[standardman]

As of now, from that steam thread:


Portal gets surprise update yesterday afternoon

• People see new mystery achievement
• People play and see the radio in the beginning room now has a green light
• Carry it around and notice it makes strange broadcast interference noises in certain places
• Locate and place all 26 of these mystery radios for achievement
• Smart people yank wav files out of game content folders and run them through steganography programs
• Produces 26 weird cryptic image files in a numbered sequence
  -Some dude runs the number string through an md5 hash translator and gets a landline number
• Internet traces it to Kirkland, WA (near Valve HQ)
• People find out its not a phone/fax line but a data line hosting a BBS and telnet it
• Use a clue from one of the files to figure out the BBS user/password login info
• End up with a bunch of weird ASCII artwork
• A collection of the ASCII artwork is posted: http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/6278/portalascii.png
• People get to work on the ASCII and an ingame screenshot may very well have been found by turning one of the ASCII artworks: http://cdupload.com/files/123623_btxvo/rotate1.jpg
• Speculation on another ASCII image, showing 2 robot like creatures starts.
  Yfrog - android
  Some believe they are connected, whilest other dispute it, claiming it shows the skeleton of a chicken and therefor they are not connected.
  Others speculate that this may be Combine Super Soldiers. (File:Super soldier.jpg - Combine OverWiki, the Half-Life Wiki - Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Portal, Episode Three, and everything behind-the-scenes! and File:Combine Super Soldier.jpg - Combine OverWiki, the Half-Life Wiki - Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Portal, Episode Three, and everything behind-the-scenes!)
• Another new collection of ASCII is posted here: http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/930...sciilarge2.png and a blurred version is posted here: http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/9...ortalascii.png

Text from a picture:

A lot of you have been raising concerens of the so called "dangers" of what we're all doing here. The beancounters told me to tell you that as of today, testing will no longer be as mandatory, or as dangerous. That's not gonna happen. And here's the reason:

Science isnt about why, it's about why not. You ask 'why is so much of our science dangerous?' I say, Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact why not invet a special safetey door that won't hit you in the butt on your way out cause you are fired.

Plus, in the event of your death, I personally guarentee that, thanks to the form you were required to sign this morning, your family will not suffer the indignities of a long and costly legal battle against Aperture Science. Trust me, I am rich, and it is a burden I would not wish on anyone.

A theory:



Possible new weapon? A wrecked GLADoS?

Someone cropped and rotated:



Portal 2 level?