Was the cake is a lie sich

Was hat es mit "The Cake is a Lie" auf sich?

Urban Dictionary: the cake is a lie
sagt es sein eine reine Fiktion der Erwartungen :
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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 , you find scrawls on walls of the innards of the testing center warning you that "the cake is a lie".
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worauf während des Spieles auch immer wieder hingewiesen wird.
hat auch 126 negative Rezensionen:
ZITAT: 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."
In the game, cake serves as a carefully calculated motivational device, but there are suggestions that it also serves as an essence of humanity--the ability to eat cake, taste it, and experience emotional pleasure from it--which a computer.\ENDE ZITAT
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expression used when something great has been promised from a third party but it ultimately is not so.
"Vista will be the greatest operating system ever!"
Ausdruck der gebraucht wird, wenn etwas Großes versprochen worden war von einer dritten Partei und am Ende ist es nicht wirklich so. "Vista würde dadurch das größte Betriebssystem für immer!"
Anscheinend ist es aber doch nur Pustekuchen was da versprochen wurde.