"kassy why is your cute little pixely 2d rpg 15gb in size"
"oh, i commissioned some authors to write in-game books for the libraries"
"...how does that take up so much space"
"they're all novel-length, duh"
@noiob theyre big libraries
@typhlosion that's like 3/4ths of the English Wikipedia
@typhlosion "the really hard part was making all the academic papers for when you go down into the archives at a university"
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@typhlosion ..... that would be REALLY impressive since I'm the early 2000s as ASCII text the entire library of congress would fit in 700 MB XD
@typhlosion Now I went to know how many pages of plain text 15 GB would be, but to do that is need to know how many characters/page and em in my phone right now :(
@Canageek No it wouldn't. Calculate again.
@riley @typhlosion ? That isn't my math, it was from some educational program in school I did at the time (thus why I specified early-2000s, I imagine it is much larger now)
@riley @typhlosion That said, I think you are right. The average novel is 80k words, and the average word in English is 6 characters as I recall. So about 500 kB per novel. So you could only get about 1500 novels on each CD
@riley @typhlosion Ok, with CURRENT sizes it would take about 14 TB to archive all of library of congress (very very appropriatly, printed text only)
@Canageek Ca. 700MB is a single CD. Besides being mathematically implausible, this kind of suggests that your school had just taken some "CDs are great, and one CD can fit a whole library worth of books on them!" sales brochure of the kind that used to be popular during early 1990s' "multimedia" craze, and dreamed up a particular (and particularly inappropriate) library into these stories.
@riley @typhlosion Which is true, just not THAT library.
If you use compression you could probably get a lot higher, English writing is really high entropy
@typhlosion it's text how is it 15gb