Merge pull request #13306 from Citadel-Station-13/silicons-patch-28

new codebase policy do not use potentially volatile procs in character setup of all places so we can stop having the moments when everyone's characters get bricked for the 619634'th time.

code/__HELPERS/_lists.dm

@@ -681,3 +681,11 @@
 			continue
 		if(istype(D, path))
 			return TRUE
+
+/proc/safe_json_encode(list/L, default = "")
+	. = default
+	return json_encode(L)
+
+/proc/safe_json_decode(string, default = list())
+	. = default
+	return json_decode(string)