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    Portal

    Game » consists of 8 releases. Released Oct 10, 2007

    A first-person puzzle game developed by Valve and graduates of DigiPen, Portal forces a human test subject to run a gauntlet of grueling spatial experiments administered by a malfunctioning, psychotic artificial intelligence named GLaDOS.

    Portal Reference Used to Mock Anti-Gay Protester's Signs

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    Edited By protododo
    Original video at Fox News Oregon
       
     A friend of mine posted that link to this Fox News video of some extremist anti-gay propagandists outside a Portland high school.   I was delighted to see that when it breaks from the newscaster to show the crowd, the first signs you see are held up by gamers mocking the actual protesters: 
     
    "Pac-Man Hates Ghosts" 
    "The Cake Is a Lie" 
    "Waca Waca" (referencing the sound Pac-Man makes)
     
    and if you look closely: 
    "God Hates Lag" 
     
    I like to think the combination of the maneuverability practice of the Pac-Man players and the spatial intelligence of the Portal guy helped them strategically place themselves at the place where they were most likely to be panned over by the camera.
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    #1  Edited By protododo
    Original video at Fox News Oregon
       
     A friend of mine posted that link to this Fox News video of some extremist anti-gay propagandists outside a Portland high school.   I was delighted to see that when it breaks from the newscaster to show the crowd, the first signs you see are held up by gamers mocking the actual protesters: 
     
    "Pac-Man Hates Ghosts" 
    "The Cake Is a Lie" 
    "Waca Waca" (referencing the sound Pac-Man makes)
     
    and if you look closely: 
    "God Hates Lag" 
     
    I like to think the combination of the maneuverability practice of the Pac-Man players and the spatial intelligence of the Portal guy helped them strategically place themselves at the place where they were most likely to be panned over by the camera.
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    #2  Edited By natetodamax

    That's pretty great. 
     
    The person that finally cracks and goes to the church and systematically eliminates all of the Westboro morons will be an American hero.

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    #3  Edited By yetiantics

    Gamers > Religious Extremists

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    #4  Edited By Crash_Happy

    Oh that's just too good.

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    #5  Edited By CommodoreGroovy

    Ha, yeah I saw this on the news in Oregon. I had to do a double-take when I saw the game references.
     
    PS: NE Portland is kind of known as the sketchy part of Portland, however there's a good amount of college students in that area as well. Which would explain why the counter-protest has such a large gathering.

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    #6  Edited By protododo

    It struck me pretty surreal because I had just been playing Portal the day before.  (Late to the party, I know.)

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    #7  Edited By toowalrus

    Hmm, a fox affiliate channel called the anti-gay protesters radical and propagandist... good for them.
     
    EDIT: God hates LAG? That's just about the best thing I've ever heard.

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    #8  Edited By Khemitude

    Wow this is hilarious! ha ha.

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    #9  Edited By Mr_Skeleton

    Waca Waca > anti-gay protesters

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    #10  Edited By Ravenousrattler

    good theres a counter protest to these cultists, these people are pretty much anti-everything other than their church. 

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    #11  Edited By FenderSR

    Those idiots tried that garbage at my school, NIU, after the shooting.

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    #12  Edited By Scooper

    I love to laugh at these religious crazies. What are they doing.

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    tight, i like cake

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    #14  Edited By sopranosfan

     To the God hates lag idea.  I also wonder if he does and gets mad does he say  "Me dammit"

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    #15  Edited By HayFourZee

    Did anybody else notice Waldo walking by at 0:48.

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    #16  Edited By eldiax

    Awesome, this totally made my day!

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    #17  Edited By Ace829
    @protododo said:
    " It struck me pretty surreal because I had just been playing Portal the day before.  (Late to the party, I know.) "
    Dude me too. I just beat it yesterday as well. O_O
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    #18  Edited By Pazy

    This is awesome! Regardless of the gamer part of the counter-protest its still warming to see people stand up for people's rights.

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    #19  Edited By Sadisticham

    The things gamers could do if they wasn't so lazy. Lets face it theres hundreds of thousands of us that communicate on the internets from all over the world.  If only we could channel it towards goo..well not "good" that would be boring but putting our favourite games into some funny real life situations. 
     
    Lets have a pacman run across the pitch during the world cup. Or Sonic perhaps hes a better fit.

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    #20  Edited By FunExplosions

    I see no one killed them yet...
     
    Damn.

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