This line had no real use at all that I could find. It may even have contributed to various issues.
Before this line was added, all basic humanoid species have had their appearances constructed onto an actually existing blank 32x32 icon_state named and called for as "nothing" inside the effects.dmi.
There are no untitled blanks either inside the effects.dmi file, so the funky deviant species specific icon_states would never have had any proper fallback either.
No negative effects whatsoever detected in testing runs. Maybe slight framerate increase, but that was likely unrelated/placebo lmao
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