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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.
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.
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.
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.
THERE IS NO SPOON
Fixed that for you. Woooooah!
Got them moderator blues I blieve I walk out the do', With these mod-points I been gettin', I 'most never post no mo'
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?
Yeah! It's just like how Ratman's scribbling goes on and on and on and on about the cake being a lie. Then there's a fucking cake.
"Lack of speed can be overcome. In the worst case by patience." --Znork
"There is no cow level"
Keep waiting.
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
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.
player name: "suckmyrocket"?
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
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.
Chinese farming is too expensive these days. It's far more lucrative for the Chinese farming businesses to outsource to 'nam.
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.
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