Cakes and videogames: a tenuous connection poorly thought out to meet an deadline?

When attempting humour on method is to play out the absurdity of taking an extreme position for comic effect. You may want an example to help illustrate my point but i assure you none is necessary, you see the idea is fucking awful! There’s nothing absurd about believing extreme things because thing i saw once on an anonymous comment thread said something about as obscene; I was only looking up the recipe for a cake.

“Bad comics often attempt to dissect the very nature of comedy as their opening gambit. Not only is this an bold but also abstract introduction to a set that is unwilling to anchor itself in an established norm. The true weight of thing becomes felt in the second stroke which leaves the comic with no obvious springboard to move off from and no norm to bring the audience back to.” - anon on the cake comments.
Why this was written on a baking forum is beyond me.

Cake is an opulent food. Marie Antoinette is purported to have remarked upon the revolting french peasantry “let them eat cake,” unfortunately for her their cheat day wasn’t until next Sunday. Following the strands of unjust aristocrats, confectioneries and opulence leads us to mario 64, where the titular character luigi is invited over for “cake,” while many have speculated on the true meaning of this, one hacker who broke into the game files found a .TXT file that clearly explained that “cake” was a euphemism for the systematic exploitation of the lower classes by the wealthy. This was then posted, not to a Nintendo forum but to a Cake forum which explains why it isn’t more widely known.

The video game equivalent of the cubism movement: minecraft, also has Cake as one of it’s items. It being one of the more complex items to craft in game as a symbol of it’s opulence. The player needs: wheat, sugar, eggs, neuroatypical tendencies and milk. No prizes for guess where i picked up that little tidbit.

Later on we’ll discuss the Cake in Portal but first i’d like to mention the function of cake in modern society. You see i didn’t find the recipe for my cake on the baking forums at all but on an mmorpg. You see outside the framework provided, that being the game, much of the ingredients lack any worth. Which is fine it’s a game after all, but it is one that keeps people engaging in menial activity for a reward contingent on their continued investment in a system which would leave them better off, in a monetary and temporal sense, were they to question and then abandon that structure. They are the filling in the cake.

Subtext is open to interpretation, like the layers of jam between two sandwiches of sponge there are many acceptable ways to go about it, there are also some which are clearly mad, nutella for instance. To give an equivalent with subtext, the use of cake as a metaphor or euphemism bakes in a certain assumptions that obfuscate the meaning like a layer marzipan.

In this Cake case for instant it would fall apart when i removed the bottom because the nutella is made equivalent to marzipan as part of the madness, which is demonstratively false because while it is possible to have too much marzipan, any amount of nutella is about as necessary as denying trying to sprinkle social criticism and progressive sentiments in your ramble about cake and then giving up because your having much more fun talking about marzipan. i guess you can’t have your Cake and eat it.

This is quite the challenging dichotomy regarding cake, on the one hand i seem to like the cake because i am emotionally invested in its existence, on the other hand i am hungry and want a larger slice. I guess i can echo the words of Marie Antoinette when i say “let them eat “cake”,”