Maybe the appendage serves the dual purpose of linking to the brain as well as extracting vital fluids.
Notice that when the advisor is sucking out of Eli, there is a visible lump in the appendage as if something physical is going through it. I highly doubt that mushed up brain will transfer...
just played Portal and I loved it!! Much better than I thought it would be.
Here is my take on what is going on. And some "possible" theories.
Portal itself takes place during HL2. I'm assuming that GlaDOS can tap into television and radio, so she is able to keep up with current news to...
I got a payback achievement...don't know if this works with other things....when I held a tire and the flechettes stuck in them...I flung it back at the hunter when they started beeping...timing is pretty much everything.
Also, I've been playing with the super grav gun. When you have to setup turrets, you can't grab them any longer. If you don't set them up, the soldiers don't come a knockin? Anyone have a way around that? I tried noclipping to the end of the level, but Alyx doesn't appear when the next level...
The other suits were used by other scientists that you will find laying about in Xen.
GMan says that you can keep your suit because "you earned it" at the end of HL1.
This threads theory is good so far...no plot hole I can see...yet
Also in one of the offices, there is a scientist at a monitor with a headcrab on him. He is thrashing around in his chair with the oh so spooky lights.
573: When your boss talks to you, you automatically start moving very sloooowly.
574: With a ladder in plain view, you jump down an opening and try to catch the ladder right near the bottom thinking that this will keep you from getting hurt.
575: You ask your pastor "Wheres the folding...
570 You try to get dressed by walking into your clothes on their hangers.
571: Instead of going out the front door to your garage, you go to the second floor, into the vent, climb down the chimney into the basement. You look for a key that will unlock the outside doors, then go outside and...