It would probably take quite a few different disks to store the artificial intelligence of GLaDOS on, not including her memories and other data, but I like this idea.
I am fairly certain that the the bridge is just the place we start at, from a different perspective.
This and this were likely early locations at White Forest that got redesigned and/or cut.
I speak my native language all the time and it doesn't bother me a bit. I was certainly filled with curiosity when this German girl at our school held conversations in German with a foreign exchange student from Germany though.
A while ago this really tiny but mature, cute little bat showed up at my house and decided to raise a little hell in there. I'll give him some points for being civilized enough to stop and just hang off a light fixture and sleep, but he still had to go and I evicted this bat, leaving him...
I think it's really whether a mod is fun or not that matters. This doesn't mean it isn't a good idea to release early and often, while tweaking the mod and adding new content/code or revising the old to keep their players supportive and happy while the team is working toward the final version.