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.
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.
Some of my favorite music, and a shit-ton of eBooks.
Your mom.
Books!
If you ignore the covers, 1GB could have 1000’s of books.
Exactly
My ebpubs are 2,700 files at 1.5GB. And that’s with all the extra crap like JPGs and tons of dupes. I could read forever on 1GB.
But then how would we judge them?
I guess raw text files of books would be the best bang for your buck.
Something like Project Gutenberg would fit well here. You’d never run out of books for the rest of your life.
Compress those suckers!
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.
1/500,000th of my porn collection.
Which parts though?
Just the shots of balls swinging
Random name, npc, map generators for tabletop roleplaying. It’s just text and lookup tables. You can fit a lot of that in 1gb.
OK, it seems I can bring my current music library. I experimented with it a bit now, and I guess I could get used to 12kbps Opus or 12.65kbps AMR-WB (they sound comparable). It kinda sounds like off-tuned FM radio, not the much more awful artifacts of MP3 or AAC.
Although… can I bring a cassette tape player? It’s analog, so tapes won’t fall under this limit. Then I could possibly digitize it. Similarly with movies on film. I don’t know what equipment I can take though. Movies on film, photos on paper, books on paper, music on tapes, hmmm… I guess that would be some games then. What counts under the media though? Just the games themselves, emulation software, entire OS?
One of those compressed Wikipedia dumps, and a whole bunch of retro games. And several MB of text-only ebooks. Compressed of course.
English Wikipedia is about 22gb without media.
That’s compressed, and plain text compress very well.
For my master’s final project I downloaded the English Wikipedia and after unzipping it grew quite large. I don’t remember the total size, also it was 2018, it will be larger now.
“after unzipping it grew quite large”
Heh.
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.
128k mp3s
That would be around 250 songs.
An emulator and a shitton of old roms. The further back you go, the smaller they get. I’ll probably splurge on a few choice games over 100mb with good pvp or co-op to play with my partner, but the vast majority will be under 5mb.
Every Atari 2600 game ever made is like 2MB compressed :)
My old Pii-200 dos box has literally humdreds of games on a 1gb hdd
ROMS of retro games.
Bro forgot to bring an emulator… Enjoy staring at binary code or something.
wouldnt be an issue if you have the hardware to run said roms.
You get used to it, I don’t even see the code. All I see is Red Plumber. Coin. Mushroom. Pipe.
The real fun is doing software emulation running inside your mental calculations.
Porn
50/50 chance amirite
