**Official Portal 2 thread**

From the HTML source of the page:

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So, we're wanting to look at:

var g_currentPotatoConsumptionRate = 11.6771584699;
 
Posted on the official Portal 2 facebook page, with the caption

The first of Nine begins to play.
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The times on Glados@Home page are in PST:

So it was all initiated at 11am there, 7pm here :D

11:00 - Involuntary hazard mitigation associates have assumed testing positions...
11:00 - Pre-release lethality assessment initiated...
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m4rk84 said:
Valve didn't have much choice to do something as the predicted release date from the event was AFTER the official release date lol... people got so tired of doing it for nothing that the bar was moving too slowly :p

Kinda compounds my point that Valve should't have bothered thinking about an early release.

See http://www.gamingmasters.co.uk/portal/ as you can see the predicted release from the event was after the official scheduled release :p
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No, for each game that was completed about an hour has taken off the time. The original release was supposed to be 15:00. It's now going to be 09:30 at the latest, but will probably be earlier.
 
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