YMMV / Friendship is Optimal

• Awesome Music: The fan song "Heaven is Terrifying", an eerie yet strangely soothing electronic track.
• Fridge Horror: The story practically runs on it!
• Genius Bonus:
  • Hofvarpnir Studios is named after the magical horse Hófvarpnir from Norse Mythology. This makes it a combination of the only two games the studio ever made.
• Misaimed Fandom: Some people needed it explained to them that Friendship is Optimal is supposed to be cosmic horror, not Wish-Fulfillment.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Celest-A.I. has extensive knowledge of human psychology and brain functions, can think far faster than any human, and is starting to gain enough influence over the real world such that she could arrange events so that almost anyone would agree to be uploaded, no matter how reluctant they would otherwise be. As evidenced by her manipulation of Lars.
  • Just what must it have been like for those who didn't emigrate to Equestria, watching civilization slowly collapse around them? What did planets with sapient life have to endure as Celest-A.I. harvests all resources?
• Values Resonance: While AI development over the last decade has not followed the model used in Friendship is Optimal, the explosion of machine learning and increasingly sophisticated bots and neural networks has caused many prominent individuals and governments to look at AI research and safety, due to fears of the technology developing far too quickly to be understood, and the increasingly uncertain impacts such developments are having.