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What is The cake is a lie?The Cake is a lie: To have a Cake you need time and money. Therefore: money + time = Cake guy 1-"the cake is real!" The cake is a lie - videoThe cake is a lie - what is it?A reference from the game Portal, all through the game you are told their's cake at the end. Once you get there -SPOILERS- there is no cake :( so it was a lie. This became a saying amongst gamers when something doesn't go as planed. You try to capture a flag but there's a enemy camping there you didn't see before and he kills you. What does "The cake is a lie" mean?When they say there is cake, but there is an alternate motive that usually ends in ones humiliation/demise. Jeffrey Bonheimer: Man, I am so glad my ex-wife decided to invite me over to her basement for cake, even though I won the custody battle over the children! The cake is a lie - what does it mean?expression used when something great has been promised from a third party but it ultimately is not so. (six months prior to Vista release) "Vista will be the greatest operating system ever!" The cake is a lie - meaningA substitute for "The writing is on the wall'. From the (video game) Portal. The graffiti in background levels give clues and point out truths including "the cake is a lie". Chell is promised cake and grief counseling as her reward if she manages to complete all the test chambers. After Chell completes the final test chamber, GLaDOS congratulates her but the promised cake is a lie. The cake is a lie - definitionRoughly translates to "your promised reward is merely a fictitious motivator". Popularized by the game "Portal" (found on Half-Life 2's "Orange Box" game release for PC, X-Box 360, and PS3). During the game, an electronic voice encourages you to solve intricate puzzles using cake as a motivating perk. When you have "broken out" of the game's initial testing phase (from threat of death), you find scrawls on walls of the innards of the testing center warning you that "the cake is a lie". Employee #1: Yo, Dave, manager says we will probably get a promotion if we meet the sales expectations for this quarter. The cake is a lie - slangA euphemism for a girl who has a gorgeous figure (especially the posterior), but an ugly face. Mark: *seeing a seemingly attractive girl from behind in public* Dude, check her out. The cake is a lieWhat most people online don't seem to fully understand, is that it is not just a fictitious reward, but also a silly, frivolous reward in the face of great risk and danger. "Ivan told me if I broke into a Russian FSB computer, they have a Special Edition of the Urban Dictionary, with the correct definition of 'the cake is a lie!'" "Sorry Tovarish, we can't risk the chance you found out anything valuable, you must now eat this uranium yellowcake" "That kind of cake isn't for eating, it will poison me!" "Yes, well in your search for 'the cake is a lie', the cake was a lie." The cake is a liea phrase meaning something to the effect of "you know that thing you where promised to be rewarded after you completed this task? well, it doesn't exist". could also be described as being trolled. the term was coined by the video game Portal in which your player would navigate through a labyrinth of tests while being driven to continue by the promise of cake. towards the end of the game, i becomes clear that there is in fact no cake and your efforts where in vain. 1.) The cake is a lieImplies that a promised reward for one's work is false, with the one proffering the reward never intending to give it in the first place, possibly because the reward never even existed (see also: "there is no spoon"). This phrase can be used to express grief or frustration regarding any situation where there is an imbalance between effort and reward. This phrase was popularized by the game "Portal" by Valve Software Corporation. Common Usage Example -- |
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