Check it out:

rg8jtkoOMJs
(Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg8jtkoOMJs)

This is a NORMAL fizzler, nothing is customized at it. This is a graphical glitch that occured to me once in more than thousand map loads. Is there a hidden easteregg in the fizzlers?
I tried to stand in front of a normal fizzler and find this pattern... no way. This is a really weird grapihcal glitch.

This map is a yet unreleased map by lpfreaky90 which I test-played, lp promised me that the fizzlers are not customized at all.

Did anyone else have this graphical glitch before? It almost looks like a hidden easteregg

Djinndrache wrote:
Check it out:

--you NOT dancing---

This is a NORMAL fizzler, nothing is customized at it. This is a graphical glitch that occured to me once in more than thousand map loads. Is there a hidden easteregg in the fizzlers?
I tried to stand in front of a normal fizzler and find this pattern... no way. This is a really weird grapihcal glitch.

This map is a yet unreleased map by lpfreaky90 which I test-played, lp promised me that the fizzlers are not customized at all.

Did anyone else have this graphical glitch before? It almost looks like a hidden message

The hidden message is:
"I keep facepalming every time you crash my car in borderlands!"

On a serious note: this is really really strange/random :O

lpfreaky90 wrote:
The hidden message is:
"I keep facepalming every time you crash my car in borderlands!"

It's just that YOUR driving skills keep us dying over and over, nothing else!

Parking skills: http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/59584 ... 9D16AC60D/

Looks like a sign for a stripper bar.I want one!!!

the only thing I can say, talk to Valve about it, but then again, they'll just deny it.

EDIT: I checked everything in the fizzler textures and vmts.
Nothing with the white alpha p body texture and not p body texture detail in the vmts.
Did you unpack the bsp and check everything in it?

Since no one said it yet, it's the icon for one of P-body's gestures, but I can't begin to imagine how it got there...

spongylover123 wrote:
Did you unpack the bsp and check everything in it?

Nothing special in there, only materials for toxicslime, underground walls, cubemaps and glass.

I trust lpfreaky when she says she did not customize the fizzler at all. Also her "dafuq?" reaction to this was amazing

Yep; nothing special compiled/zipped/pakratted or whatever.
It's just something that randomly showed up apparently.
First I thought Djinn was pulling a trick on me... But no; this is really random :O.

Shouldn't the person who has played about 4000 maps in his life check his portal2/portal2/materials folder for a recently added texture? I wouldn't be surprised if this was just used in a coop map.

Yeah, wipe out your materials and addons folder. It looks like a VGUI material that's being rendered where it shouldn't. Try it on a stock map.

As said it only happened once. Probably due do a glitch in the new graphical beta driver. Maybe it's really just a glitch that the driver rendered a wrong object due to whatever, I don't deny that.

Whatever it is, it's not a "hidden message".

Maybe your computer is trying to tell you something. Out of all the VGUI that it could chose from, it chose the facepalm.

MasterLagger wrote:
Maybe your computer is trying to tell you something. Out of all the VGUI that it could chose from, it chose the facepalm.

"You're doing it wrong"

It just happened again (with a different graphic) in a map of Motanum.

_-rgJphD_ZM
(Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-rgJphD_ZM)

I think the fact that it's a different image is proof enough that it's probably not an intended hidden easteregg. Still it's kinda funny.

Disco! Yay!

Djinndrache wrote:
I think the fact that it's a different image is proof enough that it's probably not an intended hidden easteregg.

Wait, you actually thought it was a "hidden message" and not just an engine glitch?

msleeper wrote:
Djinndrache wrote:

I think the fact that it's a different image is proof enough that it's probably not an intended hidden easteregg.

Wait, you actually thought it was a "hidden message" and not just an engine glitch?

^^

This is pretty funny I must say that those 2 images just seem so silly, I cant hep but laugh

Djinndrache wrote:
As said it only happened once. Probably due do a glitch in the new graphical beta driver. Maybe it's really just a glitch that the driver rendered a wrong object due to whatever, I don't deny that.

what are you talking about?.... I'm pretty sure the DLC_02 doesn't have a new graphical driver

msleeper wrote:
Wait, you actually thought it was a "hidden message" and not just an engine glitch?

I guess it's better to say a gimmick or an easteregg than a hidden message. I was just trying to make clear that it's not intended which I couldn't exclude in the beginning.

BenVlodgi wrote:
what are you talking about?.... I'm pretty sure the DLC_02 doesn't have a new graphical driver

Never said it's about the Portal 2 Beta. Far from it: I noted that it happened in the non-Beta version of Portal 2.

Yeah I don't know. Maybe I'm too much of a cynic, or I know way too much about how 3D engines work. Maybe I just hate when people try to find "hidden" things in games that aren't really there to begin with. But my instant and immediate thought was a renderer glitch, something completely and unquestionably unintended. If the erroring texture was something like text it would be easy to dismiss it as a very obvious hoax. But the fact that it was some completely random VGUI material made it instantly clear it's just a random renderer bug.