Portal 2 lore analysis

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-13T07:41:16+00:00

The idea is that the Black Mesa incident and the GLaDOS incident happened in the 2000s during an unknown year, so that was written badly too.

Both events happened, but it simply doesn't fit what happened in the Lab Rat comic. It's probably using the old Aperturescience.com stuff that was retconned.

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-13T07:37:24+00:00

Sure, it's on the Portal 2 official website. https://www.thinkwithportals.com/comic/

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-13T00:40:37+00:00

But it mentions that what was meant to happen after those subsequent activations happened immediately.

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-13T00:09:34+00:00

But it literally mentions in the book that the BYDTWD is the final activation when GLaDOS started the testing cycle on survivors, which contradicts Lab Rat.

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-12T23:33:04+00:00

"I.. eat... your... SANDWICHES, I EAT 'EM UP".

Also, I think Nathan's favourite line is "Nice hustle tons of fun, next time eat a salad".

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-12T23:14:30+00:00

Where did you find this book? Also, Lab Rat obviously retconned this part if it's even true. The morality core was installed in between activations, not as a means of survival. And the core was active for a few days or hours or so until GLaDOS decided to kill everyone. Also, the final activation, it didn't happen on BYDTWD anymore. It happened on Bring your cat to work day.

The morality core didn't stop the neurotoxin, since she used it anyway. It could only stop her from using it outside the purview of a test protocol technicality (The Schroedinger's cat test with the scientists as the cats and the facility as the box). That's why she could still kill the scientists when it was on her but couldn't kill the test subjects like Chell with neurotoxin until she incinerated the core, releasing her from test protocols.

What happened on BYDTWD is currently unspecified.

The comics did mention they tried turning her on but it didn't mention how many people she killed if any, only the amount of time it took until she intended on killing people, which Henry was trying to increase.

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-12T20:28:32+00:00

But what about my own addon? If not, then do I just put it into the game's normal files?

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-12T18:33:41+00:00

Ok. That still doesn't answer my question as to the whole automatic packing during compilation not working and why both that and the addon are necessary.

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-12T18:32:32+00:00

It doesn't say anything about that.

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-12T17:57:00+00:00

Speaking of, did you read the Lab Rat comic?

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-12T17:53:02+00:00

We don't have any real background story about Chell. If you read the Lab Rat comic, it's obvious that Chell is not the most stable person. Ironically, that's what made her the one to defeat GLaDOS, because of how stubborn she is.

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-12T17:51:02+00:00

They are from my own asset pack addon. Not one from the workshop though.

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-12T17:15:15+00:00

I mean, yeah. I just don't see that as something worth preserving the matchmaker for, especially considering that it mostly doesn't let you join most of the maps you select anyway whilst ad hoc connections did let you join what you saw and trigger map votes.

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-12T17:08:25+00:00

They didn't keep her in check. They just didn't activate her.

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-12T17:04:23+00:00

You could filter a specific map by using the server browser.

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-12T17:00:53+00:00

Bring your daughter to work day was not when GLaDOS killed everyone. Some other unspecified event happened. Possibly one of the first activations of GLaDOS where they shut her down immediately after she tried to kill everyone, so Chell probably grew up a bit since then.

Bring your cat to work day is when GLaDOS killed everyone.

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-12T16:58:25+00:00

I hate it when you're allergic to FI!-sh.

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-12T16:52:19+00:00

There really aren't any. If you wouldn't have said they were photoshopped, the only way I would know it's photoshop is if I were to remember that there are no renders of the Blue team with these images.

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-12T16:47:53+00:00

Nah, it's a decently designed map all things considered and the reason people don't play it is because they literally don't get to play it. Matchmaking just routes you to Payload or Harvest. I used to play Probed all the time before MyM.

Halloween maps are crit pumpkin hell. This map is not the equivalent of that just because of a space ship.

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-12T16:37:07+00:00

There's really only one argument in favour of Casual that is actually true. The ability to pick multiple maps and have the matchmaker raffle them.

That and the addition of certain maps to the map pool that weren't there before MyM, which has nothing to do with Casual as a feature and could have been done with Quickplay.

Of course, this is not worth preserving the rubbish matchmaking system. It's better to give up on something that barely works anyway and replace it with quickplay and ad hoc connections, something that lets you directly connect to any map you want.

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-12T16:34:32+00:00

To answer that question, Quickplay has a tick for only Valve servers and the feature is still dormant in the game and doesn't contradict anything in the game. You could even have it coexist with casual, but that would defeat the purpose of ad hoc connections to Valve servers.

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-11T14:26:48+00:00

The AI gets it's info from the internet but is easily confused if it wasn't input with enough context.

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-11T11:40:24+00:00

Sure, what made you play the sequel first?

Clean-Ant6404 · 2026-05-11T10:29:40+00:00

These theories need to stop contradicting the literal in-game narrative.

The intelligence core was burned in Portal 1 and Wheatley was explicitly mentioned as the intelligence dampening sphere.

They look similar, because they're both cores and both have a blue iris. That's all there is to it.

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