Oh, This is Why People Like Portal 2 

46:06 A detail that a lot of people miss is that when GLaDOS hits Wheatley with the paradox and he's too stupid to get it, the turret cubes do actually all short out and die, which shows they are more intelligent than Wheatley is.

From the creator of “oh, this is why people like portal”, comes “oh, this is why people like portal 2”

33:05 accidentally disintegrating the turret one line away from revealing "her name is Caroline" had me close to tears

37:02 Don't know if anyone already said this, but fun fact: The thing Wheatley does there is activate a translator tool. But he does it wrong so his voice says in Spanish: _"You're using this translation software incorrectly, please check the manual"_

In case you're not aware, portal and portal 2 are canon to the half life universe. so these things about society collapsing, black mesa... yeah. The world did in fact get invaded, society did in fact collapse.

Calling J.K Simmons (voice of Cave Johnson) "Just fine" should be some sort of a war crime

Fun fact: in a Portal 2 trailer involving turrets, we briefly see the blueprints of the turrets. If you look closely, the turrets have both an Empathy Chip, and an Empathy Suppressor Chip. In other words, they feel bad for killing you, but are forced to. Edit: A funny detail in Chapter 8 is that when GLaDOS says the paradox, the turret boxes in the room appear to short circuit, implying that even the turrets are smarter than Wheatley.

You appear to have not realised a few things in the intro of the game 1. The reason there are so many plants around is because that much time has passed, developers estimate tens of thousands of years have passed since the last game, explaining why the facility is in such disrepair (the entire place has been running on autopilot since you killed GLaDOS) 2. The robot announcer at the beginning that replaces GLaDOS is not another robot, he introduces himself as a set of pre-recorded messages, and refers to himself as "these pre-recorded messages" multiple times 3. The reason they keep talking about the fall of society is because the facility is in such a decayed state of disrepair, it has been programmed to assume the apocalypse has happened. Hence why they keep talking about different possible apocalyptic scenarios you may be facing, such as Space Debris, or in case the "Law of Physics no longer apply" 4. The "Large Hole" she drops you down is the Incinerator you dropped the Morality Cores down in the first game 5. Yes, an actuarial table is a table in real life that shows a person's age and their probable lifespan based on various factors, she is just saying she's roughly guessig how long you'll live and doesnt know exactly when you'll croak 6. GLaDOS does not fizzle the Weighted Companion Cubes due to them wronging her in some way, she does it to torment the player as the point of the cubes is to forge an artificial bond between the player and the cube, this ploy clearly works at 20:54 7. This point is easy to miss and a bit more on the theory side, but if you play the game a couple times and/or pay close attention to the dialogue, you slowly learn that *everything* in Aperture Science is sentient. Aperture Science does science for the sake of science, and in their pursuit, seemingly imbued every single aparatus in the entire game with sentience- at least thats how the theory goes, but it seems likely as everything from panels to doors seem to display or be referred to as possessing some form of sentience or personality. It is likely that even the Portal Gun you have throughout the game is sentient. 8. GLaDOS does say she saw humans, and she might've, or she might've just lied, like she does so a lot. in short, we know practically nothing of what the outside world has become, outside of the ending scene of the game when we see the surface (and technically when we see earth from the moon) 9. She talks about her surprise for you having Tragic Consequences™ before saying part of her is going to miss the last bag of confetti, but in the end it was just taking up space, the confetti is a metaphor for you, at least thats the general interpretation. She actually doesn't call either confetti real or fake, just the confetti she is going to use is the last bag of "the good stuff" 10. Those "Frankenturret"s would likely thank you for ending their suffering, as they are not only poorly mashed together, but are effectively bricked due to the use of GLaDOS' Paradox also, not actually something that belongs in this list, but i find it interesting how nearly every single time ive seen someone play this game, they try at least once to break the glass with a cube

57:25 It's a burnt companion cube. The only companion cube that you burnt was the one from the first game. It survived. And now you are reunited.

When Cave Johnson is explaining the white portal gel he says that its made from ground up moon rocks, implying that the moon is a portalable surface, which is why you are able to put a portal on the moon in the end

18:00 The whole time I thought, "He's going to shoot the portals at the last second", but as you got closer and closer I thought, there's no way, there's no time left to shoot the portals. You proved me wrong and I am seriously impressed with that aim!

Apparently the reason glados hums jolly good fellow was because originally, she was going to be humming “happy birthday”. But apparently at the time the song was copyrighted and they couldn’t use it. It wasn’t public domain yet

14:56 Actuarial tables are what insurance agents use to make estimates. GLaDOS is explaining why she’s not able to more accurately estimate your lifespan, so 60ish years is a ballpark estimate. The newspaper columns about a person’s death are obituaries.

I think that something humor-wise that you kind of missed from the "first robot" is that they are "pre-recorded messages to be used in the case of societal collapse." So it's not a robot, and it's not describing anything that's actually happened, it's just giving you advice "if an animal king is ruling," "if the laws of physics no longer apply," and everything else that the wackos at Aperture imagined might cause the downfall of society. (In reality, it's probably the Combine from Half-Life, but that's not critical to the joke.) The second half of the joke is that Aperture considered "testing" to be so important that they had this entire contingency plan in place for it to keep going even if civilization crumbled. Their insane focus on "testing" as a vital human right/service is sort of the joke running through all of Portal 2.

To add a little fun fact; there is a reason why they talk about how low a voltage the cores can run on. A potato can generate around .5 to .9 volts which would be just enough for GLaDOS to stay alive but not process much. That why at 42:00 the extra half volt lets her start scheming.

Calling GLaD0S the 'robot from the last game', but then calling Wheatly by name is wild lol

Alas, you didn't show the bit with Wheatley being so dense the space core was literally orbiting him...

I'm a little disappointed so many people miss the docking station joke early on in the chaos. The writing on the wall actually says 'Docking staion 500m below', but Wheatly reads the first part and doesn't process the second, and also doesn't think to, y'know, attempt to activate the docking station. He just slams right into where he thinks it is and then goes 'oh that's a solid wall. I'm gonna just smash through it anyways'. I dunno how Aperture made him but they did indeed make him make the worst decisions imaginable. Fun fact regarding the Announcer who covers the testing track at the start of the game - initially, these were going to be pre-recorded lines from GLaDOS, but this confused people as they assumed it meant she was still active rather than recordings. I feel like they could've had her just mention it, but it'd still be confusing until she did, I suppose. I love how impactful the lemon speech is. The 'oracle turret' - that one that you see stuck in the pipe and later can save from the conveyor belts - has a lot of lines with important implications, such as referencing how the morality core from the first game couldn't stop GLaDOS from killing everyone ('it won't be enough'), foreshadowing the entire Caroline reveal ('the answer is beneath us' 'her name is Caroline'), and the whole prometheus bit which is a direct parallel of GLaDOS's story, cast into the depths and pecked by birds. But two of its lines are just 'get mad' and 'don't make lemonade' because of how great that rant of Cave's is. It's, to this day, one of the best remembered parts of the game, up there with its ending music and the whole Wheatley thing with the central body. 45:58 The Caroline thing is further shown here because GLaDOS _does_ understand the paradox, but it doesn't stop her because she's not just a computer replicating the result of intelligence, but has actual biological components, hence her name - Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System. It does fry all the frankenturrets around, implying Wheatley is straight up not intelligent enough to comprehend the paradox despite being a computer. If you want a unique game to make a video on, try Carrion. Or Dredge. Those are good games.

It's so fun how you try to make sense of every sentence GLaDOS says to you. I'm pretty sure she just flat out lies to you with the goal to make you feel as bad as possible. She's not going up to the surface to watch deer and humans, for example. She's stuck down there just like you are. She has no idea what's going on on the surface.

Few things can compare to the "ah ha!" moment of seeing the moon and thinking "wait... could I....?" and then it works.

Fun fact: in russian dub weatley doesnt say "i am joking of course , good luck" after saying that he wont turn off neurotoxin , but says russian phraise that xan mean similar things , but also literary means "i wish you good health" which , in tandem with the neurotoxin thing is even more hilarious.

taking every word GLaDOS says at face value is so interesting. as far as i'm concerned, her telling you the companion cubes are sentient was just to compound the pain, nothing more

"We both said a lot of things that you are going to regret" is my favorite line in this entire game.

21:24 every machine and I mean EVERY SINGLE machine in the aperture lab has sentience. From the turrets you kill to doors you pass. They are all sentient beings.

The different turret you find on the conveyor belt is giving hits to what happens later in the game. Quoting Cave Johnson with "Get mad!" and "Don't make lemonade", saying that the turret and neurotoxin shutdown won't be enough (or she's referring to the fact that the 3 corrupted cores won't be enough to defeat Wheatley) and she says how GLaDOS will be cast down on the Earth and pecked by a bird, much like Prometheus.

Your "huh" at the ending cutscene made me sad because you didnt figure out what just happened. Glados gave you your Companion Cube back you burned in Portal 1 before finally shutting the door on you.

his muffled scream while his cube gets evaporated at 20:49 is so fucking funny

The first portal starts with voice lines that sound like they're prerecorded but turn out to be an intelligent robot. The second has actual prerecorded voice lines.

That ending gets me everytime. Your reaction is exactly how I was experience it. Such a genius move. All the forshadowing (from the first room with the big moon in the painting, to the other moon drawings and the fact you learn the white gel is actually made from moon dust), the conditioning to shoot white surfaces, the stress in the situation, you just do it before you can fully comprehend what consequences this entails. It takes a second or two to fully process what you just did. I fucking love it. Best video game moment ever! Genius!

18:18 Dude's reflexes were at 200% efficiency right there. Jesus christ.

44:36 If you turn left there instead of going forward, you get to see Caroline and Cave Johnson in a painting, and their relationship together.

Fun fact: Chell (the main character) can, in fact, speak but she chooses not to because she is incredibly angry and frustrated with the situation she finds herself in, so she chooses not to give anyone (the robots and in a meta perspective, the player) the satisfaction of a response. In fact, in the original ending once the Stalemate button was destroyed, the automated system would need a human voice response to swap GLaDOS back, to which we would've been prompted to have Chell say "Yes!" and Wheatly would've lost control of the facility.

There is an online comic called "Lab Rat" that bridges the gap between Portal 1 and 2, and explains who that "cube person" in the paintings is and a lot more lore. Also, the Portal series takes place in the same universe as the Half-Life series, so a lot of what's going on in the outside world is explained over there.

27:00 That's a quote from MacBeth. "I go and it is done. The Bell invites me. Hear it not Duncan, for it is the knell that summons thee to Heaven or to Hell."

Actuarial tables are tables of data used by groups such as insurance companies to predict when you are statistically likely to die. So when GLaDOS is saying "60 years or whatever, I don't have the actuarial tables," yes, "until the day you die" is _exactly_ what she means.

The GLaDOS voice of Portal is so iconic that even Guillermo del Toro used the voice in his 2013 movie Pacific Rim as the disembodied voice of the A.I.

5:05 To explain, the events of the Half Life games took place. You should play those! They're very good games, if a little old.

I love all the subtle hints and forshadowing in this game. For example when GLaDOS says "Luckily I'm a bigger person than that" instead of 'robot' she says 'person' at 14:45

something people miss at 55:19 chells able to place a portal on the moon because as stated by cave johnson the moon rocks have awesome portal conductivity

25:02 correct, the promotional videos on youtube have that same video of their interior, but it also describes how they work with labels, which includes an empathy generator, and an empathy supressor basically, they have empathy, but there's also a supressor that forces them to murder you, just in case they feel bad.

18:07 actual legend for pulling that one

The thing about Wheatley when he becomes in charge is that before, he is quite LITERALLY meant to have incorrect answers and dumb ideas. When he becomes corrupted, he basically does the exact opposite, like properly defending himself against bombs. What really sells it is that you won based on luck and how you were technically not alone. GLaDOS sends you the cores, and the roof just so happened to break and reveal the moon. Wheatley could have accomplished his goal easily if Chell (the player character) was alone.

I'm so happy that Valve added a sound effect for achievements on Steam, because it makes "The Part Where He Kills You" all the more special for first-time players. Up until now, I always preferred the delivery of the console versions specifically because of the achievement noise chiming in right as Wheatley says his line, as if he took control of your device just to rub in the fact that he is indeed about to kill you. It's such a hilarious part of this game that you can only fully experience once.

"We're not in space are we?" No. But you will be...

"Ah yes, how unintended of you to bring the companion cube out. And by unintended, of course, I mean COMPLETELY INTENDED!!"

I really wish you'd have included your reaction to the ending song, that was my favourite part of your first video

Cave johnson lemons is one of my favourite quotes of all time. I regularly go back and listen to it

In the Dev commentary to the first game, they made a point about how a clean, sterile environment made it clear to the player what space they had to work in and what they had to work with.

28:07 The funny thing is, that's basically the intended solution. You use the cube to block the laser, and it then drops onto the button.

The sheer joy at failing the puzzles successfully has made me subscribe. Your laugh is so infectious lmao

I love these summary/reaction/interpretation videos to movies and games that hold a special place in my heart. And it was a true gem to see a fully blind reaction to both Portal games, so thank you for that! I feel that Portal 2 is one of those games that benefits from a second playthrough (and possibly a third with developer commentary enabled if you like a bit of a "Making of" vibe), if just to take in the scenery some more and explore the entire Caroline plot and foreshadowing more. Especially the lemon speech hits hard when Cave Johnson signs off and GLaDOS whispers "Goodbye, sir," which is a massive "Oh no..." moment in terms of realization/confirmation.

If you ever get the itch to replay these games, I highly recommend doing so with the creator commentary enabled at least once! Really shines a light on the development and design process, plus other behind the scenes stuff, if you're interested in that kind of thing.

Lore-wise, Portal is actually set in the same universe as Half-Life. Aperture was one of two companies working on portal technology, the other being Black Mesa. If I remember right Aperture was the first to develop a prototype, which is exactly what we see in both Portal and Portal 2. Black Mesa also developed a prototype around the same time, buuuuuuut that inadvertantly caused a planet-wide alien invasion, twice, that resulted in humanity being subjugated. lol That's a VERY brief overview, and I apologize if some things are wrong, I'm not as versed in the lore of Portal compared to the lore of Half-Life. Not to mention both games are very much so self-contained, and Portal was always the less serious of the two stories, so while connecting it to Half-Life explains are lot I'm not sure how canonically that is from the perspective of the Portal games specifically.

28:25 You were to supposed to block the laser with the cube, then let it fall on to the button, opening the door.

I’m so glad i’ve found a youtuber who reflects how my experience playing games is. Really feels like i’m right there playing for the first time it all over again. Love the videos man

9:25 I mean he isn't really insulting you, he's just telling you that IF you are those things that he lists then you should piss off. Like he's not making the observation that you are, he's just telling you what to do in the case that you are.

People in chat were so upset when you skipped the last bring-your-daughter-to-work-day potato

Actuarial Science is basically the science of large scale statistical risk analysis, commonly used for insurance purposes to estimate how much a certain type of coverage will cost so the company can set the price of a policy. In this case the relevant part of an "Actuarial Table" would likely be its estimations on human lifespans, which Glados could use to estimate how long Chel will live, and thus how long she can continue testing. Basically, Glados is taking a completely cold and quite literally calculating approach to your inevitable mortality.

"The solution is always easier than I make it out to be" that's by design, a lot of the best puzzle games will set up the room in such a way to cause you to have to do a double take after you attempt your first solution and realize what you missed, because you were led to an assumption.

29:15 You passed on the part where she said "She made it all up"

It is very refreshing to see someone honestly experience Portal 2 and all of its jokes for the first time

27:20 ah, a Macbeth quote. Specifically the line right as he decided to kill King Duncan. “The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell / That summons thee to heaven, or to hell.”

Portal 2 is my favourite game, and probably always will be. It's a fun puzzle game - with lots of humour, creativity, and just enough mlg action to not be boring. Awesome story, and epic moments that leave you in awe. I love it so much. The final fight is one of the coolest moments in a boss fight, as you showed with your cam

Now play the coop, it complements the main campaign so well

Time for "oh, this is why people like portal 2 Co-Op"

u cant notice it on your first play through but the pristine turret u find in the beginning that talks about "get Mad" is a foreshadowing to the lemons speech and "Permethrins was punished by the gods by being cast to the bowls of the earth and pecked at by birds" as foreshadowing how GLaDOS is being pecked at by birds when u find her after you fall to the older parts of the laboratories

I'm sad we didnt see the achievement pop up for chapter 9; it's hands down my favorite joke of the game and it only hits the first time "This is the part where he kills you" "This is the part where I kill you" Chapter 9: The part where he kills you Achievement unlocked: This is the part....

At 26:55 you find one of Rattman's hideouts. He's the dude that drew all those people dying around a companion cube (Its just Aperture Science employees dying to Glad0s neurotoxin), he's Schizophrenic, he has a companion cube that talks back to him (Not really its just in his head). There if you get near the wall you can hear rattman ramblings, like he's just beyond the wall. Its really cryptic and created a huge lore speculation back in the day. Luckily there's a comic now showing what really happened to him. Look up on youtube Rattman ramblings decoded to see what you missed, also read the comic, its called portal lab rat, is awesome. (or theres a fan reading here on youtube like an audiobook thats really cool, uploaded by Derangedband) Welcome to the dark side of gaming now, the "After Portal2" side of life.

Not a hot take at all. Portal 1 is just… perfect. It doesn’t overstay its welcome. It’s a ~3 hour experience that was playtested and refined to within an inch of its life into an absolute masterpiece. Portal 2, like you said, does about as good as a sequel can that has to follow up Portal 1. It has to be approachable for both new players and does a good job of fleshing out the world a bit more for the fans, but it just isn’t as concise and to-the-point as Portal 1 was. Some of the larger rooms in the middle turned into ‘find the portal surface’ and just dragged a bit. That said, when listening to the dialog and how they created the white portal goop from actual ground up _moon rocks_ (which coincidentally is what almost bankrupted Aperture and gave Cave Johnson cancer) the final scene of the final boss is one of the most mindblowingly awesome ‘wait what?!’ moments in gaming I’ve ever experienced.

just wait till you play co-op. there is so much more. an entirely separate story. that's were you find the sharks

the genuine anguish in his voice when the companion cube fizzleizes

18:05 just casually proving that he would be the awp god

It’s already been said, but I’ll say it again cause I wanna. The Portal and Half Life games are in the same universe, so if you want to know what’s happening on the surface, you gotta play those (I recommend them, they are fun)

I love how the turret cubes shut down when GladOS says the paradox

4:30 Yeah, the 'other robot' is the backup. Just a placeholder V.I. with prerecorded lines. 39:20 Fun fact, in _Invincible,_ J.K.Simmons (voice guy)'s character marries a mantis-woman on the planet of the mantis-men.

14:45 An Actuarial table is a thing insurance companies use to determine how much to charge you for life insurance, based on things like your lifestyle and age. Glados is saying she's not sure how many years you have left to live on average. 54:59 And the lines earlier about crushed moon rock gel making a good portal conductor pays off.

There were a bunch of shorts to promote this game, the screens in the elevators show footage from these shorts. Offering more Cave Johnson dialog, they're pretty funny. I would recomend giving them a watch.

The song that plays after or while (idk) she talks about the deer is called “I Saw a Deer Today”

I just love how enthusiastic you've been and it really shows how much you enjoyed it.

I loved your unbridled enthusiasm and awe. So cool to see somebody playing it through for the first time and blind. The end with the moon, your reaction was just so amazing. I guess you just clicked randomly, it just beckons to do it, great game design and you completely missed Cave Johnson explaining that the white stuff was made from crushed up moon rocks. That is why it worked. The sound of the ting when it connects is so satisfying, they have done amazing job with the story, sound design and puzzles.

18:04 yeah that was clutch AF

Actuarial tables contain data about human lifespans given certain conditions (such as current age, employment type, habits, etc.) They are used by life insurers to set rates and limit payouts. The more likely someone is to die, the higher the insurance premium and lower the payout.

The room where you try to take a companion cube with you to the next room has a wall of white material that can be portal surface in the exit area, meaning you can place a portal there and then go get the cube and jump down into the hole where you can place a portal. But you did find your own solution which is always fine too.

Highly recommend finding a friend and playing through the co-op missions.

Portal Reloaded next, if you like having a headache :D

Fun fact, the song at the end (Ave Maria) is sung by Ellen McLain, the voice of GLaDOS.

4:30 its a different robot because you shut off GLaDOS at the end of portal by destroying the whole facility and then get dragged back in, so the robot speaking at the start is just automated messages, as about why the facility suddenly turned on, i have no idea

The reason emergency procedures that alluded to the collapse of civilization were on at the beginning, is due to GlaDOS being offline, all employers long gone, and the facility without central control. There have been safety measures put in according to which testing was the most important thing to maintain even if Aperture Science is in shambles (courtesy of Cave Johnson, undoubtedly) and the pre-recorded, pre-scripted test route running on emergency power assumed the most likely reason for the facility to crumble would have been if the entire civilization crumbled.

16:58 it's clean because GLaDOS is back in charge and putting the facility back together

If you have a Switch you could get the Portal Companion Collection, which includes the "Still Alive" maps for Portal 1, a series of maps made specifically for the original console release of Portal 1 before Portal 2 was a thing and if you had a preference for the aesthetic of Portal 1 but wanted more of that, that's an official map pack right there

I can't believe you left out the part where wheatley electrocutes himself by accidentaly giving you tips and Glados giggling about it

As an SCP guy, I have to vote for Control.

OOOHHHHHH, I thought that looked familiar! Lmao, I saw the bit about you accidentally doing that first laser puzzle and thought "Oh neat, that other guy I watched did the same thing." I was even about to comment on it lol. Then I saw you do the double midair portals, and thought 'Wait...'

50:17 in case anyone was wondering, this is the part where he kills you

19:21 fun fact: if you're fast enough to get there you can actually pull wheatley out of the wall and take him with you. He dissappears in the next chamber but it's real cool getting to carry him with you, even tho he's dead silent

Now grab a friend, and go play the Coop Mode!

5:00 The *Combine* ‘happened’ to society. The official word is that Portal and Half Life both take place (mostly) on the same Earth, in 2010 (which is also around the time that the Combine invaded Earth to begin with), while Half Life 2 takes place around 2030. But Portal 2 doesn’t happen until some time between 2050 and 52,010. So the entire story of Half Life is *over* either way, by the time you wake up from hibernation. EDIT: I would absolutely love it if you’d play the Portal 2 mod, “Portal Stories: Mel”. It deserves to be its own game.

The drawing where the Single-Portal-Device was was drawn by a Former employee named Ratman, the last survivor of the time when Glados killed all with Neurotoxin. He made sure that Chell would be the one to defeat Glados by sending her messages on the wall.

My personal head canon for the lore is the Fanfic Blue Sky by Waffles, there are also many videos and comics made of it

There are two fan made Portal games on Steam that are really good if you want more of this. The first is "Portal Reloaded" which introduces a time travel setting for the portal gun, allowing you to travel between "now" and "future" which is 20 years later. The second is "Portal: Revolution". This one is a fully voice acted game taking place somewhere between Portal 1 & 2. Both are really good and you need to be prepared to be stumped if you play Reloaded.