So, instead of even bothering to try to follow Daniel and Caroline's selection up, I'm taking a page from the Happy playbook for this one. It's a video game end credits song and no, I don't have a problem with that.
The background - Portal is a puzzle game where your character is led through the levels (towards the promised reward of....cake) by a passive-aggressive AI named GlaDOS, who becomes less passive and more aggressive as you advance through the game, and eventually just flat-out admits that she's trying to kill you. As you get close to her she becomes pretty unhinged:
"I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportunity to succeed. There was even going to be a party for you. A big party that all your friends were invited to. I invited your best friend the companion cube [An inanimate cube needed to complete some of the puzzles, that GlaDOS ends up forcing you to drop into an incinerator]. Of course, he couldn't come because you murdered him. All your other friends couldn't come either because you don't have any other friends. Because of how unlikable you are. It says so here in your personnel file: Unlikable. Liked by no one. A bitter, unlikable loner whose passing shall not be mourned. 'Shall not be mourned.' That's exactly what it says. Very formal. Very official. It also says you were adopted. So that's funny, too."
Eventually you find GlaDOS and kill her by breaking off pieces of her and chucking them into an incinerator. And then, your reward. First, cake, and then a song sung to you by GlaDOS.
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Eric posting Tom Waits, me posting Isaac Hayes, Craig posting video game tunes -- it's Bizarros Wild Years!
Both the song and text excerpt make me wish I'd played that game.
Yeah, next time I'll post a dusty blues song that I'll claim to like (for bonus points) and really blow your mind.
why does aaron hate jazz so much?
A Jazzman touched me inappropriately as a child.
I didn't even mention the turrets with children's voices that sympathize with you when you destroy them. (It's really an awesome game)
god, i really need to play portal. I need to rent it. i cant pay 60 dollars for an 8 hour game (i wouldnt play the other stuff). That was some good elevator music :-P.
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