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Portal Paradox (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This always bothers me when people argue what would happen if you pushed Portal portals into each other. You can't. The moment the surface moves, it's unstable and the portal pops. They're quite specific about this in the games.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yeah?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrAHvenjZpA

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They have a flag to disable that specific behaviour for that specific scene IIRC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It’s still canon, no?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

In this case, the portals are only moving in planes parallel to each other, so there is no stability introduced.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Portal surfaces can move. By nature everything is moving, we just happen to be in the same frame of reference.

Regardless, here is a video of a portal on a moving surface from portal 2. https://youtu.be/OrAHvenjZpA?si=VY5dRvUP8_LPgOPO (around the 1 minute mark)

Additionally shooting a portal on the moon also demonstrates that movement is allowed (since the moon is in a non synchronous orbit)