Portals and Whatnot

Summer is upon us, and thusly I find my thoughts turning once again to portals. Oh sweet slipgate, how I long for thy totally neato manipulation properties. Seriously, watch this damn video if you haven't seen it 47 times already in the month it's already been up, and tell me you wouldn't punch an infant child right in it's face for a portal gun.

Valve's Portal

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All I have to say is start lining up the babies. My question is, what's the deal with the robot voice girl? I like what she's saying, but wouldn't voice synthesis have made a little bit more progress by the time we have portable hole technology? The stupid Eliza voice that used to get packaged with old Macs was better than this. I used to sit around in the computer lab in high school and make her talk about sex acts all day. God that was one hot-ass text-to-speech converter. I'd like to get my zero-point energy manipulator in HER portal...