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This Is Aperture

January 29, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If you’ve seen The Nightmare Before Christmas then you’ll recall the This is Halloween song. If not; it’s time to watch it. This remake – This is Aperture – has zoomed over the half a million views mark and only popped online a few days ago. When I say “remake” I mean Portal 2-ification of […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Cave Johnson, christmas, glados, Nightmare Before Christmas, portal, portal 2

Where are the Mantis Men in Portal 2

July 10, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There was a time before Portal 2. In that time we only had Portal and teasers from Portal 2. Sometimes we had leak-style teasers; like when someone managed to film a bit of a pre-release Portal 2. That happened with Cave Johnson versus the Mantis Men. It sounded like there would be Mantis Men. So, […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Cave Johnson, fashion, portal, portal 2, t-shirts

Portal 2: Boots video

April 15, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Turns out that Cave Johnson is willing to admit that there is a reproducible human error problem with the portal device. It’s all due to the way humans tend to land badly, especially from great heights, and the resulting damage that can occur to the portal generator. Needless to say, in order to protect the […]

Filed Under: Console, PC Tagged With: Cave Johnson, glados, PlayStation 3, portal, portal 2, trailers, Xbox 360

Portal 2: Cave Johnson versus Mantis Men army

March 14, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

In 1953 Cave Johnson founded Aperture Science in order to make shower curtains for the American military. After becoming less than sane due a serious dose of mercury poisoning in 1978 he changed direction… the result being man sized quantum tunnels through space (ideal for stopping water spilling out of the shower). Turns out – […]

Filed Under: Console, PC Tagged With: Cave Johnson, portal, portal 2, trailers

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