Patatitta wrote:
I mean, you can't have pcs or television because that would break the challenge, any electronic devices has a clock with it, honestly, no communication by itself is brutal and would make living permanently in that situation hell
thats not what seems to be semantically represented, but i suppose it's a valid interpretation, maybe from the ambiguity of "no clocks or time-keeping devices are allowed"... thats the only thing that really strikes me as remotely close to an infraction, and i think the theme of that premise is already evident when it starts with "clocks" as "time-keeping devices" becomes a category of devices specifically oriented for time-keeping
im not worried about a television screen or its associated services since i dont really use those, they would truly be wasted on me, so i'll concentrate on the only relevant item i can imagine using, being the computer:
a computer
can keep time, but does not necessarily have to, and it may easily be left without representation in all of its relevant data by obscuring the gui of that data and abstracting the unit measurement itself, among other peculiar but conceivable possibilities
what composes and differentiates a clock and watch from their respective form factors? in essence, it's really only a specific selection of mechanisms within them that manage and negotiate and ration and display the time. without them, they're no longer time-keeping devices
i dont know the specific components of a computer, but i suppose it could be described as a device that keeps time without having to display or ever remotely communicate it (assuming all relevant data is graphically obscured), under the presumption that it would intrinsically be programmed to utilize time in its code somehow, but... at a certain point, how can it be nearly as meaningfully utilized as a time-keeping device akin to a clock or watch?
if the distinction is in something that undergoes generally-regular rates of change over the course of generally-regular intervals that you can make inferences from... is my body, then, a time-keeping device merely because i can measure its physical properties of generally stable growth? although i wouldnt mind erasing that from memory and physicality too (thats a joke this time, mostly)
also i would assume the premise is primarily to erase time from memory, not to erase amenities from use, this again doesnt seem like a white-torture isolation cell
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that being said, if there is no computer, there is no computer, i will make do with that and draw on paper
its not that it wouldnt be terrible, i would truly despise it-- still, i think i would be willing to survive a house im locked in with no electronic devices and no windows, simply lights and appliances and utilities, for thirty-one days (or longer, because i likely will not be trying to be exact and would prefer to make safer measurements, and i want to stock up on what food i do receive if any of it is preservable and not perishable), for ten million united states dollars
