But I am saying that any similar ideas between the two companies were most likely originated by Aperature, and then taken by Black Mesa. I am not saying Black Mesa sole ALL of Aperature’s ideas, nor am I saying ALL of Black Mesa’s ideas are stolen. If you look at the valve store you can see pages for coffee mugs (very cool I might add), and that also seems to hint that Black Mesa stole Aperature’s “non-patented Thermal insulation material” () -black mesa ( ) -aperature such as the trophy case “easter egg” and Cave’s pre-recorded messages that seem to state that black mesa had almost ran them out of buisness.
This is actually alluded to several times during the course of Portal 2. It’s been an ongoing side-story that aperature makes their science from scratch, only to have Black mesa take their ideas. It would seem that Aperature sience creates these ideas, and then Black Meas comes out with very similar ideas. The Replay Experience Experiment aka TREE.Poll Question 227 – Did Black Mesa steal the gravity gun from Aperture Science? | RTSL Menu
