User blog comment:Sunshineandravioli/Stuff Sunshine Likes, Issue I/@comment-3350823-20120128022328/@comment-1194745-20120128023443

While you're dying I'll be still alive :D (XDD)

LOL, thanks for the kind words :3 I love me a game with women who do more than show off their bods (albiet I'll admit occasionally those types do win me over - I loved Jak and Daxter's Ashelin because, while incredibly sexualized (as all the women in that series were...) she was also kind of a bad*ss XD) When I first got into Portal I read a bunch of incredible studies on the series, in particular the roles of the strong female characters. There was one I found particularly interesting that characterized GLaDOS as the modern driven feminist and Chell as the traditional, submissive female, as GLaDOS acts out and assumes a position of authority while Chell follows every order given to her and ultimately destroys the "dangerous feminist". There's some really interesting analysis out there based on Portal, furthering my point of just how intelligent Valve is and how much of this intelligence they put in the game.

* realizes how much of a nerd this entire statement has made her and recoils in shame a little XDD*