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@Bandog23

Ай бұрын

love the valve content

@lucasinfinity.

Ай бұрын

nothing against you but why does your icon look like a creeper texture?

Chell sleeping for only 9 days is actually pretty on brand with Portal's humour.

Regarding the theory of GLaDOS resembling a hanging woman, there was some early concept art that the Combine Overwiki describes as resembling the classic painting "The Birth of Venus" by Sandro Botticelli. Which, to me, kinda fits with Portal 2's references to classical art & music.

1:13:02 it is actually in game, the intelligence core says it repeatedly and is the same recipe that you see in the monitors

Everything being sentient in Aperture could be a reference to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where - at least on the Heart of Gold - every appliance, including doors, have some degree of sentience so they can perform their tasks perfectly by drawing satisfaction from a job well done. They even have a capacity for speech.

@little_kopy

Ай бұрын

'ZELLIG 'ZELLIG 'ZELLIG 'ZELLIG 'ZELLIG

@dutch_asocialite

Ай бұрын

@@little_kopy No it's not, it's the Hitchhiker's Guide. Idiot.

@dutch_asocialite

Ай бұрын

@@little_kopy No it's not, it's the Hitchhiker's Guide. Malloot.

@little_kopy

Ай бұрын

@@dutch_asocialite 'jakker

@dutch_asocialite

Ай бұрын

@@little_kopy Can't you read? My name's Dutch

i think that glados working with the combine means that they have pretty similar technology to aperture, as their turrets show the same behavior and they even have energy fields and AIs (overwatch), and the fact that the combine are after the borealis for its technology ik most of it is reused assets from one game to another, but there could be an in-universe explanation too, as the fact that aperture survived all that time without the combine taking over... maybe glados gave them aperture technology to "keep them out" as she said?

Currently in the work at aperture science watching this on the shitter

@Quaxo21

Ай бұрын

WEAR A GAS MASK

44:07 I think the sound file was cut off because of a GLaDOS line being removed. There was a removed GLaDOS line warning the player about what will happen when they try to escape. “Stop! The device will detonate if removed from an appropriate testing area.” (GLaDOS_15_part1_partyfinalstop-1) Since this line was removed, it wouldn’t make sense that GLaDOS wouldn’t care about the “most important” rule being broken. So, I’m guessing it was cut off in a glitchy way, so there wouldn’t just be an awkward cut-off.

My favorite part about Portal is that Aperture is in Michigan, and specifically the UP in a Salt Mine. It’s always nice to get state representation.

14:21 I wasn't reading the subtitles, I thought you said "valve *FIRED* the entire development team" LMFAO

51:41 The Turrets in Nova Prospect kind of behave like the turrets in Aperture, as they shoot all their bullets and cease to function when toppled over.

the holy Trinity of valve gaming, 1lucia, LambdaGeneration and ESCalation joke was that they were all supposed to be German but I couldn't find a third German KZreadr so I added LambdaGeneration in and called it a day

@svijj_

Ай бұрын

Also RadHaz and RichterOvertime

@radiationhazardsfather6310

Ай бұрын

RADIATION HAZARD

@e.l.wallace9060

Ай бұрын

I was looking for these in the replys xD

@what_the_flip_man

Ай бұрын

Purple colonel

@heal_me96

Ай бұрын

CMDR Rileysv is so underrated

1:04:59 I quoted that from the Thinking With Portals forums. Turns out it was referring to lab_lvl1. My current theory is that testchmb_a_12 was just Chamber 18. It was originally ordered between what became Chambers 16 and 17 in the previous naming scheme, and some of the entity names indicate that Chamber 18 was once testchmb_b_00, so I think it was just put in a different spot when it was added back in after the plans for a "Test B" were scrapped.

21:48 Correction, it's not Wheatley, it's an unkwnow personality core. The reason why it's called "Wheatley Crab" it's because in the presentation where this animation was shown, one of the spectators in the crowd shouts "Wheatley crab". But it's in fact, not Wheatley.

@arshu_parshu1999

6 күн бұрын

morality core

"I guess having the main protagonist and antagonist in a game be women without sexualizing them in any way was pretty groundbreaking in the early 2000s." Metroid (1986), Metroid II (1991), and Super Metroid (1994) all would like a word.

@1lucia

Ай бұрын

Definitely not saying Portal was the only one! :P

@epiccoolguyLP

Ай бұрын

they are sexualized with the easter egg

@MariaFloresRopeLover

Ай бұрын

In Metroid for the NES you are incentivized to beat the game faster so that it rewards you with an ending image of Samus losing armor and clothing the faster you beat the game.

I absolutely love icebergs about Valve games, amazing vid!

I have to hand it to you, this is literally the first portal 2 Iceberg that actually taught me a bunch of new things about our favorite game of portals.

I always thought that Borealis incident was a malfunction. Also, funny thing is, I think Portal 2 was 50k years later with the idea that coincidentally Gordon is also there, because [iirc] Epistle 3 says Gordon went so far into the future, people don't even recognize him, or that there aren't any people or something. And when I see the end to Portal 2, I keep thinking: "Man, where the crap are we?"

1:13:02 I believe that the intelligence/cake core says the human recipe lines

Android Hell is mentioned in Portal 2: "Crushing's too good for him. First he'll spend a year in the incinerator. Year two: Cryogenic refrigeration wing. Then TEN years in the chamber I built where all the robots scream at you. THEN I'll kill him." (when you first encounter the bombs)

@jtobecalled7543

2 күн бұрын

Its never specified whether this is really what Android Hell means. Android Hell might have just been a thing GLaDOS uses to scare robots, while the "robot-screaming" chamber is something unrelated. If an AI really did show signs of defiance, it would more likely than not just be shut down and reprogrammed. It doesn't really make sense using processing power to torture an AI and keep it functioning during the torture. Unless you wanna believe in some sorta backwards-effect, Roko's Basilisk scenario. If GLaDOS wanted to test what happens to an AI during years of torture, it would make more sense to program a pre-set defiant AI to torture, rather than "punish" an uncooperative AI. Idk, tho.

1:21:50 did not expect to see a frame from a portal rage comic I made 3 years go get used on this iceberg

1:24:03 heard my name while this was playing as background footage and nearly had a heart attack

@GhostSynthHL2

Ай бұрын

Wake up.

@jd_kreeper2799

Ай бұрын

Wake up.

@H2cool.

Ай бұрын

Wake up

@lucasinfinity.

Ай бұрын

Jason wake up wake up wake up

@elidatkitty1694

Ай бұрын

wake up

Dynocorp isn’t also a thing in the movie Cars?

There is also a GLaDOS voice in cyberpunk 2077 in the delamain missions where you recover the cars that have gone rouge. Not sure why it wasn't included here maybe just an oversight or intentional since I don't think it ties in with the official lore in any way, just an easter egg.

23:30 vanilla crazy cake is referring to the scrapped version of the glados or roller mine pile boss fight, where glados recites a cake recipe and then recites vanilla crazy cake a bunch of times the cake recipe voiceline was tweaked and slowed down and given to the cake core

for the body preparation scene, I think it was referring to the cake core, because if you listen to the cake for long enough it begins to recite materials needed for preserving a rotting corpse instead of the cake recipe ingredients that was already a spiral into madness

14:36 This is actually incorrect. The hooppy thing is a ironic joke. Where they pretend that they didn't think "Cake was a lie" was going to be the most recognized thing about the franchise, and that they were betting that the hoop was going to be the big fish. But it's obviously a joke, I'm not sure how you fell for that.

@1lucia

Ай бұрын

If that’s the case they got me good lol

FINALLY AN ICEBERG VIDEO AGAIN

Fun fact; theres remenints in the files of an "aquarium" core in Portal 2- my headcanon at this point is the aquarium core was the fish's consciousness uploaded into a personality, lmao

gonna be eternally mad at you for making me learn about the 10 hour loop, and at myself for actually going to it.

O Fortuna is over a hundred years old, it is absolutely in the public domain at this point.

1:13:14 In the beta GLaDOS boss fight where the turret room is GLaDOS would say the cake recipe that's on the monitor, it was later replaced by the blue core in portal 1 saying the cake recipe

Christmas come early! Thanks Lucia, very cool

Always good to see a video from you

1:21:10 - 4 - A companion cube got sucked out into space, ended up on the moon, and the image is one transmitted from Wheatley or the Space sphere.

48:27 She IS trapped in Aperture. Even if she has control of the entire facility, she’s bound to Aperture. I’d say the bound woman visual-metaphor is quite fitting.

It is so great seeing you keep doing well in the youtube business (hopefully in life too), from just a couple thousand subs to over 40k! And youre improving in reading of your Scripts. I remeber you being the Eminem of Half Life! Na dann immer so schön weitermachen!

Always a fantastic day when Lucia uploads

Fantastic video as always, Lucia ! Much love from Ireland, Brother.

57:44 originally there were concepts for a single player dlc where you and adventure core would go on an adventure, this was replaced by peer review

25:30 - There is also shipyards in cleveland ohio, it's possible that aperture may have bought or is in some way connected to a shipyard there. The Borealis may have been designed there, or built, or in some way is connected to that because of the shipyards. It could've been built in cleveland and sailed through the lakes to Michigan, maybe as well

29:28 yeah, i doubt it was talkin about that mod, i mean i doubt it get this high on an iceberg, or even be on one, probably refering to the some other thing like being able to play in multiplayer using normal non modded portal 1, or maybe it was intended to be the other way around talkin about those portal 1 in portal 2 coop maps

I messed the icebergs of yours they are always very good to listen too

i remember playing the flash version (and the portal gun mod for minecraft) years before discovering they were both based on a game series.

This video was like a fresh cake, both high quality and sweet (I'm not kidding, this may be the best portal video I've ever seen) Great job Lucia

Nice Iceberg review! Check out for the future videos HL2 mods made by E-40 called CUBE and Hatch-18 demo (Unfinished and canceled due hard drive failure making all works gone)

I feel one important bit about all Aperture devices being sentient is that the companion cube isn't he only thing humming a song, literally every single device has it's own music, dynamically altering the game soundtrack as you stand by or use it, say flying midair after being flung by Aerial Faith Plate will have it's own audio cue.

1:10:25 - In the Lord of the Rings books, the Dwarves were said to have mined too deep and awakened the Balrog demon. Forcing the dwarves to abandon their home. So it could be a metaphorical alegory to Aperture delving too deep into science and awakening a monster (GLaDOS )

Considering “cara mia addio” is in Italian ciel is or a truncated version of cielo (Sky,as you said) or probably a typo, as it wouldn’t be the only one in the lyrics

55:31 Portal Still Alive was an Xbox exclusive expansion that added maps from the portal flash mod, which was a mod for portal to recreate the portal flash fan game but in the source engine. Portal Still Alive was also named after the song, and is not canon at all.

new iceberg i have interest in time to watch the entire video (i love you)

Thank you for doing an iceberg on portal keep going brother

this is gonna be great! I absolutely love icebergs, and I love portal! yippee!

Love your videos!!!!

30:13 ratman is actually present in portal 2 ending as far as i am aware, right after the player goes upwards at the beginning of the ending he can be seen for a split second running down the stairs in the background. its for like a one frame however

@dutch_asocialite

Ай бұрын

If you're referring to the Companion Cube seen moving behind the turrets, that's just a Companion Cube flying through the air. But while it has been disproven, I do like to think that it's supposed to serve as a sort of hieroglyph representing him, since you're not supposed to get a good look at it beyond a blink & miss it moment.

Watched the whole video, really great video keep them up 👍 only critique is the wheatly jumpscare and matpat, was comfy in my bed...

Dug too deep is a Dwarf Fortress reference if ever I saw one. I'd be shocked if there was no overlap between the communities, and all it takes us one use for a joke to spread.

now you need to make an iceberg for the modding for half-life and portal.

ur goated af keep it up bro💪

the fire Prometheus gives humanity represents knowledge. humans were without gift and couldn't survive in the wild like the animals who had fangs and shells. we were gifted the most dangerous gift, fire (which also refers to knowledge). the turret opera is in italian and the translation is basically that glados is (implied) to be Chell's mom and she's letting her be free. digging too deep is a reference to lord of the rings dwarves mining to deep in Moria and waking up a balrog.

Portal 1 had a 50,000 year gap so designs might alternate or change from the nano bots trying to keep the facility from failing.

I aint even seen the video yet and im exited

@1lucia

Ай бұрын

Glad to hear that :D

the cut singleplayer dlc was of cave johnson being revealed to still be alive, like deskjob and him and glados fighting to earn the control of the facilty

@1lucia

Ай бұрын

Interesting. What’s the source for this?

29:28 I think this entry is rather referring to the fact that in the files of Portal 1 there is leftover code for a co-op mode (and it's also somewhat playable from what I heard)

58:06 About the "Scrapped Singleplayer DLC": according to The Final Hours of Portal 2, Valve had considered creating a Singleplayer DLC for Portal 2 with some of the ideas being the Adventure Core teaming up with one of the CO-OP bots, and something either involving the Space Core or beign set in space. These were scrapped and replaced with the Art Therapy DLC due to being to ambitious.

the map file for the test chamber with the pellets actually was leaked

Great video!

The EDP cupcake image 😂😂

Ich find es echt erstaunlich wie du so gut und auch schnell Englisch spricht als vermutlich Deutscher. Finde deine Videos mega ❤

I honestly thought that you would talk about half life post human, as thats where the image of gorden freeman used in the thumbnail comes from, but I'd love it if you made a video about it, but basically what it was, was half life 3, but it got cancelled, I'd love to see a video about it from you, as i myself can't find much info on it

I just happen to type this in and it came up and just released WOW!

51:54 when taken literally, this theory disproves itself. However, this doesn't necessarily mean that she was fighting them off. Just to get it out of the way, it is highly unlikely that the combine didn't once stumble across aperture, or detect it with surface penetrating scans. It wouldn't be a stretch to assume that there would be many of suck scans during the 7 hour war and afterward (assuming the combine has this tech, as it has been shown that the combine is seemingly incapable of creating their own technology and instead relies on cannibalizing the technology of other races - combining, if you will. And yes, I've considered the possibility that the combine haven't taken the scanning technology required to pull this off, but I'm going to ignore that). It's a bit hard to believe that a tiny little facility on a tiny little planet was able to hold off an entire multiverse spanning empire, so one could surmise that GLaDOS struck some kind of deal with the combine - as unlikely as that is, given there isn't much that the combine would want from aperture that they couldn't just charge in and take themselves - perhaps they wanted the results of her testing, which would require her to be active and largely undisturbed.

MatPat just retired and here we are, at least two references in one video

@LastGoatKnight

29 күн бұрын

5 and still counting

@LastGoatKnight

29 күн бұрын

The final count is 7. I didn't edit my comments so the algorythm gets the message that this video should be recommended to more people

Babe, wake up. Lucia just posted the next banger.

Dug too deep, is probrably a Lord of the rings reference, where the Dwarves of Moria had dug to deep freeing a Barlog, that would destroy the city

im here for the cat boy cube where is it bro

Quick thing.The theory that glados is working with the Combine comes from tye fact that the Combine uses Aperture science Energy pellets in there Guns.

"Back to the iceberg" When the iceberg wasn't even touched. Only showed but not touched.

@PhantomDogman

Ай бұрын

But mostly (even by 1%) it's probably the sponsorship asked to do. So I'm not spending my (not existing) money immediately after sponsor segment. Maybe I still would buy it in physical if it would be available in store. But of course not after the segment that is at the start of video or everywhere where before getting decent chunk info about the video topic.

The "GLaDOS worked with the Combine" theory probably has to do with the Combine Overwatch voice sounding nearly identical to GLaDOS after it gets damaged from the citadel explosion.

Yay endlich wieder ein Eisberg.

F-stop sounds really similar to viewfinder so it took like an extra decade but we did kinda get a version of F-stop in the end

@IAmUnderscore

21 күн бұрын

It’s more like superliminal too

29:50 That's not really true, there is a LOT of information about the development stages of Portal 2, there's just not a lot of visuals

Another W video! keep it up

33:22 i thought that they took it down themselves and valve just warned them that Nintendo wouldn't like it

23:36 the man

You should try play half life 2 on 4x or 8x speed

Ur videos are all best things (you made the first iceburg i watched) so you basicly are cooked

Prometheus did give knowledge to humanity. It was just in the form of fire but the fire symbolises knowledge

Hey Lucia. I like your content. I know its not a Half-Life mod, but have you ever played the Matto mods for Far Cry 1 (2005) ? They are made by german modders i think. I saw many references throughout my playthrough. There are four parts. Each part is more and more developed and enhanced. Kinda curious.

1:24:10 I SHOULD'VE LISTENED

I keep getting a failure to post my comment, so I'm going to try splitting it into 5 parts. 36:13 I have a lot to say about Epistle 3 and the Borealis. I have my own personal fan canon about it because I really enjoyed the written Epistle 3 story but I wanted to talk about it first. (1/5)

@1upD

Ай бұрын

I think the way the alternative theories are framed in the video is a little off. The thing is, outside of Epistle 3 there's no mention of the Borealis experiment being rushed because of a crisis. Episode 2 and Portal 2 would suggest the disaster happened a long time ago, possibly in the 70s, and was just a teleporter disaster. (2/5)

@1upD

Ай бұрын

That said, I really enjoyed Epistle 3 so I do have my own "headcanon" about the Borealis. There's an element of Epistle 3 that nobody seems to talk about, and that's that the Hyperborea drydock was actually on an island on the Great Lakes called Tocsin Island. Tocsin Island could be another renamed element, but I don't think it's the same thing as the enrichment center - the island is just such a striking visual. You can just imagine Combine air forces converging on the island over the lake. (4/5)

@1upD

Ай бұрын

So here's my own personal theory. There was a teleporter test involving the Borealis in the 1970s. Whether or not the test succeeded, the Borealis was recovered afterwards and moved to Tocsin Island. (That's why there's photos in Episode 2's files showing the Borealis on the water) This is also why the Borealis has the modern Aperture logo instead of the 1970s logo - it was refitted many times after it was teleported out of the drydock in the 70s. The actual Borealis disappearance happened during the 7 Hour War like in Epistle 3. It was attempting to travel from Tocsin Island to the docks at Arbeit 1, but the teleportation failed and ended with the ship being stuck in non-linear time, existing in a non-corporeal state around the area of Arbeit 3 in the past, present, and future and creating a bootstrap paradox. (5/5)

@1lucia

Ай бұрын

@@1upD I like that theory, and it does seem to make sense. Obviously at the end it took in EZ2 canon which will probably be disproven once a sequel Half-Life title releases (though that last part can simply be removed and it will still fit) The aspect of Tocsin Island was something I never realized. Nice write up! (Also, I'm afraid 3/5 is missing, that's the one being auto-removed lol)

theory: chell slept for 9 days, but because glados wasnt around everything fell apart, so ratman still lives so he can send signals from the moon

GLaDOS with arms is really unsettling lmao

50:24 Futbol means football in Turkish too!

1:21:24 "By the way, why do we all agree that AI generated images suck but AI voice seems so much more accepted?" AI voice wrangler here, it's because AI voices are _much_ easier to get right. I've done a few song covers and voice model covers and they range from having a few artefacts (like subtle scratchiness) to sounding exactly like the person or character I'm generating, whereas even with my expertise in image generation I still can't get it looking exactly how I want it and out of the many AI images I've seen only a handful that are perfect while the rest are too overt even if they look good. That said, there is stigma against AI generated voices, especially as it pertains to making a real person say something they never would, which I would argue is infinitely more pernicious than schlocky images stitching together multiple art styles.

Great Video!(i do recommend watching ossy flowels portal ice berg video.He goes into deeper detail on some of the things on this Iceberg.

@1lucia

Ай бұрын

Yep! He covered a smaller one but he did go into a lot more detail! He‘s a great source for portal knowledge in general :P

1:17:50 "Fine, I'll explain why I hate Multiverse theories by using THIS one as an example!"

bruh never knew rattman raps better than modern rappers

What’s funny is that I just finished your Half Life iceberg video

48:05 You mean the original team at Valve?