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How did you end up meeting your mentor exactly? I'm interested in hearing some more details.

• gravypod 10y ago
  Well when I was around 12 I started playing minecraft. I had some friends who told me about it and got me into the game. When I started playing I got into hosting my own server and fell into the configuration/server ownership side. I eventually wanted to implement my own features and didn't know how to do this. At the time the community was small enough that I knew the owner of Essentials (one of the larger game extensions, called "plugin"). He was one of my friends who helped me setup my server, taught me some basic linux commands, and told me to go for it. I asked him for help to teach me how to program and he, essentially, said fuck off and ask my other friend who maintains a small part of my plugin. I asked this guy to give me a hand and he said "show me some code". I showed him what I had been working on and he basically said he couldn't help me over text. I pressured him to make a voice chat server so he could then help me. He had never done this but after exercising my innate ability as a 12 year old to annoy the crap out of someone he ended up folding and setting one up. We've basically been talking and working together for almost every day for the past 7 years on average more then 4 hr per day. We've worked on game engines, plugins, scripts for our own needs, websites, etc. You name it and we've done it. It essentially boiled down to being at the right IRC server at the right time with the right interest in the subject matter. It started out as a game for me and ended up being something I liked more then the game.