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Portal Paradox (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 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 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It’s still canon, no?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 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 10 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)