I have no mouth, and I must scream

So after the grad student cut down the tree and discovered it was the oldest tree in the world he quit studying forestry and went to study salt flats (can’t cut down the oldest trees in the world on salt flats no siree none of that happening) and he was being interviewed about his research, but in the middle of the interview the reporter just stops and says “wait aren’t the guy that…”

Accepted the idea of his church hiring a lady pastor. It took him a little while but he got there.

Encouraged his wife to stay friends with a group of Drag Queens because it improved her self esteem about being a woman with more masculine qualities.

Anti big Corporation. Fuck Mega-Low-Mart

Got Dale to reconnect with his gay father. Didn’t give one fuck about him being gay.

Loved his strange little son.

Was distraught at the idea of being racist and not realizing it.

Strong moral integrity. UNLIKE SOME PEOPLE WHO CLAIM TO BE THE “ MORAL MAJORITY”

Stood up for Halloween as a fun holiday and didn’t let the Evangelicals win. Despite being a Christian.

Let his wife beat up their son so he didn’t grow up into an abusive asshole.

Can sew is not ashamed

Maybe not at first, but always overjoyed to see his son be proficient in any task he sets his mind too

Will kick the ass of any bully.

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.

We'll be back. But not before a nice, long vacation.

After just shy of 363 episodes in eight years, the Vintage RPG Podcast is going to take a hiatus. For lots of reasons, many of which we explain in this episode (along with some general kvetching about the state of the contemporary internet; that article about ad calls on news sites can be found here, hat tip to Robert McNees). But honestly, mostly, a vacation sounds nice. We'll be back in a couple months. We're even planning on sending a couple virtual postcards.

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