| brobostigon | morning boys and girls. | 07:05 |
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| zmoylan-pi | o/ | 07:07 |
| brobostigon | o/ | 07:11 |
| diddledan | m000rning | 10:59 |
| brobostigon | morning | 11:04 |
| diddledan | https://twitter.com/OzzyManReviews/status/1004561214964318208?s=17 | 11:15 |
| zmoylan-pi | 'allo, 'allo | 11:20 |
| diddledan | were you just pissing by the door? | 11:22 |
| zmoylan-pi | i was just pissing by the door when i was told to bring the candle with the handle... | 11:25 |
| Almo | hello, did anyone tried Ubuntu in Lenovo X1 carbon? | 12:30 |
| Almo | ok | 12:35 |
| ali1234 | Azelphur: do you like to idle for cards on steam? | 13:04 |
| Azelphur | ali1234: nah, I don't bother with the cards | 13:04 |
| ali1234 | i was just looking at idle master python version... it's crazy | 13:05 |
| ali1234 | i think i'm going to rewrite it | 13:05 |
| Azelphur | sounds fun :) | 13:06 |
| diddledan | "idle for cards"? | 13:07 |
| ali1234 | diddledan: first you get the games, then you get the cards, then you get the badges... | 13:07 |
| diddledan | huh? | 13:08 |
| ali1234 | when you play a game on steam, you get trading cards in the steam client | 13:08 |
| ali1234 | but if you dont want to play the game, you can just trick steam into thinking you are playing it instead | 13:08 |
| ali1234 | then you sell the cards for $0.07 each | 13:09 |
| ali1234 | it's a lot of work for $0.07... unless you write a script to do it for you | 13:13 |
| diddledan | I'm betting it costs more in electricity than you're recouping | 13:14 |
| ali1234 | my computer runs 24 hours a day anyway | 13:14 |
| diddledan | not driving graphics it doesn't | 13:14 |
| ali1234 | well yeah | 13:14 |
| ali1234 | you dont run the game | 13:14 |
| ali1234 | you run a program that impersonates the game and sleeps | 13:14 |
| diddledan | aha | 13:15 |
| ali1234 | all you do is set an environment variable to the steam app ID of the game, then dlopen steamapi.so and call init() | 13:16 |
| ali1234 | then sleep forever | 13:16 |
| diddledan | so, like, can you be "playing" every game in your library simultaneously? | 13:16 |
| ali1234 | technically yes, but i think you only get cards at the same rate so there is no point | 13:17 |
| diddledan | oooh, ok | 13:17 |
| diddledan | it's a steam thing, not a steam+game thing | 13:17 |
| ali1234 | the game talks to steam client through steamapi.so, yes | 13:17 |
| diddledan | I figured you were getting game-specific cards | 13:17 |
| ali1234 | you do have to have steam running as well | 13:18 |
| ali1234 | the cards are game specific | 13:18 |
| ali1234 | but every game has them | 13:18 |
| ali1234 | well, most | 13:18 |
| ali1234 | they don't do anything in game though | 13:19 |
| diddledan | I don't get your comment about only getting them at the same rate then, if they're specific to each game you play | 13:19 |
| diddledan | if they're specific to the active game, then surely having more games active means more specific cards | 13:20 |
| ali1234 | they are specific to each game, but the steam client/server infrastructure decides when you get one | 13:24 |
| ali1234 | basically it's a pointlessly complicated system designed to make you play the games you bought | 13:28 |
| daftykins | diddledan: o/ | 15:58 |
| daftykins | diddledan: just been given that wordpress site at last in .zip form, if you're about i can prod thee in PM with more details mayhaps | 15:59 |
| ali1234 | awesome its working | 18:06 |
| ali1234 | it managed to detect that it got all the cards for a game and switch to another one :) | 18:06 |
| daftykins | :D | 18:10 |
| daftykins | when i first saw those trading cards come up i facepalmed, should really throw them to someone who cares | 18:10 |
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