Aw, wow. You really went to town on the image, Libidan. Thanks!
It looks really great so far. I do agree, it does need the text. I'm going to get a pixel image of the words up tonight, or maybe early morning. I found a font already that matches nice, so then we could just meld it to your image.
Just one little nit-picky thing I noticed: is the invisibility guy centered, or a little bit to the left?
But honestly, it looks awesome. (Especially my personal favorite, technopathy.) The size is even a bit smaller than I was expecting, and considering how nice it looks presently, thats a good thing.
Another thought on the space-time manipulation: you could just use a single piece of floss for each of the lines, the way some people outline an area of cross stitch or occassionally make text. Does anyone know if there's a name for that? But yeah, you could do that and it would come out nice and detailed. Maybe not as many lines (unless you disregard the aida holes), but it would still turn out nice. Or we could just scale the entire image up a bit: that might make it easier for that one and some of the other details. Its really whatever you feel comfortable with, since you're spearheading the image-redesign.
Yeah, it does look like the portal signs. Thats how amazing valve is; they've effectively trademarked general purpose cartoon figures.