I would like games to arrive as a single complete package, but I was relatively fond of expansion packs from games like RollerCoaster Tycoon.

They took the game you already had, and pretty much doubled it, they were fantastic!

Far better than any modern DLC for sure.

This is a good question, I’m not actually sure to be honest with you.

So far I’ve heard nothing about the main project receiving any sort of threats, and even the Steam page wasn’t officially DMCAd or the like. It was more of a threat saying they WOULD officially DMCA if the project wasn’t taken down.

It’s very interesting that it was played like this rather than just officially issuing a DMCA takedown request. Almost like they weren’t 100% convinced the official DMCA would actually hold up?

At present, it will create a post per deal. Which would be way too spammy!

However, the bot is currently offline whilst I’m trying to make some changes. I want to get it into a state where it aggregates multiple deals into a single post. Rather than posting a post per deal that is found!

I don’t know if this is something that is possible to do unfortunately. It’s not something I’ve seen available in any of the settings and such I’m afraid :(

Hi, many thanks for the compliments! The bot is having a couple of problems atm which I’m trying to solve, so it’s not live at present. The downvote button being enabled / disabled is set by the home instance you are using. For example, the downvote button is enabled on my own compuverse.uk instance, however it appears Beehaw does not enable the downvote option, and thus you don’t have the option there.

Source Code

I do plan on making the source code for this bot public eventually.

It’s a lot better than it was when I first started, but still an absolute travesty with a lot of hardcoded nonsense.

Once the code is cleaned up, I will be posting the source code on my GitHub over at https://github.com/CameronRedmore

This is a great point! At present I’m using a UK dataset, but I could likely cross reference with the datasets from other regions and try to find the price in those too. Maybe give prices like [£5/$6/€5.50] or something!

I’ll have a look and see what I can do :)

Ah, most of my public stuff is indeed in Java, but I haven’t made any new projects in Java for quite a while now haha.

Most of my projects have actually been in NodeJS until rather recently.

As my introduction post states, I’m trying to learn Rust at the minute! So the bot is actually written in Rust!

Unfortunately, not knowing a language leads itself to writing terrible, unreadable code that goes against all the conventions haha! Hence the horrendous state the bot is in right now :)

I’ve temporarily taken the bot down whilst I rewrite it and make it more general and clean. I’m trying to make it more… modular :)

I’ve just had an idea however, I could implement a system which would enable to bot to run an external command, parse in the output (likely JSON), and then treat it as posts to make, that would enable anyone to write a “provider” in any language they like, the main bot would just call that, and so long as they returned data in the right format, it’d just work.

Something to think about for sure! 🤔

Whilst not directly intended for gaming, my instance is targeted specifically for technology, of which PC Gaming would definitely come under!

You’re more than welcome to join and create communities for AMD, Nvidia, Intel etc. if you so wish!

We already have !gaming@compuverse.uk and !retrogaming@compuverse.uk communities.

But you’re welcome to make more specific communities if you so wish!

Coleman is a real brand!? I legitimately had no idea 😂

I loved FFXV, the only advertisement I outright noticed was Cup Noodles, but that was a SUPER egregious one!

The bot code is SUPER nasty right now, lots of hardcoded URLs and stuff atm.

I plan to generalise it and then I’ll likely throw it on my GitHub! https://github.com/CameronRedmore

I’ll let you know once it’s up there :)

Technically the domain of this instance didn’t change. This instance was setup from scratch, under compuverse.uk.

However, a different instance did run under the same domain for a brief period of time, which was removed, and completely replaced by a brand new fresh instance.

Good ideas! I’ll take a look and see what I can do :)

At present the information (including the historic low indication) is coming from the same source as the deals themselves (https://yesthereisadeal.com), I’ll have to look into trying to extract the game’s name, and attempt to match it to an OpenCritic / MetaCritic score!

Thanks for the suggestions, if you have any more ideas, please do let me know :D

👋 I’m Cameron, the Admin of the instance in question.

It’s a very odd situation, I’m entirely new to this whole Fediverse thing myself, but, trying my best!

I noticed in my log, literally just after @TopHat@compuverse.uk posted their comment, this popped up:

I’m unsure as to exactly what this is referring to, as the comment was made from my instance, but it appears the instance believes it came from elsewhere?

It’s very odd and I can’t really explain it I’m afraid.

The first version of this bot is now live! I’ve got many more plans for it in future, but I think I’ve got a good proof of concept working now :)

https://compuverse.uk/c/gamedeals There is now ;)

Most of the mods that were infected were projects specifically designed to host the malware. From what I’ve read, only one legitimate user’s projects were affected, and like yourself, I’d never heard of the mods personally.

So, this is a dangerous bit of malware for sure, with the potential to spread quite badly, but so far I believe it’s had quite a limited reach due to not actually infecting anything super popular.

This situation is potentially a little overblown.

A very specific subset of mods were problematic.

The real worry is that the malware can automatically spread itself into all the other .jar files on your device!

CurseForge have a disinfection guide here: https://support.curseforge.com/en/support/solutions/articles/9000228509-june-2023-infected-mods-detection-tool/

So I highly recommend you give that a check through if you’ve downloaded anything from CurseForge recently.