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[Trailhead?] Aperture Science
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TridenT
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 		[Trailhead?] Aperture Science
http://www.aperturescience.com/ appears to be something fun to pass the time while waiting for Valve's new Portal game.

If you haven't seen it yet, this is the next fantastical application of Valve's Half-Life 2 engine and its fantastic physics. Entertaining for those of us who work our brains like fine-tuned muscles.

But their new site is interesting. So far, you can use the command LOGIN to get a response, then use any username and the word PORTAL as a password and it brings you to a DOS-prompt-style gateway. I haven't seen commands that work yet.
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Which is the enemy of mankind, crunchy peanut butter, or smooth peanut butter?
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I'm sorry, Iron Chef Mike, the answer is Hippopotamus.
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TridenT
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 		Well well, tried this out, on the reccommendation of a friend: APPLY

And I have to say... WOW.
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SP wrote:
Which is the enemy of mankind, crunchy peanut butter, or smooth peanut butter?
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I'm sorry, Iron Chef Mike, the answer is Hippopotamus.
Best. Quote. Ever.
XBL Gamertag: RokaR

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Jetamo
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 		That's freaky... i could only get to page 44, and then it started getting creepy.

How many pages?
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TridenT
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 		Only 50 or so, you were almost there.

The big surprise is at the end anyway.

And it looks like the Half-Life 2 forums are ahead of us anyway.
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Which is the enemy of mankind, crunchy peanut butter, or smooth peanut butter?
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I'm sorry, Iron Chef Mike, the answer is Hippopotamus.
Best. Quote. Ever.
XBL Gamertag: RokaR

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Axys Denyed
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 		Anyone notice certain letters fading in and out when going through the pages?
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TridenT
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 		Yep, the HL2 forum folks beat me to it, but they spell out the following:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
the cake is a lie

Also, flashing ASCII cake images all throughout the test, if you're watching for them.


Furthermore, they're delving into the various DOS-like commands one can enter at the beginning, and trying to figure out about the stuff at the end.
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Which is the enemy of mankind, crunchy peanut butter, or smooth peanut butter?
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I'm sorry, Iron Chef Mike, the answer is Hippopotamus.
Best. Quote. Ever.
XBL Gamertag: RokaR

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 		so... can somebody tell me what happens at the end when you type in the code they gave you so i don't have to go all the way back through it??
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TridenT
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 		The code will invariably be wrong, so just enter anything.
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Which is the enemy of mankind, crunchy peanut butter, or smooth peanut butter?
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I'm sorry, Iron Chef Mike, the answer is Hippopotamus.
Best. Quote. Ever.
XBL Gamertag: RokaR

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 		That's pretty cool...hopefully it'll lead somewhere.
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oxdeltaxo
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 		It seems as if the valve staff are watching the reactions and altering the site to either mess with the players head or create a unique marketing scheme directed towards it's audience. To which I applaude, as I haven't seen this before.

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Red Queen
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 		Late but still
I stumbled over this one elsewhere and ended up back here via a link. I clicked the main link and typed in the stuff suggested above. When the "DOS prompt" came up, I just typed "help" and got a list of stuff -

LIB
APPEND
ATTRIB
COPY
DIR
ERASE
FORMAT
INTERROGATE
LIB
RENAME
TAPEDISK


then the prompt follows. I typed in each of them and most just give a message about it's write protected.

On INTERROGATE I got

GLaDOS v1.06 (c) 1982 Aperture Science, Inc

ERROR 02 [Command requires at least one parameter]

and the prompt.



And yeah I realize I'm way late but oh well....I'll check the other forum and see what's happened since September Very Happy

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CPO Schwartz
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 		hey
I just found www.aperturescience.com today.

This thing is realy lame, it took me two second.

I decompiled the flash and got the entire thing.

If anyone wants me to post all the info lemme know.

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rowan
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 		Re: hey
CPO Schwartz wrote:
This thing is realy lame, it took me two second.

I decompiled the flash and got the entire thing.

Yeah, but that takes all the fun out of watching certain fre...I mean people in #uf randomly picking a username of 'cake' and wondering why pictures of cake kept popping up and why there were so many cake questions and if it was a kloo based on their username.
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 		Re: hey
CPO Schwartz wrote:
I just found www.aperturescience.com today.

This thing is realy lame, it took me two second.

I decompiled the flash and got the entire thing.

If anyone wants me to post all the info lemme know.


That's like winning Monopoly by clubbing your opponent with the box and stealing all the money and properties.

I think it's great. It reminds me of the Google job application I filled out.
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