Edit: Everyone is asking for the code, so here it is. Keep in mind, this code assumes a few things:
- You’d need to specify the virtual environment path for Python.
- You’d need to specify the directory for which the games are located.
- You’d have to put a “game_info” file in each game’s root directory.
- You’d need to have steamcmd installed.
- The format of the game_info file is like this (I use CS.RIN.RU):
build: 17601020
steamid: 548430
csrinru: https://cs.rin.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=81377
Hope I’m not breaking any rules. This is my first post on Lemmy. I tried to post on garbage-ass Reddit but apparently being a new user means you can’t do fuck-all. So, I’m gonna try to make Lemmy a home.
Anyway, I pirate games. Mostly because I’m broke, and somewhat because I hate spending money on a game and then hating it 15 minutes into it. But anyway…that’s neither here nor there.
The entire purpose of this post is just to share this neat little thing I created. I’m not promoting it – it isn’t released. I just wanna share nerdy shit with other people.
The issue that I was having is that I figured, over time, my pirated game collection will get quite big. It will become increasingly more time-intensive to check back to the piracy forums for updated pirated versions of the game.
So I came up with a solution. Whenever I download a new pirated game, I will create a file called “game_info” in the directory which will include three little bits of data.
- The build number of the pirated game
- The Steam App ID
- The link to the forum topic about that game from the piracy site I go to.
I wrote a script that will scan my games directory for each game_info file. It will then use steamcmd to check SteamDB for the latest patches released and compare that to the current build number in the game_info file. Obviously if they don’t match – there’s an update. And it will inform me. This way I can quickly check if there are any updates available for a game, then I can go to the piracy forum and check to see if anyone has released the updated version yet.
I thought it was cool. Anyway, just thought I’d share some nerdy shit.
Feel free to degrade me.
I think it’s a lot of things honestly. For example, it’s not surprising that education continues to be attacked so much in the US, as it reduces the prevalence of right wing opinions based off all polling. I think it’s a big cause of the shift to the right among Gen Z, and I think the only thing that’s going to fix it critical media literacy, which it might be too late for a bunch of that generation, and even some of Gen Alpha.
Yep 100% agree, and it’s not just the US. I don’t want to even say that this is necessarily some kind of capitalist-fascist conscious conspiracy (in the early stages), but in a capitalist society there always is the push to strip the state to the minimum, lower taxes, privatize infrastructure and well, stripping education to the minimum needed to produce workers that perform just well enough for “the market” so they are not too qualified and do not have to be paid too much and are quickly and cheaply available.
Instead of focusing on developing well rounded human beings, education is reduced to a factory of cheap labor. With that comes the intellectual decline. German public schooling is facing a growing crisis as well and soon will get to the abysmal level of what one hears about the US.
Well and if you do that for a generation or two, society is too dumb to vote in their own interests or see through bullshit (which requires a certain foundation with respect to natural and social sciences). And NOW you have opened the door to the really bad actors who abuse the shit out of the weakened society. Which is the point where we are now.
And here we go, we got political from an initially non political discussion… Well, I guess there is some truth to the saying that everything is political, and right now it looks like most of the big problems have the same political cause.