The cake is a lie!

[Eos]

Originally posted by: Xanis

Originally posted by: Foxery

Originally posted by: ironwing
Pie is better than cake.

After years of this raging debate, I have determined the final answer.

Cheesecake trumps them both.

I agree that cheesecake is practically the dessert of gods, but essentially, it's still a cake. Therefore cake wins by your logic.

However, after eating copious amounts of warm, made-from-scratch apple and pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving, I have to say that pie is the winner.

What cake contains eggs and dairy but no flour?
What cake is cooked in a water bath?

We're waiting. tap tap tap...

 

[Corbett]

Portal is an awesome game.

My favorite part is the last level where she says "I also heard you were adopted...oops"

LOL!

 

[FlashG]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Too bad we don't have portals, or else we could finally have gravity-powered "perpetual" motion machines. Simplified, it would consist of a paddlewheel and a metal ball. Ball falls, hits paddlewheel, turning a generator. You could then use water instead, and do so on a huge scale. Imagine a hydroelectric dam with a self-filling reservoir, courtesy of a big portal.

And that is why they are impossible.

It's a problem for the concept of teleporters, too...if you teleport across a potential energy gradient, the extra energy has to come from somewhere, or go somewhere. While you can make up some rule about how much energy is required to actually send someone up or down, it's hard to see how this coupling could occur.

Some sci-fi authors have hypothesized that any potential energy difference would come out as heat. In other words, teleport "down" far enough, and you'll boil to death the second you step out of the machine. Ouch.

Wasn't "The Stars my destination" something like that? Jaunting from one place to another.

 

[Shawn]

someone care to explain this cake phenomenon?

 

[FlashG]

Originally posted by: Shawn
someone care to explain this cake phenomenon?

basically eggs+cake mix > portal > desert

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Xanis

Originally posted by: Foxery

Originally posted by: ironwing
Pie is better than cake.

After years of this raging debate, I have determined the final answer.

Cheesecake trumps them both.

I agree that cheesecake is practically the dessert of gods, but essentially, it's still a cake. Therefore cake wins by your logic.

However, after eating copious amounts of warm, made-from-scratch apple and pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving, I have to say that pie is the winner.

Cheesecake is pie.

 

[Agentbolt]

I'm with Shawn, I have no idea what that comic is about. This is one of those super Internet in-jokes I will absolutely never understand. Like BIFF jokes.

 

[destrekor]

cake is from Portal
that is all.

I just played it last night and today. Nice short and fun game. Finally got around to getting it. Has a great short and sweet story. Lots of little tidbits that just make you smile or laugh as you play.

 

[SampSon]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Too bad we don't have portals, or else we could finally have gravity-powered "perpetual" motion machines. Simplified, it would consist of a paddlewheel and a metal ball. Ball falls, hits paddlewheel, turning a generator. You could then use water instead, and do so on a huge scale. Imagine a hydroelectric dam with a self-filling reservoir, courtesy of a big portal.

And that is why they are impossible.

It's a problem for the concept of teleporters, too...if you teleport across a potential energy gradient, the extra energy has to come from somewhere, or go somewhere. While you can make up some rule about how much energy is required to actually send someone up or down, it's hard to see how this coupling could occur.

Some sci-fi authors have hypothesized that any potential energy difference would come out as heat. In other words, teleport "down" far enough, and you'll boil to death the second you step out of the machine. Ouch.

Heat sink jackets. Punk rock style. Leather jackets with heatsinks instead of safety pins.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: SampSon

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Too bad we don't have portals, or else we could finally have gravity-powered "perpetual" motion machines. Simplified, it would consist of a paddlewheel and a metal ball. Ball falls, hits paddlewheel, turning a generator. You could then use water instead, and do so on a huge scale. Imagine a hydroelectric dam with a self-filling reservoir, courtesy of a big portal.

And that is why they are impossible.

It's a problem for the concept of teleporters, too...if you teleport across a potential energy gradient, the extra energy has to come from somewhere, or go somewhere. While you can make up some rule about how much energy is required to actually send someone up or down, it's hard to see how this coupling could occur.

Some sci-fi authors have hypothesized that any potential energy difference would come out as heat. In other words, teleport "down" far enough, and you'll boil to death the second you step out of the machine. Ouch.

Heat sink jackets. Punk rock style. Leather jackets with heatsinks instead of safety pins.

now we're getting into future meets steampunk apparel

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: Agentbolt
I'm with Shawn, I have no idea what that comic is about. This is one of those super Internet in-jokes I will absolutely never understand. Like BIFF jokes.

BIF is banded iron formation. I don't know what the extra F might be.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: Xanis

Originally posted by: Foxery

Originally posted by: ironwing
Pie is better than cake.

After years of this raging debate, I have determined the final answer.

Cheesecake trumps them both.

I agree that cheesecake is practically the dessert of gods, but essentially, it's still a cake. Therefore cake wins by your logic.

However, after eating copious amounts of warm, made-from-scratch apple and pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving, I have to say that pie is the winner.

Cheesecake is pie.

Cheese cake is overrated. Pie is better than cheesecake.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: Xanis

Originally posted by: Foxery

Originally posted by: ironwing
Pie is better than cake.

After years of this raging debate, I have determined the final answer.

Cheesecake trumps them both.

I agree that cheesecake is practically the dessert of gods, but essentially, it's still a cake. Therefore cake wins by your logic.

However, after eating copious amounts of warm, made-from-scratch apple and pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving, I have to say that pie is the winner.

Cheesecake is pie.

Cheese cake is overrated. Pie is better than cheesecake.

Don't be stupid. Cheesecake is pie.