I still had to go multi-arch on my x64 Debian system, leading to a lot of problems…

That’s what Flatpak is for. 32bit crap is moved into its own corner without interfering with any system level stuff.

(not super important but overlooked here) The “horse” is a woman

I’m sorry for accidentally misgendering a grown adult who’s still naked with a young girl riding on top. I guess that triggers a different fetish then.

(definitely important) The scene was only an unfinished scene still being worked out

True but they still thought it was a great idea to depict this scene and then only change their minds not because they realized their mistake but because it works better with an adult doing the riding story-wise.

I definitely think Valve should have handled this more fairly.

The reviewer asked for a playable copy after being unsure from screenshots and text alone. I think that’s pretty fair.

Never heard of them, nothing of value lost

Me neither but popular doesn’t necessarily good or unknown doesn’t mean bad but to first come up with a scene of a young girl riding a naked man, then to model this, and in al that time not thinking that this depiction is seriously fucked up (they only changed this scene later because the scene “works much better when delivered by an older character.”

moralists see nudity and think it can only represent sex - meanwhile, by the screenshots, it represents dehumanization.

Except in the review build submitted to Valve there was a young child riding that naked man.

Feels like some key piece of information is omitted here tbh

You mean the key information im the middle of the article that I quoted in a comment 15 minutes before yours?

In the early build reviewed by Valve, day six featured a scene in which a man and his young daughter visit the farm. The daughter wants to ride one of the horses, resulting in an interactive dialogue sequence where the girl rides on the shoulders of a naked “horse” while it’s led by the player.

Young girl interacts with naked man and you saw no problem with it…

“The scene is not sexual in any way,”

Maybe not to you but that doesn’t change the content of what you submitted to Valve.

the young character was changed into a twenty-something woman. “Both to avoid the juxtaposition,” it explains, “and more importantly because the dialogue delivered in that scene, which deals with the societal structure in the world of Horses, works much better when delivered by an older character.”

Cool, the review build still featured a young girl riding a naked man and you thought that was a great idea…

Maybe I’m missing something but what’s the connection to SteamOS? Did I accidentally skip a paragraph that explains how to use it on Steam Deck?

Back then Steam was a downgrade.

It’s not really enshittification when “Google reads your mail” has been the entire point since the launch of GMail. Relevant ads, grouping mails into topics, find spam, etc. has always been the selling point of GMail.

Proton runs on SLR.

Can anyone eli5 what the steam runtime actually does?

It’s the thing that actually runs your games.

Seems they moved away from code names: https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steamrt/-/blob/steamrt/steamrt4/README.md?ref_type=heads

v4 used to have the code name “medic”: https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steamrt/-/blob/wip/task725/medic/README.md?ref_type=heads

Sounds like they’re leaving the option open for Android developers to make their APK distributions compatible with Steam to play on Frame.

It was first reported months ago that Valve is involved with Waydroid (Android app compatibility for Linux with Wayland) and then at the Frame announcement confirmed to ship on Frame.

This could also potentially mean that Steam itself comes to Android (at least in the EU) to allow cross-buy and cross-progression.

Does it not come to you that someone might have never even heard of DF?

These few people can just watch a few minutes of the video and get the gist of it.

Google is developing a Linux runtime for Android, Valve are making an ARM version of Steam, so it could be usable but I don’t think it’ll light the world on fire.

Yes, but as the sidebar says, it’s only a non-binding recommendation.

as long as people remember to use flairs.

Lemmy doesn’t have flairs.

It’s the 240th episode of DF Direct Weekly. I don’t think they have to explain the format at this point any longer.

I didn’t know games could choose to be made by new developers

No, game’s aren’t alive and cannot choose anything. The higher-ups at publisher and IP owner Paradox Interactive can, however.

Usually these things happen at Microsoft when they shut down studios, like what happened with Essemble Studios (Age of Empires, Halo Wars) and Double Helix Games (Killer Instinct).

I think that there is a somewhat decent chance that there will be an ARM Steam Deck Mini at some point. The Steam Client will probably be released for ARM distributions. I think for the foreseeable future there will be a considerable overlap of topics between thee devices.

I think should there be a flood of posts regarding hardware tinkering of the other devices (people sharing faceplate STLs for Machine or addons for the Frame’s expansion port), they could be directed to dedicated communities but for now IMO it’s fine to be inclusive.