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Portal turret Easter egg

Cory Doctorow at 8:47 am Fri, Apr 22, 2011

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Just in time for Easter, markt022002's Portal Turret egg!

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holtt

The things that the defective turrets in Portal 2 say are just hilarious.
BookGuy

If you could rig them up so that they say “I see you” and “Are you still there?” in response to proximity, it would make the best Easter egg hunt ever.
- snakedart
  
  Even better: crack one open to hear, “no hard feelings …”
Manooshi

This is too perfect.
Anonymous

It’s also something of an anti-Easter egg; in video games, “Easter egg” often means “a well-hidden secret feature/object/area/etc.,” but these turrets aren’t that hard to come by in the Portal games.
Halloween Jack

If a hard-boiled egg said, “I don’t hate you” as I was cracking its shell open, I’d never eat another one again.