The Cake is a Lie

On October 10th, Valve released it's gaming trifecta of goodness inside what is revered as the Orange Box. One of those games, Portal, manages to include one of the best songs ever. Very cleverly written and amusing to gamers and non-gamers alike, it essentially tells the story of a poor artificial intelligence named GLaDOS and her final thoughts of your progression in the game. Gamers rejoiced as almost no other ending could have fit this game as perfectly. The song itself has a catchy tune and enjoyable lyrics that will tickle your funny bone.

One thing I'd like to say first is that if you want to enjoy this song in its full glory, you need to play through the game Portal (takes approximately 2-3 hours to complete the entire storyline, fairly short for a game). After that the song gives you an exponentially higher amount of joy and satisfaction. For those of you who haven't played the game are listening for the first time, I'll provide a quick synopsis

**Spoiler alert for those who haven't played Portal yet**

Basically you are a cyborg in a test chamber who has to complete a myriad of puzzles involving portals. Narrating and watching your every move is a highly intelligible AI named GLaDOS, of whom has a very sadistical and evil, yet robotic attitude and nature. The entire time GLaDOS offers "delicious cake" to you as a reward for completing a puzzle. All the puzzles are solved with something called the portal gun, which basically allows you to shoot 2 portals at the wall, an orange and blue portal. If you go in one portal, you come out the other. This creates really neat situations like infinite loops. Near the end of the "exercise course" you find out that GLaDOS is trying to kill you, and you manage to get away and use the portal gun to escape from the underground facility and destroy GLaDOS.

**End of spoiler**

And now here it is, Still Alive as performed by Ellen McLain, the voice of GLaDOS.