I finally played Portal

[Maltese]

I haven't played the rest of Orange Box yet, but I'm going to go ahead and say that would probably be awesome.

Portal had a great ending, and the last time you see things from the eyes of the chick you're playing as, she's in like a parking lot or something, and good odds are she's still got the Portal gun and having her play a part in episode 3 or vice versa or whatever would be pretty sweet. I understand Apeture Science is mentioned in Episode 2, which is cool I guess.

It'd also be cool to know about her.
That thing the computer said about "You're not a good person... good people don't end up in here," made me wonder if there was more to her than just a test subject. Kind of like the characters in Cube.

actually, there was a bring your daughter to work day several years ago, and then the computer went crazy and killed many people, using poisonous gas. your one of the surviving daughters who has been in stasis. of course, this is all inferred and never really outright said, so there be some things I'm missing or I could be wrong.

[Slurpee]

that kind of makes sense of a lot of the random ass things she says I guess

but she says, "Good news. I figured out what that thing you just incinerated did. It was a morality core they installed after I flooded the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin to make me stop flooding the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin. So get comfortable, while I warm up the neurotoxin emitters."

so working under that theory, who installed the morality core?

[MasterClock]

yeah because the world revolves around 4chan

Pretty much!

[Maltese]

that kind of makes sense of a lot of the random ass things she says I guess

but she says, "Good news. I figured out what that thing you just incinerated did. It was a morality core they installed after I flooded the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin to make me stop flooding the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin. So get comfortable, while I warm up the neurotoxin emitters."

so working under that theory, who installed the morality core?

I'm guessing it was the guy who left all those notes around the lab.

the cake is a lie ones, and the directions.

[Slurpee]

and that room filled with empty cans of beans

[Maltese]

and that room filled with empty cans of beans

yeah, that works.

seeing as, after he installed the core, it would have taken him a while to figure out a path to escape, so as he was doing it, he would have left markers to help others escape.

[Slurpee]

that actually makes sense

[Maltese]

I'd say so, but the question is, why didn't he just destroy GLaDOS?

[SockpuppetClock]

I'd say so, but the question is, why didn't he just destroy GLaDOS?

To create plotholes










honestly, my guess is that maybe the guy didn't have the "power" to do so, or glados had too many things set up so he couldn't get there.

[PolyhedronClock]

I'm guessing it was the guy who left all those notes around the lab.

the cake is a lie ones, and the directions.

Doubt it was that guy, I think he was just another test subect. Anyone else notice how Aperture was abandoned? I'm guessing that GLaDOS tried to take over, and tried to flood the enrichement center with the toxin, and after they "contained" her, they put in the morality core. I figure the whole Combine invasion would explain the lack of people, but GLADoS seems to be the only one able to lure Cher into it, or whatever, in the first place.

[Mashed Potato Johnson]

Gman is GLaDOS

[RobertSmithClock]

so was anybody able to successfully enter the 64 digit code at the end of the application on aperturescience.com? i know i entered it in rite last time but it still said it didnt match

[crock pot pot roadt]

I just went through the whole commentary
 
And now I know why the hell those rooms were there

[crock pot pot roadt]

so was anybody able to successfully enter the 64 digit code at the end of the application on aperturescience.com? i know i entered it in rite last time but it still said it didnt match

I have and it always says that even if its right.

[RobertSmithClock]

I have and it always says that even if its right.

gay

[SilverClock]

Read fucking Wikipedia: |

Characters

The game features only two characters: the player-controlled silent protagonist, named Chell (as revealed by the credits), and GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System, voiced by Ellen McLain), a computer artificial intelligence that monitors and directs the player. The only background information presented about Chell is given by GLaDOS; the credibility of these facts (such as Chell being adopted and having no friends) is dubious as GLaDOS is, by her own admission, a liar.

Setting

Portal takes place in the "Enrichment Center" for "Aperture Science Laboratories", the research corporation responsible for the creation of the Portal Gun. Information about the company is revealed during the game and also the real-world website.

According to the Aperture Science website, the company was founded in 1953 by Cave Johnson for the sole purpose of making shower curtains for the U.S. military. However, after becoming mentally unstable from mercury poisoning in 1978, Johnson created a "three tier" research and development plan to make his organization successful. The first two tiers, the "Heimlich Counter-Maneuver" and the "Take-A-Wish Foundation" (parodies of the Heimlich Maneuver and the "Make-a-Wish Foundation" respectively), were commercial failures and led to an investigation of the company by the U.S. Senate. However, when the investigative committee heard of the success of the third tier, a "man-sized ad-hoc quantum tunnel through physical space with possible applications as a shower curtain", they recessed permanently and gave Aperture Science an open-ended contract to continue their research. The development of GLaDOS, the "Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System", began in 1986 in response to Black Mesa's work on similar projects. Roughly thirteen years later, work on GLaDOS is completed and the untested AI is activated during the company's first annual bring-your-daughter-to-work day. The record ends at that point on a positive note.

The portions of the Aperture Science Enrichment Center that Chell explores suggest that it is part of a massive research installation. At the time of events depicted in Portal, the Aperture Science Enrichment Center facility seems to be long deserted, although most of its equipment remains operational without human control. Though Aperture Science exists in the Half-Life universe it is unclear when these events take place in that time-line. At one point, GLaDOS states that "the world has changed since [the player] last left the building", claiming to be the only thing standing between "us" and "them", yet does not elaborate on the details.

The apparent abandonment of the facility may not have been entirely intentional on the part of the Aperture Science staff. In the final area of the game, a red phone with a severed wire sits on a desk near the chamber housing GLaDOS' hardware, which the in-game commentary reveals was meant to be used by Aperture employees as a way to make an emergency call in case GLaDOS began taking over the facility. The commentator then notes that, clearly, this fail-safe did not work as planned. In the game, GLaDOS claims to have flooded the facility with a deadly neurotoxin before the Aperture employees installed her morality core.

Aperture Science, Inc. is also mentioned during Half-Life 2: Episode Two, in which an icebreaker ship belonging to the corporation, the Borealis, is said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances, along with part of its drydock. During its development, Half-Life 2 featured a chapter set on the Borealis, but this was abandoned and removed before release.

Story
Portal's plot is revealed to the player via audio messages from GLaDOS and side rooms found in the later levels. The game begins with Chell waking up from a stasis bed and hearing instructions and warnings from GLaDOS about the upcoming test experience. This part of the game involves distinct "test chambers" that, in sequence, introduce players to the game's mechanics. GLaDOS's announcements serve not only to instruct Chell and help her progress through the game, but also to create atmosphere and develop the AI as a character. Throughout this portion of the game, Chell is promised cake and grief counseling as her reward for completing all the test chambers.

Chell proceeds through the empty Enrichment Center, only interacting with GLaDOS. Over the course of the game, GLaDOS' motives are hinted to be more sinister than her helpful demeanor suggests. Although she is designed to appear helpful and encouraging, much of GLaDOS's speech suggests insincerity and callous disregard for the test subjects, such as leading Chell through "a live fire course designed for military androids" because the usual test chamber is being repaired. In another chamber, GLaDOS boasts about the fidelity and importance of the "Weighted Companion Cube", a waist-high crate with pink hearts on each face, for helping Chell to complete the chamber, but then declares that it "unfortunately must be euthanized" in an "emergency intelligence incinerator" before Chell can continue. Some chambers include automated turrets that will fire upon Chell; Chell is able to disable them, causing them to sympathize with her before they shutdown.

After Chell completes the final test chamber, GLaDOS congratulates her as the platform she is riding begins to slide into a large furnace to incinerate her. As GLaDOS assures her that "all Aperture technologies remain safely operational up to 4000 degrees Kelvin", Chell barely escapes and GLaDOS tries to assure her that the furnace was all part of the test, even though it is obvious that GLaDOS actually was attempting to kill Chell. Throughout this section, GLaDOS still sends messages to Chell and it becomes rather clear that GLaDOS has become corrupt and may have even killed all surviving people in the center, or there never were any at the start of the game. Chell makes her way through the maintenance areas and empty office spaces behind the chambers. Now, instead of guidance from GLaDOS, graffiti messages point Chell in the right direction. These "backstage" areas, which are in extreme disrepair, stand in stark contrast to the pristine test chambers. The graffiti includes statements such as "the cake is a lie" and pastiches of Emily Dickinson's poem "The Chariot" and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Reaper and the Flowers", mourning the death of the companion cube.

GLaDOS attempts to dissuade Chell with threats of physical harm and misleading statements claiming that she is going the wrong way as Chell makes her way deeper into the maintenance areas. Eventually, Chell reaches a large chamber where GLaDOS's hardware hangs overhead. GLaDOS continues to attempt to plead with Chell, but during the exchange one of GlaDoS' core chips falls off. Chell drops it in an incinerator, and GLaDOS reveals that Chell has just destroyed the "morality core", which the Aperture Science employees allegedly installed after GLaDOS "flooded the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin", and goes on to state that now there is nothing to prevent her from doing so once again. A six-minute countdown starts up as Chell dislodges and incinerates more pieces of GLaDOS. After she has destroyed the final piece, a portal malfunction tears the room apart and drags everything to the surface. Chell lands outside the gates of the facility amid the rubble of GLaDOS.

The final scene, after a long and speedy zoom through the bowels of the facility, shows a mix of shelves surrounding a chocolate cake and the Weighted Companion Cube. The shelves contain various metallic "eye" components similar to GLaDOS' core chips, some of which begin to light up before a robotic arm descends and extinguishes the candle. The credits roll, and GLaDOS delivers a concluding report about Chell: the song "Still Alive", in which GLaDOS sings "I'm doing science and I'm still alive."

[iPodClock]

Just so you know slurpee I think you should finish half life 2 episode 2 again, and see where they are heading in the episode 3.

Coincidence? I think not.

ps. Chell is blatantly alyx's mum.

[SilverClock]

Just so you know slurpee I think you should finish half life 2 episode 2 again, and see where they are heading in the episode 3.

Coincidence? I think not.

ps. Chell is blatantly alyx's mum.

I don't think so.

[Sigma]

I found the cake

[PoisonshroomClock]

Gman is GLaDOS