Still Alive

This song was written for the popular computer game Portal by Valve Software. In Portal, players solve a series of puzzles using an experimental portal-shooting gun, while a slightly unhinged computer AI named GLaDOS spurs them on with promises of cake (which may or may not be a lie). The song is sung at the end of the game by GLaDOS, whom (spoiler alert) players thought they'd killed in the game's climax.

While this is easily the most requested song that people have asked me to make a video for, I figured it would never happen. The song is so perfectly suited for GLaDOS and Portal that I couldn't imagine it ever making sense in WoW.

But then I thought, who else would sing a song gloating about being still alive no matter how you tried to kill him. And then it all fell into place...

Not all of the shots in this video are mine. Some come from the in-game Wrathgate cutscene, and some from the Patch 3.3 trailer, both made by the talented team at Blizzard. I know it's not exactly kosher to use someone else's video in your video (especially without asking), but their stuff fit so perfectly and there was no way I was going to be able to get those shots myself, that I figured I'd go for it and pray no one got too mad.

Special thanks to Haley Booth, my co-creative director on this project.

The song at the end of the video is Jonathan Coulton's soft rock cover of Sir Mix-a-lot's "Baby Got Back".

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• Portal
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• lie

[ThisisBosaccount]

0:01 Aww, Code Monkey's girl is dead, now all he has in Tab and Mountain Dew... and Fritos.

[ModestNeophyte]

lolrapture... still alive!

[RobinLundingS]

The cake is a lie

The cake is a lie

The cake is a lie

The cake is a lie Lol Arthus :o? And u use portal gun portals??? genius!

[pompoms24]

heh the cake isnt a lie cause i have it right here

*holds up a cake that says " The Cake Is A Lie " *

[TheRmbomo]

I feel fantastic, and the cake is a lie!

[Omegasmash]

ah the horrors unleashed when glados reigns as the Lich King

[ZSRTheDKFUpz]

@ThisisBosaccount No no not at all, shes just.. Sleeping.. Yea.. It's okay, no need worry (:

[DeathBlazeProduction]

LOL

"The cake is a lie"

"The cake is a lie"

"The cake is a lie"

"The cake is a lie"

Oh silly skeli.

[feccoo]

Would have fit more perfectly for Kael'Thas Sunstrider. :P

[Kittstar]

Something about the lich king with glados's voice... can't stop laughing.

[ickythick]

@ThisisBosaccount "i feel fantastic guy:" didnt make it either.... 2:36

[MegaPoly85]

sorry... kind of a... BIG portal fan :3