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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.
 

JarlFrank

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Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
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:
 
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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 :-D
 

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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)
 

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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?

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JarlFrank

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Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
You know what annoys me the most about it?

Later this year, or early next year, I might buy a new computer because my current one is showing its age (CPU and mainboard are 12 years old by now!) and I've had occasional freeze-ups for some hardware reason.
I have multiple hard drives and SSDs, and would like to move most of them (all except the system drive) to the new PC.
All my games are installed on non-system drives. With the way Steam works, I will easily be able to just move my game drive to another PC, install Steam on that PC, and point its library folder to the one that contains my Steam library.
The installed games will likely work as they are, simple and easy.

But you know what will be missing?
Most of my fucking save games (unless the games use Steam cloud saves) because they're not in the install folder. They're in the "My Files" folder on C.

If you use multiple drives or even just partitions on a single drive, this tendency of modern games to shove all your saves into a system folder is complete bullshit.
Not just somewhere on C, but a system folder.
If you reinstall your Windows, it's gonna get wiped.
The whole point of installing games on different drives is that they won't get wiped if you reinstall your system.
Or that you can just port the entire drive to a new computer if you buy a new rig.

I've been using multiple hard drives for 20 years now. Never installed a game on C in all that time, yet most games insist on dumping their saves in the My Files folder!
I haven't reinstalled my Windows in a long time, but I used to do it more regularly in the past, and I lost a bunch of savegames in the process because I had naively assumed they'd be in the game folder. They weren't. They were in the fucking system partition I just formatted.

Absolute bullshit.

And then there's games that don't just do it to save files, but stuff like ini files too!
 

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