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It's not that hard to make yourself a lot LARGER through cosplay, but shrinking myself to a few inches might be a challenge xD

Ohh, man, don't ask me that! Am I allowed to answer "ALL OF THEM, ON LOOP"?

Haha, if I have to choose, I think my favorite is "Federal regulations require me to warn you that this next test chamber...is looking PRETTY good." The inflection of her voice is just perfect.

It came more as a surprise than anything that that would be my most frequently asked question about this costume, just because it didn't even cross my mind! My intention was always to do GLaDOS right - as accurate as possible - and that includes finding some way to defy gravity. People are welcome to get up to anything they'd like in their personal lives, but as far as I see it, there's no real connection to this cosplay.

It's not too bad, since I'm mainly horizontal and holding my head upright. I tried to use the natural bends in my body to create the illusion without being really uncomfortable! I was actually surprised by how long I could handle the harness - I did five 45-minute stints throughout the day at PAX without much soreness.

I actually did have something at PAX - I loaded up an ipod with a ton of GLaDOS dialogue, the two endgame songs, and ambient soundtrack music. However, the con center was too noisy to hear it from my little external speakers, so I'll have to figure out something else for next time.

I seriously investigated coding up a vocoder to create her voice in real time, but scrapped the project when I realized that Ellen McClain's voice isn't THAT edited for the game. I didn't want to cheapen the costume with my poor voice acting skills!