Fictional Actuaries - Actuaries in Video Games

Actuaries in Video Games

  • In Portal 2 (2011) the character GLaDOS dryly taunts the player with the line, "we've got a lot to do, and only sixty more years to do it. More or less. I don't have the actuarial tables in front of me."

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