Instead Of A Portal 3 Or Another Puzzle-based Portal Game, I Want A Portal Walking Simulator. I Want

Instead of a Portal 3 or another puzzle-based Portal game, I want a Portal walking simulator. I want to play as Chell (or some other test subject) exploring all the levels of the facility and unearthing clues as to who the scientists who ran the place were, before it all went wrong. No tests, no danger, just ambiance and intricate details behind each door. Crawling through the vast entirety of Aperture, a decaying mausoleum to science and the ego of Cave Johnson. Basically the beginning of “Portal Stories: Mel” except longer.

The gals are still talking about their robot pals!

2020 vs 2024

This redraw was really fun! ☺️💙🧡

here's an angle I've never seen anyone use:

glados isn't her name.

it's not a name at all. it's a model. like a car, or an appliance -- a subaru outback, a nintendo switch, an aperture glados. she's a Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System. it's WHAT she is, and when she's the only one, that works to designate her, but you wouldn't say your car is named "outback." if you're not the type to name your car, then it just doesn't have a name.

we use it like a name, but in canon no one does. it only appears in the first game's slideshow:

and at the base of her chassis:

no one calls her glados. no one calls her anything. chell's name is never spoken either, but it at least appears in Lab Rat. she's a GLaDOS, but she's never named at all.

except by the oracle turret:

her name is caroline.

not "was." present tense. her name is caroline.

(if this is going around again, gonna take the opportunity to plug my longfic "tragedy + time" which plays on this premise)

Cave Johnson: Feast your eyes on my brand-new Neutronium Generator!

Caroline: Sir, that’s a fidget spinner.

BREAKING: aperture science ceo and secretary caught and detained for their 9372845 workplace health violations

based off this: https://twitter.com/kojironanjo/status/1661772826897002507?s=20

random portal robots but they're human

and glados is an old stitched up lady that is coping badly with this whole human thing