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18 Months On, Grand Theft Auto V's Mount Chiliad Mystery Remains Unsolved

Posted by timothy on from the your-sense-of-profundity-may-vary dept.

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?

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  1. Yes. It will. by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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    1. Re:Yes. It will. by phishybongwaters · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I've never heard of either of those douchebags.

    2. Re:Yes. It will. by phishybongwaters · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I just youtubed him. Yup, that guy is now Bilbo douchebaggins in my book. This is celebrity now? Honestly? I'm out.

    3. Re:Yes. It will. by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Insightful

      You know Big Brother, you know Survivor, you know American Idol, you know I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! ... and you honestly questioned that being obnoxious and generally insufferable suffices today to become a celebrity?

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  2. Re:Computer game wastes time. News at 11. by jfbilodeau · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ya, just like reading Slashdot.

    Or even worst, replying to comments!!!

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  3. Re:Can they really not get at it off the PS4 disk? by jones_supa · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Ok, let's assume you get the data files pulled from the PS4 disk. You now have hypothetical files like r_gamedata_0001.gbr (15 GB), r_gamedata_0002.gbr (13 GB), r_gamedata_0003.gbr (10 GB), r_actor.gbr (4 GB). You open them in hex editor and they look like complete mush. Now what? I hope you have your coffee machine ready.

  4. Re: Will it all have been for nothing? by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 3, Insightful

    :-)

    In 1981, I worked in the NYIT Computer Graphics Lab as a disk operator, paid $2.15 per hour. We were creating the field of feature film computer graphics, but of course I was just a disk operator. I had never taken any computer courses, and indeed any math beyond algebra, and my bad grades got me into NYIT, which was open admissions as far as I know.

    There were 8 or so other operators, mostly computer science students from C.W. Post University which was next-door to NYIT. By being admitted to Post, studying computer science, etc., they had all of the advantages.

    And there was Rogue. Rogue was a text adventure program. And we had lots of terminals to run it upon.

    While I was waiting for the next operator call, I read all of the documentation on Unix and C that existed in the world. There wasn't much of it back then. I started to hack Unix. I got a job as assistant systems programmer.

    The other operators played Rogue.

    I eventually moved on to Pixar, and various other interesting things. Perhaps those other guys have had great rewarding careers, but I don't hear much of them.

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