The Suffering of GLaDOS

I was about to go sleep after we signed out from the servers last night but I thought I'd just check out planethalflife and see if they had any updates on the TF2 patch, map or unlockables. However, I found something much more interesting (and in some ways, more disturbing).

There's a feature on GLaDOS, the badass computer system from Portal. I know a couple of you are into art, literature and philosophy, so I'd really like to give you this link here on the observations of GLaDOS. It's kinda scary when I thought about it, I shuddered as I read it and I'll never look at Portal the same way again.


Much of the analysis looks at the fembot as a tormented Venus, placing analysis on her choice of sarcasm in speech to deduce her character. I'm still digesting the concepts behind these observations and I'll surely be playing Portal again soon to hear/see it for myself.


Knock yourself out. More links and full feature on planethalflife here.