diff --git a/ProjectLighthouse/Controllers/MatchController.cs b/ProjectLighthouse/Controllers/MatchController.cs
index a865fa9e..ba19cb4a 100644
--- a/ProjectLighthouse/Controllers/MatchController.cs
+++ b/ProjectLighthouse/Controllers/MatchController.cs
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ using System.Text.Json;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using Kettu;
 using LBPUnion.ProjectLighthouse.Helpers;
+using LBPUnion.ProjectLighthouse.Helpers.Extensions;
 using LBPUnion.ProjectLighthouse.Logging;
 using LBPUnion.ProjectLighthouse.Types;
 using LBPUnion.ProjectLighthouse.Types.Match;
@@ -53,8 +54,10 @@ namespace LBPUnion.ProjectLighthouse.Controllers
             }
             catch(Exception e)
             {
-                Logger.Log("Exception while parsing MatchData: " + e, LoggerLevelMatch.Instance);
-                Logger.Log("Data: " + bodyString, LoggerLevelMatch.Instance);
+                Logger.Log("Exception while parsing matchData: ", LoggerLevelMatch.Instance);
+                string[] lines = e.ToDetailedException().Split("\n");
+                foreach (string line in lines) Logger.Log(line, LoggerLevelMatch.Instance);
+                Logger.Log("Associated matchData: " + bodyString, LoggerLevelMatch.Instance);
 
                 return this.BadRequest();
             }
@@ -62,7 +65,7 @@ namespace LBPUnion.ProjectLighthouse.Controllers
             if (matchData == null)
             {
                 Logger.Log("Could not parse match data: matchData is null", LoggerLevelMatch.Instance);
-                Logger.Log("Data: " + bodyString, LoggerLevelMatch.Instance);
+                Logger.Log("Associated matchData: " + bodyString, LoggerLevelMatch.Instance);
                 return this.BadRequest();
             }
 
diff --git a/ProjectLighthouse/Helpers/MatchHelper.cs b/ProjectLighthouse/Helpers/MatchHelper.cs
index c6379435..5afa10e6 100644
--- a/ProjectLighthouse/Helpers/MatchHelper.cs
+++ b/ProjectLighthouse/Helpers/MatchHelper.cs
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ namespace LBPUnion.ProjectLighthouse.Helpers
             return recentlyDivedIn.Contains(otherUserId);
         }
 
+        // This is the function used to show people how laughably awful LBP's protocol is. Beware.
         public static IMatchData? Deserialize(string data)
         {
             string matchType = "";
@@ -49,10 +50,13 @@ namespace LBPUnion.ProjectLighthouse.Helpers
                 i++;
             }
 
-            string matchData = $"{{{string.Concat(data.Skip(matchType.Length + 3).SkipLast(2))}}}";
+            string matchData = $"{{{string.Concat(data.Skip(matchType.Length + 3).SkipLast(2))}}}"; // unfuck formatting so we can parse it as json
 
             // JSON does not like the hex value that location comes in (0x7f000001) so, convert it to int
             matchData = Regex.Replace(matchData, @"0x[a-fA-F0-9]{8}", m => Convert.ToInt32(m.Value, 16).ToString());
+            // oh, but it gets better than that! LBP also likes to send hex values with an uneven amount of digits (0xa000064, 7 digits). in any case, we handle it here:
+            matchData = Regex.Replace(matchData, @"0x[a-fA-F0-9]{7}", m => Convert.ToInt32(m.Value, 16).ToString());
+            // i'm actually crying about it.
 
             return Deserialize(matchType, matchData);
         }