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  • How can I play Steam software games within Steam?

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  • You're talking to a person who was homeless for 2 years, is currently seruously crippled, doing my own physical therapy because the US healthcare system is completely broken and unaffordable, and is writing this message to you from a piece of shit gas station cell phone that I have somehow managed to keep working through 2 blizzards over two years, that I experienced fully outdoors, while travelling about 2000 miles, with nothing but the clothes on my back.

    I've been building pcs out of spare parts, salvage and scrap since the 90s.

    You can fuck right off with your first world privilege bullshit and learn how to speak English if you want to converse in it.

  • How can I play Steam software games within Steam?

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  • No its not no loss, because if Steam figures out you have a real account and a 'cracked' account, they can ban both.

    I've personally known hackers this has happened to.

    See your hardware has a unique identifier. They know your're running the same machine with dual accounts, if you do it often enough, doesn't matter if you use a vpn or whatever.

    Anyway, sure, ok, this apparently allows you to spoof your way into Steam's multiplayer system.

    I don't see where that is stated, but maybe I missed it.

    So... this would only make sense with games that are entirely reliant on steam for networking, where you can't host a local server or use something like hamachi...

    So, what, you're 12 and want to play a cracked, probably also hacked, version of CS2 or ARK? Maybe DOTA2?

    ... You know Valve has a track record of criminally prosecuting people who hack their shit, right?

    Were you around when the HL2 Beta leak happened, because some guy penetrated Valve's internal systems, basically did a smash and grab?

    Yeah they pretended they were impressed, wanted to hire this guy, told him to fly on over from Europe for a job interview.

    The guy did that, and then... he was arrested when he got off the plane.

  • How can I play Steam software games within Steam?

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  • The instructions on the exact page that were linked are not followable.

    The readme.md or whatever the hell its called needs to be updated.

    You have the main page saying 'at this step, you can do one of two things'.

    The other page says 'you must only do one of those things.'

    These are poorly written instructions.

    Further... you have to use a gbe_fork.

    Either the one from otavepo, or the one from detanup1.

    Both of those are gbe_forks.

    .... Is this your thing?

    You are here displaying literacy levels on par with the author of the poorly worded github page in questiom.

  • How can I play Steam software games within Steam?

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  • Yeah, you're correct the otavepo repo is gone, almost certainly because it is literally illegal software.

    Generally speaking, you can't host hacking tools that specifically compromise proprietary software on github.

    (EDIT: For clarity, SteamOS may be open source, Proton may be open source... but Steam itself? Hahahahah, no.)

    Anyway, yeah, the given instructions simply are impossible to follow, you're not crazy.

    You would have to somehow find this otavepo software elsewhere, if it exists elsewhere.

    However, the main page of this also says it works with gbe_fork by DetanUp01, and that seems to be right here:

    https://github.com/Detanup01/gbe_fork

    ... This main page of the Goldberg repo also says that the author is not responsible for anything bad that happens to your Steam account while using all this software.

    ... because this is indeed the kind of thing that could get your Steam Account totally banned, and could also potentially get you hardware banned.

    You almost certainly do not want to use this.

    Is... some Steam Achievements for a game you torrented... really worth potentially getting permabanned from Steam?

  • How can I play Steam software games within Steam?

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  • Wait what, wtf is this thing?

    It emulates/fakes you owning a game, but not in the sense of actually owning a game, it just... allows you to collect Steam Achievements... as if you do own the game?

    This seems like the kinda thing where if you get caught, instant total Steam account ban.

    EDIT:

    Entirely seriously, it would make more sense to just use the Steam Family share system, just find a Steam oriented lemmy comm and propose making some kind of small game sharing group.

    All you'd have to figurr out is who gets to be 'Mom' and set the rules... but other than that, if you have access to a game via a family share?

    And you get achievements?

    Those are real, they stick, and you i think even get cards or gems or what not for playing the legitimately shared game.

    You just have to be able handling sharing, lol.

  • The system continues to work as intended

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  • More recent greatest hits from 'Economy Understanders':

    What. Is. A. Tariff?

    (Arguably this is taught in MacroEcon beginner course, so like, 201, or 102 depending on how your school does things, but yeah...)

  • The system continues to work as intended

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  • Yep, I was gonna say this.

    Ford was a racist piece of shit.

    But he was at least competent enough at capitalism to understand that... consumer products... need consumers... who are paid enough ... to be able to buy said products.

  • Do you feel sad about the fact that you'll probably die within 100 years (or less) and you (well... that's most of us tbh) can't do much to leave a significant positive legacy?

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  • I think that it just goes on forever.

    Sufficiently sized black hole in our universe?

    Thats a white hole, a big bang, a pocket dimension unto itself.

    Thus we live in some kind of... meta-system of universes, probably no real way to transit between them intact, but... destruction begets a new kind of creation, that you can literally never experience, yet it is real, and it also most likely never 'stops'.

    Hyperdimensional Matryoshka dolls, all the way down. ... and up.

    No way to know 'where' you are in all that.

  • Do you feel sad about the fact that you'll probably die within 100 years (or less) and you (well... that's most of us tbh) can't do much to leave a significant positive legacy?

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  • You've heard of Quantum Immortality... but have you heard of Quantum Silver Tongued Devil?

    Quantum Hostage Negotiator?

    Quantum Worst Possible Yet Most Persuasive Advice Ever Giver?

    I've always found this kind of stuff mostly nonsensical.

    ... what about building a nano (pico? much much smaller?) scale device that takes advantage of the Casimir effect to say, generate ... actually random numbers, not pseudo random numbers?

    Much more practical.

  • Do you feel sad about the fact that you'll probably die within 100 years (or less) and you (well... that's most of us tbh) can't do much to leave a significant positive legacy?

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  • "Rage against the dying of the light"...

    ... can look like being the best person you can be, for your own sense of morality/justice, for whatever you believe in, for whatever you feel is what, and how, a decent person should be.

    Even if someone says that altruism is nonsensical or strictly meaningless/impossible, the fact that somebody even aimed toward it is remarkable nonetheless.

    I'm gonna do it, I'm bustin' out the Architect scene:

    Neo ~walks to the door on his left~ chooses to reject the false dichotomy he has been presented.

    The Architect: Humph. Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness.

    Neo: If I were you, I would hope that we don’t meet again.

    The Architect: We won’t.

  • Do you feel sad about the fact that you'll probably die within 100 years (or less) and you (well... that's most of us tbh) can't do much to leave a significant positive legacy?

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  • Indifferent.

    I've been through things that should have killed me.

    I'm just happy the ride isn't over yet.

    Being stardust that can think about what stardust is, is pretty neat.

    ... Maybe I'll try to make an apple pie sometime soon...

  • The Turing test has been inverted.

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  • Literally yes, captchas trained older image recognition models.

  • The Turing test has been inverted.

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  • ... because I am examining the underside of the tortoise, to try and make out any significant details... because I am utterly befuddled as to how a tortoise came to be in the middle of a vast desert... and because I want to know where the hell I am.

    Presumably, I am in the American Southwest, but if I can possibly specify the species of tortoise, I may be able to discern whether I am in the Mojave, Sonora, or Colorado desert.

  • S&Box went open-source and the comments are very calm

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  • Yep.

    You can avoid having to do something like a total refactor that takes half the year, if you do the rough equivalent of a sanity check / clean up pass, when any new system or feature set is added, and make that habitual.

    Its... kinda like how if you just do a bit of regular shopping, regular meal prep, regularly do the dishes, whatever, everything just flows easier in general.

    The longer you run lean, move fast and break things.... yeah it can improve output in the short term, but medium to long term, you'll run yourself ragged, and things will break and fall apart.

  • S&Box went open-source and the comments are very calm

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  • Its likely a mix of Garry and maybe 2 to 4 other coders, who Garry assigns to develop various subsystems off of his broken core systems.

    Thats exactly how he did it during Garry's Mod.

  • S&Box went open-source and the comments are very calm

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  • If you were to talk like this in any job I've ever worked at, you'd be fired in about a week, maybe faster.

    Same with writing emails with this language.

    And you're missing my point that if you made your own functions... and they don't work right, ... you should fix those functions, rework them.

    Not doing that is how you get technical debt, spaghetti code, which is bad for you, bad for what you're trying to do, bad for anyone else trying to help you do it.

    Commenting on a bunch of slapdash fixes is like covering holes you punched in your wall with framed graffitti about how frustrated you are.

    If you saw that in a date's home, you'd hopefully recognizr that as a red flag and nope the hell out.

    If everybody else is too busy to actually fix the code, you have inept project management.

    You as well have clearly never worked in an actual professional software dev environment, if you think this is reasonable or defensible.

  • What are some of the worst code you have seen in a production environment?

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  • Garry's Mod. Rust (the game, not the programming language).

  • What are some of the worst code you have seen in a production environment?

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  • A bit late to the party on this one, but Facepunch just opensourced a bunch of their code, I nominate that.

  • S&Box went open-source and the comments are very calm

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  • Yep.

    Not too long ago I was explaining to people how Garry is both an asshole and bad at coding... now we get to see the unprofessional struggle session.

    Like, if you are frustrated that calling methods from your own code base doesn't work... maybe fix your code's utility functions?

    Instead of doing one off hackjobs for everything?

    Any serious, experienced coder has tendencies toward this or even versions of their code with some of this kind of stuff in it.

    ... but you fucking clean it up and rewrite the rage with actually helpful documentation, if you actually give a damn about other people who might use it.

    As the TF2 Sniper put it:

    Professionals have standards.

  • PC Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller

    www.pcgamer.com /hardware/valve-announces-steam-machine-frame-controller/
  • PC Gaming @lemmy.ca
    sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller

    www.pcgamer.com /hardware/valve-announces-steam-machine-frame-controller/
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
    sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller

    www.pcgamer.com /hardware/valve-announces-steam-machine-frame-controller/
  • Gaming @beehaw.org
    sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller

    www.pcgamer.com /hardware/valve-announces-steam-machine-frame-controller/
  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    "Make America Great Again"

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    Laika - Bad Times (little known Y2K song, whole thing is arguably a programmer humor joke)