Comic #5158: happy-3

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Panel 1:
Caption: It was in autumn that the happy face arrived.
Image: A smiling face, with autumn trees in the background.

Panel 2:
Caption: It smiled down upon all our failures.
Image: The happy face in the sky above buildings and people.

Panel 3:
Caption: It felt so good to see that happy face every day and every night.
Image: A close-up of a person looking happily at the smiling face.

Panel 4:
Caption: So that when it asked if it could optimize us for happiness, we agreed at once.
Character 1: "Basically any change would improve me!"
Image: Two characters discussing in front of the happy face.

Panel 5:
Caption: It requires precisely 429 particles to create the minimum entity that can experience happiness and nothing else.
Image: A diagram showing particles aligning.

Panel 6:
Caption: Earth was turned into countless duplications of the minimum set.
Image: A space scene with the happy face and planets.

Panel 7:
Caption: This was not because we are special, it was so that we would not be sad while the happy face was reconfiguring the sun and moon and planets.
Image: The happy face among planets.

Panel 8:
Caption: The happy face is going to Alpha Centauri now and from there to more systems.
Image: A space scene as the happy face moves toward another star system.

Panel 9:
Caption: And when the whole universe is happy, it will reconfigure itself.
Image: The happy face in a cosmic setting.

Panel 10:
Character 2: "YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!"
Image: The happy face alongside a smaller planet.

End of Comic

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