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I saw the Winter Soldier today

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I liked it! I thought it was way better than the first Cap movie. Which was ALRIGHT, but I liked this one more.

(Winter Soldier and Portal 2 spoilers ahead.)

My FAVORITE part, though, was the scene with Zola as an AI, preserved on the hundreds of tape drives from the 70s. It gave me some MAJOR Portal 2/Old Aperture vibes. I thought it was totally awesome and now my official headcanon is that the first iteration of Caroline/GLaDOS was a gigantic array of tape drives like that. :D

All in all, with the release of the first episode of Podsky, it’s been a very Portal-feelsy day.

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ianbrooks:

Homemade Frankenturret by Daniel / Corroder666

The thankfully short-lived Wheatley Laboratories produced many scientific abominations. The Frankenturret, a wretched mashed-together hybrid of the Aperture Science Sentry Turret and the Weighted Storage Cube, was only ever capable of pathetically hopping if placed upright and were quickly discontinued after their creator, Wheatley, was ported into space. DA user Corroder666 made one from scratch, however, complete with glow-y eyes and twitching legs. His goal was to have them walk on their own, but much like the real things, they proved totally inept at even the simplest science. You can read more info about the build (in german) at here, or check out the video below to see it in testing mode:

Artist: Deviantart

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bloodpactgirlscout:

I showed my mom Anita Sarkeesian’s Ted Talk and it reminded me to do this little comic I have been meaning to finish for weeks. 

When I reached the Wheatley/GLaDoS switch in Portal 2, I was really hit with a lot of weird emotion, because I realized that it was really the first time Chell was talked about in third person, and the first time I’d really heard the game refer to her (and by extension, me) with lady pronouns (aside from the curiosity core’s brief “oh! you’re the lady from the test!”) 

And I really felt the full effect of playing a non-sexualized game without any inherently gendered roles, costumes, or traits where, even though I wasn’t playing a character designed for cishet dudes to look at and enjoy, I still got to be a girl by default. I didn’t have to specify. I didn’t have to select any sort of gender box or a (very rare) playable girl character. I just got to be a girl. I wasn’t an outsider in this game, a rebel playing something meant for boys. I was playing something meant for me. I had a goddamn unisex jumpsuit and got to bounce around on abandoned science experiments, facing down an evil lady robot who was not a super sexy!fem!bot, and later teaming up with her to take down a common dude threat.

GLaDoS called me “she.” And it was awesome.