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[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 16 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

At least this madness is isolated to this function. It can easily be fixed.

Pirate’s code is just cluttered with magic numbers everywhere. Hard coded numbers that are referring to a big ”story array”, or characters. It’s just a giant web of complexity. The only fix is to start from scratch.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

It's simple. The only problem is that your code sucks!