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• InputZero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just doing some napkin math, if you took Baulders Gate 3 and burned the entire game to CDs, it would be around one meter long. That’s no mods, just the game.

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  • MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I also did some napkin math on it and got a very different number. I don’t have the game so I saw people reporting the game is 150GB on PC. CDs can store up to 700MB of data, so (150 x 1024) / 700 ≈ 219.4 but we can round that up to 220. The standard CD is 1.2mm in thickness, so 220 x 1.2mm = 264mm which is a quarter of a meter.

    I’m curious how my result differed from yours.

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    • InputZero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I screwed up my units a bit and did gigabytes and megabits. You’re right. It would be a little shorter than an average ruler.

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