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.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
    20·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.ml
    38·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
      12·
      3 months ago

      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.

  • Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world
    19·
    3 months ago

    Random name, npc, map generators for tabletop roleplaying. It’s just text and lookup tables. You can fit a lot of that in 1gb.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    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?

  • ripcord@lemmy.world
    23·
    3 months ago

    One of those compressed Wikipedia dumps, and a whole bunch of retro games. And several MB of text-only ebooks. Compressed of course.

  • zod000@lemmy.ml
    24·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone
    141·
    3 months ago

    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.