The Second Experiment

The Second Experiment took place six days after the first experiment, when a vote was conducted 2 days earlier in #scheduling-nightmare deciding that it would be conducted on June 23rd, 2022.
It began in the evening with papercliphoarder66 once again opening the Portal multiplayer server for the players to connect to through Portal's developer console. In this one, random custom maps present on papercliphoarder66's computer were hosted resulting in the experiment mostly consisting of general dicking-around while players waited through the snail's-pace download speed of custom maps, or flailed around whatever map was being played. The three most prominent maps were SKATE, CHURCH and RECOVERY (yes that is what they were called), three very broken maps with low gravity and a glitched skybox. These maps had several elements players could toy with and fuck with, purportedly. The event mainly consisted of the group of players mostly conversing about incumbent nonsense. The most striking of topics discussed was some weird freak on Instagram who drew softcore Half-Life Vortigaunt porn.
The experiment was largely considered a failure. Despite this attempt to reach the goal of 32 players in one Portal server, this attempt reached only half of the amount of players of the first experiment, with 8 players at the experiment's height. In addition a downright absurd amount of time was spent discussing the weird freak on Instagram mentioned above. It was sort of fun I guess. Unlike with the first experiment, no role was awarded on the Discord server for showing up to this experiment.
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