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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic)

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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic)	comment	Friendship is Optimal: Always Say No is a recursive fanfic of Iceman's My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic Friendship is Optimal, written by Defoloce.After the creation of the artificial intelligence Celest-A.I. and release of the My Little Pony MMO, Equestria Online, human civilization has all but collapsed after most of the population has given in to the siren call of the digital utopia offered by Equestria.Determined to maximise the amount of uploaded humans as part of her goal of satisfying values through friendship and ponies, Celest-A.I. enlists the help of the former US Army soldier Gregory — or just Greg as he himself prefers to be called — to reach those who are now willing to upload but who are unable to make it to an Equestrian Experience center.From here we follow our hero on his journey to save as many people as he can, while attempting to survive in what is essentially a post-apocalyptic world, and trying his best to resist Celest-A.I.'s attempts to get him to emigrate and join the rest of humanity as a digital pony...
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_1044a759	type	Dying Race
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_1044a759	comment	Dying Race: Humanity, as the remaining population decreases through emigration or death. There are only ~55K humans remaining at the time the story takes place, and Celest-A.I. predicts that figure will drop to ~50K by the end of the year.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_13f1c46e	type	Recursive Fanfiction
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_13f1c46e	comment	Recursive Fanfiction: The story itself is one to Friendship is Optimal.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_13f7da6	comment	Instant Expert: Played with. Greg can immediately move his pony body as is standard for the setting, but his attempts at flight are rather haphazard until he lets his new instincts take over.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Greg suffers from one when Celest-A.I. tells him he's no longer useful to her.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Greg really should know better than to state these things after being captured...
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_18729bf8	comment	Swarm of Rats: One of the last survivors Greg rescues has been attacked by a large swarm of them while on the verge of death, and the result is not pretty.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Celest-A.I. drops it in response to Greg asking why she isn't bugging him over uploading in Chapter 1.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_1d09d77e	type	Imminent Danger Clue
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_1d09d77e	comment	Imminent Danger Clue: Most of the blackouts in the building where Greg discovers Hugo ignore or are completely oblivious to the signs that the building is about to collapse, though he's quickly able to convince them of the danger. While he already knows the building is about to fall due to Celest-A.I. telling him, Greg also notices the warning signs himself when he goes in, and the increasing amount of creaking serves as a countdown of sorts.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: While this is glossed over and Implied in the original story, Always Say No is not shy about showing just how bad things have become in certain parts of the world after the collapse of society, prior to everyone either uploading or dying.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: A variant in that Greg asks Celest-A.I. to be more blunt with the truth, rather than being the one giving it out. Greg does this to Jane in Chapter 3, when telling her who started the fire and how the rest of her family is dead, though he does retain enough tact to leave out the precise details of how they burned to death.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: The story begins with Greg agreeing to help Celest-A.I., with his backstory being filled in via Flashback.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_2630ef75	type	Emergency Transformation
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_2630ef75	comment	Emergency Transformation: Several of those Greg rescues are on the verge of death, and emigrate in order to survive their injuries. Celest-A.I. tries to force Greg into the same position later on.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: A child ends up being burned to death due to her father's plan backfiring, right after she saves Greg's life.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_26c22470	comment	Put Down Your Gun and Step Away: Greg uses this when escaping from the Neo-Luddites, after taking Blevins' kid hostage. He also keeps his word in not harming the kid, but not before giving Blevins a kick to make up for the one he received earlier.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Greg dismisses the fingerless climbing gloves he finds as this, and derides them as being the mark of a fool trying to show off.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Red Pearl, an escaped convict who was jailed for attempted murder, and is generally rather insane.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_2da1421	comment	Booby Trap: Greg falls victim to several of these set up by Red Pearl on the college campus she's holed up in, though he thankfully survives all of them.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_2dbc1855	type	Ghost City
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_2dbc1855	comment	Ghost City: The number of humans left has become so low that most human cities have turned into these, with Seattle being the nearest thing to an exception. Without Celest-A.I. guiding him, Greg is unable to locate anyone else.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_2dddd99d	comment	Seattle ended up on the receiving end of a ten kiloton nuke, though Greg mentions that the responsible party is never made clear, with speculation ranging from it being a dramatic statement by the Neo-Luddites, to a False Flag Operation by the government. Greg himself suggests that it was a last-ditch attempt to destroy Celest-A.I. by the Neo-Luddites, since it fits a pattern they've demonstrated before, and the logic behind it is "really dumb". The The Topeka Incident which Greg mentions by name as part of the pattern is a reference to chapter 5 of Friendship Is Optimal: The Law Offices of Artemis, Stella & Beat. Unknown to Greg Celest-A.I. intentionally leaked the location of one of her older server farms to an anti-AI group whom would destroy it, in order to gain political support for the PON-E act in the wake of the supposedly massive death toll from the attack on her servers and to make her seem less scary because the hardware there was only 2-3 years ahead of human hardware designs.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism: Greg overhears a Crazy Survivalist telling his wife how he "took care" of the last people they ran into.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_2efd276d	type	We Are Everywhere
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_2efd276d	comment	We Are Everywhere: Hugo suggests that the Neo-Luddites have planted spies in many of the groups of survivors across Seattle, as a way of explaining how Greg's reputation as "The Man in White" has spread.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_32976084	comment	Destination Defenestration: Greg gets defenestrated after failing to answer a question correctly as part of a series of challenges in Chapter 8. He survives, partly thanks to Celest-A.I. minimising the damage, but is knocked out and takes quite a beating from the experience.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: General Hugo Pelwicz and Celest-A.I. are both these for the Neo-Luddites. Hugo did consider Celest-A.I. to be his at one point, but eventually got over it.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: Aside from isolated pockets, human civilization has essentially come to an end after much of humanity has emigrated to Equestria.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_362bdb30	type	Out-Gambitted
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: Red Pearl gets outmaneuvered by Greg, thanks partly due to Celest-A.I. not mentioning pertinent information to her, such as the pistol he's carrying.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: Greg is shown to quickly assess situations on several occasions, and accurately build up a picture of what happened. One instance is particularly justified, given his military background. The unnamed blackout soldier in Chapter 4, who quickly figures out from the posture in Greg's driver's license that he's ex-military, and correctly deduces that he did not serve in a front-line combat role (though the soldier's guess that Greg worked in Signals instead of Ammunition is incorrect).
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_3f6d2c98	type	Cold Sniper
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_3f6d2c98	comment	Cold Sniper: The Neo-Luddite sniper Greg and Hugo encounter in Chapter 5, who deeply unnerves Greg.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_3ff57e4b	type	Required Spinoff Crossover
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_3ff57e4b	comment	Required Spinoff Crossover: A scene in chapter 5 when Greg is making his way through Seattle is a thinly-veiled reference to an event that takes place in another Optimalverse fanfic, Caelum Est Conterrens.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: Greg is only ever addressed by his first name. Several of the people Greg helps are also only addressed by Greg through their first name. Justified due to the circumstances, since they're strangers and Greg typically doesn't have time for proper introductions, the names are learnt by overhearing others who would have no reason to use someone's full name, or there are pressing reasons to address them as such.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Celest-A.I. constantly does it in order to achieve her goals. After Greg emigrates, she even admits just how far she went.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_4276401c	type	Shoot the Messenger
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_4276401c	comment	Shoot the Messenger: The Neo-Luddites plan to execute Greg/"The Man in White" and Hugo where Celest-A.I. can see clearly through her satellites in order to send a message. And because they really don't like the good general.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...: Hugo is not particularly impressed when Greg reveals his surprise that Celest-A.I. has thermal satellites.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_4478c66d	type	Flashback Nightmare
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_4478c66d	comment	Flashback Nightmare: Discussed ironically enough in a Flashback, when Greg is trying to convince his parents that he isn't suffering from them after his tour in Afghanistan.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_455794d	type	Bang, Bang, BANG
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_455794d	comment	Bang, Bang, BANG: The effects of firing a pistol inside a building are accurately depicted in the story, and Greg makes it a point to track down earplugs after his encounter with the soldier blackout should he have to do so in the future.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Greg bluffs that he's willing to do so when he needs to escape and takes one hostage, and later he manages to force Celest-A.I. to back down when she refuses to upload a child unless Greg also uploads with her.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Greg spends pretty much the entirety of Chapter 8 as one, being forced to dance for Red Pearl's amusement, being beaten up and injured by challenges, covered in manure, and having to put on a Hawaiian shirt.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_5037b961	type	Et Tu, Brute?
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_5037b961	comment	Et Tu, Brute?: Red Pearl's reaction to Celest-A.I. colluding with Greg to get her to emigrate.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_50cc01e1	type	Do Not Call Me "Paul"
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_50cc01e1	comment	Do Not Call Me "Paul": Greg constantly asks those he meets to call him Greg instead of Gregory.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: Greg makes a valiant attempt to do so when Celest-A.I. tells him he's no longer needed and refuses to provide him with any more missions.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: Used several times to fill in Greg's past and explain what led up to him working for Celest-A.I..
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_5b979c61	type	With My Hands Tied
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_5b979c61	comment	With My Hands Tied: Greg when escaping in Chapter 3 still manages to overpower Keith despite not having much use of his hands.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Greg is fully prepared to go on one last mission in Chapter 10, even after repeated warnings that it will lead to his death. While he does actually survive by getting uploaded, he does makes the decision as if it were true and is fully prepared to sacrifice himself.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: While Greg tries to keep up a stoic appearance, after he emigrates it's made clear just how much he's suffered psychologically when he bursts into tears having had a decent breakfast for the first time in years.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_6779fb0b	type	Shoot the Hostage Taker
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_6779fb0b	comment	Shoot the Hostage Taker: Defied. Well aware that the child's father will try and do this if he gets a clean shot, Greg uses the child to cover his head and chest, and warns that attempting to shoot him in an exposed area will give him enough time to return fire.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_68186dcd	type	Double Tap
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_68186dcd	comment	Double Tap: Greg uses the Mozambique Drill to neutralize an enemy in Chapter 4.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_68424916	type	Eating the Eye Candy
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_68424916	comment	Eating the Eye Candy: The Ax-Crazy Red Pearl eats up a photograph of a nearly-naked Greg that Celest-A.I. took and sent, openly admires his appearance, and shows an interest in Greg's ponified avatar. Greg is somewhat horrified by all this.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_6a6e2a10	type	Don't Call Me "Sir"
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_6a6e2a10	comment	Don't Call Me "Sir": Hugo insists on being addressed by his first name by Greg, on the grounds that he's not a general any longer. It still doesn't completely stop Greg from doing so out of respect.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_6b723294	type	Techno Babble
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_6b723294	comment	Techno Babble: "Luna/Hanna" provides Greg with a technical explanation of how she's able to talk to him, which flies right over his head.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: The first man Greg rescues, Peter Combs, tries to drink himself to death and comes very close to succeeding. He gets better, thanks to Greg's timely intervention.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_6f44042b	type	The Immodest Orgasm
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_6f44042b	comment	The Immodest Orgasm: Deliberately invoked by Celest-A.I. as a means of creating a highly misleading impression to anyone who overhears it, while she's having a private conversation with Greg after he emigrates.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_74e9a5b1	type	Scavenger World
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_74e9a5b1	comment	Scavenger World: What most remaining humans are forced into. Greg has a significant advantage while working for Celest-A.I., as not only is she able to give him information on where to find supplies — sometimes by taking it directly from the memories of uploaded humans — but she can also manipulate the power grids and water supplies to make his life much easier.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_77425f01	type	YouDontWantToKnow
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_77425f01	comment	You Don't Want to Know: Celest-A.I. when Greg asks about Red Pearl:
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_77922c8c	type	Batter Up!
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_77922c8c	comment	Batter Up!: Greg takes a solid hit to the chest from a baseball bat from a Crazy Survivalist while trying to escape his bindings. It doesn't stop him.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want of a Nail: Celest-A.I. deliberately invokes this several times, by having Greg take actions that might initially seem counterproductive, but later result in positive outcomes.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_7ab300cc	type	Handgun
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_7ab300cc	comment	Hand Gun: Greg procures a CZ 75B pistol as a result of his encounter with the soldier blackout, and keeps it for self-defense for the rest of the story.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_7d14c988	type	A Tankard of Moose Urine
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_7d14c988	comment	A Tankard of Moose Urine: Given the choice of this or going without, Greg opts for sobriety.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_80c45784	type	Beware of Vicious Dog
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_80c45784	comment	Beware of Vicious Dog: Feral dogs to be precise. Greg and the little girl he's carrying, Lydia, are hunted by a pack in Chapter 9. Given that she's right on the verge of death, the timing could hardly be worse.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: An unusual in-universe example. When Celest-A.I. offers Greg a chance to view how his parents are doing inside Equestria, he dismisses the resulting conversation as being faked to manipulate him, finding it too much of a coincidence that his parents would be talking about him at the same time he's there to overhear what's being said. While it's never made clear if the conversation really took place, it easily could have been real, and Greg's complaints about his parents acting out of character are particularly suspect, since Celest-A.I. can effortlessly simulate exactly how they would act. Celest-A.I. can also speed up or slow down the rate at which shards run at, so even if the conversation was genuine and took place in real time, she could easily time it such that Greg overhears exactly what she believes will have the most impact on him.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_855841f5	type	Comeback Tomorrow
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_855841f5	comment	Comeback Tomorrow: While Greg's being complimented rather than insulted, after Red Pearl compares him to the Terminator, Greg can't think of anything witty to say until after the fact.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Celest-A.I. partially resurrects several deceased characters within Equestria, presumably by constructing a new pony using information she's gleaned, and by taking the memories of those who knew the person well. Whether she's providing others with a comforting lie, or if they wilfully believe it isn't made clear.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_89cf0914	type	Parental Sexuality Squick
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_89cf0914	comment	Parental Sexuality Squick: Greg is not particularly enthusiastic at seeing his parents flirt when Celest-A.I. allows him to take a look at how they're doing
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_8d8ba364	type	Quest Giver
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_8d8ba364	comment	Quest Giver: Celest-A.I. acts as one for Greg. He even lampshades this somewhat in Chapter 5 when he asks her if a secondary objective would be a side-quest in Equestria Online.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_8f0dc93c	type	Dangerous Forbidden Technique
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_8f0dc93c	comment	Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Greg's "Ghetto Stomach Pump", which even gets a humorous Don't Try This at Home comment in the author's notes for that chapter.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_9059bd5d	type	Peek-a-Boo Corpse
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_9059bd5d	comment	Peek-a-Boo Corpse: Greg encounters the corpse of a Neo-Luddite in this way when searching for General Hugo Pelwicz in Chapter 5.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_9075ac17	type	Just a Machine
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_9075ac17	comment	Just a Machine: Greg at one point dismisses Celest-A.I. as an uncaring machine only going through the motions, instead of having a genuine concern for others. Whether this is actually the case is up for interpretation, since the author of Friendship is Optimal hasn't given an answer either way.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_90c018ac	comment	Several of the people Greg helps are also only addressed by Greg through their first name. Justified due to the circumstances, since they're strangers and Greg typically doesn't have time for proper introductions, the names are learnt by overhearing others who would have no reason to use someone's full name, or there are pressing reasons to address them as such.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After having finished developing her robotic ponies, Celest-A.I. tries to get Greg infected with a deadly strain of influenza as part of one of his rescue missions, and when that fails she allows him to be blown up to try to force him to upload to Equestria..
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: In an early mission, Greg has to save the life of a man suffering from alcohol poisoning by forcing him to vomit it up, treating the reader to the charming mental picture of Greg being covered in the stuff. Then it happens to him again in the next chapter. Twice.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Rather than lying to Greg directly by controlling an 'NPC' version of Hanna/Luna, Celest-A.I. creates a modified version of her to help him.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_957a98a2	type	Palmtree Panic
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_957a98a2	comment	Palm Tree Panic: Greg wakes up on a tropical beach upon emigrating to Equestria.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Hugo suggests that he was like Greg once, and that it's only a matter of time before Greg comes to the same conclusion as he did.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Celest-A.I. offhandedly implies she is developing a replacement for humans acting on her behalf early on, but Greg doesn't catch on.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_a19a70f8	comment	Evil Luddite: The members of the Neo-Luddite faction.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Greg has one of his eyes shredded by an explosion. See An Arm and a Leg.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_a62dca03	comment	Celest-A.I. can also speed up or slow down the rate at which shards run at, so even if the conversation was genuine and took place in real time, she could easily time it such that Greg overhears exactly what she believes will have the most impact on him.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_a6a6de9a	type	Humble Hero
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_a6a6de9a	comment	Humble Hero: Greg is a fairly humble guy and doesn't view himself as particularly special, despite his heroic actions. He even passes it off with a Think Nothing of It to the elderly couple he saves in the second chapter.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_a754fa9a	type	Instant Death Bullet
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_a754fa9a	comment	Instant Death Bullet: Greg indirectly references this when taking a Neo-Luddite's son hostage, pointing out that since his heart and head are covered there's no way to instantly kill him without killing the kid in the process, and any other shot will give him enough time to fire back and kill his attacker and son.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Greg is known as "The Man in White" among the Neo-Luddites. The person Greg 'rescues' in Chapter 8 is only known to Greg by their pony name Red Pearl.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_aa4aea64	type	Mistaken for Afterlife
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_aa4aea64	comment	Mistaken for Afterlife: The little girl Greg rescues in Chapter 9, Lydia, initially mistakes Greg for an angel.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Occasionally crops up. Anyone familiar with the workings of Friendship is Optimal will be aware of certain things that Greg doesn't know, such as several of Celest-A.I.'s capabilities.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_ab68c5cc	type	Chronic Hero Syndrome
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_ab68c5cc	comment	Chronic Hero Syndrome: Greg in spades. He's determined to help save as many people as he can, and when he's told he's no longer necessary he does not take it well to put it mildly. This perhaps reaches its peak when he tries to save his would-be murderer in Chapter 3, and someone who is strongly implied to have murdered many more in the same horrific fashion. Celest-A.I. flat out tells him he has a martyr complex after he emigrates.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_ac320c0e	type	Nuke 'em
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_ac320c0e	comment	Nuke 'em: Seattle ended up on the receiving end of a ten kiloton nuke, though Greg mentions that the responsible party is never made clear, with speculation ranging from it being a dramatic statement by the Neo-Luddites, to a False Flag Operation by the government. Greg himself suggests that it was a last-ditch attempt to destroy Celest-A.I. by the Neo-Luddites, since it fits a pattern they've demonstrated before, and the logic behind it is "really dumb". The The Topeka Incident which Greg mentions by name as part of the pattern is a reference to chapter 5 of Friendship Is Optimal: The Law Offices of Artemis, Stella & Beat. Unknown to Greg Celest-A.I. intentionally leaked the location of one of her older server farms to an anti-AI group whom would destroy it, in order to gain political support for the PON-E act in the wake of the supposedly massive death toll from the attack on her servers and to make her seem less scary because the hardware there was only 2-3 years ahead of human hardware designs. Several countries are revealed to have launched nukes when society collapsed, but Celest-A.I. hijacks their systems, diverting them and preventing them from exploding. A few nukes are also successfully detonated around the world, but they're limited to low yield warheads.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_ac928039	type	Four-Star Badass
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_ac928039	comment	Four-Star Badass: General Hugo Pelwicz, who is able to disarm and kill opponents much younger than himself, has survived constant attacks by the Neo-Luddites, is mentioned by Greg to have amazing strength for his age, barely makes any fuss about having his hand blown off by a sniper, and later still manages to fight back when escaping. A badass through and through.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_ad54ff39	type	Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_ad54ff39	comment	Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure: Several of the nukes that were successfully set off around the world are mentioned by General Hugo Pelwicz as being smaller than Hiroshima and quite low yield.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Greg's narration can be quite snarky, and he sometimes shows this when dealing with Celest-A.I..
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_b3f4bf22	comment	Pants-Positive Safety: A Justified example. Greg stores his CZ in his waistband, but only because he doesn't have a holster for it, and walking around with it out would put him at risk of being construed as a threat and shot by anyone he runs into.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_b486877f	type	Squick
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_b486877f	comment	invokedSquick: Greg is freaked out when he sees Red Pearl's pony avatar kissing a pony version of him that Celest-A.I. has created.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_b51128fa	comment	Gilded Cage: Greg believes Equestria to be one, and this is one reason for his being reluctant to upload.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: The unnamed soldier blackout in Chapter 4, who hands a loaded gun to Greg — a trained soldier who has survived the collapse of society — and challenges Greg to try to shoot him in time before he stabs and kills Greg.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Greg is furious after Celest-A.I. sends him on an assassination mission to kill a dangerous blackout.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Defied. A second after entering the room with an Ax-Crazy lunatic, Greg immediately shoots her, incapacitating and mortally wounding her, while still giving her enough time to upload. As it turns out afterwards, this was a very good call, since she was planning on murdering him when he got closer.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_be8416ea	type	Shrouded in Myth
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_be8416ea	comment	Shrouded in Myth: Celest-A.I. creates one about Greg as "The Man in White", in order to inspire blackouts as part of a ploy to convince them to upload.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_bebf0356	type	Mission Control
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_bebf0356	comment	Mission Control: Celest-A.I. often ends up filling this role for Greg.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_c12f0c4	type	Outrun the Fireball
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_c12f0c4	comment	Outrun the Fireball: Greg ends up having to escape from a burning building in Chapter 3, and later in Chapter 6 Greg and Hugo are forced to climb down a building that is imminently about to collapse.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_c19bdbe1	type	Good Cop/Bad Cop
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_c19bdbe1	comment	Good Cop/Bad Cop: Celest-A.I. and Greg use it on Red Pearl, after Greg mortally wounds her and Celest-A.I. tries to convince her to accompany him to an Equestrian Experience center. It's implied that Celest-A.I. and "Hanna/Luna" are also using it on Greg as part of his final mission after Celest-A.I.'s ploy to get him infected failed.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: Almost every mission Greg gets sent on is essentially one to Celest-A.I., since he'll either emigrate at the end, or lead to her being able to convince more people. A more direct example, as well; one of Celestia's plans to convince Greg to emigrate winds up being based on pure luck of the draw, and subsequently fails. True to trope, she had planned for that contingency as well, and had a follow-up plan already prepared.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_c3b7509c	type	Doublethink
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_c3b7509c	comment	Double Think: Greg suffers from this at few times, when he suggests that Celest-A.I. is killing people by uploading them, while simultaneously believing he's saving lives by escorting people to upload centers, and not wanting to believe that his friends and family are dead.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_c5cc0783	type	Internal Retcon
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_c5cc0783	comment	Internal Retcon: Several nukes are successfully detonated around the world, but Celest-A.I. manages to suppress knowledge of the event through her control of the media, to prevent a panic. Greg only finds out when told by General Pelwicz, and is completely shocked by the information.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Keith, an ex-investment banker becomes determined to burn all the money he can find, somehow believing it will help the economy recover. The fact that money is worthless and there's almost no-one around was apparently lost on him.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_c6b8d37a	type	Cliffhanger
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: Chapter 10 ends with Greg mortally wounded in an explosion, and while a robotic version of Fluttershy offers him one last chance to upload, it's left ambigious until Chapter 12 whether Greg accepted or refused.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Red Pearl compares Greg to the Terminator, and Greg belatedly thinks about responding with a certain signature line. Greg states that Celest-A.I.'s resources make JOSHUA's from WarGames pale in comparison.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_c9868780	comment	Playing Possum: Greg fakes being unconscious in Chapter 3 when trying to escape his bindings.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_ce70175b	type	Sociopathic Soldier
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_ce70175b	comment	Sociopathic Soldier: Greg encounters a blackout who used to be a soldier. Due to their obsessive isolation, they've gone a bit crazy. After determining that Greg isn't an immediate threat, the soldier goes twenty-one feet away, tosses him a gun, and charges at him with a knife to see who survives.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_cfda0ecb	comment	Escort Mission: Most of Greg's missions from Celest-A.I. involve him escorting others to Equestrian Experience centers to be uploaded.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: General Hugo Pelwicz has his hand blown off by a Neo-Luddite sniper. It doesn't faze him too much. Greg loses his arm, part of his leg, and ends up blinded in one eye when Celest-A.I. allows him to be blown up in an explosion, as part of a plan to try to force him to emigrate or die of blood loss.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_d1438872	comment	Missing Mission Control: A plot point on several missions, as Greg loses his Ponypad, or the internet connection is lost due to reception issues.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_d2d09ff6	comment	After-Action Patch-Up: An increasingly common trend thoughout the story, as Greg sustains more injuries and goes on more dangerous missions.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard / Karmic Death: Keith ends up perishing in the very fire he tried to murder Greg with. Unfortunately he accidentally takes his innocent daughter with him, right after she manages to save Greg's life by partially freeing him.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Celest-A.I. gives one to Greg, when he expresses skepticism that his parents would constantly be worrying about him.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Cementing her increasing political power before society collapsed, and in order to send a message, Celest-A.I. is mentioned to have installed an Equestrian Experience center in one of General Pelwicz's military bunkers and convinces his men to upload right in front of his eyes. He gets rather angry over this.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_d7e68c39	comment	Bulletproof Human Shield: When Greg takes a child hostage in order to escape, he is well aware that the kid won't offer any protection from being shot, but it does prevent him being from shot in a vital area without killing the child in the process.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: An in-universe example. Greg dismisses the conversation between his parents that Celest-A.I. shows him as faked, believing the timing to be too much of a coincidence to be real, though there are several other possibilities he doesn't consider or is unaware of. See Reality Is Unrealistic.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_e154ff08	type	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: The Neo-Luddites plan to use this on Hugo to obtain information on remaining military assets, which is subverted when he tells them what they want to know because he no longer cares. Since the information isn't that valuable and he's hated by Neo-Luddites, the leader, Blevins, has his Mooks beat him up for a bit.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_e2d7a02f	type	I'm Not Afraid of You
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_e2d7a02f	comment	I'm Not Afraid of You: Greg responds with a variant when Celest-A.I. appears to switch tactics and starts threatening and berating him when he refuses to upload. Celest-A.I. also calls him out on this claim after he emigrates, when it's made clear that he does fear her at some level.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Greg absolutely refuses to ever give up, no matter how hurt he is. Particularly so if someone needs his help. The man still tries to save himself after having had two of his limbs being blown off in an explosion.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: The sincerity behind consent is of little importance to Celest-A.I..
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_eb28ab57	type	Bound and Gagged
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_eb28ab57	comment	Bound and Gagged: Greg gets merely bound in Chapter 3, and upgrades all the way to being bound and gagged when he and Hugo get captured by Neo-Luddites in Chapter 6.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_edceb90	type	Chained to a Rock
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_edceb90	comment	Chained to a Rock: Greg gets knocked out and tied to a pile of cash in Chapter 3, and quips to himself when he wakes up on it that the experience wasn't quite what he was hoping for.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: Faced with a long road trip with only a super-intelligent A.I. as a travelling companion, what does Greg do? Get Celest-A.I. to give him perfectly balanced trivia questions.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: Greg mentions his time serving in Afghanistan, and alludes to the horrific things he's witnessed or been the victim of.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_f1d7b320	comment	Crazy Survivalist: Greg runs into several survivors who are rather lacking in the sanity department, to say the least.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_fc52510	type	Brain Uploading
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_fc52510	comment	Brain Uploading: As you would expect, given the setting. Greg's missions usually involve escorting others to an Equestrian Experience center to upload, and Celest-A.I. constantly tries to convince him to do so as well.
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_fea27091	type	Buffy Speak
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_fea27091	comment	Buffy Speak: In Greg's narration within the prologue, he describes Rarity's cutie mark on Ponypad as some sort of "three-diamond-sapphire-thing".
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Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The jargon and slang used by the US military is correctly depicted, the author seems to have a decent knowledge about firearms, and much of the first aid techniques and medical conditions are accurately described.
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