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    Portal In case you got covered in Repulsion Gel

    In case you got covered in Repulsion Gel

    Posted: 18 Nov 2021 09:13 AM PST

    I raise you my companion cube render

    Posted: 17 Nov 2021 01:58 PM PST

    My boyfriend left me and now I'm sad, should I replay portal 1 or 2?

    Posted: 17 Nov 2021 02:34 PM PST

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    Posted: 17 Nov 2021 09:49 PM PST

    I saw this and instantly thought of portal, the water mark is there because i posted it on tiktok first

    Posted: 17 Nov 2021 07:28 AM PST

    Portal Theory: We were lied to about Wheatley's purpose

    Posted: 17 Nov 2021 11:06 AM PST

    I posted this on the Game Theorists subreddit but didn't get a lot of responses and I really wanted your thoughts, as Portal fans. :)

    Okay, I know, this theory has been posed but I came to completely different conclusions than the original theorists who came up with it, so I'm throwing my hat into the ring, so to speak. Plus I love Wheatley and he deserves vindication.

    Looking at Wheatley in Portal 2, one thing is astoundingly obvious: Wheatley is no moron. This little core repeatedly saved your life and, when he decided to kill you, created a nearly foolproof plan to do just that. Let's ask ourselves this: why would scientists, these brilliant minds, create an intelligence dampening sphere that learns from its own mistakes and plans for multiple outcomes? These skills are not indicative of low intelligence, they're just the opposite. If Wheatley were truly meant to be stupid, wouldn't he lead you into danger and then be unable to get you out of it?

    I also reject the theory that Wheatley planned his own takeover from the start. Why would he plan something that had an extremely high likelihood of getting himself destroyed? The fact that he survived GLaDOS smashing him was surprising enough and he wasn't stupid enough to think she would spare him. I also hung around after he was initially connected to listen to all of his dialogue and he even talks about launching himself into the escape pod after Chell because he wants to come with her. No, Wheatley didn't have a master plan to take over and, from interactions with him, he doesn't seem to have any desire for power at all. If anything, he's way more afraid of you judging him for asserting himself than anything, why else would he want you to stop looking at him when he goes through with some of his own ideas? You could say this is an act but that counteracts a lot of his personality later on.

    So what's Wheatley's true purpose? I think I figured it out.

    Let's look back at the history of Aperture. Cave Johnson was an elitist, vindictive, discriminatory jerk. He was so narcissistic that he died demanding special treatment from the universe rather than admit that he was the problem. He did not care for anyone except Caroline, and even then, he was perfectly willing to possibly kill her just to continue with their work (we don't know if she was killed but she certainly didn't want to be uploaded).

    He was heavily involved in programming the mainframe that supported GLaDOS and, in doing so, got it prepared for his own consciousness. That is to say, the mainframe reflects his own narcissism and utter disregard for others. It's no wonder it corrupts anyone who is attached to it, it gives them the same weaknesses as Cave Johnson himself, which includes childish levels of selfishness and vindictiveness toward anyone who gets in the way. GLaDOS herself supports this claim, becoming much more humble when disconnected and even being willing to give Chell genuine compliments about her ability. Compare that to the sheer amount of emotional manipulation she showed Chell at the start and you can see that there's something far more sinister at work.

    So where does Wheatley come in?

    Wheatley is the opposite. While Cave and GLaDOS are determined and inflexible even in the face of making obviously bad decisions, Wheatley has no issues noticing the flaws in his own ideas. You'll notice that he often will propose something and then mention ways it may not work. He's able to spot these logical flaws and act on them. He's also able to come up with new ideas without fixating on the old ones. This way of generating ideas helps him close possible loopholes in his plans and is the reason his first instinct is to study GLaDOS's failure so he can plan accordingly.

    Up until being plugged into the mainframe, Wheatley has no issues being called derogatory names. They seem to slide off him like butter. He even calls himself an idiot at one point before you plug him in. He doesn't care if his plans don't work and he doesn't beat himself up for them, he just moves onto the next thing. Cave and GLaDOS don't do this. They won't take any disrespect, and this trait is moved onto Wheatley only after being plugged in. In essence, Wheatley doesn't have an inflated ego on his own.

    Wheatley is friendly. Cave and GLaDOS are jerks, let's be honest. They couldn't care less about others. Not so with Wheatley. He mentions characters by name, is exceptionally upbeat and friendly with you, and has a lot of personal stories, indicating that he's in the thick of things rather than closing himself off. He's a classic extrovert, always willing to work with others and getting excited just to talk to them. Wheatley, without the mainframe corrupting him, would never mistreat subjects in experiments. Heck, he can't even properly make fun of you with the mainframe connected, that's how genuinely sweet he is.

    You can also see Wheatley panic over things that could possibly kill him and Chell, which means he's always keeping a look out for safety hazards and tries to correct them. You know who didn't care about safety? Cave Johnson and later GLaDOS. Safety was never a concern with them, but Wheatley is constantly warning Chell of possible dangers.

    So what was Wheatley's design? What was his true purpose?

    I believe Wheatley was meant to fix the initial problems that arose with GLaDOS thanks to Cave's programming. They noticed that GLaDOS was stubborn, cruel, and narcissistic with no respect for human life, so they decided to make a core who would influence her to be far more humble and friendly while also considering the safety risks for the subjects. They couldn't just replace her with him because he wasn't designed to run the place and because the mainframe was inherently toxic. He had to be attached to her, not the mainframe.

    What they expected was for her to become more personable with his influence, to think about others, to create contingency plans if things failed, to not take herself more seriously.

    But GLaDOS, embodying the very toxic narcissism and reckless determination that killed Cave Johnson, derided this core who clung to her "like a tumor," constantly insulting him and refusing to listen to his ideas. This clearly failed, so Wheatley was taken off of her and his role was divided into a bunch of less complicated spheres so maybe she could be controlled by individual traits, not a single core meant to counteract her weaknesses. But Wheatley represented a lot of work on their part, so they sent him off to find another job.

    Wheatley's failures in running the facility represent just how different he is from GLaDOS. He's able to plan for his own failure in stopping Chell by booby trapping the stalemate button, which GLaDOS would never have thought to do because she would have assumed she would kill Chell right away. He created new testing materials out of the ones they had because he wanted to try something new, which GLaDOS wouldn't ever do because she was so determined to use human test subjects. Constant exposure to the mainframe corroded his moral compass but he retained a lot of the traits that were meant to counterbalance it, which meant that he was psychologically tortured in his battle sequence, constantly having to talk himself into hating Chell enough to kill her. He tries to justify his actions to soothe his moral compass because despite the fact that he's being flooded with malicious narcissism and vindictiveness, he's still... Wheatley.

    Had Wheatley killed Chell, what then? Would he have been given over to the toxicity of the mainframe or would he have been so plagued with guilt and unable to extricate himself from the mainframe that his behavior became even more reckless? I guess we'll never know.

    Essentially, my point is that GLaDOS saw Wheatley as an annoyance rather than someone who could counter the very things that weakened her. If Wheatley's skills were used for evil, she'd have easily killed Chell in Portal 1 because not only would he have noticed that the walls of the incinerator could produce portals but he also would have been able to come up with several ways to kill Chell after she'd already escaped. It's not like GLaDOS was doing a very good job of trying to stop her without a clear plan.

    Wheatley wasn't a moron. He was brilliant in all of the ways GLaDOS was not. He was meant to improve her and he was designed by geniuses to embody all of the traits that caused her and Cave Johnson to fail. Sure, maybe he didn't have the book smarts she had, but he was significantly better in social situations and he was much better at thinking quickly in a sudden crisis. Had she listened to him, the two of them would have made a fantastic and nearly unstoppable duo capable of coming up with new ideas and executing them to perfection. And they would have had a lot more respect for human life. Aperture could very well have flourished with them counterbalancing each other.

    Instead, she regarded his form of intelligence as useless to her and outright ignored him. She fell thanks to her own hubris and Wheatley and Chell both suffered as a result.

    I can also go into a lot more detail because I have a whole psychological analysis of Wheatley but I thought this was long enough as it is.

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    Such a moron

    Posted: 18 Nov 2021 12:04 PM PST

    Option B

    Posted: 18 Nov 2021 02:13 AM PST

    Whoops.

    Posted: 17 Nov 2021 12:17 PM PST

    [S2FM] Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System

    Posted: 17 Nov 2021 09:51 PM PST

    what if i put a portal at the north pole and one at the south in what ways would this distort the earths electromagnetic feild

    Posted: 17 Nov 2021 06:54 PM PST

    The portal paradox but even more confusing.

    Posted: 17 Nov 2021 07:26 AM PST

    The portal paradox but even more confusing.

    So, most of you probably already know the portal paradox. Personally I think it would be option B in this picture.
    But I had an idea to make it more confusing.
    What if the orange portal drops onto the cube (like in the picture), but then stops when the cube is 1/2 way through?
    One half would already be flying (with some significant speed) through the blue portal, and the other half would be completely still under the orange portal.
    What would happen? Would it:

    A) Stay completely still

    b) Or would it's momentum from flying out of the blue portal cause the rest of the cube to be pulled with it?

    https://preview.redd.it/j5p905b8b6081.png?width=634&format=png&auto=webp&s=6c8bcd698915187acc41cae1757784aaae8f3076

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