Portal

Each year, the day after Christmas is a huge way of getting your hands on some juicy deals.  For the most part it's only for your traditional "brick & mortar" stores, but is now leaking over into more and more online venues.

This year there have been tons of Day after Christmas video game sales going on, so not to be left out the online service STEAM jumped in on the action.  I happened to see an article at 1UP about the great gaming news only to see that Portal was only $4.99!  Portal is an amazing game, and a 5 spot to boot cannot be resisted!

Now I don't much care for the STEAM setup, but I guess it's not all that bad.  The best I can find, you HAVE to be online to play any of the games you purchased through STEAM, but I'm online 99% of the time so I should be safe.  But say there's a prolonged Internet outage I won't be able to play any parts of Portal despite it being a completely offline game.

Now I've played a small portion of Portal in the past, but I've never sat down with it in any great length.  Last night and today I've spent a great deal of time going through the first 19 mission, and have come to the following conclusion: