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18 Months On, Grand Theft Auto V's Mount Chiliad Mystery Remains Unsolved
An anonymous reader writes One of GTA V's juiciest easter eggs is one that gamers have still yet to crack: the symbols on San Andreas' huge mountain that seem to suggest a jetpack is buried somewhere within it. As the game's PC launch — and presumable final uncovering as modders raid the game's code — nears, a new article looks at the lengths conspiracy theorists have gone in a bid to locate it, waiting entire in-game lunar cycles at points of interest on the map, trying to complete the game without killing anybody and even attempting to trigger earthquakes in Los Santos. Will it all have been for nothing?
Unemployment drops to new lows as millions of former job seekers now search for a jetpack that might not be real, which is supposedly hidden in a mountain in a computer game.
It's a reference to a James Bond movie.
I don't know why, the mechanics are a bit backwards at times and the models are starting to become repetitive.. there's something about the alternate world where you can hold property and money which directly relate to how far you can grow in the game. It's the start to an MMO, similar to how Diablo 2 defined connected multiplayer gaming sessions.
I for one await my GTA V PC overlords. Does anyone else think the same?
All the other jobs are being filled by H1-B's. Looking for the jetpack is all we have left.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Could they instead try to solve the mystery of constant unknown network errors?
The online game is unplayable as-is.
Even provided there is anything to be gotten, it's just an item in a game.
More likely, it's a publicity stunt for a franchise that's going a wee bit stale with the I-lost-count-how-many installment of essentially the same game.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Hint, it's in pieces.
It's just a reference to the previous GTA game set in San Andreas, they're all going mad over nothing.
You can bet there will be countless hundreds of jetpack mods on PC anyway, some of them might even be good!
Source: I know things
All the other jobs are being filled by H1-B's. Looking for the jetpack is all we have left.
Perhaps if you lot spent less time goofing off on Facebook, Reddit, chilling out by the coffee pot, and other work avaoidence efforts, employers wouldn't need to employ overseas skills to do what you're fucking paid to do?
...if it's advertised in-game.
does gta v online have chinese money farmers?
Ya, just like reading Slashdot.
Or even worst, replying to comments!!!
Goodbye Slashdot. You've changed.
Speak for yourself; I hired a crack team of Chinese gold farmers to find that sumbitch for me.
You should look up, up, down, down, left, right, left and right or somewhere around there? That where I use to find my easter eggs.
Goodbye Slashdot. You've changed.
OK. People go crazy about sports. But this breathless commentary is a bit over the top.
Bruce Perens.
It's been over a year, would you just drop it and move on, the same thing with the stupid jetpack, THERE IS NO JETPACK, deal with it, ffs
Yes.
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I think that this one of the rare moments that Betteridge's law of headlines does not apply.
Sig: I stole this sig.
All the other jobs are being filled by H1-B's. Looking for the jetpack is all we have left.
Perhaps if you lot would work for peanuts with ridiculous hours, employers wouldn't need to employ overseas skills to do what you're fucking paid to do?
Found a typo.
I'd have assumed there was by now at least some method of at least reading a PS4 disk on a PC; and that they'd be able to dig at the code and game assets, even if they couldn't run it, or use modified code on the PS4 itself...
But surely they have enough to look at the games art assets already now? No?
Will it all have been for nothing?
I would think that was self evident...
I'm curious what the opportunity cost of this form of entertainment(?) is. I suppose it is a way to pass the time...
yeah it's bullshit that no one should care about.
The real mystery is what the fuck are they doing with the PC version that it takes them two years to port.
There is no cow level.
There is no spoon.
The cake is a lie.
Get free satoshi (Bitcoin) and Dogecoins
Better farming gold than farming lead. 'Murika should introduce them to Doritos & Mountain Dew.
you know you can just put in a code to get the jetpack, right?
you're wasting your life.
It's going to be quite hard to have such a mystery if modders end up revealing it or adding it to the game.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
Tits or GTFO
player name: "suckmyrocket"?
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
i found it :p didn’t realise it was some big mystery!
Do you consider everything fun to be wasting one's time?
Fishing. Hunting. Sex. These are productive to life.
This sounds just like the fake flying saucer easter egg in San Andreas. I'm betting that this one is fake too.
https://support.rockstargames.... :/ GTAV on the PS4 drives me fuckin batty, stopped playing it because some idiot in the development team decided to remove an immersive camera option for a gimmicky one.
As for Mt Chilead, I was under the impression there's nothing more to solve, the UFO is the mystery, long since solved.
Interesting slashdot bug there. The subject text allowed me to fit in this.
"3mths on & I'm still having a cry about my hoodcam"
The preview clearly only shows.
"3mths on & I'm still having a cry about my hoo"
Known issue?
I'm guessing that the ampersand is counted as a single character by the javascript that prevents you over filling the input box but once sent to the server it is expanded to its HTML entity (&) and the title loses 4 characters from the end (either it's truncated in code or the database field isn't big enough)
Ahhh my trick I've learnt from twitter to reduce 3 characters to one has burnt me.
Makes sense.
I'm not sure how many people are going to care that there is a built in video editor, and not sure why they couldn't have released the port then added it later, but it was a decision they made.
The fact is that console platforms are fixed specs, the myriad of different hardware PCs can have makes it hard to get decent performance and look good on the widest range of hardware. Some people want to play on Intel graphics. Maybe you have 2 cores, or 6 cores on your processor. The game engine needs to take these things into account and adapt to the different configurations.
While some people think that nVidia's drivers and hardware are the best, the truth is that many developers write the game engine to work on DirectX, then spend extra time on working around image quality and speed issues related to major hardware bugs, or driver bugs that only exist on nVidia. I'm not claiming that AMD, or Intel are perfect, but generally if you use standard DirectX constructs, your game will work and perform decently, that is not generally the case on nVidia.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon what's the difference? All steal money from devs and control with walled gardens.
Why the h1-b hate. I am on an h1-b and because of YOUR fucked up immigration system am still on it. I went to grad school here, own two houses and have been employed here since 2005. I am paid well and not discriminated. So what gives ?
and no PC version yet
this is fucking retarded
So apparently the & reduces the number of letters in the subject, so - if it's true - there should be 8 characters removed from the word "understanding", leaving just "under"
or maybe it's just because of the number of characters.
Chinese farming is too expensive these days. It's far more lucrative for the Chinese farming businesses to outsource to 'nam.
See subject.
I think that this one of the rare moments that Betteridge's law of headlines does not apply.
It's one of the frequent times when that law does not apply, because the headline does not ask a question.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
There should be 50 &'s in the subject line. But there can't be. A message comes up saying the subject line is empty, and won't even let me preview the post.
Second attempt, there should be 48 &'s in the subject line, following the number 48. A message comes up saying use less repetition in the subject line. Won't preview.
Third attempt, there are 25 digits with 25 &'s between them, and the preview seems to show the same. We'll see what happens in the post.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
I made this post at the bottom of the page, but I'm making it here so you can see it easily.
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There should be 50 &'s in the subject line. But there can't be. A message comes up saying the subject line is empty, and won't even let me preview the post.
Second attempt, there should be 48 &'s in the subject line, following the number 48. A message comes up saying use less repetition in the subject line. Won't preview.
Third attempt, there are 25 digits with 25 &'s between them, and the preview seems to show the same. We'll see what happens in the post.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
because you are willing to take a pay cut to maintain your H1B status, overall decreasing the pay for our professions.
So 9 digits + 9 ampersands = 9 + (9 x 5) = 54 characters.
However, if you view source you'll see that your title is actually:
1&2&3&4&5&6&7&8&9&
So the last ampersand is a plain ampersand, not an HTML entity and your title is actually 50 characters...
This post title should end in "&am" even though I ended it with a plain ampersand character
Yes, thinking, who needs it??? It is not like we need all these modern luxuries. We should all go back to living like cavemen. Who needs that useless lump of mass on their shoulders??? Not me. Calculus... screw that. Calculate my d***. Calculate my fist in your face. Let's all be ape men, but more ape than man. Right??? Screw it. If an asteroid is coming toward Earth we are all going to die anyways. Who needs computers or slashdot, right??? Wait.... What I am still doing on slashdot?
Because you aren't American and never will be. Go back to your own country.