Raising the bar on nerdy wedding proposals, YouTuber doctorpappa (possibly not a real doctor) decided to ask his girlfriend to marry him by donning a paper-mache Futurama Bender mask, and popping the question in binary.
Attention lonely Internet lurkers, there are girls out there who totally “get” our internet humour and still love us! Like Audrey, the lovely girl in this video who was proposed to by her boyfriend Tim with internet memes. Watch the video, it’s so gosh darn cute.
Technology can change your marriage — whether you’re proposing via Claptrap or getting married via computer — but it takes special dedication (and clearly a very special significant other) to take marriage proposal to the PCB stage.
You’ve got the ring. You’ve got the nerve. You’ve got, most importantly, the girl you want to marry. Alright, let’s do this! Oh wait, you’re popping the question in the background of a Kansas City news broadcast. Here comes trouble!
The proposal, delivered by Borderlands’ comedy-reliefbot Claptrap in a video developed over a week by Gearbox Software, did not conjure images of bended knees, rose petals and those silhouetted DeBeers ads. It was a little inappropriate. That’s OK. [Kotaku]