[Portal 2] Map Making Initiative

[Wesley Foxx]

SPOIL THEM CHAPTERS AND IDEAS

anyways IDE

show spoiler

hide spoiler

Wheatly is keeping space core in orbit.

There's a pun involved there, actually.

show spoiler

hide spoiler

He's just that dense.

[newbonomicon]

I like that song. Catchy. Funny.

show spoiler

hide spoiler

"My IQ's the infinite space from here to the moon". It's an ending reference AND a testament to his stupidity! Also, I like how he says he'd rearrange things, but when he had his chance, the most he changed anywhere was writing "TEST" on a wall.

[Paul]

show spoiler

hide spoiler

He's dense

ahahahahah

[bluemage]

I was kinda confused at Wheatley's backstory. Could anyone kinda explain that part to me?

[Wesley Foxx]

show spoiler

hide spoiler

Originally he was created as an intelligence-dampening sphere to keep GLaDOS from being too out of control. He may be lying, but at some point he is put in charge (or puts himself in charge) of monitoring all the test subjects in stasis. He wakes you up once the whole center starts to go critical because he can only do so much as a tiny sphere.

[Demonsul]

show spoiler

hide spoiler

Originally he was created as an intelligence-dampening sphere to keep GLaDOS from being too out of control. He may be lying, but at some point he is put in charge (or puts himself in charge) of monitoring all the test subjects in stasis. He wakes you up once the whole center starts to go critical because he can only do so much as a tiny sphere.

show spoiler

hide spoiler

I thought he woke you up because he had had enough and wanted out, and needed someone to carry him? His ruining the extended relaxation center was just a side effect of him not knowing how to wake someone up. At least, thats what I thought.

[Steel Dragon]

can we also talk about portal 1? because I am replaying portal one and I am very proud of my two-portal run through Chamber 16

that is probably way too specific for anyone to know what I'm talking about

[Eman]

Nice, that's the gold medal for least-number-of-portals challenge for that chamber right?

Least-portals is the only challenge worth doing, those other challenge types were bull imo.

Portal 2 needs some kind of challenge stuff like that, co-op isn't enough.

[Steel Dragon]

Nice, that's the gold medal for least-number-of-portals challenge for that chamber right?

Least-portals is the only challenge worth doing, those other challenge types were bull imo.

Portal 2 needs some kind of challenge stuff like that, co-op isn't enough.

all of these things are true

the upcoming DLC is going to add challenge chambers I think

[Siegmundfried]

Speaking of co-op, I still need to finish that. I haven't had much luck coordinating with some of my friends who have it. Bluh.

[Steel Dragon]

Speaking of co-op, I still need to finish that. I haven't had much luck coordinating with some of my friends who have it. Bluh.

do you have it on PC? I am the town bicycle for co-op

[Siegmundfried]

Speaking of co-op, I still need to finish that. I haven't had much luck coordinating with some of my friends who have it. Bluh.

do you have it on PC? I am the town bicycle for co-op

Yeah, PC.

[KawaiiMelon]

Am I the only one who's reminded of Robin Williams by the Space Core? probably.

[Alphadin]

IDE

show spoiler

hide spoiler

All Cores dampen her.
The intelligence keeps her from getting too smart, as explained by GLaDOS
Morality controls her over all powers. This explains why she doesn't release nurotoxins early in Portal.
Curiousity core keeps he from asking too much questions. Think about how many questions she asks chell in both Portals.
Feelings (or anger) keeps her from getting too emotional. Also keeps her from judging in Portal (Notice how she keeps mentioning you weight and how your a bad person)

[Demonsul]

My opinion on cores:

show spoiler

hide spoiler

Ysee I think they worked the other way around, since thats how it was implied Wheatley worked.

I think the logic core was designed to make her focus on cake, thus making her less focused on bloody murder. Since it was really obsessed with cake.
Curiosity probably made her ask more questions, 'focus on the science' style. Instead of bloody murder. Again.
Morality is an easy one; no more neurotoxin. It's a conscience. Rattmann said so himself in Lab Rat (if I'm IDing the core correctly when he turns it on), but he also stated that it could be ignored.
Emotion, I don't get. It's probably a core that has suffered more from bleedover from GLaDOS from the others. It might be corrupt. it might have been designed to be always happy. You never know. Then again ,you have to wonder why they built Rick as a suppressing core, even though they never used him. Was his adventure-ness an artifact of creation or corruption? If the latter, can the same be said of the emotion core?

[Descriptor]

show spoiler

hide spoiler

For one, the cores at the end of Portal 1 seemed basically just like normal processing cores.
The curiosity core asked questions to keep focused on science, like you said.
The intelligence sphere, though, I don't think was designed to think about cake, it's just that it was focusing on that at the time.
Same with the emotion core. GLaDOS was just really ticked off at the time. You know, getting killed and all.

As for the cores at the end of Portal 2, I don't think they were necessarily meant for GLaDOS, or at least not merely control.
Space core was meant for focus on space. A little too much focus, though...
Fact core was obviously meant to be Wikipedia after Wikipedia gained sentience. Very useful... Sorta...
Rick, though, is harder to say.

That said, I'm really disappointed that the cores didn't have bigger roles...

[Alec Trevelyan]

aside from the ides

Me and my friend Steve Gerbilson have completed the achievement Still Alive.

u jely?

I have 3 left - Portal Pres. Society, Vitrified doors, and am 75% done with smashing the screens.

[newbonomicon]

show spoiler

hide spoiler

Space, Adventure, and Fact were just corrupted cores. They weren't used on GLaDOS because they didn't work right. As for what they were originally intended to do, who knows? Aperture was just throwing science at the wall to see what stuck.

[Alphadin]

show spoiler

hide spoiler

Space, Adventure, and Fact were just corrupted cores. They weren't used on GLaDOS because they didn't work right. As for what they were originally intended to do, who knows? Aperture was just throwing science at the wall to see what stuck.

show spoiler

hide spoiler

The lemons stuck.
They stuck.
They stuck there REAL good.

EDIT:
IDE

show spoiler

hide spoiler

Space core was meant for her not to do science there, or was to keep her from thinking about it.
Adventure was to keep her from wandering to far from Aperture's camera bounds:

show spoiler

hide spoiler

Sounds like the Cyro Humans...

The fact was to keep the facts in.

Fact, the Portal Gun is now more valuable than all the organs and incomes of [Subject hometome here]

[Steel Dragon]

show spoiler

hide spoiler

I was under the impression that Cores were around even before GLaDOS and used for things like watching over subjects in stasis and translating for foreign investors. There was a pre-recorded message near the start of Portal 2 about personality constructs which I thought was from the era before GLaDOS would issue announcements.

[Warriorccc0]

show spoiler

hide spoiler

I was under the impression that Cores were around even before GLaDOS and used for things like watching over subjects in stasis and translating for foreign investors. There was a pre-recorded message near the start of Portal 2 about personality constructs which I thought was from the era before GLaDOS would issue announcements.

show spoiler

hide spoiler

This would make the most sense, why would the cores need a management rail to get around if all they do is stay attach to GLaDOS?

[Siegmundfried]

show spoiler

hide spoiler

I was under the impression that Cores were around even before GLaDOS and used for things like watching over subjects in stasis and translating for foreign investors. There was a pre-recorded message near the start of Portal 2 about personality constructs which I thought was from the era before GLaDOS would issue announcements.

show spoiler

hide spoiler

This would make the most sense, why would the cores need a management rail to get around if all they do is stay attach to GLaDOS?

show spoiler

hide spoiler

I don't know, Wheatley was specifically made to be attached to GLaDOS as the intelligence dampening sphere, but that didn't prevent him from acquiring himself a management rail.

[dynamicEquilibrium]

show spoiler

hide spoiler

I was under the impression that Cores were around even before GLaDOS and used for things like watching over subjects in stasis and translating for foreign investors. There was a pre-recorded message near the start of Portal 2 about personality constructs which I thought was from the era before GLaDOS would issue announcements.

show spoiler

hide spoiler

This would make the most sense, why would the cores need a management rail to get around if all they do is stay attach to GLaDOS?

show spoiler

hide spoiler

You can't expect Aperture's designs to make sense. Wheatley was never supposed to detach from his rail or use his light, but he still does. They probably just designed management rails so that the cores could move around even though they were supposed to stay in one place forever.

[Descriptor]

show spoiler

hide spoiler

Space, Adventure, and Fact were just corrupted cores. They weren't used on GLaDOS because they didn't work right. As for what they were originally intended to do, who knows? Aperture was just throwing science at the wall to see what stuck.

show spoiler

hide spoiler

The lemons stuck.
They stuck.
They stuck there REAL good.

EDIT:
IDE

show spoiler

hide spoiler

Space core was meant for her not to do science there, or was to keep her from thinking about it.
Adventure was to keep her from wandering to far from Aperture's camera bounds:

show spoiler

hide spoiler

Sounds like the Cyro Humans...

The fact was to keep the facts in.

Fact, the Portal Gun is now more valuable than all the organs and incomes of [Subject hometome here]

I don't see why you think the cores would do the opposite of what they do, though.
When cores are attached, GLaDOS hears them as voices.
Therefore, it would seem that she'd be distracted by those thoughts, not turned away from them.

[Alphadin]

show spoiler

hide spoiler

Space, Adventure, and Fact were just corrupted cores. They weren't used on GLaDOS because they didn't work right. As for what they were originally intended to do, who knows? Aperture was just throwing science at the wall to see what stuck.

show spoiler

hide spoiler

The lemons stuck.
They stuck.
They stuck there REAL good.

EDIT:
IDE

show spoiler

hide spoiler

Space core was meant for her not to do science there, or was to keep her from thinking about it.
Adventure was to keep her from wandering to far from Aperture's camera bounds:

show spoiler

hide spoiler

Sounds like the Cyro Humans...

The fact was to keep the facts in.

Fact, the Portal Gun is now more valuable than all the organs and incomes of [Subject hometome here]

I don't see why you think the cores would do the opposite of what they do, though.
When cores are attached, GLaDOS hears them as voices.
Therefore, it would seem that she'd be distracted by those thoughts, not turned away from them.

show spoiler

hide spoiler

Proves my point. They didn't WANT her to think about space, to think about adventure, or about the facts(Which would mean more Rouge A.I., because she would be thinking for herself.)
They were corrupted because the forced her to think about the subjects.