Portal | Cracks in the System 

I'm going through all your videos again and i find a comment from a day ago lmao

@Chad Huxley don't it's a scam

@William Waylon scammin ass

if you're still doing links, do you think you would be able to find one for the aperture website? It needed adobe flash player to work...

i need help with a glitch in portal 1 so on the escape part right after glados tries to burn you the door you need to push open wont move is there any way you know to fix this

x ae a 12

X Æ A-12

AYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY

Doesn't sound like "Æ" to be honest. More like "EWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEW"

Legit Aether lol

i can confirm

True! I was scared in the testing phase...

and its even scarier with that knowledge..

Even worse with knowledge

It definitely makes you hold on to the handles.

I thought he was just going on and on about weird fish-shaped items to "put into" the cake...

Preserving a corpse - Fun for whole family

@@shadowgrimfoxy592 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JAw3V8ScLeI.html

@@Dragao_Bebado feeding info to a future killer... you hate to see it 😉😂

I can do that And how to teach how to make a human cake ...

Oh my god. I didn't even realise that. Now i do it's more sad for me.

It also implies that somehow the cores can not only see and hear, but smell. This also implies that it not only has those three, but the other two that humans use, taste and touch. Maybe not taste, but it implies that the cores can f e e l the pain that you put it through when you burn it.

Good. Now I'm even more of a psychopath

It isnt.

@@gay_madilynn Wheatley was a core as well.

Really took me by surprise

GlaDos: *ready to fight this random girl* Girl: *pulls out a RPG* GlaDos: *surprised pikachu face*

Impulse 101 babyyy

simply enable developer console then hit the tilda(`) then type sv_cheats 1 ...then enter that and then type impulse 101 and bam you got all the hl2 guns

@@nelmie7083 How do the weapons interact with the portals?

@@itzMiney I think they left that just for people to have fun with console.

@@itzMiney Airboat% is the greatest thing I have ever heard of in my life, this comment made my day.

@@Proud_Knight Msushi made a really good video on it.

chell was gordon in disguise

😭😭😭😭

please do explain

@@griefinnub3745 all the employees were killed outright in a gas leak, so shes saying that she isn't even significant enough to murder brutally.

@@griefinnub3745 "Part time" Employees dont get the full benefits of a full time employee.

Layered huh... like a cake?

It's really not, it has like, two layers tops.

You know, that is true

Agreed.

I can assure you that lesbians DEFINITELY talk about it

@@profileuser5845 The fuck?

@@92kosta glados is hot and the voice change led to many gay awakenings

*PULLS OUT SPAS-12*

Chell: I'm about to do what's called a pro gamer move.

Impulse 101 lol

Guess she's not the only thing now, lmao

*PULLS OUT RPG*

She described Wheatley as exactly that! Something that attached onto her, as a leech, to make her dumber, otherwise she’d get too intelligent and basically have A.I taking over like in sci-fi movies.

RMP no it isn’t, Wheatley is an “intelligence dampening core” so he isn’t defective until the end of portal 2 when you attach the corrupted cores onto Wheatley

But why would they attach an anger core onto her?

@@BankerPaul I think it was something about simulating complex humanlike behaviour, and every human feels anger to some extent

In the Portal: Lab Rat comic, the cores are presented as additions to GlaDOS’s conscience, and Rattman correctly predicts her evil by saying “You can always ignore your conscience”

"You are an horrible person"

@@bdtmstrs "We weren't even testing for that!"

Link plz

Plzzzzzzzz

@Sawyer Grimm I already have both games

I did the exact same thing! I thought that there would be some last saving grace that would appear before I died. Needless to say, I was very confused.

When I first played that game with my mom (I never loved puzzle games, but she loves them, so i was mostly just watching) I was sure that Glados wasn't trying to kill us and my mom just couldn't understand what the game wanted from us. So, after we died about 6 times we suggested that it was either a bug or game just ends here. Then I actually started trying to get out of that trap, but I died many times before I finally understood what to do. And even after this I tried to do what Glados said and I was just waiting for minutes expecting someone to come and give me a piece of cake. After beating the game I thought that the main protagonist was a villain in this story, after all, the player is the one that directly attacks defenseless robot lady

@@user-mr4xp1ef3z U have a pretty cool mom

@@fabioenchillada2278 fr

Yeah I died the first time I did that test.

Oh. My. God. I never thought of it that way... THAT'S SO SINISTER WTF!!!!!

i think the reason they sound like that is they were made to protect babies. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6i-nMWgBUp0.html

Protecting babies was never their original intention, and the voice was present even when they were only available to the military. It is indeed meant to contrast their purpose and lure in targets.

@@ultmateragnarok8376 it was probably a joke but ok

@@ultmateragnarok8376 ok

Why my life gone so wrong

It's true it's all true *_Q_Q_*

GLaDOS: "Where did your life go so wrong?" Chell: "The day you decided to kill all the scientists and abduct me and turn me into a test subject."

Where did my life go so wrong?

*pulls out a shotgun*

I think this is less of a true statement and more of her messing with your head, in 2 different ways. She’s saying she lied to you before when she said they weren’t sentient, telling you that they ARE sentient makes the incineration of the first one so much worse, and then she adds on top that they have TONS of them, making the one you loved and burned even more insignificant. Great line, I remember it vividly.

@@Zachamation could also be metacommentary on the nature of human experimentation like what was conducted by aperture, sure they're sentient but when there's literally billions of them to pull from, why should you prioritize their safety? Like how the long fall boots were made to protect the portal gun from damage, not the user

It's been years since I first heard that line, and it still gives me chills lmao.

I also love "So get comfortable while I warm up the neurotoxin emitters." & the line from Portal 2: "It's your old friend, deadly neurotoxin."

I always loved "i got a surprise for you" in the robotic voice once when i was young i was playing alone in my room and when i reached that part my mom entered and heard the voice of GLaDOS say the phrase; from that moment on, when she surprised me with something she always said the phrase in that same robotic way and it always cracked me up

@@FargonNemeloc I cant tell if thats adorable or adorably terrifying XD

@@D_YellowMadness Ｉｆ Ｉ ｗｅｒｅ ｙｏｕ， Ｉ＇ｄ ｔａｋｅ ａ ｄｅｅｐ ｂｒｅａｔｈ． *Ａｎｄ ｈｏｌｄ ｉｔ．*

I mean, what other videos of Portal have ever included actual weaponry?

impulse_101 be like

had me questioning whether I remembered the end of the game correctly lol

Love your pfp!

And John admits to burying Paul in Strawberry Fields Forever

@@monkeyprojects129 what do you mean

@@pliar-lanejavaboom405 poking fun at people "hearing things" in backwards recordings. At the end of Strawberry Fields Forever by the Beatles people thought they heard John say "I buried Paul", but in an out take he actually says cranberry sauce. I dont even doubt that there are messages in the radio vaporizations, its just funny.

IIRC they only don't do that anymore (needs to confirm) it was an easter egg in the early years of the game. There was also "hidden" signals that when used with a proper receiver, it reveals texts/images.

@@neroth3953 I actually tested the hidden signal one, can confirm, still works

One thing I find especially disturbing is that GLADoS is the lesser of 2 evils. And that she in a twisted way is the only thing truly saving humanity, whether that's cause she has warehouses full of dormant humans untouched by the outside world and its dangers, or because she is the only thing stopping the combine from getting inside the facility and finding the worlds first successful teleportation technology that is so powerful and easy to use they made its technology into a gun. But the scariest thing is that GLADoS doesent know what is going on up there so she doesent/cant know when to re release humanity, so the combine could be gone from earth and humanity could be back to normal and shes still conducting tests.

@@cryojudgement2376 you just blew my fucking mind. Thank you

@@kalamay another point to mention is that the only reason the combine havent entirely enslaved/exterminated humanity is because Humanity has successfully discovered and used teleportation technology and the combine are keeping them alive to help them create, use, and learn about successfully utilizing teleportation/teleporters to their full potential. And if the combine found the portal gun and found a way to mass produce it, humanity would be nothing more than an ant that's on the table next to you while you're ating outside.

@@cryojudgement2376 Holy shit and now Gordon and Eli are going to the Borealis, a fucking Aperture facility. Most likely the Combine will follow them and MAY find information about the portal gun. Half Life 3 is going to be insane.

@@elcomemierda2624 Aaaand half life 3 isnt going to happen. This is such a torture

I highly doubt that the companion cubes hold the corpses of former test subjects, using the term “euthanise” and referring to the cubes as “companions” is most likely part of a psychological test set by Glados

Yes, but let's not forget humans are biologically animals

@@jupiters_reform1848 yes but if they were corpses they could not be euthanized on account of not being able to be killed again.

@@anon8740 are you suggesting this inanimate object is a living breathing creature?

@@jupiters_reform1848 yes, yes he is.

Holy crap, I just finished the game today, and I didn't even realize that! I was thinking back to that. I wondered what the: 'surprise,' she was talking about was, and how the fact that I seem to have survived it, lay purely on the pure chance of that first core falling..

She also runs you through a test apparently designed specifically to get you to bond with an inanimate object, and to then throw that object into a furnace, all the while telling you to ignore it if it speaks. THEN when you find her she drops the morality core. Coincidence? I don't think so.

But if she can just drop the cores at will then why didn't she just do that earlier?

@@voxelbugged When the Cores drop, they're still connected to her, you can see the wires between her and the Cores, all she can do is release them from their normal mounting place down to where people can reach, probably for maintenance purposes, hence why the Cores end up on the walkways around her.

@@voltronimusprime3833 Oh, that makes a lot more sense and explains a lot of things.

@@KendoOCE Correction: 3:42

same here! I was pretty young when it first came out so I basically played both games blind this year and I loved them so much.

She has one voice line, in an early version of Portal 2. You can hear it in this talk. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BYFvwbby2YM.html

@@some1purple this isn't Rick and Roll :(

10:58

@@SneedFeedAndSeed bruh

@@some1purple I know the current and final ending we got for Portal 2 was absolutely phenomenal, but Chell speaking that one word would have been just so epic. Wish they had somehow found a way to put both the current ending and her speaking in the game. Oh by the way, fun fact. While it's Chell doesn't speak because Valve wanted to go with a silent protagonist, there's also another canon and more awesome reason. "We always assumed she could talk, she just chooses not to, what with robots all being dicks, why give them the satisfaction?" - Erik Wolpaw

YES

The audio for it would have been found in the game files, though, and wiki pages, youtube, etc. would be full of this information. Still a great idea.

TheBansheeSheriff If Portal was released today the voice line might have been dug up the day of it’s release but back when Portal was released it probably wouldn’t have been founded as quickly

@@thebansheesheriff9029 Yeah. It would be nice if this was done before the internet. That way, a rumor surrounding the game would spread and many people wouldn't know if it was true or not.

@@AmiKillREAL 2007 wasn't the stone age. People were just as technically competent and digging through files as they are today.

i think it's even worse when you realise people are still alive during portal 1

i couldn't destroy the cube at first. i went back and collected all of the cameras and throwed them first then after sitting in front of the pc for a while i decided to throw the cube

sammee it was such a good experience. I wish I could play it again for the first time.

Hehe

I couldn't destroy the cube either, but that was because the incinerator kept closing too fast for me to figure out what to do. I'm a monster.

@@thenicesven5328 wait a few years and play again. Books, Movies, shows, stories. . . You'd be surprised how much you forget after a year or so. Play again and so much will jump out at you that you had forgotten, and maybe even new things that you didn't notice the first time.

Mmhmm, no one ever looks deeper into GLaDOS’ actual character / behaviour.

One thing I noticed about that is GLaDOS always used "we", "us", and "the enrichment center" when referring to herself. But once her morality core is destroyed, she starts using personal pronouns ("I" and "me").

The "Good News." Followed shortly after gives me chills down the spine EVERY TIME.

@Sockman Exactly!! Look at this line from the fire-pit escape sequence. “What are you doing? Stop it! I…I… We are pleased that you made it though the final challenge where we pretend we were going to murder you.” That stutter... “I ...I...” To me, this proves that GLaDOS was bound by the protocols of “Human inhabited” Aperture... Either: The scientists were the good guys & like all sentient A.I.s she was “Evil” to begin with. (I highly doubt this to be true.) Or... GLaDOS became what the scientists made her. I bet that they (Being the ignorant humans that they were), disregarded GLaDOS’ sentience & abilities to think, feel, & remember / have memories like we do. They didn’t care or even try to understand her, instead treating her like, well, just a machine. That’s why Chell is SO important to the plot. She was the first human to ever show GLaDOS / potatOS an ounce of kindness. Even after everything that went down! (It doesn’t matter what motivations Chell had, because she STILL DID IT. She took GLaDOS with her, instead of just chucking her off of a catwalk or & this changed GLaDOS. She now understood the value of freedom. “You want your freedom? Take it.” “Perché non passi lontana? Sì, lontana da Scienza,” So GLaDOS also decided to do something kind in return. One person showed her kindness... Even after all that happened... She made her first friend, but she realised the importance of freedom... & decided to let the only person who saw / treated her as more than just a machine...Go... Ahh! Crap! My heart!

Her changes after all of the cores' respective destructions as mentioned in the video, and those not, is impressively detailed. For such a focal point of the game in her personality, role and power she gets surprisingly little attention.

shut up

I may be late to the party, but let me tell you this...in the game I was having too much fun that I decided to incinerate the turrets( Call me psycho but it was a stressful level and the turrets kept killing me and I was frustrated and now they will let me kill my companion cube). So as a sort of screw you, I began to dump all the turrets, camera and even the security cams in the incinerator. I even joked that if the cube has to die, it will not die alone. After I was done, I finally dropped the cube. That is when I saw that the cube dissappeared on the flames but the turrets and the cameras are not. They are just on the bottom of the pit, lying along the flames like unflammable pieces of wood. I thought it was a bug or some kind of limitation in the game. With this statement, huh, it makes sense now.

GLaDOS did say in Test Chamber 19 that "all Aperture technologies remain safely operational up to 4000 degrees Kelvin," which is 3726.85 Celsius or 6740.33 Fahrenheit. I guess all their tech were made with tantalum hafnium carbide alloy.

I do like how it's not even any regular old companion cube, but the exact one you use in the first game, like it was just sitting in the furnace for God knows how long and Glados snagged it out as a parting gift.

Because she’s an AI, in-universe she’s essentially using Text-To-Speech software.

I think the military androids are the turrets

Test Chamber 16 is "a live-fire course designed for military androids". 1. The turrets are not military androids. They were sold as protection for babies from burglars to be placed near cribs. 2. The test was not designed for the turrets, It was designed with them as a testing element, but the test is for the test subject, in this case, originally military androids, before GLaDOS sends Chell through it.

well they would have to be sentient to be threatened anyway or atleats understand them

@@Ribbons0121R121 Their sentience wasn't being debated? We were just saying that the point about their sentience was slightly undermined by the fact the turrets weren't the "military androids" that were being threatened. Not that it wasn't true at all.

This is aperture science we're talking about, it's entirely reasonable to believe that they set up an obstacle course for immobile turrets. And we know that cave did try to sell the turrets to the military

XD

😳

Or a TikTok user.

@@JosephQPublic well more of a 4chan user

Or a redditor

Bro same. I didn't even hesitate. "Unfortunately you will have to euthanize it-" *ALREADY THROWING IT INTO THE FIRE*

Same here. I mean, it's a cube. It makes for a hilarious joke (one that maybe this guy is taking a little too literally) but it doesn’t move, have a personality, or even a face. There were zero signs that it was alive in any regard until after you killed it, so why would I form any sort of connection? I don't think the player was ever meant to actually seriously like the thing more than any of the regular cubes. It was all a joke that the internet took seriously.

I understand you guys didn't bond to the cube, but clearly it's not the internet taking it seriously. In my first playthrough without knowing anything about half life or portal games universe, I remember being very discussing disturbed when I realize I had to* *euthanize* the compassion cube. I went through the whole level again to see if there were any shortcuts and then hesitantly let it burn. This moment indeed was a masterpiece which broke from the monotonous and increasingly alarming way of Glados testing us - kinda like the giraffe scene in last of us 2.

I only care about that one "I'm different." turret from portal 2

@@earthling_parth these people just want to pull "im different" act, I think

I think he's right about the disrepair, just obviously the water's not supposed to be so toxic. It's supposed to be there for a safe place for you to land. Maybe. I mean it is aperture science after all

@@baval5 Nobody was there to change the water filters.

@@JamesJazzz And standing water is a good place for bacteria to develop.

@@dennisthemenace3695 It could always be that a pipe broke and mixed water with highly toxic waste that comes from making neurotoxin.

The second game (more precisely, the Cave Johnson's part) actually confirms that the whole Aperture Science never really cared much about anyone's physical and mental health, so the toxic, deadly water in the tests was most likely the original intention of the company.

"the enemy has dropped the intelligence"

@@ToxicBastard Soldier voice: "My Intelligence."

RED SPY IN THE BASE

Doesn't mean that GLaDOS didn't choose to use it to destroy AIs that wouldn't be subservient to her!

Uh. You should look up the Milgram Experiment.

@@foty8679 I think it was sarcasm, I’m a very sporadic person and don’t understand what this comment means, but ok

According to Wikipedia: The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. They measured the willingness of study participants, men from a diverse range of occupations with varying levels of education, to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience.

@@foty8679 What does that have to do with this?

Either you're being sarcastic, or you don't know humans.

Your voice?

you only find 2 in the entire game but ok

Impulse 101

Lol

in the second game we find out that Gladys has full control over every room meaning she can change the signs saying what's in the room which means if she wanted to she couldflooded the room with the acid and just say that it's part of the test when in fact is not supposed to be there

It might have originally been regular water and, 2 possible things 1. GLaDOS was aware that falling into the water with your portal device would kill you, so she put it there so that failure would mean electrocution 2. the reply above, GLaDOS did the acid on purpose and changed the sign Or even both, GLaDOS realised that you could throw your device to safety or hold it above and not die, so she put acid instead

@@gothictiddd As i said... "Even if it wasn't always there i don't doubt that glados could remove it if she wanted to." Point is, if she wants it there, it is supposed to be there. If she doesn't want it there, it would not be there...

meanwhile, my friend laughing hysterically and thinking it's the funniest shit they ever saw

Eric Miret I’m assuming that you’ve never played/heard of portal in you life

Shelby Will They’re answering the question. “What’s a man to do when he wants to cry?” You cry...

Dang bro? What rock have you crawled under? Blink twice if you're being held captive

@@wolfykun649 you forgot to @someone

@@SpectreMkTwo Maybe.. hm. Does my question apply fo you, by chance?

c'mon, there is hard to miss wall writing in one of the room's with "cake is a lie", before a fire pit. This message is a lie

@@ForeChin99 Except I was so focused on the turrets I didn't go in that room lol. I didn't go in that room till the 2nd playthrough

Same for me, but when I saw the hideouts with "The cake is a lie" I started to think about it a bit. But I had no idea that they would try to burn me at the end of the game anyway

@@JeniousJustin *You're an idiot.*

Bruh same.. I found out on the first ratman room.

Go ahead and leave me. I think I prefer to stay inside. ... Maybe you'll find someone else To help you. Maybe Black Mesa... THAT WAS A JOKE, HA HA, FAT CHANCE.

@@shiftylookingpyjak1989 HOLY SHIT I JUST REALIZED AFTER ALL THESE YEARS THAT THE BLACK MESA JOKE MIGHT BE BECAUSE THEY CAUSED THE RESONANCE CASCADE

Angel LM no. Gordon Freeman and the stupid scientists that said it was probably not a problem caused the resonance cascade.

@@TheONLYFeli0 it wasn't Gordon's fault, he was doing as he was told. #LeaveGordonAlone

@@TheONLYFeli0 yea but it was gman who gave them the crystal i think

I had assumed it was Androids made by the US or something that were being tested in Aperture.

You already know the punchline.

chell has had enough

chell is a scientist from black mesa and that's why glados wanted to kill her theory confirmed

Neither, man.

I had a mini panic attack I was like how the heck did Gordon get in the Aperture facility?! (Throws every weapon at GladOs)

paste these commands into dev console: sv_cheats 1 impulse 101

Or one where she's friends with Batman... I was saying this to Batman... oh He was here the other day Maybe you know him, he's a big deal But I don't think of him that way He's just a friend, someone I trust Someone who won't kill me

@@shiftylookingpyjak1989 That is in another dimension

@@greenishpiss3588 the term is universe

Too late for that, Portal 2 is set 50,000 years after the combine invasion, with GLaDOS inactive for most of that time. The only way for GLaDOS to stop the combine is for her to somehow take the whole facility back in time, which cannot happen because it is a whole place, not one person.

@@nebula_the_starfish yeah it's too bad but maybe the G-man hires GLaDOS and Chell or something. (Idk how that would work tho) Also I think Aperture might have been working on some kind of time travel along with the Portal Gun

Maybe that’s why in Portal 2, the chamber with the Companion Cube’s emancipation grill is “broken” Maybe GLaDOS purposefully disabled it? She’s hiding definitely hiding something... Since it’s a very strange coincidence, right? I personally don’t really like this theory as it ruins the psychology trick aspects of the cubes, (it’s more sinister to be attached to an inanimate object.) But still an interesting take. (MatPat...!)

Maleeka Abbas she fizzled the cube twice and if you get the cube through she fizzles it so no there are no test subjects in them

@Ailerator Yeah true. (Remember, I don’t like or care for this this theory, just thinking lol) Is it far fetched to say that GLaDOS has “decoy” Companion Cubes since we only see the first two for like 10 seconds & those could’ve just been hard light replicas, storage cubes with fake hearts added or something like that?! & GLaDOS is clearly double minded when it comes to the Cubes... On one metaphorical hand, she wants to torture Chell with verbal abuse & test till her non-existent/slightly existent heart’s content. On the other metaphorical hand, she has no regard for the Cubes & sees them as below her, sentient or not.

They'd die in the box anyways.

@@charow2638 Even though GLaDOS feels pleasure / satisfying revenge from killing humans, I doubt she'd want rotting corpses everywhere. (Even in the Companion Cubes) Look at Portal 1. a game that takes place a short while after the "Aperture Incident", there aren't Neurotoxin-filled bodies everywhere. GLaDOS must have had enough saity to clear up her mess... So in conclusion, GLaDOS doesn't seem the type of person to use Human Bodies in her experiments. she hates the living equivalents, after all.

*_same here_*

Sameeee

No reason to be sad. When you replay narrative-driven games such as this every 5 years or so, you can access a new layer of appreciation and comprehension each time!

@@grammarmaid I am absolutely copying this comment, because that's the best response I've seen in years.

@@MrGermandeutsch Please feel free to do so. I'm happy you appreciated it.

That is only true in subsequent playthroughs.

personally, I think its an accident glados turned into a "feature"

@@uppishcub1617, Todd Howard likes that

@@iangabriel5536 Notch likes that

@@NoSubsWithContent Ah yes, redstone

@@NoSubsWithContent Valve likes that

I played the second one first as well.

In my opinion the first one did a better job with the mental shenanigans

I played the second one first because the ending of the first one was already spoiled for me. :/

I played the second first and only played P1 because of the Valve Complete Pack. Really wish I'd done it the other way around, but it was still a cool experience.

Same here! Ruined the entire experience but held together so well...

is* and always will be

The datedness of the graphics somehow adds to the atmosphere

what is it called if you kill a frat boy

@ictogon I guess fratricide maybe, although for cases like that where the relationship isn't familial it can also be homicide.

Same. There's no way I could ever look at the companion cube with affection, its only purpose is to get incinerated as fast as physically possible

@@burnstjamp i never cared about the companion cube in the first place. i mean.. *it's a cube.*

rohanthedrums even when I'm speed running I like to think of it as cute lol

@Ailerator to be fair, i have a lot of issues as well, i'm sure if i were a 'normal' person the cube would seem somewhat endearing

yea me too, abh and portal bumping is just so much more fun than playing the actual game

hi comment from 9 months ago :) it’s heavily implied that the cube WAS talking to him throughout the comic as well, making it super ambiguous. The cube was giving him information that he absolutely could not have known if it was just a hallucination!

​@@M0nsterm0uth I disagree, I believe that the cube was simply acting as his conscience and a means to sort out his thoughts/logic once he became completely psychotic. Consider that Doug did have some knowledge of Aperture because he had been an engineer there, and at least one of his colleague acquaintances (Henry) actually worked on GLaDOS. He might have suffered from a serious mental illness and trauma, but that doesn't mean he was an idiot. :)

The largest flaw with any Valve game is they're so well-known and so amazingly tight in game design that they're almost impossible to experience fully again.

I didn't know about Portal or Half life's actual plot so I was experiencing it for the first time, and boy did I enjoy it. Portal games are real gems of simple games which forces you to think outside the box and make you appreciate the creativity in level design as well as story. Hope one day we'll get the Portal/HL 3 game tying the universe and completing the storyline.

i played Portal blind in 2021 and Portal 2 blind from 2021 to 2022 (took a really long break), so not everyone

not Portal, but everything I know about Half Life was said in these videos (I never got around to playing Half Life when I had a laptop that could probably run it, and now I only have a Switch for games unfortunately, but I intend on playing the Half Life games ASAP lmao)

The only thing I already knew when playing Portal 1 and 2 was that the cake is a lie, It's like running a race, knowing you won't win

I always joked that the cake wasn't the lie you getting it was the lie because at the end it did show a cake

That’s so true. Do they neglect TF2 and to a degree CS? Yes. But are even those neglected games amazing? Absolutely

For about a month, Portal: still alive(the whole game) was free for about a month on Xbox one. I played through it a few times, got portal 2, and now I can’t stop playing it

except artifact

I'm 19 and after like 8 years I played the advanced chambers again, I still ask myself how was I able to complete them without youtube...

You're trying to make yourself sound older than you actually are bro.

Alternate Version: "So it's all The Cake?" "Always has been." ;-)

lol, I actually missed that bit

that's why they call it predictive programming ;P also, could be big group thought experiment

*laughs in 2021*

​@robe a caso Instagram I could do a few more years.

Lowrodrick I see a fellow Harry101UK/The Stupendium fan, and I say “hello”

"*You* will be _baked_, then there will be cake."

I hate to be the one to tell you this dude..........but I think you're an NPC. Sorry.

Hahaha I can see that happening

@@NitroNinja324 Welp. My life is a lie. Gonna go walk in circles while I wait for the next flag to activate.

you might be particularly vulnerable to abuse

How come glados can fizzle them in portal 2? Not like she can fizzle us.

Dead tissue might not respond the same way as alive tissue. The fizzled can fizzle your ears though, so it might be a setting

Nice profile

Exactly what a scientist would do Oh hey scout!

Her but yeah

@@terezihomestuck No, the joke is that he used a cheat to use Gordon Freeman's weapons. The joke was that the protagonist was secretly Gordon Freeman instead of Chell all along. He's a scientist/doctor.

@@NotASpyReally ahh I get it gordan freeman is a doctor so he uses his weapons like a doctor uses his tools like a stethoscope n tongue depressors it's a comedic parallel that shows the symbolism between to progressions that are different but you're pointing out how they're similar much like David Cronehenberg's The Fly which dives into how insect life parallels humans and even how more terrible day to day insect life is and if humans were constantly on that level we would live in a horrible scary world but that's the thing we do live in that world but we see ourselves as above insects because of out intelligence but yeah that's honestly a really clever joke