Fun Behind Portals

I have to admit, I am quite a geek, I love computer games. One of my recent favorites is Portal 2. It is a game, in which you have a "gun" that can shoot two "holes" on a wall, an orange and a blue one, and when both are present, they become portals, and when you enter one hole, you come out of the other. The goal of the game is to use this portal "gun" to solve puzzles created by the antagonist, a malevolent A.I. called GLaDOS (meaning Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System).

The reason I like the game lies not only in the mechanics, but in the delivering as well: wonderful voice actors create a charming story, with lots of humor about people's and machines' view of the world; and the levels of the game are filled with funny "safety" instructions and oddly placed objects.

Some of my favorites are:

Benefits of robots

Just a sentry turret at a desk...

Good to know your allergens

If a robot attacks you...

"This next test involves time travel"

That's it for today, I would like to close with a quote from the game:

"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"
  - Cave Johnson, C.E.O. of Aperture Science (a fictional company in the game)