And this is why basic income is such a bad idea.
An open letter to Rockstar Games
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Re: An open letter to Rockstar Games
#22Author of the paste (and post) here: Wow, didn't expect this to reach the top of HN! To answer some points raised: Maybe I am taking a game a bit too seriously, but my friends and I have put a lot of time into GTA online, and had a load of fun. I just don't want RS to do something that could ruin that. I agree that in the GTA world $500k isn't really 'rich', maybe the title was a little link baity, but my point remai…
An alternative would be for you to blow that $500k on some expensive cars, and then drive them all into the ocean.
This.
It's an extra mission: You just got some illicit bag of money you have to get rid of, so buy cars from a shady dealer and drive em to the compactor (there is a car compactor in GTAV, right?).
Re: An open letter to Rockstar Games
#23Author of the paste (and post) here: Wow, didn't expect this to reach the top of HN! To answer some points raised: Maybe I am taking a game a bit too seriously, but my friends and I have put a lot of time into GTA online, and had a load of fun. I just don't want RS to do something that could ruin that. I agree that in the GTA world $500k isn't really 'rich', maybe the title was a little link baity, but my point remai…
I have to say I agree with you man.
I'm still working my way through the single player. I've played a few multiplayer games and it's been awesome. I haven't had any of the server pain that other folks are experiencing. It seems a bit silly that I'm about to increase my savings by 1000% through pure chance.
Re: An open letter to Rockstar Games
#24Author of the paste (and post) here: Wow, didn't expect this to reach the top of HN! To answer some points raised: Maybe I am taking a game a bit too seriously, but my friends and I have put a lot of time into GTA online, and had a load of fun. I just don't want RS to do something that could ruin that. I agree that in the GTA world $500k isn't really 'rich', maybe the title was a little link baity, but my point remai…
You could always just give the money to someone else.
Re: An open letter to Rockstar Games
#25Author of the paste (and post) here: Wow, didn't expect this to reach the top of HN! To answer some points raised: Maybe I am taking a game a bit too seriously, but my friends and I have put a lot of time into GTA online, and had a load of fun. I just don't want RS to do something that could ruin that. I agree that in the GTA world $500k isn't really 'rich', maybe the title was a little link baity, but my point remai…
An alternative would be for you to blow that $500k on some expensive cars, and then drive them all into the ocean.
Right. Another alternative is to call yourself Santa Claus and give it all away to other players during December.
Re: An open letter to Rockstar Games
#26'Loose' and 'lose' seems to be the new their/there/they're.
its/it's for some reason seems the most annoying to me.
A lot of Hacker News superstars make that mistake. Rayiner makes it the most often. Of course he probably knows the difference, he's a really smart guy, but it's odd that he gets it wrong so often.
I used to look down upon people who would make these common mistakes... I don't anymore, after recently having been called out on making them myself. The human mind just makes these mistakes, I imagine because the sound link is very strong. The process of thinking of something and then writing it down is not instantaneous. When I've thought up a sentence, I will write it down without thinking much about it... it's then in that process of transcribing the thought to written text that the mistake is made. The only way to improve is to review your writings often, take note of what mistakes are most often occurring, and proactively watch for them in the future.
Re: An open letter to Rockstar Games
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
its/it's for some reason seems the most annoying to me.
A lot of Hacker News superstars make that mistake. Rayiner makes it the most often. Of course he probably knows the difference, he's a really smart guy, but it's odd that he gets it wrong so often. I used to look down upon people who would make these common mistakes... I don't anymore, after recently having been called out on making them myself. The human mind just makes these mistakes, I imagine because the sound li…
Great point! Re-reading what we write is great advice. I have found several mistakes by reading my own pull requests before I submit them, even.
Re: An open letter to Rockstar Games
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
An alternative would be for you to blow that $500k on some expensive cars, and then drive them all into the ocean.
This. It's an extra mission: You just got some illicit bag of money you have to get rid of, so buy cars from a shady dealer and drive em to the compactor (there is a car compactor in GTAV, right?).
The Brewster's (half) millions mission
Re: An open letter to Rockstar Games
#29Author of the paste (and post) here: Wow, didn't expect this to reach the top of HN! To answer some points raised: Maybe I am taking a game a bit too seriously, but my friends and I have put a lot of time into GTA online, and had a load of fun. I just don't want RS to do something that could ruin that. I agree that in the GTA world $500k isn't really 'rich', maybe the title was a little link baity, but my point remai…
Buy expensive car. Don't buy insurance. Apply sticky bomb. Kiss $500K good by. I'm assuming this works. I have not bought a car yet so I don't know if they come with some sort of automatic/permanent insurance. If that doesn't work, steal car, pimp out LS customs. Apply sticky bomb. Rinse and repeat until $500K disappears.
This does make all garages completely worthless unless Rockstar lets us own an apartment and a garage later via patch...
Re: An open letter to Rockstar Games
#30Online in this game is the biggest "beta" I've seen in recent memory.
There are a lot of basic mechanics to what a Rockstar MMO would have, but none of them are implemented to the point that I think people are expecting.
Rockstar hasn't mentioned anything about developing the in-game economy any further than it already has. The game is more online deathmatch and less MMO...welcome to the world of console gaming, I guess.
Enjoy getting run over by folks who flag passive after you kill them for the time being, but don't expect the fully-realized world in the trailers.
In short, if you don't want to spend your 500k, then...don't?