In practical terms, that means that Dark And Darker Gold if you want to take part in the playtest, you're going to have to torrent the new client. This has resulted in two things happening on the Dark and Darker subreddit:

1. Memes.

(Image credit: Reddit)

(Image credit: Reddit)

(Image credit: Reddit)

2. Requests for help figuring out what a torrent is.

For those who weren't around for the glory days of peer-to-peer piracy in the early 2000s, BitTorrent is a communications protocol that enables decentralized file sharing. It's a bit like FTP (you know what that is, right?) except that instead of downloading files from a single source, you're getting them from multiple sources, called "seeds." If you're the considerate sort, you'll also seed the torrent yourself, because the more seeds, the better it is for everyone trying to get the file.

Torrenting was huge for a brief time in the early 2000s, but its use has fallen off dramatically in recent years, which is why so many people seem unfamiliar with technology that was ubiquitous just a decade ago.

To be fair, it's also not the most user-friendly software in existence—this is what the Microtorrent client looks like in action, for instance.

You also need to be a little careful about what you download and where you download it from, because there's a lot of crapola floating around on there. "Do not get the torrent from any other sources, as we cannot guarantee the integrity of any other links!" Ironmace said in an all-caps warning. "All future patches will also be buy Dark And Darker Gold distributed in this manner, and you should only get the links from our official DIscord announcement channel."