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