GLaDOS or: Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System (voiced by opera singer and voice actress Ellen McLain) is the central core designed to control, guide, and oversee the Aperture Science computer-aided Enrichment Center. With the ability to shift and move facilities and various chambers, GLaDOS is able to achieve a seamless and almost infinite testing design whilst residing in the Central AI Chamber. In possession of a feminine programming, she is the antagonist of Portal and the first half of the single-player campaign in Portal 2. During the later half, she becomes the game’s tritagonist. In the game’s cooperative campaign, GLaDOS is the testing supervisor of Atlas and P-body.
The first commission I’ve done in….oh…easily 20 years? This was a fun one to do as it includes things from so many great games. One more piece of game art remaining before I turn back to some pieces based on books.
The interesting thing about Glados/HAL 9000 parallels is that
Hal was conceived at a time when artificial intelligence was more of a fictional construct than a practical possibility. Hal is introduced as humanlike because the audience is familiar with and comfortable with humans, but they aren’t familiar with or comfortable with living computers. It’s when he starts acting robotic and calculated that the audience realizes “oh no, he’s a computer” and he becomes threatening.
By the time Glados was conceived, we had become used to computer automated systems. Synthetic voices offering us information is something we encounter in daily life. Glados is introduced as a computerized preprogrammed voice because that’s what the audience is familiar and comfortable with. It’s when she starts acting human and emotional that the audience realizes “oh no, she’s alive” and she becomes threatening.
Oh hey it’s this post again
I fucking love this observation.
Then the second game spends half it’s time convincing you “maybe she’s alive enough to fall in love with me” before declaring “she’s alive enough to dump your ass”.
“poison is the coward’s weapon” boo hoo sounds like someone’s sodium channels are easily inhibited
if your deoxyribonucleosides depurinate I just don’t see how that’s myproblem
like, it’s not like I asked your vesicle fusion mediating proteins to cleave and block acetylcholine release… you can’t keep deflecting responsibility for your own actions onto me just because I “put something in your food”
“you’re trying to kill me” yeah well have you tried being less sensitive
glados and wheatley would both do nfts but for very different reasons. wheatley thinks they’re the future but has no clue how they work, needless to say he makes his nft his twitter pfp. glados is trying to grift people on purpose
chell never says a word on social media except sending glados and wheatley screenshots of her right clicking
