Soft-locked in residuum tutorial!

[dances with woolite]

I unlocked Residuum. On the next day it plays a tutorial to teach me how to sacrifice, and makes me go to a menu where it tells me:
"Move your cursor over the Shock Absorber trinket and press [del] to select it for sacrifice."
... but I don't have Shock Absorber. It seems to be hoping it's in the top-left slot (as that empty slot is a different color), but I can't select it for sacrifice, and I can't leave this menu or continue with the game as a result. Even if I force-kill the program and restart, it takes me back into this tutorial, where I get stuck again. It's like its own mini deathloop, but the bad kind.

Is there any way to skip the tutorial, or edit my inventory so that I have the requisite item?

[Watermelons]

At the very start of the loop in the first area, the Shock Absorber trinket should be sitting along with the machete and grenades. Maybe you didn't grab it? Either way, what a dumb mistake on their part.

In one of the option subsections, you can restart Colt's progress entirely, I suggest you try it. Sure, you'll be set back a little bit, but considering you're still in the tutorial section, it should be fine. Make sure you grab that stupid little trinket each loop then since we know now this is a potential problem.

[dances with woolite]

Thanks! I do know about the trinket, but I may have just skipped it on that morning.
I found some other people on Reddit who had suffered the same problem, and it turns out that the tutorial itself has a bug-within-a-bug where if you spam buttons really fast (for me I used both a usb controller and the keyboard and it took me several minutes of trying) while entering and exiting the menu, sometimes it will randomly switch you to the weapon screen and let you proceed to the next part of this tutorial. So I was able to make it past this silly bug without resetting progress; hopefully that is helpful to someone else who gets stuck here too.

[💀Skull-Collector💀]

Unfortunately, the spam-buttons method did not work for me!

Obviously many people (still) have this problem and it has not been fixed for a long time! Here is my comment from another thread:

"I have a similar problem at the same place in the "infusion tutorial" after killing the scientist (Wenji?).

I even have the module in question, but I can't select it to recycle ("sacrifice") it. This is not a crash or a lock, but a permanent problem. I tried everything to bypass the infusion tutorial several times, even copied a savegame. Can't continue the game, very annoying..."