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Pretty sure she meant Chell would only live for another sixty years. More or less. She didn't have the actuarial tables in front of her.

Gravity on the moon's surface is around one-sixth that of Earth's. Consider how much power it takes to break the Earth's gravity - leaving the moon still requires a sixth of that. The physics is a bit more complicated than that but the upshot is Wheatley wouldn't have reached escape velocity and...

I assume this is what the developer commentary was talking about when it mentioned building all the rooms separately and using portals to connect them so they could restructure them easily. The thing that now appears only once in the actual game when the geometry isn't really possible.

Probably the same way they knew Gordon was neither dead nor trapped on Xen. That is to say, most likely the G-man. Perhaps he prepared for Gordon's point insertion by handing his suit to the scientists to tinker with.

We still have no idea really who the G-man is or how powerful he is. We know that he "hires" out merecenaries (whether they know it or not). We know he started the Black Mesa Incident because he provided the sample which triggered the resonance cascade. How important is Earth to the G-man...

Perhaps he bid Alyx. Or she offered her own services in exchange for Gordon's - if the G-man took her from Black Mesa during the incident it would be unsurprising that she knows about him too. Though I think it's unlikely that she offered herself since a) the G-man never speaks to her directly...

That's neat and all, but I thought the crowbar only curved on one end. And it was a tighter curve. [/pedant]

Breen set up in City 17 because he liked it there. In doing so, City 17 became the Combine's capital. This means that the resistance would have focused on that city, and it would also be the largest city with the most people to help. Kleiner and Vance must have moved there to help the refugees...

It's a post count thing. First you're a scanner. After a couple of dozen posts, you become a manhack (like me). I don't know the order of the others, but they at least include headcrab, poison headcrab, zombie, combine solder and much later on strider. That's probably the order, maybe with a few...

I've never looked closely at Chell's face, so you may be right there. To be honest, I think it's simply badly made - Chell herself is fairly ugly to me, moreso than the model she's based on, somehow - so I don't set much store by her appearance. That's a good point about GLaDOS' taunts. I...

Probably hole up with one of the scientists as an assistant, in order to assist in the Combine's downfall while not actually exposing myself to serious danger. Possibly die of evisceration while testing the teleport; otherwise stay in White Forest. Being a Zombie would suck. You are alive and...

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In response to the actual text: Artificial intelligence is very difficult to define, especially since we seem to use different definitions of "intelligent" for humans and computers - intelligent for either is beign more like the other. However, you do make the right point about GLaDOS being...

Quick hint: Double-space your paragraphs. If they're only single-spaced, it still looks like a wall of text.

If Grigori is to get a mention, I'd simply put it as a passing comment as to where the shotgun came from. Maybe when you pick one up in Ep3, it's from a rebel who says a mad old priest gave it to him. Or something.