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Jokes are not permitted on HN, please don't do it again.
Joking about an office building exploding is contextually not a funny joke
It didn't land, but bad jokes aren't a crime
Fire Shuts GTA 6 Developer Rockstar North, Following Report of Explosion
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Are you familiar with the concept of a joke ? I can send you some peer reviewed papers to read about humour if you'd like.
Jokes are not permitted on HN, please don't do it again.
That's not actually true, though, is it? Or is there some other HN legal document besides https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ?
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#24Someone got too tired of the pay to win nonsense and decided to play in real life ? xD
The very first sentence of the article: > Fire services attended the offices of Grand Theft Auto 6 developer Rockstar North this morning and secured "structural damage" following a reported boiler explosion.
It seems like it would be easier for some people to rig a boiler to explode than trying to get their hands on dynamite.
Why go through the hassle of trying to source a bomb when the victim provides you one on location already.
FYI, I'm not saying that's what happened, just that your dismissal shouldn't be immediate.
Also, the best way to sabotage something, is to make it look like an accident, that way they aren't looking for you.
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#25Slightly unrelated (maybe?), here is a moderately nuanced summary video of the latest happenings in the ongoing court cases in "Rockstar vs Union": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnuipPQDd_w TLDR of the case: Rockstar fired some employees for a slew of different reasons (some leaked/confidential messages), (most) fired employees were members of the union and the court case is about if 1) they were fired for the righ…
Could be a disgruntled employee; it could be Rockstar destroying their own records; it could be a leaky gas pipe.
Re: Fire Shuts GTA 6 Developer Rockstar North, Following Report of Explosion
#26A delay would inconvenience the whole games industry, not just Rockstar; every other developer has to time their release and development around GTA 6.
I think most companies at this point learned that no launch date is set in stone. Sure, if you're doing AAA games, you might not want to launch right next to GTA, but for most others? Matters way less than people think.
Tell that to the indie developers that launched games alongside the surprise release of Silksong.
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I think most companies at this point learned that no launch date is set in stone. Sure, if you're doing AAA games, you might not want to launch right next to GTA, but for most others? Matters way less than people think.
Tell that to the indie developers that launched games alongside the surprise release of Silksong.
> Tell that to the indie developers that launched games alongside the surprise release of Silksong.
Huh? Is your argument that it would be bad for Silksong to surprise release next to GTA? Or that indie developers should have planned around the surprise release of Silksong? I really don't understand what argument you're trying to make here.
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Tell that to the indie developers that launched games alongside the surprise release of Silksong.
> Tell that to the indie developers that launched games alongside the surprise release of Silksong. Huh? Is your argument that it would be bad for Silksong to surprise release next to GTA? Or that indie developers should have planned around the surprise release of Silksong? I really don't understand what argument you're trying to make here.
The point is that no indie dev was able to plan around the surprise release of Silksong, precisely because it was a surprise.
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> Tell that to the indie developers that launched games alongside the surprise release of Silksong. Huh? Is your argument that it would be bad for Silksong to surprise release next to GTA? Or that indie developers should have planned around the surprise release of Silksong? I really don't understand what argument you're trying to make here.
The point is that no indie dev was able to plan around the surprise release of Silksong, precisely because it was a surprise.
Ah, so then just an agreement with "Matters way less than people think" in the end?
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Tell that to the indie developers that launched games alongside the surprise release of Silksong.
> Tell that to the indie developers that launched games alongside the surprise release of Silksong. Huh? Is your argument that it would be bad for Silksong to surprise release next to GTA? Or that indie developers should have planned around the surprise release of Silksong? I really don't understand what argument you're trying to make here.
The argument is that Silksong will completely absorb any potential market for you new indie game had during that period. People will be too busy playing another game, leading to poor numbers during launch. It's hard to recover from that.