T-Rex: One day Claude was blessed to see into alternate universes! Not all of them, of course: just the one. One single universe, where his doppelganger there consistently made the very best decisions he possibly could!
T-Rex: The catch was, he saw it on a 30-MINUTE TIME DELAY.
T-Rex: This was brutal for Claude. Every decision he made - even the ones he thought were good - would be revealed in short order to be sub-optimal and imperfect. Claude had a full and complete constantly-updated understanding of how he wasn't living his best life.
Dromiceiomimus: Rough times for Claude!
Utahraptor: But wouldn't his best and regular selves soon diverge?
T-Rex: Oh sure!
T-Rex: Perfect Claude's perfect decisions meant he soon wasn't comparable to regular Claude. So now all Claude could see, on a half-hour delay, was the life of someone identical looking but much more successful and happy than he was.
Utahraptor: Oof.
T-Rex: Yeah.
T-Rex: Anyway, Claude could still observe Perfect Claude's tech and "invent" it here, which improved lives for everyone, so he still had a pretty good run. BAM! Surprise twist happy ending!!
Off panel: THEY HAPPEN SOMETIMES
T-Rex: IT'S SO NICE WHEN THEY DO
