By John Walker on October 28th, 2010 at 12:30 am.
Just to say, my girlfriend is best of all the girlfriends.
But I’m also convinced that there must be other game related cakes that people have had and, ideally, photographed. So post links below, and I’ll magic them into images in the comments. Thus we will win at the internet.
Unless no one does, and then I’ll look stupid.
NB: The cake was designed before the announcement of the new biomes. An update to this cake will be made available from November 1st.
Happy Birthday, Mr Walker!!
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Happy birthday and tasty biomes to you sir!
Your girlfriend is made of awesome (and presumably, cake-baking magic).
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Do you know, are there more girlfriends where you got yours? And how much do they cost?
In all seriousness, that cake is awesome. You are a very fortunate man with a very tolerant gal. And if she plays, too? Icing on the cake (so to speak)
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Wait for Lewie on Saturday, he can always gets you a cheap deal. Usually on something you don’t know you want.
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Happy birthday!
And that is an EPIC win on your girlfriends part, let her know =)
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Truly, truly epic.
Also, happy birthday, even though it’s late
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Are those marshmallow tree-leaves? If so, marry this woman post-haste.
(Happy Birthday)
P.S. I have literally only received one birthday cake that was hand-made, and that was a giant Bourbon Cream.
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When you aren’t called Alex Bakke, are you called Chris McCartney? or can two people really share this anecdote?
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Obviously two great men.
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Happy Birthday John John.
My snap isn’t a cake but it’s girlfriend/birthday related. She put more effort into it than any stupid cake and so is better.
PS, I’m Richard.
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No, I’m Richard!
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XD I don’t suggest fighting a muscle horse.
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No, I’m Richard and so is my wife.
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Bloody hell! That’s a deeply impressive cake.
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Argh! Every time I have something relevant to post here, I feel like what I’m doing is awkwardly close to spamming. But still!
We ran a contest around “cook something League of Legends related” a little while back and almost all of the entries were cakes. And DELICIOUS! I know because a crazy fan of ours traveled to Cologne from the UK just to deliver this cake to me:
It was oh so delicious. And sugary.
But all of these were awesome. And most of them were cakes:
http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=2658262
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And now I am hungry, and in awe of your players.
Great thread you linked there!
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Oh lord Jesus Christ, can we go one day without five minecraft posts.
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No.
My son.
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Yes, most days, you horrid whiny old grumpface.
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HERESY! There shall never be less than five Minecraft posts per day, and we shall force thee to read them all! Oh wait, you’re apparently already forcing yourself to do it, despite your distaste.
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Post some really, really long Minecraft posts, just to screw over the people that are apparently forced to read them all.
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This isn’t Minecraft news, this is birthday and/or cake news. It just happens that the cake looks like Minecraft.
Besides, it’s an adorable cake.
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WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, FOOL?! YOU HAVE ANGERED THE ANCIENT WALKER ON HIS VERY OWN BIRTHDAY!!!
Woe is us.
(but hey at least we have delicious cake)
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No one loves me enough to make me such a cake.
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That sounds like a call for the Great RPS Cake-Swapping Thread.
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How would that work?
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Orbital cake bombardment. You’ve got to bake them in orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
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Navagon – you owe me a keyboard
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My girlfriend once baked me a companion cake, but alas, no photographic evidence for it exists. But it was bigger than my head and had strawberry in it. :)
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Congratulations once more, John! That looks like a fine cake.
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Walker! :)
*Insert something about digestion and Creepers here.*
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Happy Birthday, and mad congrats on a cake well boken… baken… baked. Anyway, it is of the art.
Bak’d. Cakegasm? What a cake. Old men, running the world.
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A cake.
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My comment with picture is awaiting moderation – I don’t believe this has happened to me before. Has something gone wrong? It’s been like that for a while :(
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Sometimes posts with just a link get eaten by our over-enthusiastic comment monster. I’ll go have a rummage in its belly.
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@John
Perhaps you will find Kieron’s body while rummaging around down there.
Also, happy birthday.
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Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm… Tasty cake links, my favorite.
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I HAVE DECIDED THAT YOU ARE NOT MAKING CAKE UPDATES FAST ENOUGH SO I AM GOING TO STAMP ALL OVER YOUR CAKE SO YOU CANT ENJOY IT OR SHARE IT WITH ANYBODY INCLU…ding err …me…. damn
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I’m rather a fan of flight sims :-)
This unexpectedly resulted in a tasty surprise:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/79165769@N00/5122082104/
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Happy Birthday, John!
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That is a most excellent cake.
Hepty Turfday, Jihn!
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Ugh, yet another example of growing RPS pro-cake bias. Everyone refresh your browsers over and over again until these fascist spin-doctors agree to our demands, let’s bring this journalistic dictatorship to its KNEES!
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Protip: Put a ring on it.
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This.
I live in mortal dread my wife will one day realize how much I don’t deserve her and take off.
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Yeah I mean you wouldn’t want Valve to suddenly turn around and put a ring on it!
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Clever!
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A very happy birthday to you, Mr Walker. I am delighted it includes cake, and to have such a fine specimen is icing on the… hrm…
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Is that edible? =P
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Happy birthday John!
Ok, so its not my cake, but this comments thread is looking a bit on the stingy side so far:
I thought that was rather splendid :)
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Very pretty, but I’m not sure I’d eat it.
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Yeah, I’d be more apt to BURN IT WITH FUCKING FIRE THE CREEPY CRAWLY WEIRDNESS. GODDAMMIT STOP RUSHING ME. I HATE YOU MOM.
Worst birthday ever.
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Happy birthday, Mr. Walker.
And don’t dig too deep into that cake, you could lose your diamond fork.
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Happy boifday Mr Walker!
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The happiest of birthdays, John! Hope you’ll enjoy that cake block by block. :D
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I love the candles being used as torches.
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Back in 1998, when I didn’t have a digital camera, nor reliable internet access, by partner (now wife) ordered me the most AWESOME birthday surprise.
A giant ‘Player ship from Galaga’ chocolate mud cake.
Alas, I am fail. I didn’t not get a photo.
Fail Fail Fail.
So John, please grab one of these images, post it here, and the hivemind can just imagine it rendered in heart-attack inducing chocolate mudcake.
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Happy Birthday!
Nobody’s made me a fancy cake since I was 12. :( I’m the cake baker in my group of friends (a tradition I really wish I hadn’t started…) but none of them are really gamers, so I’ve not made anything game related. I did make a cat cake, though:
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/7237/catcake.jpg
It’s rubbish, but an artist I am not.
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Oh lord Jesus Christ, can we go one year without it being John’s birthday.
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Exquisite, sir.
Happy birthcraft mineday John.
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Well played sir!
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…are
…are those little candle torches?
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Happy Birthday John, and great cake.
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What??
No explosive creepers?
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She didn’t cook him fajitas.
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Happy Birthday John!
Save Quinns a slice with Iron in it
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Hah, brilliant.
(Also, happy birthday John, since I apparently neglected to note this in the other comment.)
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My wife made a 1-up cake for a LAN party we had a few months ago.
Key lime flavored! YUMMMMMM!
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Careful, there may be magma at the bottom.
Magma is a funny word.
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There’s some cool gamer cakes on the Cake Wrecks blog. They usually make fun of poorly decorated cakes, but they have a weekly ‘Sunday Sweets’ column where they post the non-wrecky cakes.
Nice Minecraft cake btw :)
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2010/01/sunday-sweets-when-gamers-marry.html
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2008/10/sunday-sweets-leaping-lego-lizards.html
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/11/sunday-sweets-when-geeks-marry.html
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/08/sunday-sweets-fun-wedding-cakes.html
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That blog is hilarious. I’ve only read the first page, but am at work and giggling too much. This is my favourite post so far:
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2010/10/going-through-rough-patch.html
Especially the Pumpkin Poo-nicorn. TF2 should have used that for its new boss…
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Cake I made myself for my 18th birthday:
Most unoriginal idea ever, but I was pretty pleased with it. (The other people at the party were too.)
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Looks very much like the real thing!
Oh wait, that’s actually more real. ;)
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It’s a triumph. Huge success.
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And here I was thinking I was the only person ever to have the companion cube and the mug
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The icing (ha, pun!) on that photo is the Half-Life 2 box in the background. Its a cornucopia of Valve goodness!
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It looks so delicious and moist.
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lol i have to admit your GF has built an amazing cake… little squares are soooo difficult to make…. Did she give you a spade to eat it with since its all dirt?
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Hppy Bdy John!
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My ex-girlfriend was a creeper.
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Mine too! She hissed and then blew up the bridge to my heart. :(
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Mine was a golddigger!
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Mine was a minor.
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My friend made me a companion cube cake a while back, but the photo of that was a casualty of the infamous “wiped the old hard drive before installing the new one” calamity that I don’t like to talk about. If she still has the photo of it, I’ll post it up later. Sniff.
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Happy Birthday, John.
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Happy birthday and enjoy the cake.
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Cool cake, and happy birthday, John!
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awesome! happy birthday. Very jealous of the confectionery abilities on display.
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Wow, happy birthday Mr. Walker.
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No self-indulgent, yet thematically related pics to post from me, however I do want to wish you a happy birthday and me a happy birthday for today is our day, John Walker! Cheers!
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I want to steal Mr. Walker’s girlfriend for myself.
But that’d be rude, especially on his birthday. consider this my present to you, J.W Congrats!
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Here’s wishing you a happy birthday Mr. Walker. Here also, is a picture of a not-birthday-related Greed Corp. theme cake made specially for the launch of, well, Greed Corp. obviously. That’s right, a hex strategy cake!
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When is the PC-version coming, BTW?
Also, happy birthday John. :)
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The cake is a lie.
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Happy birthday man. All the best.
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Happy Birthday John.
Pus: Oooh, look at all the pretty pictures in the comments thread!
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EDIT: Pus? Yuk. I of course meant plus.
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That’s a brilliant cake :)
Merry Birthday, John!
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Sure, but does she [sing like an angel?]
Happy birthday John! :)
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Was of course inquiring about her love for birds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow
Love birds, I do. Tall ones, skinny ones..and especially the caek making ones!
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Finally, the chance to (try to) win a comment thread.
This is my wedding cake:
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Yessss, you have WON.
Was everything on that edible?
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IMPRESSIVE
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The Hammer: Everything but the characters, who were plastic figures. We still have Mario and Princess Peach sitting in our kitchen.
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MMM-MULTICAKE
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This cake is “Old men…are the future!” kinda good
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My then girlfriend made me this little thing last year!
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A thing of beauty.
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Happy Walker’s day!
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I would wish you a happy birthday, but with a girlfriend that awesome happiness is assured. Have a good one, mate.
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Happy Birthday, and awesome cake. Now you just need to start trolling your girlfriend because the update is too slow, and you have an acurate impression of the MineCraft-Forums.
Oh, and a spawner tool to spawn torches on top of the cake ;-)
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Joss Ackland’s spunky backpack.
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Walker
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Happy Birthday to you, sir!
Plus, awesome cake :)
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Groom’s cake :D
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so is that you being between a rock and a hard place? ;)
Before it’s too late: Happy Birthday
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I’m so very happy that you’ve found someone so awesome Mr Walker – congrats!
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I had a buggy boy birthday cake years and years ago, to me it was and always will be the best birthday cake ever. I’ll go see if I can find a photo to scan.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5ToWVgs4DQ
Starcraft cake competition.
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Only semi-related, and slightly overshadowed by the other cakes in this thread, but the missus is still awesome for doing this, putting up with my geekiness and my bi-weekly gaming nights.
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Hmm. My awesome cake picture seems to have gotten lost/eaten. Also Happy Buffday John.
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Happy Birthday John. Marry that girl.
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I don’t know. Where do you find this these women. Lucky beggars.
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This was a triumph!
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I’d feel a bit short changed with that cake. I know blah, time, blah, effort, blah. But the cake itself is a bit flat, not much actual cake
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Happy Birthday, Mr J Walker. Significant others who bake masterpieces are a real find, well played!
And how about a Mario Galaxy cake, with extras:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaMHPJHIglE
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My first ever post here is to say:
Happy Birthday John
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Best article on RPS this month.
Even if RPS continues to insist I am not a human.
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A glorious birthday, indeed. One of mine, from (several) years ago:
Weighted Companion Cake
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I need a constant Minecraft newsfeed. I propose that RPS now dedicate itself entirely to simply talking about Minecraft.
I find myself looking forward to Halloween for the first time since childhood.
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Some cakes celebrating games we made…
Burn Zombie Burn! Cake
Top Gun Cake
South Park Cake
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That’s really awesome.. I hope I can see more of this..I am looking forward for your next post..
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Fantastic birthday cake design.
Maui Weddings
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