Here's a question I came up with:
If you could have ANY job at aperture science, at any time period, human or robot, portal 1 or portal 2, what would it be?
I would probably like to be a maintenance core for portal 2 modern aperture, or an underground test subject. I really like the ways things mechanically and electronically function and work together, so I would enjoy working behind the scenes a lot. I would also want to be an underground test subject, because I do enjoy solving puzzles, And I like the feel of underground.

GLaDOS/Wheatley , i think its just really cool to control a <High number here> km? of Testchambers/Panels and that stuff, that would be cool

I would be a scientist. (Well, only if it's in an earth where Cave has some respect). If you think about it, it's not worth being stuck in a chamber. I also don't like the control part, because, I'm not going to be forced to monitor chambers all the time.

I would be a personality core. Zipping through the management rail and going anywhere in Aperture I want

I would be a scientist. Cave Johnson is cool!

i'd like to be the guy that puts the visuals together for apertures advertisements and posters etc.
or maybe somebody who monitors non-deadly test chambers and records my comments and ideas on how the chamber worked, what the subject did etc.
heck, there's a lot of jobs at aperture i'd like to have.

tile wrote:
...maybe somebody who monitors non-deadly test chambers...

Does anyone think portal prelude is realistic? I mean, really, you have a larger chance of death without GLaDOS in that game.

yishbarr wrote:
tile wrote:

...maybe somebody who monitors non-deadly test chambers...

Does anyone think portal prelude is realistic? I mean, really, you have a larger chance of death without GLaDOS in that game.

Maybe the test subjects were prisoners and if they could complete the course they were innocent. I really don't know. That's a good point.

Arachnaphob wrote:
yishbarr wrote:

tile wrote:

...maybe somebody who monitors non-deadly test chambers...

Does anyone think portal prelude is realistic? I mean, really, you have a larger chance of death without GLaDOS in that game.

Maybe the test subjects were prisoners and if they could complete the course they were innocent. I really don't know. That's a good point.

No, in the 1980s and up, they were hired employees.

What if when they're fired the only way to immediately get their job back is to complete the testing course. Portal Prelude wasn't even made by valve, was it?

Arachnaphob wrote:
What if when they're fired the only way to immediately get their job back is to complete the testing course. Portal Prelude wasn't even made by valve, was it?

Nope.

Also, I think there was more chance of death in Portal Prelude because there were active hazards. In GLaDOS' chambers, you would only die if you made a mistake.

No, it wasn't, it was a 1 person project I think. But I don't think that they would do that in any place if you think about more seriously. You know, turrets weren't even meant for test chambers. They were just meant to shoot on an android walking through a chamber to see if he could survive the bullets.

yishbarr wrote:
You know, turrets weren't even meant for test chambers.

GLaDOS maniacally laughing in the background

Exactly. That's why they were added.