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The Portal 2 trailer is awesome.
@ the Steam haters: Don't even start. I'll buy this even if I have to run Outlook, BitTorrent and Notepad all at once in the background while simultaneously being logged into facebook and hulu to play it.
I despise Steam even more for this. I hate Steam, but love Portal, and really really want Portal 2. Damn them for making awesome games!
Yeah, this is looking pretty awesome. Definite buy.
(Another forum I frequent has an official "I hate the CRTC thread" sticiked, where all the hate posts go. I wonder if we need an "I hate Steam" thread here. :P)
Hey, don't dis notepad, notepad is awesome and extremely useful! But I think we can put our differences behind us, for science, you monster.
Couldn't resist. 
I've been resisting tying any more games to Steam for a while now, but this one might have to be an exception.
Well, as VALVe is the sole company working on it, I don't see any problem with them making it a steam exclusive, just as I don't have a problem with Stardock making their products Impulse exclusive. It's only when they start locking their community features pack and games other than theirs that use it to steam that I have issues with them.
The original Portal was the same way, adapted from from an indy game, if I recall correctly.
Valve hired those guys, and they helped make 'Portal', didn't they? As far as I am aware, and I could be quite wrong here, Valve have not hired the people responsible for the creation of that game. I'm not saying they've stolen it out-right, however the concepts are quire similiar. I can't quite recall what it was called... it was available at the same time as 'Dyson' was and featured entirely cell-shaded levels, played from the first person.
They hired them. Simple Google search of "valve portal 2 paint" came up with this link.
Ah, and you're quite right, too, that's exactly the game I was rambling about. Nice to see. Strange that I missed that piece of news, I must be going blind in my old age 
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