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Re:Dotfile madness by runxel on Saturday February 02, 2019 @07:09PM (#19066791)
And here I am, still wanting my save files to reside next to the games exe...
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Re:Dotfile madness by ChrisSD on Saturday February 02, 2019 @07:43PM (#19066955)
Fair enough but on multi-user systems you can surely see the value in separate save game folders?
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Re:Dotfile madness by chii on Saturday February 02, 2019 @09:34PM (#19067443)
when was the last time a gaming machine is a multi-user system?!
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Re:Dotfile madness by h1d on Saturday February 02, 2019 @11:30PM (#19067855)
Since when every person in a house has their own gaming PC?
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Re:Dotfile madness by ChrisSD on Saturday February 02, 2019 @09:51PM (#19067505)
I'm currently typing this on a machine that's used for gaming by more than one person.
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Re:Dotfile madness by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Sunday February 03, 2019 @11:44AM (#19070570)
There's no reason there couldn't be separate per-user folders within the game's installation path for that.
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Re:Dotfile madness by not_kurt_godel on Saturday February 02, 2019 @11:17PM (#19067806)
Do you also store your birth certificate in your car's glovebox?
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Re:Dotfile madness by runxel on Sunday February 03, 2019 @05:05PM (#19072524)
What a misleading comparison...

I don't even get what you want to say.

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Re:Dotfile madness by not_kurt_godel on Sunday February 03, 2019 @08:34PM (#19073337)
A game's exe dir is a long-lived but potentially replaceable thing, like a car. Saved games may be persisted across game versions, so you don't necessarily want them to be in the same directory. Admittedly not the best analogy, but was just observing that it's strange and incongruent to store the 2 together.
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