re: one A skips the intro, and NEW GAME was never a hang

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Two corpus claims died in one boot, and both were costing us.

Q9's last row: a movie IS skippable with a single A. One tap ~45s into
the boot put the title up at ~57s, against a ~193s no-input baseline
measured over three boots, and Canary's own keystroke counter went 3->4
so exactly one press was delivered. The skipped-to title is fully
functional -- it draws the PRESS A plate and a second A opens the main
menu. What actually breaks the boot is hammering: the 88-press run in the
traps doc. The scripts' "tapping breaks the title" comment is too broad
and costs every scripted boot two and a half minutes.

Q4's last row: A on NEW GAME does not hang. It opens DIFFICULTY
(EASY/NORMAL/HARD/BACK, focus on NORMAL), then SELECT DATA, and only then
does the guest throw -- at PC 0x82307128, which is inside sub_823070B0,
the cache-manager STL erase this corpus already documents and which has
nothing to do with the menu path. The screen sat unchanged for 90s
because it was a menu waiting for input from a loop that never pressed
anything. That is now a METHOD line: a screen that never changes is not
necessarily hung, and the fix is to look at it and press something.

Also METHOD: never run ps -ef in this container -- all three long-lived
processes carry the entire loop prompt as argv.

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