And now Palantir sells exactly this product, literally named Gotham https://www.palantir.com/platforms/gotham/

If people didn't buy new cars there would never be used cars.

Tell that to Cuba.

Not entirely true; there are at least the lease, rental, and commercial fleet markets supplying predictable inventory of used cars to the public market.

> hasn't re-released GTA 4 recently

I did start trying to replay GTA4 recently, and although I loved playing it the first time, this time I couldn't stop noticing that each mission's Niko/NPC dialog feels very forcefully-timed to match almost to the second how long it takes to drive to the first objective. I found it really immersion-breaking.

PCGW sez “Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties” but IMO if one wants to reinstall, use FusionFix and Radio Restoration mods and no need for anything else. No packaged GTA4 re-release from Rockstar would be good enough to re-license all the removed songs anyway if the GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition is any indication: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/333629-grand-theft-auto...

If they really wanted to get my money they would re-release Midnight Club Los Angeles on PC instead :)

If you set `no_db=1` in `Everything.ini` you can configure it to be memory-only: https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9994#:~:text...

I think re-indexing all my drives every time it runs is even worse.

I think you could uncheck “Indexes” → “NTFS” (or ReFS, or FAT, or whatever else) → “Monitor changes” to disable that and leave yourself to press the “Force Rebuild” button at whatever cadence you like.

Or, in `Everything.ini` terms:

  allow_force_rebuild=1
  home_update_indexes=1 -- ‘use the monitor_pause and monitor_stop states’
  monitor_stop=1
  home_update_indexed_properties=1 -- ‘use the indexed_property_pause state’
  indexed_property_pause=1
  read_directory_changes=0

Also I just realized you can get a better middle ground between the default daily DB update and RAM-only mode:

   db_auto_save_type=1  -- (From daily to interval mode)
   db_auto_save_interval=<milliseconds>

and btw sorry I'm not trying to convince you to like Everything; was just curious to figure out if/how it could be done :)

I like how GTAⅢ is the only 3D GTA game (not 3D-era GTA game, because Chinatown Wars lol) where you can permanently select the oldschool top-down camera. It's kind of a trip to play it that way.

I never knew that.

PS: loved Chinatown Wars. Unfortunate it’s not better known.

Your memory is correct! They released GTA1 (all expansions) and GTA2 as free “Rockstar Classics” in 2003 and 2004 respectively: https://web.archive.org/web/20130116055920/https://www.rocks...

One can get those versions here: https://archive.org/details/rockstar-classics_202107

They're great on XP-era machines! I have both installed on my HITACHI FLORA 270HX

1.5 Alpha kind of halfway does this: https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9793

Halfway because it is fast, but it's fast because it keeps the index entirely within RAM and thus you can't yet throw an arbitrarily-large disk of stuff at it to content-index.

And File Pilot :) https://filepilot.tech/ (t. FP Pro license holder)

I prefer XYPlorer.

I do like XYplorer as well and have a license for it too, but its startup time is just so slooooow that I can't reach for it like I reach for File Pilot.

Now written in twinBASIC for 64-bit support! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42637089

I have it in my startup. No time wasted to open its window.

I'm running the 1.5 Alpha for many of the reasons listed on its page: https://www.voidtools.com/everything-1.5a/ (especially Dark Mode and support for Properties/Tags/xattr/ADS/XMP)

e: also available in WinGet as `voidtools.Everything.Alpha` https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifes...

I wish we could say “were” :/ http://radicalcartography.net/bayarea.html

Discrimination based on money is so much more elegant than silly old race.