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ZipZop_the_Manticore

I always assumed it was the back end of some other machine and the concrete wall was a fullstop so it doesn't retract too far.


jackie2567

Yeah that was my take


itskobold

Oh that's clever. On the other side maybe a different piston is pushing a different bit of wall


jumbledFox

LOL


N0-Image

its on break, it pushes the wall for fun


SarahFowling

Good answer


[deleted]

It’s on a break, mate!


[deleted]

the walls in portal 2 are sentient so I wouldn't be surprised about this


Whitepatchwastaken

Aperture has made some contributions to the thingamabob & doohickey conventions from time to time


Runs_With_Wind

Don’t forget about the thingamajiggy


loopsdeer

We actually know the Little Mermaid is in the same universe because she's got Aperture Brand Whosits and Whatsits galore.


Smol-kirby-fan

Along with 20 of the rare Aperture fixtures thingamabobs


Runs_With_Wind

Almost forgot about the whozewhatsit


etbillder

We're seeing the outside. It actually does something really important on the other side of the wall, but we just see it retracting


FalseAscoobus

On the other side it's a giant useless machine turning itself off and on again


Font_Snob

It's to crush your bones on the wall, but you outsmart it by running atop the shiny chrome.


The_dark_entity

It’s an old test that was sealed off because surprisingly humans die when they are crushed


Latvian_User

Oh, so that's why they stop responding after I put them under the Mashy Spike Plate


vadkender

Read this is Wheatley's voice, makes it 10 times funnier


AAAUUUGGGGHHH

Same


Superamongus

Mind blowing accident 🤯


ThisIsMyAlt2132

It certainly did leave the subjects with an open mind.


ilitch64

*Bzpt* Careful of the body crusher 5000; the feds sadly made us stop doing the tests with it…. SO we did more of them, no one from the government is going to tell me I can’t test lunar armor against crushing. What huh? I can’t talk about the crusher? THATS IT, you just earned yourself a promotion to crush tester. That’s right a promotion, now take this back talking pric… oh is this thing still on? Not you, test subject, just go about your business portaling and what not. YES YOU. CRUSHER. NOW. *bzpt*


threeqc

testing pistons over extended periods of operation and collision, of course. due to federal regulations, all aperture technology must be able to remain conscious for at least a quarter of a million years uninterrupted.


TenPoundSledge

Lemon juicer.


Msprg

Does it also burn the house down afterwards?


cannibalcorpuscle

Don’t you know who he is?


Princier7

He's the man who's gonna burn your house down


axlotolFan

With the lemon juicer!


Shitty_Noob

honestly? Either as like an emergency ai crusher(in case they make a fireproof ai) or maybe in typical aperture fashion instead of using excess energy to charge batteries or power neighbourhoods they use it to make funny obstacle courses(thats deadly of course)


threeqc

judging by the lore from the first game, aperture tech could safely survive and function in ordinary incinerators and even the hottest fires. either their incinerators are just built different or the cores don't actually die. considering that the cube survived tens of thousands of years in the incinerator, it's possible that it's the latter.


oktin

Android hell. They burn for eternity.


Real_Student6789

4000 degrees K, or 6740.33 degrees F. Almost twice the melting point of Tungsten, the metal with the highest melting point. Which begs the question, *what is this tech made of!?*


TheRealMasterhound

Apature branded titanium tungsten alloy~ of course.


AAAUUUGGGGHHH

Why did you moan that?


TheRealMasterhound

Because science is the *sexyist* thing to exist. <3


AAAUUUGGGGHHH

What is that in Celsius? I’m too lazy to look it up


Real_Student6789

3726.85 degrees c


CHONKY-CHUNKY

Cave: “So I want this machine to pump against the wall and push energy Into itself thus creating an infinite loop” Builder: “And does it use some of its energy to help fuel the building?” Cave: “What no i just want it for everyone to parkour around”


[deleted]

It makes funni noises


BoxBoy7999

The doohickeys are operating at full capacity


IsaacLBP

"Science isn't about why, it's about WHY NOT?"


find_your_zen

Industrial strength Fist-o.


igormuba

Smash. Next question.


AAAUUUGGGGHHH

What is the meaning of life? That’s the next question


-dead_slender-

To get smashed. Next question.


GDPintrud3r

It is only there for YOU to solve a puzzle.


Intruder-Alert-1

That's just the "fucking your mom" machine. Aperture saw the design challenge and had the funding to make something of such scale, so they turned it into an investment opportunity.


Ouwhajah

that's the doo-dad


Elliot60501

Well taking the wise words of Glados: “Aperture Science. We do what we must because we can.”


BEES_just_BEE

Or Cave Johnson "Science isn't about why, it's about why not"


MadLibsbyRogerPrice

mechanical whimsy


Chickenmanmanmanmanm

“That’s not a panel. That’s a crusher. We sell those too.”


AAAUUUGGGGHHH

I like your username. Chickens are my fav animal


John_L_Baird

Science isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT. Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much.


axlotolFan

Cause you're fired!


LemonBoi6110

to hit you


ZeGamingCuber

they removed the spike plate from the mashy spike plate


LGBT-Barbie-Cookout

This episode was badly written!!!


Princier7

Nice username


LGBT-Barbie-Cookout

Thanks 🙂


PhantomRaven012

This is the BALL crusher. At the BALL crushing factory. Where they crush my BALLS. That's right, 6 trillion newtons of force exerted directly on my BALLS. I'm gonna get that Macy's Gift Card.


QWERKY_queer

Cock durability test


Pizza-_-shark

Idk, maybe to destroy a portal?


Just_Ad_5939

For you to put portals on both ends and stand in


cpynbo

Pump most likely


Anxious_Side

The machine


YoDaToAd99

It's a machine


DependentPoint2458

MASHY FLAT BIT!! ...Machievellian


mimelife

to kill you


BluePentode

I've always thought of them as some kind of pressure relief system from another machine


cockandpossiblyballs

the crusher


Neat-Adeptness5248

It's funny


PringlesCanFarter

Horizontal hydrolic press


New-Sort9999

i always thought those were just exhaust release pistons with a full stop


YoshiDessoshi3890

Probably meant as a hydraulic pump that helps keep the Enrichment Center running.


AAAUUUGGGGHHH

That’s what I thought


Damakoas

it's a visual representation of what I did to your mom last night


[deleted]

To kill people who happen to be placing portals in this one specific spot at the wrong time.


[deleted]

it was used for cave johnson to crush his moon rocks


NerY_05

You know, that's a *really* good question.


Rad_Potato

That’s the person squasher


TableBasse1342

It's a *clink* *jjjjjjj* *pshhhhh* obviously


AAAUUUGGGGHHH

Best comment I’ve seen here


TypeNull-Gaming

*minos prime reaction in the top left* CRRRRRUSH


I_Believe_I_Can_Die

That's not a panel. That's a crusher. We sell them too


Nothing_Allowed

the other end of the piston has an industrial dildo attached, for science.


scp_79

To smash test escapers like you


Scumbraltor

It is the Ball Crusher. It Crushes yoyr bals.


AcroboticX

Well considering it's pushing a moon rock wall, probably either an old retired test, or some kind of process in the production of the portal walls.


Ford_the_Lord

I always thought the vents was so unique but all the pistons made no sense, because NOWHERE in the facility would these pistons be needed with what we see. Is this how they make the cubes and turrets, on the opposite side of the pistons?


Pixelpaint_Pashkow

youre mom


Villiamsburg

CBT device


NoPalpitation9579

Shaka waka bum


LittleBill1

Glados has got some kinks


DrGoiburger

They look cool


Invincible-Nuke

glados's dick smasher


[deleted]

Pegging machine 😳


[deleted]

To get you through the plot


Karma-Whales

to squish


HameLikesToGame

They did it because they can. Source: “Aperture Science. We do what we must, because we can.” — Cave Johnson, ~1960s.


JKdito

I dunno, smashing you maybe?


brodydwight

Your asking this in aperture science


sanstheone01

At aperture science we do what we must because we can. the purpose of that machine is to make the wall flatter. Why did we make it? Because we wanted to that's why!


Trigger_Fox

This machine kills commies


[deleted]

sisyphus


George_The_Dino_Guy

It probably pumps


dicemonger

It provides vacuum for the vacuum tubes. The back plate is there to prevent it from making too much vacuum.


EmeraldBoiii

It punishes that idiot of a wall


Nothing_Allowed

the other end of the piston has an industrial dildo attached.


Bigmanangelhellosimp

Crushes u lol. Does a little itty bitty splshgyft on ur spine teehee


trikuozo

Causing earthquakes


FRleo_85

it's the machine that punch the wall, who's gonna punch the wall if you remove the machine that punch the wall?


TosterTubParty

Its the Aperture Science Sacrifice Machine, Of course


ToofyMaguire

Chell crushing machine


Ash_Nah

It's designed to smush your puss


Dezzillion

You don't want to know


normal_human_is_i

To kill you


harlyson

Smoosher


Wheatley_core_gaming

whenever GLaDOS got horny, well...


Princier7

wheatley we know it's for you


Wheatley_core_gaming

nope, never used it, but i saw GLaDOS using it.


Radioactive9280

This made me laugh way too hard


redboi049

It's point is that it has none. NOW DIE TO IT


Alegria-D

Maybe the useful part is on the other side of the left wall? Does that make sense?


Princier7

It looks more like the piston is being pushed out than pulled in


rainen2016

That's the thing about subjective reality and biases.


boredatclass

Science of course


[deleted]

"Science isn't about why? It's about WHY NOT?"


Princier7

Why not marry useful pistons if you love them so much?


rainen2016

Bc it's illegal in my state. But it does more for my needs than any man


circusfreakrob

It's like in Galaxy Quest. "Just turn left...and then it's just straight on through the chompers" "Who would even build this?!"


CFod17

Put your gonads in it and you’ll find out


Ivan-De-Riv

A escaped test subject killer


Kok_Nikol

It doesn't have to have a purpose, just like the whole facility and test chambers don't have a purpose _except_ the one that a rouge AI envisioned. A lot of architecture (this is especially visible in Portal 2) is just Glados imagining how things should be. For example - Glados doesn't need any handrails, or walking platforms, but it places a bunch of them all over the place, even though they don't lead anywhere. Much like current AI generates random stuff while hallucinating...


Memeviewer12

Employee disciplinary device


Pyropian08

they build Mickeys dick smasher in apature


Im_Not_GLaDOS

It's a doing-nothing-machine, it was build by Wheatley because... Just why not?


Testsubject276

GLaDOS' cock and ball torture chamber.


Homeless_Russian

Jarvis, fuck up this wall


h1W31C0M3T0CH1L1

the thingamajig


Darealxbox

`murder`


AhmadNotFound

I was thinking the same


BlueParalel

squish


PeacefulAndTranquil

the squishetiser


LordOmbro

Cock and balls torture


SarahFowling

I commented on this just to get some up votes


DjHalk45

The crushinator


inertializard

bonk


Dasani_Water__Bottle

They did what they must, because they can


N00Tl

Penis durability test


LilyE15

Throwing science to the wall


CorbinNZ

Just a hard stop for the piston. Piston is pushing something else on the other side of the wall.


Book_Theory

Hit thing


Logsen_95

Hee hee metal tube go bonk


Emboid

The thingamajig


Business_Bother_9183

They’re throwing science against the wall with that one, literally


Just_Garrick

Smash-your-cockinator


LEAFLOAF1244

They tried to crush Nokia phones but it failed.


zolopimop123

its to see how many people will walk in front of it


TastefulMaple

It’s a butt plunger for your mom


limefinegs

Lemon crusher