You are going away, to some place isolated… in space, of course. You will only be around one other person. You can take an allotment if 1GB of personal media with you (text, video, music, games, pics, etc.) that you will be able to access in your free time indefinitely at will.
The other person will also take 1GB with them, but you won’t be able to talk to them until you’re on the journey.
You will have access to any knowledge resources to perform your function and keep you alive. You will never return to a point where you can get new external media. Any additional media you ever access would have to be created by you and or your travel partner with what you have access to.
You will also not know the sex of your partner, but they have willingly taken the same risks to embark on the journey as yourself, and will have a similar mission.
418 copies of DOOM
Since size is paramount, I’d probably fill about half of this space with NES, GB, and SNES roms and the emulators to play them as well as a few highly replayable classic PC games (CIv, SIm City, X-Com, Warcraft 2, Doom) and some small programs to edit/create images, and a small compiler and text editing tool (maybe Pascal based as another commenter suggested). The rest would be filled with a tremendous amount text books in a compressed archive, both fiction and non-fiction.
Books, lots and lots of books.
I’d take a gander at my digital copies of several D&D books. Maybe chop all the art/pics and just have text. If nothing else just the core books and a dice app if I couldn’t bring physical ones.
What would you do with the D&D books? I am unfortunately not very familiar with D&D. Is it to play with the other person, or something to do on your own? Are there types of games like that are better for two people?
I have seen similar things mentioned a few times.
Tons of epubs of books and TTRPGs, with dice rolling software. Classic SNES, NES, N64, GB, GBC, and GBA games, romhacks, and emulators. Storage-efficient MP3s of a few albums like Drukqs that get better with repeated listening, and classical, impressionist, and other such music. A photo of my fiancé.
When you take file sizes into account, EBooks are the most high-density entertainment you can bring. Followed by old-school games, then music, then video.
I would probably choose my favourite movie in SD, a few dozen of my favourite songs, a few dozen old school games, and then fill out the rest with a few hundred ebooks.
Variety can be way more valuable than pure quantity.
1 GB of books
A few assumptions:
- There will be some sort of PC available, with a keyboard and mouse and speakers, and basic programs to play audio/video, read text/PDF documents, etc. that don’t count toward my 1GB limit
- I will have knowledge ahead of time about this PC and its specs, OS, installed programs, etc.
First, I’d make sure to include a stripped down version of 7zip, or whatever compression I use (y’all don’t wanna get on there and realize you can’t decompress your files). Hopefully only a few MB for a CLI utility.
Second, I’d include a decent library stored in a compressed text format. Some fiction, some non-fiction, classics, some of my favorite series, a bunch of “Intro to ___” type of books, that kind of thing. Probably up to 50MB or so.
Third, I would include some low-quality audio of some favorite music as well as a few audio books. Maybe 200MB or so.
Fourth, I’d include a copy of a simple game engine system (maybe something like libgdx) as well as Inkscape, and whatever compiler I would need to create programs/games for my PC, and relevant documentation. This would give me both a creative outlet, and allow me and my companion to make new games for each other to have something novel. Hopefully around 100 or 200MB.
Depending on the size, I might also consider including something like FruityLoops, again to be able to create new content. Ideally something that’s 100MB or so.
With whatever space I have left (300 or 400MB-ish), I’d include things like emulators and a couple favorite older games (Lord of the Realms 2 comes to mind) that have good replay value and would be small enough to fit. Ideally some multi-player options as well (assuming a shared keyboard).
Without previous knowledge of the available PC, I’d include multiple builds of 7zip for most common architectures, and prioritize the books and audio. Maybe bring a couple variants of GCC and minGW (if I can write programs, I can eventually replicate lots of the other software).
As many episodes of Futurama I can fit in.
Would use 1/2 on ebooks, 1/2 on passible quality music I’d give up some quality for size reduction. I’d probably save a little space for a sudoku game.
I’m going to willingly misread this as you wanting AI “compressed” ebooks lol
I have read somewhere that some text can be compressed incredibly efficiently in some AI models. The issue being that the compressed data is worthless without the model and power to recover it.
Removed by mod
As many digital books as possible and an emulator with as many old school games as possible assuming I have access to a way to play them.
How do I compress 650 GB of flac files to fit in 1 GB?
Easy, just compress all your collection into 24kbps mp3.
I mean it might work. But I will never go back to mp3. Besides mp3 is pretty much obsolete when ogg opus creates smaller files with not as much audible compression. I need my flac.
I genuinely did concert a bunch of my stuff to 32kbps MP3 when I had a shitty like, 64MB MP3 player. It sounded horrible but I could have more songs.
Then I got a job and literally the moment I had saved enough I bought an iPod. That’s when I learned about how much sales tax can scale on larger purchases. And also how overdraft fees work. Very valuable lessons for a high school student.
1/500,000th of my porn collection.
Which parts though?
Just the shots of balls swinging
Mannnnn morrowind is 1.5 :( I guess I’d get a shit ton of retro Roms and emulators (edit: AND DOOM + MODS!)
