#my personal hc is somewhere between 'ford is doing learned incompetence on everyone bc he thinks the idea of pcs is Silly and Pointless'

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hc that the reason ford is so terrible with earth computers despite almost certainly having encountered more recent technology + technology based on current era technology while in the multiverse is that he's gotten way too familiar with alien computers and keeps trying to make normal computers work that way

#☢️.txt #ik canon is likely that he is just Bad at comp sci since he cant use fiddlefords laptop #but like. hes presumably a high energy physicist in the 70s #he likely wouldve encountered C by that point! #SQL came out in 78! and as far as we know he was reading journals even in gravity falls #hell even a lot of his pre-fiddleford tech seems to have relied on some form of computing #my personal hc is somewhere between 'ford is doing learned incompetence on everyone bc he thinks the idea of pcs is Silly and Pointless' #and 'ford was running everything entirely by hand until fiddleford showed up and forced him to use computers because no stanford you cannot #do this by hand actually. please for the love of something just use a calculator' #but i DO think the core issue is that ford is really bad at logic (the math subfield) and thats some of the basis of his animosity #hes really good at the type of math needed in physics and hes even pretty decent at working in different bases #but he struggles with stuff like logic gates bc he. does not think like most people. smth smth ford isnt just an anomaly due to his hands #his thought processes are different enough from other people that he struggles to make sense of coding languages #i think he also (and id argue this canon) makes massive leaps in logic that are hard to translate into code #if youre always making massive connections between things and seeing patterns but you dont always realize other people didnt pick up on the #then its really hard to write code for it bc you have to tell the computer Absolutely Everything #and ford isnt exactly known for his documentation lmao #ford pines