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NuclearSlaw Sep 9, 2014 @ 5:29pm
The cake is a lie.... Or is it?
Almost everyone has heard the phrase "The Cake Is A Lie" Somewhere in Portal (Or Minecraft :3), But is it really a lie?

Think about it: The cake is a lie, GLaDOS tries to kill you, but at the end of the game right before the credits, it shows the cake, WITH the Companion Cube (Which GLaDOS said you murdered). Is the cake really a lie? Think about this theory.

GLaDOS tries to kill you, and while you're killing HER, she says that there was going to be a party and the Companion Cube was invited. Is it true? Again, it shows the cake and in the background is the Companion Cube.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN!?!?!?!
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Link The Hero Sep 9, 2014 @ 5:36pm 
It means that G-Man is is Cave Johnson and Alyx is GLaDOS
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Link The Hero Sep 9, 2014 @ 5:40pm 
Oh yeah and the companion cubes are full of dead ppl and the cake is really really good.
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NuclearSlaw Sep 10, 2014 @ 5:28am 
Originally posted by Link The Hero:
Oh yeah and the companion cubes are full of dead ppl and the cake is really really good.

Ok? Can anyone else comment about this pls?
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A-06 Sep 10, 2014 @ 6:04am 
Originally posted by APDAT Owner beatlefan416:
Originally posted by Link The Hero:
Oh yeah and the companion cubes are full of dead ppl and the cake is really really good.

Ok? Can anyone else comment about this pls?
It's just a (ridiculous) theory.
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Link The Hero Sep 10, 2014 @ 1:35pm 
Originally posted by A-06:
Originally posted by APDAT Owner beatlefan416:

Ok? Can anyone else comment about this pls?
It's just a (ridiculous) theory.
Ratman carries a cube.The cube talks to him.Also GLaDOS repeatiatley mentions that "Oh well it's not like it was all that important.We have lots of them" also they're killed so many people.Where do you think they'll put the bodies?
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A-06 Sep 11, 2014 @ 4:22am 
Originally posted by Link The Hero:
Ratman carries a cube.The cube talks to him.
Rattmann is crazy, that's why he can hear the cube. When he took his meds the cube stopped talking. Do you see the pattern?

Originally posted by Link The Hero:
also they're killed so many people.Where do you think they'll put the bodies?
Not inside the cubes, because they have a lot of incinerators lying around.
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AggentK Sep 11, 2014 @ 8:20am 
Originally posted by Link The Hero:
It means that G-Man is is Cave Johnson and Alyx is GLaDOS
That is... something that had to be never spoken of.

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DeadByDefault Sep 11, 2014 @ 11:24am 
The cake is a lie inasmuch as you are not supposed to get it because GLaDOS wants you dead. It is a false promise, even though the cake indeed exists, most probably just to make the promise appear genuine.

Of course, it is perfectly clear from the beginning that GLaDOS will attempt to murder you. GLaDOS is simply cynical.
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Cross Sep 12, 2014 @ 8:31am 
valve probably added the cake at the end as either a joke on how there really was a cake, but you would never get it, or to reward the player for completeing the game, it isn't of any signifcance, as shown in portal 2
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Mothvibe Sep 17, 2014 @ 3:59am 
They say that you can't have your cake and eat it too. That's dumb. You can't eat a cake unless you have it in the first place. If the saying means "You can't eat your cake and still keep it, because it will be gone then" then it should *just say that*. Because THAT'S a lie, otherwise.

I always wanted to say this, and this is probably the most relevant discussion I could ever attach it to.

Anyway, back on topic: I always figured it's not the cake itself that's the lie - the lie is that you'll survive long enough to be given the party. GLaDOS knows what will happen, that it can only probably end in one of two ways - and neither actually involve cake. I think she mentioned cake purely to try and distract Chell ("Humans like cake, right? That'll work, surely, maybe?"), but I'm possibly overthinking it.

For the record, I think that headcrabs and bile bombs are in the companion cubes, because I am stupid in that way. HALF PORTAL 4 DEAD 3 - CONFIRMED.
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DeadByDefault Sep 17, 2014 @ 7:07pm 
Originally posted by StrontiumDingo:
They say that you can't have your cake and eat it too. That's dumb. You can't eat a cake unless you have it in the first place. If the saying means "You can't eat your cake and still keep it, because it will be gone then" then it should *just say that*. Because THAT'S a lie, otherwise.

I always wanted to say this, and this is probably the most relevant discussion I could ever attach it to.

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The proverb says exactly that which you want it to say: If you have a cake, you can eat it, but if you do so, the cake will be gone. You may eat part of the cake, and then still retain another part of it, big or small, but if you eat it all, that is to say, the entire cake, it will be gone; and thus, it is completely true that you cannot both have your cake and eat it.
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Crotian Sep 18, 2014 @ 5:02am 
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