Hello everyone, welcome to the February 2021 Ask Me Anything Edition of the Minescape

Podcast.

I'm your host Sean Carroll.

As probably most of you know, this AMA is something we do almost every month.

I don't do it at the end of December as I take the holidays off, but every other month,

11 times a year, we do something where patrons that is to say supporters of Minescape on

Patreon can ask me questions.

They leave questions in the comments of a post I put up on Patreon.

Only cost one dollar per episode to be a Patreon supporter.

And I try to answer as many of them as I can.

And the patrons are the ones who suggested that going forward we should make the answers.

That is to say, the episode you're listening to right now, public domain.

So that is what we're doing.

So this is available a little while after the patrons get it, we get released into the

wild and anyone can listen.

I noticed that over the past couple of months there have been an increase in the number

of patrons, which is a good thing.

Not going to argue about that.

And also, of course, we skipped last month doing the AMA.

So as a result, we got a lot of questions this month.

I think ordinarily the number is around 100 and this month it's closer to 175, 180, something

like that.

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