"Wait... you mean I actually had the right idea with that thing?" Sokka exclaims as he grips the table with a little bit of annoyance. "Man, he must have felt pretty bad about himself after that. Now if only I could have knew that weird language, I might have actually went and solved it myself."

Yeah, that's a way to get Sokka on your side. Stroke his ego... even without having stroked his ego entirely.

But Sokka takes a look at the charts before him, and immediately he starts nodding. "Oh yeah, I've seen these shapes on the consoles. Flashing in a pattern. It... wasn't something that I could make heads or tails out of right away."