"No it's uh..." Shit, he is the worst at explaining these kind of things. For being a huge nerd he's never actually had to explain this kind of stuff to people who didn't have some common basis of understanding to go off of.

"Alright. Okay. So you know your phone?" He pulls his out even though it doesn't work here, because hopefully he can get through this without either of them thinking the other is insane. "The screen where you can write messages and junk? So that little plastic egg has a screen too and a little image of an animal will show up and you gotta digitally feed it and raise it. It's not real, it's just a sprite. Er uh, it's a picture. That moves."