Only [WHO] Can Get a Companion Cube
TychoCelchuuu
Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">Like Smokey the Bear's Catchphrase, Get It?</div>So some super awesome dude <a href="http://doofycrap.com/blog/?p=26" target="_blank">is making actual Companion Cubes</a>. They're not life-size but they're most definitely not plush or paper, which is the biggest gripe I have with the existing offerings. One sentence in particular caught my eye:
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->If you’re looking for one of your own, you’ll have to be Ben’s best friend forever, or perhaps a persuasive Portal/Narbacular Drop developer.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Now anyone who has ever seen [WHO]Them in person, or seen pictures of him, knows that he is 200+ lbs of muscled persuasion. He could persuade people in ways they probably didn't know their body could bend, I would bet. You see where I'm going with this? Due to a fortunate set of circumstances, the Internet has brought together what appears to be the only fabricator of genuine miniature Companion Cubes and one of the only people on earth that the guy is willing to give one to, the second being a member of these forums! I'll let you do the math.
And Them, if your powers of persuasion triumph, we totally expect pictures of this thing with Gabe Newell or Erik Wolpaw or the Space Needle or a cat or something. Or all four at once.
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->If you’re looking for one of your own, you’ll have to be Ben’s best friend forever, or perhaps a persuasive Portal/Narbacular Drop developer.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Now anyone who has ever seen [WHO]Them in person, or seen pictures of him, knows that he is 200+ lbs of muscled persuasion. He could persuade people in ways they probably didn't know their body could bend, I would bet. You see where I'm going with this? Due to a fortunate set of circumstances, the Internet has brought together what appears to be the only fabricator of genuine miniature Companion Cubes and one of the only people on earth that the guy is willing to give one to, the second being a member of these forums! I'll let you do the math.
And Them, if your powers of persuasion triumph, we totally expect pictures of this thing with Gabe Newell or Erik Wolpaw or the Space Needle or a cat or something. Or all four at once.
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It's not uncaring.
Because it's fun. Why are you posting in this thread?
Those are great. They just need to be a little bigger and then I will steal them all and not share them with anyone.
What's sad is your lack of love for the Companion Cube. It's like watching couples kissing on Valentine's Day and going "people can be so sad... why is everyone obsessed with this love thing?" In fact it's exactly like that but with a cube instead of a person.
The cube even has love hearts on it, it's like they planned this all along.
This makes me like companion cubes even more thank you for helping me discover how great companion cubes really are CoolCookieCooks
exactly.
Well put CCC, I agree.
Figures that Depot would be one of the few to not grasp such a simple concept as "love."
It's a cube, an inanimate object, cold and hard.
Ya think?
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No you're wrong... He/she's just a little shy. If you sit with it for a while it'll talk to you. The companion cube is really a great listener, and a great friend.
Oh... I get it. Rather like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock" target="_blank">Pet Rock</a> marketed in the 70's? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />
Sorry, I'm not <b><u>OLD</b></u> enough to know much about that. You'll have to ask someone OLD, FEEBLE, AND DECREPIT instead. Someone YOUR AGE. Really, though, I can't expect someone so ANCIENT to understand something like love. Love is for the youth. Did you ever read Romeo and Juliet? This is like that but with a cube.
Well, except that you KILLED your Romeo instead of it all being double suicide and what not.
moral responsibility for the companion cube euthanizing process!
For the benefit of doubtful ones such as yourself I provided a link - if you choose to ignore it then your ignorance on the subject is your own fault.
Just so you understand it has nothing whatsoever to do with age. <img src="http://www.nsmod.org/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" />
And if you think "love is for the youth", what is it that keeps couples together for 50 or 60 years? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wow.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":0" border="0" alt="wow.gif" />
Just so you understand it has nothing whatsoever to do with age. <img src="http://www.nsmod.org/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I read your "link." To even compare what was obviously then and now a cheap marketing trick to true, pure love is ridiculous and insulting. I don't take your deepest emotions and compare them to the latest advertisement on TV, now do I?
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The cold, crushing loneliness that would result if they left each other, and a faint memory of what they felt when they were young. And I can't see how you can profess to understand love on one hand and then denigrate everyone's feelings for the Cube on the other.
The cold, crushing loneliness that would result if they left each other, and a faint memory of what they felt when they were young. And I can't see how you can profess to understand love on one hand and then denigrate everyone's feelings for the Cube on the other.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You have so much to learn, young one. Both the pet rock and the companion cube are nothing but marketing ploys geared towards exploiting money from those foolish enough to dish it out for a cold, hard, inanimate object that cannot return ones affections.
Even you aren't naive enough to believe anything less than true love is what holds so many couples together until "death do us part". What these couples felt was nothing compared to what developed down the line and what they feel now - the memories you think they cling to to sustain their relationship are just that, memories. But don't trust MY word for it, talk to couples that have been together 50 or 60 years, or even longer.
And I can't see how you can say in the very same post that it's stupid to love a Cube that can't return affection and then say "until 'death do us part'." That's like saying you can't love a Cube that won't love you back, but you can still love a dead person who obviously can't love you back because they're DEAD. Unless you're suggesting that when somebody dies you stop loving them.
And I can't see how you can say in the very same post that it's stupid to love a Cube that can't return affection and then say "until 'death do us part'." That's like saying you can't love a Cube that won't love you back, but you can still love a dead person who obviously can't love you back because they're DEAD. Unless you're suggesting that when somebody dies you stop loving them.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You dare to compare loving an object, to loving a human being? Think about it.... ... .. .
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Is it okay to love a dog? Most people would say yes, and plenty of people treat their dogs like they'd treat a kid. How about a turtle? Is a turtle inherently worse than a dog? Not really. A turtle will return your affection about as much as the Companion Cube and frankly it smells a lot worse and will someday die. Think about it.... ... .. .
<!--sizeo:1--><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->. .. ... .... I rest my case.<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->