drethelin comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 16, chapter 85 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Locke 02 June 2012 05:14:58AM 2 points [-]

I'm very much in favor of removing the Ghostbusters song from canon, and putting it in the Omakes.

Comment author: Merdinus 02 June 2012 06:31:27PM *  7 points [-]

No, man. It's era-appropriate and one of the few examples of Weasley awesomeness. It made me grin like a maniac when I read it. I think maybe having Rationalist!Harry chant the chorus was a bit off, but then, people do occasionally show odd bursts of confidence in front of strangers in humorous situations. It's a bit of a character-shift, but appropriate for the circumstance.

Edit: Months later, I just looked at the change, and it saddens me a fair bit. The replacement text feels like filler in comparison, and I'm afraid that when I convince people to try MOR they won't see him in the same awesome light I did so quickly. I feel like some of rationalist!Harry's mischievousness has been removed. I mean, I was almost pattern-matching him to a rationalist Bobobobo, but I enjoyed it.

Comment author: drethelin 02 June 2012 07:00:53PM 3 points [-]

I agree, though the version in the podcast is super awkward

Comment author: Eneasz 02 June 2012 07:08:54PM 1 point [-]

I was extremely self-conscious and awkward while doing it, I'm not surprised it came through.

Comment author: MatthewBaker 11 August 2012 12:51:07AM 0 points [-]

It wasnt bad Eneasz. Honestly, I will try to sing it some day and it will be way worse than yours but less awkward because I am not making the coolest thing ever for the rest of the interwebz trust me xD anyway tell Hermione shes AWESOME for me.

Comment author: Eneasz 14 August 2012 05:11:47PM -1 points [-]

I will let her know. :)

However I think you meant to direct this comment to Eliezer. I'm simply translating the coolest thing ever into audio format, he is doing the actual creating.