Just curious to find out what other people think about my … “collection”.

  • KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de
    10·
    7 days ago
    • You are a fan of Harald Lesh’s work,and have an interest in science.
    • You are into videogames, both as a player/consumer and critic, possibly as a dev.
    • You like a good story game. Not that it’s necessarily the only genre you play
    • You are left leaning due to being on lemmy 1984 and interested in privacy
    • I guess you are between 35-45 years old.

    If you’d like, tell me how accurate my guesses are :D

    • frtzngbllr@lemmy.worldOP
      7·
      6 days ago

      You’re pretty close, nice! I’m not a dev and I play mostly roguelikes these days. Coming from competitive games like Dota, CS, OW. Age is somewhere in that range, Yes. Someone else also guessed right with “linksgrün versiffter gamer”.

    • frtzngbllr@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      6 days ago

      Fernab davon. Leider. Ich war der dude in der Klasse, der sich nie meldet und nie Hausaufgaben gemacht hat.

  • dragnucs@lemmy.ml
    3·
    6 days ago

    It says you’re German and a big fan of Harald Lesch. I have no idea about the actual content.

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
    4·
    7 days ago

    Too many of these books look absolutely untouched.

    Dante is the exception. It is also a hard one to understand. I assume you tried hard to read it but failed after 20% or so, an then you more or less ended your reading habits, even though most of the other ones (you got one on every birthday) are extremely easy stuff.

    • frtzngbllr@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      7 days ago

      Good observation, I prefer to read on a paperwhite ereader, even if it isn’t used as much anymore. I just pirate ebooks of books I bought to support the authors. Missed the mark slightly with the birthday guess though.

    • pmk@piefed.caEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      Do you think Dantes friends back in the day went “sick reference, bro your references are out of control, everyone knows that” but now it’s been like 700 years or whatever and… it takes some effort now? Like right now we all know who “the orange idiot” would refer to, or “the king of rock n roll”, but will people know that in 100 years even?

      • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        HAHAHAHAHAHA!

        That’s fucking funny.

        Sick references bro.

        I mean, sure, but the references he’s making is to some very deep takes on some of the most famous literature in history. Sure there’s a bunch of contemporary shade throwing in there but the whole thing with Dante is its ridiculous cultural span, it’s like Joyce in its sheer literary density.

        And no, there’s zero chance this kid went through it and got it, but it matters he showed interest and dedication in trying. Took me the better part of thirty years to even get close to understanding that shit, and historically I’m not alone, it’s not an easy text. Beautiful tho.

        There are worse books to pretend to have read in your bookshelf.

        • pmk@piefed.caEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          I don’t know, I found myself trying to look up what everything meant all the time, like there’s a person in purgatory called la Pia. “Siena mi fé, disfecemi Maremma”, so then you have to know about this woman who was born in Siena and was murdered in Maremma by her husband, which was probably a widely known reference back then, but now I just feel like I’m lacking context. But maybe it’s better to just sort of go with the flow for those things?