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GZDoom + supporting .WAD files: ~130MB installed.
Ultimate Doom Builder: ~35MB installed.
Foobar2000 + .mod file support: ~13MB installed.
OpenMPT: ~21MB installed.
Okular: 230MB installed.
Fill the rest up with community maps/mods, tracker files and ebooks.
flabbergasted that this was more or less how i was going respond to the question
Thatβs only about 5% of the text of Wikipedia. Maybe Iβll take just the top 100k articles.
Animal Well is 30mb. That's my start.
Welp...Slay the Spire is apparently 1gb installed, so it'll probably be that
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.
flcl in 240p. the shittiest version to fit size constraints of john frusciante's The Empyrean & glassjaw's my color green and coloring book
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.
As many episodes of Futurama I can fit in.
128k mp3s
That would be around 250 songs.
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.
Halo CE should be around 600mb.
Music, music, and more music. I would say books but I read too fast, they wouldn't last. Might as well just remember the stories I have already read. Well, actually - my favorite books please yes.
I think text is going to be the most dense, information wise. With plain text you could fit about 2500 average length books in 1gb, that's not considering any compression.
Additionally, you could create a novel representation of words to reduce the total amount of text and include a key to expand it back out, replacing common groupings of letters like 'ch' with 'k' for example
If you could get a 2:1 compression ratio from your modified alphabet and a 4:1 compression ratio from traditional compression algorithms you could get up to 20 thousand books! That's a book a day for 55 years,
I think music is gonna take up way too much space. Compressed all the way down to 32kbps which is going to be a pretty miserable listening experience (everything will sound underwater) you are only going to get ~75 ish hours of music.
Cut that in half for a more tolerable 64kbps.
It's a decent amount of music, but not a lifetime's worth of your only entertainment imo.
Edit: for some context on audio, 320kbps mp3 will only net you 7 hours of music.
Hmm, well what else can we bring? Guitar and strings? How much of the day is busy with work, and how much left for recreation? If we aren't going to be busy then yeah I would love to read. But it takes my whole attention. Music can play and work, so if our time is mostly spent working and sleeping, it would help a lot.
Valhiem is just 1gb. Just saying...
Use 150mb to put a low quality version of Firefly that I used to have on a Nokia phone around 2007/2008, and the rest will be my collection of ebooks.
I've got more than 1gb of books, but I can trim down the file size by stripping formatting and saving as plain text, and there's a few series I could go without reading for a long time.
MIDIs of my favourite melodies, some actual music, probably just my favourites from my playlists over the years, ASCII encoded books and ROMs of old games with an emulator
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?
I would have 1 Call of Duty asset.
Some of my favorite music, and a shit-ton of eBooks.