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The cake is a lie!

That comic is not funny at all. The photochops that came out right after the game was released were very good, but this is late and lame.
 
Originally posted by: xeemzor
Originally posted by: ironwing
Pie is better than cake.
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Incorrect.
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When future archaeologists stumble out of the pub and get around to applying their craft to our civilization they will conclude that pie was the food of the upper crust while peons ate cake.
 
Originally posted by: Foxery
Originally posted by: ironwing
Pie is better than cake.
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After years of this raging debate, I have determined the final answer.

Cheesecake trumps them both.
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I agree that cheesecake is practically the dessert of gods, but essentially, it's still a cake. Therefore cake wins by your logic.

However, after eating copious amounts of warm, made-from-scratch apple and pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving, I have to say that pie is the winner.
 
You know I tried to make an infinite falling portal in portal....but it was impossible. It would work for a while and then inexplicably shoot you out a little sideways so you didn't fall back in.
 
This thread just goes to further cement my opinion of the best ending to a game....ever (and I've been playing these bad boy for around 20 years)
 
Well I'd never seen this before, and I like it. 🙂



Originally posted by: OdiN
You know I tried to make an infinite falling portal in portal....but it was impossible. It would work for a while and then inexplicably shoot you out a little sideways so you didn't fall back in.
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How much of a while? I found that you'd have to look directly down, because if you look elsewhere, you tend to fall in that direction.

Too bad we don't have portals, or else we could finally have gravity-powered "perpetual" motion machines. Simplified, it would consist of a paddlewheel and a metal ball. Ball falls, hits paddlewheel, turning a generator. You could then use water instead, and do so on a huge scale. Imagine a hydroelectric dam with a self-filling reservoir, courtesy of a big portal.

 
Originally posted by: Jeff7

Too bad we don't have portals, or else we could finally have gravity-powered "perpetual" motion machines. Simplified, it would consist of a paddlewheel and a metal ball. Ball falls, hits paddlewheel, turning a generator. You could then use water instead, and do so on a huge scale. Imagine a hydroelectric dam with a self-filling reservoir, courtesy of a big portal.
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And that is why they are impossible.

It's a problem for the concept of teleporters, too...if you teleport across a potential energy gradient, the extra energy has to come from somewhere, or go somewhere. While you can make up some rule about how much energy is required to actually send someone up or down, it's hard to see how this coupling could occur.

Some sci-fi authors have hypothesized that any potential energy difference would come out as heat. In other words, teleport "down" far enough, and you'll boil to death the second you step out of the machine. Ouch.
 
Originally posted by: jagec
Originally posted by: Jeff7

Too bad we don't have portals, or else we could finally have gravity-powered "perpetual" motion machines. Simplified, it would consist of a paddlewheel and a metal ball. Ball falls, hits paddlewheel, turning a generator. You could then use water instead, and do so on a huge scale. Imagine a hydroelectric dam with a self-filling reservoir, courtesy of a big portal.
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And that is why they are impossible.

It's a problem for the concept of teleporters, too...if you teleport across a potential energy gradient, the extra energy has to come from somewhere, or go somewhere. While you can make up some rule about how much energy is required to actually send someone up or down, it's hard to see how this coupling could occur.

Some sci-fi authors have hypothesized that any potential energy difference would come out as heat. In other words, teleport "down" far enough, and you'll boil to death the second you step out of the machine. Ouch.
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Sweet, a portal-based microwave. 😀
 
Aw, someone had to go and get technical.

If you created a vertically-looping pair of portals the way we find so amusing in the game, your velocity would actually be constant. Once you were inbetween thw two, there would be no gravitational force underneath you any more, and you would not accelerate. There is no potential to create energy; a machine would stop very quickly.
 
Originally posted by: Foxery
Aw, someone had to go and get technical.

If you created a vertically-looping pair of portals the way we find so amusing in the game, your velocity would actually be constant. Once you were inbetween thw two, there would be no gravitational force underneath you any more, and you would not accelerate. There is no potential to create energy; a machine would stop very quickly.
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If a portal would somehow block gravity, even that would be incredibly useful. Antigrav devices, anyone? Manufacturers of wheel bearings would not be pleased.😉
 
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