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.
music encoded in xiph.org’s ogg opus
Some of my favorite music, and a shit-ton of eBooks.
I would have 1 Call of Duty asset.
About 250mb worth of pics of the fam, in low res, a copy of Predator in 240p which I guess would be another 250mb, low quality music for another 250mb, and 250mb of a nes emulator and nes roms. Once all out together i wouldplay around with all of this and fit in some Star Trek, Andromeda, and Toast of London episodes.
Books have the highest density of information per GB… So Books is…
status of “Books”
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Amateur stills.
A compressed version of the Shrek movie.
Make it 480p at 18 frames instead of 24, then compress the audio as much as needed, I already know most of the lines.
There is no god, only Shrek.
It’s all Ogre now.
I’ve gotten the shrek movie to fit in under 25 MiB. You probably can easily fit the whole 4 movies and leave some space for books if you know how to compress video well.
I doubt you’d have to get even that crazy. Bet you could get it under 700 at 720 and 2 Ch audio. That gives you 300 for porn.
418 copies of DOOM
Monkey’s Paw: but it’s the shareware version and only has the first episode.
Books, lots and lots of books.
Your comment made me think of that scene from The Matrix. Idk if that was intentional or not, but I liked it enough to ask an AI to make the image above.
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.
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.
Technically, it can be played by one person. Two would be the more ideal bare minimum.
And ya you’d use them to play the game. With a game like this, or any other TTRPG you essentially have near infinite entertainment.
Tons of epubs of books and TTRPGs, with dice rolling software. Classic SNES, NES, and N64 games and emulators. Storage-efficient MP3s of a few albums like Drukqs that get better with repeated listening, and classical, impressionist, and other such music.
1 GB of books
I’m going to assume the other person has that covered.
I’m filling mine with 4k baby shark music videos.
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.
