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| They Windowsed the fucking save directory by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/04/2014, 10:35pm PST | ||||
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| I am in the process of moving. In order to get me motivated to do this, I left my laptop at the target house. I put my copy of Wasteland on dropbox. I wanted the only game at the new place to be Wasteland. I was gonna play it through dropbox.
I'd like to state that having "save directories" that are WINDOWS SPECIFIC was the dumbest fucking thing that game developers AND WINDOWS ever did. If you don't agree just kill yourself, but if you don't agree and really want to do this, I want you to count the number of people who have used your computer besides yourself over the last 5 years.. If it's your wife, then great. I doubt she'd be playing the same games as you. If it's your kids, then great. I doubt they'd be playing the same games with you. THE ENTIRE IDEA behind a Windows-managed directory for save games is the single dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard. GET A SECOND COMPUTER if people are constantly logging onto yours. It's FUCKING MORONIC. There are probably 10 billion computers in the US right now. It's probably less than a half of a half of percent of Windows users that need save games separated from the actual game directory. I bet it's less than that. I bet it's 1 user in 10 million. But some piece of fucking detritus thought it was an interesting "problem to solve" at Microsoft and nobody there fucking plays games PSH so they made this the default for the entire (shitty) OS. Deep breath Anyway, inExile followed this pattern for the re-release of Wasteland. They put the fucking save game in %users%/AppData/Local/Eatadick/Wasteland Saves. Even if you shared a laptop........... even if you had multiple accounts on the same PC, I guaran FUCKING tee you that two people who still care about a clumsy RPG from 1988 aren't logging on one after the other to play it. No more concrete example of a game that should have its saves in the same directory the game is in exists in the history of the universe than "Wasteland." ... I just -- Two or more people using the same PC, all of whom got Wasteland off GOG and want to play it at the exact same time. As they log off and switch accounts, WINDOWS AND inEXILE IS THERE to separate the saves. In fact, I'll say this: there isn't a single fucking case in the entire country of where this functionality is desired and necessary. I can't believe how fucking stupid nerds are. I want to punch them. I want to hurt them. I want to hurt them because they are so fucking stupid that physical pain is the only thing they MIGHT understand. Fuck you, inExile, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you. Now I gotta walk the pets here. the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey! |
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