TyrianMollusk

@TyrianMollusk@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Augmented Steam browser plugin added AI features from VaporLens⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just displaying review summaries from VaporLens next to the reviews on the store page. There’s no AI boogeymen in the plugin itself, and you can easily disable the feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, I knew which game you meant. It was just an oddly dismissive and mildly inaccurate way to refer to a legit top-tier game.

  I play a lot of twin-sticks, so Robotron was a real curve to throw in. From my perspective, those are pretty different ;P

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  geometry wars meets robotron type deal.

  That makes no sense. Both of those are just arcade twin-stick shooters, and Sektori is no more Robotron than Geometry Wars was. Also, while Sektori very obviously draws a lot on Geometry Wars, it’s an amazingly good arcade twin-stick that improves so much on what GW did, and really deserves recognition. It’s niche, but it’s genuinely a top game in that niche, and I mean best in ten years top game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any games I missed in the last 21 months?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you like arcade twin-stick shoot-em-ups, Sektori is one of the best the genre has seen. Hard though: if one doesn’t know the genre, play Waves and Assault Android Cactus first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam: Updates to User Review Scores Based on Language⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t want to hurt some dev’s numbers, but they don’t like the game either.

  Or they just can’t handle giving the thumbs down. A lot of people like that nowadays. Only likes are allowed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you looked at Zero-K? They have some TA history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RimWorld - Odyssey will bring spaceship building, exploration and a lot more content⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ouch, Stardeus is not going to be happy to see that news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The app requires an existing login to use, right? I tried the app since the website’s email/password registration screen just returns “An unexpected error occurred” every time I try it, but didn’t see a new registration option for the app, just the login option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How do we prevent this from happening to other instances?

  We don’t, and we can’t. What we need is to stop acting like Actors/People/Groups are single points homed on a single instance. They should be a ring of mirrored instance entities, so the “source” Actor and content are still there when one instance drops out of the ring. Everything is already getting copied around, we’re just missing out on the biggest value of that: RAID for identities.

  Ie, if I make my accounts on three sites, those should all be me, and it doesn’t matter to the fediverse which one I use at any given moment. Same for communities.

  That’s real federation, not this ramshackle heap of points of failure where we just hope we don’t individually get bit too often by shutdowns, even though shutdowns are completely inevitable.