From e95ddfaf94208d199a095a7f2c091778a41f88f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: CitadelStationBot <CitadelStationBot>
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2017 03:09:47 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Rewrites incorrect documentation for the pickweight() proc

---
 code/__HELPERS/_lists.dm | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/code/__HELPERS/_lists.dm b/code/__HELPERS/_lists.dm
index df3daeeff9..74322c53af 100644
--- a/code/__HELPERS/_lists.dm
+++ b/code/__HELPERS/_lists.dm
@@ -177,7 +177,11 @@
 		result = first ^ second
 	return result
 
-//Pretends to pick an element based on its weight but really just seems to pick a random element.
+//Picks a random element from a list based on a weighting system:
+//1. Adds up the total of weights for each element
+//2. Gets a number between 1 and that total
+//3. For each element in the list, subtracts its weighting from that number
+//4. If that makes the number 0 or less, return that element.
 /proc/pickweight(list/L)
 	var/total = 0
 	var/item