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This comic celebrates the release of [[Randall|Randall's]] new book, ''[[What If? 2]]'', which was released on the same day as this comic: Tuesday, September 13, 2022.  The comic thus appeared on a Tuesday, replacing that week's normal Wednesday release to coincide with the release day. The [[Header text|header text]] also [[Header text#2022-09-13 - What if? 2 is available now|changed that day]] to shout out that the book was released on that day. (It had been counting down the last week, from [[Header text#2022-09-07 - Less than one week to What if? 2 comes out|less than a week]], [[Header text#2022-09-12 - Three days to What if? 2 comes out|three days]] and [[Header text#2022-09-12 - One day to What if? 2 comes out|one day]] while the previous comics [[2670: Interruption]] and [[2671: Rotation]] was on the front page — the latter only for one day due to the Tuesday release).
 
This comic celebrates the release of [[Randall|Randall's]] new book, ''[[What If? 2]]'', which was released on the same day as this comic: Tuesday, September 13, 2022.  The comic thus appeared on a Tuesday, replacing that week's normal Wednesday release to coincide with the release day. The [[Header text|header text]] also [[Header text#2022-09-13 - What if? 2 is available now|changed that day]] to shout out that the book was released on that day. (It had been counting down the last week, from [[Header text#2022-09-07 - Less than one week to What if? 2 comes out|less than a week]], [[Header text#2022-09-12 - Three days to What if? 2 comes out|three days]] and [[Header text#2022-09-12 - One day to What if? 2 comes out|one day]] while the previous comics [[2670: Interruption]] and [[2671: Rotation]] was on the front page — the latter only for one day due to the Tuesday release).
  
While announcing that his '''What If? 2''' book is finally out (the entire comic is a [https://xkcd.com/whatif2 link] to the books page on xkcd), Randall gives us a flowchart we can follow to find an article in the book relating to the situation in the flowchart. Once a relevant possibility is reached in the flowchart a page number in the book is given. It thus assumes the reader plans to do something that the advice in '''What If 2''' could be helpful for, which hopefully is highly unlikely. See the [[#Table of questions in the flowchart|table below]] for explanations on the individual options in the flowchart.
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While announcing that his '''What If? 2''' book is finally out (the entire comic is a [https://xkcd.com/whatif2 link] to the books page on xkcd), Randall gives us a flowchart we can follow to find the relevant article in the book based on what we are planning to do today. Once a relevant possibility is reached in the flowchart a page number in the book is given. It thus assumes we are doing something that the crazy scenarios in the book could potentially help us with. Which hopefully is highly unlikely. See the [[#Table of questions in the flowchart|table below]] for explanations.
  
The title text refers to the loop near the bottom of the flowchart, which involves a series of questions asking if the reader wants a progressively larger number of dogs. The number of dogs offered increases several times, and if that is sufficient the flowchart ends with fulfillment. Eventually it will have an option for the scenario where all in the universe is consumed by dogs, which directs to page 308 of the book. The title text references this last option by assuring the reader that all of the dogs are doing fine, but goes on to state that in itself could cause problems. For instance, those dogs could impede the progress of all life on Earth and elsewhere and/or reproduce and create an even larger population of dogs.
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The title text refers to the last line in the flow chart which is concerned with wanting a dog. If you are then satisfied the flowchart ends with fulfillment. But if you want more than one dog, the flowchart continues three times where you can get more dogs. If that is enough you will get back to the fulfillment ending. But else you can end in the scenario where all in the universe is consumed by dogs, and then you should read page 308.  
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The title text assures the reader that all of these dogs are doing fine, but goes on to state that the real problem is that all these dogs are still fine, and as such may well be reproducing, rapidly increasing the number of dogs.
  
 
==Table of questions in the flowchart==
 
==Table of questions in the flowchart==

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