Ok so Steam recently celebrated its 20 year anniversary, and for it Valve had a bunch of art pieces commissioned basically recreating famous memes with their characters
These are all great and i love them, but THIS is the one that kills me
Because with this piece, after more than a decade, Chells first words are "I'm sad, Wheatley play Despacito"
"Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"
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The lab boys have alerted me to an outlier in testing results. Apparently a certain group of lady test subjects have consistently resulted in higher testing results. Caroline tells me they are ladies of the lavender persuasion. Well I don’t care what color they are, you can consider me tickled pink by these results. I’ve been told that testing recruitment will shift to specific areas of social gathering. Namely softball teams. Get those gals in here fellas, and make sure they can play ball. Home run for science.
GLaDOS is not Chells mom, she’s not LIKE a mom to Chell, I swear to god this is the dumbest fucking theory/headcanon ever bc it literally just disregards EVERYTHING Chell and GLaDOS went through together and their development.
GLaDOS hated Chell because she was a human and humans made her and hurt her and even if she didn’t have her memories of Caroline she hated them for what they did to her as GLaDOS.
In portal 2 GLaDOS slowly realizes how much they have in common and how their goals are similar.
GLaDOS wants to test, she wants control, she wants to do what she wants. She’s never had that freedom. When she was alive she worked for a male majority company that took advantage of her and worked under a man who was like the fucking embodiment of evil. She admired him and he betrayed her and took away her autonomy and he didn’t care at all. When she was woken up as GLaDOS the scientists attached tumors to her to try to make her behave so that they could control her. Everyone was always trying to control her.
Chell wants to be free to live her life the way that she wants to, no matter how uncertain or how dangerous, all she wants is to live on her own terms. She’s been tested on like an animal by an omnipotent murderous computer since she woke up, forced to do intense laborious activities with no break. Then she’s betrayed by the only motherfucker that didn’t try to kill her. She’s betrayed by a man, who tries to take away her autonomy for the sake of self fulfillment (sounds familiar).
Throughout the game GLaDOS realizes this and by the end she understands that by forcing Chell to stay with her and test she’s doing the exact same thing as her oppressors. They’re both trapped in the facility, forced to carry out tasks against their will. They both just want to be free.
So GLaDOS lies about Caroline being deleted and let’s Chell go. Even if it means she’ll still be trapped, and now alone in her suffering. She gives Chell the chance she’s never had despite her own feelings.
Also it’s mega, incredibly queercoded like the entire time. All of the songs are mega gay. ALL of them.
Okay sorry if this literally made 0 sense I just woke up okay byeeee
Cave Johnson is not like Elon Musk for the sole reason that his company DID successfully:
-Transfer human consciousness into a metallic frame
-Create fully sentient AI
-Create STABLE quantum tunneling technology
-Access the Multiverse
-Successfully splice human and insect DNA
-and many other inexplicable crime-against-humanity ACME type advances in technology
Not to mention the fact that he DID actually start the company from the ground up
Don't get me wrong Cave is an unethical evil idiot with some money literacy that has literal thousands of people's blood on his hands. he just isnt Musk. Also neither is Wheatley poor guy just got stuck doing the Aperture Science Tango and was physically unable to stop it.