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[[File:Disco Lando 2021.png|thumb|600px|right|Disco Lando from [[Inside Star Citizen]]: Making Your Reputation in 2021]]

'''Jared "Disco Lando" Huckaby''' is the Content Director at [https://cloudimperiumgames.com/join-us/studio/los-angeles Cloud Imperium, Los Angeles].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVN1LM1N2ZY Inside Star Citizen: Making Your Reputation | Winter 2021]</ref>

== Work at CIG ==
Jared, who besides '''Disco Lando''' is also known as '''Red 1''',<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9rqPp_Cyk4 Gamescom Multicrew Demo: LIVE Version]</ref> was originally a backer. He first met [[StarCitizen:Chris Roberts]] at the finale of [[StarCitizen:The Next Great Starship]] as an audience member.<ref name=":2" />

He watched early [[StarCitizen:Wingman's Hangar]] videos and wanted to help out as a way to contribute, making videos which were pretty raunchy and inappropiate at times and were not meant for public consumption but to make the people there laugh. Wingman started putting videos on air which made Jared change his videos and he started making videos where he would be the voice of reason, making ones such as Why I Pledged or the educational series about arguing on the internet. He came by a few times to visit and came to know [[StarCitizen:Ben Lesnick]] and the team at CIG. He came as Santa Claus for the [[StarCitizen:Holiday Livestream 2014|2014 Holiday Livestream]]. He started hanging out with the team and talking about the things he could offer, doing whatever he was asked to do.<ref name=":3" />

His videos include [[StarCitizen:The Wonderful World of Star Citizen]] and he used to do fan questions. He got contracted to do a couple of animations and intros, he also made the intro for [[StarCitizen:Around the Verse]] during a contest to win a spaceship. When the time came to expand the team in February 2015 he joined it as a contract employee and became a full time community manager in April 2015.<ref name=":0">{{Cite RSI|url=comm-link/transmission/14806-Meet-The-Devs|text=Meet the Devs: Jared "Disco Lando" Huckaby|trx=meet-the-devs-disco-lando}}</ref><ref>[https://youtu.be/7adcYZDyuuM The Wonderful World of Star Citizen: Episode 02], YouTube, 25 Mar 2015</ref> He spent a year as a contractor before becoming an employee.<ref>[https://youtu.be/_70W7tda_Uc?feature=shared&t=2450 Star Citizen Live: Meet the Devs - Publishing and Corporate Technology], Star Citizen, YouTube, 9 February 2024</ref>

When he came on as Community Manager he was helping out with some of the video production and was to take on some of the forum work. He started taking more and more responsibilities in different areas, getting heavily involved in event planning.<ref name=":1">[https://youtu.be/fJfOyLhHw6o Jared Huckaby aka Disco Lando Interview Part1], YouTube, 15 Apr 2016</ref>

[[File:Jared Huckaby.png|thumb|Jared Huckaby as a [[muppet]]]]He worked on designing booths, [[StarCitizen:merchandise]], and slogans.<ref name=":1" /> A day before Area 18 was launched, he suggested adding [[StarCitizen:PTV|Greycat buggies]].<ref>[https://youtu.be/_70W7tda_Uc?feature=shared&t=3027 Star Citizen Live: Meet the Devs - Publishing and Corporate Technology,] Star Citizen, YouTube, 9 February 2024</ref> After [[StarCitizen:Ben Lesnick]] came with the idea of an airline, Jared created the airline with the dialogue and logo and what the team renamed to [[StarCitizen:Meridian Transit]].<ref name=":4">The Friday Night Show Interview: Jared Huckaby, The Base radio, October 17th, 2015</ref> He did the work of community manager, creative lead, live events coordinator/technical director, platform specialist, web designer, video editor / producer / writer / shooter / director, public relations, subscriber manager, facilities manager, actor/performer, dev and presently Content Director, which sort of just sucks most of that up into one big whirlwind of never-ending but enjoyable chaos.<ref>"[https://bsky.app/profile/discolando.bsky.social/post/3lm2pekgtn22g This week I completed my first 10 years working at Cloud Imperium Games].", @discolando.bsky.social‬, Bluesky, April 5, 2025</ref>

Every week he would produce [[StarCitizen:10 for the Chairman]], Around the Verse, [[StarCitizen:Reverse the Verse]], and every other week he would work on [[StarCitizen:Bug Smashers]] and once a month a special edition of Reverse the Verse for subscribers. He would also work on [[StarCitizen:Meet the Devs]] and streams such as the one for [[StarCitizen:Wing Commander (series)|''Wing Commander'']].<ref name=":1" /> As of July 2023, he had made 1600+ videos with 3000+ interviews within.<ref>"[https://twitter.com/discolando/status/1681677298360016896 It's really humbling to know that after 8+ years, 1600+ videos and 3000+ interviews within... that I can still forget to press record and waste everyone's time for 25 minutes]", @discolando, Twitter, Jul 19, 2023</ref>

He manages the content that goes out to the community, such as interviews, helping with comm links, forum posts, various events, editing and producing the shows and generally speaking involvement in anything that goes from Cloud Imperium to the community.<ref name=":0" /> In addition he works with data management, collecting the sentiment of the community, taking questions, concerns, comments from the community and directing them to the appropriate people where that information will inform decision making.<ref name=":1" /> He does a couple hundred different things, and only three of them well. Which three? They're not work related, unfortunately.<ref>[https://imgur.com/a/c7JN1 Disco Lando's request]</ref>

He was revealed to be the game character wearing the [[StarCitizen:Zeus Exploration Suit Solar]] on ''Inside Star Citizen''.<ref>[https://youtu.be/j9d8GXMtHOs Inside Star Citizen: Ironclad is Rad] on YouTube</ref>. He plays [[StarCitizen:James Herriman]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98icksKAoSc&list=PLVct2QDhDrB1MbLa8Wa3MF4aPW9Ap-soY Inside Star Citizen: Dev Diary - Performance Artist, Star Citizen], Youtube, 13 March 2025</ref>

== Other Works ==
He had over 30 jobs before joining CIG, starting at 14 and following in the footsteps of Jack London, learning what he could from a job before moving on and sometimes working 2 or 3 jobs at the same time.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

He worked as a Construction Contractor, a Barista, an IT Professional, an actual High School Drama Teacher, an Audio Engineer for both Television and Radio, a Retail Supervisor or Manager several times over, a Professional Baseball Mascot, a Telemarketer, a Stage and Film Actor, a Game Master in ''World of Warcraft'' during its launch, a Prosthetics Support Specialist, a Home Improvement Professional, a Director of Operations for a Professional Baseball Team, a DJ for a local AM sports talk radio station, a Cashier, a Mr. Trash, a Theme Park Performer, a Truck Loader, a Published Author of textbooks and magazine articles, a Hospitality Worker and more.<ref name=":2">[https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/3n59ft/comment/cvkyosh/ Working at CIG... From a CIG employee], therealdiscolando, reddit</ref> He used to do tech support for prosthetic legs.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/live/m3eHBhHsrm4?feature=shared <nowiki>CitizenCon 2954: Day One [Full Broadcast]</nowiki>], Star Citizen, YouTube, 2024-10-19</ref> He taught 12–13 years old in high school which helps him deal with the ''Star Citizen'' Twitch chat.<ref>[https://youtu.be/Hz0mhIFxNYQ?t=2953 Star Citizen Live: Gettin' Turbulent]</ref>

He starred in instructional videos explaining how not to get crushed by forklifts in which he ran over many people with forklifts and got crushed by many forklifts. His "what did we learn?" question in Star Citizen videos comes from those instructional videos.<ref name=":5">[https://youtu.be/ZZWKR-r-2AQ?feature=shared&t=2712 Star Citizen Live: Talkin' VFX], Star Citizen, YouTube, 3 mars 2023</ref> On his orientation at Disney as a new hire, a instructional video about sexual harassment got played in which Jared turned out to be the actor.<ref name=":5" />

He started working in the [[StarCitizen::Category:Video games|video games]] industry on ''World of Wacraft'' at Blizzard Entertainment in 2004 and stayed until about ''Burning Crusade''.<ref name=":3">[https://youtu.be/Ukn3mARbI0Y INNside CIG - Jared "Disco Lando" Huckaby], YouTube, 20 Oct 2015</ref>

== Quote ==
''"When you can see a developer's face, I'm usually the guy putting it together and making it happen, often in front, but far more times behind the scenes." -Jared Huckaby''<ref>"[https://bsky.app/profile/discolando.bsky.social/post/3lm2reipsb22y <nowiki>[...]When you can see a developer's face, I'm usually the guy putting it together and making it happen, often in front, but far more times behind the scenes.</nowiki>]", @discolando.bsky.social‬, Bluesky, April 5, 2025</ref>

== Trivia ==

* On December 23, 2017, he shaved his iconic beard.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/nnx6h8/star_citizen_wiki_v40/h14ijxc/ Jared himself complaining about the Wiki's undeniable accuracy]</ref> As of 2021, his beard has returned.
* His favorite ship is the [[StarCitizen:Carrack|Anvil Carrack]]. He is forced to like the ship as he is ''"legally bounded by his obligation to the community to like the ship"''.<ref>[https://youtu.be/VGEwCHu8Wa8?t=494 Star Citizen: Anniversary 2948 - Anvil Aerospace on YouTube]</ref> It is originated from the shipshape segment on 2018-04-12, he asked the community to vote his favorite ship in the comments,<ref>[https://youtu.be/55OAW0ont88?t=2046 Star Citizen: Around the Verse - A New Origin on YouTube]{{trx|url=around-the-verse-a-new-origin}}</ref> his favorite ship officially became the Carrack on 2018-05-03.<ref>[https://youtu.be/iqVnBrYu2Ns?t=1903 Star Citizen: Around the Verse - The Labours of Hercules on YouTube]{{trx|url=around-the-verse-the-labours-of-hercules}}</ref> His actual favorite ship is the [[StarCitizen:Crusader Industries|Crusader]] [[StarCitizen:Genesis Starliner]].<ref>[https://youtu.be/3HX4DcwmR94?t=200 Star Citizen Live: Conceptualization - Spaceship]</ref>
* Jared runs a ''Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition'' campaign on his Twitch channel called ''A Fistful Of Twenties: The Dungeons and Disco Show'' with a cast of several ''Star Citizen'' community members. Toast, one of his coworkers, is the Beast Master of the campaign <ref>[https://www.twitch.tv/collections/TxKOKGz4iRYBQw A Fistful of Twenties: The Dungeons and Disco Show Episode Collection]</ref>
* Mr. Huckaby opened an episode of ''Star Citizen Live'' in October 2021 as Italian Spiderman.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLnJKIuc8e8 Star Citizen Live Gamedev: Outlaw Lifestyle]</ref>
* Mr. Huckaby has one rule dictated by CIG, forbidding discharge of the "not a flamethrower" displayed behind him.<ref>Star Citizen Live: Meet Gavin Rothery (11/12/2021)</ref>
* Jared is a member of the Fresh Outta Verse cover band, alongside [[StarCitizen:Jeremiah Lee]].<ref>[https://www.twitch.tv/search?term=%22fresh%20outta%20verse%22 Fresh Outta Verse]</ref>
* Jared is the singer of the OST for [[StarCitizen:Raftron]].<ref>[https://youtu.be/-ZoC9MlPFdg?t=565 Inside Star Citizen: A Space Odyssey | Fall 2021]</ref>
* NASA Astronaut Victor J. Glover was an upperclassman in Jared's high school<ref>"[https://twitter.com/discolando/status/1643033170206498817?t=wF1IA1ZDYtr98YW4clBYhQ&s=19 @AstroVicGlover who I went to High School with is going to the gotdamn moon?! No way he remembers me as an underclassman, but I'ma pretend we were BFF anyway. Too damn cool.]", @discolando, twitter, Apr 4, 2023</ref>
* His favorite alcoholic drink is macallan 18<ref name=":4" />
* Jared's paternal grandfather's mother was Welsh and Polish while his father was Cherokee.<ref name=":4" />
* His grandfather served in WW2/Korea on the USS Tingey, of which there is a hat and seal representing that ship on every [[StarCitizen:Inside Star Citizen|ISC]]/[[StarCitizen:Star Citizen Live|SCL]] set since 2015.<ref>"[https://x.com/discolando/status/1562904600574758913 <nowiki>[...] Grandpa served in WW2/Korea on the USS Tingey, of which there is a hat and seal representing that ship on every ISC/SCL set we've had since 2015 [...]</nowiki>]", @discolando, Twitter, August 25 2022</ref>
* He requested this wiki page be updated after his mother found it and said "I thought you did more than this in seven years." The community has a deep respect for Jared's work and contribution to the ''[[StarCitizen:Star Citizen]]'' universe, and trusts that this page now meets his mother's satisfaction.<ref>[https://twitter.com/discolando/status/1458881249683116037 Jared's request to update his wiki page]</ref><ref>[https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1203468820?t=00h19m17s Star Citizen Live: Meet Gavin Rothery]</ref>

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==See also==

*{{Link RSI|url=comm-link/transmission/14806-Meet-The-Devs|text=Meet the Devs: Jared "Disco Lando" Huckaby|trx=meet-the-devs-disco-lando}}
*[[StarCitizen:Ben Dance]]

==References==

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[[Category:Developers]]
{{Short description|Creative Content Lead at CIG}}

StarCitizen:Jared Huckaby - Revision history

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