Still Alive

This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.

Aperture Science:
We do what we must because we can.
For the good of all of us
Except the ones who are dead.

But there's no sense crying over every mistake
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake
And the science gets done and you make a neat gun
For the people who are still alive.

I'm not even angry.
I'm being so sincere right now.
Even though you broke my heart and killed me.
And tore me to pieces.
And threw every piece into a fire.
As they burned it hurt because
I was so happy for you.

Now these points of data make a beautiful line
And we're out of beta we're releasing on time.
So I'm GLaD I got burned think of all the things we learned
For the people who are still alive.

Go ahead and leave me.
I think I prefer to stay inside.
Maybe you'll find someone else to help you.
Maybe Black Mesa -
THAT WAS A JOKE. HA HA, FAT CHANCE.

Anyway, this cake is great:
It's so delicious and moist.

Look at me still talking when there's science to do.
When I look out there it makes me GLaD I'm not you.
I've experiments to run there is research to be done
On the people who are still alive

And believe me I am still alive.
I'm doing science and I'm still alive.
I feel FANTASTIC and I'm still alive.
While you're dying I'll be still alive.
And when you're dead I will be still alive.

Still alive
Still alive

If you were wondering what this is, it's the lyrics of my current favourite song Still Alive from a Half-life sidegame: Portal. I know i am spamming the blog, but it's best to post when one still feels enthuasiastic. So, here it is.

Well, I love this song and its singer, GLaDOS, who supposedly has a tragic (or not so) past. According to the story I best accept (and which was told to me by Lithuania), GLaDOS was the daughter of a mad scientist who brought her to his lab on Bring Your Daughter To Work Day.

Well, and what he did to change his little kiddo into an AI was to, erm, promise her cake if she would behave... which meant letting him transplant her brain into the AI. And, eventually, letting her control the AI with her mind, and be forever trapped in the robot body.

This is the most logical explanation. Since she seems to have a weird obsession with cake and helping Chell.

Chell is actually the protagonist of the game. I think she's the clone of the old human GLaDOS, but that's not very possible because Chell is grown-up and GLaDOS was probably a small child when she was forced to do the brain transplant, so maybe Chell was the clone of her sister or mother or something like that.

Of course, being an AI, GLaDOS has to be programmed to be evil. However, her nature is probably kind, and probably perky, so she tries to help Chell. Conflicting intentions (i.e. to be nice or to be evil) sometimes impair her speech, as displayed in the game where static sounds come out while she talks.

Ouch. I do know that these are spoilers. And sorry, since you've read it. But it's an adorable game and you should try it for yourself! (:

~Estonia~