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Sorry, but does anyone even care about Game Awards really?
The real award for the developers is when their game is enjoyed by people.

Just random selection of games into arbitrary categories and pick the winner doesn't really chime with me.
I never understood the awards thing tbh. Might be just me problem ofc.

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I, too, think that it is a mistake. If that is the desired criterion for the Debut category, it is practically impossible to find (and confirm) suitable candidates. I assume that most of the other games would face the same issue – it is practically impossible to be able to sell the first game or any piece of software made without prior experience.

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It is probably going to be a self-contained product, with no wires. Built-in battery, and a microcontroller with wifi (Esp32?), so it can connect to the Steam Machine or the internet, to display SM status, weather forecast or something like that.

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It should definitely still get some nominations for other categories. The game is a more entertaining Vampire Survivors.

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it's so funny, I updated my deck yesterday and went looking for this feature but couldn't find it. Now today here it is! Love these updates :)

Maybe you didn't restarted after the update.

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I'm thinking maybe access to an internal usb header? If so, it's possibly USB2, so too slow for a proper high-res LCD display.

Worst case you'd need to mod the case and route a cable through to the back so you can plug into something there.

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JSAUX please come to Mastodon, some of your target audience is there

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I’m curious how this plugs into the box’s power and systems. Is there an internal usb connector dedicated to the front panel?

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The Frame is an interesting frankenstein. With Proton + FEX + whatever compatibility layer they are using for Android (like Waidroid or similar, I suppose).

Tech is just stacking building blocks on each other. This case specifically is made possible thanks to the power of open source ❤️

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The Frame is an interesting frankenstein. With Proton + FEX + whatever compatibility layer they are using for Android (like Waidroid or similar, I suppose).

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Android ARM APK on Steam. What a time to be alive. I honestly would love to play some quality ARM games that never made their way from Android to PC before.

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So, how's this going to work? Is it using something like Waydroid under the hood?

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What battery is there to kill in the Steam Machine?

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I've been using Fedora KDE since 2016 and it has been my main system since then. The experience is stable and everything just works.

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As somebody who works on Fedora, I'm glad you like it :-)

I'm myself using Fedora Kinoite as my daily driver, got really in love with atomic editions :-)

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Neat. I recently decided to move my oldest laptop from Ubuntu Server, which I eventually installed KDE on to do some things, straight into NixOS. I thought, "hey, if I only needed my KDE environment sometimes, I can just switch config." A weird thing happened in that my system is way faster now for some reason.

I don't know what was going on with my Ubuntu setup, but even when it was just a TTY, the stutter can be pretty bad. There's likely some other issues with the hardware - RAM stick, SATA SSD, the fan, or the chip's thermal paste (possibility combination of all of them AND aging factor). But KDE wasn't the issue, it's hella lightweight actually.

Regardless, it's good to have a laptop with a decent KDE session. I'm going to be moving my ROG Ally from Bazzite to hopefully (in order of preference) NixOS, SteamOS, or CachyOS as well - depending on if I couldn't figure out the previous ones - all using KDE of course.

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KDE Plasma my beloved

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At least, the trilogy is linked. Installation of the GOG version is somewhat cumbersome, and also the Steam version borked out with my AppImage on Linux.

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Surprising news. I assumed DRG was (understandably) put in maintenance mode while GSG is busy developing its quasi sequel.

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@LoudTechie
i am not near the point i want to be before publishing it. and i am not sure at all if i should.it is heavily done with the help of ai (did it before without ai but since chatgpt and gemini are a thing i started off from scratch) and therefore the code might be annoying at best

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What ton of Features so we get from Play it that we can't get from heroic and RetroArch?
Usually people tell me that they find too many settings confusinf and want a turn key solution

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@Sil_el_mot or publish it and hope it helps others.
There seems to be quite some demand.
Doesn't need to be open source or free software, you could publish it under whatever license and/or conditions you would like.
There appears to be demand, maybe you could serve that demand.

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Great!
Well, so i can stop with my own python based game library.

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Lost me at "generative AI and not even bothered to write a disclaimer"

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I want it

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I see a large overlap between that and Lutris.
Not sure if there is enough difference to be worth the effort instead of joining up with the existing projects.

Lutris is pretty much a dead project. Besides Playnite offers TONS of features over anything like Lutris and the guy adding Proton/WINE support is the cherry on top. I welcome Playnite to Linux

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Is it exclusive to the OLED model? Because it did drop on my OLEDeck yesterday, but my PC running SteamOS still says it's up to date.

I had an update yesterday on SD LED.

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I played many hours of the original Guild Wars. In fact, it was the first MMO that I ever played. Guild Wars 2 was fun for what it was, but it just didn't have the same feel.

Yes, I definitely agree there.

While I also enjoyed GW2 for a while, it is definitely "just" a normal MMO with a few nice touches.
The gameplay in GW1 is entirely different, I'm not even sure I'd call it an MMO to be honest.

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They should invent a new category: biggest deception. Plants vs Zombies Replanted would have won (the original had GOTY).

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I like Geoff Keighley, but I don't care about The Game Awards. It's cool that it's a thing and all, but meh.

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