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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. Computer game wastes time. News at 11. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  2. Re:Computer game wastes time. News at 11. by NotDrWho · · Score: 5, Funny

    All the other jobs are being filled by H1-B's. Looking for the jetpack is all we have left.

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  3. 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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Yeah you would think that but you would be wrong. After 3 came vice city and San Andreas. Currently V is the 7th major GTA.

    3. Re:Yes. It will. by alvinrod · · Score: 4, Informative

      Not quite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_(series)#Games

      It seems that they reserve the numbered entries in the series for those which have a completely new game engine and that they don't count any of the handheld games as a major release. Depending on how you want to count the different games, Grand Theft Auto V could be the 15th installment in the series.

    4. Re:Yes. It will. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah, you'll probably have to hire yourself a 10x agent!

    5. 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.

    6. Re:Yes. It will. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Not really, no. They have a lot in common, but GTA V's engine is a lot more capable.

    7. Re:Yes. It will. by GrumpySteen · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, he's right. The V does imply that it's the fifth installment. It's not the fifth installment, but the V still implies that it is.

    8. Re:Yes. It will. by Kjella · · Score: 3, Informative

      PewDiePie is #1 in subscribers on YouTube with 35 million and played a major role as himself in two episodes on South Park, that you've never heard of him probably means your interests don't overlap much. Just like I'm sure there's some big Bollywood celebrities that I have no idea who is, no idea who the other guy is though or if he's got any claim to fame outside his game but PewDiePie certainly qualifies, he's not a superstar but I know many celebrities with less claim to fame.

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    9. 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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    10. Re:Yes. It will. by dr_canak · · Score: 2

      Not sure how this is rated as +5 "Insightful". I to had not heard of "PewdiePie", but something called "Google" and "Wikipedia" tells me that he is quite the online celebrity, with an estimated net worth of $12,000,000 (yes, that's 12 Million dollars). You might think he's a "douchebag", and maybe he is a "douchebag", but his "douchbaggery" could buy and sell yours many times over.

    11. Re:Yes. It will. by AvitarX · · Score: 2

      PewDiePie has over 30 million followers, and is about as popular as a popular TV show (4 million people watch a typical video in a week, and 8 million in a month)

      I don't get it, and don't watch or subscribe, but being completely dismissive isn't the right response. The guy makes Millions a month just on YouTube advertising, that thing that big business seems to think is impossible (making money on internet advertising).

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  4. 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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  5. Did you check up... by jfbilodeau · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  6. In the larger order of the problems in this world: by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will it all have been for nothing?

    Yes.

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  7. Re:In the larger order of the problems in this wor by ModernGeek · · Score: 2

    I think that this one of the rare moments that Betteridge's law of headlines does not apply.

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  8. Re:Computer game wastes time. News at 11. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  9. Re: Get a life already by Gizan · · Score: 2

    "There is no cow level"

  10. Yes it's all for nothing. by sjbe · · Score: 2

    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...

  11. We've all been there before by ArcadeMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    There is no cow level.
    There is no spoon.
    The cake is a lie.

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  12. Re:Can they really not get at it off the PS4 disk? by ArhcAngel · · Score: 2

    I hope you have your coffee machine ready.

    I see what you did there!

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  13. 3mths on & I'm still having a cry about my hoo by AbRASiON · · Score: 2

    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?

  14. Re:3mths on & I'm still having a cry about my by rHBa · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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)

  15. 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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