theVDude wrote:
[1]Why'd I post twice. I guess I'll change the topic.

[2] Go in portal feet first, come out head first? That's how portal seems sometimes.

[1] You can edit your posts.

[2] But it isn't. A portal reflects the universe just perfectly.

I'm starting to get annoyed by the "GLaDOS IS REALLY C. JOHNSONS WIFE. HURR HURR HURR" theory. It sucks in my opinion. Really.

Now, about the newly changed subject, I think Chell is jumping into the portals with the head first.

pestchamber wrote:
I'm starting to get annoyed by the "GLaDOS IS REALLY C. JOHNSONS WIFE. HURR HURR HURR" theory. It sucks in my opinion. Really.

I'm starting to get annoyed by how you make this forum something more like a dating club and less like an actual forum. If this continues, I'm gonna leave.

And also, we forgot this, we know another reason why GLaDOS wanted to be free - flings.

Third, I've already busted the theory of "go in head first, go out feet first".

Fourth, if you are getting nightmares of that theory, try to think of something else.

And fifth, yet the most important complaint I have, is that when we try to get out of dating club and get to the forum, we only result in flame wars (which is bad).

Thanks for listening, now please get to the topic.

I can edit them, but you can't delete, so far as my quick look found. So my double post remains.

Ouch, I hurt the roof of my mouth. A chunk is just like, hanging there. Ew.

I'm running out of portal ideas to change the topic to something we can agree on.

ASBusinessMagnet wrote:
I'm starting to get annoyed by how you make this forum something more like a dating club and less like an actual forum. If this continues, I'm gonna leave.

You as in me?

pestchamber wrote:
You as in me?

I mean, look at threads "Is anyone still in here?" and "XKCD from the other day..." They definitely do not belong to a Portal mapping forum.

ASBusinessMagnet wrote:
I mean, look at threads "Is anyone still in here?" and "XKCD from the other day..." They definitely do not belong to a Portal mapping forum.

Well not anymore. I mean, this section is for discussing ThinkingWithPortals, which was what "is anyone still here" was about at first. I think we kinda got it off topic

EDIT:

I just realized XKCD from the other day is in Off topic, where it belongs, even though it has something to do with Portal.

pestchamber wrote:
Well not anymore. I mean, this section is for discussing ThinkingWithPortals, which was what "is anyone still here" was about at first. I think we kinda got it off topic

EDIT:

I just realized XKCD from the other day is in Off topic, where it belongs, even though it has something to do with Portal.

Kind of like the was this thread is off topic right?

jrlauer wrote:
Kind of like the was this thread is off topic right?

OK, changing the subject;

Aperture Science vs. Black Mesa. How strong this rivalry is and will it come to an end when one of them loses?

ASBusinessMagnet wrote:
OK, changing the subject;

Aperture Science vs. Black Mesa. How strong this rivalry is and will it come to an end when one of them loses?

The Black Mesa facility lost, but members are still alive.

The only thing keeping aperture's tests alive was GLaDOS, since she got destroyed, Aperture Science lost. But the rivalry is still there. When Kleiner talks about AS in ep2, it sounds that way.

pestchamber wrote:
[1] The Black Mesa facility lost, but members are still alive.

The only thing keeping aperture's tests alive was GLaDOS, [2] since she got destroyed, Aperture Science lost. [3] But the rivalry is still there. When Kleiner talks about AS in ep2, it sounds that way.

[1] They're known as the Resistance, and Aperture Science employees (if there are any) are the Resistance too.

[2] But since GLaDOS is still alive, Aperture Science didn't lose.

[3] Even though Kleiner said the rivalry is still there, Eli Vance was more like a rival, because he said Borealis should be destroyed.

(My brother showed that scene in Ep2.)

pestchamber wrote:
The Black Mesa facility lost, but members are still alive.

The only thing keeping aperture's tests alive was GLaDOS, since she got destroyed, Aperture Science lost. But the rivalry is still there. When Kleiner talks about AS in ep2, it sounds that way.

If GLaDOS has been destroyed, and she most likely killed everyone in the Enrichment Center before that, there would be no rivalry anymore. Aperture Labs is dead.

The reason Eli wants the Borealis destroyed, is because the Portal Gun technology could be on board. Dr. Moss tells you in HL2 the Combine don't have local fast transportation, they can only tunnel through from one universe into another, whereas Black Mesa has developed the Calabi Yau-model teleporter, which can teleport people across large, but also small distances. The Resistance has done a great job of keeping the Calabi Yau out of Combine hands so far, but if they could get their hands on the ASHPD, the Resistance would be seriously f*cked, with Combine jumping out of portals all over Earth.

In the words of Eli: "It'll be the Seven Hour War all over again. Only this time we won't last seven minutes."

Ricotez wrote:
In the words of Eli: "It'll be the Seven Hour War all over again. Only this time we won't last seven minutes."

It was about the Superportal. If both the Combine and the Resistance used ASHPDs, it could be somewhat... longer than 7 hours.

ASBusinessMagnet wrote:
It was about the Superportal. If both the Combine and the Resistance used ASHPDs, it could be somewhat... longer than 7 hours.

The point is, how many Combine do you think still roam Earth? Quite a few, I think. City 17 is just one city of dozens, maybe even hundreds. They might have been cut off from the Combine Empire, but if they managed to regroup (and they will with a Portal Gun), they might even manage to create a new superportal.

Ricotez wrote:
...but if they managed to regroup (and they will with a Portal Gun), they might even manage to create a new superportal.

The Resistance would too. Imagine a counter-attack of the Resistance in, like, HL3: Episode One?

ASBusinessMagnet wrote:
The Resistance would too. Imagine a counter-attack of the Resistance in, like, HL3: Episode One?

Hey, hey, hey! HL2:Ep3 isn't even out yet, so I wouldn't talk about HL3 yet.

Ricotez wrote:
Hey, hey, hey! HL2:Ep3 isn't even out yet, so I wouldn't talk about HL3 yet.

The Second Seven Hour War is just not as close as you think.

EDIT:

Ricotez wrote:
...but if they managed to regroup (and they will with a Portal Gun), they might even manage to create a new superportal.

ASBusinessMagnet wrote:
The Resistance would too.

I'll prove Combine hasn't invented anything special Resistance wouldn't.

GLaDOS (perhaps the most advanced invention in HL universe) - both Aperture Science and the Combine, but since it belongs to AS, let's count it as AS.
The energy balls - Aperture Science.
The intra-dimensional travel - Black Mesa.
The one dimension teleport - both Aperture Science and the Resistance.
The Superportal - that's Combine stolen the Resistance technology, so it's actually the Resistance.
The turrets - both Aperture Science and the Combine (and in reprogramming Black Mesa).
The heel springs - both Aperture Science and the Combine (cut).
The weaponry - some of the original Combine guns have real-life matches (except for the energy balls).
Everything else - just not as special.

Ok, Changing the subject;

How can the observation rooms for chamber 14 and chamber 9 be next to each other, as we see it in the BTS areas of Portal?

pestchamber wrote:
Ok, Changing the subject;

How can the observation rooms for chamber 14 and chamber 9 be next to each other, as we see it in the BTS areas of Portal?

The only possible suggestion would be that some of the elevators move you up and some move you down, but the only elevator I see moving you down is in Portal: Prelude, after first GLaDOS fight.