JTskulk

joined 2 years ago
[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

I write Python for fun, I'm not a programmer. The more you learn, the more you can do. I've written a lot of scripts and tools to help me automate tasks I do frequently. It's a lot of fun to dream up an idea and then make it real, and then later add random features that pop into my head. Windows sucks.

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

This is world news? Who cares what one doctor says?

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Never tried it outside of the USA, couldn't tell ya.

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Never heard of this. Sounds useful, except I'm really only buying something from them because I need it quickly most of the time. I don't have the convenience of waiting for price drops like I do with Steam games haha. Thanks for sharing!

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

Best value? I'd say it's A1!

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 83 points 14 hours ago (12 children)

Fakespot was kinda nice, whenever I looked at something on amazon I'd get a sidebar showing which reviews are real and summarizing them. It's actually pretty useful. Definitely will not miss Pocket.

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I don't use it and I avoid the hundreds of vapid articles about it on my tech news sites. So I'm less depressed about AI but still depressed about how stupid the people are that use it.

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

It's not dead until I stop getting 10 year old outdated answers in my searches!

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

My friend and I saw a ghost, and we don't believe in that nonsense. Late one night we were playing Starcraft in my room which is set up so a window looks into a hallway that leads to a courtyard and then into the main house. We heard the gate click open as someone approached so we looked at the hallway window and both saw what looked like a tall person in a plain white shirt with indistinguishable features. The face was blurry, I couldn't tell you what color skin this person had. My friend immediately opened the blinds to the courtyard to see who was here so late, but there was nothing. We walked out to the courtyard and looked around and couldn't see anyone or anything. There's no way for a person to hide anywhere here except for walking back out which we would have seen. I still can't explain it today. Maybe it was a plastic bag blowing past the window, but then what caused the gate to open and make noise?

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

I don't like the Epic Game Store because Epic has turned it's back on Linux. Their client doesn't run on Linux which is where I do all my gaming. I also recognize the economic fuckery they're doing to gain popularity. They're spending their Fortnite war chest money on subsidizing games to give them away for the purpose of monopolizing their game store. It's not fair for other game stores like GOG who can't just buy game licenses for everyone to become popular.

I hate console gamers as they've perverted the FPS genre.

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

2 chicks at the same time.

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I'm a Linux gamer with a Youtube dedicated to competitive Starcraft 2: https://youtube.com/@jthundley

I automated making and uploading these videos which is half the fun. Now I just press a button to start recording, press a button to stop, a couple of scripts do the rest :)

I try to share info here with the Lemmy Starcraft community as Blizzard has been making changes that make the game run worse. I wrote a couple scripts for previewing and opening replays that I'm going to share as soon as they're complete and user-friendly.

 

Our GSL favorites have battled it out to make it into the GSL.

 

A little light on the lyrics, but do you really need more?

 

Hey guys, I know this doesn't apply to many people, but I'm posting my findings in the hope that search engines will index this and help somebody someday. I and a couple friends play Starcraft 2 in Linux using Valve's Proton. Ever since the last balance patch, we've all been hit by this bug where double-tapping an army or building control group doesn't move the camera to view the unit(s). The only thing I've found that fixes this is to delete the user.reg file before you launch the game. This has to be done every time otherwise the bug returns. Unfortunately, deleting this file means you also have to sign into the Blizzard Launcher every time too. You can automate the deletion of the file by changing your Steam shortcut:

  1. Right click on the steam shortcut
  2. Click on Properties...
  3. Change Launch Options to say "rm -f /path/to/user.reg ; %command%" where /path/to/user.reg is the path copied from the Target and then modified. See attached picture.

If you use Xorg, you can use my script to automate the entire sign-in and game launch process using pyautogui: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MD6e9-eDLO44wotWVuFrvpC4Q0k4id5A/view?usp=sharing Just make sure you change the 2 variables that say CHANGEME near the top.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by JTskulk@lemmy.world to c/starcraft@lemmy.world
 

Hello my fellow dead community subscribers! I've been very frustrated by the lack of communication by the balance team and/or whoever is pushing patches. I heard that in this last patch they fixed the biggest of the bugs, but not all of them. The bugs are detailed in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IAj0CB91Pk I've gone through them to see which are fixed and which are still present:

  1. Lurkers shooting units cloaked by Mothership: Fixed!
  2. Oracle revelation with extra range: Still present (I think, this one is hard to reproduce from the video, I'm not sure how exactly range is calculated for revelation.)
  3. Cyclones doing extra damage: Fixed! It leaves a mothership with 300 hp instead of 200 after a full lockon.
  4. Amygdala reaper jump spots: Still bugged, at least partially. Testing this one is hard but I did get a reaper to bug out and spin in a circle like in the video.
  5. Protoss Assimilator probe-queing: Fixed! If you tell a probe to make an assimilator and then queue a 2nd assimilator, it builds the 2nd one right after starting the first.
  6. Energy recharge on warping in units: Still present. Units being warped in are untargetable by Energy Recharge until the unit is fully warped in.
 

New balance patch is live on the PTR.

 

KDE 5 had a feature in the keyboard shortcuts in settings where you could set a Window Action as a trigger instead of a keyboard shortcut (Documentation in the link). This means that KDE would do something every time a certain window appeared. This was very useful, my use case was changing the TeamViewer authorization prompt to NT logon as I don't use the normal TeamViewer password. I think there should be a workaround if it's truly gone, but for the life of me I can't remember or search for the name of this software that does something every time a certain window is created.

 

I was going to link to his Youtube page, but it seems these videos are unlisted! Here are the 2 I have so far:

Harstem - Reynor, Byun, Oliveira, Clem in $42000 StarCraft II Tournament

Harstem - Serral, maru, Dark, Cure and more in $42000 StarCraft II Tournament

 

This was a Lenovo. Now I'm wondering if Windows or Linux has a better BIOS.

 
 

I don't understand how these 2 always have such bangers of games. Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't Special a lot better than Cham? Special competes in the GSL, I hadn't even heard of Cham until this or last year.

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