The Weighted Companion PC isn't bitter or anything

Got that song stuck in your head? You know, the song. Go ahead, hum a few bars, nobody's going to notice. "This was a triumph..." Bet it's in there now! Now, while you spend the next 6-8 weeks trying wrench that beautiful melody from you head, you can concentrate on the harm you've caused to innocent weighted companion cubes over the world, and think about making restitution. Take this homage built by Magnus Persson, for example: it allows the cube to fulfill a higher calling as a case for a VIA Epia EX1500G, and it looks pretty too -- it's almost like that little incident never happened!

[Zappacky @ Jan 21st 2008 10:07AM]

I think I know my next case :D

And, Now the song is stuck in my head. Thanks alot!

(P.S. First post!)

[insertAlias @ Jan 21st 2008 10:20AM]

Damn it, nobody cares about your first post. NOBODY CARES!

[derX @ Jan 21st 2008 10:23AM]

Hey, insertAlias, I kinda care about it his posting firs--

wait, no, I don't, continue the flaming.

[Duke @ Jan 21st 2008 10:13AM]

I-want-that-case.

[Smart People Play Tuba @ Jan 21st 2008 12:30PM]

The only problem is trying to explain the little pink hearts to someone not familiar with "Portal."

[Chris @ Jan 21st 2008 1:39PM]

If somebody questions it just tell them there's cake in the other room.

But when they get there... no cake? hahahaha.

[Shane @ Jan 21st 2008 5:43PM]

The cake is a lie...

[Chewedtoothpick @ Jan 21st 2008 10:19AM]

Wow, your article conveys the impression of someone high on some intoxicating-ly hallucinogenic hippie drug.

[Ellianth @ Jan 21st 2008 1:41PM]

That or he's been breathing in some of GLaDOS' Deadly Neurotoxins.

R.I.P. Weighted companion cube. We hardly knew ye :'(. You'll live on in our memories and in that guy's case mod :)

[derX @ Jan 21st 2008 10:21AM]

I would've been interested if it hadn't been for those damn pink hearts.


...that and the fact that I don't own a VIA Epia EX1500G.

[John K @ Jan 21st 2008 10:25AM]

Without the pink hearts it wouldn't be a weighted companion cube now, would it?

[derX @ Jan 21st 2008 10:29AM]

Sorry, John, what was I thinking? What would I do without you?

I'd write you a letter expressing my gratitutde, but I've never been fond of Dear John letters.

[directive0 @ Jan 21st 2008 11:08AM]

It could just be a storage cube. Weighted storage cubes enable the same enjoyment and switch depressing abilities as a companion cube without the messy euthanasia.

[derX @ Jan 21st 2008 1:50PM]

I didn't know the "weighted" was a specific reference...which explain why I didn't get the song reference.

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Not a good day for me to comment.

For continuity's sake. *votes self down*

[kjb434 @ Jan 21st 2008 10:22AM]

No, I don't know the song. So i'm happy to say it's not stuck in my head.

[asphixiated @ Jan 21st 2008 10:26AM]

This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here:
HUGE SUCCESS.
It's hard to overstate
my satisfaction.
Aperture Science
We do what we must
because we can.
For the good of all of us.
Except the ones who are dead.
But there's no sense crying
over every mistake.
You just keep on trying
till you run out of cake.
And the Science gets done.
And you make a neat gun.
For the people who are
still alive.


I'm not even angry.
I'm being so sincere right now.
Even though you broke my heart.
And killed me.
And tore me to pieces.
And threw every piece into a pyre.
As they burned it hurt because
I was so happy for you!
Now these points of data
make a beautiful line.
And we're out of beta.
We're releasing on time.
So I'm glad I got burned.
Think of all the things we learned
for the people who are
still alive.

Go ahead and leave me.
I think i prefer to stay inside.
maybe you'll find someone else
to help you.
maybe Black Mesa...
THAT WAS A JOKE, HA HA, FAT CHANCE.
Anyway this cake is great.
It's so delicious and moist
look at me still talking when theres science to do
when i look out there
it makes me glad I'm not you
i've experiments to run
there is research to be done
on the people who are
still alive.


and believe me I am still alive
I'm doing science and I'm still alive
i feel fantastic and I'm still alive
while your dying ill be still alive
and when your dead i will be still alive
still alive
still alive

[Luke @ Jan 21st 2008 10:32AM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI

[kjb434 @ Jan 21st 2008 10:35AM]

I'm glad i still don't know it.

[Alan Strangis @ Jan 21st 2008 10:56AM]

All I know is that I want the song for Rock Band.

[Othello @ Jan 21st 2008 1:53PM]

"And threw every piece into a pyre."

FIRE.

[Shane @ Jan 21st 2008 5:54PM]

An even better version of the song...Coded in assembly on an 8080 based system running at 2 Mhz with a C64 sound chip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLS35kyYlOU

[Luke @ Jan 21st 2008 10:25AM]

Damn it all... now I will be thinking about that song for days. Thanks >=(

[Albert Gunn @ Jan 21st 2008 10:38AM]

From now on there's going to be a lot less conversation and a . . . lot . . . more . . . killing

[Esat @ Jan 21st 2008 10:41AM]

All your cubes are belong to us.

[slobbermeister @ Jan 21st 2008 10:59AM]

I are stoopid. I don't know what the cube is, or what it's for, and I dont know the song. I feel like I am taking crazy pills.

[insertAlias @ Jan 21st 2008 11:40AM]

Do yourself a favor and play Portal.
http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=game&AppId=400
Or buy the Orange Box for the console of your choice.

It is a very neat puzzle game.

[Tyler @ Jan 21st 2008 10:48AM]

I read every page of the Read link...it was a beautiful thing.

[Mr. Vage @ Jan 21st 2008 10:54AM]

Better keep that thing locked up well if you don't want some strange lady to come and euthanize it.

[yuppicide @ Jan 21st 2008 11:17AM]

I have no idea what song you are describing, or about the game the case is made from, but it's a really nice case. I wish I had skills to build stuff like that. Even with pink hearts it's a great looking case. Love how the inside looks as well. Love the 120mm fan. I'd love a case like that.

[Spyvie @ Jan 21st 2008 12:02PM]

I have no idea what song or companion cube is being referenced here, all I can gather is that it's a gutless mini PC in a dumb looking case.

I'm a little confused, and a little sad, Engadget and me are clearly drifting apart...

[Andre @ Jan 21st 2008 11:17AM]

Wow a lament cube of love, watch out for the pink cenobites :-)

[cirby @ Jan 21st 2008 11:30AM]

You can get the song from iTunes...

[ohne hosen @ Jan 21st 2008 11:32AM]

Needs a cake-shaped mouse.

[Magallanes @ Jan 21st 2008 11:58AM]

The cake shaped mouse is a lie.

[Ellianth @ Jan 21st 2008 1:44PM]

It could even have an: Aperture Science Emergency Intelligence Incinerator, for a mouse pad :p.

[decypher44 @ Jan 21st 2008 11:35AM]

Nope. Don't know that one.

[Magallanes @ Jan 21st 2008 12:05PM]

FYC "weighted companion cube" is a simple cube showed at Half Life 2 Orange box package game, more specifically the game called "Portal". This cube is showed as a character, even when this cube cannot move,talk or stab you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_(video_game)

[Shane @ Jan 21st 2008 5:45PM]

Awww...You spoiled the psychedelic fun by explaining it!

[Jake @ Jan 21st 2008 12:09PM]

Holy crap.

In the words of Lisa Simpsons: "I know all of those words, but that [post] makes no sense."

One of us is on acid. It's not me.

[dave @ Jan 21st 2008 12:10PM]

The case is a lie!

[Ken @ Jan 21st 2008 12:22PM]

No, its just sitting in a room full of those spooky computer brains or whatever they are...

[Das @ Jan 21st 2008 1:05PM]

You bastard...
It's going to take weeks to get it out of my head again

[hoohoo @ Jan 21st 2008 1:44PM]

not bad. sucks its a via. there is another wcc case in progress over at [H] that looks more promising. http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1232662

[roulette843 @ Jan 21st 2008 1:56PM]

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.

[Nubaeus @ Jan 21st 2008 2:31PM]

Your picture is perfect for that post.

[bartoron @ Jan 21st 2008 2:24PM]

That case better be fire-resistant, or else it could suffer the same fate as the original.

[sure @ Jan 21st 2008 2:58PM]

i don't like that song. not one bit.

am i alone in this? please, SOMEONE has to agree with me.

[Duke @ Jan 21st 2008 7:09PM]

You are alone.

[matthewlikestoburn @ Jan 21st 2008 4:32PM]

how to build it:
http://www.bit-tech.net/modding/2008/01/21/the_weighted_companion_pc/1

[michas_pi @ Jan 22nd 2008 3:29AM]

Will this replica threaten to stab me?