The Game Industry took off in a big way thanks in part to Japanese autism.
(whatever)Mostly irrelevant to the problems the world faces, but interesting.
Apparently the japanese, in their infinite autistic obession, had an entire industry where they
published cd's with photos of specific objects and textures in their drive to CATALOGUE EVERYTHING.
Even to the level where they had an entire CD with hundreds of pictures of nothing but walls,
fourteen volumes of photos of nothing but melons presumably, and an unnumbered set of volumes of pictures of various floors.
I just imagine theres some 80+ year old japanese guy with a bookshelf-sized collection of CD's, coming home after long walks, to carefully peruse his collection of CDs and saying in a soft voice to himself "ah yes, this will do nicely" as he select "textures of paper, volume 51" as he pops the cd into his ms dos pc and sits down to relax and browse through 590 photos of various textures of paper, like hes done for two decades prior, three hours a day, inbetween working 14 hours a day at a japanese black company.
And this is his life, and probably the life of a few hundred thousand, or million, japanese people, and it is just beyond my comprehension.
https://80.lv/articles/this-team-of-enthusiasts-is-discovering-sources-of-textures-from-retro-games/
