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[jazzfish]

Blown Minds: "Who might you guess is the earliest president, chronologically, to have a grandchild alive today? Don't cheat. Guess." --wow.

3eanuts: "Charles Schulz's Peanuts comics often conceal the existential despair of their world with a closing joke at the characters' expense. With the last panel omitted, despair pervades all." For the people who enjoyed Garfield Minus Garfield but found it to be a little too upbeat. (See also The Monkeys You Ordered, which replaces the soul-crushing with a great deal of wtfery.)

Chell Nouveau. Very nice. "Your Aperture Science Weighted Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you, and in fact cannot speak. If your Weighted Companion Cube does speak, please disregard its advice."

I actually finished Portal last night, with uilos on the couch behind me snickering at GLaDOS's increasingly desperate psychological warfare ("No one likes you. It says so in your profile: 'a bitter, unlikeable loner whose passing will not be mourned.' That's you. Also, it says you were adopted.") and sympathizing with the ridiculous "how the hell do they expect you to get that?" moment at the very end. Fun times. Portal really needs to be played with an audience, for the full "... did she just say that?" effect.

Everything is getting ridiculously busy and compacted. It feels like there's no possible way I can squeeze everything I want to do into less than a month. Weekends in particular are now booked solid through June, which is a bit of a problem since it's not like an impending move is going to reduce my need for downtime and recovery at all. Hrm.

Comments

[tam_nonlinear]

So is there a song? Because I've had "Still Alive" stuck in my head all day.

[jazzfish]

Oh, absolutely! It plays over the closing credits (sung by the psychotic computer).

If you've not played (or watched or listened to someone play) Portal, I think it's something you'd get a huge kick out of: not necessarily for the video-game aspects, but just for GLaDOS's cheerful machine psychopathy. "At the conclusion of the test, you will be... missed."

[tam_nonlinear]

I've watched Portal, hence being fond of Still Alive. Besides, I needed to know why the cake was a lie. I was asking specifically if there's a new song for the new game.

[jazzfish]

Oh! Sorry. Sadly I have no idea; I've not yet played (or even acquired) Portal 2.

[tam_nonlinear]

Sorry, I thought you were talking about Portal 2. My reading comprehension failure.

p.s. here's my favorite video for Still Alive

[sereg_dragon]

here's mine

[jazzfish]

*snrk* Yeah, that's pretty much excellent.

(Kieran Healy has put together a relevant keynote presentation theme.)

[rbandrews]

I loved the turrets. They were so lonely-sounding... "Are you still there? Where did you go?"

I also loved leaning around a corner to shoot a portal right under one to drop it on its friend. Favorite level. :)

The Testing Center would like to remind you that Robot Hell is a real place where you will be sent at the first sign of disobedience.

[jazzfish]

"No... hard... feelings."

I have to say, though, I didn't realise until much later that you could knock over turrets just by running into them. Made the sequences where they were hidden back in alcoves /much/ harder until I figured that out.

At the conclusion of the test, you will be... missed.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

I shared quite a bit of GLaDOS's utterances with Riss as I went along; I never played Portal at all until Steam released it for free for a month, I grabbed it, and played it through a couple months later.