rate limited from all the faucets, was just going to experiment with tbtc [emphasis mine]. still yet to learn what all this stuff means on the github etc.
For simply 'experimenting with Bitcoin', even 0.01tBTC (or however much faucets give you) is more than enough. Bitcoin is divisible down to 1/100.000.000th (satoshis), that's why you can do thousands of transactions with even a small amount of test BTC.
You can also easily just 'experiment with Bitcoin' with regtest, as Dave mentioned above. I don't see the need for 'large amounts' of tBTC.