Something isn't right in Ponyville. Everypony is acting strangely and Twilight can't figure out why.
01001000 01000101 01001100 01010000 00100000 01001101 01000101
01001000 01000101 01001100 01010000 00100000 01001101 01000101
01001000 01000101 01001100 01010000 00100000 01001101 01000101
Terrific reading done by Voiceguy. Check it out!
Huh, she in a matrix?
.. that happens! Oh God! A crash reboot loop! I hate it when..
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Maybe
What the heck did I just read?
Is this seriously all there is or did you mark it "complete" by mistake?
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Nope. that's it!
HINT: read the binary code
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I did. I fail to see how that's supposed to clarify anything.
Heh, I like the "HELP ME" written in binary in the description.
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It's a subtle thing. Twilight was pulled through the hole which is technically cyberspace. She's pulled and dropped right back into the beginning of the story.
The binary code are all hints twilight gave to herself as she fell through cyberspace.
It's an infinite loop
Don't know what to say, so just leaving this here because you like comments.
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Well thanks! lol
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Holy crap. Very subtle, and quite terrifying.
But the infinite loop could be a bit more obvious, one might not know Twilight is the one in binary.
HELP MEHELP MEHELP ME
It's not safe.
RUN, YOU WILL DIE
I'M SORRY. IT'S TOO LATE NOW. GOODBYE.
Well...damn did you use a converter or something?
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I did the first two myself, but then I had to use a translator. I learned binary freshman year.
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Sweet.
That....Was......Crazy.................I didn't understand what I was reading until I read the comments.......
This reads really jerky and there are some tense agreement issues here and there, but that's pretty minor. The jerkiness is intentional, I suppose, to hammer in the crash reboot loop feel. So, it works, but it reads really wonky.
The idea is cool, and I like the insert of binary notes/clues. But since Twilight doesn't react to them, they fail to really add to the narrative. I don't want to sound like a Debbie Downer, the fic has a lot of good points! It just didn't gel together very well. If you added a bit in-between the reboots, or just gave Twilight a mounting sense of deja vu, rather than a general feeling of malease, then it might get the meta-textual feeling across better.
The cover pic gave me a heart attack when it loaded
Delete system32 that'll fix it.
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Holy crap. Wow thanks man! I love it!
Really liked it. Short but scary.
Jesus that about gave me the heebies. Great work on the crawly writing!
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Thanks!
An interesting concept, though I would've loved to see more of what this world was becoming as it slowly glitched out and rebooted. Still, a fun short read!