The Sphere
General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: The D on Feb 07, 2008, 12:45:07 AM
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So I finished Portal. It's a pretty fun game.
The idea is you can use this gun to make two portals, a blue one and an orange one, and the portals connect to each other. So you can walk through one and come out the other. And you have to use these portals to move objects around, or get from one area to another in order to solve the puzzles of each level.
The game plays out like a long version of those Tutuorial Levels that many games have, except this one has a psycho AI that lies to you and messes with your mind.
Fun. A tad easy. A little too short. But cool.
And then you have the Companion Cube.
(http://blog.steeefan.de/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/companion-cube.jpg) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqQISNKWZSA)
^ Video
It's a fucking cargo container. An inanimate object. Yet everyone on the interbutts is going emo over the fact that in the level you get it, you later have to throw it (and yourself if you're that emo) into an incenerator.
I smiled when I threw mine in the furnace.
Anyway, the Friendly Turrents were cuter. At least they apologized when they shot you with Friendly Bullets, and they were forgiving and polite when you knocked them over and destroyed them.
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The companion cube was my friend.
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I didn't buy orange box just TF2. So I don't have portal. I could probably find a portal torrent though.
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The companion cube was my friend.
The Companion Cube was a tool for me to exploit, just like all my friends... :ph34r:
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The Companion Cube was my friend through all the bad times! He took those plasma ball shots for me, he stepped on the buttons for me....he was the truest friend I've ever known, and god help me, if I could be half the companion cube he was, I'd be a better man. Then I burned my cube alive. I'm a monster.
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The companion cube was my friend.
The Companion Cube was a tool for me to exploit, just like all my friends... :ph34r:
You have those?
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what the FUCK is this companion cube thing? are these people stupid?!?! who the fuck cares about a cube?
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You wouldn't understand! The Cube helped me!! It was my friend!
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E, there's plenty of therapists and drugs to help you out with your Cube obsession.
(BTW, there's a way to keep your cube if you use cheats... like noclip and the cheat to make portals on any surface... google, gamefaqs, and youtube are your friends)
Also, Team Fortress 2 is awesome.
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...Cheats you say? For 360?
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I hear there's also cheats for 360, but I don't know.
I know I had my cube until the end.
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I have no idea wtf you guys are talking about. Just saying.
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That damn cube with a heart in it. Who would care about keeping it??
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I don't. I just wanted to see if I could keep it for the entire game or not.
It's everyone else going crazy over the stupid thing. It's a big block with hearts on it.
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By everyone I'm sure you mean "all those losers that dont have anything else to do than fall in love with a cube"
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if you don't get it, its because you haven't played the game. The voice that guides you starts fucking with your head telling you things about the cube, like it might be more than a simple inanimate object.
Its at the point where you're most sure its going to do something that you're asked to destroy it.
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Does said Cube have a love hole in it? Cause it's not much of a Companion if it doesn't.
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We'll never know.
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http://portal.wecreatestuff.com/
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if you don't get it, its because you haven't played the game. The voice that guides you starts fucking with your head telling you things about the cube, like it might be more than a simple inanimate object.
oo cooomee OOON. how can a voice in a game "fuck with your head"? that's just silly :-p
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They're not used to hearing female voices who aren't their moms.
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Glados has a female voice?
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If the companion cube speaks it would probably ask to be put down somewhere safe, and to give it $50.
And take it out to dinner...
And visit its parents...
And it would help you pick out a new set of clothes....
On second thought why the hell does everyone like this cube anyways?
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Is there a conveniently shaped hole anywhere on its person?
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Rama already made that crack about 6 or 7 posts ago.
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But did anyone answer the question?
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oo cooomee OOON. how can a voice in a game "fuck with your head"? that's just silly :-p
You play a puzzle that takes about 5-10 minutes to complete, and requires some 4th dimensional thinking and split second timing. All the while this distracting mechanical female voice...
* "This weighted companion cube will accompany you through the test chamber. Please take care of it."
* "The symptoms most commonly produced by Enrichment Center testing are superstition, perceiving inanimate objects as alive, and hallucinations. The Enrichment Center reminds you that the weighted companion cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak."
* "The Enrichment Center reminds you that the weighted companion cube cannot speak. In the event that the weighted companion cube does speak, the Enrichment Center urges you to disregard its advice."
* "You did it! The weighted companion cube certainly brought you good luck. However, it cannot accompany you for the rest of the test and, unfortunately, must be euthanized."
* "Rest assured that an independent panel of ethicists has absolved the Enrichment Center, Aperture Science employees, and all test subjects for all moral responsibility for the companion cube euthanizing process."
* "While it has been a faithful companion, your companion cube cannot accompany you through the rest of the test. If it could talk - and the Enrichment Center takes this opportunity to remind you that it cannot - it would tell you to go on without it because it would rather die in a fire than become a burden to you."
* "Although the euthanizing process is remarkably painful, 8 out of 10 Aperture Science engineers believe that the companion cube is most likely incapable of feeling much pain."
* "The companion cube cannot remain through the testing. State and local statutory regulations prohibit it from simply remaining here, alone and companionless. You must euthanize it."
* "You euthanised your faithful companion cube more quickly than any test subject on record. Congratulations."
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Is there a conveniently shaped hole anywhere on its person?
No there is not. The silent protagonist of Portal is female.
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Strap-on?
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Is there a conveniently shaped hole anywhere on its person?
No there is not. The silent protagonist of Portal is female.
The flash one I posted has a dude. I wonder if a gay guy would go into a very tight room, and rape himself...
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Meanwhile, I'm fairly certain a straight guy would.
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IDE?
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Rape myself or the cube?
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Rape yourself with the cube.
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but the cube is like the size of a crate!
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You're right, too small.
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Try some baby oil.
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If I get ass raped I'll not be content to take revenge on the rapist but upon the entire world. I will devote my life to orchestrating the death of every living being. Mexico and the border states would be first on that last. We're talking pathogens not pistols here. Flies will feast on the melting eyeballs of the nearly dead! There is no pleasure to be found on the other side of my anus, only the end of mankind!
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Even if you were self-raped?
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Even then.
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if you don't get it, its because you haven't played the game. The voice that guides you starts fucking with your head telling you things about the cube, like it might be more than a simple inanimate object.
Its at the point where you're most sure its going to do something that you're asked to destroy it.
Beat it. Twice. I have the ending credits song on my now disfunctional iPod... the one who's hard drive decided to fry itself. :/
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Are you sure a black guy didn't do it?
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Talking about ipods...my super awesome mp3 player is dying on me..should I get an ipod or an itouch??
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I think Im gonna get another pod or a creative zen
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I got to look at this sweet looking iPod and then had a dream several days later that I got one. But the reality of crapTunes makes me not want to get one.
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What do you mean, what's wrong with itunes?? i use that to listen to music in my computer (mac) and i've never had a problem with it.
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I like my RAZR2 for mp3s. It's one of the better cell phones out there and an okay player. As opposed to the iPhone, one of the better mp3 players and an okay phone.
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are there any phones out there besides iphone that also play video?
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What do you mean, what's wrong with itunes?? i use that to listen to music in my computer (mac) and i've never had a problem with it.
I just personally find it to be a cumbersome, inefficient thing. I'm very anal about the arrangement of my library and I constantly add and arrange music on the comp. From the looks of things, I need to reinstall iTunes or something in order to relocate everything and get rid of all the damn !. It doesn't look to be worth it to me. WMP (Windows Media Player) will usually find the new path without the bullshit. If I need iTunes to add things from my library, it'll sluggishly trod on through where WMP finds the files and is done with it. iTunes playlists pop up in other windows, which annoys the fuck out of me. iTunes' album view takes up way too much visual space. I have WMP with an album view and it's nice and compact. For whatever reason, files that manage to stay together in WMP separate in iTunes. Need album art? I don't have to do any wonky "get album artwork" bs. Album art for "Bleed" by Razorblade Monalisa can't be found? No shit; they're not on iTunes. Meanwhile, for WMP I just go in and paste it myself. I can change the color on WMP. I can have pictures fly around in full screen as my music plays. That "authorize/deauthorize" stuff is total crap. I wouldn't even bother with iTunes-anything if they didn't have stuff I couldn't find anywhere else.
The only other thing that I notice iTunes lovers grab upon is that the sound quality is better, but let's be honest: I don't have any high-end equipment. And due to the small sizes of my pc and mp3 player, even when I get high quality tracks, I have to rip them to a smaller bit rate and sacrifice said-quality anyway. So I have no way of verifying that claim myself.
Granted, it may work great for your needs. I know it does for Merla's. She loves her some iTunes. But it fails colossally for me.
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Hmm I only have it in my mac cause it came with it :-p
In my HP, I used to have Winamp and I LOVED it. But only the old old classical version of it.
are there any phones out there besides iphone that also play video?
I think the new Sidekick can and the Razrs can too.
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I mean like can I download a movie into them and watch it?
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I've had a SLVR for almost a year now and I have yet to get my MP3 player up and running.
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Talking about ipods...my super awesome mp3 player is dying on me..should I get an ipod or an itouch??
Neither.
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Well, that certainly was a fun game. Time to tackle the rest of Orange Box now, I suppose
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I'm going to get an iphone...I"m just waiting for the new one to come out at the end of this month.
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I mean like can I download a movie into them and watch it?
Can you do that on an iphone??
Samsung just came out with its version of the iphone, Ive heard its way better too
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Yeah its for sprint and I think I'm gonna get it.
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The iPhone stinks. You can't get a picture texted to you, you can't copy/paste, or anything else fun.
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I love my RAZR2. It's a phone-style phone!
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I have a Samsung... something. It has a camera, mp3 player, net thingy, and looks smooth and sleek. And the Tetris and Monopoly games RULE.
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They need to release multiplayer online monopoly.
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games.atari.com
newb lurk more.
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I mean on the phone. And no one should be charging to play monopoly online either.
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I mean on the phone. And no one should be charging to play monopoly online either.
Monopoly with REAL MONEY!
Well, that certainly was a fun game. Time to tackle the rest of Orange Box now, I suppose
Best puzzle game evar. I only completed 3 of the advanced challenged. I made it halfway into the one with the turrets and started to cry when I thought I reached the exit door and got gunned down.
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This summer, a group of college students find out that their online obsession is no longer just a game. When the repo men start coming for their things, it will become clear that this time, they're playing for keeps.
MONOPOLY:THE MOVIE
"You go bankrupt in the game, you go bankrupt for real, man!"
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I think the Uno movie will do better in the box office.
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Especially since it will tap into the lucrative Latino market.
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Si! I know that word!
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Not enough to know there's an accent on the i.
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Actually that's laziness, not ignorance. I couldn't be bothered to take the extra few steps to add it.