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Portal Update - new achievement, Mind Screwing ahoy

http://steamcommunity.com/stats/Portal/achievements/

Right at the bottom. There's been a flurry of Steam forum speculation on the whole meaning of this.

It's a progress achievement, 26 things you have to do. There were radios that played a version of Still Alive in various places in the game... now there's new ones. If you pick them up and take them elsewhere, at some points they start playing something else... either Morse code or strange computer beeps.

Apparently the beeps are SSTV images (whatever that means), which come out as things like these:

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/4015/dino8.png
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/8295/dino20.png
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/3913/dino26.png

Those images will probably get deleted due to heavy traffic soon, but meh.

So, there are 3 conclusions what this may lead to:
A) Portal 2.
B) Half-Life 2 Episode 3 (yeah whatever)
C) Valve trolling us.

Why do they have to be mutually exclusive options?

Because Valve already did their 100-year Mega Awesome with the Orange Box. Wait another 98 years.

Uh-oh. I finally got out of that damned experimental center, beaten the crap out of Glados with my bare hands and maybe a PC I managed to smuggle in, and now she's in o-ur telnets, bakkin up her data.

And of course Aperture would have an old school back up system. Their founder suffered from Psychosis induced by lead poisoning and their AI is powered by dead steal a wish foundation and counter-Heimlich maneuver victims.

A glimpse into his madness:

Quote:

---- RECORD ENDS ----
-- CAUTION: UNEXPECTED DISCONNECTION EXPECTED ( #838 )
---- BEGIN RECORD 'C:\07533945.935\09823219.940' (570 BYTES) ----
MEMORANDUMS: Filed under CJohnson: 1564029-G

&&*&)90 &^@^@% &@!%@$%@!&@^ ((#(kjkjsdsajdlkdjsk ^@%% and do not 2612%^54talk
to me about casualty rates. The bean counters told me I couldn't fire a man
just for bein in a wheelchair. Did it anyway! Ramps are expensive. Or when
they said I couldn't practice beekeeping in the office. They should have told
that to the honey that won first place in the state finals! &43$$$ $#@^^&@*&^

Hell, they even said I couldn't cheat death. You know where I'd be if I
followed the rules? Dead! Dead, and honey prize-less!
---- RECORD ENDS ----
-- CAUTION: ANOMALOUS EMOTIONAL RESPONSE DETECTED ( #654 )
---- BEGIN RECORD 'C:\08692436.580\05637080.262' (8340 BYTES) ----

Quote:

Originally Posted by Revolving Ocelot (Post 1020781)

C) Valve trolling us.

Pretty much their bread-and-butter at this point.

Pyros, is that the IRC leaked document? Because the word out there is that this one is fake

I'm not sure. i have seen like, four videos on the subject that all went by too fast for me to see anything.

new images surfaced

http://i.imgur.com/Z01I6.png

I call this spotty at best... might be official, might not... take it with a grain of salt.

Why?

Because of this

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4070/...d293569b_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2781/...ba02e0db_o.jpg

This shows HL enemies with Portal Turrets.....

Black Mesa vs Apeture Science?