{"id":236,"date":"2018-10-09T01:13:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T05:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/?p=236"},"modified":"2018-10-09T01:13:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T05:13:50","slug":"portal-00-10-micaela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/2018\/10\/09\/portal-00-10-micaela\/","title":{"rendered":"Portal: 00-10 (Micaela)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard about Portal a lot, but I&#8217;ve never actually played it so this was a real treat. I played with my friend, she was on keyboard and I was on mouse. Both of us found the robot&#8217;s voice disturbing, especially when she\/it\/they would start to glitch out(I really,<em> really<\/em> want to know what we are absolutely <em>not<\/em> supposed to do with the portal guns). I actually muted my laptop during the &#8216;impossible, broken&#8217; chamber, the incessant pessimistic comments were messing with my ability to think, which was probably the point and in that area, I think I failed and\/or cheated.<\/p>\n<p>The game doesn&#8217;t have music? Or if it does, I haven&#8217;t noticed it. It feels really empty and just&#8230; strange. It&#8217;s very different from a lot of games even now, I really enjoy the first-person puzzle solving aspect to it; it&#8217;s different. Also, I am not acclimated to &#8216;thinking in portals&#8217; quite yet. Every time I see my character through a portal, or make a portal that&#8217;s moving me into another orientation&#8230;of &#8230;gravity(?) I get confused, but it usually ended up okay (I didn&#8217;t fall into the deadly goop. I wonder if you can actually die in this game).<\/p>\n<p>Very curious about the story\/narrative. It seems like we (the protag) may be the daughter of someone? The robot voice said we are the joy of some other subject, I couldn&#8217;t discern the names. Also there was the <em>bring your daughter to work <\/em>day comment. As I said before, the game feels utterly empty and abandoned, so I can&#8217;t help but wonder why we&#8217;re there and if it&#8217;s actually by choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard about Portal a lot, but I&#8217;ve never actually played it so this was a real treat. I played with my friend, she was on keyboard and I was on mouse. Both of us found the robot&#8217;s voice disturbing, especially when she\/it\/they would start to glitch out(I really, really want to know what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}