How can broken cars blink their headlamps?
Not if they’re wrecked, like the oher one said. Then the lamps are brokened too. And if you state that, why didn’t all of the other cores have a flashlight too?
No
Broken car couldn’t be used because [COLOR=‘Red’]at least one of their necessary function is wrecked. Any way, its headlamps might be usable.
Also, that wrecked core may flash its light, but that doesn’t mean its CPU is usable.
You may all laugh but this entire thread is as relevant to the Half-Life/Portal story as the retarded HECU vs Marine discussions although there isn’t much complaining about those.
Have you ever tried to boot a PC whose board has a corrupted BIOS? The lights come on, the fans start whirring, but it never boots up.
Clearly, this core was adopted.
Maybe it’s the mute core of Gordon Freeman… (< That’s called a joke)
As I said, if the other cores were just brokened, why didn’t their flashlight go on?
It was a Christmas MIRACLE, that’s why!
Because Valve didn’t want to melt people’s computers with lighting calculation and/or spend an inordinate amount of time on a detail that most people are only going to notice for several seconds at most. They’re sleeping, if you like. Also, why would their light go on?
Because the fifth core in the claw had its flaslight on, even if you claim that it’s brokened. Everyone is suggesting that its flashlight is like a car lamp, if it is the other one’s flashlight would have turned themselves on too.
Some of you say that Valve used them to light up the three other cores, but if you look at the glass box next to it, there is no need for light-up. If you look at Wheatley, he can light up his flashlight by his own will, and when GLaDOS claw almost crushes him in the beginning, his flashlight should also turn on, but it didn’t, he just fell to the ground.
I’m expecting an awnser from Valve about the core, I’m certain that they will awnser since they did with the two hugging combine glich that I found in Nova Prospect.
And I was getting worried that you would start overanalyzing such a detail. Boy was I ever wrong.
What’s up with that hugging combine glitch though? Link?
He should be a physicist or mathematician. We’ll have a lot of useful theories, instead of game-canon theories.
Well, I was wrong. I didn’t create a thread for it, but I wrote it in another thread.
“I swear, I have a picture of it. It isn’t really an animation, they are just standing there, but I’ll wright a link to my webs.com site where the picture exists. And I swear this isn’t G-Mod, I don’t even have it. halflifepicture.webs.com/apps…otoid=95517823”
Oh god, what a noob I was…
I just can’t see where you’re getting any of this. At the end of Portal 1, we see a whole room full of inactive cores, none of which have their flashlights turned on. Just because the core is broken or inactive doesn’t mean its flashlight will turn on.
Again, why should Wheatley’s light have turned on? You’re completely misunderstanding the implications of that one core being broken. When things break, they don’t break in the exact same way every single time. (Unless they’re Xbox 360s.) That one core is broken in such a way that its flashlight is on, maybe permanently, maybe because it has a quirky personality and wants its flashlight on. Fuck it, maybe it’s the “Flashlight Core,” and, like Wheatley, has turned its flashlight on because it willed it.
Written by Frozen Cham: How can broken cars blink their headlamps?
That’s what I’m trying to get into your minds, the cores aren’t like cars.
If it was the flashlight core, it’s surely corrupted, which brings me back to my first question: Why didn’t GLaDOS use it? Why did she insist on throwing it away and use the other three cores?
As I stated before, the core needs to be functional to be able to turn on its light, If it doesn’t work, it won’t be able to command itself to turn on its flashlight…
:fffuuu:
hmm…? I don’t think so. You have low experiences about mechanism, operating circuit and flashlight don’t have to work together
[CPU]
…|…
…|(work?)
…[COLOR=‘Lime’]/.[COLOR=‘Red’]…
.[COLOR=‘lime’]|…[COLOR=‘Red’](N)
COLOR=‘lime’…[COLOR=‘red’]…
.[COLOR=‘lime’]|…[COLOR=‘red’][blink the flash light to tell user that I’m corrupted]
.[COLOR=‘lime’]|…
[COLOR=‘lime’][do some works, including flashing its light]
The algorithm does not have to be controlled by CPU. Only simple circuit is enough to do that.
maybe the CPU did get completely destroyed, but the flashlight got stuck on? anyways, there is no reason to overthink this like you do(you being vampire95)
The Aperture scientists fitted GLaDOS with corrupted cores to stop her from filling the facility with deadly neurotoxin, while she was filling the facility with deadly neurotoxin. GLaDOS says this at the end of Portal 1. She wouldn’t purposefully make herself dumber when her entire purpose is to be smart and do scientific tests.