diff --git a/src/k_kart.c b/src/k_kart.c
index ed4736411..e7c30d2f6 100644
--- a/src/k_kart.c
+++ b/src/k_kart.c
@@ -10095,9 +10095,10 @@ static void K_drawKartNameTags(void)
 				{
 					bary += (vid.height - (BASEVIDHEIGHT * vid.dupy)) / 2;
 				}
-
-				V_DrawFill(barx, bary, barw, (3 * vid.dupy), colormap[31]|V_NOSCALESTART);
-				V_DrawFill(barx, bary + vid.dupy, barw, vid.dupy, colormap[0]|V_NOSCALESTART);
+			
+				// Lat: 10/06/2020: colormap can be NULL on the frame you join a game, just arbitrarily use palette indexes 31 and 0 instead of whatever the colormap would give us instead to avoid crashes.
+				V_DrawFill(barx, bary, barw, (3 * vid.dupy), (colormap ? colormap[31] : 31)|V_NOSCALESTART);
+				V_DrawFill(barx, bary + vid.dupy, barw, vid.dupy, (colormap ? colormap[0] : 0)|V_NOSCALESTART);
 				// END DRAWFILL DUMBNESS
 
 				// Draw the stem
diff --git a/src/m_menu.c b/src/m_menu.c
index 16cef2eb9..9fdd70b12 100644
--- a/src/m_menu.c
+++ b/src/m_menu.c
@@ -5487,7 +5487,11 @@ static void DrawReplayHutReplayInfo(void)
 		}
 
 		// Character face!
-		if (W_CheckNumForName(skins[demolist[dir_on[menudepthleft]].standings[0].skin].facewant) != LUMPERROR)
+
+		// Lat: 08/06/2020: For some reason missing skins have their value set to 255 (don't even ask me why I didn't write this)
+		// and for an even STRANGER reason this passes the first check below, so we're going to make sure that the skin here ISN'T 255 before we do anything stupid.
+
+		if (demolist[dir_on[menudepthleft]].standings[0].skin != 0xFF && W_CheckNumForName(skins[demolist[dir_on[menudepthleft]].standings[0].skin].facewant) != LUMPERROR)
 		{
 			patch = facewantprefix[demolist[dir_on[menudepthleft]].standings[0].skin];
 			colormap = R_GetTranslationColormap(
@@ -5685,7 +5689,11 @@ static void M_DrawReplayStartMenu(void)
 			V_DrawString(BASEVIDWIDTH-92, STARTY + i*20 + 9, V_SNAPTOTOP, va("%d", demolist[dir_on[menudepthleft]].standings[i].timeorscore));
 
 		// Character face!
-		if (W_CheckNumForName(skins[demolist[dir_on[menudepthleft]].standings[i].skin].facerank) != LUMPERROR)
+
+		// Lat: 08/06/2020: For some reason missing skins have their value set to 255 (don't even ask me why I didn't write this)
+		// and for an even STRANGER reason this passes the first check below, so we're going to make sure that the skin here ISN'T 255 before we do anything stupid.
+
+		if (demolist[dir_on[menudepthleft]].standings[0].skin != 0xFF && W_CheckNumForName(skins[demolist[dir_on[menudepthleft]].standings[i].skin].facerank) != LUMPERROR)
 		{
 			patch = facerankprefix[demolist[dir_on[menudepthleft]].standings[i].skin];
 			colormap = R_GetTranslationColormap(
@@ -7632,7 +7640,7 @@ static void M_StartGrandPrix(INT32 choice)
 			grandprixinfo.gamespeed = KARTSPEED_HARD;
 			grandprixinfo.masterbots = true;
 			break;
-		
+
 	}
 
 	grandprixinfo.encore = (boolean)(cv_dummygpencore.value);
diff --git a/src/v_video.c b/src/v_video.c
index 20931291f..0f6479205 100644
--- a/src/v_video.c
+++ b/src/v_video.c
@@ -1909,7 +1909,6 @@ void V_DrawStringScaled(
 		if (!( flags & V_SNAPTOLEFT ))
 		{
 			left   = ( right - BASEVIDWIDTH )/ 2;/* left edge of drawable area */
-			x      = ( left << FRACBITS )+ x;
 			right -= left;
 		}
 	}