there’s more information about my issue in this post, i just thought it would have been better to create a separate topic for it: Extremely slow process retrieving data - #13 by wulfy_starr
to summarize, the debugging label should be going from “setting” to “set”, but it’s only stuck at setting. setting it’s text to each separate lists do work, so the lists themselves aren’t defective. maybe it’s the actual variables? i’m not sure what could be going wrong, as i initialized them the exact same way i did for the last 5 i made (that do work)