Poll: Portal jokes, will people accept that the cake is a lie one day?

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Svenparty

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Portal 2 is out soon so The Cube will live on and deliver us to thy kingdom of Cake


Just goes to Show how Innotive Portal is.
 

Steeveeo

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The cake isnt a lie, you can get it either by noclipping down the last level, getting Garry's Mod and placing it there, or smashing your face with a hammer so many times you hallucinate about eating cake.
 

Dangernick42

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The jokes were great. Unfortunately, they were better than the actual gameplay. It was a good idea, but got a bit same-y after a while. I respect the physics engine though.
 

peachy_keen

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Yeah, I guess you could say this is a hallucination and then when you hallucinate you're actually awake. But, you could also say your town is run by a dog in a control room.
 

Steeveeo

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peachy_keen said:
Yeah, I guess you could say this is a hallucination and then when you hallucinate you're actually awake. But, you could also say your town is run by a dog in a control room.
But...it is...
 

Raven28256

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Welcome to the Internet.

Whenever someone makes an even vaguely funny joke, reference, or just plain awesome line in any form of media, the retards lurking in the online world will rabidly jump on the bandwagon to get to the dead horse and beat it long after the horse has since decomposed into a skeleton.

Translation: No, because if the Chuck Noris jokes haven't already proved it to you, people on the Internet REFUSE to let a joke or reference die until it has been beaten, raped, and used way out of context for at least a decade.

So, expect at least eight more years of way overused Portal jokes.
 

peachy_keen

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Chuck Norris went out of style though after a couple years. I think since Portal is actually a good thing it might be around for longer.

But, then again. I am a nasty inhabitant of the internet. Waiting under WiFi for the next available fad to bite the head off of and consume for years to come.
 

SomeBritishDude

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Personally, I think its a good thing that such a master piece of a game is given so much appriation. Killing the joke is the comprise.

Svenparty said:
Portal 2 is out soon...
If by soon you mean a decade if we're lucky, then yes. It is Valve after all.
 

Erana

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Dangernick42 said:
The jokes were great. Unfortunately, they were better than the actual gameplay. It was a good idea, but got a bit same-y after a while. I respect the physics engine though.
Well, its a puzzle game. What do you expect from it?
But really, it never bit off more than it could chew, making it incredibly polished.
 

P00dle

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But will portal 2 references, say for example a specific line, be able to remove all "the cake is a lie" quotes? Providing the cake won't be in the sequel.

- The fake is a pie!!!
 

SomeBritishDude

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Erana said:
Dangernick42 said:
The jokes were great. Unfortunately, they were better than the actual gameplay. It was a good idea, but got a bit same-y after a while. I respect the physics engine though.
Well, its a puzzle game. What do you expect from it?
But really, it never bit off more than it could chew, making it incredibly polished.
I think this was part of the reason it was so short. As yahtzee put it "It didn't out stay it's welcome". I was personally gagging for more, but if it had been longer, I'm not sure it'd have had quite the same impact on me.
 

D_987

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Isn't it a good thing that a game like Portal receives so much attention, these jokes just attract new players (from what I have seen) who will ask about the reference, get told about the game and play it.
 

thatstheguy

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The cake is not a lie. It has over 9000 ingredients. As for the meme, I wish it would die. But seeing as others haven't, It probably won't.
 

Bofus Teefus

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Erana said:
Its Monty Python material...
Just read this XKCD:
You are my hero and just made my day.

Separately, the Portal script is priceless, and overdoing quotes on a novel game is harmless. We should all be thankful that Halo and Gears are unquotable- Escapist would need a separate internet to handle the repeat threads if they were.
 

samsprinkle

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HOW DARE YOU! YOU FOOL! AS A REFORMED FANBOY(and reformed all-caps user)I AM APPALLED THAT YOU WOULD EVEN SUGGEST SUCH A THING! the cake is a lie! (I thought that the lower caps "the cake is a lie" would offset the ALL-CAPS text and attract attention to it, whilst I KILLED YOU!)