Wil Wheaton loves you very much.

GlaDOS's screams will haunt me forever.

Portal 2 is an amazing game.

With this out of the way, I will now elaborate on something I noticed, which is how it manages the puzzles along the game's experience.

In the original: you were thrown into a room, with the goal to leave one way or another, using your portal gun to shazzam your way to victory.

The sequel does more of the same, and adds new pieces to the puzzle, such as the very fun accelerating gel.

However, the white panels where you are able to put your portals are few and far between.

The result is that now most of the puzzles are solved by choosing which one of the 4 or 5 panels available will get which end of the portal gun. Probably only one of them even, as the other is usually occupied on a light bridge / gel faucet / tractor beam.

The biggest challenge for me in the end was typically finding the panel in question. Some are cleverly hidden but it's more often than not, it's a matter of perception rather than logical thinking. Plenty of times I didn't know what to do, so I just ended up just scanning around for lonely panels and based on their location, I found what I needed to do.

Still, I don't think this makes the game worse, I think it just kinda gives it a different feel. Like it's now a treasure hunt for hidden panels instead of a gravity riddle with portals.

On another note, I'm pretty glad they took out the twitch aspect of some jumps. If you finally found out how to solve a puzzle correctly, now it's resolution is smooth and simple - no more flinging portals while breaking the sound barrier in mid-air to project yourself perfectly in a tiny gap.

That said; I'd not object to a few of these kinds of challenges on future custom maps, if they end up being made.

It's a good game, go play it!

Particle accelerators give me a hadron.

I´m reading a book about anti-gravity, can’t put it down. Why did the chicken cross the Möbius strip? To get to the same side. A group of three variable equations walk into an airport bar: The bouncer asks "You all together?" The equations reply: "Yes, we all met on a plane." Alcohol & calculus don't mix. Never drink & derive. A neutron walks into a bar and asks the bartender how much for a drink. The bartender says "For you, no charge."

Japan's Nuclear Disaster Explained

In short, fission products continually decaying in both active and spent fuel rods create enough heat to melt themselves. The coolant systems that would prevent this from happening were disabled by the tsunami. Cracks in the fuel rods created an environment allowing hydrogen to form, which concentrated and then exploded several times destroying both the primary and secondary containment structures at at least one reactor.

The result is that the reactor needs to remain cooled or else radiation from the meltdown will be released to the environment in significant quantities. The people working to keep the reactor from overheating are risking their lives to do so, and we all hope they will be able to stabilize the reactor without harm.

Realism is hard.

I got a lot of really got ideas for my story, but no way to make them realistic. Ideas like a vacuum-sealed heat-shielded and insulated exo-suit with a parachute: I call it "The Orbital Drop Suite." But what is it made out of? Carbon fiber and kevlar seem to fragile, but every thing else is too heavy. IDEAS, GO.

Viva La Rivoluzione!

BREAKING NEWS:
It's official: Hosni Mubarak has abandoned his position as President of Egypt and fled Cairo after one and a half weeks of civil unrest. Vice President Omar Suleiman announced that Mubarak had stepped down and that the Egyptian military would assume control of the nation's affairs in the short term. Jubilant celebrations broke out in Tahrir Square at the news.
Again, much joy and jubilation.

Something about a bowl of soup...

This weekend millions of people were rewarded for yelling at the T.V. for three and half hours. The Steelers almost had it in the last quarter, but they tripped up just short of the first down.
In other news, computers are playing Jepardy! and winning!