#the only files in my stories folder that are over 50 KB are .odt files which i don't use anymore | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

dravidious · 1 year ago

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Writing as a medium

Cons: Restricted to silent words, never able to truly communicate the beauty of a landscape, the emotion in an expression, the serene sound of a bird's song, the tone of voice with which a line is spoken

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#original #i've put over 10000 words on my neocities site and yet not even a single megabyte #i could store my life's work on a floppy disk #the only files in my stories folder that are over 50 KB are .odt files which i don't use anymore #my big stories (CH and RTR) would be probably over 100 KB in pure .txt form but that just proves the point because 100 KB is nothing #100 KB is the size of a meme in .jpg #plaintext is so so tiny that even my biggest works are barely a speck #storing every individual letter instead of every individual pixel is so much more space efficient #and between hyper-efficient storage and the use of keyboards the digital era is the best time to be a writer #WAIT ACTUALLY #on my neocities i have a jpg of my paper robot battle game and it's over 100 KB #i made the paper robots in an afternoon and scaled the photo way down specifically to save space and it's still massive #oh wait wtf i just copy+pasted Childish Harmony into a txt and it's bigger than as an odt?#went from 130 KB to 200 #there must be some compression in odt that makes it more efficient for large files #but it's definitely way less efficient for small files because i tested it again with the Retired Villain short and it went from 28 KB to 9 #so good to know! use odt for big stories and txt for small ones #i wonder where the tipping point is?#oh hey i found it immediately lol it's around 15000 words or 70KB

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