They FOUND Portal's Ending Textures...

Link to MCantow's Tweet, this guy is an insane Geolocator and deserves all the credit for the discovery!: MCantow/status/16...
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Huge discovery was made over on the (formerly) bird app about the forest vista card textures used in Portal's ending - their location was found! Since this is such huge news, I'm here to spread the word as this discovery is incredibly meaingful to me, and is a wonderful conclusion to a mystery I've always wanted to see solved.
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[@OssyFlawol]

This content is quite slop in terms of it's quality, but I wanted to get the news out! Next video is gonna be a good one, it's about Chell's backstory, been working on it for the past few months. :) (also yes i know its a river i fucked up while writing the script sorry)

[@wormcake_]

mmmm yummy slop taste good

[@Hal_Crabar]

I could probably get a picture of the place, as I live in Washington, and one of my uncles works for VALVe.

[@skipmanghondarg]

i think its alright...

[@mrosskne]

what is "portal 2 stinger"?

[@trevise684]

the music is way too high in the mix is the biggest problem, everything else is pretty alright

[@michaelsoftbinbows]

GLaDOS is yet another victim of twitter doxxing

[@algret132]

Oops 😬

[@yamstree2454]

You monsters.

[@EnderFox227]

​@@yamstree2454they did it for science, you monster

[@ArseneNaz]

She has to pay for what she did

[@HenryB6568]

we do what we must because because we can

[@PstrywBerryDraws]

Now that we know the location of the texture at the end of Portal, we can finally work toward figuring out where the hell that got that photograph of that big grey thing in the sky at the end of Portal 2

[@hangry3102]

And don't forget we still don't know where they got that photograph of that big green and blue ball in space. And I mean, there's no way Jeep Barnett snuck onto a rocket ship just to snap a photo of that thing right? But then again... he *did* drive a couple miles for a picture of some trees once. He's proven that he's dedicated to his work...

[@SuspiciousAppleJuice]

what big grey thing? edit: im dumb

[@lukesmith9455]

I'm pretty sure he's referring to that thing that makes portal gel, aka the moon. @@SuspiciousAppleJuice

[@SuspiciousAppleJuice]

yea i noticed@@lukesmith9455

[@fatyoshi1456]

The clouds?

[@itogi]

Now that we know the location, someone can make a better, seamless texture.

[@quickhakker]

and hilariously there is a portal remake coming soon tm

[@quickhakker]

@@TransferInProgress it's on Steam and is fan made I think it's called portal reloaded, but it's not got a release date, I wouldn't be surprised if it was stuck in development hell

[@doctorcreeps2169]

@@quickhakkerportal reloaded is a portal 2 mod with a third time travel portal which released in 2021. A mod with a similar name, portal revolution is another portal 2 mod set between the 2 main games with its own story (similar to portal stories: mel and will release most likely before 2024) but portal: enrichment is a remake of the original portal which has made good progress but for the last few months has been lacking in any significant updates

[@Pacman009]

@@TransferInProgresswhy no use of p2?

[@Pacman009]

@@TransferInProgress it can? The atmosphere is easy to change

[@minerman60101]

Geoguessr feels like a CIA conspiracy to train thousands of people to each be able to quickly track down a location from just a single background shot

[@PoopTickler]

I'd be genuinely surprised if the CIA or some other federal agency doesn't reach out to those people and contract them.

[@that_one_fucking_idiot]

OH SHIT THEY ARE ONTO US i mean haha portal 3 never coming out haha

[@Lernos1]

You'd think that the CIA are NOT interested in such skills being common among the public...

[@mrrooter601]

more like the data is being used to train an AI

[@minerman60101]

@@mrrooter601 no? The players aren't being given an image and told to track it down--that's the skill they incidentally gain--they're given a place in google street view but not where it is. Google maps already knows all of the exact locations: each scene is tied to specific coordinates in their database, that's how Geoguessr knows how close your guesses are.

[@loctite417]

"How the Minecraft Title Screen Seed was Found" but for portal community. Incredible find

[@XRAY81]

Honestly after that i'm no surprised people found portal 1 ending vista location

[@useranmw]

@@XRAY81 kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5yWpmCufpZopMUsi=BZzfWDfvFef-OaPs

[@useranmw]

@@XRAY81 kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6TciqSAm5WlnM0si=biJVmDW3AVfPYy-s

[@Bestgameplayer10]

@@XRAY81Finding the title screen seed is definitely much harder than pinpointing a point in Earth (both are pretty tough though).

[@Discoh]

Geoguessr players are actually insane, I'm astonished at how quickly that got found once it was in their hands.

[@judicatorhurayth1927]

I started to think about it. No matter how vast the world map is they were able to catch a slight detail and found it like a computer

[@the11382]

I think we should be happy they use this skill for good instead of evil. The damage a single Geoguesser player can do...

[@dripnx6381]

geoguessr players have clearly developed the mind of the insane

[@Ma1akai]

@@the11382 Yes, we are basically wholesome and professional doxers.

[@Nerderkips]

the fact that hes calling it a lake again and again is insane

[@idot3331]

Yeah, from just glancing at the picture I can see why you might think it's a lake. But then he kept calling it a lake while describing its river-like features, and then literally seeing that it's a river from satellite view. I don't think English is his first language, but he seems pretty fluent and I don't think there is any language that doesn't distinguish between lakes and rivers... it's quite strange.

[@user-zc4sx9ig6p]

​@@idot3331it's his first language because he's aussie

[@undecidedmajor1664]

Every day I thank God my parents never forced me to believe in Australia.

[@colatf2]

@@idot3331he’s what we call “stupid”

[@JeepBarnett]

Hello. Thats some nice detective work! No, I didn't take this photo. I think Jeremy Bennett put this scene together, so it may have been him. Kim Swift might remember.

[@OssyFlawol]

Thank you so much for clarifying!! I made a safe assumption, but this is very good information to know :)

[@Toasted-ej3dr]

👁️👁️

[@rzdnx]

Omg I love portal!!❤

[@FatEngineerGaming]

just give geo guesser players even the slightest info on the surrounding of your secret lair, and they can find it. the US government should hire them to mark enemy cords

[@MinorLife10]

I mean, yeah!

[@StuffandThings_]

tbh it would probably be easier to just use an AI to match pixels from an image to the entire set of Google Street view and photosphere images. Which, I'm sure the government either has or is working on.

[@Appletank8]

This is probably why it is heavily discouraged for soldiers to take pics of where they're hunkering at. That's asking for a 'nade drop.

[@Homerboy44]

I recall a story where a group of 4chan users actually did call an arial attack on an afghan/iraqi airbase. This was about 2015-ish when Geoguesser was still a small community.

[@tf_is_this_shit]

Curses! Now I cant show the boys my _Super Secret Evil Lair_

[@ThunderBlitzGD]

wow that's crazy... I went camping near a river earlier this year, and when I watched this video I thought that the river in the image looked familiar... it turns out that they are the same river!

[@fraserritchie7776]

Crazy? I was crazy once…

[@scarlettNET]

Set in Cleveland, then retconned to being set in Upper Peninsula Michigan, with the only imagery of its surroundings being sourced from somewhere in Washington state. Aperture is weird as shit lol

[@theGstar305]

When was Aperture set in Cleveland?

[@StuffandThings_]

You forget that they literally have portal technology. What's to say that its not in all 3 places at once? Great way to dodge taxes!

[@nerdmassive1353]

@@theGstar305 im pretty sure in a couple of documents they mention a second facility in cleveland. If i remember correctly it shows up in hl2 on a page about the borealis. the facility was probably a dock on lake erie.

[@worrier]

​@@nerdmassive1353I was always hyped to get a Cleveland mention when I was young as it's my home city!

[@nerdmassive1353]

@@worrier my home city too! Love to see it mentioned

[@zoetbh6048]

she geo on my guessr til i portal 1 ending

[@AshleyTogepi]

So weird that driven past here without even realizing that it's the same texture I'd seen hundreds of times before. I never even questioned it. I should go back there now, knowing.

[@mateusrabelo7890]

This is amazing tbh. Thanks Geoguesser for training people into recognizing anywhere in the world lol

[@dominikcz198]

Gaben: take a photo of some random location for the ending of Portal Community: a good mystery for us to solve Same as with Minecraft's title screen and pack png

[@WadDeIz]

Now i really want someone take a photo at that exact location and see what it looks like today (the location where the original photo was taken)

[@cheems7903]

This is really nice. I am thankful this picture of a god damn background in a game is now finally found and can be visited. Hell if u do ever go there do make sure to record a video for us lol. Geo guesser players are crazy dawg.

[@PERTEKofficial]

That’s crazy. I grew up in WA and have traveled through stevens pass many times, that explains why the ending area in portal always felt oddly familiar to me

[@apenasumabatata4741]

Finally, Portal is confirmed to be canon IRL

[@raynfall77_69]

Im surprised no one just asked 4chan. They would have solved it a few days after the game released. They were the insane geoguessr players before geoguessr became popular

[@viduploads8125]

On 3:48, you can see the timeline with the month and year the google maps was realeased, the earliest version of that was made in October 2007, which was the month and year portal was realeased!

[@gloveman0]

Was expecting a video on this and im not disappointed. Valve fans have very good eyes abd knowledge

[@JevinJohnson-CloudShift]

This reminds me of when they found the OG Minecraft panorama world, but instead of using better computing methods and stronger computers, all it took was a nerd who's really good at playing google maps the game. Mad respect

[@Red_Ryry]

While this is great I can see this having a downside, hardcore portal fans might now visit that sight and not leave it as clean as when they got there, as tends to happen when an area gets more foot traffic and visitors. It’s such a beautiful spot too.

[@fireaza]

I love game development. A photo of a river can become the background to a secret research lab hidden way out in the forest, you just need to move it slightly down so the player can't see the river!

[@blackzerfc]

this took the minecraft seed and coordinates hunting like for the title screen to a whole new level, i still cannot process this. never thought it was even possible in the first place

[@IndexError]

rainbolt: "that took 16 years? its obviously washington you can see a pixel of a road sign they only use in washington on that mountain"

[@sinom]

"the lake itself" that's supposed to be a lake? Looked way more like a river to me

[@CommentCritic]

Before you disclosed the location, I had a go looking at GMaps given your tips and observations. I was 12 miles south, had a hunch it would've been somewhere east of Seattle, given the terrain across the bay doesn't add up at all. I guess all those hours in Geoguessr are starting to pay off lol. Also, notive how Gold Bar is relatively close to a place called "Index"

[@coleisforrobot]

This means Aperture is in Gold Bar Washington and I don't care if that's canonically wrong.

[@briefercat]

wait so where does this fit in on the half life timeline

[@zaiden_2006]

before the seven hour war and or during/after(?) the black mesa incident

[@xyz8460]

@@zaiden_2006 I would personally say after the black mesa incident, and either during or after the seven hour war (even in Portal 2 there's no evidence of the Combine ever finding Aperture so could be possible) My whole guess comes from a set of voicelines near the end of the GLaDOS fight where she says: "Are you trying to escape? Things have changed since the last time you left the building. What's going on out there will make you wish you were back in here." "I have an infinite capacity for knowledge, and even I'm not sure what's going on outside." "All I know is I'm the only thing standing between us and them. Well, I was." "Unless you have a plan for building some supercomputer parts in a big hurry, this place isn't going to be safe much longer." "Good job on that, by the way." BUT while looking it up, found that there's also the aperturescience.com stuff that makes an official timeline from valve: steamcommunity.com/app/400/discussions/0/412448158148233561

[@ulom]

The texture looks so nostalgic

[@railworksamerica]

This hits different when you’ve unknowingly visited the texture location a week ago

[@Bladedbloom4611]

Valve has starved us of content for so long were trying to find the irl textures to a nearly 16 year old game still cool tho

[@StuffandThings_]

I can immediately tell that that comes from the North Cascades, it just has that unmistakable vibe. Weird to think that I've been right near a piece of internet history before, multiple times, without even knowing it. Super underrated region.

[@82braincells]

now we can go inside aperture laboratories

[@otherapro]

i was literally thinking of this 1 week ago, im so happy u posted this

[@jeshirekitenkatt1212]

WILD to think about. Steven's Pass is one of like five big roads that connect Western WA to Eastern WA through the Cascade mountains, and of them Steven's pass is probably the second most-travelled as it's the road going East from the areas just north of Seattle, where most people here outside of the city live. I've probably passed this exact spot plenty of times none the wiser. I wonder how much thought was put into this, or if someone snapped the image went "hey, well, that'd work really well" on their way camping or to Spokane or something and went from there.

[@nicholaswilliams6475]

"It's not fun to just reveal the answer and move on" You mean, 'if I did that, watch time would plummet' I very much just want the answer.

[@zacharylegaspi7594]

the fact that I have probably seen this place multiple times while watching train videos but thought nothing of it

[@JustJirHere]

you just know that some mf is gonna go there, take the appropriate photos and fix the cut off texture

[@frankysupreme]

hope so. that would be sick

[@plzletmebefrank]

Pretty sure the appropriate photos... would largely be of a road. Which would be a bit... weird. You could stitch something together though. However... trees grow. Plus who knows what else may have changed besides. Still. The main issue is still that the continuation would mostly just be a road.

[@fissNotHere]

when you showed the sky, my brain was like "oh yeah clouds are global" and then I realised this isnt minecraft

[@blank1873]

this is just like that time the pack.png seed was found

[@mcmicanator]

I go right past this place every time i go river rafting. When i first saw the full image, i thought, "Hey, this looks familiar." Glad to know my suspicions were correct. :)

[@bluemeannie]

We need to find the wheat meadow from portal 2 next!

[@OctoMaxBR]

imagine living on this place, with your home right next to this river and landscape

[@nicknamedude]

Well that’s a place to put on the bucket list now: visit aperture science’s exit

[@dangeroussafepictures8868]

Wow this is a great video! You pulled me in with that thumbnail, and the surprise helper twist was quite satisfying. I finished playing Portal 2 a while ago, and the game is now one of my favorites!

[@mfaizsyahmi]

A lake that flows and curves twice and forms an S shape is generally known to regular people who touches grass as a river, Ossy.

[@olegmoki]

Finally, Aperture Laboratories location

[@Hervoo]

I've would specially travel to US only to visit crazy big old robot lady

[@TheCelestial]

This is so great I like very much when people find origin of textures of famous games

[@bubbles1044]

little did I know it was one hour away from me all along...

[@coliflower6854]

Valve's office is built on top of Aperture Laboratories 👀

[@AnimeGuy246]

3:05 stevens pass hwy, gold bar, washington

[@Bp1033]

I kinda like the idea that you can visit texture source locations, would make for a really cool hiking expedition. THEN take higher resolution pictures and put them back into the game!

[@Zepalesque42]

The worlds people are finding the seeds to are getting _crazy_ istg /j

[@wolfcl0ck]

I shall take the trip.

[@ZanyCat]

This is like finding the seed for the Minecraft Title screen but in real life...

[@SquishyAuri]

finally... we can make a portal film

[@maxxypayne9606]

Yeah, I used to live close to this area! It's so nice there!

[@doughboywhine]

I like how he frames Geoguesser players like how some stories frame psychics and magicians,as random people blessed with special gifts that didn't exist years prior

[@Neurotoxin_Detected]

Holy shit, I was just thinking about this the other day. This is amazing!

[@liamrobertson9508]

THE FIRST PORTAL ENDING! THE FIRST PORTAL ENDING IS REEAAAALLLLL!!!

[@hdwa9HFHF]

Why are you saying lake when it's clearly a river and you also wrote river in the video? you are making me weep. great video

[@OssyFlawol]

i forgor when i was writing th escript sorry

[@flourysumo198]

Its crazy knowing ive passed through Gold Bar a few times and that this picture was taken so close by! Its still crazy even while living in Washington

[@VashVenus]

YESSS, I feel heard!!!! I WAS WONDERING WHERE THIS WAS!! THANK YOU!!!!! I’m glad I wasn’t the only one

[@DangerDurians]

Oh boy Knowing the location, we couls get a mod that extends the texture so its edges dont show on wide monitors

[@aguyontheinternet_]

bro violated rainbolt 💀

[@AU_Player]

THE PORTAL GUN... THE PORTAL GUN IS REEEALLL!!

[@relevance8]

Fantasy - going to this location, re-photographing it, getting a wider panorama, stitching it together, and making a mod of Portal that’s just “okay, we fixed the texture cutoff” :D

[@BenDover-nq4kr]

portal fans: YIPPEE

[@kirkmangaming]

The map even says “river” not lake… good find tho!

[@l-l]

I love the internet sometimes. This is one of those times

[@maxencebilancetti2089]

OMG I always wanted to know where was the texture ending from Portal 1 ! Im so glad !!!!

[@JimMilton-ej6zi]

I remember 10 years ago i thought the ending scene of outside was really pretty and detailed. Looking at it now i can definitely see that it was just my crappy monitor making me think it was that way lol

[@hashtag6188]

imagine standing in the exact same location from where the photo was taken

[@trollplant]

This was a triumph

[@Sensible06]

Whenever I get to this bit, my background refresh stops working for some reason and the texture leaves a trail

[@pigeom32]

I feel like they already had this picture from taking it in the past, as you said he enjoyed photography so it could have been that they decided this picture was good enough to use rather than going out and photographing that specific location for use in portal, why would you bother getting the river and the rocky beach areas in the picture of the background for essentially a parking lot? I'm thinking into this too much

[@Greencop_4932]

They should make a Aperture Science Facility and then people make videos like "Visiting Aperture Science IRL"

[@obi6127]

DONT go there if yotu do the robots drag you underground trust me ive been here for the past 7 years

[@dimittrikovk2]

We all should be afraid of high-end Geoguessr players. I know i am

[@Nosuchthingasabadopinion]

Here's to finding where the Portal 2 ending wheat field is.

[@ro-ghost7572]

thank you for not making this video 40 minutes for no reason at all. Liked :)

[@ghost_ship_supreme]

“It’s been a mystery for years!” “Found it” “Wait, what…”

[@Gendreau113]

Shoulda just asked RainBolt too find thus. He woulda had it rihjt away using his wizard magic

[@Armi1P]

That's a nice, constantly flowing lake.

[@nawlejizpawur3810]

I drive past this place every summer. Its gonna feel weird next time I drive by it.

[@Conceptual69a]

i hope someone goes there and makes a bigger picture so it does not cut off.

[@Ian_Paneque]

Next they will find freaking Xen irl lol

[@Nacil_54]

Well, because Xen's skybox seems to be space photos, we technically can find it.

[@Ian_Paneque]

lmao true ;w; @@Nacil_54

[@DaRealBruner]

Welp, new headcanon for what's beyond the trees surrounding Aperture Science.

[@ghifariemir1322]

Funnily enough, i first thought that it was actually taken in michigan

[@chexo3]

Now somebody needs to take a new, higher resolution photograph so we can mod in a larger texture that's not cut off. Or maybe the original photo they took before they turned it into a texture is in one of the source code/asset leaks and we can just take that photo since it will match perfectly, and just change the clipping.

[@Agnes.Nutter]

FYI, when a lake is long and narrow and water is continuously flowing from one end to the other, that's called a "river". :)

[@worrier]

That one little scene of outside aperture with the portal 1 look always made my imagination go wild of what the world would look like, just the idea of escaping and getting to go to places that were green and not test chambers and the sun! I'm glad we got a bit of green in portal 2, just a taste, enough to always keep that desire to see the outside world. Guess that's pretty effective game design really put me in chells long fall boots.

[@luissantiago5163]

Thats so neat! appreciate the deets!

[@RC568]

does this mean someone can fix the texture

[@livekazumareaction]

wait your right

[@InsomniacStephens141]

Now do the same for the cornfield at the end of portal 2 😂

[@-gemberkoekje-5547]

ITS A RIVER!!!