'It also says that you are adopted. So that's funny, too."

Let it be known that I'm not a gamer.

Not that I don't like video games, because I love them. There are days when nothing makes me happier than to sit back and watch someone else play cool video games. I enjoy watching rather than playing, because I am horrible at gameplay; it's not fun at all to watch yourself either roam around a game for hours trying to figure out what to do, or die every five seconds. Not fun at all.

Josh introduced me to the game Portal a few months ago, and I was intrigued.

As a student of New Media, I'm appreciating digital creativity more and more, and this game really impressed me. If you want to know about the game's synopsis, check out it's Wiki I linked to above. Aesthetically, it's a pretty game. I like pretty.

So what makes this game exceptional besides its awesome concept and pretty graphics is the computer. As you go through the levels, you are being observed by a chatty computer who at first is friendly and helpful--and slowly turns sarcastic and murderous. My favorite computer moments are at the very end of the game when are you working to destroy said computer. Someone was kind enough to go through this final boss fight slowly enough to let the computer crank out all kinds of funnies:

Nice, huh? I know that Portal has been around for a while, but I don't care; I tend to be the kind of person who gets to the party after everyone has already drunkenly passed out, and the sober people have already written obscene things in Sharpie on those sleeping. Josh is really good at knowing about these kinds of things; I can barely even talk to him about anything movies or games, because if it exists, then he's already read a thousand articles about it--and he read them a year ago. So, he wins.

Also, I found another good video on YouTube that's portal related. Check out their nerd humor:

Well, that's all I've got on Portal. I love me some comments, if you haz them.