Don’t know why, but I was REALLY interested in the sub-plot about the praying mantises. Ya know, the ones who figured out what electricity is, created a whole society, upgraded that society, and then had the whole thing crashed down by two people and a toilet? Yeah, those praying mantises.
I love the background detail of Cave Johnson's portrait with a blinking light. And then we find out he's been desperately buzzing his employees up to his office to no avail.
@@nyotamwuaji6484 I mean.... you literally see human beings standing around in the distance in the first minute on the player's trip down to the inspection line. And given this is in several ways obviously an alternate timeline, with seemingly no GLaDOS..... I think it's just that nobody noticed the blinking light.
When I saw the bullets poured into the tank, I understood what Cave meant in the Investment Opportunity trailer. "How do we get so many bullets in 'em? Like this."
pretty groundbreaking lore wise tbh. what we thought was a funny game about flushing toilets actually reveals that cave did in fact put his consciousness into a computer
not exactly, but yeah they did use it. in the end, he did end up in a pit with a dirty floor, still on power from the mantis's generator until he finally dies by having no power.
@@factualopinion8849 no? cave's eyes went dark, showing that he has no power left. it's pretty much obvious why, their power generator was only meant to power a city that's most likely the size of a chair.
@@surrealsnoozer during Portal 2's development, there was a concept of a "Cave Johnson Cube" scene, where at the very end of Act 3, you'd find him actually trapped in a computer. and then after some dialogue from PotatOS and Cave, you end his suffering by unplugging him. then you have to use his... technically corpse, to progress forward. there are still leftovers of this in the files in retail.
@@randomcatdude I think this is actually supposed to be an alternate universe cave. In the portal 2 dlc you hear this cave at some points. Basically in this universe he didn’t die before his scientists finished work on the whole putting people in computer thing so he got put in a computer instead of Caroline. I could be wrong but that was the connection I was making
Funny how you made that up, and Portal has always been about comedy from the very first game. If you were scared by the first Portal, kid, that doesn't make it a "horror". I bet you don't know what Narbacular Drop is either.
@@KeksimusMaximus I wasn't scared of the first game. I just thought the first game gave me more horror vibes than comedy vibes like that's what it was going for.
I'd like to see glados' reaction to cave being alive-ish but she deleted caroline so....sucks...unless she lied then they could have a plot about killing him or uploading his AI to something else, i love the detail about how he started killing people the second he was turned on because thats exactly what glados did lmao i ship
It took 10.70 seconds to test a toilet and the player had tested 278,100 toilets, if it took only 10.7 seconds to test 1 toilet, then 10.7 * 278,100 = 2,975,670 seconds to test that many toilets, or 1.132 months, meaning it did NOT take 6 months to make the turret, as Grady says here: 7:12 , meaning Grady is exaggerating the amount of months it took the make the turret.
@@JamesTDG all that really implies is that they're an inefficient worker. Assuming they spend on average 15-25 seconds per toilet, and assuming they work an 8 hour shift, not including breaks, it's not inconceivable.
yeah I just checked it and with a lunch break of 30 minutes (legal minimum in many states) and working 8 hours a week day we get that they're working 0.3125 the time of a full work day * 5/7 days a week, giving us that they're working roughly 0.223 of the time in a week, so inverting that to get that it'd take them 4.48 times as long to do something compared to constant work, times the original 1.132 months gives us just over 5 months, so they're working only about 85.4% of the efficiency we see average over 6 months, which feels very fair
Fukcking love Valve Its always a breath of fresh air and pure creativity every time they create something their laid back company ethics on quality > quantity really lets ideas mature into these timeless works of art that still will be fun to experience years after the relevancy period 👏👏👏
@@Solaire_of_Astora13 He’s been in all mainline Portal Games. Being a name in Portal 1 and getting a VA in Portal 2 and apparently J.M. Simmons coming back to voice him in this, which is exciting!
Spend the first minute telling you about your bright future as one of the most gifted employees. Then realise they used the wrong tape. Put in the right one. "You! In the overalls. Get to work or you're fired." I love Valve's humour.
This changes canon, surprisingly. In Portal 2 Cave tells them to put him in a computer, and then says to just Caroline in the computer instead after he dies (cause it won't be ready in time)...that computer of course is GLaDOS. This giant head computer breaks that canon.
Eric Wolpaw is on record stating that Desk Job isn't canon (for now) and is more of a "what if" scenario. This all takes place in a different universe to Portal 1 and 2. Although, we do know alternate universes canonically exist in the Portal franchise, so I guess this is canan to some extent
I wonder what the technology that turned on the mantis city that was pulsing onto Caves head is doing to the head itself. Some creepy mixture of technology and that’s what caused him to begin to hum
Potential Portal 3 plot: Something to do with Rattman shutting down the company but Cave comes back and takes over the facility and it ends with the whole lab exploding or something
@@EddG even the promo video just calls it “a playable short,” and it’s free If anything it’s great that they tied it into one of their games’ lore, and with a surprising amount of quality.
@@Lightscribe225 It's more than just a tech demo. It's meant to teach you how to use the various parts of the Steam Deck AND let you test it. That's why it's such a clever idea.
This is a story about the grass hoppers Part 1 the grass hoppers found a light bulb but needed some lighting 1:09 Part 2 the grass hoppers found some lighting to turn on the light 5:41 Part 3 the grass hoppers made parts of the light bulbs 9:54 Part 4 the grass hoppers made a futuristic city 15:30 Last part the city gets destroyed by the gigantic head 25:17 THE END
Please read!!! A theory I just thought of and am 100% sure is correct. Each time it transitions you see mantises, this could be a reference to the preying mantis DNA test in Portal 2 mentioned by cave, but I think it goes deeper than that. Scene 1: 2 mantises, and a lightbulb, this represents Caroline and Cave stumbling upon teleportation. Scene 2: One of the mantises (Cave Johnson) sparks the lightbulb representing his invention of teleportation, but one mantis is watching from the corner, Breen, the head of Black Mesa, he saw the idea and stole it, which is referenced in Portal 2 by Cave Johnson. Scene 3: A mantis proposing to his soon to be wife (cave proposing to Caroline), but in the background there is a mantis silhouette on a cloud in the night sky (possibly referencing Bat man, but probably not) I think that mantis in the cloud is Breen, being praised for "his" invention. Also you see a building with a name on it in the background (it's the only one with a name showing it's significance), Mantis co is the name, I think that is a reference to Black Mesa. Scene 4: A bunch of mantises piled around a device that is glowing green. That is the residence cascade, hands down. That is representing the opening of Half life 1. Note as well, a UFO is flying around at the top of the scene, further proving it has something to do with aliens, and half life. Scene 5: The place where that device was is now blown up and destroyed like the residence cascade in Half life 1. All of these scenes are showing the story of how cave was backstabbed by Breen and Black Mesa and how they stole his idea before then causing destruction with it.
Grady’s voice, or Cave’s? Cave Johnson is voiced by JK Simmons, who played J Jonah Jameson from the spider-man movies, and Omni-man from Invincible. Not sure about Grady though Also, get portal 1 and 2. They’re $15 on steam and both really well made and written games, and are where cave first appeared
@@tetraxis3011 but cave is still alive in there. also he made the mantis people, at least Aperture did so Cave would probably say they work for aperture or something
Don’t know why, but I was REALLY interested in the sub-plot about the praying mantises. Ya know, the ones who figured out what electricity is, created a whole society, upgraded that society, and then had the whole thing crashed down by two people and a toilet? Yeah, those praying mantises.
It's the mantis-men cave jhonson created, he mentions it in portal 2
@@francjirachi I honestly expected a horrifying malgamation of mantis and men... but I'm not disappointed.
Not only that but with that green crystal they have, they had their own little black mesa accident which caused their society to collapse :D
@@PhobosE1M1 No it is a horrifying malgamation of mantis and men this is just a alternate dimension
@@Raykiv I actually like the idea of Cave hyping up the mantis men, only for them to be regular sized mantises with human intelligence and behavior.
I love the background detail of Cave Johnson's portrait with a blinking light. And then we find out he's been desperately buzzing his employees up to his office to no avail.
To be fair, GLaDOS did kill everyone
@@nyotamwuaji6484 I mean.... you literally see human beings standing around in the distance in the first minute on the player's trip down to the inspection line. And given this is in several ways obviously an alternate timeline, with seemingly no GLaDOS..... I think it's just that nobody noticed the blinking light.
@@resyntax Nah, there's too many differences compared to what we know of the Aperture of the normal timeline/universe.
he buzzes because he is completely alone in the lab
@@Jeddostotle7 yeah seems like this. very different type of core you see, and cave in the actual games died before he was uploaded to a computer
When I saw the bullets poured into the tank, I understood what Cave meant in the Investment Opportunity trailer.
"How do we get so many bullets in 'em? Like this."
you didnt play portal 2
they are all bullets inside
@@thanks3150 That's the reference.
All those bullets in the water tank which composes the guns and "head" of this game's Turrets.
I love how no matter how far they've come, Valve is ALWAYS going to use that Half Life click sound at least once in all their games.
What click?
@@TarotVylan at about 2:38. The "Failed to Use" sound that has been used since Half Life 1 when they press the wrong button testing toilets.
@@Myne1001 oooh THAT noise.
I always just called it the "doonk"
pretty groundbreaking lore wise tbh. what we thought was a funny game about flushing toilets actually reveals that cave did in fact put his consciousness into a computer
Also explains the turret opera in portal 2
He is the turret king
Maybe that's in another universe into the multiverse?
then GLaDOS is pointless
Alt universe that isn't cannon. Doesn't count.
God for only two characters this game had so much personality, he’ll just one hand gives your best friend so much emotions
Holy fuck they actually used (paraphrased) the cut cave cube script
not exactly, but yeah they did use it. in the end, he did end up in a pit with a dirty floor, still on power from the mantis's generator until he finally dies by having no power.
@@polluxe8917 Problem is, they more than likely created a perpetual energy generator. So Cave is gonna live forever.
@@factualopinion8849 no? cave's eyes went dark, showing that he has no power left. it's pretty much obvious why, their power generator was only meant to power a city that's most likely the size of a chair.
hearing that tf2 rocket launcher sound just really made my soul leave my body
even just the sound... it hurts
@@frimpimyvods9046 Every now and then I also mourn the death
Also Manntis Co.
They use those sounds for dota as well, haha
Such a wonderful sound
That was great, missed this humor so much, and WOW that ending, wasn't expecting them to make that one removed scene canon, you love to see it!
Removed scene what now?
What
@@surrealsnoozer during Portal 2's development, there was a concept of a "Cave Johnson Cube" scene, where at the very end of Act 3, you'd find him actually trapped in a computer.
and then after some dialogue from PotatOS and Cave, you end his suffering by unplugging him. then you have to use his... technically corpse, to progress forward.
there are still leftovers of this in the files in retail.
@@randomcatdude I think this is actually supposed to be an alternate universe cave. In the portal 2 dlc you hear this cave at some points. Basically in this universe he didn’t die before his scientists finished work on the whole putting people in computer thing so he got put in a computer instead of Caroline. I could be wrong but that was the connection I was making
Isn't it amazing how much personality you can conway with just an eye and some hand gestures?
They did it with wheatley who was just an eye, so yeah definitely amazing lol
Idk why but the delivery of “So shoot the metal.” is so funny to me
Jeez...I feel really bad for Cave in that ending. At least he has some turrents to pass the time with now. Maybe he can even teach them to speak?
Which ties in to the portal games
I can imagine GLaDOs and Cave singing together
6:10 I saw it coming, but at this very second, when it was revealed this was the origin of the turret i lost it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Funny how Portal started out as a sort of pseudo horror but now is like a sardonic comedy.
Funny how you made that up, and Portal has always been about comedy from the very first game. If you were scared by the first Portal, kid, that doesn't make it a "horror". I bet you don't know what Narbacular Drop is either.
@@KeksimusMaximus I wasn't scared of the first game. I just thought the first game gave me more horror vibes than comedy vibes like that's what it was going for.
@@KeksimusMaximusThe first game can get pretty unsettling though.
@@concept5631 unfortunately, you will never be a woman
@@KeksimusMaximus lol, lmao
Can't wait to see this be involved as part of a portal 3 plot...
Wishful thinking
There will never be a Portal 3. Chell's story was over in Portal 2
@@elfascisto6549 new story?
I'd like to see glados' reaction to cave being alive-ish but she deleted caroline so....sucks...unless she lied then they could have a plot about killing him or uploading his AI to something else, i love the detail about how he started killing people the second he was turned on because thats exactly what glados did lmao i ship
@@Freakcheeks The line “Now little Caroline is in here too." implies she just faked it.
so this is the origin of all aperture stuff singing
I love Grady, he’s so pathetic and a little fruity
And he sets you up, like that one friend in school who always blames you for something he did.
YES EXACTLY
I’m a lil bit straight for him
He has terrible long term planning skills.
i love him ngl
I didnt think Portal could look any better.
And then Source 2 decided to be the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
yeah gravy do be drippin some style
It took 10.70 seconds to test a toilet and the player had tested 278,100 toilets, if it took only 10.7 seconds to test 1 toilet, then 10.7 * 278,100 = 2,975,670 seconds to test that many toilets, or 1.132 months, meaning it did NOT take 6 months to make the turret, as Grady says here: 7:12 , meaning Grady is exaggerating the amount of months it took the make the turret.
lmao whut they weren't testing toilets 24/7
@@meatisomalley Even then, to cover 9-5 shifts in the math, it still does not add up
@@JamesTDG all that really implies is that they're an inefficient worker. Assuming they spend on average 15-25 seconds per toilet, and assuming they work an 8 hour shift, not including breaks, it's not inconceivable.
yeah I just checked it and with a lunch break of 30 minutes (legal minimum in many states) and working 8 hours a week day we get that they're working 0.3125 the time of a full work day * 5/7 days a week, giving us that they're working roughly 0.223 of the time in a week, so inverting that to get that it'd take them 4.48 times as long to do something compared to constant work, times the original 1.132 months gives us just over 5 months, so they're working only about 85.4% of the efficiency we see average over 6 months, which feels very fair
The game says six months passed, not Grady
Valve is the only game company that can reuse sound in their games and everyone love it
How do we know that? You suggesting another game reused sounds and received criticism?
@@vrASMR180 the rocket firing off is the same as the sound in tf2, and we fckin love it
Nintendo
Fukcking love Valve
Its always a breath of fresh air and pure creativity every time they create something
their laid back company ethics on quality > quantity really lets ideas mature into these timeless works of art that still will be fun to experience years after the relevancy period
👏👏👏
I am not going to take you seriously when you can not spell "Fucking" right.
Oh didnt think ur still alive lol, and new vids too!
@@astrsychev9333 Heh..."still alive"
Whoever these writers are for Valve are INSANE
Crazy little story. I do wonder about the whole mantis society. That seemed more random than usual. It's nice they have such an odd sense of humor.
Holy shit, I don't wanna spoil but holy crap. I love it
Is that J.K Simmons? It’s hard to tell especially after 10 years of nit hearing Cave
It is
Wasn't he in Portal 2 as well?
@@Solaire_of_Astora13 He’s been in all mainline Portal Games. Being a name in Portal 1 and getting a VA in Portal 2 and apparently J.M. Simmons coming back to voice him in this, which is exciting!
No one can say 'You're fired' better than J.K Simmons himself
Grady's dialogue is written a lot like Wheatley's, my brain kept substituting his voice in
gotta say, that is NOT how i was expecting this to go, lmao
Thanks for the playthrough, BrianC
Spend the first minute telling you about your bright future as one of the most gifted employees. Then realise they used the wrong tape. Put in the right one. "You! In the overalls. Get to work or you're fired." I love Valve's humour.
I like to imagine that cave has been there longer but he's just lost track of time
suffering for 4 years stuck in a head, damn
thank bryan
charlie*
This changes canon, surprisingly. In Portal 2 Cave tells them to put him in a computer, and then says to just Caroline in the computer instead after he dies (cause it won't be ready in time)...that computer of course is GLaDOS. This giant head computer breaks that canon.
this ain't canon, is the thing
@@randomcatdude Says who? If its a game set in the same universe with the same characters, its canon unless specifically stated otherwise.
@@Zenn3k the literal writer behind it stated so
@@randomcatdude So no toilet turrets?
Eric Wolpaw is on record stating that Desk Job isn't canon (for now) and is more of a "what if" scenario. This all takes place in a different universe to Portal 1 and 2. Although, we do know alternate universes canonically exist in the Portal franchise, so I guess this is canan to some extent
it's nice seeing this at a higher fps than 10
Since the head is still being powered by a backup source, the Cave Johnson head may play a role in Portal 3
There won't ever be a portal 3
With the way valve goes, you can’t ever be too sure
Watch the end of the credits.
The backup power ran out in the end
This is set long before portal, though
Grady is the incompetence core
So thats how [Spoilers] were invented, how neat!
They didn’t get rusty at all. It’s the same quality, but with better looks.
Ikr i was surprised how much charm the game had especially in the humor. I couldn't stop smiling as i was playing this.
They even brought JK Simmons back for Cave’s voice
i like how everyone is super calm and cave johnson is rlly nice too
I wonder what the technology that turned on the mantis city that was pulsing onto Caves head is doing to the head itself. Some creepy mixture of technology and that’s what caused him to begin to hum
LMAO tf2 rocket sounds. Imagine you hear a scout screaming.
Missed some Easter eggs :) Like firing the first Toilet without opening the arms
"No Commentary" my ass, he spoke!
Jokes aside that part was really surprising! :D
We appreciate you Brian 'kuh....'
hmm. The climax of the demo for a portable pc is all about destroying a computer that is too big for it too go anywhere. Interesting.
the chori at the end was the VALVe community when VALVe finaly decided to release a game
I love how you didn’t react in time to the voice recording your name and it just cut you off “Brian k-“
Is that really Nate Bargatze voicing the blue core? He is PERFECT for Grady, lol
0:57 arent those the ammo crate from half life 2? so aperture was the one supplying the resistance?
I'm glad Grady didn't like... try to flood the uh workplace with deadly neurotoxin or get launched into space or smth.
Potential Portal 3 plot: Something to do with Rattman shutting down the company but Cave comes back and takes over the facility and it ends with the whole lab exploding or something
9:55
Manntis Co.... MANNtis Co.
Yep, TF2 exists in the Portal and Half-Life Universe.
Classic Matpat over-analysing.
Well TF2 does have the longfall boots and the Wheatley item
Oh my god.
This is an Actual, Official, Valve licensed, Portal spinoff! Isn't it? Am I right?
11:19 hey guys look it’s Brian
So cave taught the turrets to sing.
I like how he created the first apeture turrets
This doesn't seem like much of a game. It's more like an interactive advertisement for the next installment in the series.
So good thing it's free
Its a tech demo for steam deck
@@EddG even the promo video just calls it “a playable short,” and it’s free
If anything it’s great that they tied it into one of their games’ lore, and with a surprising amount of quality.
@@Lightscribe225 It's more than just a tech demo. It's meant to teach you how to use the various parts of the Steam Deck AND let you test it. That's why it's such a clever idea.
I , have to put that I'm happy to be getting retirement for working this kind of job .
So, this is how the turrets in portal were created?
PD: 27:55 J.K Simmons was Cave Johnson's voice??
Damn, this game series had a good cast
We who do not have controllers thank you
Thanks for the video Brian
Seeing that red button buzz after the game is over makes me sad poor Cave
People actually exist
Grady sounds drunk as hell
This is a story about the grass hoppers
Part 1 the grass hoppers found a light bulb but needed some lighting 1:09
Part 2 the grass hoppers found some lighting to turn on the light 5:41
Part 3 the grass hoppers made parts of the light bulbs 9:54
Part 4 the grass hoppers made a futuristic city 15:30
Last part the city gets destroyed by the gigantic head 25:17
THE END
It's a story about Mantises
Moyai Johnson
damn valve did a better job at making an introduction than the PSVita (welcome park)
Cave Johnson really became 🗿
1:46 It a Grady does a Robot talking cirlce from portal game series.
I didn’t even know this game existed until I watched your playthrough & I thouroughly enjoyed every moment.
At this point I kinda wonder if there's alternate apertures where Half Life never occured.
Also, Manntis Co.
Now we know, why Aperture went bankrupt
ngl aperture looked much cooler in this game
8:40 minor inconvenience
Cave « The rock » Johnson
Just realized the desk is one letter away from deck
Yoooo Nate Bargetze?! I know that voice anywhere
Please read!!! A theory I just thought of and am 100% sure is correct. Each time it transitions you see mantises, this could be a reference to the preying mantis DNA test in Portal 2 mentioned by cave, but I think it goes deeper than that.
Scene 1: 2 mantises, and a lightbulb, this represents Caroline and Cave stumbling upon teleportation.
Scene 2: One of the mantises (Cave Johnson) sparks the lightbulb representing his invention of teleportation, but one mantis is watching from the corner, Breen, the head of Black Mesa, he saw the idea and stole it, which is referenced in Portal 2 by Cave Johnson.
Scene 3: A mantis proposing to his soon to be wife (cave proposing to Caroline), but in the background there is a mantis silhouette on a cloud in the night sky (possibly referencing Bat man, but probably not) I think that mantis in the cloud is Breen, being praised for "his" invention. Also you see a building with a name on it in the background (it's the only one with a name showing it's significance), Mantis co is the name, I think that is a reference to Black Mesa.
Scene 4: A bunch of mantises piled around a device that is glowing green. That is the residence cascade, hands down. That is representing the opening of Half life 1. Note as well, a UFO is flying around at the top of the scene, further proving it has something to do with aliens, and half life.
Scene 5: The place where that device was is now blown up and destroyed like the residence cascade in Half life 1.
All of these scenes are showing the story of how cave was backstabbed by Breen and Black Mesa and how they stole his idea before then causing destruction with it.
its great, but where do you get the controller to play?
Briant.
Ape-Science~
Aperture desk job the secret fps game
Thanks J Jonah Jamison/stanford/omniman/that lion from zootopia/yellow MnM
My name is also Brian
That narrator sounds like John Goodman. PS please don't roast me to charcoal, I have had zero knowledge of this game prior to two minutes ago.
Grady’s voice, or Cave’s?
Cave Johnson is voiced by JK Simmons, who played J Jonah Jameson from the spider-man movies, and Omni-man from Invincible. Not sure about Grady though
Also, get portal 1 and 2. They’re $15 on steam and both really well made and written games, and are where cave first appeared
Anyone notice he got the tattoo? Lol
thanks for this
'-' that is my name you know Brian.
Thank you :)
So, nobody is going to talk about mantises?
Cube Johnson!
Try and get near that toilet
Ahah, your funeral
There is in the game Some TF2 sound efect
So...Aperture Science invented immortality?
Sort of, the mantis energy thing is powering the head now.
@@tetraxis3011 but cave is still alive in there. also he made the mantis people, at least Aperture did so Cave would probably say they work for aperture or something
@@nyotamwuaji6484 Hmmm…. You are right, that is a possibility.
Why do you sound surprised? Never seen GLaDOS?
Isn't that what GlaDOS is?
is this supposed to be an analog for valve ?
BRIAN
glados + robo cave head crossover??
I honestly think the only part about this game I didn't like was your buddy AI's voice
They forgot nothing
I do not like the quality of Grady's mic