This elevator room looks much better since GLaDOS is fixing up the facility. Now, she’s moved past telling you how much you made her suffer and trying to make you feel sorry for her, and has moved on to try taking hits at your self-esteem and trying to make you feel guilty for it. So if you break one of those tools, it doesn’t hurt her, it’s just taking that tool away from her or ripping it out of her hands. It’s like a million arms she has spread out across the facility, holding tools. Let me put it this way: Her body is her chassis, and all the things in the facility connected to her chassis are like tools she’s holding. I think it’s only her chassis that acts as her body, and while she IS hooked up to the rest of the facility through wires, I don’t think stuff like panels being broken actually ‘hurts’ her. Throughout several chambers, you can see these panels goofing off and acting as if they have a mind of their own. I’ve seen people theorize about the panels and other things in the facility being like a part of GLaDOS’s body that she can feel through, and I disagree. This also ties into another thing I wanna comment on. It’ll be like a game of ‘spot the AI core’! I’ll point some of them out as we go along. It’s even mentioned by GLaDOS in CO-OP that she made Atlas and P-Body out of cores she took out of scientific calculators, so apparently Aperture just puts AI cores in everything. In fact, a lot of things around Aperture seem to have AI cores. They even appear to have little hints of personality to them, some of them spinning around playfully, and they all have round circular lights that seem to indicate an AI core. GLaDOS is still trying to corral all these panels back into line. Also, apparently she was planning to replace the High Energy Pellets with Lasers back in Portal 1. She definitely sounds more relaxed now, her initial rage wearing off as she becomes more comfortable in running the facility and being in control again. She doesn’t want to keep you around too long because you might try to escape the testing track and kill her again.
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She tells you to pace yourself because she needs to keep you busy while she fixes up the facility and figures out how to replace you with less dangerous test subjects. GLaDOS gets her first dose of that solution euphoria as you solve the first test, and she suddenly sounds more laid back. When you walk in, GLaDOS moves the old High Energy Pellet Launcher out of the room and replaces it with a Thermal Discouragement Beam (a laser). This test chamber is actually another one from Portal 1. So, apparently they have giant laser beam generators somewhere and they just portal those lasers over to each test chamber, for some reason. I personally think connecting the two universes could be pretty epic, so I don’t understand why they’re so against it. Something I forgot to mention in the last part is that in The Final Hours of Portal 2 eBook on Steam, the developers said that the reason behind the 50,000 year time skip was because they wanted to separate Portal 2 from the events of the Half Life universe.