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Yes and no. The site is technically covered with this fundraiser, but even though he's too nice to say anything about it, DJP has actually paid a LOT of money out of his own pocket due to site expenses/taxes over the years. It's my personal goal that we can raise enough money to 1)cover the site's absolute critical operating costs 2)make enough money to have a nice reserve for the site to tap into for additional things like producing physical albums/promotions, restocking inventory, etc and 3)reimburse DJP for all the money he's paid himself in addition to the countless hours over years that he's put into programming and posting music here. Well it is a sticky, I'm not sure why there wasn't an official Announcement this year. But apparently we're doing well enough that I suppose it's not really a big issue, seeing as we've raised money faster than any other year so far I would say yes. Just because we hit a goal doesn't mean we shouldn't keep going before the timer runs out

Nintendo 3DS

Soooooooooooo my Disney World Cinderella Castle is almost complete, and highly comparable to the real thing. Pictures (both real and minecrafted) forthcoming very soon. Happiest Place on Earth/Minecraft!

Almost 2 weeks late!

Hey guys, how awesome would it be if we could actually hit our goal in April still? Everyone be sure to pimp Support OCR month on your blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Myspace(?) etc!

This is all Nintendo's fault. Stupid waggle console.

I wouldn't say that. While the replay value of puzzle/solution games might not be super high by default, I think it did a good job of presenting not only some cool story telling but also plenty of cool details and dialogue bits and easter eggs that will make the game worth revisiting at least a time or two down the road. Maybe not immediately, but isn't that at least par for the course for most good games? haha, excellent find!

I guess so, but it does seem odd that you'd be in a room at all, when people are clearly in stasis tubes as shown at the end of the co-op game.

How exactly does Portal 2 happen 200 years after Portal 1? I don't think Chell was in stasis or anything. She woke up in what looked like a hotel room.

Ah, I thought you were talking about another absurd Paypal policy or something that I hadn't heard about, and I was about to be annoyed. I don't like Paypal much after their debacle back in '09

haha, that video was hard to watch. like where he ran and hit the wall b/c he couldn't make it into the portal

Huh, didn't notice that when I played through. Good eye. *edit* no pun intended

Can I be the first here to say that GlaDos/Caroline is actually kind of hot? For those of you that saw the secret portrait

What are you talking about?

People should probably know by know that there are going to be spoilers in the thread. Let's keep it moving.

What??? That's awesome!!! You rock!

Where is this timeline you speak of? I'd be interested to take a peak. Also, stop raining on my fantasy! Did anyone else think that Cave Johnson was like a funny version of Atlas? In fact, Aperature Science was basically like a funny version of Rapture from Bioshock.

Nothing wrong with scrolling. ToMAYto ToMAHto. The both get the job done. You know what would have been awesome? Linked portal guns. Like, Mouse 1 for P1 ties into Mouse 1 for P2. Mouse 2 for P1 ties into Mouse 2. That would enable them to release a whole new series of puzzles right there. I don't think I ever saw this preview until you mentioned that. Link - Now I'm disappointed that they weren't in there. On a different subject, there's a particular test (I forget where, maybe half way through) where you start out by walking past a vent that has an unreachable turret in front of it, and what appears to be some sort of secret room behind it. Is that something we are supposed to be able to get to?

Man, the puzzles were so cleverly designed. I can't believe how well they expanded on the already awesome puzzles from Portal 1. Who's with me when I say that they were so cleverly conceived, that it made me feel like a freaking genius every time I solved one, especially there towards the end? Concerning the ending: *SPOILERS BELOW, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED* So how awesome would it have been to get to the surface say, right in the middle of White Forest only to see Gordon Freeman drive by or something? I mean, we already know HL and Portal are linked. And the fact that the Aperature has gone to pot IMO maybe could be a great tie in to the resonance cascade and subsequent Combine invasion. At the very least, i was slightly disappointed that you get released into a golden field on a beautiful day. It seems like the camera should have at least panned around to show some sort of apocalyptic ominous clouds of doom or burning forest/cities/whatever off in the distance. Anyway, I loved the credits for both single player and co-op. I especially loved the choir of turrets. That was particularly brilliant. I also loved the cowboy-ish corrupt core that you installed on Wheatley. I feel bad that he's in space now. It wasn't his fault he turned baddie...

You feed it lots and lots of cake. If that doesn't work, try some layering, and some stereo separation/imaging. And maybe some slight detuning/chorus.

Pretty much everything here is something I agree with. That being said, I still haven't really bought CD's in a while b/c I 1)am lazy and don't like having to rip them, and 2) realized that I really don't actually end up caring all that much about what's in the booklet.

You know, I never really get tired of saying that the people out there who claim to be audiophiles, are really just more snobby than justifiably particular about their audio. Few few few people can tell the difference between a 320 kbps mp3 and red-tape audio. Especially not on the typical stereo speakers/iPod earbuds/cheap headphones/car CD players that 99% of them are listening on. It's one thing to say someone can hear the difference between CD and 64 or 128 kpbs, but 320, I'm telling you, a majority of people (probably myself included) cannot. This rant brought to you by the number 7 and the letter S.

This is probably the fastest we've raised money in the history of the site, 1 week, $2000+. Great job everybody, let's keep the momentum up! We've had an amazing start, but we still have a ways to go to hit our goal. :nicework:

I pretty much rarely buy music for more than $10 now. I almost never buy physicals, because I just don't have any room and I don't need more stuff I'm probably never really going to look at cluttering up the space I do have.

Oh man, just 13 more minutes until Valve's servers crash for a week!