This made me chuckle. "However, some earlier phase of the production pipeline used a fixed-size buffer for storing object names and would shorten any longer na

This made me chuckle. "However, some earlier phase of the production pipeline used a fixed-size buffer for storing object names and would shorten any longer names, keeping only the end and helpfully adding a few periods to show that something had been lost: “…year/LeftArm/Hand/IndexFinger/Knuckle2”. Thence, all of the object names the renderer saw were of that form, the hash function hashed all of them to the bucket for ‘.’, and the hash table was actually a big linked list. Good times. "