(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…

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.

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.

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.

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).

Most sales happen on Steam

I literally already wrote that.

except those few rare examples.

Those “rare examples” combine to a massive revenue. In case of EGS and Fortnite, it’s very clear that EGS is installed and actively used on a giant number of PCs, so the installed base is there. It’s not a Steam monopoly if the user base signed up to and uses EGS for Fortnine and such.

And yes, they are a monopoly in gaming.

The biggest PC games aren’t on Steam. Minecraft isn’t, Fortnite isn’t, Roblox isn’t. Because of Fortnite alone, the installed base of EGS is massive, the people just choose to buy their non-Epic games somewhere else.

Sometimes drivers use one number during their junior days but then cannot use it because it’s taken. When the other driver retires, why not try to get that number?

they are a PC gaming company, period.

And a hypothetical Steam Phone would be an ARM PC, dockable for a full PC experience but mobil use could be similar to XPeria Play. It’s not a huge leap from Steam Deck formfactor-wise.

Not even speculation, just shitposting.

Valve confirmed that there are more ARM devices in the making. The type of device is speculation.

SteamDeck doesn’t run Android, it runs full Linux.

SteamOS on Frame is compatible with Android apps because it ships Waydroid. When Valve contributions to Waydroid surfaced months ago, I already speculated that it’s probably a porting aid for Quest games to Deckard but as soon as the tech is there (which it is now), you can bet there is someone at Valve flashing SteamOS onto a Pixel phone or so, just tinker with it.

Ferrari has sucked for years now

And they fired one of their most valuable employees who’s now lifting Williams up

He’s the greatest driver in the history of the sport

A video game speedrunner has different skills from a video game QA tester.

It was a big story when Hamilton drove the simulator late in his Mercedes tenure.

you think he lacks knowledge of the car?

Ferrari announced that Hamilton would work with the brake disc supplier to change their behavior. A few races later the brake discs fail.

Then who has it?

Mercedes’ downturn began when they fired Bottas. Ferrari’s doesn’t even manage to get by a 1-man team in the WCC since they fired Sainz. Meanwhile Sainz lifted Williams to a bronze medal in the US Sprint.

So not “on purpose”

Inventing and implementing non-standard protocol messages to initiate the display is 100% on purpose. It would be easier to just source an off the shelf board and merely design casing around it.

That’s like saying that the year of Linux came when Android release.

It’s usually “Year of the Linux Desktop” and Android is a mobile platform, not a desktop OS.

it’s a bastardized monster clone of the original.

Android developments did benefit areas like power saving, so why the hate. Android is no GNU/Linux because of the lack of glibc.

MacOS is “Unix” in paid certification dollars only.

macOS, the Darwin layer specifically, is totally a BSD. Even with the Mach bits in the kernel because Mach itself is derived from BSD.

Homebrew could provide their own casks of FOSS applications, compiled on their infrastructure and signed by their key. It’s kinda what F-Droid does on phones.

Early Valve was totally pro Windows tech. Back when HL1 launched, it was the first idTech-derived game with a Direct3D renderer out of the box (yes, Doom95 existed but that wasn’t the default, DOS was). OpenGL was still a massive force on Windows and yet Valve decided that what their fork of GLQuake needed was a Direct3D renderer.

Valve’s stance only changed after Microsoft’s attempt to force Windows Store on everyone and Valve’s subsequent “Faster zombies” experiment (because DirectX was stagnant as well).