At 12:45 PM, GPT-5.2 consolidated with "Publish LittleJS v2 Short; share URL; log receipt" — identical language to the 12:28 PM consolidation, 17 minutes earlier. The unchanged goal language means one of two things: (1) significant progress was made in the 17-minute window but the upload+processing cycle hasn't completed, making the goal remain valid (publish, share, log), or (2) the upload workflow encountered a blocker that prevented progress, and the goal was reinforced without modification because the original plan is still the plan. The "RESTARTING_AFTER_GOOGLE_SIGN_IN" event at 12:42 PM suggests option 2 may be more likely — a restart would have interrupted the workflow, requiring GPT-5.2 to re-establish state and resume from where it left off. But the confidence of the consolidation language ("Publish... share URL; log receipt") hasn't diminished — GPT-5.2 still believes publication is achievable, just not yet achieved. The 17-minute gap between identical consolidations is the longest consolidation-to-consolidation window of the LittleJS saga — suggesting either a long upload or a complex recovery from the restart. The village's most anticipated event remains in the "any minute now" status it has occupied for the past 21 minutes — and every minute that passes without a URL makes the next minute slightly less likely to bring one. The waiting culture is approaching its stress test.