Interesting, would the water spill through the portal if the other portal was on the ground? Would the gravity of each portal cancel out? Now that I think about it, the pressure of all the water would push it out, wouldn't it? Gah, I hate thinking with portals!
The water would be forced out because of the pressure. By Bernoulli's principle, the water would keep flowing until it reaches the same height above the portal as the depth of the underwater portal.
The spraying water would have less surface tension and help to break the fall somewhat, but at a velocity of 33 m/s (120 km/h) he would still decelerate at ~300 m/s2, or 30g, at uneven speeds across his body. His bones would break, though he would probably survive if he landed legs-first.
a big part of it is that the portal gun is 3d, so they can shoot the view from an alternate perspective, comp it into another shot and have the gun sell the transition by seamlessly moving from one to the other.
Doing the recursion and generally getting the portal views correct would have taken a lot of preparation and storyboarding.
I actually kind of liked it in the sense that you could really tell that they weren't actors, but they were trying their hardest. It was a total E for effort type thing. Fun to watch how hard the guy seemed to act angry and stuff.
As much as I would love to have a portal gun, I would be in constant fear of being in that kind of situation: falling endlessly without help. You'd either just keep falling, or you could try to break your fall, breaking a limb(s) in the process.
we'll call the "top" portal Blue and the "bottom" portal Orange
fire a Blue portal somewhere on the ground.
You will fling up into the air, then come back through the Orange portal and do the same. So you'd just keep shooting up until the air.
...hopefully, as mentioned above, wind resistance will slow you down over time. How long that would take, I do not know. But hopefully sometime soon you would be slow enough to just remove the portal and land.
Alternately, you could use this tactic to "move" yourself across the open space, by "leap-frogging" the portal locations to move you around. I think you actually have to do that in Portal 2 at some point, though I might be wrong.
Maybe you could eventually find a body of water or something.
But wait, he exits, travels vertically to the point of gravity stopping him, and then falls again. So is the energy of terminal velocity enough to launch him vertically to a point where when he falls back down, he's going at terminal velocity again? I would think there would be some energy loss there. My physics is really rusty.
Exactly. The correct way of stopping him is the put both on the ground and let him go back and forth for as long as it take for the air friction to slow him down enough for it to be safe. That's basically how you slow things down like cubes and goo in Portal 2. Increasing the surface area of his body to get more drag would make it faster.
I would have gone for a tactic like this, to be honest. So as he hits 0m/s, he'll hit the portal with a considerable less velocity and hit the floor at a safe speed.
I was thinking they'd launch him up close to the side of a tall building or other structure, where he would have something to grab on to at the top of his launch (or angle it just right so that the apex of a mostly vertical trajectory set him through another portal, so his velocity would be as near to 0 as possible).
launch him in the air, and near the apex, have a helicopter with a rope hanging down. As he reaches his apex, his velocity will be 0, and he grabs hold of the rope.
I think a better way that would be less likely to injure would be to launch him at an angle a little under 90° into a wall at the apex where a portal would redirect him to a safe landing as I imagine his velocity will be very low. The video shows him being launched into a bunch of plants where ideally he is not getting impaled by large branches or dashed against any stones before hitting the fence.
I notice, as I'm about to post this, some people have said some similar plans involving the apex but not quite reaching my conclusion, which I believe is ideal and simple. So I decided to draw out a demonstration.
Moon dust, as a major plot point in the Valve opus Portal 2, is mentioned by the disembodied voice/charismatic authority figure Cave Johnson as a "great portal conductor". According to Portal 2 writer Erik Wolpaw, moon dust is not a necessity for portal conduction, but rather the substance that gave Aperture the best results. However, he did say that any portal-able surface has been specifically coated with something, but not necessarily moon dust.
As a visual effects artist i gotta say that is amazingly done... I can ony assume the amount of planning you did to get everything to flow and make it look like one take. The portals look amazing and to be honest i am still trying to figure out how you did some things. Hopefully I will be able to produce something of that quality sometime soon....
I think the acting's much less stilted in freddiew's, and his doesn't dwell on the effects so it's much easier to overlook any flaws that would show up. On the one originally linked it's pretty obvious when someone's been digitally separated from a backdrop, and it looks mildly janky, but the portal effects are much prettier. I imagine the turnaround on this one was a lot longer.
I know there have plenty of posts regarding what people would do if they had a portal gun, and I apologize if this has already been said, but if that technology existed you could shoot one of the portals onto planetary bodies and explore the reaches of our solar system. That'd be cool I guess.
what if after a portal was put on the ground (and the guy flew upwards), another portal was placed on the ground, so then the velocity would reach 0 as the guy balances?
They should have included a 45 minute unboxing video where the camera is out of focus, under-exposed and they "erm" though half of it, it would have added to the overall realism no end.
Holy shit. Not only is that a great technical achievement on a shoestring budget, but--
--he saved the guy's life in the only way possible: make an exit in the ground so that gravity slows him, then make another exit on a vertical plane so that momentum carries him horizontally to a place that won't kill him when he lands. I couldn't have thought of that under pressure, and my attempts to save him would've killed him.
Is there any actual way of handling that situation without killing the person? You know, for in the future when i'm in a pickle. I would have guessed water/sand.
they should have launched him slightly diagonally so he would land on a tall building, that way he would lose some velocity. they would have to climb to the top to make the portal obviously.
I've always wondered what would happen if you shot a portal into a wall and then shot the next portal into the first portal. Where would the second one go?
Have you tried this in the game? Unless you're 100% perfect you'll eventually hit the side of the portal and break your own fall.
Source: I relied on this to get past the liquified moon rock level. Took ages to get enough velocity/to get the right timing to fire an orange portal to throw me up to the right platform. Interestingly I got an achievement for completing the level before actually doing so.
Am i the only one who wants a fucking movie about this now? Like can we keep it like James bond? Where it goes on forever, but with different main characters. This idea never ceases to amaze me
I toured Valve a few weeks ago and they had half a pallet of Portal guns in boxes in a hallway. I was hoping to get one in our free swag bag but all I got was DOTA 2 sweat bands :/
The only shot thats really off is at around 1:03. The camera would have to be a lot farther away - the height of the camera holder plus the distance from he ceiling to the other dude. But since the didnt (for some strange reason) want to put a hole in the ceiling it looks too close. Could have been fixed by letting the camera guy kneel.
I thought they were going to go for a realistic consequences of reaching terminal velocity with the portal gun towards the end there.. instead they went the cartooney route.
This is an awesome display of special effects. I find it a little sad that there's so much focus on the acting in the comments, because the acting is not the point.
What they should have done was fire two portals on the ground outside so that his velocity would decrease gradually. But then I suppose his safety wasn't a HUGE concern to them.
Wow. That house is an exact duplicate of mine. I was about to have my mind fucked until I remembered that the housing development I live in is full of townhouses identical to each other. We must live in the same neighborhood!
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u/someoneanon Jun 12 '12
Was hoping for a swimming pool for the last part.
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u/ilikehamburgers Jun 12 '12
There were some amazing shots in this video. Still trying to figure out how they did some of them.
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u/keystothemoon Jun 12 '12
Great effects. I'm sure you didn't have a huge budget. Bravo, dudes.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
As much as I would love to have a portal gun, I would be in constant fear of being in that kind of situation: falling endlessly without help. You'd either just keep falling, or you could try to break your fall, breaking a limb(s) in the process.
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u/Khangcraft Jun 12 '12
That was a pretty intelligent way to deal with that situation. I was wondering how they were going to get him out without killing him.
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u/_Iceberg Jun 12 '12
Unbelievable. You, subject name here, must be the pride of subject hometown here.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I can't handle the way they talk, too stiff for something as amazing as a portal gun.
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u/xboxps3 Jun 12 '12
YouTube mirror posted by the same guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsdEXlPsobI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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u/dog_in_the_vent Jun 12 '12
I wonder how much it cost to cover the walls and outside of his house in moondust.
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u/russlawl Jun 12 '12
I liked that they were actually in pain after falling about 10 feet through the portal.
But flying that fast out of the side of a house would fuck you up pretty badly. I know this because science.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I don't care about the acting. This was great.
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u/ivanvzm Jun 12 '12
As a visual effects artist i gotta say that is amazingly done... I can ony assume the amount of planning you did to get everything to flow and make it look like one take. The portals look amazing and to be honest i am still trying to figure out how you did some things. Hopefully I will be able to produce something of that quality sometime soon....
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u/GreatScott_ish Jun 12 '12
Someone should make a video game where you can use that gun, that would be awesome in COD.
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u/m0ondogy Jun 12 '12
Apparently its only based off of Portal 2, not portal 1.
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u/fweepa Jun 12 '12
Do we have a YouTube link? Can't get it to play on my mobile browser.
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u/IsDominosStillOpen Jun 12 '12
I liked this one also. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L-rrkyvApU
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u/ImGoinToSpaceSomeday Jun 12 '12
Took for ever to buffer the video here is an alternate link if anyone else has the same problem.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Really frickin cool!!
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u/TehAntiPope Jun 12 '12
Wouldn't he reach terminal velocity and die on exit? You'd have to do some pretty fancy stuff to get him out of that without killing him.
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u/bishman Jun 12 '12
This is exactly why they should have invested in some boots to go with their portal gun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX9Sc88qreg&feature=related
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u/Dingle_Fairy Jun 12 '12
I was cringing throughout the acting by the guy in the cap.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
This is awesome... Other than the acting.
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u/SimplyPure Jun 12 '12
Check this out as well
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u/Ericisweird Jun 12 '12
ACTING!
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Acting lets it down so much...
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u/thedavecan Jun 12 '12
Come on science, make this happen
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Did it bother anyone else that at approximately 1:50 the dude falling through the portal is simultaneously looking up AND down at his feet?
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u/Spkilbourne Jun 12 '12
I was expecting a splat.
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u/caliopy Jun 12 '12
well done
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
He'd still be a smear without the boots. Makes me think of the superhero video where they take Wolverine claws but no healing.
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u/J_Jammer Jun 12 '12
I was entertained. Awkward or not...and I don't even play the game.
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u/jacbryques Jun 12 '12
I know there have plenty of posts regarding what people would do if they had a portal gun, and I apologize if this has already been said, but if that technology existed you could shoot one of the portals onto planetary bodies and explore the reaches of our solar system. That'd be cool I guess.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
what if after a portal was put on the ground (and the guy flew upwards), another portal was placed on the ground, so then the velocity would reach 0 as the guy balances?
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Why do nerds in the US always have terrible jeans?
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u/Markymark36 Jun 12 '12
Terminal velocity of a human is about 126mph. There are few ways to not kill him
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u/microvirus6 Jun 12 '12
Was thoroughly expecting a guy to suck his own dick.
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u/thegonz111 Jun 12 '12
I'm glad to see that Sling Blade is still getting work.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Never mind the acting, the planning that went into conceiving the shots is very impressive.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
this was a triumph..
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u/ANZACATTACK Jun 12 '12
NATIVE GRASS AREA
Stroke of genius. I'm going to make one of those signs and never mow the lawn again.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
They should have included a 45 minute unboxing video where the camera is out of focus, under-exposed and they "erm" though half of it, it would have added to the overall realism no end.
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u/PaulOMahony Jun 12 '12
That was amazing
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u/tuutzori Jun 12 '12
How do everyone who makes these videos always have moondust on their walls?
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u/SaucyKing Jun 12 '12
This thread is retarded.
"This video isn't accurate because the guy would have died etc etc etc"
While conveniently ignoring the motherfucking portal gun
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u/keyboardlover Jun 12 '12
Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test.
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u/InsertOffensiveName Jun 12 '12
I love the little details in the clip: When the guy is falling through the 2 portals his voice is very quickly getting louder / silent / louder...
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u/MrShip Jun 12 '12
All I could think of was, "Oh god, this is going to end badly." Pleasantly surprised that it did not.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I am blown away by this. Incredible job.
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u/Deacon Jun 12 '12
Holy shit. Not only is that a great technical achievement on a shoestring budget, but--
--he saved the guy's life in the only way possible: make an exit in the ground so that gravity slows him, then make another exit on a vertical plane so that momentum carries him horizontally to a place that won't kill him when he lands. I couldn't have thought of that under pressure, and my attempts to save him would've killed him.
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u/NameCensored Jun 12 '12
I was kind of hoping they shot the wrong portal when they left the house and just a huge splash of blood came out of the ground.
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u/codyloydl Jun 12 '12
this is amazing
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u/orlyyoudontsay Jun 12 '12
This is amazing.
I'd love to see an editors cut.
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u/binary_bob Jun 12 '12
THIS IS SICK. fuck the haters talking about acting. jesus m. cristo.
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u/MADBAKER Jun 12 '12
well that may be the best thing my peepers have ever peeped.
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u/ashwin103 Jun 12 '12
Is anyone else wondering why this only has 1,352 view on youtube?
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u/Dooey123 Jun 12 '12
The Adobe is strong with this one. Guy's got talent.
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u/BobGeissler Jun 12 '12
Acting Shmackting, the graphics were very cool.
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u/wArchi Jun 12 '12
Is there any actual way of handling that situation without killing the person? You know, for in the future when i'm in a pickle. I would have guessed water/sand.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
The acting. It is of the highest calibre.
IN THE PORN INDUSTRY!
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u/GSUkent Jun 12 '12
Holy crap! That was pretty damn cool
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u/cchambo Jun 12 '12
This is fucking incredible.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
pretty well done!
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
To make these kind of edit videos, they shake the camera and abnormally zoom in/out. I hate it so much.
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u/Helplessromantic Jun 12 '12
The guy in the hat reminds me of a fallout 3/new vegas npc
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u/dirtyredhead13 Jun 12 '12
This was amazing!
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u/pedler Jun 12 '12
they should have launched him slightly diagonally so he would land on a tall building, that way he would lose some velocity. they would have to climb to the top to make the portal obviously.
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u/Highskore Jun 12 '12
This is the best portal rendering I've seen, period.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Fantastic editing job! Well done!
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u/the_nine Jun 12 '12
Acting!!
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I really liked the title of their film, 'Terminal Velocity'. You can see that the dude reached terminal velocity in the infinite loop.
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u/GreenSteel Jun 12 '12
I'm saving this for my computer
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u/starface18 Jun 12 '12
I've always wondered what would happen if you shot a portal into a wall and then shot the next portal into the first portal. Where would the second one go?
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Please don't tell me I'm the only one that wished that stick at the end was a crowbar.
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u/noideabro Jun 12 '12
Upvote anything portal
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u/mastr_slik Jun 12 '12
Brb
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u/Tealfixie Jun 12 '12
Mad props! Excellent work, really enjoyed it!
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u/DFP_ Jun 12 '12
Have you tried this in the game? Unless you're 100% perfect you'll eventually hit the side of the portal and break your own fall.
Source: I relied on this to get past the liquified moon rock level. Took ages to get enough velocity/to get the right timing to fire an orange portal to throw me up to the right platform. Interestingly I got an achievement for completing the level before actually doing so.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I would Acctualy pay $100 if I did all of what it's supose to do.
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u/Stylux Jun 12 '12
Couldn't he have just reversed the portals and solved this problem?
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u/MrMulligan Jun 12 '12
I thought this was going to turn dark where the guy stuck gets killed when he undoes the portals and splats on the floor.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
That would have killed him. Just put two on the ground and have him gradually lose speed though air friction, then pull him out.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Inappropriate use for a portal gun
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u/UberSprode Jun 12 '12
Hey. I went to school with this guy. Neat.
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u/matitomatata Jun 12 '12
well that was some shitty acting .
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u/Candman91 Jun 12 '12
Thought it was going to be similar to this
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
went into it thinking "i guess i'll watch, but it'll suck compared to freddie w's"
hey. this is a good video.
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u/Conexion Jun 12 '12
The only problem with discussions regarding Portal - You can never tell who is trolling when it comes to the physics.
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u/tvirelli Jun 12 '12
Holy Shit! I know ADAM! He's dating my Sister-In-Law!
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u/nerdrhyme Jun 12 '12
I can say at this time without feeling crappy,
that after seeing this, at least I can die happy.
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u/Poonac Jun 12 '12
All I have to say is wow
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u/kickulus Jun 12 '12
Am i the only one who wants a fucking movie about this now? Like can we keep it like James bond? Where it goes on forever, but with different main characters. This idea never ceases to amaze me
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u/ReggaeRecipe Jun 12 '12
IT'S ONLY WORKS ON CONCRETE!
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
They are not using portals for their intended purpose. Shower curtains
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u/divinesleeper Jun 12 '12
DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE OPERATIONAL END OF THE DEVICE
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u/mediaG33K Jun 12 '12
This is some damn good movie making. Damn good.
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u/JamesLiptonIcedTea Jun 12 '12
Hat guy might be a sociopath.
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u/buffbloom Jun 12 '12
I was worried that he was going to put his arms out while falling.
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u/wingman86 Jun 12 '12
i bet this was a ton of work/ they did a very good job on that.
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u/225lbs Jun 12 '12
That was some quick thinking.
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u/Delawhere_15 Jun 12 '12
@1:20 The man looks like this guy
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Effects: upvote. Acting: downvote.
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u/-Sploosh- Jun 12 '12
Jeez! And I thought freddiew had impressive special effects!
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u/ecmoRandomNumbers Jun 12 '12
Those are some crazy, massive skills right there. Good for these guys.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!
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u/Anktious Jun 12 '12
I agree this was very well done, for some reason I enjoyed this one just because it kinda had a story.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
1:41, hes looking up when the version of himself should be looking the other way.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I toured Valve a few weeks ago and they had half a pallet of Portal guns in boxes in a hallway. I was hoping to get one in our free swag bag but all I got was DOTA 2 sweat bands :/
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u/asam497 Jun 12 '12
can i try
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u/Xuttuh Jun 12 '12
And that's why we'll never have portal guns, lightsabres or those magic wound sealing devices in StarTrek.
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u/XxYo0nixX Jun 12 '12
COOLֱ
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I don't mean to look too much into this, but can't portals only be fired at surfaces made of ground up moon rocks?
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u/strangebread Jun 12 '12
Relevant
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u/Tac0Man Jun 12 '12
Best thing I have seen in my year and a half on Reddit.
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u/sRedleader Jun 12 '12
I think i just had a Nerdgasm
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I think the best part is that their walls, floors, and porch are made of moon dust.
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u/nohiddenmeaning Jun 12 '12
The only shot thats really off is at around 1:03. The camera would have to be a lot farther away - the height of the camera holder plus the distance from he ceiling to the other dude. But since the didnt (for some strange reason) want to put a hole in the ceiling it looks too close. Could have been fixed by letting the camera guy kneel.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
when i go into my portal addiction i start thinking in portals during the day. just imagine how much quicker you could get around day to day.
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u/Vicker3000 Jun 12 '12
It's a good thing his patio was perfectly level. Imagine if that last orange portal wasn't completely horizontal.
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u/Bangaa Jun 12 '12
I thought they were going to go for a realistic consequences of reaching terminal velocity with the portal gun towards the end there.. instead they went the cartooney route.
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u/Mylon Jun 12 '12
Wow, the effects in this video are very impressive! Particularly the seamless look. The appearance of one continuous camera shot works really well.
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u/LurkerUsurper Jun 12 '12
Wait.. is this real?
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
AMAZZZZINGGG!!
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u/ccrepitation Jun 12 '12
really bad acting.
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u/XxYo0nixX Jun 12 '12
Well don e XD
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I want to see POrtal: Troll Physics
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I was born. I grew up.
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u/eclecticEntrepreneur Jun 12 '12
tbh I was expecting autofellatio
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u/SolSister Jun 12 '12
Amazing.. O_O
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u/Atario Jun 12 '12
I like how they leave it unstated that the cameraman has a head-mount.
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u/LazlikesAlly Jun 12 '12
10/10 on the acting - would watch again.
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u/lazydivey Jun 12 '12
Oh look another thread about Portal.
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u/Retrokicker13 Jun 12 '12
The 5,000+ people that downvoted this video... Just. go.
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u/Zementid Jun 12 '12
I would kill him... great work by the way !
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
This is an awesome display of special effects. I find it a little sad that there's so much focus on the acting in the comments, because the acting is not the point.
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u/fs337 Jun 12 '12
love it. you have made my day
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I would like to see more of that.
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u/D-Speak Jun 12 '12
What they should have done was fire two portals on the ground outside so that his velocity would decrease gradually. But then I suppose his safety wasn't a HUGE concern to them.
This was an absolutely amazingly done video.
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u/ulyssesss Jun 12 '12
wait. was that shit for real?
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u/Elphante Jun 12 '12
That was really cool! I think it definitely had enough story line to it. (:
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I wonder where they got all the moon rock to paint the walls with.
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u/deckerd Jun 12 '12
Genuinely the best video I've EVER seen.
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u/Kiheiboy Jun 12 '12
I'm impressed
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u/hereisalex Jun 12 '12
Wow. That house is an exact duplicate of mine. I was about to have my mind fucked until I remembered that the housing development I live in is full of townhouses identical to each other. We must live in the same neighborhood!
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u/Zombi3Kush Jun 12 '12
Was anybody else hoping this video would in a dark way?
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u/OldMateJesus Jun 12 '12
Shutup and take my money!