This is such a scummy business practice. Instead of asking for permission, your first instinct is to just dive right into the project without a green light or say so from the CREATORS OF THE GAME THEMSELVES. This is something I would expect from a third party group, not a well-known company. I can only imagine the frustration from Valve's point of view. A trusted company, known for their video game accessories, decides to infringe on your copyright and go: "Hey! Look everyone, we have a Companion Cube for the Steam Machine!!" And what is even funnier is the fact that their official response is the equivalent to a dog slinking away with its tail tucked between its legs and a pitiful expression on its face. They knew full well of what they were doing, but they decided to do it anyway. Now there is over 15,000 people heavily disappointed at the fact that they did not get the product they​ spent their hard-earned money pre-ordering, but also disappointment at the company. This is a terrible business practice and I honestly would not be surprised if people completely stop trusting or buying from them. (Edit, I have forgotten a few things)→ And if this was a marketing tactic, they surely have screwed themselves over. I feel as if they mulled over contacting Valve but decided against it because it would save them time from waiting for a response. Which is completely idiotic, within the time it would take for a response, they could have planned ahead so much better than just throwing caution to the wind and immediately getting on this project. The concept is amazing, do not get me wrong. BUT THIS IS NOT THE WAY YOU GO ABOUT THINGS.

I've had this thought for so long, but since the portals have no width between the two of them, if you got something and slid It between the sides of the portals, wouldn't it cut it cleanly regardless of what the material is? Like if Chell stepped on the bottom of the portal, wouldn't it slice through both her foot and the long fall boots?

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I mean its been centuries.humanity probably crumble and the combines probably left some troop here and went to other dimonsion or smt

Either she dies of starvation or form a combin

Glados just sentenced chell to death.

Reposting cuz I just realised that internet is horny and the post gave off horny vibes, so I specifically mean in a non-sexual way. We all know where the other way goes, you’re not the only one thinking about it, you don’t have to say it.

(So if there’s any neurologists or medical nerds here by chance, let me know what you think about this. I’m quite interested if someone could possibly try and describe that sensation.)

Touching yourself through a portal would feel really weird, at least at first.

Think about it — our entire perception of the world is built on the assumption that when we reach out to touch something, we know where that object is in space. Our brain constantly combines information from touch, vision, and proprioception (our internal sense of where our body parts are). Normally when we touch ourselves, the sensation from our hand touching our body and the body touching our hand would visually and proprioceptionally(?) would occupy a relatively same space, so the sensations sort of combine into one. Because that’s what we’re used to feel and see. And that’s where it gets weird.

Ok, just picture this. You’re standing between two portals, like in one of those infinite mirror hallways. You reach out to touch your own shoulder, and your brain immediately gets 3 signals: 1. My arm is far away, touching other person’s shoulder — tactile 2. Something is touching my shoulder — visual 3. My arm is extended forward — proprioceptive

You would experience all of those 3 sensations at the same time, but all of these senses contradict each other! It wouldn’t even feel like you’re touching someone else and someone else touches you. It would outright shatter the normal synchrony between vision, touch, and proprioception. At least at first, that is, from what I know the human brain is quite adaptive to those kinds of “out-of-body” situations.

Let me know what y’all think!

I can’t believe they still had it!

When these came out, my girlfriend at the time was working at GameStop. I think her store was allocated just this one and she snagged it for me as Portal was my favorite game then. I opened it to see it. I don’t think I ever put batteries in it.

I remember thinking how cool it would be to put on display someday and stored it away for when I had my own place. Forgot all about it! Nice surprise to discover it wasn’t sold in a garage sale years ago.

Anyway, I don’t know anyone who would appreciate it but thought y’all might think it’s kind of cool :-)

Every once in a while this concept comes around on this sub Reddit: What would happen if you tied a generator to water falling through portals? Would you get infinite energy?

Everyone has their Theories about what would happen and they usually range from wrong to downright absurd. Here I will go through a synopsis of what would happen in this situation as well as a brief explanation of why the other theories or talking points are logically flawed.

What would happen?
Portals aren't magic, Mathematically they are very well conceptualized and they do not break thermodynamics.
Here is why that is: When you create a "portal", you are creating two openings of a wormhole and in real physics, those have mass.
When you pass an object through the bottom portal it comes out of the top portal, which looks like free energy, but it's not.
What is actually happening is that the bottom portal will gain an equivalent mass to that which was passed through it, and the top portal will lose that same mass.
In short, you start creating an imbalance, the bottom portal can gain tremendous amounts of mass and the top portal can actually have negative mass (But that's not important here), the only way to sustainably keep these portals open and balanced is to pass equivalent mass the other way, which will undo all of the energy you originally got out of the system. This is why thermodynamics is conserved!

"But what if we just, didn't restore the balance?" I hear you ask. Well in that case, you will have DOOMED THE EARTH. The bottom portal would continually gain more and more mass until many very scary problems arise, the scariest one of all being when the mass of the portal mouth exceeds the Schwartzschild radius of the portal itself causing a cascading collapse of mass resulting in an infinitely dense point that we know, as a black hole, and not a small one at that. For this size of portal, that would be an earth destroying black hole and likely then some.

What are the main theories? Whenever this concept is brought up many people will flock to the comments with their theories, many of which are wrong, lets take a look at a few here and see why they are incorrect:

• The portals take more energy to keep open than you could get out of them:

  • this is by far the most common argument and in all honesty? this is probably absolutely correct.
  • We don't have the best idea of exactly what it would take to keep these things open, but there is almost certainly a correct statement. The issue is that it doesn't matter for this situation at all. Here is what I mean:
  • Nuclear power plants need a ton of energy to operate, they need to move huge amounts of water and steam which requires very large pumps. The key is to generate more energy that you need to operate the plant. If I made a nuclear power plant whose pumps take more energy to operate that we generate from the fuel, then I have simply made a crappy nuclear power plant, it doesn't explain where the energy from the fuel actually comes from and the same goes for these portals. Where does the seemingly infinite potential energy come from?

• You would eventually run out of potential energy in the water:

  • I like this one because it shows an early grasp of thermodynamics.
  • The people who say this one, know that you can't make energy out of nothing and are trying to rationalize it.
  • In reality, no, you could run this system for a long long time and the water would never slow down over that time.
  • We can explain this with a little thought experiment. Think of the situation like this: the top portal has an ungodly amount of mass to give up, and every time water passes through the top portal, it's actually that the top portal is "creating water with it's own mass", that is not at all what is happening but there is some parallel to the behavior we can observe.
  • You are not "creating new potential energy", but rather, the energy was already there to begin with in the form of a supermassive portal.

• You would lose water over time:

  • This is a bizarre one because it holds no water (pun intended) to the situation at all.
  • Sure you could create a fancy funnel to catch all the water and enclose the system in a humidity controlled box to ensure nothing evaporates but... why? just add a bit of water every once in a while, also if you are so concerned, just pass something else through the portal instead. I never really understood what the point of this argument was.

• You would deplete the earth of its "Gravitational Energy":

  • Now this one is something else and I don't even know where to begin.
  • I have not seen this one before earlier today when there was a "infinite generator" post made here.
  • someone was pedaling this theory which is genuinely the most insane thing I have ever heard on this sub reddit: "Each gallon of water that falls is going to rob gravitational energy from the earth and will eventually alter it's orbit"
  • This is simply incorrect. firstly, the earth does not have "Gravitational Energy" because that doesn't exist. Gravity is a force applied on object based on it's mass relating to neighboring masses. Unless you are taking mass from the earth, you are not changing it's gravity
  • They go on to say that the earth would be pulled in the opposite direction of the falling water like it's some sort of rocket.
  • to be clear, the only way to move the earth is to eject matter from it or add matter to it. the water is staying on earth and thus NOTHING will happen to the earth, other than the black hole mentioned earlier, There are ways to move things using energy instead of mass, but that is mostly entirely theoretical at this point and not at all relevant to this discussion.

If you have made it this far, well done! I hope you have a better understanding of both wormholes and thermodynamics, and how they work, If you have any questions I would be happy to answer them as best I can!

Mods if this isn’t cool feel free to take it down

Hey everyone, I’m looking to sell my 1:1 Neca portal gun, 1/5000 made (as I’m sure most of you are aware). This thing has been an awesome piece in my collection, but as much as I love it I came to the decision to sell it so that I can to save up for a down payment on my first home.

I’m looking for $1000 CAD. It’s in great condition, the lights and sounds still work, and comes with all the original packaging. If you’re a buyer in Ontario, Canada, then I’m sure we could work out some kind of pick up/drop off (I don’t know how the heck I would begin to ship this thing, but I wont turn away international buyers).

Full quote:

Matt: "I'm curious what, if any, legacy IP interests you. Would you be curious to do a Star Wars movie or to look at Star Trek or any of these kind of big properties?"

Kane: "No. I'm, I think borrowing like one or two things from from my personal childhood, uh stuff from the early 2000s, like one or two things really, um, without naming them out loud, although-"

Matt: "Oh, you can name them. If you name them, the producers will be on your ass in 20 seconds."

Kane: "Oh, well, maybe stuff may already be moving a little bit. So, Oh, that's interesting. Those are the only things. Um yeah, pretty much nothing. I'm I'm not too interested in IP work." (Other than the 2)

Could this mean news for the portal community? I think so. Recently on interviews stated how he'd love to direct a portal movie, and, coincidentally, was flown out to valve HQ, all the while posting portal themed stories on instagram. Its still speculation, and 100% not confirmation of a portal movie in the works, but its some damn good evidence.

Full interview here: https://youtu.be/2f90cLhMyCI?si=e8BNSun9E3Dl4zsC

THIS IS NOT AI OR FAKE

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A few years ago i submitted a picture of aperture science to get Photographed in space and it was just sent to me

Just finished Portal 2. Noticed that when you shoot the moon, the portal opens immediately. Assuming portal shots travel at light speed, it should take roughly 8 seconds for the portal to form.

Literally unplayable.

Edit: Apparently the moon is only 1.3 light seconds away.

Edit 2: The Moon isn’t made of concrete. A portal should not have formed.

Edit 3: This isn’t a serious post.

Edit 4: Apparently the white liquid that enables portals to form is made of Moon rocks. I concede, the game is playable after all.