That's all very fascinating. Good work on your channel! Hope you and your channel can keep moving on a great path for the better.
vor 2 Monaten (editiert) | 10
Interesting how Portal Revolution actually used these disks in a VERY interesting way.
vor 2 Monaten | 9
perhaps during the era when there wasn't test chambers in the old aperture segment, cave johnson was designed to be a secret easter egg lore character?
vor 2 Monaten | 3
Well, in Portal 1 they did have reference to Cave in the rattman den with the password, so I wouldn’t put it past valve to include him again in the rattman dens, maybe it would’ve been something similar to the lines the speakers on the vitrified doors in Old Aperture play.
vor 2 Monaten | 3
I wonder if the discs would have actual videos with content, or if it would just be a looping video like coop/the elevator videos
vor 2 Monaten | 0
I kind of love this sort of thing, I wanted to share something that I always found kind of weird about my own personal timeline: I think I found out about the core hub era of portal 2 like a full decade before everyone else did. This isn’t me trying to brag, I just wanna know if what I found out was the core hub or if it was something else entirely. It was like 2013 thereabouts, and I was an autistic kid in elementary school whose hyperfixation was the lore of valve games and other similarly sparse worlds, so I would often come across mods (like that one map where you get into a car accident and fall into aperture, which had annotations that were commentary from the map creator, rip annotations) and development stuff while trying to get another bit of portal lore, and through various means, like old YouTube channels that I don’t think upload anymore, the portal wiki (not the combine overwiki, the portal wiki that doesn’t get updated anymore that uses a weird html setup I’ve never seen on any other site, it’s not fandom, it’s not wikia, it’s not miraheze, it’s not wikidot, I have no clue what it is) and I read documentation on there that backed up what those old no commentary YouTube portal videos said. Was the core hub like, a new thing we just found out, or was this just old documentation that had renewed interest in it?
vor 2 Monaten | 2
Ossy Flawol
Hello everyone! I’m glad to see all the intrigue formed from my video on Portal 2’s Cut Easter Eggs and thankful for that support. I’ve got an update on the Rattman Discs, but I feel it doesn’t warrant it’s own video. So here’s a little post about what’s been discovered since the video’s release.
- Firstly, something I forgot to mention is the Rattman Discs come from sometime in mid 2010, LONG before Lab Rat was a thing and before Rattman even had a finalised design.
- Now, it turns out from looking at the entity logic in the Coop Course maps and comparing them to what we know the Rattman Discs had, it turns out the Rattman Discs came first! The Coop maps with the Discs actually have their very own dead I/O of the Rattman Discs themselves, indicating the Coop Maps took their logic from the Rattman Disc sequences.
- This means then that “aperture_movie” would have been the little unused animated video of the Aperture Science logo that exists in the files! This was very likely a placeholder, as was the next discovery…
- Dog, yet another Portal 2 Beta Researcher, poked through the .snd Reslist files of the maps that had the discs ( .snds is a list of sounds the maps play). It turns out these maps all share a common unique sound - “cavejohnson.SISSIES”. This is an F-STOP Cave line! It’s actually an early version of the line where Cave says you’ve been taking a long time on the catwalks and then calls the Lab Boys “eggheads”. (Doesn’t take a genius to figure out from the F-STOP Cave line file name what he originally called them...)
- This therefore means the Rattman Discs COULD have actually been about Cave Johnson, however, we have no way of knowing, as they may have just used this dialogue line as a placeholder.
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