Why P-Body and Atlas?

03-20-2011, 05:35 AM

Where did those robot names came from?

McMasterGold · 03-20-2011, 05:37 AM

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Originally Posted by LiotkSa

Where did those robot names came from?

Since GLaDOS calls them Blue and Orange, those are probably development names.

Francis_4_Dead · 03-20-2011, 05:51 AM

Atlas is written on Blue's backside.
P-body, no clue.

Sharkinu · 03-20-2011, 06:07 AM

I wonder what acronyms are behind these names. I'm sure there must be some.

odin8890 · 03-20-2011, 06:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Francis_4_Dead

Atlas is written on Blue's backside.
P-body, no clue.

P-body

my only idea is that the P stands for something.maybe something like Portal, petite (she is sorta small)

portal-body

Petite-body

something like that no clue other then those rough guesses

Pega · 03-20-2011, 06:16 AM

They aren't acronyms, they're scientific terms.

Harry101 · 03-20-2011, 06:19 AM

Processing-Body is what it stands for.

odin8890 · 03-20-2011, 06:19 AM

Processing bodies (P-bodies) were first described in the scientific literature by Bashkirov et. al. [1] in 1997, in which they describe “small granules… discrete, prominent foci” as the cytoplasmic location of the mouse exoribonuclease mXrn1p. It wasn’t until 2002 that a glimpse into the nature and importance of these cytoplasmic foci was published [2][3][4]. In 2002, researchers demonstrated that multiple proteins involved with mRNA degradation localize to the foci

wiki are friend just googled "p-body" got this

03-20-2011, 06:30 AM

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Originally Posted by odin8890

Processing bodies (P-bodies) were first described in the scientific literature by Bashkirov et. al. [1] in 1997, in which they describe “small granules… discrete, prominent foci” as the cytoplasmic location of the mouse exoribonuclease mXrn1p. It wasn’t until 2002 that a glimpse into the nature and importance of these cytoplasmic foci was published [2][3][4]. In 2002, researchers demonstrated that multiple proteins involved with mRNA degradation localize to the foci

wiki are friend just googled "p-body" got this

Ok, but where is the reference that attaches the name to him?

Simian_ · 03-20-2011, 06:42 AM

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Originally Posted by LiotkSa

Ok, but where is the reference that attaches the name to him?

HER. P-body is a girl. This makes the name way more confusing.

Harry101 · 03-20-2011, 06:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Simian_

HER. P-body is a girl. This makes the name way more confusing.

Robots don't have genders.

It is simply implied that it is feminine.

Simian_ · 03-20-2011, 07:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Chet Faliszek

We had a playtester in who played all the way through the single-player version of Portal 2, and then went to play co-op, and during one point of co-op realised the bots have sexes. Immediately you look at it and go, one's a female and one's a male.

The guy got really mad he got stuck with the female. I asked him, you know, in single-player, you've been playing for 12 hours as a female. He goes, no I wasn't. It didn't bother me, but now it bothers me.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...ortal-2?page=2

*cough*

McMasterGold · 03-20-2011, 07:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Harry101

Robots don't have genders.

It is simply implied that it is feminine.

Yes, but P-body has female programming.

Groxkiller585 · 03-20-2011, 07:26 AM

P-body most likely stands for Prototype Body.

slipperywhenwet · 03-20-2011, 07:57 AM

Like many things in Valve games, their names have to do with scientific terms:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-bodies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(disambiguation) (multiple scientific meanings)

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slipperywhenwet Join Date: Oct 2009 Reputation: 1859 Posts: 6,778	Like many things in Valve games, their names have to do with scientific terms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-bodies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(disambiguation) (multiple scientific meanings)