Edit: Everyone is asking for the code, so here it is. Keep in mind, this code assumes a few things:

  1. You’d need to specify the virtual environment path for Python.
  2. You’d need to specify the directory for which the games are located.
  3. You’d have to put a “game_info” file in each game’s root directory.
  4. You’d need to have steamcmd installed.
  5. 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.

  1. The build number of the pirated game
  2. The Steam App ID
  3. 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.

  • Bobby Turkalino@lemmy.yachtsEnglish
    70·
    14 hours ago

    They said they’re new to Lemmy, so they’re probably used to redditors, and anyone still on that platform is very much not okay

    • zenforyen@feddit.orgEnglish
      11·
      12 hours ago

      I managed to be 10 years on reddit in niche hobby and nerd communities and it feels like I lived in some parallel reddit all the time, reading about how toxic and broken it is supposed to be.

      Same with YouTube. There are nice channels with less than 100k Views per Video or even just a fraction of it, producing amazing informative videos.

      Gotta find the gems in the dirt.

      I have a nagging feeling the platform is not or only a part of the problem, but collective human nature is. When enough people join a platform to be a representative sample, you get the representative shittiness of the literally median person on the internet.

      • Bobby Turkalino@lemmy.yachtsEnglish
        3·
        9 hours ago

        The platform is definitely part of the problem. Bending over backwards to serve the desires of the Trump administration and the executive class

        • zenforyen@feddit.orgEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          Compared to say the Meta networks, reddit always felt to me like a platform where I can still control what I see. The feed is only filled by stuff I actively chose to subscribe to.

          Sure it is a part of the problem - it’s the reason I joined Lemmy. And I wonder how long it will take to become the same kind of wasteland of trash. Not sure that the “smaller community and less viral incentives” approach will be enough to keep it more civil than the “offers” by the commercial attention economy.

          Just as a reminder, before the internet was privatized, people were on self hosted forums. Some were good places and some were toxic shit holes. Really depends more on the moderation and community than anything else if you ask me.

          That said, surely I am distrusting any platform owned by some oligarch to have policy in the interest of the user base.

      • solofroto@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
        5·
        11 hours ago

        Yep, George Carlin said it best. Individually, people are amazing, but when they start to group, they’re awful – the begin to sacrifice their individuality for the sake of the group.

    • solofroto@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      4·
      11 hours ago

      Omg Reddit is so bad. Genuinely bad. And it’s hard for me to be disgusted.

    • Lka1988@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      I try to get banned as much as I can there until every IP I use to make accounts is IP banned. Which means entire physical sites can get banned if I try hard enough.

      Edit: Got a 7-day ban for saying fascists should be shot and left for dead in the street.