{"id":1983,"date":"2014-05-02T03:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/crywoof\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2014-04-30T19:58:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T00:58:01","slug":"still-alive-except-the-ones-who-are-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/crywoof\/2014\/05\/still-alive-except-the-ones-who-are-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Alive!  (Except the ones who are dead)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>So <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/summathissummathat\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Susanka<\/a> listened to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/crywoof\/2014\/04\/the-wishing-wife-and-a-dogs-life\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Wishing Wife<\/a> last week, and liked it; and then paid attention to the lyrics, and still liked it; and then wishing to prove to me that it\u2019s just the sort of thing he <i>does<\/i> like, shared that he\u2019d purchased the theme from the video game Portal.  If you\u2019ve not played Portal, the premise is that an amoral but driven computer named GlaDOS puts you through horribly dangerous \u201ctests\u201d in the name of Science!  Eventually you destroy GlaDOS and escape; and as the credits play, she sings this delightful tune:<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NCt2nZF2nLk&#038;feature\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NCt2nZF2nLk&amp;feature<\/a>\n<p>However, he didn\u2019t point out the equally delightful tune from Portal II, where, having beaten GlaDOS for the second time, she washes her manipulators of you and sings about how glad that she is that you\u2019re gone:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Portal 2 - End Credits Song &#039;Want You Gone&#039; by Jonathan Coulton\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3fVUU7Drv2I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>And then, just to one up Joseph a little, here\u2019s \u201cWant You Gone\u201d performed by orchestra.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jonathan Coulton &#039;Want You Gone (Portal 2)&#039; For Orchestra by Walt Ribeiro\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vGtriH3VldY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>(Two very good games, by the way.  Highly recommended.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Joseph Susanka listened to The Wishing Wife last week, and liked it; and then paid attention to the lyrics, and still liked it; and then wishing to prove to me that it\u2019s just the sort of thing he does like, shared that he\u2019d purchased the theme from the video game Portal. If you\u2019ve not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[388,387,389,390],"class_list":["post-1983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woof-guide-to-popular-music","tag-glados","tag-portal","tag-still-alive","tag-want-you-gone"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Still Alive! 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