Portal 2 but I Can't Look at White Walls 

Really? Wow.

professional game design at its height

@@spro394 yeah it’s good optimization

ye it saves storage(back in the days of cd-roms you had to use 5 discs to install portal so you wanted to save space)

@@Blutankalpha pretty sure a trigger vs a portalable surface makes little to no difference on game size that is, unless you consider ~10 bytes a considerable amount of space

so we didnt have to buy that many moon rocks?

Hey Cave Johnson, have you ever investigated the portal conductivity of lemons?

@@EMLtheViewer WHAT, WE NEED TO TRY THAT NOW!

so uh, you died to grass poisoning?

If you didn’t say this comment in cave Jonhsens voice you violated the law

correct. Edit: well, to some extent. Displacement textures are portalable by default, which is what grass and other debris is typically made of.

I watched Portal dev's commentary on Portal 1 speedrun and they said that it was the case for Portal 1 (and I guess Half Life 2 as they were developed in parallel) as a result, speedrunners could use portals out of bounds. But in Portal 2 by default, a surface is not portable, so I think it is some oversight.

welp, it's not like that would've been possible here anyway lol

@@PortalRunner mhm

Portal 2 but I can't play Portal 2.

@@wta1518 play portal 1

@@sedme0 lmao

@@sedme0 or by binding them all to a piano

easy just play on steam deck

I heard he's pretty cool, can anyone confirm or deny?

can confirm awesome dude

He has a good gaming chair

TAS is a great player. I hear he has some of the fastest speedruns.

@@VarunGupta3009 I know! and he speedruns pretty much every game!

thanks!

awesome! thank you!

@@PortalRunner yw! :D

I totally understand this, at least since the feedback from the "Portal 2 but it's Celeste" video. But I'm not sure if this comment is supposed critiquing this video? At 12:53, I did mention that, while I'm aware and agree with everything you've said in this comment, I also assure you that this mod is not in any way impacted by CFG. Celeste mode? Floor is Lava? Sure, I can easily see why CFG ruins those challenges. But as I mention at 14:02, even without CFG, Chapter 8 simply isn't very unique or difficult. You might notice that towards the end of the video, all I really talk about is the impact CFG had on the last 2 chapters. The reason for this is because, while writing the script, I realized that nothing worth mentioning actually happens here. The basic concept and main obstacles in this challenge were already discussed in previous chapters. If anything, CFG breathes some actual life into the script. You could probably tell that I completely skipped over most of Chapter 8/9 not because "the difficulty often falls" but because it's just more of the same stuff. Here's something that might not be intuitive from a viewer's point of view: while a "difficult" challenge sounds cool, it's not actually fun to watch if there's nothing unique to talk about. What if Chapter 8 was, in fact, significantly more difficult without CFG? Would you rather have me talk about the 100th attempt at shooting a portal, or how the damage mechanics uniquely affected the fly glitch? I'm truly sorry if any part of this comes off as rude or condescending. I'm simply very passionate about defending this point, as I believe I have thoroughly thought through the decisions I've made in both the playthrough and the script writing process. But, to summarize my point, I do not believe that avoiding CFG would have been more interesting in this video.

@@PortalRunner Not referring to this run in particular, but in general, just a common trend that occurred through some challenges can get repetitious at times. I could wait for another time to mention this, but I just wanted to get this thought out sooner or later. It would be neat in other challenges where CFG is a bigger change in route to see more grounded routes, rather than some challenge's gimmick being heavily ignored because of one strategy seen in other runs before.

Thank you!

Thanks! "Can't Even" has a playlist of speedrun tutorials on his channel. Some stuff is outdated, but it's good as a starting ground. That said, I don't really have any plans to do a tutorial myself. But who knows? If there's demand, I might.

nope! there's a trigger there that just checks if you fire a portal. it doesn't actually try to place one

@@PortalRunner ohhh

The mod would have to be rebuilt to work on the newer versions of Portal 2, sorry. Recent updates broke it. I might do that eventually.

@@PortalRunner that's a bummer.

Portal 2 updates?

yep

That would be true for Portal 1, but not for Portal 2, where surfaces are non-portalable by default. Grass is portalable because it's a displacement. Displacement textures are exceptions to the rule and are typically portalable unless specified otherwise.

@@PortalRunner surfaces are portalable by default in P2. The P2CE team once considered making everything portalable by default but scrapped the idea because of base P2.

But it literally isn't though

the game doesn't consider the moon portalable. it just kinda checks if you shot a portal at it and starts the cutscene as soon as you do

I think it has no texture just a color that valve slapped i think

!!!

Any material, yes. I explain the conversion gel in the video - it doesn't change the material of the wall. It simply, well, adds paint. And about the moon - check the pinned comment.

@@PortalRunner oh wow guess I did the standard YT thing where I just write an angry comment and go away

Yep

the video would be one minute long.

You forgot to read the title before watching this video x)

😐

i see you’d prefer the video was 5 minutes long

@PortalRunner yes, your videos are good, but a little bit too long but its still entertaining tbh to watch somebody do a challenge that would've been thought impossible to do.

If thats the case, that explains why his voice sounds familiar! I just beat Mel two days ago!

what

white is literally just a color

@@IbishuCovet just some edgy teen who thinks it's hilarious

"What counts as portalable is any material that is normally capable of holding a portal." - Key word being "normally"

@@PortalRunner oh yeah, forgot about that