So let's say there's someone special in your life. Now let's say that special someone shares your obsessive love of Portal. And now let's say you want that special someone to be the special someone with which you spend the rest of your life.

How do you pop that question?

Well, if you're like the intrepid and enterprising fellow Gary Hudston, you contact VALVe and ask for custom lines to be put in a Portal 2 map that will serve as a proposal. He posted on our forums several weeks ago asking for help with a secret project, saying it had been sanctioned by VALVe and also saying Ellen McLain had done custom dialogue work for him. Several mappers agreed to work on it, and a little over a month later the map was released. Congratulations to Gary and Stephanie (she said yes!); I, for one, raise my Aperture Labs mug in a toast. The video walkthrough of the level follows below, and in honor we've decided to toss up the map as the next Community Spotlight.

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And on another note--because one geeky awesome video deserves another--we've got a pretty darn fantastic in-real-life Portal video to show you. Called "Portal: No Escape", it's got special effects that make me smile and a surprise ending that's shockingly unexpected.

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The winners of the official Portal 2 "Exile Vilify" Music Video contest have come in! Here are the top 3 winners:

First Place
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Second Place
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Third Place
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Congrats to you guys! You can view the honorable mentions on the official site here.

As some of you may have noticed, the site was down for a few hours. The server's hard drive went read-only due to some sort of filesystem error. I am still investigating the exact cause, but given that there were some physical drive errors performed during the file system check that was ran while I was getting the server back up, I may wind up replacing the drive later this week or this weekend.

No data was lost, and we have nightly backups of the entire site so there wouldn't have been much lost anyway. I'll post here if/when I will plan on replacing the server's drive.

Keep calm and continue testing. Thanks.

Get-it-while-you can shirt subsection of Woot.com has put their recent Portal "test subject" shirt up on their "it's about to go away forever" section. It's cute, it's simple and best of all it's only $15. Get it while you can!

The Cheese is a Liederkranz via shirt.woot.com

This week we are putting the Community Spotlight on a map that is already a big hit within the community, Angrybombs by MissStabby. The map promises you more explosions than Michael Bay's latest feature film, and features Rick the Adventure Sphere in a similar role as Wheatley as he guides you through the various tests.

Frequent map commentator and Community Contributor xdiesp had these kind words (and premonitions) to say about the map:

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Brilliant map full of humor and genious originality, pairs up the gameplay of Antimatter with the personality of Core IV. Only it's less difficult than the former, and the adventure sphere's lines are more spot-on and fleshed out here. Instant spotlight material, or in the very least the grand prize of the jury at the Cannes film festival.

Download it today and let us know what you think!