Added a Chrome Dino-style game to my research tool's pipeline wait screen driven by real SSE events [P]

Slightly unhinged engineering decision but it works. My tool (ScholarScout) has a 2-3 minute pipeline: fetch papers from 8 databases → analyze trends → generate ideas. During that time, the user sees a pixel art owl running through a parallax forest. The fun part: it's not fake animation. Each paper dot that spawns in the game corresponds to a real paper_found SSE event from the backend. Papers drip-feed at 600ms intervals from a queue (even if the fetch returned 30 papers at once). When pipeline finishes, owl celebrates.