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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(Funny writing in that the author has a good command of humor, not that his writing was unintentionally funny.)
View ArticleBy: 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...
View ArticleBy: 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...
View ArticleBy: 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...
View ArticleBy: 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.
View ArticleBy: maryr
I have to say, playing the free MLP Farmville clone on my iPod has become a lot eerier since reading this.
View ArticleBy: 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...
View ArticleBy: 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...
View ArticleBy: 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...
View ArticleBy: 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...
View ArticleBy: 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...
View ArticleBy: 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.
View ArticleBy: 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...
View ArticleBy: 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...
View ArticleBy: 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.
View ArticleBy: 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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