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Screw Steam

As a service for content distrubution, it’s a wonderful thing. But it seems that at least once a week it is directly in the way of my enjoyment of playing my games.  Tonight’s issue?  Steam servers...

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Still Alive? She’s Free.

The first time I saw GlaDOS in Portal, I was overcome with a distinct sensation that I was in the presence of someone in pain. Troubled. At the very least, immense frustration. At first I wasn’t sure...

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Wherein I Overanalyze GlaDOS’s Song

Thanks to the great comments in my last post where I waxed all philo about what I think GlaDOS is supposed to look like, I think I’ve changed my tune on why GlaDOS wanted to be free. While I still...

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GLaDOS Followup: She’s Your Venus.

Commenter Harvey James posted an interesting image earlier about his own research he started doing after seeing the GLaDOS Bondage piece from earlier this week, and I wanted to link it here, because as...

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The Clone, the Cube, and the Construct: Part 2

Every good story needs a love interest, and it should come as no surprise that Portal had one with some very comical overtones. The Weighted Companion Cube has captured the hearts of millions? hundreds...

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The Clone, the Cube, and the Construct: Part 3

While I would like to investigate what GLaDOS says in this section (I invite players to unpack the audio and listen for themselves, or play through the final sections of the game again), I wanted to...

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I See You…

You may or may not have seen this by now, but some average Joe built a sentry gun out of some servos, a laptop, a paintball gun, and a whole lot of ingenuity (and I’m sure some optical sensor...

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Still Alive: Missing the Point

I just read that the Still Alive map pack (which evidently has been available free this whole time for PC) that is due to be released for Portal on the consoles is going to be missing the voice of...

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It Is My Sworn Duty

To share this kind of stuff with you.  Still Alive as played by Mario Paint composer. I don’t care if it’s old.  This is full circle gaming nerd-dom. Aw hell, we can’t stop there! Zelda (and FF below...

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