You can’t catch them all, I’ve tried
I know what a Pokemon is, and I even saw the movie, the one that had Deadpool. I’ve never played a Pokemon game, though, even though my kiddo was a fan back in the day. Thanks to Google’s new circle to search feature, I now know about Lance, a trainer of Dragon type Pokemon, and one of the Elite Four, before he became Champion of the Pokemon League. I don’t know what any of that means, but Google does, and it helped me save a friendship.
When I say friendship, I mean with Christian Guyton, our Computing Editor and Energy Drink Connoisseur, whom I’ve never met because he lives in the UK. But he seems lovely! I see him on our team video chats and he comes across like a cool and knowledgeable person, and I’m sure we’ll have fun and be friends if I come to the UK or he comes to the US and we hang out.
But then, on a work Slack channel, Christian threw down the following challenge. He posted an anime character, without context, and said in the next message “image provided without context, if you don’t understand it you are no longer my friend.”
What can I do!? This seems like such a capricious end to our burgeoning friendship. Then I remembered my Galaxy S24 Ultra. I grabbed the phone and opened Slack. I pressed on the bar at the bottom of the screen, and the whole display turned a shade of pink. I almost forgot what to do next because I wasn’t expecting the pink. I kind of forgot about circle to search after I wrote the review for this phone.Circle to search saves the day and makes me feel smart
I circled the image Christian had posted and learned it was Lance from Pokemon! This was in response to messages from our editor-in-chief, also named Lance.
