Table 2: Touchy Technology Aspects

What do you REALLY know about that piece of unknown or unreliable technology? How do you even work it? How DID it work last time? WILL it work this time, like it did last time? How much trouble are you in with that thing? Let's find out!

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Table 2: Touchy Technology Aspects

1. Really, who thought it was a good idea to label this thing in Esperanto?
2. It has multiple settings; too bad there's no labels...
3. It's alien. If your fingers won't work the buttons, try your tongue
4. It's like a distruptor, but it HEALS
5. Too bad we don't have an owner's manual
6. I got it off a guy who got it off a guy
7. Does it always vibrate and screech like that? 
8. It just needs you to complete the circuit
9. This is top-of-the-line technology...too bad it's 200 years out of date
10. It's twice as effective when its malfunctioning
11. What is that needle in the grip for?
12. I already pushed that button - I think
13. Somebody's gonna pay top dollar for this
14. Just the tool for the job... if you can get it to work
15. It would fit right in my hand... if my hand were three times larger
16. Alien technology is so sexy
17. Using it is straightforward... at least 50% of the time
18. It has too many buttons and dials to be a weapon, right?
19. There are no buttons or dials on this thing at all
20. I can use it as a shield if worse comes to worst
21. I can use it as a club is worse comes to worst
22. This is the souped-up version
23. It needs a remote
24. It is a remote
25. Incompatible with our systems
26. Disconcertingly adaptable to our systems
27. I think its been rooted
28. It's phoning home
29. Have you noticed that when this thing turns on, other things turn off?
30. This might save us, yet!