Why do we love the companion cube?
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That's a lie! Mines always told me how it would hurt me if I tried to leave it. Always telling me how it'll stab me if it ever saw me with another cube! I had to carry it around outta fear of my life... It was always watching me.... Silent, but attentively watching me. I threw it in the fire outta self-defense! It saw me carry a torrent for a sec and went into a blind jealous rage, swinging the knife screaming "If I can't have you, you'll never carry anything again!" I had to plead and reassure it there was nothing between the torrent and I, then I saw the Apature science incinerator and knew what I had to do to finally be free of it's abuse...theonlyblaze2 said:
I didn't at all. Sure it was handy, but I didn't have any trouble tossing it in the fire.
What else am I mean to do, stay on that level forever?
What else am I mean to do, stay on that level forever?
And, in fact, cannot speak. In the event that the Companion Cube does speak, the Enrichment Center urges you to disregard its advice.Xzi said:Because your Apeture Science Weighted Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you.
If the Weighted Companion Cube could speak ? 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.
Now that's a real companion if I ever saw one.
how can you look at those sexy lines and ask that question? oh the dirty things i could do with that cube, long into the night. and it will never complain or call me a sick freak, because it loves me and would do anything for me. excuse me, i'll be right back.
I find the C-Cube love to be a bit silly, although I can see why some people love it.
When I got to that point, I went "aww...Really?", Spent a few minutes seeing if there was an alternate solution, and when there wasn't, I went "Ah well.". I opened the door, gave it a friendly pat and and then dunked it, and continued on with no regrets.
It's a useful tool and it's the only "companion" you have, but still...It's just a cube, like all the other similar cubes that exist in the game.
When I got to that point, I went "aww...Really?", Spent a few minutes seeing if there was an alternate solution, and when there wasn't, I went "Ah well.". I opened the door, gave it a friendly pat and and then dunked it, and continued on with no regrets.
It's a useful tool and it's the only "companion" you have, but still...It's just a cube, like all the other similar cubes that exist in the game.
Every cube-lover is a hipster! Ha!Woodsey said:
It was meant to be a metaphore for GlaDOS's failed attempts to grasp, confine and manipulate human emotions in a rather sick and twisted way. Which is why I think it's pretty awesome, to narrate the game in such an interactive way.no oneder said:
Of course, brilliant me was above such manipulation. You'll never get me GlaDOS! NEVER!!!
Because you get by with a little help from your friends, You can't get by without the Aperture Science Weighted Companion Cube. Without it and it's little heart that singles it out from everything else represents an emotion. Something that the other cubes lack, something that the decor of the testing areas lack. In the bleak sea of emotionless environments and a sarcastic and unreachable narrator to your journey there is that little symbol.
We're just friends though, I don't love it. I also had no problems throwing it into a fire, it was just another thing it was doing to allow me to keep progressing.
We're just friends though, I don't love it. I also had no problems throwing it into a fire, it was just another thing it was doing to allow me to keep progressing.
Played portal quite a while after it had become a phenomenon and already knew about the cube before i played the game, so i was surprised when it was only in one level. Had no qualms about killing it in order to advance though so i don't get the love for the weighted companion cube. Still, it works as a meme i guess.
