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Hello everybody and welcome back to another hunter X hunter/hxh scenario in today’s scenario we will be doing what the hunter X hunter characters reaction would be to seeing their kid open up Their first ever phone
Also just a heads up I am going to be making a Christmas special! For everybody who liked my little Halloween scenario that was not even a special get ready for the Christmas special because it’s coming at you in 3 days!!!
Full credit too la-squadra1234
Feitan-he would get his kid their first phone when they are around the age of 9&10 just for safety since they are a little bit older he can’t always look after them now but one phone call and he’s on his way faster than you can even blink…(I may have exaggerated a little bit but hey it makes the scenario better!)
Chrollo-would get his kid there first phone around 8&9 his kid would have to learn how to be independent from a very young age because he would not be around very often at least until they are a teenager when they can do some dangerous work but until then they just have to wait since they are getting older the phantom troupe can’t take care of them anymore so a phone call is very useful
Nobunaga-anywhere from 5&7 I know it’s a very young age but he learned how to use a phone at a very young age and it was very useful for him not only that it wouldn’t be the best quality of a phone because the kid is young but it’s enough to play a few games has OK camera quality and it can make perfect phone calls anywhere at any time as long as there’s signal!
phinks-definitely around 10&12 he doesn’t see the need for a kid to have a phone but once he sees that everybody’s kid in the phantom troupe has a phone and it keeps their kid safe he gives in and buys his kid a very nice phone that is perfect for the kid and matches them!
Hisoka-if you feel the need to get a phone and just ask him he will either steal it for you or just give you a shit ton of money out of nowhere and tell you to go find a phone that you like and buy it because he’s just laid-back like that and he doesn’t care he’s like the laid-back cool parent but can be annoying at times so there’s really no age for this it’s really just whenever you ask and all you need to do is ask once and all the money is given to you
illumi-his kid will definitely go outside a lot but he wants his kid to learn about electronics and coding and things like that so his kid would definitely be familiar with electronics and it’s not something new for them but they would probably get a Phone around the age of 7&10
Silva-there’s no exact age if you are doing good he will get you a phone if it’s necessary if you are not doing that well he will just get you a basic phone because at the end of the day you need to call him it’s just necessary but he won’t give you a phone that allows you to play games only for calls that is if you are a bad kid if you’re not then you get a good phone that has a bunch of good capabilities!!!
And that is it for today’s scenario everybody! I hope you enjoyed and I was super excited to make this as my last post was seven or eight days ago I am super sorry about that and I’m gonna try to keep updating as frequently as possible!!
Anyways more about the Christmas special I will create one post or maybe two on Christmas Eve and then on Christmas I think I’m going to try my best to create a few posts because it would be very entertaining!
 thank you for reading have a great night or day I’m posting this at 2:04 AM lol
you know this fucking tune
Mimic : I only use android…
OMG LOL
So... Mimic has an android/smartphone:
Jet has a flip phone:
And Mr. Big and Rich Possum man uses a decked-out brick cell phone from the 80's:
I love the variety of phones being used lol. Really tells you about the character and the year they were from/generational gap. Maybe also their income (brick phones are kinda pricey these days). It's also just in character in a way.
Mimic likes having cool perks and is a big computer techy, Jet likes fast tech (and perhaps brags how easy it is to hang up on someone), and Clutch likes to repurpose old tech. Just funny to think about.
This is why a Fairphone is a good idea! http://www.fairphone.com/
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I know it's likely a common misconception but since I work with phones I figure I'd share because I run into this quite a lot
The Sim card only holds your phone number and nothing else, it's how your phone picks up cell service!
Anyways thanks for coming to my Ted talk >3<
Yepppp undeniably this is my hottest phone. A heavy fuck too. My family liked it also.
The next time you've got a friend over, set an example and put your phone on the table, visibly there but not too far away, to let them know that you're intentionally present, not distracted, your attention is undivided and you want to be fully focused on being right there to spend time with them. Don't mention it or draw attention to this, you're not doing this to be preachy or wanting praise, you just want to be a good friend and you value your friend's time. Ideally, your friend will either notice this or even pick it up without conscious notice, and set their own phone aside on the table as well.
Then, when your friend takes a minute to go to the bathroom, grab your phone and take a photo of your friend's phone sitting on your table. Do not touch it, and put your own phone back exactly where it was immediately once you've got the picture. Carry on with whatever you two were doing.
Once your time is up and your friend has left for home, wait for a good 15 minutes or so, for them to either get back home or be well on their way there. Text your friend, "hey, you forgot your phone", and send them the photo you took of their phone on your table. Set a stopwatch running from the moment your friend sees the message.
Measure how many seconds it takes for your friend to process this and tell you to go fuck yourself.
me: *deletes fucking everything off my phone*
phone: your storage is almost full
When you delete things off of a mobile device (like a phone or digital camera), the file goes to your phone’s recycle bin (just like on a desktop computer or laptop), typically an invisible folder named .trashes or .trash. There, it continues to take up the same amount of memory storage as it did before you ‘deleted’ it. To empty your mobile device’s recycling bin, plug your phone into your desktop or laptop via USB as a memory device, right click on your desktop/laptop’s recycling bin/trash, and tell it to empty your recycling bin/empty trash. Your computer will empty all .trash/.trashes folders, including the one on your phone, actually deleting the files permanently this time, freeing up your phone/camera’s memory space. Reblog to save a life.
(I know this works on MAC with my Andriod, it’s not too far a stretch to do the same on Windows and/or with other phones as well. In fact, it should be easier to do on Windows since Windows Explorer is more conducive to finding hidden folders.)
~I hope every notification is from you, even though I gave you a special ringtone too tell a difference. In my heart, I wish they were all you. You're the only one I really want to hear from.~
-a poem of a new kind
~No, please don't hang up. You don't understand. The silence during our phone calls puts me to sleep because it is a calm silence. The silence after we hang up is so deafening that it keeps me awake for hours.~
-a poem of a new kind
I deleted youtube and MTG Arena off my phone and now I don't know what to do with myself.
BTS SOCIAL MEDIA SERIES → Solo Albums as iPhones (insp) // (detailed breakdown: PLEASE READ!)
Have been thinking a lot lately about how, when a new technology emerges, people who were born after the shift have trouble picturing exactly what The Before was like (example, the fanfic writer who described the looping menu on a VHS tape), and even people who were there have a tendency to look back and go "Wow, that was... wild."
Today's topic: The landline. A lot of people still have them, but as it's not the only game in town, it's an entirely different thing now.
(Credit to @punk-de-l-escalier who I was talking to about this and made some contributions)
for most of the heyday of the landline, there was no caller ID of any kind. Then it was a premium service, and unless you had a phone with Caller ID capability-- and you didn't-- you had to buy a special box for it. (It was slightly smaller than a pack of cigarettes.)
Starting in the early nineties, there WAS a way to get the last number dialed, and if desired, call it back. It cost 50 cents. I shit you not, the way you did it was dialing "*69". There's no way that was an accident.
If you moved, unless it was in the same city-- and in larger cities, the same PART of the city-- you had to change phone numbers.
As populations grew, it was often necessary to take a whole bunch of people and say "Guess what? You have a new area code now."
The older the house, the fewer phone jacks it had. When I was a kid, the average middle-class house had a phone jack in the kitchen, and one in the master bedroom. Putting in a new phone jack was expensive... but setting up a splitter and running a long phone cord under the carpet, through the basement or attic, or just along the wall and into the next room was actually pretty cheap.
Even so, long phone cords were pretty much a thing on every phone that could be conveniently picked up and carried.
The first cordless phones were incredibly stupid. Ask the cop from my hometown who was talking to his girlfriend on a cordless phone about the illegal shit he was doing, and his wife could hear the whole thing through her radio.
For most of the heyday of the landline, there was no contact list. Every number was dialed manually. Starting in the mid-eighties, you could get a phone with speed dial buttons, but I cannot stress how much they sucked, because you had to label them with a goddamn pencil, you only had ten or twenty numbers, reprogramming them was a bitch, and every once in a while would lose all of the number in its memory.
All of the phone numbers in your city or metro area were delivered to you once a year in The Phone Book, which was divided between the White Pages (Alphabetic), the Yellow Pages (Businesses, by type, then alphabetic), and the Blue Pages (any government offices in your calling area (which we will get to in a moment)).
Listing in the white pages was automatic; to get an unlisted number cost extra.
Since people would grab the yellow pages, find the service they need, and start calling down the list, a lot of local business names where chosen because they started with "A", and "Aardvark" was a popular name.
Yes, a fair chunk of the numbers in it were disconnected or changed between the time it was printed and it got to your door, much less when you actually looked it up.
One phone line per family was the norm.
Lots and lots and LOTS of kids got in trouble because their parents eavesdropped on the conversation by picking up another phone connected to the same line.
A fair number of boys with similar voices to their father got in trouble because one of their friends didn't realize who they were talking to.
And of course, there were the times where you couldn't leave the house, because you were expecting an important phone call.
Or when you were in a hotel and had to pay a dollar per call. (I imagine those charges haven't gone away, but who pays them?)
Since you can't do secondary bullet points, I'll break a couple of these items out to their own lists, starting with Answering Machines.
these precursors to voicemail were a fucking nightmare.
The first generation of consumer answering machines didn't reach the market until the mid-eighties. They recorded both the outgoing message and the incoming calls onto audio cassettes.
due to linear nature of the audio cassette, the only way to save an incoming call was to physically remove the cassette and replace it with a new one.
they were prone to spectacular malfunction; if the power went out, rather than simply fail to turn back on, they would often rewind the cassette for the incoming messages to the beginning, because it no longer knew where the messages were, or how many there were.
Another way they could go wrong was to start playing the last incoming call as the outgoing message.
Most people, rather than trying to remember to turn it on each time they went out and turn it off when they got back, would just leave it on, particularly when they discovered that you could screen incoming calls with it.
Rather a lot of people got themselves in trouble because they either didn't get to the phone before the answering machine, or picked up when they heard who was calling, and forgot that the answering machine was going-- thus recording some or all of the phone call.
Eventually the implemented a feature where you could call your answering machine, enter a code, and retrieve your messages. The problem was that most people couldn't figure out how to change their default code, and those that did didn't know it reset anytime the power went out. A guy I went to college with would call his ex-girlfriend's machine-- and her current boyfriend's-- and erase all the messages. He finally got busted when she skipped class and heard the call come in.
And, of course, there's the nightmare that was long-distance.
Calls within your local calling area were free. (Well, part of the monthly charge.) This usually meant the city you lived in and its suburbs. Anything outside this calling area was an extra per-minute charge.
This charge varied by time of day and day of the week, which made things extra fun when your friend on the west coast waited until 9pm for the lower charges, but you were on the east coast and it was midnight.
Depending on your phone company, and your long distance plan, the way your long distance work varied wildly. Usually in-state was cheaper-- with zones within the state that varied by price, and out of state had its own zones.
Your long distance plan came in lots and lots of distracting packages, and was billed to your phone bill.
At one point, when I was living in North Carolina, a scammer set themselves up as a long distance company and notified the phone company that a shitload of people had switched to their service. They got caught fairly quickly, but I was annoyed because they were actually charging less than AT&T.
"Would you like to change your long distance plan" was the 80's and 90's equivalent of "We have important news about your car insurance."
Had a friend who lived at the edge of a suburb in Birmingham, and for her to call her friend two miles down the street was long-distance, because the boundary of the calling area was right between them.