Portal 2

X-SOLDIER

X-SOLDIER

Harbinger O Great Justice
AKA
X
Herp fucking Derp

"I'm not ready to discuss adoption with my 10-year-old Chinese daughter, so I'm gonna call in a fucking news crew to talk about adoption in my house, and film my adopted daughter to let everyone know how ok I am with adoption, and how offended I was by the mean comment about adoption...

...but I don't think she's ready to talk about adoption yet."





Seriously, It's not that big of a deal that this is coming from a robot that attempts to murder you with neurotoxin, or throw you into acid, or find other ways of generally taking cheap shots at your self esteem. The adoption thing is brought up in the first place to make you feel overly isolated from any other human contact, because you're completely alone in the game. They're obviously posing the mocking statement in an intentionally "elementary schoolyard" like hurtful way. No offense, but if you're greatly offended at the phrase, "Fatty, fatty, no parents." you should probably never let your kid go to a public school.

As an adoptive parent, maybe you should be reinforcing the fact that there's nothing wrong with being adopted and it's just a meaningless insult, rather than crying to a news crew about it like there's actually ANYTHING to feel bad about from that statement.


EDIT: Here's a quote from one of the Kotaku comments that mirrors my feelings, perhaps a little more eloquently.

natedogXVI said:
Bullies will pick on people regardless of a "reason". I got bullied to some extent in elementary school. Pretty much everyone does at some point. I'm nothing special, nothing unique about me to pick on. But it still happens. Bullies will bully, kids just have to adapt and not care what that one person (or select few people) think.

As someone else said, the game isn't poking fun at people who are adopted. The antagonist(s) in the game are trying to discourage the character, and say a wide variety of things. All of these things were viewed as harmless by Valve, because they are. If a fictitious enemy harassing an equally fictitious protagonist about something that may not even be true is that bothersome, it's the players fault not the content. That particular person feels insecure about that subject, but that doesn't mean it isn't a subject that can be talked about.

I'd say that dad is more bothered by the dialogue than his kid would be. And the fact that he made a big deal out of it, is only going to make his kid feel stranger. He completely cut away from playing a game with her because of dialogue he worried would bother her. But most likely, she either wouldn't have noticed or wouldn't have cared. Now it's a situation of, "Dad won't play this game with me because I'm different and so something in the game could potential make me feel bad because of my difference." His action has actually worked to emphasize that a special case should be made for her, rather than just treating her as if she wasn't adopted and so the dialogue's subject wouldn't matter.

The fact that he was trying to care about her being treated differently, has caused him to treat her differently for being adopted. Great Job!
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M

Madame Mayor

Banned
Guy just wants to whine. As everyone else pointed out, Glados says there's nothing wrong with being adopted. Second, is that really the first time they make that joke in the game (I honestly don't remember but I thought Glados said stuff like "science has proven your birth mother's decision to leave you on the doorstep" long before that.)

Third, big fucking lol @ them contacting Sony first. I want to use a movie comparison but it's funny how she says with a straight face like it's informational "we contacted the wrong people and they told us who to actually contact, the name on the box".

God I hope Valve doesn't say anything to humour these morons.
 
ForceStealer

ForceStealer

Double Growth
X-SOLDIER said:
As an adoptive parent, maybe you should be reinforcing the fact that there's nothing wrong with being adopted and it's just a meaningless insult, rather than crying to a news crew about it like there's actually ANYTHING to feel bad about from that statement.
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What are you crazy? That would involved being, you know, a parent.
 
Alessa Gillespie

Alessa Gillespie

a letter to my future self
AKA
Sansa Stark, Sweet Bro, Feferi, tentacleTherapist, Nin, Aki, Catwoman, Shinjiro Aragaki, Terezi, Princess Bubblegum
Vash the Stampede said:
What are you crazy? That would involved being, you know, a parent.
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yeah I mean being involved in things my children does is the job for the ESRB and television networks and stuff! I don't have time to do anything but sit around and wait for a particular insult from a video game!
 
Cthulhu

Cthulhu

Administrator
AKA
Yop
lolwhut, why'd they contact Sony first? 'O RITE YEAH ALL GAMES COME FROM SONY, LoL!'



Also, I am a loving father of a droid. I do not approve of the abuse, generalizations and ridicule of droids in that video game.
 
Joe

Joe

I KEEP MY IDEALS
AKA
Joe, Arcana
"What exactly is wrong with being adopted?" - To Wheatley

"For the record you are adopted, and that's terrible. *something incomprehensible" - To Chell
 
ForceStealer

ForceStealer

Double Growth
And just to clarify - it is a joke because its such a juvenile insult that the bad guys are employing. And Glados proves how easy it is to counter.

I like that they guy said it's "the worst thing he could have possibly heard" from the game. Is he serious? What if Glados said she was going to skullfuck you, would that have been better than saying you're adopted?
 
M

Madame Mayor

Banned
I like too how he talks about how his child is obviously scared and won't talk about it when in all reality it probably went over her head like most adult comedy does to children.

Love the shots of her still playing it too. They were mad enough to do all this, but they have no problems playing the rest of it?
 
Ryushikaze

Ryushikaze

Deus Admiral Parsimonious, PHD, DDS, MD, JD, OBE
AKA
Tim, Ryu
Manufactured outrage. Ho Hum.

Daughter pretty much knows she's adopted. She really can't. Does this comment actually upset her? No? Then why are you getting pissed about something you should understand is an insult designed to be juvenile.

They aren't upset. They're opportunistic.
 
Max Payne

Max Payne

Banned
AKA
Leon S. Kennedy,Terry Bogard, The Dark Knight, Dacon, John Marston, Teal'c
Portal 2 is a fucking amazing game.

Who else is looking forward to a sequel where Chell travels the country side with her trusty companion cube?
 
Ryushikaze

Ryushikaze

Deus Admiral Parsimonious, PHD, DDS, MD, JD, OBE
AKA
Tim, Ryu
We can call it Portal: Chell out. Then she meets Gordon Freeman and then everyone tells them to let everyone else get a word in edgewise.
 
Sheva Alomar

Sheva Alomar

I'm Alive and on Fire
AKA
Adri, Sir Integra, Fiona, Sango
So I got this and this to wear at FanExpo for one day. Dunno if I'll be getting an orange jumpsuit for the pants, but I did want to download a shitload of Glados quotes in MP3 form for my iPod to play as the day went on (most likely to compensate for potential lack of orange jumpsuit pants). I rounded up a few quotes already, but they're from the first Portal game. If anyone can help me get some Portal 2 Glados/Wheatley quotes, I'd really appreciate it!
 
Ryushikaze

Ryushikaze

Deus Admiral Parsimonious, PHD, DDS, MD, JD, OBE
AKA
Tim, Ryu
Firestar said:
So I got this and this to wear at FanExpo for one day. Dunno if I'll be getting an orange jumpsuit for the pants, but I did want to download a shitload of Glados quotes in MP3 form for my iPod to play as the day went on (most likely to compensate for potential lack of orange jumpsuit pants). I rounded up a few quotes already, but they're from the first Portal game. If anyone can help me get some Portal 2 Glados/Wheatley quotes, I'd really appreciate it!
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"So I've been thinking: We need humans for these tests. And since the
only human within a thousand miles of us is a test-ruining sociopath... I'll
just have to MAKE some."

Or find your own in this giant mess
http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/991073-portal-2/faqs/62236

Also, I'd like to go as Cave Johnson to a con, but he's a bit too Generic visually. Which is a shame, because I love shouting random demands at people dressed as Aperture Scientists.

Also, I should have gotten a picture of the ladies dressed like Space, Rick, and Fact at AZ. Ah well.

Addendum: Wait, MP3s of them. That will be a smidge more difficult.
May I suggest Youtube and http://www.video2mp3.net/ or some similar program?
 
O

OWA-2

Pro Adventurer
While Portal-1 had a very original and fun gameplay, I didn't find it so interesting like most people did. GLaDOS was funny sometimes, and the cores and turrets were cute, but nothing very special IMO(excluding the gameplay, of course).
But then they released Portal-2. God, what an improvement! Much bigger than the original, a much richest story, and characters full of life and charisma(even GLaDOS was better in this game). Thankyou Valve for making this game! It's a work of art IMO.
 
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