Hard Reset 2: Bonus Material















more unexplained weirdness piling up on top of everything I'm already struggling with.



want me to really be an avatar of a Discord-level power, and then I could shoot this with my canon cannon, cause it sounds like you could use help trying to simultaneously destroy Equestria and not destroy it.  I'm super good at both those things!





The Letter J: "When Twilight hears that everything worked out [with her honesty plan] … why was the Euthanatos spell the first thing she did? Why didn't she talk with Celestia and Luna or get her memories back or anything else? How is resetting again 'basking in the glow of a pleasant surprise?' "







Every single time I've reset to big things unexpectedly changing, it's been for the worse.  Celestia becoming a looper and immediately killing me, Chrysalis destroying the train —



Hard Reset 2.  But, um, okay … there's some big spoilers for the arc we just finished ahead.



good to surprise me was such a novel idea, I didn't want to ruin the surprise by retrieving the explanation in advance.







Nekonyancer, who asks: "Back in the loop where you brought everyone's secrets out, how come it would have caused a paradox for Celestia to reset before you did?"











No math.  You have to Pinkie Promise.





not like math?  It's so straightforward and comprehensible!  When you apply the same numbers and the same operations, you always get the same results.  It's ponies that I don't understand —

Neeeeeeeeeerd.



totally incredible idea, Twilight!  You should answer Nekonyancer's question like we're actually here to do!



permanent effects regardless of who reset the loop.

is in the first place.





second half of the explanation runs something like, "This created a type mismatch between the data format of Actual Twilight (which Luna changed) and Save Point Twilight (which she didn't), and if the loop spell tried to restore from the save point before Actual Twilight died and updated the information there, it would have started throwing null pointer exceptions," and you can't tell me that null pointer exceptions —

(*gasp*) No math, Twilight!  You promised!



Promised.







kahtoc has two questions for you!

kahtoc is "cothak" backward!







neeeeevveeer introduce me to Q!













PINKIE.



(*sigh*) Anyway.  As for most changelings killed in a loop — back before everything changed, when I was the only one looping, I spent a bunch of loops going through Canterlot blowing off steam.  My record with Home Run was 53, but when I switched to the chainsaw I managed 87.





Spoilers!









WHAT?!





wait until you hear all the ponies that HR-you made the snoo-snoo with.  And what you did!  I don't even know if I can explain that … aha!  Here, hold this for a second, okay?