Incompetence, Inc.: Difference between revisions

* Aperture Science in ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]''. They made lots of innovative products but didn't know how to use them correctly. For an example, propulsion and repulsion gels would have had many practical uses and they used them in dietary products that [[Gone Horribly Right|worked too well]], resulting in the user dying of starvation. The portal gun itself was originally designed as a '''shower curtain'''. Safety isn't considered that important<ref>the engineers don't have the sense to be reasonable in regards to making things with safety in mind, but at least the lab rat comic shows us one of them of them has the sense to use there less preferred hand in a situation where the arm being used might be torn off, or better yet, to get someone else to do the dangerous thing for them.</ref>. Also the engineers seem to suffer from an engineering version of a [[Complexity Addiction]] in their designs. For example the turrets possess an empathy chip and an empathy suppressor<ref>One could make the case that the empathy suppressor is there to sidestep the spirit of possible regulations but not the letter. Such a case would likely be overlooking Aperture Science's disregard for the law in other regards (most prominently, [[No OSHA Compliance]])</ref>. The writers of the game series considered having an assembly line of turrets being built, packaged, unpackaged, destroyed, and recycled; along with a ever growing pile of barely used packaging.