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[karoliner]

 

[ds]

Note that %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games is only the default location (as is C:\Users\[User] for the user profile) so there is effectively one more variation: Imbecile developers that hard-code %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games vs those who do it properly and query the path for FOLDERID_SavedGames which may or may not resolve to the same path depending on user settings.

 

[catfood]

Gaming died when devs stopped using the game's folder as the save game location.

 

[Hag]

Gaming died when devs stopped using the game's folder as the save game location.

Nothing decided by developers, it was enforced by stricter permissions settings on the Program Files directory (starting windows Vista if I'm not mistaken) by Microsoft.

 

[Infinitron]

What if Astartes but about NCR's capture of HELIOS One?

(okay, it's nowhere near Astartes but still cool)

The action begins:

Is it over for the NCR bros?

Second wave:

When all else fails:

Getting tactical

Spoiler

PSA for Fedora Masters: This is a series of videos and I didn't want to pyramid quote them all. Click the quotes or just go here to watch them all: https://www.youtube.com/@SODAZ/videos

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Don't worry about it, some of my best conversations have been with myself.

 

[Aemar]

 

[Perkel]

As someone who had to write powershell app for customer and had to learn it asap. Because Microsoft are infamously run as competing units and often they have two apps doubling work and then third dev unit working as sys security deciding stealthly that they dissallow some things in program files or roaming or something else. Moreover you are dealing with legacy code as well.

Another thing is that devs use what they know and what works best in their experience.

 

[Abu Antar]

Audio is shit, but still worth it.

 

[JarlFrank]

The people playing and the people making those games deserve each other.

The naked dude in the first video is IShowSpeed, who has made a living out of being a fucking asshole. He recently got into major trouble when he had a jump scare playing a horror game, he physically jumped and and accidentally revealed he had his dick out. This got him a temporary ban (which could have been way worse since he only turned 18 early that year) but he's back to streaming, except now he gets called IShowMeat all the time much to his annoyance.

Bro... how the heck do you know this shit?

I put youtube videos on about random shit while I'm working around the house or browsing the Codex.

Videos my youtube algorithm gives me:
- how medieval sieges worked
- Age of Empires 2 strategy guide
- oldschool RPG Let's Play by a cute redhead
- battle of Stalingrad history video
- dungeon synth music
- NWOTHM music
- dude builds shack in the wilderness
- Total War mod review

Videos your youtube algorithm gives you, for some reason:
- guy accidentally exposes his dick on Twitch

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

post the cute redhead

This one is not a redhead but she plays Wizardry-likes:

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

The people playing and the people making those games deserve each other.

The naked dude in the first video is IShowSpeed, who has made a living out of being a fucking asshole. He recently got into major trouble when he had a jump scare playing a horror game, he physically jumped and and accidentally revealed he had his dick out. This got him a temporary ban (which could have been way worse since he only turned 18 early that year) but he's back to streaming, except now he gets called IShowMeat all the time much to his annoyance.

Bro... how the heck do you know this shit?

I put youtube videos on about random shit while I'm working around the house or browsing the Codex.

Videos my youtube algorithm gives me:
- how medieval sieges worked
- Age of Empires 2 strategy guide
- oldschool RPG Let's Play by a cute redhead
- battle of Stalingrad history video
- dungeon synth music
- NWOTHM music
- dude builds shack in the wilderness
- Total War mod review

Videos your youtube algorithm gives you, for some reason:
- guy accidentally exposes his dick on Twitch

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

post the cute redhead

This one is not a redhead but she plays Wizardry-likes:

well done. I already knew of Lilia

 

[Hag]

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

I want to be a dragon!

 

[Caim]

I want to be a dragon!

lmao look at this scalie

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

I want to be a dragon!

lmao look at this scalie

 

[Caim]

I want to be a dragon!

lmao look at this scalie

One, birds have feathers, not scales.
Two, better a bird than a woman.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

I want to be a dragon!

lmao look at this scalie

One, birds have feathers, not scales.
Two, better a bird than a woman.

About that

 

[Ol' Willy]

 

[Jaedar]

Gaming died when devs stopped using the game's folder as the save game location.

While I agree that the current situation is awful (the appdata folder is a particular travesty since it's hidden by default), it is good to have a single folder for this in case you need to upgrade/migrate your computer. Instead of copying a dozen different folder in various places, just copy and paste the user folder and you're done.

(Just use steam cloud saves brooo)

 

[CryptRat]

Gaming died when devs stopped using the game's folder as the save game location.

Probably with Arcanum then, it was always the game I could never find where the fuck the save files were when wanting to move from one pc to another.

 

[catfood]

Gaming died when devs stopped using the game's folder as the save game location.

While I agree that the current situation is awful (the appdata folder is a particular travesty since it's hidden by default), it is good to have a single folder for this in case you need to upgrade/migrate your computer. Instead of copying a dozen different folder in various places, just copy and paste the user folder and you're done.

(Just use steam cloud saves brooo)

My main issues is that, for one, I find that it makes much more sense to me for the save files to be present in the same directory as the rest of the game files. Back in ye olde days, when Windows was more prone to malware and general bugs than it is now, I used to install all my games on a partition other than Windows because I used to regularly have to re-install Windows after the inevitable bugs/viruses that plagued the system at the time, so having the games on a separate partition entirely meant that at least those were safe, including my progress data. Windows 7 was the last version that I used and I found it to be very stable compared to the older ones, but old habits and notions die hard I suppose.

The other issue is that, like the above meme points out, there is no standardization and devs just place the save data wiliy-nilly somewhere on the Windows drive. This makes hunting for saves extremely annoying as I often have to go online and search for where the saved games for a particular game might be. If it were one universal folder it would be one thing but the current situation is annoying as hell. Yeah, just use steam cloud saves bro. Fuck the cloud and fuck Steam.

Also, a wild suggestion, probably no one on earth has thought of this before, but could you imagine a game actually giving you the option of choosing the place that you want it to store its save files? Crazy right?

Spoiler

 

[TheHeroOfTime]

 

[Infinitron]

 

[markec]

 

[Caim]

"After nine years in development, hopefully it just works."