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.
And I feel like many ex-redditors that turned to lemmy where also very political.
My only gripe with Reddit is nowadays how the UI is slow af and thr interaction is very limited.
Example of a Lemmy user turning a non-political comment political:https://feddit.org/comment/6326797
Well I mostly never used any kind of social media for political things until very recently. Just read news on the respective newspaper websites. Maybe that did the trick.
And just wow. Yeah well, some people are just always trying to pick up a useless tribal fight or stir up some drama, or just mess with others i.e. troll...
That's why good mods are worth their weight in gold.
Just check a sub like /r/askhistorians, they might sometimes appear harsh but they managed to keep that place true to its vision and purpose (accepting only high quality responses by people who know what they are talking about). But sure, that is rather the exception.