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I updated to the newest wordpress. There’s a lot to like about it. A huge step forward. The K2 theme isn’t compatible yet, so I’ve switched back to the default theme till it is.

I finally started work at my new job this week, it’s been really good so far. I’ve a nice window view of the whole city. I have to do financial maths and C#.

Visited my mum recently. We spent hours playing lego just like when we were little. So awesome..

I’m taking the one week Aberrant Gamer challenge. That is avoid video games for one week. So far, I’ve built an extremely awesome Space Quest inspired space ship out of Lego, and read most of a great book. I’m definitely finding it tough though. After all I see the whole point of video games as making playing easier. Going back to playing without them is definitely hard. Simply because it’s so easy to end up just surfing the web or veg’ing out in front of the TV, I end up bored. I guess I’ll just have to go do something constructive… shock!

I think Portal 2 would have some really high expectations to fill. It might even be better if they give it a different title, and just set it around Aperture Science, or Chell.

*spoilers for Portal follow*

It would be lovely to know more about Chell, but what really makes Portal is GlaDOS. Personally I’d really like to find out more about when GlaDOS first flooded the enrichment centre with toxic case. The time when the red phone’s cord was cut (the commentary says the phone was to be used if GlaDOS became too aware, in which case she’d be shut off or something).

Something that would be cool, is finding out more about Aperture Science’s relationship to Black Mesa. I’d like to play out some sort of conflict between them, a lovely twist would be having GlaDOS helping you throughout, yet somehow you realise at the end that you’ve provided her with the trigger for her awareness and subsequent madness.

If aperturescience.com is to be taken as canon Aperture Science started off making shower curtains for the military (not sure which military), then the man in charge left 3 directives for the future of the company. The first 2 were absurd nutty things, the 3rd was to make a bio artificial intelligence lifeform operating system or something, which was really an aside as he hadn’t put much thought into it. Obviously the 3rd ended up being GlaDOS.

No matter what Valve does, Portal will be a hard act to follow.
They absolutely much keep the same voice actress for GlaDOS, she’s wonderful.
Just another 3-4 hours puzzle game would be fabulous too though.

I just got a full time job working in an inbound call centre. Not my ideal industry, but I could really use the money right now. It’s good news.