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A lot of your commit messages don't make any sense. Is there any point at which the program was fully functional but non-obfuscated?

More-or-less yes. I started compressing and obfuscating the code after https://github.com/dlowe/death/blob/7fcbcabb9f69bf0cdfff4651...

Sorry about the commit messages. Think of them as part of the obfuscation ;)