Portal 2 Writer: Enough With the Cake Jokes Already
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That wasn't the joke at all.tehweave said:
The joke is that GLaDOS had only a very minimal notion of human emotions, and firmly believed that luring Chell along with cake would make her more than willing to go along with the experiments.
Never mind that GLaDOS only knew how to create something that looked like a cake, not an actual cake.
Oh it'll fade out, like most 'cult' things, but like most things that people are jizzing themselves over nowadays like Pacman and Trapdoor, as though they're just TEH AWESUM for liking it, it'll come back in with some 'geek' group and become a cult thing again. I reckon anywayThatsBitch3n said:
Well, being as I did not get any of the jokes being made the first time around in the net since I hadn't played the game when it was fresh, I did not mind. But everything gets redundant after a while. I could swear I heard a cake joke during one of the episodes of Chowder! If the cake makes it's way into cartoons, then yeah, pull the plug on the line.
I like the cake jokes, but they won't be to terribly missed. I will admit though the meme is annoying.
I'm sad to see it go.
I could see making a small mention about the cake, a possible easter egg, or even an achievement dedicated to it. But just throwing it away completely because the internet made jokes of it?
To me, that is just plain silly.
To be truthfully honest, if I were to rant about the interview, I could say what he really meant was..
"Waaah! So many people bought my game and know a silly meme!
Waaah! I made so much money so I'm going to ***** about it!
Waaah! Waaah! Waaah!"
I could see making a small mention about the cake, a possible easter egg, or even an achievement dedicated to it. But just throwing it away completely because the internet made jokes of it?
To me, that is just plain silly.
To be truthfully honest, if I were to rant about the interview, I could say what he really meant was..
"Waaah! So many people bought my game and know a silly meme!
Waaah! I made so much money so I'm going to ***** about it!
Waaah! Waaah! Waaah!"
The Cake joke is still relatively funny, but i'm glad Wolpaw isn't relying on it in P0rtal 2.
As an aside, the whole point of the game was interpretation. It gives you a basic framework with some subtle narration, and lets you decide what it all means.
I still think that this game is a pure Romance in every sense of the word. You have the intimate and pure relationship between GLaDOS and you (Or Chell, debateably.), and ONLY you. Your relationship evolves, your love lasts. When she gives you the companion cube, she means to give you something to be physically intimate with (Not in a sexual manner), to make up for her absence. When GLaDOS feels you're growing too attached to the cube, and forgetting her, she gets jealous, which leads nicely up to the ending and her malfunctioning.
It's a stretch, I know, and it ignores a few elements (I.E. that she got rid of her cube faster than anyone else), but it's an interesting theory that goes along with the other theory that GLaDOS has Chell's physiology and memories backed up in her database.
But yeah... I'm glad Wolpaw isn't just repeating the same, tired joke, funny as it may be.
Rage much? I appreciated P0rtal for its minimalist aesthetic as much as you did (The soundtrack isn't technically Minimalist, though. There's no buildup which comes with the genre. It's more Ambient than anything), and I adored the isolated atmosphere, but I still found the jokes funny, and the ending song is absolutely fantastic (Though, I might just be saying that because I love Jonathan CoultonInternet Kraken said:
As an aside, the whole point of the game was interpretation. It gives you a basic framework with some subtle narration, and lets you decide what it all means.
I still think that this game is a pure Romance in every sense of the word. You have the intimate and pure relationship between GLaDOS and you (Or Chell, debateably.), and ONLY you. Your relationship evolves, your love lasts. When she gives you the companion cube, she means to give you something to be physically intimate with (Not in a sexual manner), to make up for her absence. When GLaDOS feels you're growing too attached to the cube, and forgetting her, she gets jealous, which leads nicely up to the ending and her malfunctioning.
It's a stretch, I know, and it ignores a few elements (I.E. that she got rid of her cube faster than anyone else), but it's an interesting theory that goes along with the other theory that GLaDOS has Chell's physiology and memories backed up in her database.
But yeah... I'm glad Wolpaw isn't just repeating the same, tired joke, funny as it may be.
Yes, rage indeed. Like I said, I'm just being a stupid elitist prick. I really can't help it. Like you, I found the jokes in Portal to be funny the first few times. But after years of seeing them beaten to death over and over again, I'm just sick of them. It's not the developers fault, it's the fans fault who caused the game to be represented by the jokes rather than the other aspects. That's not an inherently bad thing, but it in this case it is since people keep using those same 3 jokes. I admit that my hatred for this is completley irrational. I'd be lying if I said I felt differently though.masterblaze0 said:
And forgive me for using the wrong terms to describe the music. I don't actually know much about describing music, so trying to do so is a challenge for me.
Don't worry about it. I know how you feel about the jokes getting kind of old. It's certainly not irrational to dislike something because people keep constantly bringing it up. It's why I dislike companies like Rockstar, since everyone keeps saying that Red Dead Redemption is an amazing game (That's an opinion, though), and I disagree. It's the same thing with the Cake jokes, although those were legitimately hilarious in the first place, and I can typically ignore the people who beat that particular dead horse. I will admit there is a point when it just gets redundant and annoying, though.Internet Kraken said:
Sorry if I sounded like a prick. I'm just trying to understand your viewpoint on this. :3 no malicious intent.
And once again, don't worry about it. I only recently had "minimalism" in music explained to me by a MUCH more musically talented friend.
I'm pretty damn sure about 95% of everyone replying to this thread still thinks this joke is funny, you're just too busy having Valve's cock in your mouth to admit it.
I still think it's funny but I'm not disappointed that it won't be there. I'm still going to play it. If Valve said the moon was made from used tampons, you'd all think so as well. Quit acting like a bunch of mules.
You make me have this face: -_-
I still think it's funny but I'm not disappointed that it won't be there. I'm still going to play it. If Valve said the moon was made from used tampons, you'd all think so as well. Quit acting like a bunch of mules.
You make me have this face: -_-