Princess Toadstool is a frigid bitch. The cake is a lie.

Portal in a Nutshell. (MAJOR SPOILERS - you'd be better off just playing the thing yourself - it's a perfect game IMO)

Created by Valve, makers of Half-Life, Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress, Portal is at it's heart an ingeneous puzzle game that focuses around a Portal gun. This gun is basically a wormhole gun that allows you to project entry/exit points onto walls, ceilings and floors which you can then travel through. The physics in the game are perfect and momentum figures into the puzzles in a very satisfying way. The increasingly more challenging levels are all based around getting from the beginning of the level to the end, and some of the later ones take some real brain power to figure out.

Beyond this, they've crafted a fairly brilliant story, narrated by the only speaking character in the game, GLaDOS, who is the insane computer in charge of the research facility that you are trapped in. The dialog is very witty and the rapidly decreasing mental state of GLaDOS's AI, and adds a lot of tension to the game. You slowly realize that there are major problems with this facility, and things unfold in an interesting way.

At one point, you are tasked with caring for a 'companion cube'. Later you are asked to 'kill' the cube by dropping it into an incinerator. Later in the game GLaDOS reprimands you for doing this.

As a reward for completing all of the research challenges, you are promised a tasty slice of cake. As inevitably escape research maze, you find notes from others who have presumably escaped too. You find things on the wall that say 'The Cake Is A Lie'.

Great boss battle at the end, and just when you think the fun is over, GLaDOS herself sings this amazing hilarious song by Johnathan Coultan.

In reply to this comment by Croccydile:
Am I the last gamer on Earth to not know what the deal is with this game? The limit of my knowledge involves overplayed jokes about some cake or something.

Don't listen, He-Man. The cake is a lie.

The Cake is a Lie...

This whole discussion is why I instantly think climate change is a device to keep people fighting and arguing.

For fucks say, what is the real truth? Is there any; besides what the plutocrats tell us on the magic boxes we stare at all day?

You would think Climate Change is the new god damned religion of the sentry. Well fuck you, I remain skeptical because I will always disbelieve something that a lot of people believe; like god, and that a cake is a lie. I know Evolution is fact, because I could prove it for myself. I know climate change has something to do with the evolution of the human species and the only branch of the Homo Genus to industrialize the earth; but how does that compare with volcanoes, forest fires, and decomposition of flora?

For fucks sake every one needs to chill the fuck out, science is approximate not exact and if it were we would not be here arguing about it.

Someone post all of the studies they can find on climate change to this thread. Don't cherry pick em; break them up into sections; if it's a white paper then post it.

Then let people read them for themselves. Don't think that the scientific community is not without corruption, every community in the world has some semblance of corruption.


Climate Change is the new Fad didn't you know? Every one is wearing the T-Shirt.

Also, the cake is a lie.

Don't they know the cake is a lie?

Licenses and insurance is required for lots of things you have the right to, like property. Are they illegal? No. It's just that this guy is a dimwit and doesn't understand the law. State roads = state law. More generally: your property = your rules of access. The state's property = the state's rules of access. If he doesn't like it, he should go change his state's laws. Of course, they'll lose federal funding for roadway construction if they drop the license requirements, but hey, you can't have your cake and eat it too (cause then the cake becomes a lie).

>> ^Jaace:
The wedding cake is a lie.


That just goes without saying. Marriage is not a word, it's a sentence.

The wedding cake is a lie.

no comments yet? ahem...here it goes:
The Cake is a Lie!

<ducks>

!!!

the cake is a lie? : (

demon_ix :"Job requirements: The officer must be able to extend warm embraces to complete strangers in order to persuade them to not chuck the free helmet after they turn the corner. In extreme cases, promise Cake."

The cake is a lie.

It's because he knows the cake's a lie.