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Just curious to find out what other people think about my ... "collection".

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That you have some strange mood lighting with poor CRI, mostly.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They tell me that you can read in German

[–] chocrates@piefed.world 3 points 1 day ago

Lol I was trying to figure out a clever joke about that and didn't get anywhere

[–] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The greenish hue makes me think you live in the Matrix

[–] frtzngbllr@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

That's just my weed mood led strip

[–] KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
  • 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.world 5 points 1 day 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".

[–] dragnucs@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

You speak German

You like to read.

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

You can read German

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Linksgrün-versiffter Physik Gamer.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 points 1 day ago

You speak German and are a nerd

[–] jamin@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

Junger männlicher Nerd

[–] Sly2@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] frtzngbllr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago
[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

We would get along :)

[–] guy@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

You have just started reading

[–] thiscat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

there is a novelization of final fantasy 7?

[–] frtzngbllr@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

More like side stories, but Yes!

[–] Lehmuusa@nord.pub 2 points 1 day ago

Some literal translations of the books' names into English. They are unlikely to correspond with the real English titles, but might be enough for guessing what books these are in other languages.

Das ABC der Rollenspiele – The ABC of role playing games
Die göttliche Komödie – The divine comedy
Liegt die Antwort in den Sternen? – Does the answer lay in stars?
Eine kurze Geschicte des Universums – A short story of the universe
Der Außenirdische ist auch nur ein Mensch – Even the extraterrestrial is just a human
Ihr habt keinen Plan - darum machen wir einen – Youse have no plan - that's why we'll make one
Kosmologie für Füßgänger – Cosmology for pedestrians
Was hat das Universum mit mir zu tun? – What has the universe got to do with me?
Sieg der Blödigkeit – Victory of stupidity
Unberechenbar – Unreliable
Die Zukunftsformel – The formula for future

[–] Libb@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They tell me that you may want to start visiting used bookstore more ;)

[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They tell me that you were able to play Final Fantasy 7 Remake and recognize more of the side characters than I did when I played.

[–] frtzngbllr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Jokes on you, I didn't play the Remake yet. Only the original FF7 back on PS1 and later on PC. (I am waiting for the Remake to be complete)

[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

Is there a shelfies community? Maybe there should be one.

[–] promitheas@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

You dont have a large bookshelf since you stacked some on top like that (im in the same boat haha)

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 days ago

They're all in German so I can only assume you speak German

[–] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] frtzngbllr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Vielleicht entwickelst du dich ja selbst bist einem. Ausgezeichnete Bücher! Sorry for the awful German - my partner is German and I’m still learning.

[–] frtzngbllr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No need to be sorry, everyone starts somewhere. <3 Zum Streber habe ich nicht das Zeug, ich bin mehr vom Typus "Jack of all Trades, master of none."

[–] amelia@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

"Streber" ist in der echten Welt keine wirkliche Kategorie. Einfach nicht aufhören Neues zu lernen. Auch mal in neue Bereiche reinschauen. Neugierig bleiben statt in der Monotonie der Routine zu versumpfen.

[–] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Either way, Ihr Gehirn wird Ihnen für das Lesen danken!

You know there's something out there, something bigger than the mundane world, and you're trying to figure out what it is, and how you relate to it.

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think the Publishers' cabal should settle on a standard for which way the text reads on spines.

[–] frtzngbllr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I wholeheartedly agree

[–] unsubtle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Male, in your 20s

[–] Legianus@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You like Astronomy/Astrophysics?

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

And especially anything by Harald Lesch.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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.world 3 points 2 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.ca 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.ca 1 points 1 day 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?

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