5:14 PM on 04.08.2008
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The human imagination is a real magnificent and powerful thing. Like for instance, when I look at a cloud, I sometimes see kittens and bunnies. This writer over on game-ism is the same way. Except, instead of clouds and kittens, he sees GlaDOS as a woman hanging upside down and bound up. This take on GlaDOS is really interesting, and slightly erotic. Game-ism believes that GlaDOS wants to be killed by Chell, the main character of Portal. GlaDOS feels trapped at Aperture Science and she wants Chell to set her free. It's a very interesting take on the Portal story. Game-ism also has another article breaking down "Still Alive", the ending theme to Portal. It seems like some serious over analyzing, but it helps you look at the game in a totally different way. This new look of GlaDOS is also totally going to bring up some more crazy Rule 34 stuff, some of which still haunt me. It's a really great read that puts a fresh spin on the story of the game. What do you think of it? |
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i saw this on Kotaku the other day, step it up Dtoid!
I think I'd have a boner if I had the necessary equipment.
in liberal, capitalist democracies women are subjected to patriarchy in a similar fashion to how advanced AI programs will be suppressed?
Creepily interesting or interestingly creepy? I have no idea....
@flaakmonkey the kotaku time stamp is for yesterday at 5PM. That's less than one day ago. Settle down.
It's actually kinda creepy. I shat bricks when I read it earlier.
@chris I suppose, I have no track time being up all hours of the day and night. >_<
Best headline ever.
Rule 34 FTL!
I came.
@ collete
you can borrow my boner any time
@flaakmonkey:
Furthermore, Surf314 linked this on his Cblog on Sunday.
Looking at that side view of her though you can see their point.
I want Sterling to say she'd get a portion.
If this is was GlaDOS would look like. I wonder what the turrets would look like.
Interesting read, I think he might be on to a few things with it.
I beat you I win, HAHAHAHAHAHA.
J/K I'm just glad this guy gets some front page attention, his art and explanation blew me away.
@Steamy V, ok I get it.
And to comment on the topic at hand for once today, Valve is ingenious but I truly doubt however they saw this pick and its one of the pure coincidences. Still very funny though.
Thats about as creepy as the GlaDOS cosplayer
I enjoyed the article and he made a couple valid points, but I really think he's reading too much into it.
@Flaakmonkey
I truly doubt it's coincidental, in the guys article he even talks about how he got some of it from the commentary. He didn't go in depth and I haven't listened to it so I don't know how much but still that's a dead ringer for an upside down bondage woman.
Wtf? There was a GlaDOS cosplayer?
I'm scared.
This title destroyed my diaphragm from all the laughter
@AngelsDontBurn:
Here's the video, but I'm warning you now - it's painful.
Those sick minded bastards.
Whoa. I never saw it myself, but that comparison shot up there is uncanny.
that got everyone thinking with boners.
@SteamyV
I could only take 5, no 3 seconds of it. It was incredibly irritating.
Okay. This is before I watched the video.
Thank you for the link SteamyV. Here it goes.
I watched the video with my mouth open. Due to the amount of shock flowing through my body. My god.
This does the opposite of give me a boner. This is just... odd.
It does look like the picture, but the picture was drawn to look like the robot so... I really see where he's coming from here, but it sort of draws from several ideas coming from thin air. Also, what are those three white balls representing? They don't match up with the bondage. Also, what the hell kind of straight jacket job is that anyway? I fear the internet is going to kill Portal very soon.
Crazy, I've seen GlaDOS a quite a few times, but seeing it next to that picture, I can see the goddamn woman.
Whoa. Normally I would just chalk this up to a male sexual fantasy, but I can definitely see the resemblance as well. That points to several conclusions, and all but one scare me. o.O
Holy shit, I just took a second look at the first picture... It really does look like the second picture. O_O
Hamza, I am constantly thinking with boners.
Pareidolia, people. Pareidolia.
Someone please kill that cosplayer, that speech was painful.
The artists rendition surely gives it more sexual overtones than the actual Glad0s structure does, in my opinion. The cyborg body in the left hand screenshot is more curled up than hanging. Also the blindfold/mouthgag/headphones aren't really there, I don't think.
But, thats just my opinion. I'm pretty interested that they found a body in that structure, I never saw it before!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j39ABZyzek
Yeah, I noticed that not too long ago as well. I never noticed the body resembling structure. That's awesome.
Now that I've actually read the article (Hooray!) it is quite the interesting observation that ties into some aspects apparently heard in the director's commentary; something about how they were modeling GlaDOS after a painting of Venus or a similar inspiration.
It's certainly a unique take, of a jailer that is as much a prisoner as the prisoner herself, and makes quite a different impression than what I thought of the game (I have yet to actually play it, but you know how the internet works). Unless I actually see something by one of the designers stating this was their intent, though, it's just one more possible interpretation regardless of how much meaning you see in it.
Not that it's a bad interpretation, I really like it, but it annoys me when people see something on one level and then latch onto that like it's the only possible meaning.
@AngelsDontBurn:
"If this is was GlaDOS would look like. I wonder what the turrets would look like."
"Are you still there?"
I don't particularly agree with the "suicide" approach.
The writer seemed to have been influenced by his idea of GlaDOS wanting to die, when interpreting Still Alive. And tried to make the whole song work in his view. It felt shoehorned in my opinion.
You can change anything to have more meaning than it actually does. OR add new meaning that never existed in the first place.
wtf i'd rather you scan gameinformer for those new gears2 pics
Overanalysis at its lovely finest. Still, I never would have noticed that it's like a body without seeing that picture.
Yeah, reading to much into things...
But, it is interesting, and I can see the similarities.
OMG BONAR!
That's actually pretty cool, in a creepy depressing kind of way. I wouldn't mind if the story is actually more reminiscent of that.
...kinda hawt too. <_<;;
My mind was just blown. Honestly, what a great interpretation.
Incredible. I can definitely see it.
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