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[[A blonde and a man are holding hands, looking at another woman with black hair.]]
((Two arrows direct the comic into a pair of different paths.))
((Left path.))
[[The man is holding hands with the blonde woman, but he is thinking about the woman with black hair.]]
((Right path.))
[[The man approaches the woman with black hair. He is thinking about the blonde.]]
((Left path.))
[[The man is performing oral sex on the blonde, and still thinking about the woman with black hair.]]
((Right path.))
[[The man and the black-haired woman have sex on the arm of a chair. The man is thinking about the blonde.]]
((Left path.))
[[The man and the woman are drawing something together, and the man is thinking about the woman with black hair.]]
((Right path.))
[[The man and woman are hiking together. The man is thinking about the blonde woman.]]
((Left path.))
[[The man and the woman are holding hands, and the man is thinking of the woman with black hair.]]
((Right path.))
[[The man and the woman are holding hands, and the man is thinking of the blonde woman.]]
((The path unites again.))
[[Two gravestones are next to each other. One of them is thinking about a third gravestone.]]
{{Title text: Forever comparing, never evaluating on any external scale. If you were a sort function, you'd never break the nlogn barrier.}}
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