re(ui): re-establish selective activation by killing the alternative statically

Last iteration I withdrew "a bundle is a palette" because the evidence
did not choose between selective activation within one bundle and two
compositions shown in sequence. The alternative can be killed from the
disc, which I had not tried.

Hypothesis 2 needs a bundle declaring the GLOWS WITHOUT THE LOGOS. There
is none. Every GP_TITLE entry carrying palogo elements:

  10, 13 (publisher twins)  palogo_eff0.prm, palogo_sqex, palogo_sqex_eff
  11, 14 (developer twins)  palogo_eff0.prm + all three logos + all three glows

Four entries, and each developer entry declares the complete set of six.
So whichever bundle was active across frames 94-211 -- entry 11, entry
14, or both in turn -- it declared the logos and the glows, while the
game drew two sprites at a time in disjoint phases.

Therefore only a subset of a bundle's elements is drawn at any moment,
whatever the bundle-loading story is. The conclusion no longer depends on
resolving how many bundles are involved, which is why the texture-base
test's failure stopped mattering.

So the claim is reinstated -- this time by eliminating the alternative
rather than by assuming it away. What worked was not a better capture but
asking what the competing hypothesis would REQUIRE on the disc and
finding it absent.

METHOD: a hypothesis that predicts an artefact can be killed by looking
for the artefact, which is often far cheaper than measuring the behaviour.
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@@ -819,3 +819,10 @@ agent's loop prompt, i.e. nowhere durable. See [`README.md`](README.md) for the
activates its elements selectively" was an explanation I attached to it, and it
is not established. Bundling the two let the weaker claim inherit the stronger
one's evidence.
* **Ask what the competing hypothesis would REQUIRE on the disc.** Two
explanations for the splash's disjoint phases looked separable only by a
capture I could not take, and the capture-side test failed its control. The
alternative needed a bundle declaring the glows without the logos — a
four-entry enumeration showed none exists, and the question closed statically.
A hypothesis that predicts an artefact can be killed by looking for the
artefact, which is often far cheaper than measuring the behaviour.