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• Sikon: The IRC bot Nuku-Nuku (yes, named after that one) is often jokingly referred by users as having a real, rather quirky personality. It's made especially easy by the "markov" feature, which generates random text of varying degrees of sanity.
• This troper treats a lot of her stuffed animals like this. She's even had conversations with them. Said troper is well aware of just how creepy this is. :3
  • This troper enjoys his conversations with inanimate objects. Because they don't talk back, you can talk to them all day long. Yes, this troper has problems.
  • This troper has played Collectible Card Games with his... What!?
    • You mean you're not supposed to play board games with your stuffies? Oops. I may be in trouble then...
  • The troper who posted the opening statement now has a Companion Cube plushie. She's gotten somewhat...attached to it.
• This troper speaks to his phone in foreign languages to keep in practice.
• This troper apologizes to her iPod and cell phone when she drops them. She also asked her phone if it was okay when she dropped it on the floor. This occurs on a regular basis, as she doesn't take good care of her things.
• Even more frightening, at least to This Troper, is his tendency to have conversations with himself. Even debates and arguments (which he loses with depressing frequency). His journal makes fascinating reading, as it is written from the point of view of his dominant personality fragment at the time of writing...which can change inside the same entry. He's even used the journal as a vehicle to have a conversation with himself.
  • Holy crap, I'm not alone...
    • The correct answer would have been 'We're not alone'. :P Of course, I do this too. I just don't have actual split personalities.
    • Actually, I don't know anyone that hasn't done this at least once.
• Very rarely this troper talks to his dick when it gets unwanted erections, but when i give in If You Know What I Mean I tell it that it has a mind of its own.
  • TMI! TMI! TMI!
  • Oh, that is DISGUSTING.
• This troper spends most of her time talking to herself. Or to Mr. Squeak, the rubber ducky.
• This troper refuses to go anywhere without his favorite mechanical pencil and eraser in his pocket.
• This troper talks to her stuff, mostly because she has no friends and it's funny.
  • This troper talks to his Tachikoma plushie, mainly because it's funny.
• This Troper talks to all of her toys, books and inanimate objects. And imaginary friends. I still have them at the age of 13 *sweatdrop* not that I introduce them to people.....I'm crazy, not stupid.
  • Oh, don't worry. This troper 16 and still has imaginary friends :)
• This troper will often apologize to his objects for dropping them, and gets into arguments with his computer when it lags.
• This troper picks up random things and takes them home so they don't feel alone.
• This troper keeps most things he finds and keeps them in a drawer. He visits with each daily so they don't feel lonely and left out, and even gives the objects backgrounds. He is afraid to through things away because he feels like he will never see them again and the object will hate him. He apologizes to objects when he drops them and has been known to cry when accidently breaking something.
• This troper names all of his computers, which allows him to address them with the Full Name Ultimatum when they misbehave. When I got a particular computer (and named "her" KOS-MOS), I somehow set the clock to read the time off on the hour. Fine by itself, until one night a few weeks later when the following exchange happened: "It's eleven o'clock." "Thank you, KOS-MOS." It took me all of a second to realize that I had responded to the computer, which it should be stressed had no microphone attached to it, without hesitation or the slightest sense of irony. Worse still, I realized then that I'd been doing that for a week straight without even noticing. Needless to say my computers no longer talk back to me.
• This troper does this a lot, including talking to a teddy bear and referring to it as his brother; naming two birch trees in his front yard and apologizing to them for not climbing them more often; naming a laptop; and talking to whatever objects happen to be around. He also talks to himself and is often followed around by an invisible velociraptor.
• This troper didn't have that many (human) friends as a child, for some reason, so she just talked to her stuffed animals all day. Old habits die hard?
• This troper sometimes appologizes to her books when she drops them accidentally. Also, when I'm looking for a book, I have an odd habit of calling out to the characters in the book in the hopes that they will convince the book itself to come out of hiding. On a couple of occasions, I have had conversations with my mother through stuffed animals I had been holding at the time, including appropriate arm and head movements. *headpalm* I can't believe I still do that... Many of my other companion cubes are stuffed animals I have collected over the years.
• This troper treats his toys like family members. He also refers to his sculptures and various creations he does as his "children". I also have several imaginary friends including one who I refer to as my "cartoon alter ego".