Theroy on "Thecakeisalie" $(Spoilers)$

[Headcrab Pie]

Ok, this is a 2 AM thought so theres probly plenty of gaps in it. I was browsing the APSci website and typed the t.C.i.a.L. (thecakeisalie). It gave the video feed and stuff, and I put a little thought into the " If a supervisor walks by, press return"

Clearly, they arn't supposed to be looking at this, and possibly they got it though hacking into the APSci's comp network. And to figure out a way to hide it from Supervisors? Give it a accsess name that would be hard to guess. But somthing that you could remamber. APSci seemed to have used large quantaties of cake ingredients, so you got a catchy Acsess name.

Thecakeisalie

Now to the Wall Writings. Thecakeisalie might have just been an Insane man/womans ravings about not getting cake at the end of the expriment, or it could tie into the above statment. APSci emploees (By the way, I,m very sorry about the spelling in this, it's 2:10 now.) writing this, in refernce to the accsess to their "secret" files.


If I've got a winner, and I doubt it, what does it prove?

Not much.

Just that the wall writings were written by APSci employees. And thats about it.

New idea: Just an Off the wall idea, what it the wall writings were just a joke among people taking the test (Before GLaDOS) If fact, most of their "Spookyness" comes from the doubt you have surronding you. If, say, they were writen on a high school wall, would they be spooky? No. Perhaps one person wrote a little message, and more and more people did? And they pretended that they were trapped in an expriment.

And just as I finish that sentence, I remember the other ones in the escape chambers. Great. Idea down. I am not going to git rid of it though.

 

[Naph]

Theory.

The writings are there because they know that the cake is in fact a lie. They would find this out after some employees must have ventured off to the 'cake' and would have never returned. Noting the disappearance, they made speculations on the cake is a lie. The visions of the deaths could of traumatizes them or the awareness of their impending doom made them crazy. Which ever came first.

But for the password: These people were mad/crazy, therefore mad/crazy crap is what they did.

 

[ríomhaire]

Ironicly, the cake turns out not to be a lie at all (though it you wouldn't have been able to eat it, being dead and all).

 

[Rizzo]

Well, you never where in any danger, it was just another one glados tests. Also, the companion burned, but still managed to get to the cake!

 

[Iron_cube]

The cake isn't a lie. You see it at the end.

The earlier test subjects were simply stuck on certain test chambers and they eventually turned insane and wrote all that crap on the walls.

 

[Headcrab Pie]

Ironicly, the cake turns out not to be a lie at all (though it you wouldn't have been able to eat it, being dead and all).

CHELL IS NOT DEAD!!!!11!1

She is just laying on the surface at the end.

 

[Avoidist]

He's referring to the other test participants who literally died in a fire.

 

[Darkside55]

THEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOY

JENKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII--*chokes on deadly neurotoxin*

 

[Acepilotf14]

Well, you never where in any danger, it was just another one glados tests. Also, the companion burned, but still managed to get to the cake!

You mean the end? No, that was not another test. Not at all. she just said that so you would submit... but it didn't work. She really did want to get rid of you.

 

[Lukas Alexander]

Well, you never where in any danger, it was just another one glados tests. Also, the companion burned, but still managed to get to the cake!

Oh, naive man. Oh, foolish child. It's obvious that GLaDOS was just lying that it was another test so she could get rid of you. When you finished the tests, GLaDOS didn't need you anymore so she just wanted to get rid of you. And, to put this to rest, the cake is a lie means you won't get any cake at the end of the test (but GLaDOS promised you cake). It was written by a man/woman who was most probably a test subject just like you and did the same things but didn't manage to beat GLaDOS at the end and there he/she died. He wrote the cake is a lie becouse he knew you wouldn't get any cake at the end.

 

[Geogaddi]

THEEEEROY JEEEENNNKKIINNNS.

I have contributed greatly to this thread.

 

[Mindshifter]

THEEEEROY JEEEENNNKKIINNNS.

I have contributed greatly to this thread.

Another BOC-fan. Very nice.

 

[LandHawk]

If you take what's written in the cakeisalie document, namely the "I don't think going home is part of our job description anymore," and apply it to the knowledge that the doomed test subjects had, along with the lock-down.. Well, it could be one of two things. Either some or most of the employees (who were working on 20 year old equipment) were only there to provide fodder for the Enrichment Center tests. They were hired under the pretense of a legitimate job, but certain screw ups (such as forgetting your completely impossible to remember user ID + letter) lead to the wonderful Aperture Science response team whisking you away to remedial or disciplinary action. In reality, a series of tests from which you never return.

The other is that the standard employees (the people that the 'cakeisalie' writer was from) were at some point actually serving a legitimate function. After or shortly before GLaDOS gained complete control of the facility, she put it on lockdown and began implementing a series of strict and bizarre protocols that provided a pretense under which to send people to the newly constructed 'enrichment facility.' Perhaps the management objected to this, and bam.. neurotoxin city.

Of course, all this is just completely ridiculous speculation based on a few lines in the game and one paragraph on a site which insinuates a legitimate fixture in the Half Life universe began as a shower curtain company and moved on to creating the counter-heimlich maneuver and the take-a-wish foundation.

But that's what makes it so fun.

 

[freeman1993]

The cake isnt a lie
The cake isnt a lie
The cake isnt a lie
The cake isnt a lie
The cake isnt a lie
The cake isnt a lie

 

[kineaesth]

THEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOY

JENKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII--*

Oh, that is so weird, I was scrolling down this thread to post just that...

 

[freeman1993]

got to it first sry?

 

[nurizeko]

the companion burned, but still managed to get to the cake!

GLaDOS did say that Aperture Science equipment can survive burning, it would be needlessly wasteful for the CC to be destroyed every time, I mean, unless she has so much control she can effectively get hold of a surplus of materials and manufacturing, she probably wants to be as careful and efficient with her resources as she can be.

But thats just a half arsed guess.