Are there any links floating around to download said code? The various tweets/articles seem to suggest it leaked in one Discord server, and nobody's providing a link to that Discord nor a mirror of the code.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 113 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I know there's nothing original about that but God damn I hate that a chat platform somehow became used to transfer info... We're overdue for a forum Renaissance.

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 116 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Join our discord server!
Give this server your home address, date of birth and mother's maiden name?
Please read the rules before being able to even fucking read anything :3
Please download this third party extension verify that you're not ban evading
Give this third party extension your home address, date of birth, mother's maiden name and unobstructed pictures of your taint from several angles?
You've been verified!
Sending messages is for donors only :3
Notifications for every channel is on by default. I hope your speakers aren't loud, pisshead
Every channel is just a moderator with an amphetamine problem writing a new manifesto every 15 minutes

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Forgot to mention that you have to give them your phone number. That one really pisses me off.

[–] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

You dont want my credit card? Where do I sign up?

[–] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

You got a point

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

Forgot the part where you are sometimes FORCED to join some discord server, be it for downloading a mod just one time or troubleshoot something else. And then sometimes comes the part you listed.

[–] Neato@kbin.social 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Didn't we use things like irc in the past?

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 50 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah and it sucked for archival purposes then and it still sucks now and forums took its place and that's still where serious people go to talk about their field. Want a custom ROM for your phone? You're going on a forum. Want to know how to repair a specific thing on a car? You're going on a forum. Want to talk about your new patchwork passion? You're going on a forum.

But somehow there's some fields (crypto, some parts of gaming...) where people have forgotten that or simply have never spent time on forums to see the difference in quality of info having an ongoing discussion makes.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just thinking about the fields and fields of car, electric, and plumbing forums all sitting out there with broken links and dead photobucket / imgur embedded pictures....

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

That's an issue with the cost of storage back then meaning that people needed external hosts, but these days if Reddit and Lemmy can self host then an equivalent forum could do it too.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

You aren't "archiving" shit of this magnitude. Forums and hosts get the real letters and even the more permissive countries and hosts tend to have minimal issues taking action for these kinds of leaks. They are just as transient as chat rooms with a much bigger investment to run

Which leave "dark web" sites that very much do exist but don't get linked in news articles

[–] seathru@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

And Usenet before that.

[–] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Trying to compile well-documented github projects is a crap shoot half the time. iirc no one figured out how to compile even the Windows XP source code when it got leaked and it's long gone/no longer obtainable so no one can try. The chances of anything coming out of this that the average person will see are almost complete zero.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My experience with large projects is that the bigger they get, the more their build systems turn into large projects in their own right. Maintaining the build for something like Windows is probably many people's full-time job, so it's no surprise a bunch of amateurs with no docs couldn't do it.

[–] Electromechanical_Supergiant@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 10 months ago

Is it possible to create a custom build system by compiling little bits at a time?

For example, you find the opengl code (or whatever gfx lib they're using), strip it down it only displays a window and doesn't reference any other gta code. Then it could be compiled without much trouble. Then another small system, say matrix transforms, can be isolated from the original code and integrated with the custom code to get it to compile.

This way you are creating your own build system ad hoc, and you find out what it needs as subsystems are added. Provided the code is decently decoupled and modular, it should be theoretically possible, even if it is still an absurd amount of work.

Or does this sound completely wacky to you?

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Does this mean we're not going to see community enhanced version of GTAV? I thought the game was disappointing when compared to GTA:SA. The world feels empty and the campaign is too short.

[–] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I agree generally. Here lately I've taken the plunge and compiled everything from source (Linux). While tricky on some, (dependencies mostly), the outcome is unusually stable. More stable than expected.

[–] coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Even made a new account for it. Just to be sure.

[–] khronos@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I have a download link (and the password), someone posted it on the ycombinator thread. Not sure if I can post it here.