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.

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

This is what I drew after this situation 👇

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

i've only seen them in one post, but i wanted to ask about buru and mishka. what do they do? do they have connections to your other ocs?

Mishka and Buru are both supporting characters, so their backstory isnt that extensive. They are both still revelevant.

I made Mishka to be a tutorial pov character because years ago I was making an rpg maker game about my ocs. Heres her old sprite. I've since changed her haircolor, since I already have a prominent character with pink hair.

Mishka then nessecitated a character on top of her functionality as a tutorial guy, and that's how she was born! Shes my little blorbo and...

Mishka's got big dreams....

Buru's full name is Burak Roberto and he's the most normal guy you will ever meet. Heres an old WIP of him.

He's one of the residents of Hyperborea, which is a city that was built inside a giant living alien and is the central location for my ocs.

Buru's family runs a pretty conventional grocery store which also specializes in electronics. Buru spends most of his time on the hypernet, which is the closest thing they have to an internet on Hyperborea. Radiowaves are unable to travel within Hyperborea, so making a physical network is the only option for long distance communication. Buru has been working on making the hypernet more accessible for people and thus became acquainted with one of the most influencial people on the hypernet...

This is a very self indulgent nu carnival fancomic ive been working on for a few weeks. It's a total of 44 pages which I will be posting online in 4 parts at they get finished. No schedule since this is just a personal project. Thank you for reading part 1! Things are brewing...