Critical Large volumes of repeated messages break the chat window, forcing a hard reconnect

[Noah Buttes]

How to replicate (one method, there are other ways, but this is probably the most accessible):

1. Get a skateboard
   
2. Set up a skate park (a ring of tables or similarly immobile non-wall objects)
   
3. Achieve ludicrous speeds
   
4. Wait for a while
   
5. Eventually, all the messages piling up will force your chat window to only ever show one line of text at a time.
   
6. Even once you get off the skateboard, this state will persist.
   
7. Try reconnecting using the options in the "file" drop-down menu
   
8. See that it doesn't work.
   
9. Manually close the game window and rejoin the server.
   
10. Issue is fixed.