"First you will be baked. And then there will be cake."

Wolfen wrote on Mar 2, 2010, 12:53:
LIES!

(yes, thats my intelligent come back, so suck it lol)

Mangrove wrote on Mar 2, 2010, 06:35:
The cake was a truth. You getting a slice of it was a lie.

Prez wrote on Mar 2, 2010, 11:34:
Also one could argue that because cake existed somewhere in the universe, it is therefore not a lie. But alas, the statement "the cake is a lie" is indicative of the specific allusion by GLaDOS to the promise that if you do what you are told as an indentured servant of the Enrichment Center, you will be rewarded cake. Of course we know, this is indeed a fallacy, as the only thing you were intended to receive is termination by conflagration. The existence of the cake in the final room can be said to be a manifestation of the subject of the lie that exists solely for the express purpose of helping the sentient mind GLaDOS reconcile the fact that she is illogically offering something as reward that is functionally unobtainable, thereby averting a logic disconnect that could very well set her program into a paradoxical AI logic loop from which she could not recover. Without the existence of the cake, GLaDOS would fry her circuits and there would be no sentient AI to run the place. Despite the existence of the cake, the promise of cake was never intended to come to fruition for the hapless charges of the Enrichment Center.

Therefore the only logical conclusion is that the cake was, and yet remains, a lie.

Prez wrote on Mar 2, 2010, 05:33:
The cake was a lie. It said so right on the walls of every secret hidey hole you found, for Pete's sake!

The cake was a truth. You getting a slice of it was a lie.

The cake was a lie. It said so right on the walls of every secret hidey hole you found, for Pete's sake!