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Fucked up graphics aside it was quickly discovered after it came out on PC that they had left some uncompiled files in the build that had dev notes in there dating back to San Andreas’s original development. Also left in the songs that they no longer have a license for but just disabled them via code from playing. Then it came out that the Switch version was an absolute fucking treasure trove. They left in the tools needed to compile the code as well as a bunch of internal Rockstar documentation and potentially the source code? I’m not 100% sure on that one. Needless to say though, people are having a field day. It actually lead to the PC version getting cracked insanely quickly.

Here is a link to a tweet by Vadim M about the Switch release. He’s one of the more well known people in the GTA community when it comes to cut/beta content for the GTA series.

To top this all off: R*/T2 have been on the warpath against modders the past year. Threatening legal action and sending PIs to people’s houses. They’ve actually burned that bridge so thoroughly that Silent, the author of the Silent Patch for any 3D era R* game on PC, has said he’s not going to touch GTA DE. Given R*’s history with pumping and dumping their ports, this will never be fixed outside of them scraping out the files they didn’t want people to see.

EDIT: Some things I forgot:

It took Rockstar 24 hours to take the definitive edition down off their launcher.

You can’t get refunds for it because of that (ACCC is gonna have a field day with that)

Because it’s been removed off the launcher, you can’t play the game you paid for.

Despite the fact that we have indications that they were handed a master build for all 3 games, San Andreas still has some of the broke ass shit from Wardrum’s first San Andreas port. The gym minigames are the big giveaway aside from mentions of widgets in the code.

Hot Coffee has been found in the code but it’s just been disabled?

[image of a truck jacknifed across an intersection and holding up traffic. The side if the truck reads Evergreen in all caps. Above the image is text.

my boss: where TF are you?

me: you’re not gonna believe

my current project is going strong so far

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turns out i’m just the youngest person in the class by about 30 years so the deduction wasn’t that hard

anyways, apparently people keep taking the welding class over and over again and the wait list is like 100 people long and so it was by some act of providence of pure dumb luck that I managed to get a spot. This also means I was the only person there who hadn’t welded before.

I’m stationed at a big center table where the teacher can keep an eye on me, and everyone else is in booths on the surrounding walls each making their own projects. And these are impressive looking projects. One guy is making a side table, a woman is making a giant metal rocking chair, and another guy was making a wind chime out of old compressed air canisters. 

The elderly gentlemen in the booth right behind me introduces himself to me as Jim and asks me if this is my first time and I say yeah and he smiles at me and tells me I’m gonna love it and how this class is so fun.

Immediately Jim becomes my new best friend. He comes over whenever I stop to take a break and asks how I’m doing and even helps me take the welding mask off when I couldn’t figure out how to do it myself. 

at one point i see Jim and another old guy talking to the teacher and i catch the old guy pointing at me. now being pointed at is usually never a good thing. the teacher has had me welding edges of scrap metal together so I can get a feel for the equipment. The teacher comes to check on me and I jokingly as him if those seasoned guys were making fun of me. 

Turns out I’m super good at welding and the old guy didn’t believe it was my first time welding ever and Jim was trying to convince him I was a newbie. :D

So for the entire 3 hour long class, like 15 middle aged and elderly people would periodically come by my table and check in with me, making sure I’m having fun and asking me questions about my life, and things like, do you know where the drinking fountain is, making sure I’m taking breaks, looking out for me and that kind of thing, all while being completely kind and supporting and complimenting me on my welding skills. 

the other elderly gentleman’s name is Gino and spoke with a thick Italian accent and took to calling me Bella for the rest of the semester. Jim made sure to always take the booth closest to me. 

Another guy in the class named Mike did salvage diving as a hobby and always showed me pictures of the cool stuff he’d found. He also made very cool sculptures out of spoons, forks and knives. I at one point made an offhand joke that I was moving soon, and was jealous that Mike had all this cutlery to spare to make sculptures out of. (I was going to be moving in with my boyfriend and neither of us really had a lot of kitchenware) The next class he brought in an entire cutlery set insisting that he was trying to clean out his house because he had so many and wouldn’t take no for an answer. We still have them to this day :)

They had cupcakes waiting for me on my birthday and on the last day they had framed picture of me with my final project because “it’s important to celebrate your successes” and encouraged me to give it to my mom (which of course I did, along with my cattail sculpture)