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You’d think it would be the other way around considering what GLaDOS really is

On my second playthrough of Portal 2 this happened. I uploaded a video of it to youtube shortly after it happened but it got no traction and I've only found one other video of it from someone on the Switch version. I haven't been able to replicate it, but I'm able to load a save from after it happened and it's still broken, does anyone know what causes this?

Is there a specific way to pronounce GLaDOS? I never played Portal 1 idk if someone mentioned it.

Is it Gl-ah-dos or Gl-ay-dos?

I say Gl-ay-dos personally

They didn't seem super intrusive on the plot, but are these generally accepted canon, despite being fan-made?

Side question, how essential is halflife to the lore? I'm considering whether I should play any of the halflife games, and I know it's the same universe.

Do anyone have these 2 turret figures

What the title says

Hi, uh, i don't know how many people this post will get to, but I'm looking for a portal gun design that, if I recall correctly, had an aesthetic of the 70's? Close to it? With tubes containing both blue and orange dye. I've been looking for it forever yet I've had no luck.

I literally created a reddit account just for this because I trust the Portal Community.

I will appreciate any interactions and comments that help!

Thank you!

is there still some good story besides the ending?

Seriously who is talking I destroyed all the turrets

im fucking going insane and im about to rage quit, thats why im asking if it's worth to end portal 2, i think im at almost the ends of old aperture science/old aperture science ruins.

the puzzles are fuckingly makin me go insanely angry

Last night after finishing Portal 2, I was desperate for more. So I bought Portal: Stay Alive for my 360 along with Lego Dimensions and it’s Portal set. Have any of you guys actually tried the Portal levels for the game? I’m sorta going in blind here, not knowing if it’s good or if it’s pretty short. I personally don’t mind the length, as long as it’s fun I’ll be happy! Plus, it comes with Chell, the companion cube, and a turret in lego form. Honestly I would’ve bought em without playing the game regardless lol.

edit: Thanks. imma get it now that it's on sale.

I mean besides that it's for the puzzle and there isn't a specific lore reason as to why those walls specifically can hold portals while moving. I mean, why is that the only place portals can move? At all? In the entire franchise? Were moving portals too buggy? If so, why not make more puzzles with inaccessible moving portals and lasers? Why specifically ONE chamber with them, once, forever? They show that moving portals are possible (conflicting with everything else in the games) and then don't revisit them? And is there even an indicator that those specific walls can move with portals?

Yes or no?

At one point GLaDOS says this:

"I have your brain scanned and permanently backed up in case something terrible happens to you, which it's just about to. Don't believe me? Here, I'll put you in. 'Hello!' That's you! That's how dumb you sound." Source.

Is that 'Hello' a recording of Chell's voice? Is it an AI which lives in GLaDOS's mind based on Chell's brain scan? Was it just a mocking imitation, the way a child might imitate someone they don't like?

As we know, Portal 2 ends with Chell about to press the stalemate button for the core transfer, but gets booby-trapped by Wheatley and blown away, where we get the scene of Chell shooting a portal on the moon, yadda yadda.

My question is, how did GLaDOS regain control of the facility? We never actually pressed the stalemate button, so the core transfer stalemate never really got resolved. Wheatley himself says that he's "still connected," and that he "can still fix this", which implies that he's still in control of Aperture, but in the next moment, GLaDOS suddenly has control of a robot arm which launches Wheatley off into space and bringing us back through the portal into Earth. How is she able to do this, considering no core transfer actually happened? Or is the arm just something she had control over while in the core transfer receptacle, so she took the opportunity to detach Wheatley while he was vulnerable in space? If so, we see GLaDOS back in her headframe and moving her eyes, showing that she'd already been moved from the potato back into her proper mainframe.

... How? Am I just dumb?