Only Friend Ep 1 Eng Sub

[Lotte Donohoe]

Atthe end of Portal 2, GLaDOS sings "goodbye my only friend", but then follows up with "oh, did you think I meant you?" Did she really mean Chell, or was is Caroline? The Companion Cube? Wheatley? Sadness that Cave Johnson is gone? (which might come from the Caroline part of her personality) The bird? The potato?

Caroline was a part of GLaDOS. Perhaps Caroline's personality was merged into the master system in a way similar to how they modified GLaDOS' personality by adding core modules to her (although not exactly the same way). Or perhaps GLaDOS started off as Caroline, but mutated or was modified into something more. Either way, the more menacing side of GLaDOS decides she no longer wants her more human "Caroline" side, and deletes her. She says goodbye to her in song as she does it.

GLaDOS could be trying to cover a slip up. When she says "goodbye my only friend" she might actually be talking about Chell, and then adding the "do you think I meant you?" to save her image. Some evidence of GLaDOS considering Chell a friend is right before she deletes Caroline when she says "I thought you were my greatest enemy when all along you were actually my best friend".

GLaDoS is most likely referring to Chell. The woman is a sarcastic, sardonic, piece of hardware with a penchant for lying. The one point we can unambiguously agree upon after playing both games, is that GLaDoS cannot be trusted, or taken at face value.

Sure, she could have deleted the part of her that was Caroline, or she could have just been lying, like she has so often before. Similarly, GLaDoS implies that Chell is her only friend, then, before one can assess the accuracy of that inference, she moves into an ad hominem attack, changing the argument to "you must be so stupid to think Chell is my friend" (which neatly bypasses the heart of the previous argument entirely).

The reason I posit this at all is because of some of the dev commentary available both within game and without (in interviews, etc.) mention that (and I paraphrase here) "The whole development of the relationship between Chell and GLaDoS is that Chell is really the only friend GLaDoS has ever had, but GLaDoS doesn't know how to do anything but test, so she keeps forcing Chell to test as a way of trying to come to terms with her feelings."

First she is singing the song to Chell. Second, she refers to the listener (Chell) as her only friend, then backpedals (in typical GLaDOS fashion) with a misdirect "you think I was talking about you?" and even explains why she won't admit it's Chell: it would be pitiful if it was true that her only friend was someone who wanted nothing more than to get away and had killed her once already.

Fourth, it perfectly reflects the love/hate relationship that GLaDOS feels towards Chell. There are so many lines throughout both games where GLaDOS lets a little sentimentalism leak out, then turns around to slam Chell, or where she basically says that it's good to have Chell around to test her. (You could argue that it's GLaDOS's testing itch that must be scratched, but I think the interaction is much more nuanced than that.)

I have a female friend called Alice (fake name). Someone else asked me if she is my girlfriend. I want to tell them that she is not my girlfriend but only friend. By "only" I want to mean that the only relationship between us is friendship. But the sentence below is ambiguous:

Before a noun, as an adjective 'only' means 'sole, unique, alone, solitary' - she is my only friend (I don't have any other friends). Used as an adverb, it means something is limited to the thing stated - she is only a/my friend, she is a/my friend only (she is nothing more to me than a friend).

I'm almost 47, female, comfortably married in the sense we absolutely love each other and work very well as a parenting partnership, but most of the time I do not feel like we are friends. I have three 2 legger kids, all teenagers, and two 4 legger kids (my beloved giant breed dogs).

My best and only friend of over 25 years died yesterday after being diagnosed with terminal cancer two months ago and then having a MASSIVE stroke that left her pretty much done for the last month. She has been my sounding board, my one woman support group for 25+ years. I'm autistic, I'm certain I'm not making more friends. Even her, I didn't make her as a friend. My first husband made friends with her back in the 90s and when he and I divorced, she never left my side.

I miss her terribly. I miss hearing her voice, even as annoying as she could be at times. lol . When I went through my own personal hell a few years ago, she was RIGHT there holding me up and listening. I don't have anyone anymore. I can't talk to my husband. He's a lot like me in the social skills sense, but it's like he's apathetic in this regard. He pats me on the shoulder when I cry and says he's sorry, and I know he's trying to comfort me. He just doesn't know how.

I don't have family that I will speak to, or that will speak to me, for one reason or another. I feel lost. I'm not normally like this. I'm normally fine (better than happy) with limited personal interaction outside of my little bubble. I feel like my bubble has popped though. YEARS ago I used to chat with people online via sites like Tumblr or other special interest groups, but even those don't feel right. I work from home, don't really leave the house more than one or two times a month to run to a store or two, husband drives because my vision and health have gotten worse.

My dogs and kids are my life. I have a professional career that I now conduct via web and phone only, so they never see my face anymore. Also good by me. So yeah, today I found myself looking for online support groups for people who just want to talk or have online friendships. Here I am. I'll probably fail at this too, lol, but dammit, what else do I do?

Hi @llymo5 I'm so sorry for your loss. I'm a 42 year old female, married, no kids, diagnosed with a very rare cancer about a year ago. It's been a hellish rollercoaster of a year. I have great support from my husband, family, and friends, but I do prefer to keep to myself most of the time. I feel like I'm bad at socializing and being chatty. I'm more comfortable sitting in silence or having meaningful, deep conversations one on one. My husband is definitely the social one in our relationship, works well for us though. I don't do social media sites and mayo connect is the only support group I've ever tried. I was a little unsure at first but there are so many supportive people here. It's comforting knowing there's others out there going through similar circumstances. Take care of yourself and if you ever want to message me, please don't hesitate.

I lost a dear friend that I had known for over 30 years right before covid. I miss him everyday. I keep in contact with his mom and we talk about him and our feelings. That helps me. I also talk about him with our mutual friends. I keep his memory alive and for me that provides some comfort. I still miss him every day. It was so unfair. He was a jewel of a person. I try to live the way he did.

I am so sorry about the loss of your dear friend and confidant. Grief is a hard thing to process for anyone, especially as it happened so quickly. Grief also can make us isolate even more then we already do. It makes us feel alone. To feel separated. For you as your natural tendency is already to feel disconnected from others, this makes it even harder. Autism dx does include difficulty initiating and relating with others, but it is not impossible. You do have relationships, but just don't feel as connected as you desire, or in the way you need.

I would suggest looking into a grief counselor who can perhaps help you navigate that process first and then perhaps later building closer relationships. You can find online counselors now , so that could be a start for you.

I am so sorry for the loss of you friend. Sending you hugs and prayers.

God Bless You precious one! Grief is hard. Grief is not "moving forward" but "carrying on" as best as you can daily. I had two precious friends to go home to be with the Lord 8 months apart in 2019 and I still miss them dearly. I pray for a faithful friend to come your way. No, it won't replace the one you had, but, a faithful friend still. I also am praying for you. I care.

Good morning. *Sighs* Thank you for thinking of me. I'm struggling with whether or not I want to or even can physically/emotionally deal with going to her graveside service tomorrow. Her mother told me about it a week ago. I have more issues than National Geographic. It's an hour our of town, each way, and I don't really drive anymore because my vision is bad. I can drive ok around town (I drive maybe 7 miles a month) once in a while if I'm feeling well because I don't have to look way out in the horizon, in town you look closer to you. But on a freeway it's stressfull. TECHNICALLY I can see. I still have my DL. But it's a lot of strain and stress. Then put on that I have night blindness that made me never drive after dark even when my health/eyes were good, and the service begins at 3, which means I'm going to be driving in the dark at some point home more than likely. I have no friends or family other than my husband, who has to pick up our 3 kids from school during that time. That's just the physical side of it. Then there's the emotional side.

Her mother sent me a link to her obituary and told me to look at it. I said thank you and without thinking I clicked. I was upstairs alone and seeing her beautiful face on an "Obituary" page hit me like a knife to the stomach. I gasped "F**K!" and started crying. It was so bad that my husband came running upstairs because he thought I'd been hurt.

I don't honestly don't think I can go to a GRAVESIDE service. I'm almost 47 and have never done that in my life. I've attended ONE memorial service at a church before. I don't think I can take it and don't think I should be there. And I really don't think I should go through all of that emotionally while putting my physical well being at risk by driving, possibly at night, long distance, alone. And yet....Don't I have to go? I'm so torn. How do do this? My husband reminding me that funerals are for the living. Yeah. I feel like I should not go, but that also makes me feel like a shit friend.

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