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  wiseowise
  Finally someone doing actual good work with LLMs instead of “Claude, shit me out another useless SaaS”.Just as was foretold: an actual differentiator is creativity, not coding ability.
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  magicalhippo
  Reminded me of Warcraft (the first), where, if you kept clicking on the same unit they would respond in more annoyed ways. The best IMHO was the human soldier[1], which would end with "Why do you keep touching me?".First game that I knew of which had such fun details like that.[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaZyZZtwdzQ
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  splonk
  Maybe 20 years ago a build system at Google was called "grunt". For some reason I came across a CL description that said something like "make the build 10% funnier." It made the build script output an additional "zug-zug" line 10% of the time.
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  nottorp
  I don't see any mention of having to own warcraft 3 to use its assets...This is as much of a copyright violation as the LLM training process.Did anyone vote an exemption from copyright if it's for "AI" use?
• Dwedit
  I remember making custom Warcraft II levels, and you could change the construction time for buildings. If you picked a construction time of zero, the building would be built very quickly, but be damaged. There's something hilarious about asking a peasant to build a farm, then seeing a burning farm and hearing the "Job's Done!"
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  caymanjim
  I love this idea, but I really wish it were Warcraft II voices.
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  nusl
  This is cool. I was tempted to try it until I saw the curl | bash pipe, then no. This workflow is getting really old.I guess that I also don't want to pollute old good memories by associating them with work/Claude
• d4rkp4ttern
  Related: I used the amazing 100M-parameter Pocket-TTS [1] model to make a stop-hook based voice plugin [2] that lets Claude Code give a short voice update whenever it stops. The hook quietly inserts nudges to Claude Code to end its response with a short speakable summary, and in case it forgets, it uses a headless agent to create the summary.It was trickier than I expected, to get it working well: FFMpeg pipe streaming for low-latency playback, a three-hook injection strategy because the agent forgets instructions mid-turn, mkdir-based locks to queue concurrent voice updates from multiple sessions, and /tmp sentinel files to manage async playback state and prevent infinite loops.[1] Pocket-TTS: https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts[2] Claude-code voice plugin: https://pchalasani.github.io/claude-code-tools/plugins-detai...
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  isoprophlex
  My god I never realised how badly I wanted this until now. Only, with the voice of the Star Trek Computer. Elevenlabs, here I come..!Edit: well that only took me 30 minutes. "Warning: ssh tunnel collapsed. Unable to proceed."Nice.
• Lucasoato
  Actually, I’ve seen a 150% improvement on Claude Opus 4.6 just by setting up the notifications with Final Fantasy VI menu sounds.
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  thomasfromcdnjs
  I was kinda watching it unfold on X, I think this user was a couple days before https://x.com/delba_oliveira/status/2020515010985005255?s=46 and simpler/less-invasive instructions---Also, I'd love to use these sound effects, but I am an rts player and love aoe and wc franchise, these noises just trigger me to want to play too much.---Also, also, if you haven't seen AgentCraft, you are missing out -> https://x.com/idosal1/status/2021661861163544818 (worked in one npx command for me using my claude, a+ for creativity and smoothness)
• giancarlostoro
  Oh man, can we get Starcraft version, I wanna hear "WE MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS" for every minute I dont tab back in.
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  bronkic
  Cool idea but not very helpful if you're playing Warcraft III while waiting for claude code to be done.
• Symmetry
  If you're the sort of person not to use a pre-packaged desktop environment, you can use mako as your notofication daemon and get the same effect by adding on-notify=exec play /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/complete.oga or the equivalent to your config.
• general1465
  Stronghold Crusader advisor would be much funnier: Token stocks are too low sire! Not enough tokens mi lord!
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  skrunch
  Would love this with CS1.6 voices: "GO GO GO!", "The bomb has been planted", "Need backup"
• daveytea
  Love this but i'm a Codex user, so forked and created the equivalent here: https://github.com/mrdavey/codex-peon
• literallyroy
  I don’t see “Jobs done!” in the README :(
• itsjustjordan
  I just swapped all my Claude code spinner verbs to be Warcraft related and was thinking today how I could get it to say “Jobs done” when it needed my attention
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  CGamesPlay
  If you want this to work over SSH, you'll need a different approach. I wrote an article about getting sounds from iTerm2 over SSH a while back: https://cgamesplay.com/post/2020/11/25/iterm-plugins/#playin...Then it's just a simple Claude code hook to play whatever sound: https://github.com/CGamesPlay/dotfiles/blob/0fd07aea4863b581...
• adamtaylor_13
  I just added Helldivers 2 voice lines to mine. SWEET LIBERTY MY LEEEEEEHG.
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  standarditem
  This is great! I already have Claude set up to use the "insufficient vespene gas" line from Starcraft when it needs permissions.
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  midtake
  I'll be looking forward to making an Infested Terran sound pack.
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  aliljet
  What I really want is for the peon voice to be replicated and for custom things to be in that voice. Or even better, the starcraft battlecruiser guy's voice!
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  AceJohnny2
  > Claude Code doesn't notify you when it finishes or needs permission. You tab away, lose focus, and waste 15 minutes getting back into flow.On macOS, in iTerm2, Claude will trigger notifications. I was impressed!(and also annoyed: I don't like notifications. Then again, I don't have Claude do long things where I can go get a coffee)
• Fnoord
  ICQ and TomTom voice packs deja vu. Although 'oh-oh' was heavily used by public broadcast TV here, in documentaries warning about cybercrime.
• brailsafe
  This is amazing. Incidentally, I've always enjoyed Blizzard's UI art style/textures, in-game and on their website. To me it felt like a hallmark of the quality they used to hold their games to, and it was only once in a rare while I'd see some other website put so much work into their art direction
• patrick4urcloud
  Love this, brings back LAN party vibes! Sound notifications for Claude Code are a real pain point.I built something in the same space but took a different approach — less fun, more engineering: Vox (https://github.com/rtk-ai/vox) — local TTS in pure Rust, no API key, no cloud dependency.
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  2gremlin181
  I knew I had to add GLaDOS as soon as I saw this. Unfortunately, while testing my PR I realized there’s no support for Linux. Hopefully someone smarter than me can get that added sooner rather than later.
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  olivierestsage
  I missed out on Warcraft III the first time around. What's the best way to play the original game today?
• anon
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• dtzur
  You sir, deserve a medal
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  hiq
  If you're interested in playing wc3 online, consider checking out https://www.w3champions.com.
• IgorPartola
  The StarCraft Battle Cruiser Engage sound is cut off which made me sad as it’s one of my favorites.
• tomekowal
  Attention! Lawsuit from Blizzard imminent.
• xandrius
  Really cool, just one nitpick is that the "What do you want?" is used for 2 completely states (greeting and alert), which is not good UX-wise.Otherwise totally fun idea!
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  bacon_fan123
  someone filed a PR to add TF2 engineer, good ol' times :')
• x-n2o
  Love this!
• Fervicus
  Warcraft 3 was so good. Sucks that there never was any worthy successor.
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  sy26
  have been wondering what it would take to support linux
• kaasl
  I'd love to add some Linux support for this. If anyone else is interested in contributing, happy to coordinate.
• andrew_mason1
  my only request is that when it spawns a subagent we get "nother troll here"
• Aeolun
  This is the best thing I've ever seen xD
• burner420042
  Is WoW still around? Did it fall off? All of a sudden people just stopped talking about it.
• bothlabs
  Ok very cool!I already had built a hook with desktop notification and window highlighting myself. But I have to admit, making it fun like this beats it by a lot.
• disillusioned
  I had wired up my local Claude Code instance to play back a sound on my Windows machine, but for my VPS-with-tmux-and-Clawdbot implementation, getting that to work... well, it just required me asking Claude to write an emitter script on the VPS and a listener script on my Windows box and have them connect over Tailscale and got it working in about 2 minutes. Game changer, honestly.
• KeplerBoy
  I need to check if I can voice clone warcraft peons with some tts-model. I need this everywhere.
• ares623
  Anthropic should release AI generated voice packs for Claude. I'm sure they'll be very popular.
• bjackman
  ISTR there's a "more gold is needed" voice sprite, ideal for out-of-tokens scenarios
• cadamsdotcom
  Ah! I was hoping to see the science vessel, or as we used to call it, the Mr. Burns ship.Awesome idea and well realised, love this :)
• whalesalad
  I can already hear it now… “ready to work!”
• datapond
  OMG, you are my hero of the day !
• ameshkov
  Love the idea, made a Windsurf-compatible version: https://github.com/ameshkov/peon-ping-windsurf
• moomoo11
  Horde just continues to be infinitely badass and memorable all these years later.I haven't played WoW since like 2006-2011 but I will always be Horde for life! Lok'Tar Ogar!
• witx
  All I see here is a bunch of people cheering for, allegedly, stolen content
• alentodorov
  just this week i asked claude to use /say command instead of echo-ing it’s messages • magic!
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  henning
  Everything in AI is built on copyright infringement, so redistributing Blizzard assets while slapping an MIT license on everything is par for the course.
• dr_dshiv
  I use this analogy for Claude Code all the time! Amazing.
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  barbs
  Shouldn't the sound for when a task finishes be something like "Job done!"? Looking at the table it seems like it makes the sound for acknowledging that it's received an order (e.g. "I can do that").
• SpaceManNabs
  I miss the wisp
• vicentwu
  Genuis!
• r00ps
  This is exactly what I was missing!I've made a PR to make it linux compatible if that is usefull to someone else :)
• anon
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• boring-human
  Love this. I guess there was no application for "Me not that kind of Orc"? That's the best one, but maybe it has hints of homophobia.
• canto
  Good day commander!
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  XorNot
  Hmm, time to voice clone the Protoss advisor from StarCraft: "YOU REQUIRE ADDITIONAL TOKENS"
• artemonster
  Is this singularity event everyone was talking about? Certainly feels like it
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  throwa356262
  This is cool and all, but I just dont understand why we cannot simply manage Claude Code sessions from the Claude phone.Yes, I know about running CC on android phones or connecting the bot to your github account. But what I really need is to manage CC sessions I started on some random VM from the app.
• aswegs8
  Hahaha awesome!
• BoredPositron
  Taz Dingo man.
• 29athrowaway
  Make it play "I am a medieval man" when it compacts.You can also play "Your soundcard works perfectly" to test the sound output.
• khazhoux
  "ok"
• reeddev42
  [dead]
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  keyle
  The irony is that soon enough the human will be the peon! /s