The cake is not a lie.

Nom nom nom.

Seems portentous.

Broke my tooth!

Is this some kind of programming language?

diabetes risk.

Dontpanic, you're back! Why the cake? What are you celebrating?

Originally Posted by NiaTrue

Dontpanic, you're back! Why the cake? What are you celebrating?

He's having his cake and eating it too

Originally Posted by borisb

He's having his cake and eating it too

Perhaps he found money?

Originally Posted by borisb

He's having his cake and eating it too

This is actually what I was thinking. Seriously. But I am a bit sad to admit to myself what he might be celebrating...

Or...... could it mean that the Erminecake is not a lie and we will be suprised in a few days? Let's not panic and stay positive.

Originally Posted by sjarrel

Or...... could it mean that the Erminecake is not a lie and we will be suprised in a few days? Let's not panic and stay positive.

LOL, but dontpanic isn't there anymore--though he may be in the know courtesy of friends who are still in the employ of enTourage (and the conspriacy theory band plays on...).

I considered the possibility of another Android update, but 2.3 is Gingerbread, 2.4 is Ice Cream and 3.0 is Honeycomb, none of which are "Cake" (nor is Froyo - Android 2.2).

From Urban Dictionary:

1. the cake is a lie (7385 votes up, 203 votes down)

Roughly 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.

Employee #2: Yeah, so, don't get your hopes up on that one, Ed. The cake is a lie.

Employee #1: Really, aw crap.


2. The cake is a lie (1788 votes up, 126 votes down)

Implies 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.

During the game, GlaDOS, an artificially intelligent operating system and the game's passive-aggressive guide, uses the reward of cake as a motivating factor in an attempt to manipulate the player. It is first mentioned during the "impossible puzzle room", where she urges the player to "quit now and cake will be served immediately". In a later stage, the player can access a "hidden" area of the testing chamber to find a previous test participant had scrawled "The cake is a lie!" among other warning messages. Cake continues to remain the promised reward for completing the test and/or obeying GlaDOS, particularly in the final stages of the game. Finally, in the ending song, GlaDOS cheerfully sings about how "there's no sense crying over every mistake, you just keep on trying 'till you run out of cake."


3. the cake is a lie (2059 votes up, 983 votes down)

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!"

(three months after Vista release) "The cake is a lie."

So it could be dontpanic's cake is not a lie (leaving Entourage) or it could be a message to us, as sjarrel hypothesized, that some kind of cake is coming our way. Or it could be totally random.

Thanks for that research. I had never heard that expression, although I had inklings of what it might mean.

In regards to enTourage, I read it as "something that looked like a lost cause is suddenly showing signs of coming through after all."

A third-party software company has finally delivered on their promise regarding something for the eDGe? A buy-out by a bigger fish that now sees the value in a "dualbook" (rather than a "dual screen")? Or has the recent modest sales bump (as people scramble to get PE's/EE's while they can) possibly resurrected confidence in the company by banks/investors?

Or did dontpanic merely get his last paycheck with the handsome year-end bonus he had been promised?

I equate the SDK to cake. I'm probably delusional and will be disappointed.

I'm also stuck on level 15 in Portal where the energy ball launcher is behind a force field.

(Update: Still on 15, but got that problem solved, and the following jump problem, now just trying to beat the moving platform over the acid/slime.)