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Hopeless with Tech

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Hopeless with Tech	comment	Technology is a very important aspect of modern life. From cellular phones to desktop computers to automated banking machines to cars, we have all kinds of mechanical and cybernetic gadgets that (at least for some of us) we can't imagine living without. But there are some people who just don't understand technology. The newer or more mainstream it is, the more likely it is that such people will be left totally bamboozled by it. This comes in two types: Completely Hopeless: Alice can't work her way around computers. Give her a cell-phone (especially of the very latest model), and she's clueless as to how it's supposed to work. Digital cameras leave her wondering how they're supposed to be used. (Where do you load the film? Where can you get it developed?) She's bewildered by all the complicated technical stuff that others take for granted. If she makes an effort to use any technology despite her cluelessness (usually in an attempt to prove that she can in fact get the concept), very bad things happen. Basic Understanding: Bob has a basic understanding of how a computer is supposed to work (meaning he can browse through folders, surf the Internet, send an email, type, et cetera), but disassemble the parts and challenge him to put it back together, and he's stuck in a rut. He knows the fundamentals of using a cell-phone (you dial numbers and communicate with others), but the various additional functions have him lost, especially if it's a model he's not used to. He knows how to drive a car and the basic fundamentals behind it (press the gas to go and the brake to stop, use the steering wheel to direct the car), but he's stumped when it comes to pinpointing specific engine parts or knowing what wires go where. In fiction, both types may be Played for Laughs, depending on the character and the situation. Compare Walking Techbane, which may wind up being the absolute worst-case scenario, Ludd Was Right, for those who don't like technology, thinking it's a hassle, Technologically Blind Elders, and Evil Luddite, who refuses to accept technology because of its perceived evil. Contrast Technopath and Gadgeteer Genius. When this trope is applied to advertising (usually for Rule of Funny), that's a form of Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_14aec085	comment	Enemy of the State: Brill, who used to work for the NSA and is up on all the gadgetry they still use, tries to explain to Robert Dean how he's been bugged, but Dean doesn't understand the first thing about it.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_16b94356	comment	Jane Eyre of The Autobiography of Jane Eyre is an improbable vlogger. Not only is she camera-shy and has a hard time talking to her audience, she's not very tech-savvy either. She claims it takes her forever to set her camera up and start recording. Sometimes she messes up audio or editing. She even sometimes happens to turn on her camera accidentally. All this adds a nice layer of realism and vloggy feel to this web series. Episode 13 had amazing glitches because her camera is old and broken. It was very spooky and very Gothic-novel-like.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_1a12bbee	comment	The Mighty Thor: Used as a gag in one joke story to explain why Thor is so difficult for his human allies to reach; he has no idea how phones work. Cue panel of Thor seeing his cell phone ringing, glowering at it suspiciously while holding Mjolnir in preparedness to strike.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_1b35b3a3	comment	James Heller of [PROTOTYPE 2], a killing machine who can kill thousands, meets his mortal enemy: a computer. Made even worse by the fact it is explicitly stated that when he absorbs someone he takes all of their memories, but for some reason, despite eating countless scientists he still can't work one.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: Volume 12's slice of life sketch covers the school's Handicraft Club trying to cope with sewing competitions while their two best sewers (Orihime and Uryuu) are off rescuing Rukia. When the club speculate about why the pair are uncontactable, someone suggests that Orihime doesn't own a mobile phone because she can't handle electronics. However, in the Lost Agent Arc, she is shown to not only possess a mobile, but to be experimenting with creating different ring tone designs as well.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_1f76648	comment	A Certain Magical Index: Several Magic-side characters are unfamiliar with modern technology. Index can't figure out how to work a vending machine with a touch screen until Hyouka Kazakiri patiently walks her through it all while Hyouka comments that the touch screen should be fairly intuitive, but she grows out of this in time and eventually is able to start playing and winning online puzzles for prize money to support the income of the Kamijou apartment. Kaori Kanzaki and her peers can't figure out how to work a washing machine.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_2141cfcb	comment	Hajiotsu has Himari who has a basic phone because she already finds them complicated to understand. And while she can send text messages just fine, she's not very good at it, so her messages are always full of typos or need to be deciphered to what she actually means.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_2212773a	comment	Angel can use cell phones, but constantly struggles to understand their nuances, like voicemail. He also confuses computer terminology:
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Hopeless with Tech / int_226f6b3f	comment	In Haven, Dwight Hendrickson mentions he doesn't have a clue on anything computer or Internet related, which is why he gets others to handle it for him.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_2350acad	comment	Cheers: Sam has absolutely no idea how to work a computer, which isn't so much of a problem in the earlier part of the series, but by season 8, and the mid-80s, it is. This is why he rehires Rebecca, since though by that point she is hopelessly incompetent in every other aspect of life, she can work a computer.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_23be51db	comment	Black Canary is absolutely useless when it comes to computers. During preparations for her wedding to Green Arrow, it was mentioned that she'd actually thrown a laptop out of a window after being unable to work it properly. This probably does more to help their relationship than to hurt it. Green Arrow himself has been known to complain about having to use the Justice League's teleporters, and in Green Arrow: Quiver, he accused someone of being a supervillain simply for owning an up-to-date computer. Clearly the daughter of a World War II heroine and a man fighting crime with a bow and arrow were meant for each other.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_2a8943c0	comment	Miraculous Ladybug: Marinette's paternal grandfather, Roland. It's not just technology; he dislikes any changes from the way things used to be, but technology is a perfect representation. The most modern thing in his home is an old analog TV that he considers "broken," while Marinette is quickly able to assess that it's just unable to pick up the new standard digital signals. When she asks him to babysit her charges and brings her laptop so they can watch a movie, he's baffled by how he's supposed to insert a VHS. "Just press play" is too overwhelming of a concept for him.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_2b0ada22	comment	WandaVision: Played for Drama in "On a Very Special Episode". Thanks to Wanda's mental influence, the people of Westview act like sitcom characters. Norm acts baffled at sight of a computer, and thinks that an email needs a letter opener to be read. Then Vision reverts him which makes him desperately beg to go home, only to wonder where to put a stamp on the email after this is undone.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_2b727723	comment	r/talesfromtechsupport is naturally full of these.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_2d1c58a1	comment	My Heroes Reborn: Original Character Hibiki Kinzoku (a.k.a. pro-hero Orchestra Rave) is so inept with technology that he can't even use the Amazon website without help. What makes this even sadder? It turned out he was the reincarnation of Tony Stark.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_2e974345	comment	A3 has Tsumugi, who doesn't know that one can send photos via phone and use stickers to communicate, aside from text.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_303bfb46	comment	In Flight: Shirou is incredibly inept with technology (he didn't even know what text messaging was). The sad part is that he is adept in comparison to most magi. Rin had no idea what a cellphone or computer was, making her worse than Shirou.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_31ffb6ee	comment	Downplayed with Tara in Heart of the Woods. Tara, the host of a Vlog Series known as Taranormal, isn't completely incompetent, but relies on her best friend and manager Madison to shoot and edit videos. Madison, who is getting tired of working on Taranormal as of the start of the story, wishes Tara would learn to do these things herself.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_34de22dc	comment	Mr. Bean: Electricity itself acts strangely around Bean, televisions displaying static as he passes by, and a Van de Graaff generator giving him a strange humming energy field that makes things stick to him.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_34df8b64	comment	Godmothered: When Eleanor hears Siri say "Okay. Here's what I found," she says "Who said that? Is there a genie in there?" Even when she sees a mirror, which is commonplace in fairy tales, she screams and says "It looks like me!"
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Hopeless with Tech / int_376077b6	comment	The mashed cartoon Soldier 76 Sucks has Soldier 76 trying to work a computer, but he ends up failing horribly. He accidentally mutes a call with Tracer, treats Omnibook as if it were Google, and when Sombra posts a blatantly obvious virus claiming it will help him fix everything, Soldier 76 thanks her and installs it.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_39c20861	comment	In Highlander, unlike most other immortals, Hugh Fitzcairn did not adjust well to modern technology. He needs the help of others like Duncan to forge him the documents he needs to maintain his identities. Later, he has no idea how to delete evidence framing him for murder.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_3a280f3b	comment	Fate Revelation Online has two omakes where Rin accidentally kills Shirou due to not understanding the dangers of NervGear. She also gets Ilya the second time around.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_3b34143f	comment	Nearly the entire wizarding world falls into this in Harry Potter. It's partly justified by the fact that even muggleborns only have an eleven-year-old's knowledge of muggle technology, but it still strains the suspension of disbelief at times.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_3f633fb4	comment	Cracked's video piece "6 Shockingly Out-of-Touch Celebrities" for example, DMX apparently had no idea what a search engine was... in 2012.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_3f9e415	comment	While it's apparent that The Boss in the Saints Row series is not tech-savvy, the extent of this is unclear. They can use cell phones, ATMs, radios, earpieces, and drone controls just fine and basic functionality of laptops appears to be a non-issue, but anything else seems to be beyond their capabilities. Keith David claims that the Boss couldn't hook up a VCR, but it's unknown if there is any truth to this or if it's just a remark at their expense, though most likely the latter.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_3fe418f	comment	Artery Gear: Fusion: Queen Lisa Autoluna is extremely bad at understanding technology. She accidentally sends an emergency call instead of a regular one, is unsure if others can hear her, and is unable to figure out how to disconnect.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_43576f5	comment	Castiel from Supernatural has a bit of this early on, as he isn't quite used to all the nuances of Earth. A pay phone confuses him quite a bit. And, when someone tries to call him and it goes to voicemail: Apparently John is one as well. Him sending the boys a text message in Season One - Asylum triggers this exchange:
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Hopeless with Tech / int_43f7bedb	comment	Hot Wheels: Battle Force 5: The Vandals, a savage culture of tribal warriors, are shown to be this. Makes you wonder why they have all their crazy vehicles. Season 2, â€œFusedâ€�, reveals the answer to that. As it turns out, the Vandals owe the technological side of their arsenal to a race of super-scientists aliens they enslaved called the Kharamanos. When the Battle Force 5 discover the Kharamanos and slowly begin liberating them from the Vandals, their vehicles slowly begin falling into disrepair.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_455e3038	comment	In one episode of King of the Hill, Hank tries to turn on a computer by picking up the mouse, holding it like a TV remote, pointing it at the monitor, and clicking it. When that doesn't work, he's apparently out of ideas, since he gives up and writes a letter instead.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_4e663675	comment	Innocent: Yusuf, a detective, appears genuinely baffled by the speed at which a video is uploaded to internet. Selahattin, his boss, disbelievingly tells him to get a smartphone.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_5475192e	comment	The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants: Gooch is very hopeless with tech, to the point of mistaking a beehive for his phone in one episode. He's ironically pigeonholed into George and Harold's team as the tech guy, more due to process of elimination if anything else.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_57a3683f	comment	Occasionally appears on Not Always Right and its sister sites. It's even worse when the angry customer immediately assumes everyone in tech support must be a Walking Techfix and calls them "lazy/incompetent" when they can't fix their computers or cellphones (which often have completely unfixable problems, like the keyboard being covered in urine, or the inner circuits being smeared with butter). Of course, customers on Not Always Right are prone to accusing any employee unable to do/give them exactly what they want of being lazy/incompetent no matter where they happen to work.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_584365d4	comment	Averted with the protagonist of Melody. While heâ€™s much older than some of the other characters and has a less recent taste in music (including sound quality), he isnâ€™t at all bad with computers.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_58888533	comment	The Setup Wizard has to deal with people like this on a regular basis.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_5b408b1f	comment	In The Walking Dead, Lee runs into Carley who is trying to get a radio to work. Lee quickly finds out that the radio needs batteries, but Carley has no idea what to look for, and asks him to find them. Upon being handed the batteries by Lee, she still can't get the radio to work. Lee then checks the radio again to find out that she has put the batteries in backward, completely missing the instructions painted on the tray. It's not let go of in subsequent episodes.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_6505f7f3	comment	Molly of Denali: Downplayed in the episode "Lights, Camera, Patak." Mr. Patak doesn't know how to use the camera on his phone.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_6715932e	comment	Spirit Hunter: NG: The protagonist Akira isn't very tech-savvy, as revealed when Ami changes his ringtone and he has no idea how to change it back. When Ami asks him if he's good with any technology, he replies that his motorbike is the only thing he needs to be familiar with. His aunt Natsumi isn't much better - she knows how to type with a computer, since she's an author, but beyond that, she has no clue. Seiji pounces on the chance to give her a hand.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_69d15cc0	comment	The Marvel Cinematic Universe's Captain America can be seen like this to degree. When Iron Man needed him to describe an electronic service panel on the Helicarrier, Rogers is completely out of his depth. However, this is justified considering Rogers has just recently been defrosted out from 70 years of suspended animation and can't be expected to understand advanced technology, especially not in a way that an engineering genius like Stark would consider useful.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_6ba673f9	comment	New Tricks has a gag like this every other episode (e.g. Brian setting up a twitter and having trouble with the wordcount limit). On the whole, Brian tends to subvert this (seeing as he's an older gentleman), however, to the point where he pretty much becomes the unit's tech-guy.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_6cbd2b4b	comment	The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog: Justified and Played for Laughs, where Shadow admits that computers are not his strongest suit, where he accidentally print off the web page of a ticket retail site when trying to buy tickets off of it for Amy, with the printer being tricky enough that even Tails, the series' resident Gadgeteer Genius, had a hard time understanding.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_6d4deb53	comment	Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus: When Max has to use a computer, he fumbles with it for quite a while, pressing random keys until he comes to a password entry screen. If he examines the hardware components, the descriptions are confused and vague. In contrast, Doris is knowledgeable in hacking and was top of her class in basic and advanced electronics (she brags that she didn't even have to change her teacher's files).
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Hopeless with Tech / int_6eb4ca5c	comment	Jackie Chan Adventures: Uncle doesn't understand devices such as faxes (he gets his facts from books), laptops (dismissing Jade's as a "magic waffle iron"), and the Internet. Ironically, however, he understands sending a spell through a phone, but not a piece of paper.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_7041cf12	comment	Kaguya from Kaguya-sama: Love Is War. Chapter 42 shows that she has very limited knowledge about technology, even thinking that she broke the internet while trying to make a Twitter account and she keeps dragging Hayasaka from her bath help her, making the towel clad girl miserable the entire chapter. Kaguya also starts out as the only character who still uses a flip phone, at least until she gets a smartphone later on.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_742d029d	comment	Shouko from Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts is stated to be this by Yuuji.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_755fadab	comment	Haruhi Suzumiya: Yuki Nagato starts out this way. She's a Reality Warper genius space alien interface device, but she's used to (or designed by/for) such a high level of technology that working at lower levels is initially very difficult to get accustomed to. Sort of like how most people who know how to use a cigarette lighter would be lost when given tinder, steel and flint. Mikuru Asahina as well. She's from the future, where technology has become non-physical, so modern technology is nigh-incomprehensible to her at times. She's generally fairly competent with tech from her own era, though we don't see her use it much (most of the time it isn't obvious that she is using it).
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Hopeless with Tech / int_762b740c	comment	Giles De'Ath in Love and Death on Long Island is so reclusive that even though it's 1990, he's never heard of home video. When he does order a VCR, he doesn't realize that he also needs to order a television to plug it into. When he gets a television, he at first forgets to turn it on...
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Hopeless with Tech / int_7988cb68	comment	James Vega in Mass Effect fits this quite well. His primary method of interacting with tech is kicking it until something happens.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_7d20ef2c	comment	When Bloom County is Uncancelled in 2015, Opus stuggles to adjust to the modern world. In his first attempt to use the net, Oliver tells him to put "words that make you smile" into a search engine; Opus inputs "suds" and "nuns", and suffice to say, it turns out bad. Later, he mistakes Twitter for a chat room for birds and accidentally posts a video of Steve having sex with his girlfriend (later ex-girlfriend) to the entire world.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_7e1bd3	comment	In City Slickers, Mitch spends hours during the cattle drive trying to explain to Phil how to program his VCR.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_80db7c52	comment	Aggretsuko; several of the older staff members in Retsuko's department have some issues with tech, despite them being in accounting where computer savviness is all but required. Ton can barely operate a computer and does most of his calculations on an abacus, and while Tsubone isn't nearly as bad she tends to freak out if anything odd happens on her computer and thinks Y2K and cryptocurrencies are viruses that spread like normal viruses.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_83d41855	comment	Gargoyles: Implied to be the case with Brendan Quarters; in his and Margot Yale's first appearance, he suggests that he might be able to find out what's wrong with their car, only for her to snarkily reply, "You need to call a repairman to plug in the coffee maker!"
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Hopeless with Tech / int_867ca68c	comment	Shinobu of Kiniro Mosaic reportedly thinks a human can catch computer virus, and does not own a cell phone—highly unusual for Japanese high schoolers—because of this trope.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_86814e56	comment	Cyan from Final Fantasy VI is hopeless with machines. Sabin figures this out after Cyan tries to pilot a suit of Magitek armor without help, and Cyan freaks out when Sabin flips a random switch on the Phantom Train without knowing what it does. In the World of Ruin, Cyan's hideout contains a book on machines, implying he's trying to get over this uselessness with technology. But, his Battle in the Center of the Mind features the party riding in Magitek armor as part of Cyan's nightmare, showing he hasn't made as much progress as he thinks he has.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_8c47dc31	comment	Eevee Therapy for Little Magi: Downplayed and later inverted with Rin - while she initially has the standard magus ineptitude with technology, she eventually overcomes this through bullheaded determination and eventually starts working on magitek.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_8d81bb26	comment	NCIS has Gibbs, who is poor with computers and sometimes insists on paper. Of course, when a blackout comes, he's the only person who can work an ancient copy machine... When it's revealed that in the 90s Gibbs once worked undercover as a computer technician, his current team finds this hilarious. Abby speculates that he might have been faking it all along, but the rest of the episode implies that no, he really is as bad with tech as he's always seemed. He'd studied really hard to become proficient with 90s-era computers (and still remembers some of that knowledge) but didn't keep up with the changes in tech because he doesn't care for it.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_8d81f086	comment	In Monk, Adrian Monk is rather prone at wrecking stuff (anything from files up to the whole gizmo) because he can't stop trying to clean up something if he sees it dirty, accidentally pressing buttons.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_93a07966	comment	Kairi Sisigou of the Red Faction also weaponizes this, having become a successful Bounty Hunter of rogue mages after abandoning the studious path and combining his trademark Necromancy with modern weapons like shotguns and explosives. On the Black Faction, Caules Forvedge Yggdmillenia is the only member of Yggdmillenia (including his sister) who actively uses technology like laptops due to the fact he sucks at magecraft and originally abandoned the path before being pulled into the war, so he never bothered to conform to tradition.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_94559bd8	comment	Polly MacKenzie in The Inbetweeners 2 has trouble working the computer during her Skype sessions with Will, at one point unintentionally showing Will and his friends her cleavage through her botching of the camera angle.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_94c20132	comment	Echizen from Tanaka-kun is Always Listless, trying to keep her "Japanese Delinquent girl" image, doesn't use modern tech such as cellphones; an entire chapter is spent teaching her how to use one.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_987ae288	comment	Cars 3: Lightning McQueen is shown to be not quite accustomed to the Rust-eze Racing Center's simulator and starts going out of control the moment it starts up, to the point of destroying it.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_9a1a8272	comment	Odd Squad: The agents at the Arctic Odd Squad precinct are shown to be this in "Teach a Man to Ice Fish". In response to the need to get a rather clunky, boxy computer to an upper level in order for the power cord to reach an outlet, two agents suggest that the computer be dismantled. Their reasoning is that if there's "no computer", then there's "no problem." As a Fish out of Temporal Water, Orla initially struggles to adapt to Odd Squad's high-tech ways at first, but slowly gets a grip on it over the course of the season. "Oswald in the Machine" shows that she's adept at technology enough to power a robot through a warehouse from a long distance away.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_9d5d86fd	comment	All Around Type-Moon takes this to its most hilarious extreme when Rin attempts to learn how to use a laptop. She proceeds to accidentally summon Red Saber straight from the Moon Cell, and even after she's sent back, Rin proceeds to accidentally summon several more Servants, at least one of which is from a different Moon Cell entirely. She basically uses the Second Magic, the magic that made Zelretch so overpowered and omniscient, by the sheer Epic Fail of her technobane.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_9e876c22	comment	Good Omens: Newton is so hopeless with anything involving electricity he once managed to short out the power to his neighborhood. Weaponied in the climax when he's told to "improve" the computerized launch system for NATO's nukes, utterly destroying it.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_a037ae41	comment	Tokiomi Tohsaka, Rin's father, had what amounted to a magical fax machine, and his student Kirei Kotomine wondered if a normal fax wouldn't be more efficient. Irisviel von Einzbern is a little better, having been taught about modern tech by her husband Kiritsugu Emiya, in that she knows about it, but still fumbles with a cell phone and Drives Like Crazy. In contrast, Waver Velvet seems to at least have a clue about modern tech, as he knew how to work Iri's phone when she didn't, which is one reason that marks him as unconventional by the standards of mainstream magi. Later he comes to really love video games in memory of Iskander, so he probably is proficient.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_a12cd9cf	comment	Big City Greens: The Green family have been living on country outskirts all their life, and have little to no experience with modern technology. In "Cyberbullies", Cricket reveals he has no electronic devices (smartphone, laptop, email, tablet), meaning he cannot be hacked by the Cyber Knights. In "Coffee Quest", Cricket tries to use Gloria's phone, but has no knowledge of such and cannot figure out how to turn it on. In "Gramma Driver", Bill gets the family "Fun Fons"; while Cricket and Gramma instantly hit off with theirs, Bill has difficulty with his at first, given that he cannot hang up his first call. Tilly, on the other hand, stands out the most — she has absolutely zero knowledge of using a smartphone, to the point of believing the phone's Siri-esque assistant is a person's soul trapped inside the phone, and attempts to "free" it by destroying it the day she got it. The Greens' lack of technology becomes extremely poignant in the climax of "Sellouts", as Gloria remembers she took a picture of the family's cool-looking chicken which went viral; it is that point the Greens reveal they never went social due to having no electronics, so she teaches them how to in order to let people know what they're selling.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_a196e5c4	comment	Tulip Natchralli and her son Horizon from the roleplays of White Dark Life play this to extremes â€” as furry Magical Native Americans with distant elven ancestry, they literally get sick around modern technology, to the point where they can't enter cities without getting disoriented. (Tulip's daughter, Dandelion, is an aversion.)
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Hopeless with Tech / int_a3984fe3	comment	Fake Happy End: While the protagonist can use a computer, they are unfamiliar with concepts such as using browsers other than the default Internet Roamer, touch-typing, maximizing a window, and social media netiquette. Aeri has to walk them through these concepts when they visits her net cafe.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_a4ff8e01	comment	Played with in Fate/Grand Order. The protagonist is a rather mediocre mage and is implied to have had a decently "normal" upbringing, so their tech knowledge is about on par with the average everyday person. The mage staff in Chaldea have to be good with tech since they use it so much themselves and collaborate with Muggles who do too. However, while the mighty leader of the Crypters, Kirschtaria Wodime, definitely knows how to use a computer which, "password security" still clearly eludes him.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_a5c833e9	comment	In Kemono Jihen, Kabane doesn't know how to operate anything more complicated than a telephone or a washing machine due to living in seclusion and never going to school. When a kid tells him about YouTube, Kabane thinks of a hose with a mouth at the end.note å�³ or "Yu" can mean mouth. Combine that with "tube" and you get "YouTube"
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Hopeless with Tech / int_a5fbd473	comment	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Flint's father doesn't know the first thing about technology—just another thing that separates him from his tech-savvy son. At the climax, Flint needs his father to attach a file to an email and send it, leading to an epic Oh, Crap! face and a hilarious montage of him trying things like physically dragging the mouse across the screen. He does finally manage to attach a file, but it's the wrong one, leading Flint to come up with a different solution on the fly.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_a65b3e0f	comment	Mimpi Metropolitan: Bambang, being a newcomer from the countryside, uses an old cellphone. When he buys a new smartphone, he's not used to it at first and once has another person types for him. Despite wanting to study a computer degree in university, he admits he doesn't know much about computers yet and starts searching for a computer course midway through the series.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_ac259af8	comment	Mihoko from Saki, which leaves her at a disadvantage in the prefectural tournament, since she's unable to print out records on her opponents so that she can research their play styles. In the anime, even attempting to print out records resulted in her being wrapped in wires while the computers on the network sparked electricity. It's unclear, however, how much this applies to Saki herself, who doesn't own a cell phone, in stark contrast to other characters.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_aca7b22d	comment	The Amazing World of Gumball shows Nicole to be this in Season 6. For one thing, she's a one-finger hunt-and-peck typer. She also has no understanding of firewalls (she puts up a wall of flame at the front of the house), thinks that right-clicking refers to snapping your finger at the screen, tries to pay for something online by putting money in the disc drive and sends emails by using dancing pixie e-cards exclusively. And this isn't getting into her social media habits. Presumably the only reason she hasn't been fired for incompetence is because her co-workers are just as bad. Though oddly, this only seemed to be a problem in this episode. As previous episode not only didn't imply this, but one episode even had a gag where Nicole's husband and kids have an Oh, Crap! moment and run off to destroy their devices, upon learning that she know how to look up search histories.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_b12ac0ab	comment	In Fate Genesis, Rin reluctantly has to concede part of the reason Eggman's technology keeps trumping over Magecraft is because most magi can't conceive the idea of their abilities being outmatched by technology, such as with his tech being able to detect Bounded Fields and Magecraft because most magi don't believe such precautions are necessary. It's also pointed out that while they do good at hypnotizing bystanders or wiping out physical evidence, they tend to miss out on little things like security footage.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_b3710357	comment	Hinted at in Kingdom Hearts II, where heâ€™s shown to be unable to type properly. When trying to find Riku and Kairi in the Radiant Garden database, he types in a few keystrokes at random, hoping that does something. The entire TRON-based segments of the second game run with that fact. In fact, it's his constant smashing of the keys (and Donald's stepping on them) that get the trio dragged inside the computer in the first place. He also doesn't learn from the events of Space Paranoids about computers, as when he finds a deactivated one in Monstropolis, Sora's first instinct is to try and smash it with the Keyblade before Sulley suggests another idea.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_b3f687d1	comment	FoxTrot: Roger Fox can work the basics of most tech, but whenever he works with something complex like a computer, he tends to produce crashes or worse. This is a result of Flanderization since the 1980s, when computers weren't as ubiquitous as they currently are.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_b6b24d18	comment	Jen Barber from The IT Crowd has a really poor understanding of how computers work, which is ironic since she's in charge of her company's IT department. In one episode the boys in IT convinced her that if you type Google into Google the internet will explode, and in another episode they convinced her that the entire internet was contained in a small black box on loan from Big Ben.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_b7c37594	comment	Given that the technology level of the other world is somewhere around that of the late Middle Ages in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, it normally takes a couple months for those who come to Earth to acclimate. Kanna uses this to her advantage against Azad, causing all his plans to come crashing down around him with two very basic pieces of modern technology: a tape recorder and a cellphone.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_b7e3ee0f	comment	In Yannick a man takes everyone in a theatre room hostages, and demands a computer on which to write a new play. He has someone run a text editor for him, then types his text very slowly using only one finger of his left hand (while the other hand is holding his gun). He is offended when someone offers to do the typewriting for him.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_b9b796cf	comment	Fate/stay night: According to supplementary materials, Rin Tohsaka is this. In fact, most oldblood mages are. Mages tend to look down on modern technology due to a combination of believing Older Is Better, arrogantly assuming that Magecraft can't be bested by mere Muggle creations, and generally have no clue how it works. In one episode of Carnival Phantasm Rin can't even figure out how to get a Blu-Ray Player to record a show. In Type-Moon's April Fool joke, in which some characters set up Twitter accounts, she has Archer set hers up... which she uses as her secret diary. Hilarity Ensues. All Around Type-Moon takes this to its most hilarious extreme when Rin attempts to learn how to use a laptop. She proceeds to accidentally summon Red Saber straight from the Moon Cell, and even after she's sent back, Rin proceeds to accidentally summon several more Servants, at least one of which is from a different Moon Cell entirely. She basically uses the Second Magic, the magic that made Zelretch so overpowered and omniscient, by the sheer Epic Fail of her technobane. Tokiomi Tohsaka, Rin's father, had what amounted to a magical fax machine, and his student Kirei Kotomine wondered if a normal fax wouldn't be more efficient. Irisviel von Einzbern is a little better, having been taught about modern tech by her husband Kiritsugu Emiya, in that she knows about it, but still fumbles with a cell phone and Drives Like Crazy. In contrast, Waver Velvet seems to at least have a clue about modern tech, as he knew how to work Iri's phone when she didn't, which is one reason that marks him as unconventional by the standards of mainstream magi. Later he comes to really love video games in memory of Iskander, so he probably is proficient. Weaponised by Kiritsugu Emiya. As most Magi are so completely ignorant about the capabilities of modern technology, they don't know how to defend against it. So instead of confronting Kayneth's elaborate magical defenses, Kiritsugu drops the building down around his ears with some well placed high explosives as just one example. Kairi Sisigou of the Red Faction also weaponizes this, having become a successful Bounty Hunter of rogue mages after abandoning the studious path and combining his trademark Necromancy with modern weapons like shotguns and explosives. On the Black Faction, Caules Forvedge Yggdmillenia is the only member of Yggdmillenia (including his sister) who actively uses technology like laptops due to the fact he sucks at magecraft and originally abandoned the path before being pulled into the war, so he never bothered to conform to tradition. Played with in Fate/Grand Order. The protagonist is a rather mediocre mage and is implied to have had a decently "normal" upbringing, so their tech knowledge is about on par with the average everyday person. The mage staff in Chaldea have to be good with tech since they use it so much themselves and collaborate with Muggles who do too. However, while the mighty leader of the Crypters, Kirschtaria Wodime, definitely knows how to use a computer which, "password security" still clearly eludes him.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_bcb32dc6	comment	In Shadowrun, the game's character creation allows for players to equip the 'Gremlins' quality, causing technology operating by them to inexplicably malfunction at varying degrees of severity. This can become problematic in a Cyberpunk world dominated by technology. It also never works in your favor — if you try to deliberately mess up an enemy's tech, it not only won't malfunction, but may actually work better.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_c35f9f4c	comment	The Tom Smith song "Tech Support For Dad" centers around the singer trying to help his father solve his computer problems over the phone. Highlights include the fact that the computer dates back to the Clinton Administration (Which the singer admits makes the song funnier every year), and an in-depth investigation into why the computer can't write DVDs, which ultimately turns out to be because it doesn't have a DVD drive.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_c380b436	comment	In Penguins of Madagascar, Dave invokes this when he tries to video chat with the North Wind.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_cac20f89	comment	Rear Admiral A.J. Chegwidden on JAG is clueless whenever computers are involved.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_cdae0b41	comment	Forever: Henry hasn't kept up with modern technology; he's able to use other peoples' cell phones but thinks taking a .jpg picture and emailing it requires explanation, and he uses a computer terminal in the morgue but is a very slow typist.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_ce197d30	comment	Starter Villain (2023): The first time Gratas attempts to deliver an ultimatum to Charlie via Zoom, he is muted at the start of the call and forgot to encrypt it, so Charlie hangs up on him before either of them can say anything incriminating over an open line. Gratas makes the same mistakes the second call too.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_d1ad2f1d	comment	Plays a surprisingly huge part of Doki Doki Literature Club!. Not Love Interest Monika gains Medium Awareness and the ability to edit and delete game data at some point, and a large part of the Disguised Horror Story aspects of the game come from the fact that, while she can and does change things to try and make a route for the player to romance her and drive him away from the other girls, she's not very good at it and ends up causing things like various creepy bugs and glitches, and causing characters to go insane as their personalities are rewritten and even kill themselves. To be fair, though, DDLC is a particularly extreme example of World Limited to the Plot (the four girls and the main character are literally the only characters that exist, which contributes to the Disguised Horror Story), so Monika had to basically teach herself how to code from the ground up.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_d26874b6	comment	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Frank usually has major trouble with figuring out how devices work, such as the television.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_d6f9b009	comment	The Bolt Chronicles: Mittens wrecks Penny's computer through a series of mishaps in "The Autobiography." Among other things, she manages to shut down the machine's firewall, pop-up blocker, and antivirus protection immediately after going on it, as well as knocking over a nearby bottle of soda, spilling its contents into the computer.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_d97e4fa5	comment	Ensemble Stars!: Rei claims he can't use any kind of modern technology because he's a clueless old man. As a work-around, the Oddballs actually set up a series of paper cup phones (Kanata's made of plastic so he can use it in the fountain) so they can communicate that way. While Rei is probably a case of Obfuscating Stupidity, Souma and Adonis on the other hand are both genuinely terrible with technology and are barely able to operate their smartphones without accidentally cutting off calls and the like; in Souma's case it's justified by his family being extremely old-fashioned (they have a single landline at home but nothing much more advanced than that). Midori also once accuses Kanata of being this and he seems rather offended, though he does admit he has to replace his phone every couple of months since he keeps bringing them into water with him.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_de6659ec	comment	In Once Upon a Time, Captain Hook/Killian Jones is shown to have issues with modern technology. He insists on calling phones "talking phones" as he thinks just "phones" sounds silly, and admits he doesn't know how they work beyond Emma answering when he hits the right button (if she doesn't answer, then he considers it useless).
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Hopeless with Tech / int_e26905cd	comment	Tekken: Sergei Dragunov is a badass and quiet Russian soldier, quick and efficient in battle. He is also shockingly awful when it comes to assembling robots if his Tekken Tag Tournament 2 ending is anything to go by.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Giles admits that he's technophobic, and when he discovers that the library of Sunnydale High 2.0 consists of nothing but computers, he's absolutely horrified. Kakistos preferred lighting his lairs with candles rather than electric lights, and had little interest in modern comforts that would easily enable him to establish a power base. This is the main reason Mr. Trick pulled a Screw This, I'm Outta Here! when Buffy and Faith attacked.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_e37084f0	comment	Between the Lines (1992). Tony Clark meets John Deakin in a Smoky Gentlemen's Club, and annoys the residents when his fancy new mobile phone rings and he doesn't know how to answer it. One of the old duffers grabs the phone off him and swiftly presses the correct buttons to do so.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_e5c5bc22	comment	In GURPS, uselessness with technology is the effective result of the â€œLow TLâ€� disadvantage, which actually represents unfamiliarity with a settingâ€™s general level of tech (so one could be perfectly competent with seriously out-of-date gear). Itâ€™s also possible to take â€œIncompetenceâ€� quirks indicating ineptitude with specific technological skills.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_e5feb1e	comment	Ace Attorney: Maya Fey is an interesting variation. She isn't completely hopeless with technology, as she has a cell phone which she knows how to operate, but when it comes to computers, she can't even turn the darn things on. She even laments it when she finds a computer while trying to escape her kidnapper in the second game: she notes she could send an e-mail to the police, but realizes she doesn't even know how to turn the thing on. Phoenix Wright can use the basic functions of a computer and he knows what a computer virus is (as shown in Trials and Tribulations), but little beyond that. When he gets a computer to do what he wants, there's generally a lot of luck involved. Jake Marshall also states plainly that he's not much good with machines. He can run the basic security, watching over the video feeds for the evidence room, but he's not aware of the fingerprint readers on the lockers and he even claims he couldn't tell you how a bicycle works.note Neither could a physicist, for that matter. While the gears are simple enough, the exact phenomenon that allows a bicycle in motion to maintain its balance is a mystery to modern science. Iris spent most of her life in Hazakura temple she but she did have contact with civilization and can use cell phones and computers as to not be for completely hopeless. Phoenix mentally notes that it's not something worth bragging about.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_e7410020	comment	Mechanismo, Empowered's teammate, was transformed into a robot by alien nanoviruses. The upshot of this is that he can't actually understand what his cyberware is telling him; it's not easy to find the option for English when your computer's in Xplipadtic or whatever. Subverts this as most of the time it's "pretty intuitive".
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Hopeless with Tech / int_e86200e3	comment	Yuko in The Demon Girl Next Door has no knowledge in operating any modern electronics. Justified, as her family had never been able to afford any modern conveniences aside from a phone/fax, a CRT television, and a second-hand Super Famicom.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_e86319e8	comment	Mocha of Is the Order a Rabbit? doesn't use a cellphone as a twenty-something because of this trope.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_e974a35	comment	Elijah Valentine from Last Mage has this as a Running Gag - technology so advanced it could just as well be magic? Easy-peasy. But give him a XXI century computer and Hilarity Ensues.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_eb59224d	comment	LazyTown: The whole episode "LazyTown Goes Digital" occurs because Milford cannot understand how to receive a "b-mail" from Ms. Busybody.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_f565604d	comment	Seijuro Shin from Eyeshield 21 is unable to use any machine more complicated than a digital stopwatch or a gas stove without breaking it to pieces. This is apparently a combination of his nigh-superhuman strength and a complete lack of understanding of how technology works; he once tried to use a GPS by opening it like a map.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_f5e30a17	comment	Sigrun from Stand Still, Stay Silent manages to be this, even with After the End Schizo Tech. She put that she knew how to drive on her resume despite not actually knowing to because she thought it couldn't be that hard (let's just say she's lucky one of her subordinates actually knows how to drive) and manages to use binoculars the wrong way. In Chapter 6, she's seen talking into to the radio a couple of times, both times with someone else holding the microphone to her mouth because she doesn't realize that she's supposed to talk into a specific part of the radio (we're talking about the type of radio that can take up a whole wall in a small room here).
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Hopeless with Tech / int_f6a54e75	comment	Sora from Kingdom Hearts admits that computers are way beyond his reach. Not that Donald and Goofy are much better than him, but Sora is flat-out useless with technology. Hinted at in Kingdom Hearts II, where heâ€™s shown to be unable to type properly. When trying to find Riku and Kairi in the Radiant Garden database, he types in a few keystrokes at random, hoping that does something. The entire TRON-based segments of the second game run with that fact. In fact, it's his constant smashing of the keys (and Donald's stepping on them) that get the trio dragged inside the computer in the first place. He also doesn't learn from the events of Space Paranoids about computers, as when he finds a deactivated one in Monstropolis, Sora's first instinct is to try and smash it with the Keyblade before Sulley suggests another idea. In Kingdom Hearts III, Sora flat out admits "I can't computer." When Pence and Ienzo are setting up a network, Sora falls asleep, and the two of them have to explain in very basic terms what they're doing. He even has to have Jiminy explain how to use a phone. Made even worse in San Fransokyo. He cannot understand a whole lot of Big Hero 6's Techno Babble.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_f84c42c0	comment	Lupin III: Old-fashioned Samurai Goemon Ishikawa XIII, who is generally inept with modern technology, especially for Rule of Funny. The most recent incarnation of this is with cellular and smartphones; if Goemon has one, it's because someone else gave it to him. And just because he has it is no guarantee he can use it. In the fifth Lupin series, he has one at Lupin's insistence, but is still clueless about it, at one point handing his phone to a bunch of kids so they can help him read and reply to a text message.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_fa738078	comment	Usagi from Sailor Moon has trouble using a computer early on in both the manga and the first anime. This was justified back in the early 90's, when the series originally began, because personal computers were new technology that Usagi and everyone else were still learning to use. But in Sailor Moon Crystal (which is set in The New '10s), it's absolutely comical, as Usagi (airheaded though she might be) is a teenage girl who (like her peers, and like much of the audience) has been around technology all her life. In the first anime Minako (Sailor Venus) is also shown to be lethal around Rei's (Sailor Mars) music player which she manages to somehow blow up whilst trying simply play a cassette. Fans of the show then exaggerated this trait in fanfics to the point of Minako destroying any electronic device she touches in some instances.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_fda9c8b	comment	Dowager Countess Violet of Downton Abbey. Understandable for such an old person, but thrown into sharp relief by the fact that it's the tech of a hundred years ago that flummoxes her. Sometimes it's the tech of TWO hundred years ago: Mrs. Patmore, Downton's cook, is similarly distrusting of new developments, particularly when it comes to kitchen appliances. In her case, however, it's occasionally Played for Drama; after a disastrous attempt to use the electric mixer, she confesses to Mrs. Hughes that she's afraid of being rendered obsolete and "stuck in the past".
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Hopeless with Tech / int_fe5fdb32	comment	Evan of Everyman HYBRID. The only technology he seems to know how to use is anything involving Video Games. Anything else, forget it.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_fe92b338	comment	Tales of Xillia 2 reveals this about Gaius. He owns a GHS phone and knows how it should work, but ultimately is clueless about it. One of his field lines involves wondering why it suddenly turned off, only to learn that it needs 'some power device attached to it' to charge it again. A post-battle dialogue with Rowen has him complain that it broke during the fight, only for Rowen to check it out and say he forgot to turn it back on.
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Hopeless with Tech / int_ffb43795	comment	Cobra Kai: Johnny Lawrence is a Disco Dan stuck in the 80s. He owns an old flip phone, is incapable of turning on a laptop he buys, doesn't know how to get on the internet (such as what wifi is), and is a hunt-and-peck typist. We see him use an Internet for Dummies book and use the pawn shop he bought his laptop at as tech support (which the owner is annoyed by when Johnny calls him for internet help).
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Forever (2014) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Innocent / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Late Night with Conan O'Brien / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Les Guignols de l'Info / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Mike Hammer / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Murder, She Wrote / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
re:View / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
That '90s Show / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
The Goldbergs / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
The Mentalist / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Shadowrun (Tabletop Game) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Artery Gear: Fusion (Video Game) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Blaster Master Zero II (Video Game) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Cars 3: Driven to Win (Video Game) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Code 7 (Video Game) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Dark Savior (Video Game) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Dave the Diver (Video Game) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Foamstars (Video Game) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Friday Night Funk (Video Game) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure (Video Game) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Identity V (Video Game) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Kingdom Hearts III (Video Game) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus (Video Game) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Shanghai.EXE: Genso Network (Video Game) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Space Pirates and Zombies (Video Game) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Stray Gods (Video Game) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
The Blackwell Series (Video Game) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel (Video Game) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
The Secret World (Video Game) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
The Walking Dead: Season One (Video Game) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Melody (Visual Novel) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog (Visual Novel) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Mashed (Web Animation) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Multiverse Monarch (Web Animation) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Sekai No Fushigi (Web Animation) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Gayle (Web Video) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Jim Browning (Web Video) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Joseph's Machines (Web Video) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Juniper Actias (Web Video) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Kitboga (Web Video) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Mr. Plinkett Reviews (Web Video) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Oni Giri (Web Video) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Random Encounters (Web Video) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Seattle By Night (Web Video) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Sword Art Online Abridged (Web Video) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Trash Taste (Web Video) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Forward (Webcomic) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Girls with Slingshots (Webcomic) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Nuzlocke Comics Fan Works (Webcomic) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Sea3on (Webcomic) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Val and Isaac (Webcomic) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Big City Greens / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Cars 3 / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
DC Super Hero Girls (2019) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Danger Mouse / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
IwÃ¡jÃº / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Let's Go Luna! / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Penguins of Madagascar / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Yogi's Treasure Hunt / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Scott Hall (Wrestling) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech

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