Hidden easteregg in emancipation grids?

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Djinndrache
1,442 Posts
Posted Mar 25, 2012
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

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Lpfreaky90
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Posted Mar 25, 2012
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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

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Djinndrache
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Posted Mar 25, 2012
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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/

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andyb
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Posted Mar 25, 2012
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Looks like a sign for a stripper bar.I want one!!!
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spongylover123
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Posted Mar 25, 2012
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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?

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Random
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Posted Mar 25, 2012
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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...
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Djinndrache
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Posted Mar 25, 2012
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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 :biggrin:

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Lpfreaky90
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Posted Mar 26, 2012
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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.
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dinnesch
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Posted Mar 26, 2012
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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.
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msleeper
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Posted Mar 28, 2012
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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.
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Djinndrache
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Posted Mar 28, 2012
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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.
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msleeper
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Posted Mar 28, 2012
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Whatever it is, it's not a "hidden message".
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MasterLagger
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Posted Mar 28, 2012
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Maybe your computer is trying to tell you something. :lol: Out of all the VGUI that it could chose from, it chose the facepalm.
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Djinndrache
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Posted Mar 29, 2012
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MasterLagger wrote:
Maybe your computer is trying to tell you something. :lol: Out of all the VGUI that it could chose from, it chose the facepalm.

"You're doing it wrong" :biggrin:

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Djinndrache
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Posted Mar 30, 2012
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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.

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MasterLagger
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Posted Mar 30, 2012
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Disco! Yay!
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msleeper
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Posted Mar 31, 2012
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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?

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BenVlodgi
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Posted Mar 31, 2012
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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

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Djinndrache
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Posted Mar 31, 2012
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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.

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msleeper
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Posted Apr 03, 2012
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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.