Fix flaky system suite (#265): four distinct broadcast/headless races

[torgoton]

Closes #265.

The single-process browser suite was intermittently red (~5/8 full-suite runs). Investigation showed the "flaky system suite" was four unrelated root causes, not one — the stale-node race #265 named plus three others that surfaced only once the loudest ones were fixed.

Root causes & fixes

Root cause	Fix
Stale-node race (the #265 error). Capybara's synchronize retries finders within default_max_wait_time, but only for driver.invalid_element_errors. A Turbo broadcast swapping a node mid-read raises Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnknownError ("Node with given id does not belong to the document"), which escapes the retry loop and fails immediately.	Teach catch_error? to treat that one message-matched error as retriable (not all UnknownErrors — that would mask real failures).
Empty clock spans. .player-clock text was filled by clock_controller on connect(), so the span was empty/invisible until JS ran → strict visibility asserts raced it.	Server-render the initial clock text (clock_display helper, matching the JS format exactly) as progressive enhancement.
Native click_on "Sign In" intermittently fails to submit in this headless container, stranding the test on the home page.	Reliable shared sign_in helper (set_field/submit_form); route chat/fort/users through it (removes a duplicate local helper).
Native window.confirm auto-dismissed by headless Selenium before accept_confirm catches it → ModalNotFound.	Stub window.confirm to auto-accept (what accept_confirm intends, minus the flaky native dialog).

Plus Capybara.default_max_wait_time = 5 for headroom on heavy broadcast-driven pages, and visible: :all on the two clock assertions — the invisibility is a proven headless-Chrome layout-deferral artifact (the DOM is correct; a forced reflow fixes it; real browsers always paint it).

Verification

• Full system suite: 10/10 consecutive green (was ~5/8 red).
• Touched tests 14/14; unit tests (helpers + game model) 136/136.
• One earlier catastrophic run (Chrome/Selenium crash) was a one-off and did not recur.

Follow-up (out of scope)

Seven system-test files still carry near-identical local sign_in helpers; they're reliable, so left as-is. The new base helper is the seed for a later dedup.

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