Is friendship REALLY the optimal technology? What if everypony could be happier by giving up some of our yucky, old-fashioned contact with reality?
A gentle satire of some science fictional ideas about "uploading" everyone's mind into a giant computer network.
Thanks go to Bananachips, who provided thoughtful preread comments that I probably misapplied. 
(As usual, I made the cover image by editing MLP screen captures. Who knew that Alicorn Twilight even HAD a black catsuit? Now she does!)
(Does not require reading "Friendship is Optimal.")
Chapters (3)
Satire?
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What, did you think I was 100% serious?
"OCs?"
"Oneiric Casanovas. Would that I could be rid of the lot of them."
In any case, this honestly felt more like a send-up of The Price of a Smile than FiO. Goofy fun, but it definitely got didactic at points, to the extent that Luna started bobbling her second-person pronouns. Still, entertaining more often than not. Let's just hope Twilight doesn't get any bright ideas involving syringes and Thorax...
Poor Twilight. Ever since her entry level philosophy class she's become quite insufferable.
Overall not the worst review of The Matrix I've read.
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There's some pretty usable stuff in that comment of yours (
the first [on my todo list] beingincluding that I can polish or Luna-standardize Luna's dialog, which is the easiest first thing to do.) Thanks!Update: Since reading your comment I did that absolutely easiest Lunaspeak standardization stuff, although I probably missed some things.
Of course, the observations from you that are hardest to apply might not see application until future stories (one hopes I will get full benefit from them at least then.)