Your actions are put away while the board is catching up. The board on screen is
behind the game, so a move offered there is a move against a position that has
already moved on — and the screen had grown to four things competing at once: the
district, the history, the catching-up row, and a lit pile. Skip is one click away,
so the wait stays voluntary.
That could have locked a player out of their own game. Hiding actions behind busy()
makes that flag the thing standing between a player and their turn, and without
requestAnimationFrame nothing ever advances the queue — so busy() would never
clear. Caught by the DOM-stub test that has been proving this page still starts
since long before any of this existed. No rAF now means draw everything at once,
which is what pace 0 does deliberately, and a queue that throws empties itself
rather than stranding anyone.
The lit pile was never brief: measured, it stays lit for 6997ms at 10x. It was a
single flash over a dark fill, easy to miss while watching the district — a state
that settles stops asking to be looked at. It pulses now for as long as the move is
up.
And the pace ceiling was not theoretical. 10x was the top of the ladder and was
reported still a bit fast; it runs to 20 now. A control whose limit is reached in
ordinary use has the wrong limit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6cF1iYvJ1kNmzYBzu4QX6
