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Alicorn comments on Friendship is Optimal: A My Little Pony fanfic about an optimization process - Less Wrong Discussion

63 Post author: iceman 08 September 2012 06:16AM

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Comment author: Alicorn 12 September 2012 11:57:27PM 0 points [-]

It wasn't "made me like Hanna less" that made me remark on it - characters are allowed to have flaws. It's just icky. I don't enjoy thinking about icky things.

Comment author: Ritalin 29 October 2012 10:43:37PM 3 points [-]

Ah, well, no accounting for taste. I find sex to be icky (in fact, I call it the Icky--Bicky, complete with m-dash), but I've given up on complaining for quite some time.

Comment author: Alicorn 29 October 2012 11:08:14PM 0 points [-]

but I've given up on complaining

Have you really.

Comment author: Ritalin 29 October 2012 11:31:49PM *  2 points [-]

I wasn't complaining, just neutrally stating a dislike. Complaining is more emotionally active, and is usually at least partly exhortative. I'm not interested, at this time, in influencing other people to change their attitude towards mentioning sex and bringing it up to my mind, uncomfortable as that may be for me. And did you really need to downvote this harmless comment, from someone with three points to his score? With sarcasm, to boot?