Hofvarpnir Studios now offers a new service: humans can have their minds uploaded to live forever in Equestria Online, where nothing can kill you.

If only there wasn't SO MUCH demand, and so little time.

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(You don't really have to read Friendship Is Optimal before this story.)

I am about as surprised as you are to find that this story is an entry in the Cander's Birthday Competition. Seriously, MAYBE it can barely wiggle into the 'canon-compliant' category if it happens during just the right stage of the Great Uploading, when enough of the characters have already rushed to upload.)