Chell is standing at the edge of an bottomless pit. She sighs deeply and gazes longingly across the void to the astounding energy guard. She hoped there is an exit over there. Exit is a funny term, she thought. Though an exit from this room, the door is also an entrance to yet another puzzle room.

Remembering the warning posters a couple of steps back, she recalled that falling into this pit would indicate game over. Death. She doesn ’ t desire death. Not yet. She was promised cake. And with cake, comes the meeting of this facility ’ s creator. Then she ’ d find death.

However first she has to overcome this pit. There ’ s a platform floating about 20 feet out. She can easily ’ t jump that far even if she hadn ’ t wounded her leg two rooms back. But it ’ s easy enough. With a fast broken of her firearm, she makes 2 sites and falls rather tough onto the platform. Her leg harms a little bit more now. Fan-fucking-tastic, she thought massaging her calf. With 2 even more brokens of her weapon, featuring one fired at the bottom of the pit to get the right momentum, she soars over the significant energy guard.

The sentry powered up and announced in its women robotic voice;

\* I see you. Preparing to dispense item. \* A trick. Exactly how could she be so careless. It should be my leg, thought Chell as she dived out of the array of the sentry turret. She couldn ’ t see it. However she knew it was there. Sentry turrets are snarky bastards. But that ’ s their downfall. If they didn ’ t talk, she wouldn ’ t notice them many of the moment.

\* Are you still there, \* called the turret in its squeaky voice.

Yeah, I ’ m right here, thought Chell, nursing her sore leg.

\* Are you still there \* Chell gathered her wits, browsed, and chose to make a go at it. Turrets in the past haven ’ t caused much of a concern. They ’ re just a trouble.

She darts out into the entrance and fires her weapon in the basic instructions of the turret. Misses. The blast from the portal gun sails into the back wall.

\* There you are. \* Chell closes her eyes. Sweet death is upon her. She knows it. It came too early. She should have looked prior to leaping. Possibly it was her bum leg. Who understands.

\* I see you \* \* Triggered \* \* There you are \* Huh, she thought. Possibly I did hit it.

The turret is talking however Chell is standing there, shoulders slumped in defeat but she ’ s still breathing. She ’ s not dead. Chell gradually starts to move down the lone passageway. The exit door is getting close. The turret is still speaking with her.

\* Preparing to dispense product \* She walks a bit closer and sees it.

There, standing in front of the exit door is a small turret. It could ’ t be more than 7.5-inches tall. It ’ s benign besides its aggravating voice. It doesn ’ t shoot anything. Chell notices it ’ s connected to an old Dell Latitude notebook through USB.

Chell smiles and it feels excellent. She hasn ’ t done that for numerous rooms. She doesn ’ t disconnect the little toy but simply knocks it over with her shoe as she with confidence walks the 10 feet to the exit door.

\* Hello, hey, hi \* Startled, Chell turns around. Oh, she thought, it ’ s simply simulating exactly what occurs when a genuine turret falls overs. Adorable.

\* I don ’ t hate you \* Chell smiles once again as she presses the button on the elevator to take her to the next room. Possibly I ’ m coming up to the end, she thought. Possibly the cake will be in the following room.

— –

In a distant area Blue is seeing Chell ’ s proceed on a wall of monitors. He feels pleased with his little acquisition from ThinkGeek- that is, as much as a robotic could feel anything. The little prank went well. She smiled. The USB desktop computer turret just cost him $ 39.99 but it delivered a little bit of joy to Chell ’ s presence. A good purchase.

Blue turns his attention back to the screens. Chell is not going to make it from the following space.

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Last we checked, there are about six days between Verizon / HTC’s press event in New York City and November 19th. Which, by most counts, should be just enough time for the two companies to properly announce a phone, get it out to sales channels, and start moving ‘em into the hands of consumers. HTC’s Droid DNA has been leaked to death at this point, but a new mention of the product on VZW’s ‘Droid Does’ portal all but confirms the true nature of Tuesday’s event. For those willing to wait until November 19th, the carrier’s promising an internet unboxing through its Google+ page — for those who tune into our site, we’ll get you one much sooner. Hit up the source if you’re intrigued by intrigue, but don’t go poking around for pricing or confirmed specifications.

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The merger of China’s video giants Youku and Tudou this August must have struck a nerve over at Baidu: the search engine simply bought out equity company Providence’s controlling stake in iQiyi, a currently large video clip service constructed solely around streaming professional motion pictures and TV programs. Should the bargain wrap up as planned in the fall, Baidu plans to keep its new partner as a different badge however weave its material throughout mobile websites and search outcomes. The company is unsurprisingly taking a Google-like approach to ensure it isn’t left on the sidelines as searchers go elsewhere for video. Pragmatism aside, its bargain might represent much more for China as a whole– when hundreds of millions of people are exposed to commercially-oriented video clip as a matter of course, it can tip the balance in a method that we didn’t see with YouTube rentals.

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