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List of Partners vendors. Pin Share Email. Featured Video. The cake is a tool, presented to the player as one of manipulation through repetition, and this expected response from the player of desiring to play on, whether for the cake or not, contributes to its effect. While the player may acknowledge this as a form of manipulation and even laugh at the efforts, the subtext is still at work. GLaDOS uses the cake as an element of control through both the visually symbolic and linguistic manners of presenting the concept, as defined and supported by Marcuse, which indicates the extension of its meaning past a simple cake to that of a tool of manipulation of which the player can criticize.
The sense of awareness of this manipulation allows the player to more knowingly experience and evaluate the reward construct in video games as a whole and the blind faith that is almost automatically given to the designer in pursuit of a presumably secure reward. Works Cited. Bogost, Ian. How to Do Things with Videogames.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Marcuse, Herbert. One-Dimensional Man. Boston: Beacon, Bellevue, WA: Valve Corporation, Computer software. Rogers, Scott. Level Up! Chichester: Wiley, Wilson, Douglas. From Dusk's soap secrets to PUBG's chicken dinner, we'll be entertained and overburdened with an endless cycle of exhaustive catchphrases and hackneyed JPEGs captioned with Impact lettering from now until the end of everything.
Begrudgingly, I have to admit that as irritating as "the cake is a lie" became, without it there would be no gentle aura buzzing around Portal's history. We'd look back on it as a great puzzle game with bold, surprising ideas, but we may not have a cultural touchstone for how it made us feel. And I may not have this dumb back tattoo that I still adore in secret, a browser history I can't erase unlike the memes I laugh at and share with alarming frequency. Cakes are rarely the apex of humor, but Portal proves the memes that sprout from great games come from a gentle place, too.
James is stuck in an endless loop, playing the Dark Souls games on repeat until Elden Ring and Silksong set him free. He's a truffle pig for indie horror and weird FPS games too, seeking out games that actively hurt to play. Otherwise he's wandering Austin, identifying mushrooms and doodling grackles.
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