The idea of generating lines and sending them out to players without listening to them first is…you are asking people to pay money for something and you don’t even know what it is?! get real

My summary was “the state of play…is bad!”

yeah, it strikes me as an encoding thing, but I can’t tell you exactly how

If it’s OS related is it like an OS.path() thing?

can you view the JSON object at runtime and confirm it’s well-formed and contains data

Sounds like Unicode-adjacent, get Notepad++ and step through it to see it the existing is being swapped somewhere along the way. Also see if there are any flags you need to send to the JSON writing procedure to ensure correct coding

Woody died in Toy Story 3 and they bought a new one on eBay

ok so they're just doing this

Really lovely detail on this kit

“Even if I accept they are just running the exact same playbook again, surely the galaxy wouldn’t fall for it a mere 30 years later!”

Me, a teenager: Jamaica Bay? In JAMAICA??

One of the most frustrating things about Microsoft is an internal inability to understand most people want to keep their personal and work digital lives separate

*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.