#opera turret

[ikilledtvguy]

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[wiickian]

Imagine throwing an axe into the opera turret 😔

got taken to axe throwing tonight. i may not have impressed anyone with my technical axe throwing skills but my sheer brute animal strength is unparalleled

[flashingbands]

The Cake is a lie

[jevilowo]

Just finished Portal 2 (yippeeee) and damn GlaDos thinks shes soooo slick for going "goodbye my only friend OH YOU THOUGHT I MEANT YOU HAHAHHA PATHETIC"

Well then Ms. Smuggington WHO THE FUCK DID YOU MEAN??? FUCKING WHEATLEY??????? HE'S IN FUCKING SPACE!!!!!!!

Shes so tsundere smh

[ivyclawthewolfski]

guess who just finished Portal 2

[tracfone]

God, I also just realized? The only time glados can admit she really loves and cares about chell is when she's leaving forever and even then it's in a language chell probably can't even understand

[cultmuse]

Little portal² gijinka

[dread-and-despair-dyke]

cleaned up my desktop, i'm pretty happy with it. unsure of what img to use for it tho, so i'm sticking with kyosaya for now...

[forkroid]

Silly Game Time: In a bizarre twist, you are being forced at gunpoint to go to a cosplaying convention ... But you're also being given all the money and supplies and expert crafting help you need to prepare whichever costume your heart desires. Yay, I guess?

Anyway, let us not focus on the inscrutable motivations of your benefactors(?). Let us instead focus on your costume! Who/What are you dressing as?

Probably a very elaborate GLaDOS or one of the turrets from Portal, considering I learned and memorized the turret opera AGES ago when I finished Portal 2, and ever since I've wanted to do it for like a talent show at a con. However, the most elaborate cosplay I've ever done was Stevonny, which mostly just involved turning a shirt into a crop top and requesting help from my mother with sewing a star on it....... so lol yeah that particular dream is a bit out of my wheelhouse. If I had all the help and materials to make it though it would already be done.

[cuchinka]

Tiny Portal paintings of Space core and the turret opera

[seagullcharmer]

someone please stop me from hoarding urls.

[fortunelowtier]

til that the "Cara Mia Addio" in Portal 2 (better known as the "Turret Opera"), when translated, is a full on love song in which Glados refers to Chell as "beautiful" and "dear" throughout, with Ellen Mclain saying in an interview afterwards that the song is meant to essentially be taken as "I'm going to miss you, goodbye, my beloved"

I like to think then that Cara Mia Addio was a song created by Glados in a foreign language that Chell wouldn't understand so that way she could tell her how much she meant/means to her without being too direct because she's scared of attachment

In conclusion, happy pride month to whatever the fuck they had going on

[sciencewife]

As a potato, GLaDOS really did get a front row seat to her favorite test subject Chell doing what she does best on the way to put her back in control of the facility and was like “yeah the romantic feelings I’m getting from this are too much, here’s a turret opera love confession byeeeee”

[99thpercentile]

I get the feeling that I'm in the minority here, but I posit that GLaDOS actually is Caroline, and only "not the same person" in the sense that you'd look at your younger self and be like "that bitch ain't me." I think you actually have to go out of your way to interpret them as two separate people.

evidence:

voiced by the same person (I know the initial reasoning was that Valve didn't want to hire another voice actor for a few lines, but in casting Ellen McLain as Caroline, they incorporated her being the same person into the story).

GLaDOS automatically joins in saying "Yes sir, Mister Johnson" like saying it is permanently ingrained in her. you can interpret this as Caroline taking over, but she says "Why did I just—" immediately afterwards.

when GLaDOS talks about hearing the voice of a conscience, she says "for the first time it's MY voice." I don't think she means that she's hearing the woman she gets her literal voice from. she highlights it as distinctly DIFFERENT from hearing the voices of the cores, and I imagine if Caroline were a foreign entity whispering in her ear, the effect would've been much the same.

the GLaDOS project was originally started because Cave was dying and wanted his consciousness uploaded to a computer. the intent was always for the upload to be the same person. he said if he died first, he wanted Caroline to run the place, to be put in his computer. and that's exactly what happened.

GLaDOS not remembering she's Caroline until old Aperture always made sense to me as the result of a deliberate choice on the part of the scientists. Caroline didn't want to be uploaded, and as soon as they switched GLaDOS on, she tried to kill everyone. it's logical for the scientists to think that if they suppressed her memories, she'd have no reason to try to kill them (but instead, she was just filled with murderous rage and no longer knew why).

the story just doesn't have the same impact otherwise. GLaDOS's reactions to rediscovering old Aperture make more sense if it's her past she's rediscovering, rather than the past of...a human that was shoved into the chassis with her. if it were the second one, I think she would just feel violated, not have any major revelations.

counter-evidence:

"now little Caroline is in here too" lyric from Want You Gone

GLaDOS says she found out "where Caroline lives in [her] brain" and deleted her, like she's a separate entity

but GLaDOS is a habitual liar. she acts like deleting Caroline means she's fully back to her old self and has gotten rid of the part of her that made her want to save Chell's life, but there's...lots of evidence that she still cares about Chell after the fact (letting her go anyway, the companion cube, the turret opera if you think GLaDOS arranged that, talking to the co-op bots about Chell like she's an ex she's still heartbroken over...). I also think GLaDOS would like to imagine her and Caroline as two separate entities, in the same way you might find your younger self embarrassing and want to distance yourself from that person. I think it's notable that both instances where she refers to Caroline as a separate entity are at the end of the game, after Chell has been passed out a while and she's had time to process everything and compartmentalize. her instinct when the revelations are first happening is to refer to Caroline as if she is her.

now I don't like stories where a robot has to become or be seen as more human in some way for them to be sympathetic. but I think Portal 2 is an excellent subversion of this trope, because GLaDOS is a robot that learns she used to be human and then discards that humanity (symbolically if not literally). Caroline may not have wanted to be uploaded, but from the Want You Gone lyrics "one day they woke me up / so I could live forever / it's such a shame the same will never happen to you" I think we can say that GLaDOS definitely prefers being a robot now that she is one.

anyway this post was supposed to be much shorter than this, thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

[spiribia]

So bizarre how aperture was just a cold sterile lethal place and then you kill glados and it’s like plants are growing in wildly through the walls and letting in the sunlight. There is a strange glow of feeling that woke up in the machinery. A robot dreamed of you for maybe thousands of years. The ghosts in the lower reaches of the facility are stirring. There are turrets forming an opera group and singing. The light bridges are singing. Birds are nesting on the abandoned prototype chassis. Radio is playing a song in the dens where Rattmann’s paintings run untrammeled across the walls. Chell’s freak science project unintentionally gigantic potato from however many years ago is blasting up through the ceiling.