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i’m going to throw the fuck yp WHOOOOOO made this WHY is it in my break room im losing my mind

#ONE word is diagonal the rest are horizontal. terrible word search #also I was so distracted by TROUT in the first line that I couldn't find the EXITROUTE it was inside of #missing the EXITROUTE for the TROUT. as it were.

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I did a Deaf Chell Portal playthrough (no sound and no subtitles) and it totally works.

My two questions were 1) would it be plausible for Chell to survive to the end of the game? And 2) would Chell have any idea that GLaDOS even existed at all?

And the answers are 1) Yes and 2) No.

Basically, Portal is a very good game with very well designed puzzles. At no point do you need any verbal instruction from GLaDOS. All the information you need to progress is given by the actual design of the level itself. For instance, the companion cube level. I was initially worried that this level would rely very heavily on GLaDOS's dialogue. I was thinking that it probably wouldn't be obvious to Chell that she had to destroy the cube to move on and that it probably would take her some time to stumble upon the correct course of action while trying whatever she could. But no! The fact that you have to incinerate the companion cube is made very obvious. There's literally a couple of those hazard warnings on the ground in front of the incinerator that tell you to throw the cube in.

IMO it would be pretty apparent to Chell what she needed to do and how to move through the facility. She may not understand WHY but she would know what to do. Even the end of the formal testing part where she is about to be incinerated. I don't know if Chell would know if this part was purposeful or accidental but regardless, she would be able to escape. The long and short of it is at any point in the game Chell's only option is to move forward and there's only ever one way forward.

There is basically no indication of GLaDOS's existence if Chell is Deaf. Here are the clues you get:

-no other humans in the facility

-once or twice the door to a level doesn't open until she's done monologuing at you (Chell of course has no idea she's being monologued at)

-one of the scribbles in Rattmann's hideout says "She's watching you" (Chell would not be too surprised by this. The cameras and observation rooms are obvious)

That's it. That's all you get up until you open the door to GLaDOS's chamber.

And even then! Even then the conclusion she's going to draw won't be more complex than "this computer must be the thing keeping the facility running and it is currently trying to kill me".

Now the GLaDOS fight itself is probably the biggest stretch of plausibility. At first, before the neurotoxin, GLaDOS does nothing that indicates she wants to hurt you. A piece of her falls off. It's pretty obvious that you can pick it up and put it in the incinerator (again, level design) but why? Just to do something? This is the weakest moment in the whole theory. AFTER that though, the continued destruction of GLaDOS makes more sense. Chell sees the countdown timer. She sees the neurotoxin even if she doesn't know what it is and she probably feels it too. There is now one of those eyeball turrets shooting at her. It is reasonable for Chell to draw the conclusion of "this huge robot is controlling the facility" at this point. And if the robot is making things shoot at her it makes sense to destroy the robot.

So she does. And she gets spit up onto the surface with absolutely no idea that GLaDOS had spent the entire time insulting her or even that she was sentient in the first place.

Which is very funny.

#portal #if you're reading this please know I have very little knowledge of portal lore #I just thought this would be fun #wayyyy too long of a post tbh it's really not that deep lmao #I'm kind of curious about Portal 2 but I really don't think it would fare as well #I think you get a LOT more info in that game through dialogue #and I'm really reluctant to play that whole game without sound so...I probably won't #maybe one day #anyway VERY funny #Chell “wtf is even happening rn” vs GLaDOS “nemesis doesn't know she exists”

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It's so sad that Chell and Gordon will never meet because they would literally be bestest buds. Incredibly violent woman forced by circumstances to be intelligent + Incredibly intelligent man forced by circumstances to be violent. And neither of them talk.

They would trade arsenals and Gordon would be overjoyed that he has a gun that shoots portals (awesome) instead of bullets (lame but necessary) and Chell would be overjoyed that she gets guns that shoot bullets (awesome) instead of portals (lame but necessary)

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frankly think a lot of glados android designs are kinda bland so I present to u whatever the fuck this is

(edit: yes i know its not an android technically. u can now stop saying this.)

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portal wip i'm probs not gonna finish yet. basically the concept is glados kills chell and glados is like "chell look i finally got u lol! haha chell? why aren't you answering chell"

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I’m like a moth drawn to a flame

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"The Pilots"

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#reblog frogs

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Dragons by Wayne Anderson

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Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns

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Bunny council? No, RAT COUNCIL 🐀🧀

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Fuck it. Crochet cartilaginous stingray skeleton

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saying “can u not” to inanimate objects that are just following the laws of physics but in, like, inconvenient ways

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the right hairstyle for your face is the one that makes you smile when you see yourself in the mirror btw.

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Some super cute keychains I listed today that I made while super stoned last night

I’m honestly not sure if there’s like enough stuff or too much on each of them? I’m also currently working on some cat tarot card ones, and a toolbox one!

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.. yeah

#a kiss!! #I don't go here but that's a good kiss!