

[theuserabides]

[Flynn's cult of personality is based on the fact that he really is God as far as the programs are concerned.]

255 is a string of eight ones in binary.

[Meaning that, given how much ammo Zaeed expends, he'd need a lot of bits.]