Naamloos

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

I was a year above most of them at school so they threw a "goodbye" murder mystery for me just before graduation, and about 2/3 of the way through the game we all realized that everyone had at least attempted to kill the victim. The game then shifted from "whodunnit" to "who succeeded in dunninit" which we all felt was not only super fun but above the usual level of narrative complexity for those games.

splendiferous tooiebird

If you wanna watch it I cannot recommend it enough; I just warn that it covers a LOT.

Chiaki gamersplains why she is not autistic.

You thought I was done with the @demilypyro sprite animations didn't ya! Well I sure got you! Sometimes all it takes is one special moment in a stream that makes me want to animate to it.

but if you close your eyes

ayo ay-o a a oh ay oh, a a o ayo a ao ay o

does it almost feel like nothing changed at all

and then you close your eyes

ay o a yo a a o ao a a yo ayo a ayo ayo

but then you closed your eyes

a oh ay yo a a o aoh a ayo ao, a a o ao

and now your eyes are closed