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Rev. Onan Canobite, SubGenius
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I've thought for a while that one could (1) take a list of the most common 10,000 words in a language (2) ignore any that are three letters or fewer (3) any that are four letters or more, assign them a three-letter code then (presto) there's a way to convey the most commonly used 10,000 words in that language using a fewer characters. Useful for something like Twitter, or for narrow bandwidth connections. Is not cryptography. Converting human-written text to and from that code might be trivial.

The origin story IS the superhero story. Everything after that is repeating the origin story or commenting on the origin story. It's not the powers, it's the origin, that defines a superhero. Other forms of literature have middles and ends. Superhero comics have only beginnings. This is as much as a benefit or a hindrance to the genre as the writers and artists and editors can make it.

It doesn’t matter

What you say

Some will hate you

Anyway

Their approval

Matters not

Just do what’s right

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