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[[A figure sits at a desk with a laptop. A woman is off-screen.]]
Figure: Argh!
Woman: What?
Figure: Why do I always have these inexplicable, impossible-to-diagnose computer problems?
[[The woman walks up to the desk.]]
Figure: After six hours of this, I've concluded nothing works or makes sense. I give up on logic.
Woman: <<sigh>>Gimme. I'll figure it out.
Figure: You won't.
[[The figure sits at his laptopless desk. Off-screen, we can hear the woman working on it.
<<Type type>>
<<Click>>
Woman: ?
<<Type type type>>
Woman: ???
[[The woman is back in front of the desk, clutching the laptop.]]
Figure: How'd it go?
Woman: Your computer is literally haunted.
Figure: Told you.
{{Title text: 'It has a ghost in it. Take it back.' 'No.'}}
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