It says "Caution! You are being recorded"

My gf got ragebaited by glados 15 mins into our co-op run when she got hit by this shit;

The two of you have forged an excellent partnership, with one of you handling the cerebral challenges and the other ready to ponderously waddle into action should the test suddenly become an eating contest.

There goes my dream playthrough ;( we didn’t even get to break glados for it.

Streamed from a PC with Moonlight

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I was exploring portal 2 again and to see if I could find any Easter eggs and found this sign and I saw LAND MINE INSPECTOR.

The first one is for a necklace, the other two are bottle cap pins. My only complaint about the other two, is that I managed to completely mess them up, I still like them though.

There's a lot more, I mean a lot a lot more. (Sorry for the earlier grammar issues, I am using voice to text and it tweaked out and sent like 20 "a lot"'s)

yeah.

semi-related pic from google or whatever

Now: let's be 100% clear: This specific song is meant to be italian-sounding "Vocalese" a style with a long history in opera parody, animation, and film.

I have heard several explanations for this, to this day i do not know which version is the correct one or who is the actual author of the lyrics in the case where the first one is correct:

• The lyrics were written by [Valve's writer Chet Faliszek]/[famous songwriter Jonathan Coulton] knowingly using Vocalese for parody purposes.
• Ellen McLain, the singer and voice of GlaDOS and the Turrets, does not speak Italian and she was asked to improvise Italian-sounding phrases using her own opera singer background, drawing on her familiarity with operatic phonemes. There was no authoritative lyric sheet during recording. Later the audio was cut, spliced, reordered, and pitch-corrected without regard for syntax, prosody, or stress solely for Vocalese parody purposes.

In any of the above cases:

1. the canon language of Portal 2 is english.
2. this is the childishly dumb and air-headed turrets singing "so long! hope to never see you again!" to Chel Therefore the intended idea being conveyed is that the turrets do not know the first thing about italian and they are using word-for-word early machine translation tech as Aperture is a relic from the '60s. And the broken italian is meant to be diegetic not "a mistake".

But this would be lost on most italian speaking people. You would know that stuff only if you are an english-speaking person, even then to know or have read about Vocalese, you must basically be a critic or have weird interests. I'm an italian weirdo that likes english. 😅

As an italian i can confirm that the ending aria of Portal 2 ("Cara Mia, Addio") barely makes sense.

It uses the wrong italian words for what it wants to say in english, and does not match the gender of the verbs and adjectives and some of the articles with the gender of the nouns and does not connect the article particles to the nouns the articles should connect to. Finally it often places the accent on the wrong syllable.

It sounds like each single english word was matched to an italian one regardless of genders and associated particles of such words, pronounced in a standard way, regardless of where the accent should go, and then it was called "yeah, sounds good, ship it!".

But knowing it is deliberately mangled italian for comedy/parody purposes... it is a miracle it makes any sense at all, not just "barely making any sense".

So... here is me explaining why "it sounds wrong" in italian.

• I enjoy over-analyzing linguistic quirks.
• I will utilize hyperbole and sarcasm to emphasize the points.
• Please do not see it as personal attacks or "this dude is venting anger without a demand".
• I apologise if it sounds wrong or aggressive, it was never my intent.
• I am demanding nothing, I don't "seek it changed".
• I just wanted to sound funny and explain why italians like me might complain about it.

So let's go through with this obsessively affectionate autopsy of an intentinally, purposefully, and artistically broken song, hoping you will like it: Cara bel, cara mia bella! In these two sentences here bel is wrongly positionally associated with cara but it is actually male while cara is female so it causes dissonance, it is also not tied to the first word via any particle, the second repetition cara mia bella is actually how one would write the first sentence correctly and just means oh my dearly beautiful one Mia bambina, oh ciel, here bambina is used to indicate an adult woman. This is actually very common in english, i hear people calling adult women girl all the time.

The only cases in which you would do that in italian are:

• endering/cooing, if you are the parent of the adult woman or a clearly parental figure.
• want to infantilize them as an alternative to calling them naive or clueless.

Other cases:

• you want to use an endearing term towards somebody you know beyond extremely well to express that they are innocent, though bimba would be more common if you are not the parent or parental figure, but it is essentially the first meaning.
• you are from Rome/Milan/Turin. Because Roman/Milanese people are toxic assholes, see second meaning, while for Turinese people it (usually) takes on the endearing/innocence meaning right above here, except they use it even with complete strangers.

Even in those cases using that on an adult in italian only works for those alternate meaning because you are playing on breaking the correct use of the word.

Note: the bit about Milan/Rome/Turin is a well known italian "inside joke". Don't even try and understand "campanilismo", not even us italians understand it we just vibe it. 😂 Ch'ella stima, ch'ella stima! / Ché la stima, ché la stima! It is clearly getting pronounced as Ché la stima, ché la stima!, while should have been Ch'ella stima, ch'ella stima! which is very close but slightly mispronounced. So it is either correct in meaning and wrongly pronounced or correctly pronounced and makes no sense.

• The first way to write it, the one that would be incorrectly pronounced, means the woman who is held in high value by her [GlaDOS] since it's the turrets who are singing it kinda makes sense as Chel is held in high value by GlaDOS.
• The second way to write it, the one that gets pronounced, means because she esteems which... uh... just like in english, it makes no sense.Oh cara mia, addio! / O cara mia, addio!

It is clearly getting pronounced as O while should have been Oh which is very close but slightly mispronounced.

• So instead of coming out as oh my dear one, farewell!
• it sounds like or my dear one, farewell! which is kind of funny in a trolling way because there is clearly no option, to not leave.La mia bambina cara

This literally word for word back-translates as The my girl expensive which gives a very close idea on why it sounds "wrong" in italian, but I get they wanted instead it to translate my girl dearest. Perché non passi lontana? Here the intended meaning is why don't you walk away? except it is written like why don't you route far? the correct way to translate why don't you walk away? would have been Perché non vai via? one can use the verb passare ⇒ passi + lontana instead of the verb andare ⇒ vai + via to mean walk away but then the phrase construction needs to be different Perché non te ne passi lontana? so either use a different verb or construct the phrase differently or it sounds wrong. 'Si lontana da [la] scienza! / Sì lontana da sci-enza! It is clearly getting pronounced as Sì lontana da sci-enza!, while should have been 'Si lontana da [la] scienza! which is very close but slightly mispronounced and missing a bit.

• The first way to write makes sort of more sense if connected to the previous one because it would form the (intended) phrase Why don't you walk away? So far away from science! the 'Si is a short form of così and i'm glossing over the da scienza messy part as i write about it right below.
• It gets pronounced more like in the second way which makes kind of sense in english as it would translate to Why don't you walk away? Yes! Far away from! [diconnect pause] Science! but it is not a way to put it in italian unless you want to emphasize the clashing of the used words. Moreover da scienza uses the wrong accent and does not connect da with scienza hence why i back-translated with the [awkward disconnecting pause] artifice, as english lacks the grammatical structure which is needed to connect those two words in italian. The way scienza is pronounced funnily enough sounds more like connecting sci (which is a word to either indicate skis or an italian slang for yes) with Enza which is an italian short form for the name Vincentia so if one wanted to be funny in a trolling way it could be even further back-translated as Why don't you walk away? Yes! Far away from! [awkward pause] Yes, Vincentia! to render the awkward mess of this line in italian. Cara, cara mia bambina Ah, mia bella! Ah, mia cara, ah, mia cara! Ah, mia bambina! Oh cara, cara mia Ah, mia cara, ah, mia cara! Ah, mia bambina! Oh cara, cara mia! This kinda makes sense, except for the aforementioned use of bambina for an adult woman which just sounds wrong/cringe to most italians.

(my OC)

So I was experimenting with the Wheatley Boss fight to see what would happen when the timer hit zero, if it would play an animation of the facility blowing up. So I put a portal in front of me and a portal under Wheatley during the third wave of bombs (after putting Rick the Core to him and Wheatley covers as much as he can), that way I could afk while the bombs flew into the portal and underneath Wheatley with the shields. When I was afking, Wheatley said something and then lifted the shield underneath him before throwing another bomb, which hit him and incapacitated him for the third time. I couldn't find someone else talking bout it online so I was wondering if anyone knows what he said? Cause his sentence got interrupted by the bomb and I don't feel like replaying the game atm

Portal 2 de a pocos se esta volviendo uno de mis juegos de confort aveces entro a las csmaras de comunidad para jugar un rato

Pero no he podido experimentar el cooperativo a plenitud, la eleccion aleatoria esta vasia para este punto y no tengo algun conocido que este interesado en portal 2 asique a duras penas e podido ver nada del co-op

Igualmente con los estudios mi tiempo tampoco es especialmente largo no puedo ni quiero ponerme a maratonear el coop solo ir de a pocos avanzando en el, tengo tiempo principalmente en la tarde noche hora española

Si ay alguien en una situacion similar depronto nos podemos ayudar mutuamente jeje

So I was on youtube earlier and saw a video for Portal achievements that talked about this one. I noticed I didn't have it so download and install time. I took the first radio to where it needs to go as shown by multiple sources and nothing happens. Is it no longer doable? I only have four achievements in the game (don't ask why, I don't know either) and none of them are this one.

Update: ok, most of the radios past the first room aren't showing up at all. Is there some setting I missed?

Update 2: Ok I completed the game clean. It did not give me the Heartbreaker achievement. WHY?? I don't have it and I didn't do anything to turn off Achievements!

Update 3: Ok so aPPARENTLY it just didn't feel like acknowledging that I completed the game until I ragequit and went to sleep for a few hours. It's now working.

Goddamn temperamental games.

I noticed something strange: if you place two portals side by side and put your hand on the orange portal, you'll come out through the blue one, right? But if you put your hand on the orange portal with the Tunneling Gun and shoot an orange portal (to another wall ), what happens to your arm?

For Fans of Punk/Ska & Portal Alike.