What's with this blue cup?

[edmundito]

Dude, I told CJ we should have gone with bigpinkposter.com. Wait, that also sounds quite dirty.

But here is the TRUE story, and don't believe what magintz said earlier:

CJ used to not have any money (nor he does now, anyway), so one day he decided to venture into the business of the internet, and he knew exactly what people would pay to see: Porno, porno, porno! So he started adventuregamestudio.co.uk and the famous americangirlscouts.org. American Girl Scouts had to be shut down after it became illegal in 75% of the countries in the world due to its "immature" content, and the big blue cup on girl/guy fetish was not really appealing to anyone.

So CJ sat there and thought for months. He really had created two monsters. What to do. He had to redeem himself.

It was after playing space quest for the 11th time that he realized that he really liked adventure games, but at the time they were dying, so he had a vision where other adventure fans could make adventure games, too. So he wrote adventure game studio, conveniently named after the initials of american girl scouts, and he was a new man after that. He never looked back on the past and this is where we are today.

The bluecup was the first sprite in honor/as a reminder of his past attempt to succeed in life. And because he owned those two domain names, he used them up anyway; it saved him some money!

And that's the true story. Pumaman can confirm it!

[Anghellic]

hmmm that sounds reasonable. Now a confirm of Pumaman and I believe you 

[Helli78]

the REAL story is:

CJ felt asleep and in (t)his strange dream he was kidnapped by a very big blue cup. First the cup wants money and hot coffee (filled into itself). Unless some end- and useless discussions between CJ and the "very bigbluecup" , the police came in and wanted to clear the situation, but they cant really do anything.
they called a yellow spoon. this spoon comes soon to help CJ. The spoon told an advice , like "cups cant talk" and "CJ had already some hot coffee drunken". THAT WAS THE POINT!
the cup said "thats true!", then she apologizes CJ, after then she shrinks.
and this maybe was or wasnt a dream? now, i cant really tell you what of this is true or not? !what do the readers think?

[Ishmael]

Don't try to be funny about this, because you can't. Almost all (if not all) of the "veterans" know the story, and it's in the wiki too.

CJ can't draw very well, as we can see from sprite 0 in the default template. I have no idea where it came from, but it got the referencee status when newbies started drowing into the stuff in it. And it's big probably because there is a big picture of a blue cup in the AGS splash screen.

But why do newbies drown in it? Not many know, and even fewer can guess.

[Mr Flibble]

Did CJ draw the Roger cycle, or was it *shifty glances* ripped from a SQ game I haven't played?

[Tuomas]

I always logically thought that the blue cup was big because it says so in the url of this site. Think of it, it does make sense. Why would it be small of green if it says differently in the address, that would just confuse people more.

[Paper Carnival]

But that spoils the fun! Wouldn't it be more mysterious if we didn't know the size of the cup? Everyone then would have the possibility to give their own size to the cup, the way it works for them. Throwing away the adjective "big" ruins all the fun, rapes our imagination and blatantly forces us to accept an idea of a big cup that CJ shoves down our throats in the disguise of a cute little adventure engine. No thanks!

[Anghellic]

well now you can fantasize about what disgusting porn the name bigbluecup will behold, and then get dissapointed instead.

[monkey0506]

The fact of the matter is, once a very long time ago, CJ actually had a job.  He worked in the managerial offices of a coffee cup production factory, shredding legal documents, and getting paid 10 pence per box (shredding between 50 and 60 boxes of paper per hour).

The factory produced only one type of coffe mug, large clear ones.  Though the cups were clear, they collected light quite nicely.  One day Chris was just sitting in his cubicle, gathering up the next box to take downstairs to the basement, which is inconveniently where the shredder was located, when by a sheer chance of miraculous luck, a Hooloovoo was refracted into a coffee mug he had sitting on his desk, his complimentary gift for having worked with the company for the past 10 years.

Captured inside the cup, the Hooloovoo (named JohN) looked around and gathered its bearings.  It saw lying around Chris's cubicle copies of old Sierra and LucasArts adventure games (which at the time weren't really old games ).  JohN told Chris of his homeland.  "Once," he said, "We too enjoyed playing adventure games.  Games that challenged the player to think for himself to advance the story instead of just mashing buttons."

Chris was completely dumbfounded to hear a coffee mug which had suddenly become super-intelligently blue talking to him.  It was a few seconds before he realized that the cup (or rather the Hooloovoo refracted into the cup) had told him that he used to enjoy playing adventure games.  "You played adventure games?" He asked, "Why did you stop?"

"New technology arose, and the production of the games ended.  The newer technology was not compatible with the older games, and the new generation of "gamers" was a mindless set of button-mashers.  'The genre is dead!'  That's what they, and the game developers, said."

"That's terrible!" said Chris.

"But completely true," continued JohN, "and it will happen to your planet too."

"NOOOOO--" Chris started, but JohN interrupted:  "Unless you do something about it."

"What can I do?" inquired Chris desperately.

"I will teach you," JohN told Chris.  They developed a rather special bond.  JohN taught Chris about computer programming, and helped him to write Adventure Creator.  For three and a half years JohN mentored Chris.  Then Chris got fired.

Apparently not doing your job for three years means you are going to lose it.  JohN was set free when the cup was smashed by Chris's father (who was a might bit upset at the time).

But JohN had given Chris the skills he would need to save our world from a fate worse than his own world's.  Chris commemorated his friend of three and a half years by filling the first sprite with a portrait of the cup drawn by Chris.  In later years JohN would learn of the great success Adventure Creator (and eventually Adventure Game Studio) had become.

Though he has never since contacted Chris, he says "I still remember him.  Crazy bloke.  Bloody brilliant.  Just, absolutely insane."

[TheYak]

The fairy-tales are lovely, but the actual origins are far more bland.  At the tender age of 16, during which time adventure games were still being made, he realized that, lacking much in the way of artistic talent, he'd at least like to create an engine to enable others to create them. 

After studying and programming for some time, he eventually had to seek gainful employment (which, incidentally, was as an office-supply clerk).  No sooner had he gotten the Employee of the Month award (which just happened to be a bland blue mug with EOM scrawled upon it with a Sharpee) than he was caught pretending that things around the office belonged in his "inventory". 

Kicked to the curb and without financial support to enable him to realize his dreams, he sat dejected on a street corner holding his blue cup.  After a long while, a couple of passers-by dropped a couple quid in his cup, and he understood how he could finance his operations.  To this day, he survives by working popular street corners, and it's all due to chance charity invited by his big blue cup. 

Alternately, the site could be named after Hefty Smurf's athletic attire.

[Alynn]

The origins of the BBC (Big Blue Cup in this case) is truely unimportant.  After all the benevolence of the Cup abounds, and therefore it matters not. It just IS and that should be enough for anyone.

However, we must study the origins of the Small Red Cup, the arch enemy of the Big Blue Cup. By knowing the Enemy you may yet find ways to defeat It.

And the Red Cup offered unto the Chris Jones, a drink. And, lo! CJ hath refused stating, "The Blue Cup overflowith, I shall drink from It, and be satisfied."

The Book Of Blue
Roger 12:8

[Paper Carnival]

You people don't know anything

The reason of the magnificent power that dwells within this Great Blue Cup (I use "great" not as an adjective expressing a physical size; refer to my previous post) is because this cup is, in fact, the Holy Grail.

As said in the Revelation of Jones, chapter 5:
And behold, there was a heavenly cup [blue, as the colour of the sky], and the Lamb drinketh from the cup; Then the Lamb filled the cup with the wine of His wrath and poured it over Babylon, the Great City. And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters.

So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having an orange cup [which is none other than the Anti-Blue Cup, as orange is the inverted colour of blue] in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication.

It strikes me how the biblical knowledge of people nowadays has declined. It is yet another sign of the end times!

[rharpe]

I finally got myself a blue cup! I'll post some pics later on. 

...It's later now:

I likes it... do you?  8)

[ManicMatt]

I finally got myself a blue cup! I'll post some pics later on.Ã, 

Curse you! I have a blue T-shirt, a blue mattress, blue curtains, a blue movie and a blue teddybear, but no blue cup!

[Haddas]

I finally got myself a blue cup! I'll post some pics later on. 

Ah yes. But I ask you... Have you... THIS?!?:

[Huw Dawson]

I would think that the origins of the blue cup was obvious. CJ is, in fact,  a giant sentient shape-shifting computer coding mutant... he named the site after himself.

[Scummbuddy]

When Worlds Collide!!



Chris takes the Big Blue Cup to meet the Deep Blue SuperComputer. Thus, adventure games were born.

[rharpe]

Hey Chris Jones, where is the blue cup that inspired you? Post it in this thread. What do you think of my new cup I just acquired?  8)

[Elliott Hird]

Excellent.

[Andail]

Jesus, not another one. Is this condition contagious?

Planktonman, Rolf, whoever; please go away. You're not funny, only annoying.