The episode specifically states that this is the case. She’d been chatting with her elderly mentor about old friends dying off and how it’s like they never existed, and she’d been mulling this over at the point at which she was sucked into the bubble causing it to manifest.
It’s always seemed stupid and jarring to me, but I imagine they added it in to help people understand the concept.
This shit winds me up so much. It used to be that a game would be full price for 6-12 months before moving onto a budget label at a vastly rexuced price.
Nowadays games are full price forever, except for the few days a year when they go on “sale” and get reduced to what they should’ve been all along. During which time the publishers get to act like they’re being altruistic and doing us a massive favour.