so, that was really easy, and of course it eliminated all of the encoding errors at all

even if i decide to keep my binary codec, i can also now add protobuf encoding to the database code anyway, it's so damn simple i did it in an hour

probably will be faster, but it's the biggest bug mess in my codebase at the moment and this will be great for really ironing out the JSON encoder, it seems there is a few glitches but they could well just be bad escaping... but if they are not bad escaping, then i'll fix these bugs i guess... i'm just gonna skip the fixing the encoder side for now, maybe make it a configuration option so i can enable the bespoke codec and fix it later