Rereading the code: How did this Ever work?
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Funny is, when you use functions that were never designed to work the way you used them and it works anyway. What I also love is when all of a sudden the most basic functions imaginable (like importing another file in python) breaks and you have no idea why.
Don't leave your code outside when it's raining then.
race condition? (i mean the technical term; i'm not racist i swear)
Reminds me of my favorite passion project "dwatf fortress" where every update has to make nice with the many other systems. My favorite was allowing dwarfs to spill alchohol which made your cats raging alchoholics due to them getting soaked and "cleaning" their fur. Entire multi decade fortresses got lost to this.
The more I hear about this game the more fucked up it looks like.
I too set up my server to automatically shut down in the rain, it keeps the users on there toes.
I can't tell you the number of time I restart my computer and my code starts working.
I spent 5 days last week doing a lab assignment on linked lists, spent 3 days trying to debug my code, turned off and on my computer and it worked. I suspect it's a cache issue where there is some corrupted cache that isn't being updated and that can only reset through a full restart.