Fun fact: GLaDos' voice actress is a trained, actively working opera singer It's also really funny that they got Mike Patton in exclusively to voice the anger sphere, he's the lead singer pretty famous band Faith No More
You might not know this, but nearly every acronym created like this generally was workshopped back and forth until they came upon a pairing of words that made a silly acronym. "Glad OS" to describe an operating system that is both emotionless and depressed, is a wonderful joke. They just had to find the right words to make it work.
@@arnabbiswasalsodeep In the first game, she voiced everything other than the Anger Sphere (which was voiced by Mike Patton, lead singer of Faith No More).
She is also the voice of Gipsy Danger in Pacific Rim, leading to my favorite personal headcanon that Aperture was heavily involved in the Jaeger program
The similarities between cave Johnson on Elon musk are pretty funny when you consider they both basically rely on engineers way smarter than them to come up with the tech behind their ridiculous ambitions and rarely make anything actually marketable that people want/need
Yeah, that line doesn't get mentioned enough. I love it. That line would usually be "We do what we can because we must". Meaning, to me, that we will try our best to do something because it is a moral imperative. The line "We do what we must because we can" implies that because they have the capability of doing something they must attempt it. It is the mantra of the mad scientist.
"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" 🙂
@@famalam943 I was 15 when Orange Box came out, and I had to convince my parents that it was worth it, being 5 games for $50. That was over half my life ago.
If you ever watch Pacific Rim, the same voice actress for GLaDOS provides the voice for the computer system that activates the Jaegers (giant robots), and she does it in exactly the same voice as GLaDOS, but without the personality.
Now imagine the emotional imact this song had when it came totally out of the blue at the end of a lengthy ordeal at the hands of a capricious AI, where you did indeed rip her to pieces and throw the pieces into a fire.
To find this song at the end of such a fun game, without expecting it, is such an absolute treat. It's viral now but for the first generation of portal players it was a real "if you know, you know" moment. And believe me, I am still alive.
Also they desperately need an option to TURN OFF THE RADIOS AFTER YOU BEAT THE GAME. I spent an hour scouring forums and trying to mod this out to get the original aesthetic back... and I couldn't do it. It's ridiculous every chamber is pierced by that same song over and over and over.
@@carlotta4th I know! I have the achievement but they're still there. I've taken to immediately grabbing them and tossing them into the furthest corner or nearest emancipation grill whenever I replay
Written by Jonathan Coulton. He did another version with Sara Quin from Tegan and Sara. Some other Coulton songs I love are "RE: Your Brains", ""Not About You", "Creepy Doll", and "I Feel Fantastic".
Finishing Portal was one of the most satisfying gaming experiences I've ever had. That song at the end was better than cake. Both Portal games are masterpieces.
The ending was updated once they were rolling out teasers and trailers for Portal 2, your character was originally meant to die from the explosion after the boss fight and this song was just GlaDOS laughing at the fact that her memory survived in a backup and you didn't. she literally sequenced an entire song just to rub it in your face.
I'm so GLaD some people are recording their reaction to this fantastic experience. Makes me a bit relieve this moment, when you finish that game for the first time, without any spoiler. So worth it.
I originally found this song on UA-cam like a decade ago. I didn't know anything about Portal, I just knew about "the cake is a lie" meme, so I searched "the cake is a lie" and found this song. Obviously, it didn't explain anything, but I kept the song on my playlist, anyway.
Easter egg in the typed credits on the right: Karen Prell performed and still performs Red Fraggle muppet on "Fragile Rock". Bay Raitt right under her developed the graphics for Gollum in Lord of the Rings movies.
Just so you know, the company that throws copyright claims at this song is not Valve, who actually owns the song and openly allows players to publish Let's Plays. It's a bunch of copyright trolls, usually one called Orchard Music. If it happens again, you should dispute it.
@@kevthajum The game never says her name explicitly, even in the subtitles. I think you can maybe read it on her in the final boss battle, or at least in the wreckage after you defeat her, but it's pretty subtle and easy to miss.
And if you haven't played or know anything about Portal 2 , Meg , OH BOY IS YOUR MIND ABOUT TO BE BLOWN. GlaDOS inference to Chell here after the events of the sequel ... I'll stop now lolz
Fun fact: GLaDos' voice actress is a trained, actively working opera singer
It's also really funny that they got Mike Patton in exclusively to voice the anger sphere, he's the lead singer pretty famous band Faith No More
I didn't know Mike Patton was the Anger Sphere. That's such a fun fact.
@@Swenglishalso he voices 99% of the infected in Left 4 Dead! clearly some FNM fans at valve
Hahahaha! How funny!!
Fun fact: the reason they got Mike Patton to voice the Anger Sphere was because Ellen didn't have the range to do it herself.
Mr. Bungle is the right answer. Much better band than FNM and more representative of Mike Patton.
"She's kind of a mood" is maybe the most true thing ever said.
that's more like a HUGE understatement.
You probably know by now, but GLaD was spelled this way because her name is GLaDOS - Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System.
You might not know this, but nearly every acronym created like this generally was workshopped back and forth until they came upon a pairing of words that made a silly acronym.
"Glad OS" to describe an operating system that is both emotionless and depressed, is a wonderful joke. They just had to find the right words to make it work.
Black Mesa is a rival company, and is from Valve's OTHER game series, "Half Life"
And you very much don't want to be "rescued" by them.
Such a great song to a fantastic game! Hope you'll love Portal 2 as well.
Fun fact: the voice of GLaDOS, Ellen McLain, is also an opera singer.
and she's also voiced the turrets
@@arnabbiswasalsodeep In the first game, she voiced everything other than the Anger Sphere (which was voiced by Mike Patton, lead singer of Faith No More).
She is also the voice of Gipsy Danger in Pacific Rim, leading to my favorite personal headcanon that Aperture was heavily involved in the Jaeger program
@@BaneSidhe66_6 That'd be the dopest thing in the history of fiction.
"We do what we must because we can" is such an epic line, and sums up Apeture Science in a sentence.
The similarities between cave Johnson on Elon musk are pretty funny when you consider they both basically rely on engineers way smarter than them to come up with the tech behind their ridiculous ambitions and rarely make anything actually marketable that people want/need
@@Ytinasniiablei wouldn’t be surprised if elon announces that he’s funding more into actual ai on the level of glados
@@caramelcandys I mean, he's always talking about AI... at least before all this new drama.
@@matthewa6027 Do forget about that project he's been working on, the brain chip. Dude is just a live action Cave Johnson.
Yeah, that line doesn't get mentioned enough. I love it. That line would usually be "We do what we can because we must". Meaning, to me, that we will try our best to do something because it is a moral imperative. The line "We do what we must because we can" implies that because they have the capability of doing something they must attempt it. It is the mantra of the mad scientist.
This song holds a special place in the organ that pumps my blood. ❤
Is it the left ventricle? I bet it's the left ventricle, isn't it?
sus
That don't sound healthy... Anything else than blood in there can be lethal... Even coagulated blood can be lethal...
"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" 🙂
I had this song on my iPod for a while after this, I still know every word. Such a great game and a great way to end it.
17 years later and this song is still a meme.
no no no no no it hasn't been 17 years already no way
@@cyanmage1 Half-Life 3 should be coming out any day now....
@Crazy_Diamond_75 I still have my pre-order from gamestop for that one lol
17 years? I honestly almost cried I’m not that old 😭
@@famalam943 I was 15 when Orange Box came out, and I had to convince my parents that it was worth it, being 5 games for $50. That was over half my life ago.
If you ever watch Pacific Rim, the same voice actress for GLaDOS provides the voice for the computer system that activates the Jaegers (giant robots), and she does it in exactly the same voice as GLaDOS, but without the personality.
I was so very happy they managed to get them to do that. It was such a small throw away thing, and yet so amazing.
Guillermo del Toro was a big fan of Portal.
Now imagine the emotional imact this song had when it came totally out of the blue at the end of a lengthy ordeal at the hands of a capricious AI, where you did indeed rip her to pieces and throw the pieces into a fire.
This is the song that plays on the radios in the game
How did I never realize this?!!!
@@robertchaney2704Because its not true
@@ZeallustImmortal Yes it is. It's a Muzak version.
@@ZeallustImmortal you can hear it at the end of the video
@@ZeallustImmortalIt’s a remixed version.
To find this song at the end of such a fun game, without expecting it, is such an absolute treat. It's viral now but for the first generation of portal players it was a real "if you know, you know" moment. And believe me, I am still alive.
I totally agree. Playing Portal the first time was one of the most satisfying gaming experiences ever. It’s short, sweet, and delightful.
I'm very annoyed that the ASCII art is cut off in the current build of the game. They need to fix that.
Also they desperately need an option to TURN OFF THE RADIOS AFTER YOU BEAT THE GAME. I spent an hour scouring forums and trying to mod this out to get the original aesthetic back... and I couldn't do it. It's ridiculous every chamber is pierced by that same song over and over and over.
@@carlotta4th I know! I have the achievement but they're still there. I've taken to immediately grabbing them and tossing them into the furthest corner or nearest emancipation grill whenever I replay
@@carlotta4th Given that the radios are part of an easter egg, I never really found them to be annoying.
I think the xbox 360 version of portal is the only untouched version of the game left unless you find a cracked version online
absolute classic song. Not even video game song. Just...song. It's beautiful.
Written by Jonathan Coulton. He did another version with Sara Quin from Tegan and Sara. Some other Coulton songs I love are "RE: Your Brains", ""Not About You", "Creepy Doll", and "I Feel Fantastic".
I love JoCo
Finishing Portal was one of the most satisfying gaming experiences I've ever had. That song at the end was better than cake. Both Portal games are masterpieces.
The ending was updated once they were rolling out teasers and trailers for Portal 2, your character was originally meant to die from the explosion after the boss fight and this song was just GlaDOS laughing at the fact that her memory survived in a backup and you didn't. she literally sequenced an entire song just to rub it in your face.
I'm so GLaD some people are recording their reaction to this fantastic experience.
Makes me a bit relieve this moment, when you finish that game for the first time, without any spoiler.
So worth it.
This warms my heart as a Jonathan Coulton fan (the maker of the song)
I originally found this song on UA-cam like a decade ago. I didn't know anything about Portal, I just knew about "the cake is a lie" meme, so I searched "the cake is a lie" and found this song. Obviously, it didn't explain anything, but I kept the song on my playlist, anyway.
Have you now played both Portal 1 and 2?
Easter egg in the typed credits on the right: Karen Prell performed and still performs Red Fraggle muppet on "Fragile Rock". Bay Raitt right under her developed the graphics for Gollum in Lord of the Rings movies.
Jonathan Coulton who wrote this and the Portal 2 end credits wrote 52 songs in a year and released them on "A Thing A Week" 1-4
2:03 Has Meg ever played Black Mesa?
I think this was her first Valve game, but she has expressed interest in others
you mean Half Life? Black Mesa is a fan project remaster
Black Mesa is the research facility that Half-Life 1 takes place in. They also "do science" there. But they're too preoccupied to help.
@@TheBlarggle Correct. And referencing Black Mesa in Portal is a reference to Half Life, not the modern remake by Crowbar Collective.
@@Notski Yeah. I know. I wasn't responding to you.
GLaDOS
Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System
Thank you for sharing this!
Meg have you played Half Life or HL2?? If not, I think a series would be fun! They're classics
This song still makes me shed a tear to this day. So good 😊
Just so you know, the company that throws copyright claims at this song is not Valve, who actually owns the song and openly allows players to publish Let's Plays.
It's a bunch of copyright trolls, usually one called Orchard Music.
If it happens again, you should dispute it.
"When I look out there, it makes me glad I'm not you."
If you know, you know.
fantastic song honestly
"Shes kind of a mood" - we'll stuff your conciousness into a computer and see if your happy about it lol
The last STILL ALIVE always gets me.
People just discovering valve games is so nice
listen to more JoCo! My favorite is Re: Your brains
It is such a fun song. Enjoyed the reaction!
GLaDos stands for Genetics Laboratory and Disk Operating System
Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System.
Check out the Portal 2 one called Want you Gone.
God I can’t wait for you to do Portal 2. One of my favorite games of all time.
I wish i could go and replay these games again for the first time.
Meg Girl, DID YOU PLAY HALF LIFE 2? SAME UNIVERSE AS THIS HAPPENING DURING THAT GAME!
This song got me through my divorce.
"cake is a lie"
if you know you know.
Ohhh YESSSSS!!! ❤❤❤
One of the few games i watched the credits fr ( that was the real cake, it wasn't a lie )
Such an all-time classic.
GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disc Operating System)
We used to have DOS on our computers...
Nobody make games like this anymore.....
I look forward to the Portal 2 playthrough!
Maybe after that you could check out Black Mesa
Written by the amazing and talented Jonathan Coulton!
1:38 GLaDOS the ones whos singing it
There's something bold about listening to the song before playing the game. I respect it.
She didn't, though. She just separated it into a different video because it was getting the video flagged
@@peterlewis2178 But she didnt know who GLadOS was?
@@kevthajum The game never says her name explicitly, even in the subtitles. I think you can maybe read it on her in the final boss battle, or at least in the wreckage after you defeat her, but it's pretty subtle and easy to miss.
Cool Video And Song.
Oh she killed it
Oh.....love it
no disrespect but how do you reach the end of Portal and not know who GLaDOS is
Her name is not mentioned until the label on her at the final fight
By not getting spoiled
There are no names mentioned in the Portal series (video games anyway) other than Cave Johnson and Caroline.
I love this song, but I always thought it was super creepy. I mean, GLaDOS is literally singing about how she's still alive. Great foreshadowing.
That is the intent, yes
The cake is a lie....
And if you haven't played or know anything about Portal 2 , Meg , OH BOY IS YOUR MIND ABOUT TO BE BLOWN. GlaDOS inference to Chell here after the events of the sequel ... I'll stop now lolz
hi Meg
BRO ITS NOT GlaDOSEEEEE ITS GLaDOS!
As good as the song is in a vacuum, you need to play the game or have someone explain it to truly understand it.
If you play the Half Life series then you'll know what GLaDOS meant about Black Mesa!
You should try and play Manhunt.
This song is so sad 😢