Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA?

Re:Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA? by FirmwareBurner on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @05:55AM (#38377605)

There are a lot more well known easter eggs in games of that era, especially in games by id software where staff would put each other's pics in hidden places in the game.

Came from a time when games were a product of passion of a few, and not of a soulless corporation.

But that's still alive in indie games today. Check out the games developed by "New Blood Interactive" for example Dusk, it's full of throwbacks and memes to classic games from the '90's. You can find them on Steam or at https://waste.money/

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Re:Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA? by sdflhasjd on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @06:06AM (#38377683)

> Came from a time when games were a product of passion of a few, and not of a soulless corporation.

Only committee-approved and/or mandated easter eggs permitted. Don't forget to catalogue them all so the social media team have more content.

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Re:Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA? by whizzter on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @08:13AM (#38378689)

It's all fun and games until you leave a literal sex-game(1) in there prompting geriatric lawmakers(2) to get into the action (3).

(And yes, I've worked in games myself so I 100% see the reason why they left it in disabled, iirc there is 2 or 3 levels with geometries but broken scripts included on disc in the largest game I worked on)

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Coffee_(minigame)

(2) https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/01/30/house-get...

(3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Entertainment_Protectio...

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Re:Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA? by sdflhasjd on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @08:21AM (#38378766)

Although in this case, it wasn't even an actual easter egg, just removed content still on the disc.

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Re:Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA? by JohnFen on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @10:31AM (#38380567)

Yep, which makes them features rather than easter eggs. Easter eggs should be subversive and unapproved.

It's a loss for sure, but at least they still appear in some indie games.

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Re:Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA? by exikyut on Thursday November 23, 2023 @05:29PM (#38398365)

Been trying to load that website for the past 24 hours, it keeps timing out :(

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