Ay! Thanks for playing, Garrett!
That mechanic is wholly intentional and has been the cause of a ridiculous amount of headache (my programming skills are still sub-par!). I figured people would stumble onto it themselves at some point; wondering whether you just outsmarted the game is exactly what I was going for.
Considering it's a puzzle game, though, everything's a spoiler! So I feel kind of obliged to ask you to remove the image and either edit out the explicit mention of the mechanic, or put it through rot13. I hope you understand!
Thanks again for playing and for the nice words! <3 Good luck with the rest of the game, hope you enjoy it!