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[–] PunnyName 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Box moves 1 inch and the portal poofs due to an unstable surface.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This always bothers me when people argue what would happen if you pushed Portal portals into each other. You can't. The moment the surface moves, it's unstable and the portal pops. They're quite specific about this in the games.

[–] stevedidWHAT 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They have a flag to disable that specific behaviour for that specific scene IIRC.

[–] stevedidWHAT 1 points 1 year ago

It’s still canon, no?

[–] JakenVeina -1 points 1 year ago

In this case, the portals are only moving in planes parallel to each other, so there is no stability introduced.

[–] Takumidesh 1 points 1 year ago

Portal surfaces can move. By nature everything is moving, we just happen to be in the same frame of reference.

Regardless, here is a video of a portal on a moving surface from portal 2. https://youtu.be/OrAHvenjZpA?si=VY5dRvUP8_LPgOPO (around the 1 minute mark)

Additionally shooting a portal on the moon also demonstrates that movement is allowed (since the moon is in a non synchronous orbit)