That little fiend is MY little friend

And GLaDOS interjects like, "You didn't do this. She did all the work!"

I find that interjection fascinating because. Like.

GLaDOS doesn't actually know anything about what happened behind the scenes. She lost track of Chell and Wheatley after Wheatley opened up a wall panel and they bolted off together into the facility's inner workings. She doesn't see them again until Chell falls for her fake door trap, at which point GLaDOS is unpleasantly surprised to discover that Chell's disabled the turrets and neurotoxin in the meantime.

She has no evidentiary foundation to base that accusation on.

This is also before GLaDOS recognizes Wheatley as the Dumbass Core, so it's not based on an assessment of him.

The only explanation it leaves is that it's based on her assessment of Chell. Despite GLaDOS's enmity towards Chell, the one thing she rarely goes after Chell for is her intelligence.

When she does, it's an admission of her high standards for Chell; Like when the fake door trap works and GLaDOS concedes, "I didn't actually think that would work. I already built a much better, smarter trap up ahead for when this one fails." That's a backhanded insult. It's calling her dumb, but in a disappointed way rather than an affirming way.

Chell tests very well. Between the two games, GLaDOS has developed a strong understanding of Chell's aptitude for critical thinking and problem-solving in stressful situations.

always wondered who tf worked on the construction of the polyhedron and im glad my suspicion that it was the kin was partially correct. of course the pinnacle of human ingenuity and harbringer of "progress" is built on the backs of the common folk, the racialized, the marginalized. and they will never reap its benefits. #awesome

Asynch made MRI machines. MRI machines take pictures of slices of your brain. It’s like the Backrooms itself automatically takes slices of your memories the second you enter them. Like an MRI machine.

When Clark enters for the first time he encounters the room with an oversized throne chair, and a bunch of shoes stuck in the floor. That chair is where pirate Clark came from. And those shoes are the shoes of his assistant manager Kat and her boyfriend. The chair is also half falling over because in real life Clark broke the chair and it’s a recent bad embarrassing memory. So the backrooms recreated the chair half normal and half broken.

Also very unsettling the way Clark says "we can eat them" as if it was a recent discovery, like, dude, what exactly were you feeding off of before ????