Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

I didn't, but that story CR told was absolutely true. I mean, he recounted the story, so I don't think I have anything to add to it. But it was just one of those things where everybody gets together and reviews what they're talking about, showing things to CR so he can plus something up or send us in a different direction. And Paul Reindell has this video. He says, just casually, I think I've figured out how to demonstrate server meshing. Because some of you remember, you still give me crap about it, we tried to tell a server meshing story at the beginning of this year. And the problem with it is that it's not a very visual thing. So if you can't show it, it's just a bunch of people talking. And we learned that the hard way. We kind of knew it, we thought we would try anyway, and it didn't work. So it took the better part of a year, eight, nine months, and Paul Reindell, super stud that he is, shows up and says, I think I've got a way to show it. And he shows this and we're all just watching this thing with anime eyes. He did it. Yes, it works, but also we figured out how to demonstrate it visually. Because the thing works on the size and scale of star systems, so it's a very hard thing to show visually. And he did it, and it was a recording. Most of CitizenCon was pre-recorded. And Chris's response, after he teared up, was he challenged Paul to do it live. Which is, if you want to know what it's like working for CR, man. He showed him this amazing thing and he was like, this is great, this is wonderful. If you weren't a coward, you'd do it live. And then Paul and myself and a couple of IT people spent the next three weeks, because it was just three weeks before, completely rejiggering that presentation in order to figure out how to do it live. That's probably my favorite thing about CitizenCon. Going back to that question, my favorite thing about CitizenCon is my favorite thing about working here: we don't chicken out. We don't take the easy road. If there's a way to do something that would be better, then even if it comes with more risk, and it almost always comes with more risk, we do it.