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GlaDOS as a bondaged slave: Now you're thinking with boners photo

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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flaakmonkey's Avatar
flaakmonkey at 04/08/2008 17:13
i saw this on Kotaku the other day, step it up Dtoid!
Colette Bennett's Avatar
Colette Bennett at 04/08/2008 17:13
I think I'd have a boner if I had the necessary equipment.
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bovine at 04/08/2008 17:13
in liberal, capitalist democracies women are subjected to patriarchy in a similar fashion to how advanced AI programs will be suppressed?
DaedHead8's Avatar
DaedHead8 at 04/08/2008 17:13
Creepily interesting or interestingly creepy? I have no idea....
ChrisFurniss's Avatar
ChrisFurniss at 04/08/2008 17:18
@flaakmonkey the kotaku time stamp is for yesterday at 5PM. That's less than one day ago. Settle down.
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Magesx at 04/08/2008 17:19
It's actually kinda creepy. I shat bricks when I read it earlier.
flaakmonkey's Avatar
flaakmonkey at 04/08/2008 17:22
@chris I suppose, I have no track time being up all hours of the day and night. >_<
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Wexx at 04/08/2008 17:22
Best headline ever.
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razerangel at 04/08/2008 17:26
Rule 34 FTL!
Cheeburga's Avatar
Cheeburga at 04/08/2008 17:26
I came.
RAB's Avatar
RAB at 04/08/2008 17:26
@ collete

you can borrow my boner any time
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SteamyV at 04/08/2008 17:28
@flaakmonkey:

Furthermore, Surf314 linked this on his Cblog on Sunday.
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njsykora at 04/08/2008 17:29
Looking at that side view of her though you can see their point.

I want Sterling to say she'd get a portion.
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AngelsDontBurn at 04/08/2008 17:29
If this is was GlaDOS would look like. I wonder what the turrets would look like.
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 04/08/2008 17:30
Interesting read, I think he might be on to a few things with it.
Surf314's Avatar
Surf314 at 04/08/2008 17:32
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.
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flaakmonkey at 04/08/2008 17:32
@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.
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ArrestedDeveloper at 04/08/2008 17:32
Thats about as creepy as the GlaDOS cosplayer
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Technophile at 04/08/2008 17:34
I enjoyed the article and he made a couple valid points, but I really think he's reading too much into it.
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Neonie at 04/08/2008 17:35
That is incredibly creepy.
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Surf314 at 04/08/2008 17:36
@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.
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AngelsDontBurn at 04/08/2008 17:37
Wtf? There was a GlaDOS cosplayer?

I'm scared.
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king3vbo at 04/08/2008 17:40
This title destroyed my diaphragm from all the laughter
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SteamyV at 04/08/2008 17:41
@AngelsDontBurn:

Here's the video, but I'm warning you now - it's painful.
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Eschatos at 04/08/2008 17:42
Those sick minded bastards.
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Dexter345 at 04/08/2008 17:45
Whoa. I never saw it myself, but that comparison shot up there is uncanny.
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spinseffingcool at 04/08/2008 17:45
that got everyone thinking with boners.
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Surf314 at 04/08/2008 17:46
@SteamyV

I could only take 5, no 3 seconds of it. It was incredibly irritating.
AngelsDontBurn's Avatar
AngelsDontBurn at 04/08/2008 17:50
Okay. This is before I watched the video.
Thank you for the link SteamyV. Here it goes.
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AngelsDontBurn at 04/08/2008 17:52
I watched the video with my mouth open. Due to the amount of shock flowing through my body. My god.
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Sharpless at 04/08/2008 17:54
This does the opposite of give me a boner. This is just... odd.
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Robbo the hood at 04/08/2008 18:01
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.
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Vlambo at 04/08/2008 18:15
Crazy, I've seen GlaDOS a quite a few times, but seeing it next to that picture, I can see the goddamn woman.
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SWE3tMadness at 04/08/2008 18:20
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
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Sharpless at 04/08/2008 18:31
Holy shit, I just took a second look at the first picture... It really does look like the second picture. O_O
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Pangloss at 04/08/2008 18:32
Hamza, I am constantly thinking with boners.
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Audio Video at 04/08/2008 18:33
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Teta at 04/08/2008 18:38
Someone please kill that cosplayer, that speech was painful.
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Tiff at 04/08/2008 18:40
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!
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Holiday at 04/08/2008 18:47
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AngelsDontBurn at 04/08/2008 18:48
Yeah, I noticed that not too long ago as well. I never noticed the body resembling structure. That's awesome.
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Audio Video at 04/08/2008 18:51
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.
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KamikazeTutor at 04/08/2008 19:03
@AngelsDontBurn:
"If this is was GlaDOS would look like. I wonder what the turrets would look like."


"Are you still there?"
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animateria at 04/08/2008 19:07
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.
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Orionsaint at 04/08/2008 19:09
wtf i'd rather you scan gameinformer for those new gears2 pics

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Necros at 04/08/2008 19:12
Overanalysis at its lovely finest. Still, I never would have noticed that it's like a body without seeing that picture.
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Go Man at 04/08/2008 19:18
Yeah, reading to much into things...
But, it is interesting, and I can see the similarities.
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Wiid Whacker at 04/08/2008 19:29
OMG BONAR!
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Jaren Face at 04/08/2008 19:50
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. <_<;;
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liam2015 at 04/08/2008 19:53
My mind was just blown. Honestly, what a great interpretation.
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