Talk:Portal ARG

Stuff
Here's a nice "megathread" with all the info and stuff in one neat place. Plenty of info. This whole thing reeked of Adam Foster when it came out. And, it seems that at least one of the dinosaur photos is nigh on identical to a photo in Adam's flicker page. --Fireman V2 02:01, March 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh, duuur. the link --Fireman V2 02:02, March 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * Wow I thought you were going to complain or ask for stuff that's already there. I'm impressed! Thanks for the link. ;-) Klow 04:27, March 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I have been in some sort of rut lately. You're welcome for the link. --Fireman V2 05:49, March 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * Whoah, have you been watching that page? They're finding Xen Skyboxes in the GCF and what seems to be the EP2 bridge. (If you've been asleep, I apologize) --Fireman V2 15:14, March 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * You might already know this, but new thread: --Fireman V2 15:26, March 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * The Xen skybox has been in the game files from the start. What about the Ep2 bridge? Klow 17:16, March 4, 2010 (UTC)

credits altered?
it said the credits for Portal were changed a bit, but i just beat it again, examined the credits closely, and saw no noticeable difference. anyone see one? the cake is a lie 02:59, March 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * I added details and a video link. Klow 04:27, March 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * Removed, this is likely unrelated, given the context in which the player achieved it (just a glitch, then). Indeed, my own credits are actually unchanged.--
 * Agreed, the credits didn't change. (I've just beaten the game now) --CrazyTerabyte 07:56, March 4, 2010 (UTC)

About last 2 "Undetermined" images in ASCII art section
Looks like, these images are same as previous, just they looks different because were grabbed from other program, which connects to BBS.
 * First image (with the chemist): File:Ascii09.png File:Ascii29.png
 * Second one (with formula of smth organic and "an apple"): File:Ascii14.png File:Ascii30.png
 * Oh damn, good find. I remove them. And don't forget to sign! Klow 10:56, March 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * I removed them from here as well to avoid redlinks. Klow 10:59, March 5, 2010 (UTC)

PORTAL 2 ANNOUNCED!
HOORAY! SiPlus 18:03, March 5, 2010 (UTC)

A news update announcing portal 2 contained the following underlined letters: drattmannh0nee

These seem to be another login for the Aperture BBS; drattmann/h0nee. Here's a text dump from it?: http://pastebin.com/stHSgY2V

more info here, but it seems there may be co-op in portal 2 --Jrr 19:19, March 5, 2010 (UTC)

Ratman
You may know this, but the update news gave us a username and password for the BBS. The user's name is... D. RattMann. D: --65.100.114.216 20:04, March 5, 2010 (UTC)

Orange Box
are the updates only for the PC version of Portal, or are they also in the Orange Box (consoles)? --TastyPasta16 02:05, March 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * No idea. Ask on the Steam forums. Klow 12:43, March 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * Only for the PC. DAWeeE1 12:53, March 6, 2010 (UTC)

Military Android
I was thinking that in Testchamber 16, GLaDOS mentions Military Androids and Android Hell. The ASCII robots could be those androids or the one that drags you away in the new ending. What do you all think?--98.74.21.182 16:26, March 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * That's already speculated here. --Fireman V2 00:04, March 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * "Here, There, and Everywhere." Klow 02:13, March 7, 2010 (UTC)

On the canonicity of the updates
The page says that the updates are non-canon and might even be removed.

However, another viral marketing site, ApertureScience.com is canon.

So, should the updates be considered canon?

I'm posting this because the updates are not listed in OverWiki:Canon page.

ASBusinessMagnet 16:52, March 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * It says the presence of the radios are likely not. The new Portal ending is and overrides the original one, and most of the other data is canon as well. Klow 17:04, March 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * Okay. ASBusinessMagnet 17:18, March 6, 2010 (UTC)

You have the address/location wrong
See my post at http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1169586&page=15 I ordered a reverse lookup on the BBS number and explained why Portal 2 has nothing to do with Kirkland city hall (or that area in general) 98.127.168.159 03:59, March 8, 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok I see. Thanks for that. BrentNewland, is that you? So overall the number belongs to Foster? Klow 12:48, March 8, 2010 (UTC)

Bean Counters
Bean conters is an informal title for accountants or financial staff. This fact is supported by this page... http://www.answers.com/topic/bean-counter References to bean counters by Cave Johnson should probably be revised if agreed upon.

gameinformer revealing all images
if you look at all images gathered from the bbs, and then at the gameinformer april issue and the gameinformer articles on the portal 2 hub, you can see that all images from the asci art are being revealed so we can see what they really are, cool isnt it? (also, some image was scanned in from the article and when compared to the asci art didnt really look like it, if ound a nice image that isnt scanned in and looks better http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/03/19/tell-us-everything-you-want-to-know-about-portal-2.aspx?PageIndex=1 i already uploaded it!) its funny isnt it? seeing all kind of speculation being cleared up! "i think thats a dinosaur" *2 days later on gameinformer* "oh! its a turret!" Freekkiller7 14:56, March 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that pic! I hope we get HQ versions in the future. Klow 15:48, March 22, 2010 (UTC)

drattmannh0nee
hello everyone

thanks to a video on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3o9vvUYrCE ihave noticed that http://drattmannh0nee.com/ is a live website. the site has two pages with different names and different file names for the images (the video expalains it all.) anyway i decided to to do a whois lookup on the domain and the results are strange. The domains name server is ns1.nicholaschan.net see here http://whois.domaintools.com/drattmannh0nee.com. Now the site http://www.nicholaschan.net/ is on the same name server but i can only find weak affiliations with valve through mods for half life and counter stike maps. is this just a fan site or something deeper. most of the people who have worked on this ARG are alot cleverer than me so maybe we can find something new out. or maybe this is just a dead end.

--Meathead23 22:36, April 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * don't bother looking further into it, drattmanh0nee.com is a fan-made website just made (probably by forum trolls) to spam forums and make poeple think it's a clue for the arg while it leads to nothing Freekkiller7 17:35, April 5, 2010 (UTC)

How do you reverse ASCII?
How do you reverse ASCII? Just wondering, as I am going to set up a site dedicated to the Portal ARG. Spectrum Humanian 10:45, April 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * What do you mean by "reverse"?... Klow 13:31, April 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * ASCII is image to text. I would like to know how to do text to image. Spectrum Humanian 14:40, April 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * You know a couple of days ago when you could use TEXTp on youtube, google that, see what you can do with it, you might learn more about ascii, also search on wikipedia, google itand stuff. But you don't have to make a site or wiki dedicated to the arg, look here, its totally about it: www.portalwiki.net Freekkiller7 17:32, April 5, 2010 (UTC)