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I love this idea, but I really wish it were Warcraft II voices.
by caymanjim 8mo ago
I love this idea, but I really wish it were Warcraft II voices.
- petethepig 8mo agothat's what i ended up doing — it was pretty easy: * download Warcraft II voices * tell claude to wire it all up
- andai 8mo agoFantastic. And Claude can do the first part too! The age of the WALL-E blobs is upon us!
- rcpt 8mo agoSame. Ouch my back.
- largbae 8mo agoZug zug
- hypercube33 8mo agoWe are being attacked!
- reconnecting 8mo agoZwobu!
- tigerlily 8mo agoDone building ship!
- rob74 8mo agoOr good old Warcraft I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAEG8S-F01A&t=7s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAEG8S-F01A&t=7s
- caymanjim 8mo agoThanks for that link. I now realize it's actually the Warcraft I voices I was pining for!
- Maakuth 8mo agoYour sound card works perfectly.
- x______________ 8mo agoIt doesn't get any better than this!
- reconnecting 8mo agoSound Blaster Pro!
- disillusioned 8mo agoHello, fellow 40-45(?) year old. I feel like anyone preferring Warcraft III is in their 30s. Grew up with the Warcraft II Battle Chest and it was a vibe.
- virtue3 8mo agoSame. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
- Gud 8mo agoMostly the best of times
- jonathanlydall 8mo agoSpeaking as a 44-year-old, this tracks.
- Gud 8mo agoHey, lots of us 39 year olds who played Warcraft 2!
- crims0n 8mo ago38 even!
- cozzyd 8mo agoI had a pirated version on a zip drive
- red-iron-pine 8mo agopeople wax poetic about betamax and laserdisk but never heard anyone mention zip drive, in a good or bad way, lol
- cozzyd 8mo agoBefore cd-rs, it felt like magic. Like a floppy but 100 times bigger!
- geekymartian 8mo agomy man
- andai 8mo agoOh my god https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqGUbvj-Krg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqGUbvj-Krg
- cbsks 8mo agoWow. I had a visceral reaction to the “we’re being attacked!” clip. Haven’t heard that for a long time, but it still got my heart racing.
- knuckleheads 8mo agoRed Alert II for me would be great. A plea to the various lab engineering teams: please create a json format or whatever that lets me configure this with voices locally. I am a happy user as of late of the Codex app by Open AI. It would be great if I could just give it some JSON somehow and it just works. I suppose skills can do this and I will try that later on. But I think this stuff matters, and it would be nice to have it built in and encouraged.
- rmuratov 8mo agoIt has Red Alert 2 voices. Check the carousel under the Choose your character section
- knuckleheads 8mo agoOh wow!! Thanks for letting me know, perfect
- pwillia7 8mo agoCode won't compile: Tanya - Hahahhahahaha! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssVqnEGpsgI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssVqnEGpsgI
- oreally 8mo agoExtremely easy to do with sound recording software or youtube mp3 downloaders. Takes a little imagination and makes programming less onerous in a deviate kind of way.
- TeMPOraL 8mo agoShowing my age here, but the original samples are available too, and in MP3 or WAV format - they're in the installation directory of the game (in case of StarCraft and W3, hidden in a weird pseudo-ZIP data file (used to call it "Virtual File System")). That's where we sourced them from to set them as system sounds, back when Windows versions were still in four digits. If you're enough of a fan to want to use these voices, chances are you still have the original installation media (or original bootleg copy) somewhere around the house :).
- andreareina 8mo agoI may or may not have had the ogre finished training clip as my startup "chime"
- Kirr 8mo agoAye-aye sir! Captain on the bridge!
- veeti 8mo agoAge of Empires II anyone?
- fragmede 8mo agowoloul https://quicksounds.com/sound/49/wololo https://quicksounds.com/sound/49/wololo
- river_otter 8mo agoI did that a few weeks ago ;) https://github.com/njbrake/agent-of-empires https://github.com/njbrake/agent-of-empires (This was the HN Post about it -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850881)
- bandie91 8mo agoSssshhhhhh-hhhhaaaa
- bandrami 8mo ago"Plebs are needed!"
- hcs 8mo agoDo you need assistance?
- Quarrel 8mo agoJob's Done!
- nonethewiser 8mo agoNeeds this so bad
- ffsm8 8mo agoIf you went to the website, you'd know there are multiple sets to choose from and create your own
- athrowaway3z 8mo agoI went to the website, and I'm just scared how overengineered it all seems to be.
- ffsm8 8mo agoUh, are you sure you did? I mean it's just using the hooks API of Claude code to play a sound via the terminal itself? Heck, they even outlined it in the readme > peon.sh is a Claude Code hook registered for SessionStart, UserPromptSubmit, Stop, and Notification events. On each event it maps to a sound category, picks a random voice line (avoiding repeats), plays it via afplay (macOS) or PowerShell MediaPlayer (WSL2), and updates your Terminal tab title. Looking at the install script and peon.sh does not raise any over engineering flags for me. It's as simple as the functionally makes it necessary
- athrowaway3z 8mo agoYes; it could be a README, a folder with subfolders of sounds, 1 or 2 files with functions totalling less than 200 loc for unix, maybe 700 total to have windows support and some extra features. I get how they got here ; its how claude and codex approach projects, but what does the rest achieve? Your maintenance rituals shouldn't exceed your usecase at this scale.
- ffsm8 8mo agoOkay, but the install script is around 200 LOC and the peon.sh is just under 500 LOC ... So by your own numbers, it'd be expected loc size? What's exactly over engineered here? The fact he added config files to let people create their own package?
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- sebbeth 8mo agoMe too! PR created https://github.com/tonyyont/peon-ping/pull/38 https://github.com/tonyyont/peon-ping/pull/38
- Intermernet 8mo agoThe warcraft 2 demo had Easter eggs. One voice sample was "in the retail version I'm much funnier".
- Ntrails 8mo agoFor years I had Pidgin spam "Leave me alone" when I got pings. Man those voices are deeply embedded in my psyche