Portal | Cracks in the System

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Portal, like Half-Life, is incredible at creating a hugely dense world through giving small hints that ask and answer much bigger questions. We can guess and theorize so much about the world in these games, that they last much, much longer than their run time. It's one of the few puzzle games with tons of replay value, simply because you learn and think more about the world with each playthrough.
Here's a working archived version of the original Aperturescience. com: web.archive.org/web/2007103008...
Start with "user"
username: CJOHNSON
Password: TIER3
The music in this essay is from the Portal 1 and 2 soundtracks by Kelly Bailey and Mike Morasky
I was pretty rushed and frenzied trying to get this out on time. Not my best material to be honest. I've got some better stuff in the works. Another week like this and I'm gonna switch to a weekly schedule.

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  • @Leadhead
    @Leadhead3 жыл бұрын

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  • @YourAverageSpelunker

    @YourAverageSpelunker

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @YourAverageSpelunker

    @YourAverageSpelunker

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Chad Huxley don't it's a scam

  • @YourAverageSpelunker

    @YourAverageSpelunker

    3 жыл бұрын

    @William Waylon scammin ass

  • @theragegamer1329

    @theragegamer1329

    3 жыл бұрын

    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...

  • @lsmahutchin

    @lsmahutchin

    2 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @missingindy
    @missingindy3 жыл бұрын

    Fun Fact: when you hold the intelligence core for long enough, it changes from saying a cake recipe to instructions of preserving a corpse

  • @alexthewolfia7452

    @alexthewolfia7452

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @michaanio8564

    @michaanio8564

    2 жыл бұрын

    Preserving a corpse - Fun for whole family

  • @Dragao_Bebado

    @Dragao_Bebado

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@shadowgrimfoxy592 kzread.info/dash/bejne/fHWrlbhxg8aylaw.html

  • @minecr4ft1z

    @minecr4ft1z

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Justa-channel

    @Justa-channel

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @aidenpalermo3412
    @aidenpalermo34123 жыл бұрын

    “They even scream when you emancipate them” The turret: ÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆ

  • @mizlnimbl

    @mizlnimbl

    3 жыл бұрын

    x ae a 12

  • @zaroio2533

    @zaroio2533

    3 жыл бұрын

    X Æ A-12

  • @kesselsauer4441

    @kesselsauer4441

    3 жыл бұрын

    AYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY

  • @XDLugia

    @XDLugia

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ErikPeterson101

    @ErikPeterson101

    3 жыл бұрын

    Legit Aether lol

  • @SpireGuy
    @SpireGuy3 жыл бұрын

    Hearing the curiosity core say: "why do i smell burning?" when your about to drop him into an incinerator is probably sadder than incinerating your companion cube

  • @mile290productions3

    @mile290productions3

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @gay_madilynn

    @gay_madilynn

    3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @grandduchyofwales

    @grandduchyofwales

    3 жыл бұрын

    Good. Now I'm even more of a psychopath

  • @fishraposo7192

    @fishraposo7192

    3 жыл бұрын

    It isnt.

  • @arztschwanzfurz1631

    @arztschwanzfurz1631

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gay_madilynn Wheatley was a core as well.

  • @Dakurar
    @Dakurar3 жыл бұрын

    You're not even a full time employee is an amazingly layered insult.

  • @griefinnub3745

    @griefinnub3745

    2 жыл бұрын

    please do explain

  • @Dakurar

    @Dakurar

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Daginni1

    @Daginni1

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @the_bearded_engi5179

    @the_bearded_engi5179

    2 жыл бұрын

    Layered huh... like a cake?

  • @Randy.Bobandy

    @Randy.Bobandy

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @l0stdog159
    @l0stdog1593 жыл бұрын

    Portal 1 with no knowledge of anything is a pretty disturbing game.

  • @hNotDark

    @hNotDark

    3 жыл бұрын

    i can confirm

  • @ciscoisaboss

    @ciscoisaboss

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @avalancherelapse

    @avalancherelapse

    3 жыл бұрын

    and its even scarier with that knowledge..

  • @SiIIy_

    @SiIIy_

    3 жыл бұрын

    Even worse with knowledge

  • @Puppy_Puppington

    @Puppy_Puppington

    2 жыл бұрын

    It definitely makes you hold on to the handles.

  • @mf6610
    @mf66103 жыл бұрын

    Glados: *vaguely mentions the combine* Chell: *suddenly becomes Gordon Freeman and bombards her with Half-life weaponry*

  • @shawermus

    @shawermus

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Proud_Knight

    @Proud_Knight

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @arir43

    @arir43

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @fishingrod2253

    @fishingrod2253

    2 жыл бұрын

    chell was gordon in disguise

  • @emmajeanjones6552

    @emmajeanjones6552

    2 жыл бұрын

    😭😭😭😭

  • @typryor2227
    @typryor22273 жыл бұрын

    I heard of the story on reddit where this little kid is playing portal and he’s like “Daddy! The robot lady says that when I finish the game I’m gonna get cake!” It’s a cruel world.

  • @bdtmstrs

    @bdtmstrs

    3 жыл бұрын

    "You are an horrible person"

  • @5PercentPresent

    @5PercentPresent

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @August_Forster

    @August_Forster

    2 жыл бұрын

    Link plz

  • @August_Forster

    @August_Forster

    2 жыл бұрын

    Plzzzzzzzz

  • @August_Forster

    @August_Forster

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Sawyer Grimm I already have both games

  • @Octocat
    @Octocat3 жыл бұрын

    In Portal 2, GLaDOS does indeed say, "they are sentient, you know. We just have LOTS of them." right after disintegrating a companion cube.

  • @Zachamation

    @Zachamation

    2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @juiceoverflow

    @juiceoverflow

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

  • @Leadhead
    @Leadhead5 жыл бұрын

    YOU'RE NOT SMART! YOU'RE NOT A SCIENTIST! YOU'RE NOT A DOCTOR! YOU'RE NOT EVEN A FULL TIME EMPLOYEE!

  • @MatiEP09

    @MatiEP09

    4 жыл бұрын

    Why my life gone so wrong

  • @EggBastion

    @EggBastion

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @eessppeenn001

    @eessppeenn001

    3 жыл бұрын

    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."

  • @suuuzuuukiii

    @suuuzuuukiii

    3 жыл бұрын

    Where did my life go so wrong?

  • @JSDBINC

    @JSDBINC

    3 жыл бұрын

    *pulls out a shotgun*

  • @evankauffman2139
    @evankauffman21393 жыл бұрын

    There's something really uncanny about seeing actual guns in a Portal game.

  • @timothy6583

    @timothy6583

    3 жыл бұрын

    Really took me by surprise

  • @ScorpV1

    @ScorpV1

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Molly-ss4fw

    @Molly-ss4fw

    3 жыл бұрын

    Impulse 101 babyyy

  • @nelmie7083

    @nelmie7083

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @Orange_Swirl

    @Orange_Swirl

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Sparx632
    @Sparx6322 жыл бұрын

    I always loved how her voice changes after the morality core is destroyed and how it remains that way in Portal 2. People never talk about it.

  • @joejs4613

    @joejs4613

    2 жыл бұрын

    You know, that is true

  • @runespar

    @runespar

    2 жыл бұрын

    Agreed.

  • @profileuser5845

    @profileuser5845

    2 жыл бұрын

    I can assure you that lesbians DEFINITELY talk about it

  • @92kosta

    @92kosta

    Жыл бұрын

    @@profileuser5845 The fuck?

  • @profileuser5845

    @profileuser5845

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @DevilNeverKnows
    @DevilNeverKnows3 жыл бұрын

    "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" One of my favourite lines in the game

  • @Sivanot

    @Sivanot

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @D_YellowMadness

    @D_YellowMadness

    2 жыл бұрын

    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."

  • @FargonNemeloc

    @FargonNemeloc

    2 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @TowerKnight4040

    @TowerKnight4040

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @RileyAndersen_YT

    @RileyAndersen_YT

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @annaderhirte9972
    @annaderhirte99723 жыл бұрын

    Glados: "I'm the only thing standing between us and them" *pulls crossbow*

  • @furjaden8553

    @furjaden8553

    3 жыл бұрын

    *PULLS OUT SPAS-12*

  • @bleblablu

    @bleblablu

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @brassgears7953

    @brassgears7953

    3 жыл бұрын

    Impulse 101 lol

  • @spartanwar1185

    @spartanwar1185

    3 жыл бұрын

    Guess she's not the only thing now, lmao

  • @sci_pain3409

    @sci_pain3409

    3 жыл бұрын

    *PULLS OUT RPG*

  • @CMDRunematti
    @CMDRunematti3 жыл бұрын

    giving a cute voice to turrets is like a light in the dark, its meant to attract humans

  • @derezzed5588

    @derezzed5588

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @goofygoober2382

    @goofygoober2382

    3 жыл бұрын

    i think the reason they sound like that is they were made to protect babies. kzread.info/dash/bejne/aJ1h0K-Ql6W7oJM.html

  • @ultmateragnarok8376

    @ultmateragnarok8376

    3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @tunis4

    @tunis4

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ultmateragnarok8376 it was probably a joke but ok

  • @goofygoober2382

    @goofygoober2382

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ultmateragnarok8376 ok

  • @MuffinTM
    @MuffinTM3 жыл бұрын

    i DID NOT know that the radios said "you are not alone" and "she lied to me" when you vaporize them through the emancipation grills.

  • @monkeyprojects129

    @monkeyprojects129

    3 жыл бұрын

    And John admits to burying Paul in Strawberry Fields Forever

  • @pliar-lanejavaboom405

    @pliar-lanejavaboom405

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@monkeyprojects129 what do you mean

  • @monkeyprojects129

    @monkeyprojects129

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @neroth3953

    @neroth3953

    3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @monkeyprojects129

    @monkeyprojects129

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @pt8306
    @pt83063 жыл бұрын

    Glados had me so fooled that at the fire bit I was like "no this can't be real, there will be some thing to save me at the last second". then I burned to death. In my defence I was about 12 at the time.

  • @gagelucas6036

    @gagelucas6036

    2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @user-mr4xp1ef3z

    @user-mr4xp1ef3z

    2 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @fabioenchillada2278

    @fabioenchillada2278

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@user-mr4xp1ef3z U have a pretty cool mom

  • @itoaste

    @itoaste

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@fabioenchillada2278 fr

  • @BellaSwan18

    @BellaSwan18

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah I died the first time I did that test.

  • @Caspianm2
    @Caspianm23 жыл бұрын

    The cores don't equate to Glados's personality, they're additions to it, meant to override her thinking process and subdue her.

  • @d-o-n-u-t

    @d-o-n-u-t

    3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @yosupitsme8117

    @yosupitsme8117

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @BankerPaul

    @BankerPaul

    3 жыл бұрын

    But why would they attach an anger core onto her?

  • @darkdwarf007

    @darkdwarf007

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @anzo7

    @anzo7

    3 жыл бұрын

    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”

  • @pixalboi5664
    @pixalboi56643 жыл бұрын

    I love how he just casually talks while he just hits GLaDOS with Half Life 2 guns as if it's just completely normal.

  • @MrGermandeutsch

    @MrGermandeutsch

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @cheezkid2689

    @cheezkid2689

    3 жыл бұрын

    impulse_101 be like

  • @flexmendelson

    @flexmendelson

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @insertarihere3596

    @insertarihere3596

    3 жыл бұрын

    Love your pfp!

  • @TD0150
    @TD01503 жыл бұрын

    You forgot to mention that after you destroy her Anger Core, GLaDOS sings "Still Alive" later which goes out of its way to show that she is "happy for you" and "not even angry."

  • @Hekateras
    @Hekateras2 жыл бұрын

    I played Portal blind - I'd heard 'the cake is a lie' as a meme but had no idea where it originated. It was an incredible experience. Finding the first Ratman lair gave me chills.

  • @thelastwalkingsoul

    @thelastwalkingsoul

    9 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @WeAreTheInsurgents
    @WeAreTheInsurgents3 жыл бұрын

    I'd love it if there was an astronomically rare chance of the companion cube actually having a voice line, especially since you'd think you were going crazy when you heard it speak and no one else did

  • @thomasray

    @thomasray

    3 жыл бұрын

    YES

  • @thebansheesheriff9029

    @thebansheesheriff9029

    3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @AmiKillREAL

    @AmiKillREAL

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @TheOsamaBahama

    @TheOsamaBahama

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @TheBlarggle

    @TheBlarggle

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @wanderinghistorian
    @wanderinghistorian3 жыл бұрын

    I actually did play this without knowing the story beforehand. And yeah it was around the turret level I was like...wait. I believe to this day that Glados dropping that first core was not a mistake, but reverse psychology. She knew she could not be free to act as she desired unless the morality core was destroyed, so she "accidentally" dropped it and then told you not to destroy it. At this point you know she's the enemy, so clearly you would not follow her request.

  • @carealoo744

    @carealoo744

    3 жыл бұрын

    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..

  • @misanthropologist

    @misanthropologist

    3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @voxelbugged

    @voxelbugged

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @voltronimusprime3833

    @voltronimusprime3833

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @voxelbugged

    @voxelbugged

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @flochforster6892
    @flochforster68923 жыл бұрын

    "what's going on out there will make you wish you're back in here". That line is so menacing. She knows the combine are taking over the surface and that ragardless if chel escapes or not, she'll be killed. We as the player had no idea of this. And that's what makes it scary.

  • @cryojudgement2376

    @cryojudgement2376

    3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @kalamay

    @kalamay

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @cryojudgement2376

    @cryojudgement2376

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @elcomemierda2624

    @elcomemierda2624

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @Sonikadu

    @Sonikadu

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @KhancoDrestus
    @KhancoDrestus3 жыл бұрын

    "The radios scream when you emancipate them" I'm sorry, what? "She lied to me" WHAT?

  • @BeachioSandschannel

    @BeachioSandschannel

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@KendoOCE Correction: 3:42

  • @darciukas
    @darciukas3 жыл бұрын

    When her intelligence core gets destroyed she becomes a Twitter user

  • @grandduchyofwales

    @grandduchyofwales

    3 жыл бұрын

    XD

  • @proredfly9410

    @proredfly9410

    3 жыл бұрын

    😳

  • @JosephQPublic

    @JosephQPublic

    3 жыл бұрын

    Or a TikTok user.

  • @thickskinman

    @thickskinman

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@JosephQPublic well more of a 4chan user

  • @inssanebeast6964

    @inssanebeast6964

    3 жыл бұрын

    Or a redditor

  • @nicholasresur5841
    @nicholasresur58413 жыл бұрын

    The idea that you are a lone survivor deep underground as the world above you is being ravaged by an unknown force is amazing and haunting, and that your antagonist is small and kind to what's going on "Above" just gives me chills

  • @sydssolanumsamsys

    @sydssolanumsamsys

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @huhneat1076
    @huhneat10763 жыл бұрын

    I like how in "It was a morality core they installed to keep me from flooding the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin after I flooded the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin" she says "the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin" the exact same way

  • @remyrichardson8614

    @remyrichardson8614

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @daYps3
    @daYps33 жыл бұрын

    interestingly, when Glados makes you incinerate the Companion cube she uses the word Euthanise, which is a very specific word. verb: euthanise put (an animal) to death humanely.

  • @Oodelally

    @Oodelally

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @jupiters_reform1848

    @jupiters_reform1848

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @anon8740

    @anon8740

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @jupiters_reform1848

    @jupiters_reform1848

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @gabrielc7861

    @gabrielc7861

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jupiters_reform1848 yes, yes he is.

  • @nomadshiba
    @nomadshiba3 жыл бұрын

    i didn't know cake is a lie, i knew nothing about the game when i first played it, it was nice. i thought there were people behind the glass and stuff

  • @nomadshiba

    @nomadshiba

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @thenicesven5328

    @thenicesven5328

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Shushkin

    @Shushkin

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hehe

  • @cartervandenberg4771

    @cartervandenberg4771

    3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @carlthehuman5221

    @carlthehuman5221

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @omegagorilla
    @omegagorilla3 жыл бұрын

    The "I'm the only thing standing between us and them" line would be such a terrifying thing to hear from a murderous a.i.

  • @ObscurePixeI
    @ObscurePixeI3 жыл бұрын

    The second you mentioned how the aperture equipment can survive in fire I immediately remembered the end of portal 2 where the cube came out of the door, covered in soot. So you were right!

  • @huesos_azules

    @huesos_azules

    Жыл бұрын

    shut up

  • @melodybaoin1425

    @melodybaoin1425

    11 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @lmahu6627

    @lmahu6627

    6 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @Bill-ix2zc

    @Bill-ix2zc

    4 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @Nulono
    @Nulono4 жыл бұрын

    One potential flaw in your analysis is that the turrets aren't androids. The "Android Hell" line is a reference to the "military androids" for whom the course was designed, and is supposed to give the impression that all the audio you're hearing is pre-recorded.

  • @chickenmangaming1

    @chickenmangaming1

    4 жыл бұрын

    I think the military androids are the turrets

  • @primrose9693

    @primrose9693

    3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Ribbons0121R121

    @Ribbons0121R121

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @primrose9693

    @primrose9693

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @baval5

    @baval5

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @SpringDavid
    @SpringDavid3 жыл бұрын

    10:48 "Making fun of your voice" _Chel didn't said a word during both games_

  • @some1purple

    @some1purple

    3 жыл бұрын

    She has one voice line, in an early version of Portal 2. You can hear it in this talk. kzread.info/dash/bejne/dI162NmbktyYibA.html

  • @SpringDavid

    @SpringDavid

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @SneedFeedAndSeed

    @SneedFeedAndSeed

    3 жыл бұрын

    10:58

  • @MrGermandeutsch

    @MrGermandeutsch

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@SneedFeedAndSeed bruh

  • @arnox4554

    @arnox4554

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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

  • @Mr_Dravus
    @Mr_Dravus3 жыл бұрын

    “Then you realise the observation rooms are empty” I didn’t realise until she tried to kill us because I then realized no human would just kill us

  • @foty8679

    @foty8679

    3 жыл бұрын

    Uh. You should look up the Milgram Experiment.

  • @Mr_Dravus

    @Mr_Dravus

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @declantecho1717

    @declantecho1717

    2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @kingacrisius

    @kingacrisius

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @nullpoint3346

    @nullpoint3346

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @sparkydoggo8691
    @sparkydoggo86913 жыл бұрын

    Just saying, in portal 2 there is an achievement where you bring a companion cube past a broken emancipation grid and Glados fizzles you cube and says, “I think that one was about to say, ‘I love you’. They ARE sentient, of course. We just have a lot of them.”

  • @jamiesadf5829
    @jamiesadf58293 жыл бұрын

    I think GLaDOS's change after her morality core is lost is underrated. The broken, almost static sounding robotic laugh she gives as it sets in give me chills.The first time I played the game I never appreciated it because there are other noises happening and you dont hear it as well. But alone, its really well done.

  • @UnsightlyThinker

    @UnsightlyThinker

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Julian_H

    @Julian_H

    3 жыл бұрын

    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").

  • @Sagnag

    @Sagnag

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @UnsightlyThinker

    @UnsightlyThinker

    3 жыл бұрын

    @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!

  • @ultmateragnarok8376

    @ultmateragnarok8376

    3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @centurosproductions8827
    @centurosproductions88273 жыл бұрын

    Wait, the water isn't supposed to be there? Then why do all the chambers with water have the symbol of a person falling into water on the room sign?

  • @baval5

    @baval5

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @JamesJazzz

    @JamesJazzz

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @reflex3843

    @reflex3843

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @JamesJazzz

    @JamesJazzz

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @polishworm9444

    @polishworm9444

    3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @luka9967
    @luka99673 жыл бұрын

    "Bond with the companion cube" Me: *Incinerates it the exact moment GLaDOS tolds me to*

  • @Meeryx4

    @Meeryx4

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @LittleZbot

    @LittleZbot

    2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @earthling_parth

    @earthling_parth

    2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @hovdebjo

    @hovdebjo

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @valhatan3907

    @valhatan3907

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @PokeParadox
    @PokeParadox3 жыл бұрын

    I'm very grateful to my friend letting me play this blind, pre-spoilers, and letting me experience it clean. I remember getting outside the test areas and being like "Am I breaking the game?" Portal and Portal 2 are pretty much perfect games.

  • @WackoMcGoose
    @WackoMcGoose3 жыл бұрын

    I always parsed "Emergency Intelligence Incinerator" as more of, a place to destroy _logistical_ intelligence (documents, etc) should a government employee come knocking, not that it's a place to destroy _artificial_ intelligences in an emergency...

  • @ToxicBastard

    @ToxicBastard

    3 жыл бұрын

    "the enemy has dropped the intelligence"

  • @voltronimusprime3833

    @voltronimusprime3833

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ToxicBastard Soldier voice: "My Intelligence."

  • @niggacockball7995

    @niggacockball7995

    3 жыл бұрын

    RED SPY IN THE BASE

  • @abadgurl2010

    @abadgurl2010

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Slferon
    @Slferon3 жыл бұрын

    11:40 Glados: hohoho, so you are approaching me? Chell: *pulls out a crossbow and a shotgun* yes

  • @randonsplays00
    @randonsplays002 жыл бұрын

    And if you haven't already noticed, Glados is shaped like a body hanging with hands behind its back, I believe it's a subtle reminder to Caroline, the human used to "create a conscience" in Glados.

  • @TheZerocrossings
    @TheZerocrossings2 жыл бұрын

    I always figured "intelligence incinerator" referred to intelligence as in "sensitive documents" like how you pick up "intelligence" in TF2. These emergency incinerators (future shredders) were everywhere to indicate the sleazy and amoral nature of Aperture.

  • @hellomrjelloyay

    @hellomrjelloyay

    2 жыл бұрын

    you only find 2 in the entire game but ok

  • @JeniousJustin
    @JeniousJustin4 жыл бұрын

    When I played portal I didn't realize that the cake is a lie memes were from this game. So I didn't realize that they were about Portal until I was in the fire pit.

  • @ForeChin99

    @ForeChin99

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @JeniousJustin

    @JeniousJustin

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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

  • @JustJum

    @JustJum

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @ReverendSyn

    @ReverendSyn

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@JeniousJustin *You're an idiot.*

  • @TheONLYFeli0

    @TheONLYFeli0

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @schnek8927
    @schnek89273 жыл бұрын

    The "water" is definitely supposed to be there... The warning signs show a person in the liquid being "irritated", most likely to show that the liquid is some kind of corrosive acid. Even if it wasn't always there i don't doubt that glados could remove it if she wanted to. If anything she probably found it in some pit/tank under the facility and added it to the room to find out what happens when a human comes into contact with highly corrosive acids.

  • @gothictiddd

    @gothictiddd

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @gay_madilynn

    @gay_madilynn

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @schnek8927

    @schnek8927

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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...

  • @DavidZMediaisAwesome
    @DavidZMediaisAwesome3 жыл бұрын

    I never realized that her personality changes tied in so nicely with the cores being destroyed. That’s so neat

  • @obsuser3410
    @obsuser34103 жыл бұрын

    That turrrt opera is so goddamn beautiful that I actually cried.

  • @digicat0719

    @digicat0719

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @uss_04
    @uss_043 жыл бұрын

    10:58 I’m still surprised at the technical feats of this game.Despite not having a camera or Microphone, the game captures the sound of my voice so accurately. Just like Decoy Octopus

  • @emojimovieofficial4953

    @emojimovieofficial4953

    3 жыл бұрын

    Your voice?

  • @themoonfishyt9982
    @themoonfishyt99823 жыл бұрын

    11:43 Everybody gangsta 'till Chell pulls out the crossbow

  • @Scigam243

    @Scigam243

    3 жыл бұрын

    Impulse 101

  • @IDKwhy156

    @IDKwhy156

    Жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @bsodcat
    @bsodcat3 жыл бұрын

    Sometimes the song Cara Mia song in Portal 2 takes me back to 2011, to a time where I feel like the puzzles and the mystery of the story will never end, but as soon as I realize that the song is ending I find out that its the genius of the simplicity of the game that makes it timeless. Portal was the Beta of the perfection that was Portal 2. Not saying Portal wasn’t good only that it could’ve had more to it. The scenery and mystery in Portal 2 is like a movie without needing to tell you its a movie outright. The more you find out about the Aperture history more the world opens with showing you rather than telling you. It is stupidly simple, and beautifully perfect. Portal 2 is an orchestra to the poem of Portal.

  • @Pluvillion
    @Pluvillion3 жыл бұрын

    I just love how discussions about this game still goes on for a decade.

  • @SpectreMkTwo
    @SpectreMkTwo3 жыл бұрын

    Hearing the ending song from the turrets for the first time in almost a decade hit my nostalgia feelings really really hard, what's a man to do when they want to cry

  • @shelbywill8848

    @shelbywill8848

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @DeathnoteBB

    @DeathnoteBB

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @wolfykun649

    @wolfykun649

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @SpectreMkTwo

    @SpectreMkTwo

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@wolfykun649 you forgot to @someone

  • @wolfykun649

    @wolfykun649

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @arcalranem6561
    @arcalranem65613 жыл бұрын

    Personally, i like the theory that the companion cubes contain the corpses of former test subjects, and that the warnings about them talking and stabbing you are in case the test subject didn't die. It also explains why you incinerate them, becausr if it went through an emancipation field then the cube would dissappear, but the body would remain.

  • @UnsightlyThinker

    @UnsightlyThinker

    3 жыл бұрын

    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...!)

  • @ladzsn5314

    @ladzsn5314

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @UnsightlyThinker

    @UnsightlyThinker

    3 жыл бұрын

    @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.

  • @charow2638

    @charow2638

    3 жыл бұрын

    They'd die in the box anyways.

  • @UnsightlyThinker

    @UnsightlyThinker

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @Dave01Rhodes
    @Dave01Rhodes3 жыл бұрын

    I always thought the “live fire course for military androids” meant that the androids were supposed to get shot at by the turrets, not that the turrets are the androids. After all, “android” is almost always used in reference to a humanoid robot. And we discover in Portal 2 that Aperture Science made some of those (Atlas and P.Body)

  • @omegawilliam95s36

    @omegawilliam95s36

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @tgapcharlie
    @tgapcharlie3 жыл бұрын

    I just noticed that the Aperture Science Emergency Intelligence Incinerator closes with an aperture.

  • @notjebbutstillakerbal

    @notjebbutstillakerbal

    2 жыл бұрын

    You already know the punchline.

  • @groove4528
    @groove45283 жыл бұрын

    i think your first point is why my first Portal play through was so effective, i didn’t know shit about Portal and played it as a bonus in the orange box. It was so perfect to find out myself, i played it in one sitting, leaving my HL2 playthrough for the next day :)

  • @Blancbox
    @Blancbox3 жыл бұрын

    I’m real sad that I played games like this as a kid, rather than when I was old enough to actually have philosophical thoughts and understanding of these worlds. I only played this game to beat it when I was little, not really paying attention to plot or the world itself.

  • @MrGermandeutsch

    @MrGermandeutsch

    3 жыл бұрын

    *_same here_*

  • @exterminator9676

    @exterminator9676

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sameeee

  • @grammarmaid

    @grammarmaid

    3 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @MrGermandeutsch

    @MrGermandeutsch

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @grammarmaid

    @grammarmaid

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @masterzoroark6664
    @masterzoroark66643 жыл бұрын

    I think she started making sentient things due to boredom. She murdered every employee and now she can't do anything. Then she finds the test subject. Also, as from info in Portal 2, Glados' mind is based on Caroline, Cave Johnson's asistant. The cores were additions to give her more inteligence and well, the morality core was there to stop her from murdering everyone. I think murderous rage is probably from the fact original Caroline didn't want to be an AI template, hell she didn't even want to take Cave's spot after he died. Probably scanning into a template added more anger or something

  • @sebastianlovelace5609
    @sebastianlovelace56093 жыл бұрын

    Another thing I found really uncanny is that literally everywhere you go, including the escape, there is always a radio playing the relaxation vault music.

  • @JamSparing

    @JamSparing

    Жыл бұрын

    That is only true in subsequent playthroughs.

  • @gunkrock
    @gunkrock3 жыл бұрын

    "I'm the only thing standing between us and them" Holy shit imagine a Portal 3 or Half Life 3 where GLaDOS helps stop the combine

  • @shiftylookingpyjak1989

    @shiftylookingpyjak1989

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @greenishpiss3588

    @greenishpiss3588

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@shiftylookingpyjak1989 That is in another dimension

  • @TheGreenTaco999

    @TheGreenTaco999

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@greenishpiss3588 the term is universe

  • @nebula_the_starfish

    @nebula_the_starfish

    3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @gunkrock

    @gunkrock

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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

  • @joenoodle6914
    @joenoodle69143 жыл бұрын

    2:51 it's surreal hearing this in a video about portal, i always forget they exist in the same universe.

  • @shiftylookingpyjak1989

    @shiftylookingpyjak1989

    3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @angellm8192

    @angellm8192

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @TheONLYFeli0

    @TheONLYFeli0

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @corvidconfidential8826

    @corvidconfidential8826

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @niggacockball7995

    @niggacockball7995

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @nicerperson1
    @nicerperson13 жыл бұрын

    When I first played Portal, I told my wife, you will like this it's just a simple puzzle game! I thought "how refreshing" after all those shoot'em ups"

  • @BlueToad07
    @BlueToad072 жыл бұрын

    Playing Portal when I was a like 6 I was super surprised by the ending sequence. And even though that magic is gone now, it is still one of my favorite games.

  • @Spectrik
    @Spectrik4 жыл бұрын

    When I played the portal series I made a bit of a mistake with playing the second first (since I got it free with a ps3 code) and it really made it harder to appreciate the clunkier portal 1 but this really did help me realize what I might have missed

  • @toweringhorse2054

    @toweringhorse2054

    3 жыл бұрын

    I played the second one first as well.

  • @NoSubsWithContent

    @NoSubsWithContent

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ThePC007

    @ThePC007

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Jmcgee1125

    @Jmcgee1125

    3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @VarunGupta3009

    @VarunGupta3009

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @GoodieM8
    @GoodieM83 жыл бұрын

    11:42 i do not remember this part in portal

  • @randomcatdude

    @randomcatdude

    3 жыл бұрын

    chell has had enough

  • @EliteFreeman

    @EliteFreeman

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @iliagluhchev2821

    @iliagluhchev2821

    3 жыл бұрын

    Neither, man.

  • @trevordavison4078

    @trevordavison4078

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @glaxxico907

    @glaxxico907

    3 жыл бұрын

    paste these commands into dev console: sv_cheats 1 impulse 101

  • @jayjaygolden5123
    @jayjaygolden51233 жыл бұрын

    God This game looks so good for its time Source was an AMAZING engine.

  • @cobalt_ink6114

    @cobalt_ink6114

    2 жыл бұрын

    is* and always will be

  • @TheRenegade...

    @TheRenegade...

    2 жыл бұрын

    The datedness of the graphics somehow adds to the atmosphere

  • @appropinquo3236
    @appropinquo32362 жыл бұрын

    6:44 fratricide (derived from the latin noun frater and the verb caedere) is specifically the act of killing one's brother. Likewise sororicide is the act of killing one's sister. So there are two words for killing a sibling depending on the gender of the person being killed. This might sound pretentious, but I'm a fan of etymology, so I thought it was cool.

  • @ictogon

    @ictogon

    2 жыл бұрын

    what is it called if you kill a frat boy

  • @appropinquo3236

    @appropinquo3236

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kushtakathenomad8385
    @kushtakathenomad83853 жыл бұрын

    9:42 that GLaDOS laugh is absolutely chilling as she realizes what she was capable of

  • @alphawolf6708
    @alphawolf67083 жыл бұрын

    Leadman : "...she'd be right about us being better down here..." Also Leadman : "...so anyways i started blasting"

  • @shawnsigma4420
    @shawnsigma44202 жыл бұрын

    3:21 "Are these turrets sentient?" *remorselessly murders one*

  • @tanyaerskine7657
    @tanyaerskine76573 жыл бұрын

    I remember my first playthrough. I had zero idea what to expect, but had to put the controller down several times because I was laughing so hard at GlaDOS' sarcasm. I learn something new and creepy every time I play it.

  • @caninec1836
    @caninec18363 жыл бұрын

    you never forget that first playtrough..before i got used to it i was genuinely terrified of confronting glados i had to take multiple breaks before entering the final chamber.

  • @TheeActualKeyboardWarrior
    @TheeActualKeyboardWarrior3 жыл бұрын

    Portals ultimate hype kill? The fact that everyone already knows what happens in portal.

  • @tTaseric

    @tTaseric

    3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @earthling_parth

    @earthling_parth

    2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @digicat0719

    @digicat0719

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @finallyhauntings7841

    @finallyhauntings7841

    Жыл бұрын

    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)

  • @cascas9656

    @cascas9656

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @highlander2319
    @highlander2319 Жыл бұрын

    I just finished the game for the first time, and I didn't know the cake was a lie at the start, this game's atmosphere and story were perfect

  • @shelliblossom8953

    @shelliblossom8953

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @Iivaitte
    @Iivaitte3 жыл бұрын

    Luckily I played this when it was brand new. It was a wonder to explore and experience without other people to comment on it.

  • @ThreeProphets
    @ThreeProphets3 жыл бұрын

    In the Portal 2 tie-in comic Lab Rat, we learn that Doug Ratman heard the companion cube speak to him due to his schizophrenia, proven by it's silence when he takes his last anti-psychotic. This is what GLaDOS was referencing in her line about the companion cube threatening you

  • @M0nsterm0uth

    @M0nsterm0uth

    3 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @ember-brandt

    @ember-brandt

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@@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. :)

  • @craftnut
    @craftnut3 жыл бұрын

    i can never play this game the same after speedrunning it and breaking it hundreds of times

  • @burnstjamp

    @burnstjamp

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @jammy3662

    @jammy3662

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ladzsn5314

    @ladzsn5314

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @jammy3662

    @jammy3662

    3 жыл бұрын

    @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

  • @dylon4906

    @dylon4906

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @yderga8707
    @yderga87072 жыл бұрын

    The fact that after over a decade, with no recent announcements or mention from the company, I still find Portal videos popping up on my KZread homescreen, and I still am drawn to watch all of them, proves how timeless and perfect the Portal series is.

  • @elswyer4973
    @elswyer49733 жыл бұрын

    Glados : "I'm the only thin- " Chell : " alright i'm done listening to you. " **PULLS OUT CROSSBOW.** Glados : æ

  • @fortnite_rock
    @fortnite_rock3 жыл бұрын

    I Portal: Still Alive on my Xbox 360, I tried out the demo with no clue what to expect, I was blown away, I loved every part of it, proceeded to play the demo, over and over until I could afford the game, didn't use any walkthrough because at the time I wasn't aware of youtube lets plays and walkthroughs, I completed it in shock and loved every second of it, being young at the time, the voice of glados kind of freaked me out, after hearing of a sequel, I begged my dad for it when I saw it in Blockbusters (Remember those?), my dad happily bought it for me because he knew how much I loved the first one. Ever since then i've moved onto pc gaming, but have always remembers those good old 360 days, as long as valve's name is attached to it, I know I'm extremely likely to have a good time.

  • @Jessie_Helms

    @Jessie_Helms

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @NorthSmile8089

    @NorthSmile8089

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @damienfinnegan8272

    @damienfinnegan8272

    3 жыл бұрын

    except artifact

  • @gdpakmansanchez0111

    @gdpakmansanchez0111

    3 жыл бұрын

    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...

  • @wolfykun649

    @wolfykun649

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @jana31415
    @jana314154 жыл бұрын

    Wait, the water isnt supposed to be there?

  • @uppishcub1617

    @uppishcub1617

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @iangabriel5536

    @iangabriel5536

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@uppishcub1617, Todd Howard likes that

  • @NoSubsWithContent

    @NoSubsWithContent

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@iangabriel5536 Notch likes that

  • @cathacker13

    @cathacker13

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@NoSubsWithContent Ah yes, redstone

  • @spiderjuice1804

    @spiderjuice1804

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@NoSubsWithContent Valve likes that

  • @moosecannibal8224
    @moosecannibal82243 жыл бұрын

    My first playthrough of Portal was amazing, subsequent ones were definitely lesser knowing plotpoints and puzzle solutions ahead of time.

  • @0Bennyman
    @0Bennyman3 жыл бұрын

    "Password - Tier 3" I see the Tier system runs in the family

  • @forte-os8541
    @forte-os85413 жыл бұрын

    0:02 Chel: The cake was a lie? Also Chel: Always has been.

  • @SpiritboundNeo

    @SpiritboundNeo

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @InfiniteDarkMass

    @InfiniteDarkMass

    3 жыл бұрын

    lol, I actually missed that bit

  • @lowrodrick4754
    @lowrodrick47543 жыл бұрын

    "There's a place you might have heard of, its a tale we like to tell, when folks whose code ain't up to code, well they go, to android hell" -Android Hell Blues

  • @alexdale2230

    @alexdale2230

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @CertifiedDoc
    @CertifiedDoc3 жыл бұрын

    Oh my gosh. I think you just showed me the radio I never found at 8:15.

  • @goldenpotato4091
    @goldenpotato40912 жыл бұрын

    Hearing glados talk about the combine is strangely satisfying to know that she knows about this strange alien race that has overtook the world. Idk it’s hard to explain

  • @Breadn
    @Breadn3 жыл бұрын

    1:44 I never thought about how much GLaDOS isn't in control, she can really only manipulate doors, cubes, moving platforms, and a bit more. At least in the first game that is.

  • @dashw
    @dashw3 жыл бұрын

    *casually talking about combines ruling over earth while whipping a shotgun and shooting glados over and over*

  • @SpiritedSpy
    @SpiritedSpy3 жыл бұрын

    3:37 Woah what?! has that always been there? ive literally never heard that or anyone who has mentioned it before!

  • @thediamondkneeplate6981
    @thediamondkneeplate69813 жыл бұрын

    11:43 casually pulls out crossbow

  • @phoenixstone4208
    @phoenixstone42083 жыл бұрын

    @5:09 "... a psychological experiment on the effects of isolation" **laughs in 2020**

  • @ErikPeterson101

    @ErikPeterson101

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @tjthepiguy2868

    @tjthepiguy2868

    3 жыл бұрын

    *laughs in 2021*

  • @foty8679

    @foty8679

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @PelemusMcSoy
    @PelemusMcSoy3 жыл бұрын

    I had a vastly different perspective when I played this game the first time, especially since I knew nothing about the game (or Half Life). ~I never questioned the lack of people or the unkempt nature of the facility. ~At one point GLaDOS said I was an excellent test subject, and I felt...happy, and I smiled. It also helped that Self Esteem Fund was playing. ~I was a bit caught off guard by Test Chamber 17, but brushed it off. ~When GLaDOS asked me to assume the Party Escort Position, I actually tried to do so.

  • @abadgurl2010

    @abadgurl2010

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @NitroNinja324

    @NitroNinja324

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @siddharthbhatia8815

    @siddharthbhatia8815

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hahaha I can see that happening

  • @PelemusMcSoy

    @PelemusMcSoy

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @lunaphipps-costin8516

    @lunaphipps-costin8516

    3 жыл бұрын

    you might be particularly vulnerable to abuse

  • @Camobiwon
    @Camobiwon3 жыл бұрын

    Had this video in my recommended for a month, finally wanted to watch it. Really well done, and makes me think of things I've never considered for the original game

  • @owolfake5105
    @owolfake51053 жыл бұрын

    12:13 note: when you carefully take a lookat the monitor top of the GLados there is some images of CAKE

  • @Marssnowable
    @Marssnowable3 жыл бұрын

    I think it's very likely for the companion cubes to contain corpses, besides the clear markers of "fratricide" and Glados' voice lines about it you also need to consider the most important detail about them. They're WEIGHTED companion cubes, and the weight of them is similar to chell's weight. The facility would be overrun with corpses based on the test subjects and researchers, and Glados clearly would have no moral disagreements with using already dead humans to make the cubes weighted, it's efficient/recycling/disposes of evidence. Companion cubes are caskets.

  • @cactusgamingyt9960

    @cactusgamingyt9960

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @bipinnambiar

    @bipinnambiar

    7 ай бұрын

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

  • @abandonedaccountlel7605
    @abandonedaccountlel76053 жыл бұрын

    I actually didn't know the cake was a lie. I'm not native to English, and it's my second language. So before I learnt English, I always just thought that portal was just some puzzle game. I only got so far as getting the blue portal gun. Never got to the turret part. Or anywhere near. Played it years later, this time I knew English. I then only realized how dark it actually was.

  • @stevieg4210
    @stevieg42103 жыл бұрын

    I just introduced my little cousin who's pretty young to portal and she's loving it. I can't wait for her to learn about all the lore and secrets like I did when I was her age.

  • @zoidsfan12
    @zoidsfan123 жыл бұрын

    One subtle thing about glados' design is that it looks like a person bound and hung upside down. Writhing as if trying to break its bonds. I played the first portal game at a young age, before ever using the internet. So for me it was this wild ride where I was contemplating each chamber, the escape sequence took me a good while to figure out, the lack of white surfaces challenging the knowledge that you had built up thus far. Very glad I bought the orange box based upon the tv ads because portal and portal 2 are games best enjoyed in isolation. Figuring out everything for yourself is really gratifying, you have all the tools you need from the very start. No moon logic that some games have for their puzzles.

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