Portal 2 - Fiddlesticks

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Published on September 18, 2011 8:20:31 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOxeiAu5RDo

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Portal 2 (2011)

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Fiddlesticks (Interjection): Used to express impatience, dismissal, etc.

Here's something I came across in the Portal 2 Authoring Tools. Whenever an invalid file name is specified to be played for a sound in Portal 2, the sound error.wav is played instead. The sound file is just Dr. Kleiner from Half-Life 2 saying "oh, fiddlesticks! What now?"

I'm glad to see Valve has a sense of humor. I happened to be teaching my friend how to use the Portal 2 Authoring Tools, using the cube_dropper_a4 instance shown in the video as part of an example on how to use instances. And out of the clear blue we heard "oh, fiddlesticks! What now?" Needless to say, we burst out laughing.

At any rate, this can produce some rather humorous effects when importing maps from previous Source games into Portal 2, as many of the sounds from Source games have been renamed or removed from Portal 2, resulting in error.wav being played nonstop.
Take this video for example, in which a map from Half-Life 2 was imported into Portal 2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKxyALRQVb8

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Oh, and if you're interested in custom maps, try Twin Pillars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpOjzNTIax8

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