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Stephen Strome

@silos.bsky.social

Programmer, hobbyist game developer, and hip hop fan. Check out the "Stellar Assault SS" English translation where I patched in mission stick support. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlmOYHjypQ4

86 Followers  |  171 Following  |  106 Posts  |  Joined: 13.09.2023  |  1.874

Latest posts by silos.bsky.social on Bluesky

Obviously no other boomer shooter looks like this, but the game feels pretty unique as well. At least in the demo, rooms are pretty small and cramped, but you're still trying to fly around while visual sensory overload happens around you.

It's really fun. I'm glad it's landing so far.

06.10.2025 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Big Shots
YouTube video by Eyedea & Abilities - Topic Big Shots

24 years ago today Eyedea & Abilities released "First Born". If you played Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 you might remember "Big Shots" from this album being on the soundtrack. It's kind of a weird song on an album about philosophy and mental illness, but I love it all the same. youtu.be/JpEdD1-6zOo?...

01.10.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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making friends over on instagram

27.09.2025 02:32 β€” πŸ‘ 245    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Playing Halo 4 and seeing the Chief/Cortana love story going on is really weird in 2025.

30.08.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I hate AI as much as the rest of you, but weirdly it's inspired me to try and make stuff just so my life will never be surrounded by stuff I hate.

Don't get me wrong I'm new and bad, so everything I make I ALSO happen to hate, but at least it's by a person.

24.08.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot shows a leaderboard with the username "Silos" at the top spot.

Screenshot shows a leaderboard with the username "Silos" at the top spot.

Sometimes it feels good to see that you've still got it.

02.08.2025 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kevin Vanord (@ fiddlecub here) has been recently trying to switch to Linux and has posted a couple threads. He was using PopOS, and other than installation issues and a few games seeing performance drops, he said it's been pretty good.

07.07.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm such a sucker for old amusement park stuff. My local one just put out some of their old stuff and while I have no idea why a mammoth would stand on a rotating barrel, I kinda dig it.

03.07.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats legend! Incredible run with Digital Trends, your pieces there were my favorite in the industry the last couple years. Wherever you're headed now is incredibly lucky.

01.07.2025 01:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mark's lists for NextFest are always my favorite curated ones I read. Can't wait to check some of these out!

13.06.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Agreed. Their double acronym plus the most generic genre description in games irks me beyond belief. Then calling it a spiritual successor instead of a sequel when it's a literal sequel, I was about to pull my hair out.

07.06.2025 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't have a better suggestion but something is wrong if the simplest way we can describe a game is "FPS action adventure RPG".

06.06.2025 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It wouldn't be an Oilers game if it wasn't somehow terrifying even with a two goal lead most of the game.

30.05.2025 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I get why, but losing "greatest hits" and equivalents sucks. Demon's Souls and Ratchet: Crack In Time were $30 permanently a year after launch, now Demon's Souls PS5 and Ratchet Rift Apart are still $90 3.5 years later.

28.05.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

JESUS

27.05.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You've had a wonderful run, hope you well with the new gig!

16.05.2025 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the Saturn in North America, but it was also the second anniversary of our English patch for Stellar Assault SS! Don't sleep on the best space sim for the Saturn! Get it here:

segaxtreme.net/resources/st...

#sega #saturn #segasaturn #retrogaming #videogames

12.05.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My pleasure! If you have any questions or would like any clarifications, let me know and I'll do what I can to help.

06.05.2025 05:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry if my thoughts are scattered, writing things as I think of them. I'm a programmer who dealt with this six months ago, I get this sucks
My junk/deleted folders on Gmail had emails about accounts they accessed, I'd check those folders as well. They tried IG, Google, EA, Steam, and Ubisoft for me

06.05.2025 05:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Another thing to check, at least through Google you should be able to check other logged in devices. Make sure there's nothing suspicious on there. Last time I was hit, after resetting everything somebody in a different country still had account access but I was able to remove them from my computer.

06.05.2025 05:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you use the same password for multiple sites, it could be that somebody took a leak from one place and tried all those username/password combinations on other sites and you got hit that way. I know that's really common and is why you aren't supposed to use the same password everywhere.

06.05.2025 05:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That stuff shouldn't be held in your cookies theoretically. There's cookie hijacking where they take the cookie that says "the person with this cookie should be Fudj" but in my limited experience that's rare. I don't know if Google/Instagram/Reddit has other protections for that hijacking.

06.05.2025 05:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In my experience Windows Defender is really good, MalwareBytes as an extra check is great. Did you run them before deleting the sketchy download or after?

Also make sure nothing comes up after a restart, that was an issue for me once where the malware would reinstall itself.

06.05.2025 04:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ayyy congrats man! Bit of a scary series for you guys, stoked you caught a dub.

02.05.2025 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Stuff like this is why Danny is one of the GOATs.

01.05.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

make sure to hold down B when preordering the switch 2 to increase your odds

24.04.2025 03:32 β€” πŸ‘ 201    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

I'm pretty sure most people switched to R2, the actual trigger, during the PS4. PS3 and earlier I found resting my fingers on R1/L1 felt more ergonomic so I used R1, but that changed with the Dualshock 4.

14.04.2025 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Guy from ExtraFabulous' Pervis comics, a cartoon character with big eyes, crying.

Guy from ExtraFabulous' Pervis comics, a cartoon character with big eyes, crying.

Just finished listening to the episode. Great episode, you're great on the mic as always and Justin is a fantastic duo, but man you didn't tell me Ratchet, Uncharted, and Halo 1 were going to catch strays as well.

13.04.2025 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm fine with franchises being left behind as time goes by, but man I miss Jak and Daxter.

12.04.2025 03:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

I may still be catching up to you, sorry if I'm rehashing old ground. I'm looking on archive.org, I found MegaZone Magazine (apparently from Australia, not sure if they're the same as MEGA) that used d-pad in their June 1990 issue. Another early reference for Sega systems archive.org/details/mega...

07.03.2025 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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