Portrait of a Lady! | PORTAL 2 | Episode 5 | First Playthrough

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MegMage

MegMage

Ай бұрын

Welcome to my blind playthrough of Portal 2!
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@akoot
@akoot Ай бұрын
Crazy that some people genuinely believe this part of the game is boring. The lore reveals make the game for me
@akoot
@akoot Ай бұрын
​@@robinnautica9773 I understand what you're saying, but it's so atmospheric and lonely. It's a choice and I don't see how it's boring. Being left with just you, your thoughts, and some pre recorded messages dropping lore was amazing to me. It was a break from the intensity of GLaDOS and Wheatley.
@robinnautica9773
@robinnautica9773 Ай бұрын
@@akoot Sure wile playing yourself it's the atmosphere. But with watching a let's play it's different. Also some test get quite long and after the lore there are almost no lines until you get back to Wheatley. I don't think it's boring just saying I understand that some people think it is. Portal 2 is a perfect game for me
@claymarks
@claymarks Ай бұрын
I would imagine most people mean that it's one of the less replayable parts of the game. Once you've already experienced all of the lore, the longer stretches where not much gameplay is happening start to stand out more. Still love this section tho, personally
@MegMage
@MegMage Ай бұрын
SAME!
@gloxost
@gloxost Ай бұрын
This part is my favorite part in gsme tbh
@the98themperoroftheholybri33
@the98themperoroftheholybri33 Ай бұрын
What I like at part of this game is how the company clearly changes over the decades, you can see from the style of furniture and the promotional posters how it went from an inspiring science research company to a jaded struggling one, into a soulless company with robotic staff. It's not surprising considering how Cave Johnson's story progressed
@MegMage
@MegMage Ай бұрын
They put allll the details in it, and made it feel like actual time travel!
@colbyboucher6391
@colbyboucher6391 Ай бұрын
The best thing about it is how a throwaway line in HL2 is retroactively the punchline of Aperture Science's entire existence. The tech that everyone in HL2 is desperate for is pointlessly sitting in a perpetual motion machine miles below their feet because some dude built it as a feature for shower curtains in the 40s.
@zyklan2197
@zyklan2197 27 күн бұрын
@@colbyboucher6391 perpetual motion machine? wdym
@keeneym
@keeneym Ай бұрын
So glad you found the portrait, I've seen several people walk right past that secret.
@Skurian_krotesk
@Skurian_krotesk Ай бұрын
*looks at a framed picture of a human woman * looks at a litteral potatoe Its the same 😊
@adamvialpando106
@adamvialpando106 Ай бұрын
I thought I was the only one thinking that 😂
@CirqueDuFreak2000
@CirqueDuFreak2000 Ай бұрын
came here to comment this
@radioactiveassassin5218
@radioactiveassassin5218 20 күн бұрын
Aperture Science wants you to find difference between this picture and this picture MegMage: "They're the same picture."
@shadout
@shadout Ай бұрын
29:00 $60 was less than a week of minimum wage back then. Not good danger money for the test subjects. The point was that by this time they couldn't afford good test subjects and was hiring homeless people to do the testing instead, which is why Cave is making out it is a lot of money... to them. It also shows in his overall attitude towards the test subjects in the announcements being a lot less pleasant from the 1950s test chambers.
@MegMage
@MegMage Ай бұрын
Yep, the mask slipped. Damn. Thanks for this info!
@konstantin3001
@konstantin3001 Ай бұрын
You know, lunar sediment and starch is not exactly toxic, but you would not want to breathe it in. Moon dust consists of tiny shards of broken rock and glass, making it similar to volcanic ash. The sharp edges mean that breathing it in will result in thousands of tiny cuts to the inside of your lungs.
@accywacky2699
@accywacky2699 Ай бұрын
Which Would explain why he would be needing pain pills and coughing a bunch
@elbruces
@elbruces Ай бұрын
He didn't need to spend $70m for moon rocks. He could have made a portal straight there.
@addie1545
@addie1545 Ай бұрын
@@elbrucesWhy have I never thought of that!
@Fly0DB
@Fly0DB Ай бұрын
@@elbruces Maybe their portal surfaces wasn't good enough for that
@auroralong5437
@auroralong5437 Ай бұрын
​@@zoe9190 I don't think she wants spoilers in these comments!
@connorblack99
@connorblack99 Ай бұрын
I love how much this game lets you empathize with glados
@MegMage
@MegMage Ай бұрын
:) :) :)
@pogyt4671
@pogyt4671 Ай бұрын
I wonder what Apeture’s rival company “Black Mesa” was up to during the years.
@colbyboucher6391
@colbyboucher6391 Ай бұрын
Trying to figure out what Aperture had already known for decades, which will never stop being funny.
@crazyguy_1233
@crazyguy_1233 Ай бұрын
It’s never been confirmed but some fans theorize Cave and Caroline were a couple. He respected Caroline’s genius and she cared enough about him to stick with him and his failing company. I personally do feel like they were a couple. But there is more concerning them later on. Oh and you are correct this area is meant to have a part of sexism because the era was very much sexist. You notice Cave talks about only men testing throughout the old tests. The only woman he seems to have at least some respect for is Caroline especially near the end of his life. You can see she became the voice of reason with him. I don’t mind the rambling I honestly am the same way. It’s cool to look deeper than face value and think about the details that relate to the real world.
@bergamt
@bergamt Ай бұрын
She’s married. … …to Science
@spiderturtle5292
@spiderturtle5292 Ай бұрын
I remember I think it was last episode, you called Cave Johnson greedy and businessy. I honestly don't think that could be further from the truth. When they started, he was hiring astronauts, olympians, famous scientists, etc. He was even providing them limos. The man spared no expense on his employees. Then when their employees dropped to homeless level, offering 60 bucks; Cave asked Caroline to prepare "compensation vouchers." I don't think he's greedy; just broke. It seems like every cent he makes goes back into this business in some form, so personally I get the vibe that he's genuinely passionate about all of this, even if he isn't the most ethical.
@accywacky2699
@accywacky2699 Ай бұрын
I mean, calling the test subjects employees is stretching it, like the recordings said they basically picked up homeless and destitute 'nobodies' and put them through their hazardous tests, the survivors got 60 bucks, the injured, crippled and dead became material for further experimentation and tests. ^_^;
@spiderturtle5292
@spiderturtle5292 Ай бұрын
@@accywacky2699 Sure, but that would probably fall more under the ethics side of things rather than greed. Doesn't change that he genuinely seemed to put out some serious expenses on staff when he could, and was broke enough to rely on vouchers when he couldn't. Both of these extremes suggest minimal greed.
@samuelrosenberg1991
@samuelrosenberg1991 Ай бұрын
I think also like none of the hugely impractically expensive things he's building have any real financial motivations as far as I can tell. Like why is he so obsessed with building all these elaborate test chambers (other than because it's a video game of course)? Aperture has a lot of incredible technology including the portal device itself which was invented in the 50s but they just keep testing it and there's no indication they tried to capitalize on it. My interpretation has always been that Cave Johnson is not necessarily motivated by greed but by a deep insecurity and desire to be seen as a real Scientist even if he doesn't fully understand what that means
@Swenglish
@Swenglish Ай бұрын
I don't think he was greedy specifically in terms of money, but he came from business and he brought a certain business-like approach to science. It was all about doing the maximum amount of science for the sake of doing even more science, instead of making the maximum amount of money for the sake of making even more money. It's still greed, just shifted from money to science, viewing science as a kind of currency of its own. It's not about learning anything useful, just about maximizing the science (from a point of view of not having much of an understanding of what science is).
@spiderturtle5292
@spiderturtle5292 Ай бұрын
@@Swenglish Think the conceptual level of this would align it more with gluttony than greed as it really doesn't come with the quantifiable gains that drive greed. Part of greed is minimalizing losses, which is hard to apply to this concept.
@battenburg6089
@battenburg6089 Ай бұрын
There's going to be a whole can of worms that opens up when you finish this game, and the lore that surrounds the world apeture science resides in.
@nolableslefteldered1231
@nolableslefteldered1231 Ай бұрын
White gel is made from moon rocks! It feels like Soylent Green. Soylent Green is made from people!
@ethanlivemere1162
@ethanlivemere1162 Ай бұрын
"You might wanna lay off the soylent green. I got a memo saying that soylent green is... let's see here... DOUBLING in price." - Alternate Cave Johnson (paraphrased), Perpetual Testing Initiative
@accywacky2699
@accywacky2699 Ай бұрын
Thankfully none of the gels is green
@cobusvanderlinde6871
@cobusvanderlinde6871 Ай бұрын
47:08 "Does a set of all sets contain itself?" Is an easy non-paradox, we can name "list A" as an item on "list A". The tricky one is: Does a set that contains all sets that do not contain themselves contain itself?
@raconianmoon
@raconianmoon Ай бұрын
I mean that's the thing though, if you add List A to itself you've now created List B, which consists of every possible set plus List A. A set of all sets by definition must contain itself, but the moment you add it to itself you also by definition create a new set that isn't on the list
@cobusvanderlinde6871
@cobusvanderlinde6871 Ай бұрын
@@raconianmoon When a set contains a set, it does not also contain the contents of the contained set, just the set itself. If my camp registration form contains a list of things I need to bring along to camp, the list can contain the registration form as an item on the list without any need to somehow fold the piece of paper into itself. The set of all sets that contain the number 2 does not itself contain the number 2... its contents are exclusively sets, and the number 2 is not a set, it is a number. So the set and the contents of the set can be separated for the purposes of containing them in sets. This property cleans up this paradox entirely, because the set can simply contain itself and that would be the end of it. Paradoxes come up when containment in a set is a determinant of whether the set is contained in a specific set or not. If one of the properties of list A is that it contains list A itself, then you don't get a list B by adding list A to itself, because it already contained itself from the outset as list A.
@Tymdek
@Tymdek 23 күн бұрын
​@@raconianmoon I don't think so, Set A contains itself and all other Sets, the same goes for Set A within Set A and so on to infinity. That doesn't really change anything. The paradox only works when you previously define that Set A contains all sets that don't contain themselves. Because then if Set A doesn't contain itself, it meets the requirements for Set A and therefore must contain itself, which is not defined.
@xkepakko
@xkepakko Ай бұрын
I was listening your last 10 min monologue and thinking "SOMA. Play SOMA". So if you haven't already, there is another one to your list.
@cactustactics
@cactustactics 27 күн бұрын
100%! Especially since Meg seems to love finding lore and thinking about stories and ideas, there's so much going on and I think it would really resonate
@dqixsoss7436
@dqixsoss7436 27 күн бұрын
Hard agree
@top-notch8277
@top-notch8277 Ай бұрын
I don't know if anyone is going to read this, but i just got scammed out of my entire paycheck and was crying my eyes out all evening. Your video is the only thing that made me forget about it all, thank you ❤
@theaikidoka
@theaikidoka Ай бұрын
Well, for what it's worth you have my sympathy. Depending on what happened, definitely talk to your bank as soon as possible. Be honest about everything and ask to talk to their fraud department. They may or may not be able to help you, but if it's a known scam you MIGHT have some protections. It's worth a try anyway.
@carlospomares3225
@carlospomares3225 Ай бұрын
If I may ask, how did you get scammed out of your paycheck?
@elbruces
@elbruces Ай бұрын
I came across this. I can't help or anything, but know that somebody on the other side of the internet cares. If that helps at all. It'll get better down the road.
@SorchaSublime
@SorchaSublime Ай бұрын
I love how in the old aperture sequence the script is entirely flipped and you end up carrying gladOS around while Wheatley is the one in control. The insights into her backstory with Cave also do so much to establish a rapport with a figure who has been torturing you for 9...999999999 days
@XeZrunner
@XeZrunner Ай бұрын
1:00:00 I feel that so much! I was actually just a few days ago thinking about this specific thought. We share similarities with both of our parents, and even if just one is a negative person, the thought of you still inheriting properties from them _scientifically_ feels heavy on you. Can you truly change? Can you prevent the same behavior, or are you hard-wired to be that kind of a person? How much willpower do we have to prevent that? I love how you connect the dots with AI and personalities. Your discussion on this is powerful!
@AretaicGames
@AretaicGames Ай бұрын
The compulsion to try to place a portal on any off-white surface can stick with you. Back when I was playing Portal 2 a lot, I found myself looking at the bare concrete walls of every brutalist/modernist building in town, wondering . . .
@defineyour100-njstadl25
@defineyour100-njstadl25 Ай бұрын
55:40 the first thing that comes to my mind is the book/movie Hidden Figures. It's about a group of black women who were essential to early spaceflight
@MegMage
@MegMage Ай бұрын
Exactly!!
@ethanlivemere1162
@ethanlivemere1162 Ай бұрын
GLaDOS watching as Chell lets millions worth of moon rock gel go to waste by talking to an unseen person about sentience and higher powers for 20 minutes:
@SebastianWeinberg
@SebastianWeinberg Ай бұрын
There was, in fact, a type of gel that enabled the player to walk up walls (and on ceilings and any other surface) during the development of this game. However, as cool as that sounds in theory, in practice it turned out that it caused test players to become disoriented, confused, or even nauseous. Who would have thought that primate brains which evolved under the constant influence of gravity for millennia might not handle it well, when the concepts of "up" and "down" suddenly become optional. Additionally, this gel caused the puzzles to become far too complicated - both to play through, and to design. It becomes much harder for the designer to build a puzzle room, if they always have to account for the fact that the player might get into any conceivable position, and might be looking at the level from any imaginable angle.
@PlasticSinks
@PlasticSinks 19 күн бұрын
Oh man that would have been awesome It sounds like the next level after portals. Wich are quite disorienting themselves for a new player.
@keeneym
@keeneym Ай бұрын
48:22 I have no clue, I am also horrified
@StefanConstantinDumitrache
@StefanConstantinDumitrache Ай бұрын
The $60 thing is a joke on the price of the game at launch, meaning if you test you get your spent money's worth.
@madsword19
@madsword19 Ай бұрын
I love how Cave's portrait devolves from smiley innocence to just plain old sinister.
@samuelrosenberg1991
@samuelrosenberg1991 Ай бұрын
Hey I just wanted to say how much I'm really enjoying this series. I've been eagerly awaiting every upload since you finished the first portal. I've seen a couple of other blind playthroughs of this game over the years but yours stands out from the rest with how much care and thought youre putting into the story and characters. I really love the ways you've been analyzing it all and you've definitely brought up some really interesting points I hadn't considered before. Anyway just wanted to let you know how much I'm appreciating this series and I can't wait for your final thoughts and discussion once you've finished the game!
@cactustactics
@cactustactics 27 күн бұрын
Echoing what someone else said about the stuff at the end - SOMA's a fantastic game / piece of media that touches on a bunch of things you talked about and really rewards you engaging with it and thinking about the ideas it presents. It's a really unique experience (in many ways) and I think about it a lot! I always have to point out it's a horror game and the vibes can get pretty heavy, I don't like throwing people a recommendation without knowing what they're getting into. But it's really well handled and a story with a lot of heart and a lot to say about life (with fantastic character performances too), and if you can handle the vibes I feel like it would be incredibly rewarding. If you haven't played it already!
@Xerobound
@Xerobound Ай бұрын
Loving the playthrough! Thank you for the minimal editing, I love seeing the well-earned excitement when finally solving the puzzles :)
@alkacha1
@alkacha1 Ай бұрын
I think we’re all gonna ball our eyes out when this series is over😭
@NotEpimethean
@NotEpimethean Ай бұрын
I think I just now realized. At the start, they had olympic athletes, war veterans, and astronauts as test subjects. Then the tests went so poorly that they had to take in homeless people. Then when those ran out, they resorted to making the employees run the tests. I can only assume Cave died before they phased out human testing, since Chell is probably not a robot.
@Xavier-sl7hn
@Xavier-sl7hn 29 күн бұрын
plus im pretty sure during portal 1 their were still people in cyro sleep they just died between 1 and 2
@WolfHreda
@WolfHreda Ай бұрын
When the puzzles start using multiple gels, this game gets so crazy. The room where you make two different ramps onto jump pads is brilliant. Wow, you worked out the conversion gel quicker than pretty much anyone else I've seen. That's fantastic.
@resting.potato
@resting.potato Ай бұрын
It's fun seeing you making all these silly mistakes and solving puzzles. We've all been there
@gazzamanazza4pm
@gazzamanazza4pm Ай бұрын
I think you were thinking of Hidden Figures during your discussion at the end? It's a book (though I've only seen the movie adaptation) telling the stories of three black women, Katherine Goble Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, and Mary Jackson, who worked at NASA as mathematicians during the space race. Their work was instrumental and is far too often overlooked. The film version isn't the most truthful adaptation of either the book or the actual events, as I understand it - it blurs quite a lot of details, but it was still entertaining enough, and as someone who works in the space industry it did manage to make me curious enough to learn a little more about those three women.
@ShenLong991
@ShenLong991 Ай бұрын
You're really great and good in putting the lore pieces together so far and i like it how you experience the lore... But the puzzle solving is funny to me. I like it but also i wanna backseat game so hard right now. But hey, keep it your way. You're getting there.
@TasteTheWine.
@TasteTheWine. Ай бұрын
23:45 This is my Favorite puzzle in Portal 2.
@elytron6758
@elytron6758 Ай бұрын
I concur. You, fine sir, have good taste!
@EvergreenGoesTube
@EvergreenGoesTube Ай бұрын
Megs rant at the end of this video really makes me believe that she will love Nier:Automata, whenever she continues that.
@Theorak
@Theorak Ай бұрын
The best robots have faults, like humans. The best part of Portal is the story invinting important questions, but never to forget to laugh with it as well.
@Novahri
@Novahri Ай бұрын
I really wanna see you play through Black Mesa and Half Life 2 + Episodes 1-2. It’s covers what occurred on the surface, and you would LOVE the characters in the second game and such, alongside the worldbuilding which is phenomenal.
@th3craftymin3r32
@th3craftymin3r32 29 күн бұрын
The "Good. For him." line isn't meant to be sweet. She's saying, it like when you're scared of something but you're acting tough so you're like, 'yeah, good for them. I would have shown them if they stayed around.' That's the type of way she's saying that line.
@Hezeri
@Hezeri Ай бұрын
I'll go a bit on your tangent. 🤣 I think, that at some point we will give life to an artificial intelligence, but I also think that the point when it happens, is going to be very blurred. Current "AI" is not even near the level of independent thought, but then again the current machine learning models are capable of incredible things. There are glimpses of intelligence, but no proper consciousness. By creating these models, we're actually learning more about how simple some parts our own consciousness are. How simple "command structures" can develop and explain complex behaviors. As portrayed in some medias, we're probably going to make real AI by accident or it develops itself by accident. When that happens, it'll be very scary to think, how that AI sees us. Do we look like slavers to it? I hope we'll be able to coexist.
@TasteTheWine.
@TasteTheWine. Ай бұрын
0:00 Oooo you found the portrait!
@DogAndEazy
@DogAndEazy Ай бұрын
01:01:19 Yes, watch the Matrix, it sounds like you would enjoy; plenty to ponder on with those films :D
@rogertemple7193
@rogertemple7193 Ай бұрын
This is a great morning for Portal 2 and i wish you a happy Tuesday today thank you Meg.🇺🇲🐕🐕🇺🇲
@adamvialpando106
@adamvialpando106 Ай бұрын
I spent so much time messing around with gels in these sections.
@keeneym
@keeneym Ай бұрын
I like trying to see just how much I can actually paint with the gels, see if maybe I can cover it all.
@rubisdrake
@rubisdrake 25 күн бұрын
Hey, if you like this sort of game, you should check out Talos Principle. I would say that the puzzles are actually more difficult than Portal, so have that in mind, but the game explores what you mentioned in the end of the video. Not to spoil anything plot and story related, but... it has to do with asking philosophically how different humans and machines are. It's one of those games that's not just a game... it's truly an experience. Hope you'll consider playing it! I liked the first one so much, I'm playing the second one this year.
@TriforceofShadows
@TriforceofShadows 29 күн бұрын
"HumanHood" Let's Make it a new word in the vocabulary!
@Marti_Docus47
@Marti_Docus47 Ай бұрын
God I would love to have a long conversation with you about life and everything inbetween, those kinds of ramblings are the best just talking about things, I do it with my friends all the time (until they get tired of me🤣) but I just live it, just reflecting on things and being heard... Funny enough something my parents never did and still can't do.. Sorry for the long text 🤣
@johnpittsii7524
@johnpittsii7524 Ай бұрын
Hi Meg hope you are having an great and awesome day ❤
@GoldSrc_
@GoldSrc_ Ай бұрын
Good to see you're enjoying the game and its lore, a few people don't care much about lore. Also, you can zoom with your scroll wheel.
@ohethel
@ohethel Ай бұрын
uhh, caroline was cave johnson's secretary, not a scientist. he did have her appointed ceo of aperture science upon his death though.
@fruitlion8
@fruitlion8 Ай бұрын
Visual storytelling at its finest
@Merigold83
@Merigold83 Ай бұрын
7:28 That happens, when you cut corners.
@fatalwaffle1715
@fatalwaffle1715 Ай бұрын
Awesome Video! I wonder what Caroline's last name is.
@luna010
@luna010 Ай бұрын
Thanks for your rambling, genuinely. Art's ability to connect people and speak to different people in different ways is very neat I think. Personally, I'm trans, and I didn't fully realize that until after playing portal 2; I'm reexperiencing it through that lens and your analyses/interpretations have prompted me to think about the game more deeply. Also, the moment at 12: 48 was poignant to me personally and reminds me of the first time I looked in the mirror and saw... myself. ..yeah. that's all.
@hweaver888
@hweaver888 Ай бұрын
Every day i hope the these posts
@shadowfragment
@shadowfragment Ай бұрын
Important question: which portal is better? The blue portal, or the orange portal?
@brassllama098
@brassllama098 Ай бұрын
i really think the exploration of sexism in tech is such an important part of the Portal story, and if anything I think the feminist themes could've been explored even more. For me this part of the game is so interesting, you learn that Glados was once a woman in an undoubtedly misogynist field, and I feel like her and Chell finding each other and helping each other climb up from the depths of this enormous corporation after being cast down to the bottom by a man (or at least by a rogue AI programmed by men) is a powerful metaphor. one of the questions I think about is how the biases people hold can get transferred to the AI they program, and how much of the sexism from Cave and his scientists gets transferred into their robots. it also sets up the story for an amazing conclusion which I think you'll love!
@pedrobona
@pedrobona Ай бұрын
The Matrix is indeed a classic. I feel like Black Mirror would be right up your alley as well. Could make great content for the reaction channel, who knows!
@DanielM.-mq4rm
@DanielM.-mq4rm Ай бұрын
They offered the homless people 120$, thats almost 4000$ in todays money. Not bad for a few tests and maybe some gasoline or coal in the body xD
@jonnyruok4808
@jonnyruok4808 Ай бұрын
The song that scared you in the opening is "PotatOS Lament".
@Rullisi
@Rullisi Ай бұрын
Is the simulation your favorite sort of existencial thought thingy? I'm very often thinking how I can't make my own decisions. I am like just watching as my brain is just making all the decisions to me and I'm like the spectator, but I am the one who is also writing this. I mean I think everything is already determined. The brain is basically working on impulses and hormones and chemistry whatever and I don't believe a soul or whatever can influence laws of physics.
@thepaladxn7802
@thepaladxn7802 Ай бұрын
Great vid, great discussion. :)
@patriknydensten1363
@patriknydensten1363 Ай бұрын
If you like puzzles and the idea of exploring the philosophy of how humanity relates to robots, you might want to take a look at the game The Talos Principle.
@tonycamas9747
@tonycamas9747 Ай бұрын
Yeah, I made this comment a couple of plays ago. Although I suggested Talos Principle 2 (even skipping 1 would be OK, I think). Totally agree that series addresses the exact issues Meg is interest in. And has great puzzles.
@patriknydensten1363
@patriknydensten1363 Ай бұрын
@@tonycamas9747 I would most definitely not skip the first game. IMO you should play the games in order if you care anything about the story. The story is a big part of the games.
@ICounterfireI
@ICounterfireI 19 күн бұрын
I have tried to watch this series and given it my best effort. It I really nice to see somebody who loves the lore so much and enjoys the story, but I can not sit and watch anymore, it is absolutely frustrating and slow
@parthlad
@parthlad Ай бұрын
I wonder if she'll ever want to play the Half Life series....Black Mesa was a great game
@gutscross9706
@gutscross9706 Ай бұрын
early on Caroline seems comically unintelligent "say goodbye caroline", "goodbye caroline"......... "she is a gem" but she was also super young working as a secretary in a lab, it's quite possible she got really into the science and got really smart
@marlonb1852
@marlonb1852 Ай бұрын
Bruh, she probbably just made a joke
@KSilverlode
@KSilverlode Ай бұрын
It's a joke that was made popular by the married comedy act of George Burns and Gracie Allen. They always ended their act with George saying "Say goodnight, Gracie" and Gracie saying "Goodnight". Gracie played the ditzy wife on stage/screen, but Gracie was the comic genius, while George was the dry humor "straight man" of the team. So it's a callback to the situation of the man "being in charge" while the wife was the "secret" genius who made it all work. Caroline played the faithful secretary, but was a lot more than that.
@luna010
@luna010 Ай бұрын
Imo, that line supports the idea that she may be abnormally intelligent. Interpreting _say goodbye Caroline_ as _say 'goodbye Caroline'_ instead of _say 'goodbye', Caroline_ isn''t even objectively wrong, and shows a failure to read social cues rather than a lack of intelligence. High intelligence is linked with neurodevelopmental disorders like schizophrenia(see rattman) or autism, and failure to read social cues is very much associated with autism. Considering rattman's character, I think it's plausible that the writers thought of Caroline as being on the Spectrum, or as somebody without a particular diagnosis who is exceptionally intelligent and lacks common social skills. It's also, of course, plausible that caroline was intentionally joking, and it could indicate that glados gets some of her humor from caroline.
@kcclubkirby
@kcclubkirby Ай бұрын
I love talking philosophy, so no need to apologize! 😀 I align with Christian beliefs, but I am open to consider all kinds of possibilities. I believe that there is something at work that is working through all people and all things for good. That the best thing we can do is to love one another, because no matter what the truth ends up being at the end of all things, love leaves a mark of good that will last. Love often inspires others to love in return, and it can start a chain of love through generations, that could last forever, even if all else perishes. And if people are eternal beings that persist after physical death like I believe, then loving someone is an act of good that has a truly eternal impact. In fact, the only things we do that are eternal in that case is how we treat people. My goal in life is to love as many people as i can.
@AnthonySmith-bj9mo
@AnthonySmith-bj9mo Ай бұрын
hi Meg
@colerains
@colerains Ай бұрын
I love how intuitively you think with portals. I see you working out potential setbacks before you try something. While other people might have to try it a couple of times to know that it won't work. Like before you even realized what the orange goo did, you know exactly where it was supposed to go and so you put a portal before the ramp.
@purphexyon
@purphexyon Ай бұрын
I love how Karen is the name of the complainer. This was well before the use of Karen as an annoying person.
@MegMage
@MegMage Ай бұрын
The original Karen☕
@Descending.
@Descending. Ай бұрын
It's not karen though, it's Karla
@crazypriest4274
@crazypriest4274 Ай бұрын
would've been funny if that was true, but it was "Karla" on the poster
@purphexyon
@purphexyon Ай бұрын
Youre right. For some reason I couldve sworn it said Karen. Perhaps in the world of Portal, Karlas are like our Karens.
@AtomBackerZs
@AtomBackerZs 12 күн бұрын
💖💖💖💖💖
@marcosespinoza4845
@marcosespinoza4845 Ай бұрын
Is the second game and she says: "I don't know if there's a difference between the portals" she's so Wheatley and I love it.
@HexJK
@HexJK Ай бұрын
After Portal you should play the Stanley Parable. Nearly identical vibe and humor.
@beebfajeejy
@beebfajeejy Ай бұрын
imo the stanley parable doesn't make as much sense in the modern day as it would have had you played it back in 2013 or even in the few years afterwards. it's very much a specific commentary on the games that surrounded it at the time
@SilverWolvesScarletForestSnow
@SilverWolvesScarletForestSnow Ай бұрын
The game should have made it clearer to people that you can get in the elevator, it will not load the next level until the voice acting is over.
@rayv.r.6923
@rayv.r.6923 Ай бұрын
Cave and Caroline are married, it is mentioned in Cave Johnsson's first dialogue.
@ravenofroses
@ravenofroses Ай бұрын
the line is "she's married....to SCIENCE!" which doesn't confirm anything, unless you take it as cave referring to himself as "science." which is a valid interpretation, given his characterization, but it's not explicit.
@elbruces
@elbruces Ай бұрын
"What if Carolyn poisoned him" is a take I've never heard or considered before. Cave Johnson = Elon Musk. Prove me wrong.
@NiramBG
@NiramBG Ай бұрын
Yes, the woke robot agenda! Soon all our pronouns will be AC/DC! :D
@tonycamas9747
@tonycamas9747 Ай бұрын
I heard there was a school in Michigan where the bathrooms have charging stations for kids who identify as robots! 😲
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