Monday, June 8, 2009

Ellen McLain and other issues

fahn_patrick and I were discussing setting up a PayPal to get Galactus/Nader a new microphone. If we each PayPal'd him $1.50, then he could get one.


Ellen McLain is an opera singer and voice actress from Nashville, Tennessee, USA. McLain provides voices for many characters in several video games from Valve. Among them are GLaDOS, the artificial intelligence antagonist in Portal (for which she won an AIAS Interactive Achievement Award for Outstanding Achievement in Character Performance), the announcer in Team Fortress 2, and the voice of the Combine overwatch for the Half-Life 2 series. She is the only person to have her voice in all the games in The Orange Box.

McLain also sang the ending credits song to Portal, titled "Still Alive", written by Jonathan Coulton.

3 comments:

  1. I'd send a dollar or whatever.

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  2. I appreciate the effort and generosity, guys, but I have the money and I will be ordering one shortly. Any suggestions? I would just like a new headset and now a standalone mic.

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  3. I have a set I got for about $35 that I love,

    if you're not looking to go that high, I can say that the usb mics have seemed to work a lot better than the analogs for me.



    If you're on later, I'll hop into vent and link you some stuff if you want.

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