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c/games · by Ninjazzon@infosec.pub · 1y

A Windows 11 update revealed a 2-decade old bug in GTA: San Andreas that yeets CJ at '1.087 quadrillion light years' into the stratosphere

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/grand-theft-auto/a-windows-11-update-revealed-a-2-decade-old-bug-in-gta-san-andreas-that-yeets-cj-1-087-quadrillion-light-years-into-the-stratosphere/

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20 Comments

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 71 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Light years is not a unit of velocity, so the "at" in the title is odd.

Nougat@fedia.io · 37 pts · 1y (2 replies)

"I then used the script to spawn a Skimmer and put CJ inside it," writes Silent, "just to be launched 1.0287648030984853e+0031 = 10.3 nonillion meters, or 10.3 octillion kilometers, or 1.087 quadrillion light-years up in the sky."

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 16 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Yeah i know, but thats not what the title says

Nougat@fedia.io · 11 pts · 1y

Just adding context.

HurlingDurling@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

Same with parsec's

Nikls94@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Me, reading the comments like

And this is good,

aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Me reading the title and realizing the word “yeet” didn’t exist when this bug manifested.

fatalicus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

The expression "yeet" is far older than GTA San Andreas.

Hadriscus@lemm.ee · 35 pts · 1y (6 replies)

The stratosphere extends from about 20km to 50km from the ground, whereas 1.087 quadrillion light-years equals approximately 9,460,700,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 km. I can be flexible, but that's just too much for an honest margin of error. So, which is it ?

PurpleTentacle@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y (5 replies)

I mean, technically one would still be "yeeted into the stratosphere" just extremely briefly.

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 1y

Also I imagine GTA doesn’t model the planet, the solar system, the galaxy or the known universe, as this would put you well outside of the known universe.

ICastFist@programming.dev · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I have contacted the editors at PCGamer to make it read "yeeted past the stratosphere". They have assured me that all involved will be leashed as punishment.

spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1y

In a follow up email from someone else at the company, they let me know that the people responsible for the punishment have been punished.

sidelove@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

I'm not sure if it's fast enough, but the Planck length does reemerge for everyone else at relativistic speeds, so using CJ as the frame of reference, there is a yeeting where he might "skip" the stratosphere like a rock being skipped across the pond.

Creat@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 1y

If we assume normal, real world physics at work, and we have to as the game surely doesn't model the stratosphere, he would not reach it even for a very very brief time as he'd have been evaporated from the heating at that speed well before getting to it.

jlh@lemmy.jlh.name · 9 pts · 1y

Link to the blog and the community oarch:

https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2025/04/23/gta-san-andreas-win11-24h2-bug/

https://github.com/CookiePLMonster/SilentPatch

countstex@feddit.dk · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

This is the Star Wars "parsecs" situation all over again!

imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y

Hey man, you try going .5 past light speed and see if you still remember your grade school astrophysics

breakingcups@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

My man Silent, savior of the GTA trilogy.

Goretantath@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

The bug launches a boatplane, not cj..