Just curious to find out what other people think about my ... "collection".
You like to read.
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It says you're German and a big fan of Harald Lesch. I have no idea about the actual content.
You can read German
Hey, you have the whole Divine Comedy, instead of cheating yourself by just reading the Inferno part of it.
I'm not even religious, but that's one of the best books I've ever read. One of the greatest endings of all time. The translation matters though. My copy is a great translation.
Which translation do you have?
You speak German
Is there a shelfies community? Maybe there should be one.
You speak German and are a nerd
They tell me that you can read in German
Lol I was trying to figure out a clever joke about that and didn't get anywhere
Linksgrün-versiffter Physik Gamer.
The greenish hue makes me think you live in the Matrix
That's just my weed mood led strip
- 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
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".
Junger männlicher Nerd
You have just started reading
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
Narcissist. Or lonely.
Deutscher Streber 🤣
Fernab davon. Leider. Ich war der dude in der Klasse, der sich nie meldet und nie Hausaufgaben gemacht hat.
Vielleicht entwickelst du dich ja selbst bist einem. Ausgezeichnete Bücher! Sorry for the awful German - my partner is German and I’m still learning.
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."
Either way, Ihr Gehirn wird Ihnen für das Lesen danken!
there is a novelization of final fantasy 7?
More like side stories, but Yes!
You dont have a large bookshelf since you stacked some on top like that (im in the same boat haha)
We would get along :)
I think the Publishers' cabal should settle on a standard for which way the text reads on spines.
I wholeheartedly agree
They tell me that you may want to start visiting used bookstore more ;)
And the library!
:)
du kannst lesen
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.
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)
You like Astronomy/Astrophysics?
And especially anything by Harald Lesch.
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.
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.
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They're all in German so I can only assume you speak German
You spend much time with YouTube and rocketbeans
Like Galileo in library form.
You like the idea of "What is out there" in space. And stories of a different world
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