TyrianMollusk

@TyrianMollusk@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Owner Valve Faces $900 Million Lawsuit Over PC Monopoly Claims, Following UK Tribunal Ruling - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Steam Input could have been huge for the entire gaming industry, but instead it’s only for Steam and so only can get fixed by Valve, who just doesn’t really care about coming back to things and keeping them working after initially building something. Frustrating to see something almost so good just kinda limp along, accumulating bugs no one will fix because Valve doesn’t really care beyond the simple button mapping use.

  Just like how dynamic collections could have been pretty great, but Valve got a rudimentary version working, patted themselves on the back, and left forever without even implementing the most basic tools anyone would need to actually use them (boolean combinations, actually using the tags you set on games, etc). It could even have been a slick new interface to Steam’s tagging (imagine if you set a collection specifically as a tag, and Steam took your manually adding and removing games there as tag votes) that might’ve helped ease some of the dumb problems tags have (there’d be a lot more info for Steam to draw on than just the people actually updating tags on the store page).

  I’m kind of impressed no one makes a better gaming social-launch client than Steam, but then Steam’s own client has a massive lock in advantage so you basically can’t make something that wholly replaces it, and Valve doesn’t care to play nice when they want that obvious Steam-game vs non-Steam-game divide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 4th⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tooling around and checking some Guild Wars 2 boxes as usual, but the new arcade twin-stick Sektori has been eating dedicated playtime all through holidays. A couple of my Steam friends went for some scoring in the side modes, but I got some solid runs in they will have to work pretty hard to pass again. I’m still trash against the games heinous bosses, though. Those things were designed to grind mistakes out of you, and I only occasionally get by even the first tier boss versions without some mistake. I definitely get tired of playing boss rush, but until I’m more consistently passing those without eating hits, campaign mode just isn’t going anywhere, and I’d really like to be over that hump. Good thing the other side modes are all pretty great and focus on the core play rather than the fancy but tiresome bosses. Too bad side modes got short-changed on achievements, because the dev annoyingly limited the Steam achievements based on consoles, so there are a bunch of pseudo-achievements that are only displayed in-game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨What are signs that the game devs aren't gamers themselves?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Screenshake enabled by default, or not even an option to disable.

  Top-down/twin-stick games where the aim (especially on controller) uses camera handling features, like smoothing the input or a cross-shaped deadzone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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