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Custom Companion Cube Faceplate

wheezo — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:00:50 MST

Looks like the bidding is up over £100 now. I like the idea but not that much!

I will probably just do my own knockoff.

wheezo

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SpiralJacobs — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:36:28 MST

This is ridiculous. It's fine, I just don't like it personally. Others may, which is also perfectly, wonderfully fine.

SpiralJacobs

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Taben — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:13:18 MST

I haven't made any art and will never be even near any of the stuff she has done, secondly I never 'Put' any of my stuff on here, it was put on for me....

Taben

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ara — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:37:49 MST

@SpiralJacobs: When you actually make art, you learn to appreciate lots of things. Same with everything, to give critique of any value, you must have some knowledge of the subject. Just saying it's ugly is worthless. All opinions are not equal.

ara

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Brackynews — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:24:58 MST

@Witzbold: And tie some synth into 360Voice..?
There YOu ARe...

Brackynews

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SpiralJacobs — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:23:16 MST

If you can't take criticism, don't make art. Period.

SpiralJacobs

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SpiralJacobs — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:22:06 MST

Exactly. You don't have to be an artist to have an opinion on art - if this actually could qualify as art in some strange universe. Look, I think it's really ugly. It doesn't look like the ravings of a madman, it looks like someone trying to make it look like the ravings of a madman and failing. And this is without the problems of scale noted above. If you look at the Valve t-shirt, you'll notice that there is some balance to the composition.

SpiralJacobs

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NeoAkira — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:47:28 MST

@crapsh00t:

"I didn't realize 95% of Kotaku users were art majors."

Yah it's called having likes and dislikes. You know, one of the things that brings about opinion. otherwise everyone would like the same thing and we'd all be as good as robots. so we don't have to be art majors to critique something, just human.

NeoAkira

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crapsh00t — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:27:18 MST

The style of the faceplate is directly influenced by the shirt from the Valve store. Settle down; I didn't realize 95% of Kotaku users were art majors.

crapsh00t

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ara — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:13:27 MST

@Taben: Heh, noticing a slight holier-than-thou attitude there, and judging from it someone is rather bad at taking critique, no? Just the harsh reality of internet, you better be ready to take hits if you put stuff here, people are assholes. Nevertheless, great job there, excellent integration to the ring of lights.

ara

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ara — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:01:36 MST

Me likes. It's no supposed to be balanced, well designed composition, it represents scribbles of clearly mentally disoriented person. One thing that bothers me are the tiny hand marks, that scale doesn't really work there. Maybe replace them with fingerprints, or something? Would work better as viewer wouldn't have to think it as a miniature, but at the size it actually is.

ara

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Taben — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:29:15 MST

The Faceplate was made by a girl actually if you read, (Kate Loire) she is my girlfriend, it is in no way a professional attempt it is just a nice idea like her other pacman one and her Alien Hominid one featured in the OXM magazine with her picures, she is simply selling the faceplate under my name,

All you people rambling on about how this and that and so forth doesn't match or whatever, just do something else than browsing Kotaku, i'm only here because I keep getting messages saying i'm on the site,

Thanks a lot (and thanks to you kotaku for posting about it),
Chris Taben.

Taben

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hdevires — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:41:36 MST

While I like the idea of a Portal custom faceplate, that's not one I would do. That's a pretty sorry attempt and doesn't look professionally done (I mean, it's not, but shouldn't it look like it is if you're selling it?)

hdevires

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Witzbold — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:27:30 MST

It would be interesting to make a stand for the 360 turning it into a turret from Portal.

Witzbold

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C4WDeX — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:18:16 MST

@Century: That's a fucking awesome idea.

However, I was thinking a companion cube computer case. Only because it would be simple.

C4WDeX

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Kerrell — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:40:13 MST

Haha look at that HD DVD player!!! People still use those over the vastly superior and supported Bluray? Wait.. Whats this post all about? Oh that faceplate, uhhh ewww

Kerrell

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underwhelm — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:20:02 MST

Wow. Everyone's a critic.

underwhelm

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Idree — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:49:49 MST

The cake is a lie!

Idree

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Machete_Bear — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:43:23 MST

I understand that he was going for the secret walls look from the game, but this needs some serious text treatment. Small text and design elements tend to just look messy, and you end up with a 5 year-old's coloring book page.

Machete_Bear

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JamesR87 — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:33:32 MST

I'm amazed at all the trash talk ... Probably just jealous tbh.

I'd buy a Portal faceplate like this one, except I like to lie my 360 down ... Then again that doesn't stop me with my bioshock one atm.

JamesR87

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Ett — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:12:47 MST

Damn thats sweet .

Ett

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Yamster — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:12:01 MST

@JoeJ1337: baaaaanhammaaaaaar.

Yamster

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Darkwing87 — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:58:20 MST

Damn that looks nice. If only I had £57 to spend on this kind of thing.

Darkwing87

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rebelphoenix — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:37:40 MST

the damn thing is at over 400 USD!

rebelphoenix

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Odin — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:07:43 MST

Love the cube ring of light, that was clever. The rest is too cluttered though. Maybe just have the cube and something near the top (to even it out a bit) and it would have looked a good deal more elegant.

Odin

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cyhborg — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:52:49 MST

the guy's obviously not a graphic designer. There are too many elements on it, making it look pretty cluttered. He should have just used the cube element and leave out the rest.

cyhborg

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muppetsausages — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:36:37 MST

Jeeee-sus.

This ranks up there with the retarded prices I've seen designer urban wear go for. Way to go, Seller. Think about giving some of that sterling to charity, eh?

muppetsausages

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Irenicus-the one and only — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:26:03 MST

@amusedtoe: Someone got a lot of money to flush down the toilet.

Irenicus-the one and only

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ShineyBlueShoes — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:17:30 MST

Nice, just checked this out and it's up to 205 pounds.

ShineyBlueShoes

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Hylian — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:31:55 MST

Whoever buys this expects to get the RROD.

Get it? lol

Hylian

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d3ath_fly — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:58:34 MST

Wow, it doesn't look good. Portal was an amazing game, but this is just not cool.

d3ath_fly

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Raynre — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:58:24 MST

Holy #@$% it's already up to over 155 quid!

...

Methinks I need to start mass-producing these things...

Raynre

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RedRaptor — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:37:37 MST

I've got a spare white faceplate laying around from my dead 360, and I'm now VERY tempted to make one of these for myself.

Of course, that's the Portal fan in me speaking - the Ghost Recon fanboy in me is saying to get it hydrocoated in Crye Precision MultiCam. :P

RedRaptor

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Irenicus-the one and only — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:31:54 MST

@mmr: If this goes for 1k then it is up there with other really stupid items people bought for a lot of money such as...

Air guitar

Cookie looks like Jesus,

Turd looks like Jesus and,

A leaf that looks like Jesus.

Some might say a chewed up gum by Britney that she spit out belongs up on the shit list too.

Irenicus-the one and only

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NeoAkira — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:14:29 MST

@mmr:

"For those of you that are saying it looks like crap, you obviously haven't played the game."

No of course. Because we're not fanatics of a video game who look forward to buying every piece of crap that is made as a tribute to the game we must not have played it. Thanks for your opinion.

NeoAkira

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zymase — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:06:40 MST

It's awesome, and whoever made it stands to rake in a pretty handy profit. Here's betting we'll see more of these in the future.

zymase

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JoeJ1337 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:06:16 MST

wow that's gay.

JoeJ1337

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Blah8 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:05:58 MST

I don't even own a 360 and I find myself lusting for this...

Blah8

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worthyexpress — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:59:13 MST

i dont get the hype of this companion cube

worthyexpress

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Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:18:32 MST

@aden.exe: You should see how close mine is

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mmr — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:57:08 MST

For those of you that are saying it looks like crap, you obviously haven't played the game. This looks IDENTICAL to the messages and items in the game.

This is how it is supposed to look. And for those of you saying that "you could do it..." you should considering the auction is at 155 POUNDS with 6 days to go. This is going to go for like a grand.

mmr

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mmr — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:55:14 MST

@Moonshadow101: Helvetica I believe.

mmr

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lunarlasso — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:23:42 MST

custom faceplates (all though i love 'em) are the equivalent of customized license plates..."hey look at me i paid extra money so my license plate looks different (more creative) than yours.

im still waiting for the perfect license..uhhh..faceplate..

lunarlasso

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Wuffles — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:05:42 MST

I like it. It's meant to have that childish look to it. Too bad it's way out of my price tag and for an xbox - which I don't have!

Wuffles

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SpiBoy a.k.a Duane Brown — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:38:22 MST

It's pretty average I think. I'm not an artistic person by nature but I know I could replicate this. And if I can make it then I wouldn't pay for it.

SpiBoy a.k.a Duane Brown

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Yamster — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:32:49 MST

Oh dude, red lights on that thing and you will have killed your companion cube.

Yamster

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OllieCostello — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:30:27 MST

Aww it does look shite but it says on the website: "Some of the profit earned for this faceplate will go towards buying a delicious cake!"

AWWW!

OllieCostello

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Nex Antonius — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:24:08 MST

Did a little kid do this?

Nex Antonius

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darkzero — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:17:53 MST

that is ugly as hell.

darkzero

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Glasseater — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:00:51 MST

the problem with the portal jokes, is that they were only funny in game. someone yelling or making a comic about "The Cake is a Lie!" isnt funny. it was a inside joke that shouldve stayed in portal.

Glasseater

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SpiralJacobs — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:46:55 MST

Also, the people who are questioning the companion cube's massive hype are in the right. It was sort of funny and clever in the game, but it's severely played out, almost to All Your Base levels. Please stop.

SpiralJacobs

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SpiralJacobs — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:45:37 MST

Super ugly, and very amateur. It doesn't look like scribblings of test subjects driven mad, it looks like a bad artist trying to imitate the scribblings of a test subject gone mad. There's a big difference between the two.

SpiralJacobs

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Antiterra — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:31:09 MST

@パラノイア: *I must BE, damnit...

Antiterra

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Antiterra — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:29:48 MST

@topgeargorilla: Yep, me too. I must one heartless SOB because I didn't give it a second thought when I had to part with the cube. "You want me to do what? Sure, no problem. There. Can I move on now?"

Antiterra

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topgeargorilla — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:24:53 MST

So I just finished Portal (ok, I'm stuck in that giant room with the sludgy trenches and turrets, and I was all stoked about the Companion cube stuff. You know what?

It's only in one level. Why the hell do people care so freaking much about this thing?

topgeargorilla

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Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name. — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:24:30 MST

@poopdeedoo: That's pretty much what happened in the game, actually.

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.

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Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name. — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:24:05 MST

Hah, you have the HD player.

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.

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poopdeedoo — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:19:06 MST

whoa i might have to do something like this with my nyko faceplate ... looks like someone went off thier crazy pills ... or ate some mario mushrooms or something.

poopdeedoo

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Antiterra — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:15:21 MST

I could buy this... OR ask one of my ex-girlfriend's 5 nephews to scribble a few sentences from Portal on my 360. But then it would be child labour. Plus, my 360 would look like crap, kinda like the one above.

I usually don't rag on "handicrafts", but how could anyone even consider paying for this? It's embarrassingly ugly. Maybe it's the HD-DVD player sitting next to it...

Antiterra

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bangbangblah — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:59:56 MST

@Rotek: well, there's always a time to start.

bangbangblah

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marcus_ivo — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:54:49 MST

Whoa, it's up to £41.00!

That's $91.56 AUD or $80.17 USD!

Haha the description is so unknowing, says it's from the popular game "Portals" sigh...

marcus_ivo

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BigBadBlender — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:54:03 MST

@underground_slacker: Yeah, its from the game but is still looks like crap, this is not a question of beauty in the eye of the beholder, its just crap, just because something existed somewhere doesn't mean you can change the context and still have it be relevant.
Its like having a PS2 mounted on a pile of feces instead of a stand, just because you once saw a dog take a dump and said to friend "thats cool" and him being a moron though wouldn't it be great if I took the poop and used it somehow, it diminishes the value of the initial object, im not talking about monetary value, but the value of its existence.

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Zeouterlimits — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:53:29 MST

I love it........
Wow.

Zeouterlimits

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theALLseeingEYE — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:48:49 MST

I think it looks like one of the most remarkably ugly things I have ever seen.

No balance in composition, amaturish to all extents. Perhaps if they made it look like they ripped away part of the wall, by having, for example, the top right corner look like an extrmely polish wall part, and made it look as if this was all written on the underside of the wall, it would have worked.

As it stands now, fail IMO.

theALLseeingEYE

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FakeMoon — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:48:20 MST

I would buy a million of those!!!!

FakeMoon

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underground_slacker — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:44:06 MST

@brynnflynn:

YES!, i like it!

underground_slacker

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God Hand BrynnFlynn — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:41:43 MST

Hrmmm, Gamecubes wouldn't be too expensive where I am... Hrmmm...

God Hand BrynnFlynn

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underground_slacker — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:36:04 MST

@BigBadBlender: maybe theyd buy it because thats what the messages in the game look like?
call it a columbo like hunch.

id get it.

underground_slacker

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Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:32:14 MST

@Kirbytheslayer: The Movie:
oops.
@Irenicus-the one and only: you too.

I
must
be
psychic.

Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB

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Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:31:38 MST

@Ignis: @Ignis: I warned you people!

I foresaw you.

Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB

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Cola82 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:26:07 MST

No, but I make make one for myself.

Cola82

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aden.exe — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:26:01 MST

360 is awfully close to the edge of that table/surface.

aden.exe

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Moklomi — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:21:30 MST

Microsoft take note you would make a couple million on this faceplate!

Moklomi

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Rotek — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:21:08 MST

Wow, £41 already! I would only have gone up to 25, and even *that's* too much for a faceplate!

Rotek

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BigBadBlender — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:20:50 MST

It looks like a seizure prone chimp found some sharpies...seriously why would anyone buy this.
I'm sure the same "hand painted art" exists on hundreds of overweight masochistic teenage girl's school notebooks, so you can't even say its a collectible ;)

BigBadBlender

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Irenicus-the one and only — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:19:55 MST

I heart RROD!

Irenicus-the one and only

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Ignis — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:17:47 MST

That poem sits so well with Microsoft and the RROD, lol. Almost to well!

Ignis

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Moonshadow101 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:14:06 MST

I think it's pretty well-done. It does look kinda crude, because it's supposed to. The writing on the walls in portal wasn't in times new roman, if I recall.

Moonshadow101

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Flawless101 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:13:23 MST

Oh my god... give me a need on that!

Flawless101

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Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:13:03 MST

I know how overdone this joke is, and I do it purely in jest, and so that nobody else will:

The poem would make a lot more sense if the 360 RRODed.

@evening-aura: That's what the writing on the wall looks like.

Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB

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Century — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:07:21 MST

I'm seriously waiting for someone to mod up a gamecube that looks like a companion cube.

Century

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BlackDove — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:07:20 MST

Why don't you just get a magic marker and make one at home?

BlackDove

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NessD12 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:06:33 MST

watch it skyrocket to 200 bids.

NessD12

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evening-aura — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:06:31 MST

Sorry, but yuck... :( It looks like some 10 year olds attempt.

evening-aura

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Jandlecack — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:06:28 MST

I wouldn't put that on my 360 even if I got £10 for doing it. Using "my 360" loosely here.

Hm actually I would. Don't think anyone would pay me however :\

Jandlecack

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ciabb64 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:05:17 MST

That....is....awesome! Definetly the best faceplate ever!

ciabb64

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Rotek — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:04:51 MST

I would *SO* get this if I wasn't the only person in the world without an eBay/Paypal account...

Rotek

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Ollivander — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:04:46 MST

Pretty nifty. I like it.

Ollivander

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will mutters something rude and then says: — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:04:05 MST

looks like someone went crazy with a set of felt tip pens... :p

will mutters something rude and then says: