i'd make a secret portal to my friends house. maybe i'd steal some of his stuff. he owes me $40 anyway.
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Besides putting one portal in the fridge and the other in an unused part of my backpack for whenever i get thirsty, i would probably mess with my neighbors, their pets, put one portal at the bottom of a pond (or lake) and the other in the roof of someones car (or house or something to that effect), put one in a locked room and another below a friend (closing it after they fall through).
The best and first thing i would do though, would be finally enact a real life Benny Hall chase scene. Que the music.
The best and first thing i would do though, would be finally enact a real life Benny Hall chase scene. Que the music.
I think i'd do what the game did, capture some poor soul and test the hell out of them until they go insane. could explain a lot about human nature. Figure out why we are here. or perhaps figure out if someone just stole the cake that was promised to me. bastard.
I shall also see you in hell.
^_^
I shall also see you in hell.
^_^
I'd grab a buddy and shoplift like a mofo. Maybe even get a job as a clerk at a store, then sneak in at night and make off with the stuff too bulky to steal in broad daylight. I'd sneak myself and my friends into theme parks and concerts. I'd walk everywhere, since I could get anywhere within my line of sight in just a few steps.
My life would be pretty much complete, actually.
My life would be pretty much complete, actually.
Ok, for the infinate energy geeks out there it is simple.. get a big closed, but hollow, cylander and wrap it in wire. put portals on the inside top and bottom. Drop in a powerful natural magnet to fall through infinately. Magnets moving past coiled wire = electricity. Properly shielded (and large enough) a singel generator of this design could power a small city.
For the reaching through two portals / being crushed by a portal. First off, portals can't exist on moving objuects. A solid object is required to establish the wormhole and it's realitve fixed position to the other portal is required to maintain it. (even if it was done for the sake of the difficulty in processing, the game estabishes this early on.) but you COULD set up 2 walls about 1 foot apart, put in 2 portals then be cles enough where your body would contact itself through the portal. But you could never touch yourself through a second portal. The 'middle' you would always be in the way.
As for what to do.. yeah, a portal into a small.. VERY small, room in my house with a very sturdy lock so I could always just portal home would be it's main use I think. Assuming you could get it on an airplane, or past security... Group vacations to any country, concerts, the Superbowl, etc.. would be abused heavily. And it could make for some of the best pranks EVER!
For the reaching through two portals / being crushed by a portal. First off, portals can't exist on moving objuects. A solid object is required to establish the wormhole and it's realitve fixed position to the other portal is required to maintain it. (even if it was done for the sake of the difficulty in processing, the game estabishes this early on.) but you COULD set up 2 walls about 1 foot apart, put in 2 portals then be cles enough where your body would contact itself through the portal. But you could never touch yourself through a second portal. The 'middle' you would always be in the way.
As for what to do.. yeah, a portal into a small.. VERY small, room in my house with a very sturdy lock so I could always just portal home would be it's main use I think. Assuming you could get it on an airplane, or past security... Group vacations to any country, concerts, the Superbowl, etc.. would be abused heavily. And it could make for some of the best pranks EVER!
Props for your energy generation idea.xbeaker said:
As far as the moving objects, I'm more willing to accept the fixed relative positions as opposed to "no moving objects", since everything is always moving (ie, we're on a planet. It moves. We move.) But, there's still a possibility that there's a threshold speed, under which the wormhole can be maintained. Not saying there is, but that there could be.
As per touching one's 3rd self, I think you're assuming that the portals are identically oriented (top of both is in the same direction). If you rotate the portal relative to the other, you could get past. For example, if I completely inverted the exit on the opposing wall, I could put my 1st hand between my 2nd legs and touch the back of my 3rd head.
Which brings up another thought for me, which is: if you had a pole shaped the right way, you could place two portals quite close together, pass the pole/stick between the gap, and then angle it in such a way as to make sure that the angle of the pole coming out resulted in a different entering angle, and subsequently yet another exit angle, such that you filled an increasing amount of the portal's surface area with a single object, with it passing through simultaneously in 6, 7, 8, and more, instances of itself. And on a similar note, I'd probably try having two facing portals, and run a piece of string between the two, tie it in the middle, and then move one of the portals to see what happened. They stated in the commentary that the portals don't cut anything, they just sort of push, but the string would be a bit different. Might just push/pull itself apart?
Your average day, thinking with Portals.
1. Getting out of bed takes too much effort, I'll fall through my bed, thank you.
2. Shower curtains are for chumps.
3. Replace the drain in my shower.
4. Who needs cars when you can fling yourself to work?
5. Less papers on my desk, more on my co-worker's.
6. Lunch break, dress up as your boss, appear behind him claiming you are him from the distant future's possible past and watch him try to work that out.
7. In the midst of his confusion, ask for the day off.
8. Fling home.
9. Garbage is taken out. Police are baffled at third vandalism report this week regarding black garbage bags atop the roofs of a nearby apartment complex.
10. Fall into bed, repeat the next morning.
1. Getting out of bed takes too much effort, I'll fall through my bed, thank you.
2. Shower curtains are for chumps.
3. Replace the drain in my shower.
4. Who needs cars when you can fling yourself to work?
5. Less papers on my desk, more on my co-worker's.
6. Lunch break, dress up as your boss, appear behind him claiming you are him from the distant future's possible past and watch him try to work that out.
7. In the midst of his confusion, ask for the day off.
8. Fling home.
9. Garbage is taken out. Police are baffled at third vandalism report this week regarding black garbage bags atop the roofs of a nearby apartment complex.
10. Fall into bed, repeat the next morning.
Nice one.
buying a portal gun would cost more than hiring a limbo with your own private driver for the rest of your life.
anyway what i'd do with a portal gun is put 1 portal on the floor on my bedroom and 1 on the roof in the pub under a bar stool so when i wake up i roll of the bed and bam! i'm drinking again
anyway what i'd do with a portal gun is put 1 portal on the floor on my bedroom and 1 on the roof in the pub under a bar stool so when i wake up i roll of the bed and bam! i'm drinking again
some1 said "I would put a portal in a wall, then break down the wall from the other side, just to see what happens.
Chances are, a splinter of wood would then suck up the earth right down to the core."
couldnt be borthered looking for it to click quote, anyway wat would happen is the portal would just close like in the game when you have a portal on a wall and the wall moves it just closes
Chances are, a splinter of wood would then suck up the earth right down to the core."
couldnt be borthered looking for it to click quote, anyway wat would happen is the portal would just close like in the game when you have a portal on a wall and the wall moves it just closes
I still disagree with this, as I think you can have the portals boundaries completely matching, just inverted to one another, so when I looked through, the 3rd of me would be in the same relative plane (a line parallel to my ground, passing through my head and through my 3rd's head.) I think we have two options: MSPaint our arguments, put them on hold until a Portal Mod allows us to rotate the orientation of portals without rotating the player, or put them on hold until we can do this in real life. I leave the choice up to you.xbeaker said:
Edit: On reading what you said again, I think you misunderstood my point about inversion. You seem to think I meant raising one relative to the other. I'm saying rotate one relative to the other, 180 degrees.
Ah.. I think I see what you mean. So every other portal would be upside down. Yeah, I think that would work. Wow, that creates some really strange scenarios.
I really like the idea of setting up 2 portals in a tight 'V' pattern, then sticking a stick through the blue such that it would exit the orange and reenter the blue at a different angle. I wonder if you could in effect create a sealed iris effect with a long enough stick.
Who knew theoretical physics could be so much fun!
Oh, and for some real fun, I would set one up above a friend's bed. No exit portal.. just leave one sitting there ominously waiting for about a week. Just knowing that at any point, anything from a bucket of water to small polar bear could be coming through it would drive them insane.
I really like the idea of setting up 2 portals in a tight 'V' pattern, then sticking a stick through the blue such that it would exit the orange and reenter the blue at a different angle. I wonder if you could in effect create a sealed iris effect with a long enough stick.
Who knew theoretical physics could be so much fun!
Oh, and for some real fun, I would set one up above a friend's bed. No exit portal.. just leave one sitting there ominously waiting for about a week. Just knowing that at any point, anything from a bucket of water to small polar bear could be coming through it would drive them insane.
those who laughed at me and called me mad, shall pay, by means of portal lunacy.
Example 1: Slap an idiot and run, a portal pre-placed on the wall in the opposite direction I am running, then one on the floor, I am suddenly behind my adversary, but he will be behind me again unless I redirect the portal, in which case I'd opt for a portal above the other portal causing an infinite falling effect. Then replace top portal on the bottom side of a diving board over a pool with a rubber duck style air filled tube beneath it. In this instance, you not only solve your chase problem, but you also save your adversary's life, leaving him to be in eternal debt to you.
Example 2: Use it in physics class to prove various laws and concepts of gravity wrong.
Example 1: Slap an idiot and run, a portal pre-placed on the wall in the opposite direction I am running, then one on the floor, I am suddenly behind my adversary, but he will be behind me again unless I redirect the portal, in which case I'd opt for a portal above the other portal causing an infinite falling effect. Then replace top portal on the bottom side of a diving board over a pool with a rubber duck style air filled tube beneath it. In this instance, you not only solve your chase problem, but you also save your adversary's life, leaving him to be in eternal debt to you.
Example 2: Use it in physics class to prove various laws and concepts of gravity wrong.
I'd put one inside my shower and the other outside. It would be the best shower curtain ever.
Unlimited free energy is also good.
Unlimited free energy is also good.
Ok seeing as how lazy I am there are several options:
1.Home<->school portal system to save me a half hour to get to school and an hour and a half to get back from it.
2.Open up a portal at a random location (Preferbly safe) and one under peoples feet to see how they react, I'm expecting this will probably be fun especialy if you put them is a loop.
3. On the cealing of chearleader changing room <-> someplace else (Sorry I'm a dirty minded git)
4.Explore the world in 5 hours! Set a new world record! Be remembered for all time!
5. Mess around with it untill I think of something else.
1.Home<->school portal system to save me a half hour to get to school and an hour and a half to get back from it.
2.Open up a portal at a random location (Preferbly safe) and one under peoples feet to see how they react, I'm expecting this will probably be fun especialy if you put them is a loop.
3. On the cealing of chearleader changing room <-> someplace else (Sorry I'm a dirty minded git)
4.Explore the world in 5 hours! Set a new world record! Be remembered for all time!
5. Mess around with it untill I think of something else.