Compulsory testing

[Dene]

I vote that all newcomers should have to have a go with the old Rubik's and Eastsheen 4x4 and 5x5 cubes before they are allowed to try new V-cubes so that those of us who know what we are talking about don't have to put up with stupid threads that receive a string of stupid replies like this one anymore.

All in favour say "aye".

 

[aronpm]

aye

 

[cubemaster13]

Aye

 

[Olji]

aye, tbh my first 5x5 was just that, an eastsheen xD

 

[Owen]

No, that's not fair.

 

[maggot]

aye ****in aye

 

[ianini]

aye

 

[cyoubx]

I don't actually see how those replies were that stupid...

The question was not thread-worthy, but making them use rubik's brand cubes first isn't going to change their first impressions of the v cubes...

I'm missing the logic here, so for now I say nay.

 

[TheMachanga]

aye

I've always disliked seeing someone who just started buy $100+ dollars worth of the highest quality cubes.

 

[JonnyWhoopes]

Aye.

 

[a small kitten]

Dumb.

 

[bluedasher]

I don't actually see how those replies were that stupid...

The question was not thread-worthy, but making them use rubik's brand cubes first isn't going to change their first impressions of the v cubes...

I'm missing the logic here, so for now I say nay.

Same here. Why waste your money on a crappy cube, only to end up buying what is considered the best? if you start off with a V-Cube or use a Rubik's brand for thousands of solves and then use up a V-Cube, it is still a V-Cube.

 

[nlCuber22]

aye

No, that's not fair.

Yes, it is.

 

[aridus]

Same here. Why waste your money on a crappy cube, only to end up buying what is considered the best? if you start off with a V-Cube or use a Rubik's brand for thousands of solves and then use up a V-Cube, it is still a V-Cube.

Yeah, not to mention "best" is relative anyway. If all other types of cube are wet and steaming piles of crap, and someone makes a new one that is merely a dry, solid and sturdy chunk of crap, if you get it you may have the best crap there is but you still have crap.

 

[cyoubx]

Yes, it is.

It's fair but I fail to see what this would correct. I understand the point, I just don't see how this would change anything.

 

[miniGOINGS]

While I see the point other people are trying to make, I can not agree completely. It is true that seeing newcomers spending ridiculous amounts of money on cubes is very annoying and disapointing, I hardly think we can do much about it. In a way I wish that I would have never used Rubik's brand cubes and instead gone straight to DIYs, but I can not know exactly how that would have affected me. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that it's their money that's being spent, and it's their choice to be idiotic with it.

 

[aridus]

While I see the point other people are trying to make, I can not agree completely. It is true that seeing newcomers spending ridiculous amounts of money on cubes is very annoying and disapointing, I hardly think we can do much about it. In a way I wish that I would have never used Rubik's brand cubes and instead gone straight to DIYs, but I can not know exactly how that would have affected me. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that it's their money that's being spent, and it's their choice to be idiotic with it.

I don't understand. Why bother? I already used dollar store cubes that make any Rubik's look absolutely GODLY by comparison. I'm not going to waste my time buying real and true garbage "just for the experience" but that also does not mean I can't recognize what could have been better on what I did buy.

 

[Erzz]

Aye. I feel it's more rewarding if you are used to a slow cube then change to a faster one. I remember when I first got my Alpha-V pretensioned and lubed. After having used an unlubed tight Alpha-I for months I thought it was absolutely amazing.

 

[Daniel Wu]

The sad thing is that my ES 4x4 and Rubik's 4x4 are better than my Maru and QJ 4x4s. :/

 

[masteranders1]

The sad thing is that my ES 4x4 and Rubik's 4x4 are better than my Maru and QJ 4x4s. :/

:fp

aye