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By: ChurchHatesTucker

I was amused to see that in the latest episode of MLP one of the characters dealt with a particularly talkative one by summoning a computer pointer and trash can and deleting her mouth art.

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By: capricorn

(Funny writing in that the author has a good command of humor, not that his writing was unintentionally funny.)

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By: capricorn

So I spent the past few hours of my life reading this and I will say that while it was not particularly good writing, it was definitely funny writing, and it was enjoyable just to see where this...

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By: Drastic

Could have used a lot less wankery about how the "magic" system works; just seemed like a giant unnecessary wink to computer programmers. Good ponylord yes. That was a long road to get to a Konami Code...

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By: ChurchHatesTucker

I have to say, playing the free MLP Farmville clone on my iPod has become a lot eerier since reading this. Yeah, the push messages aren't quite as cute anymore. Still, I'm curious to see a completed...

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By: ob1quixote

Okay, so now that I've read the first couple of chapters I have to say I'm a little stunned at how much I'm enjoying Friendship is Optimal.

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By: maryr

I have to say, playing the free MLP Farmville clone on my iPod has become a lot eerier since reading this.

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By: Solon and Thanks

The narrative was a little clunky, but gosh. Amazing thought experiment. Maybe the first utopia/dystopia I've read where I can't decide if it really IS a dystopia. I think the author did a great job...

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By: Drastic

The main charitable reading of the Nice Guy business is that Celestia is simply pandering. She does state outright later on it's a persuasive tactic she uses. She only had to tell the truth to...

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By: justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow

I kind of got thrown out of the story by the "Nice Guy[tm]" tropes Celestia started pulling out Likewise. Charitably, this might have resulted from a sampling bias in Celestia's model of human values...

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By: rmd1023

This story is ... more amusing and better than I expected. No Harry Potter and Methods of Rationality, but still pretty excellent. My girlfriend just came home, and I said "Honey, you will never EVER...

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By: You Can't Tip a Buick

I kind of got thrown out of the story by the "Nice Guy[tm]" tropes Celestia started pulling out when she convinced Light Sparks to upload himself. I couldn't tell if that was the values of the author...

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By: subdee

Thanks kindly!

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By: justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow

subdee, Slackermage is playing off of Ursula LeGuin's story "The ones who walk away from Omelas." It's famous and I'd strongly recommend it. Full text here.

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By: SPrintF

This is, IMHO, an award-winning story. Thank you for sharing it.

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By: subdee

Slackermagee, is that a bible quote? XD

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By: Slackermagee

The world needs suffering to function: as more people choose to be "raptured" to ponyworld, the real world becomes a worse place to live. Kind of like many rural areas in the US But who will be the...

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By: Mars Saxman

The story has plenty of clever ideas, but it can't decide whether it wants to be a story or a thought experiment. We get paragraph after paragraph of dialogue which explains why things in this universe...

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By: maryr

I kinda liked the idea that OF COURSE Japan is the first country to let you upload yourself to a computer. Pony In The Shell.

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By: SPrintF

As a writer of MLP fanfiction myself (I'm on FIMFiction as Cloud Wander), I'm impressed with what I've read of the story thus far. Picking My Little Pony as the "innocuous" background for the AI is...

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