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"I just don't see how being a supervillain is an alignment-correlated thing at all.  It's an aesthetic, not a," utility function, "specification of what goals people pursue.  I wanted to be a supervillain when I grew up, and, while this was not a realistic life goal, nobody would have listed that as a reason why I was any more Evil than anyone else.  The guy leading up our Moon colony is a supervillain, his bedroom probably looks basically like this one but with a real sleeping surface and minus the chains."

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"I just don't see how being a supervillain is an alignment-correlated thing at all.  It's an aesthetic, not a," utility function, "specification of what goals people pursue.  I wanted to be a supervillain when I grew up, and, while this was not a realistic life goal, nobody would have listed that as a reason why I was any more Evil than anyone else.  The guy heading up our Moon colony is a supervillain, his bedroom probably looks basically like this one but with a real sleeping surface and minus the chains."

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"I just don't see how being a supervillain* is an alignment-correlated thing at all.  It's an aesthetic, not a," utility function, "specification of what goals people pursue.  I wanted to be a supervillain when I grew up, and, while this was not a realistic life goal, nobody would have listed that as a reason why I was any more Evil than anyone else.  The guy heading up our Moon colony is a supervillain, his bedroom probably looks basically like this one but with a real sleeping surface and minus the chains."


(*)  The conjunct word 'super-villain' began as a fictional trope in dath ilan, but the real-life aesthetic and gender-trope corresponding to it took over as the primary meaning of 'super-villain' in Baseline; which term, therefore, is now translating oddly to Taldane's cognate for their real-world version of the old dath ilani fictional trope.  It's not helping that in Civilization 'super-villain' hasn't primarily referred to anything fictional since long before Keltham was born; and he's not particularly thinking about the underlying component words in Baseline, nor the historical origins of the term.

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"I just don't see how being a supervillain* is an alignment-correlated thing at all.  It's an aesthetic, not a," utility function, "specification of what goals people pursue.  I wanted to be a supervillain when I grew up, and, while this was not a realistic life goal, nobody would have listed that as a reason why I was any more Evil than anyone else.  The guy heading up our Moon colony is a supervillain, his bedroom probably looks basically like this one but with a real sleeping surface and minus the chains."


(*)  The conjunct word 'super-villain' began as a fictional trope in dath ilan, but the corresponding real-life aesthetic and gender-trope later took over as the primary meaning of 'super-villain' in Baseline; which term is now translating oddly to Taldane's cognate for their real-world version of the old dath ilani fictional trope.  It's not helping that in Civilization 'supervillain' hasn't primarily referred to anything fictional since long before Keltham was born; and he's not particularly thinking about the underlying component words in Baseline, nor even that this well-worn compound word has components, nor the historical origins of the term.

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"I just don't see how being a supervillain* is an alignment-correlated thing at all.  It's an aesthetic, not a," utility function, "specification of what goals people pursue.  I wanted to be a supervillain when I grew up, and, while this was not a realistic life goal, nobody would have listed that as a reason why I was any more Evil than anyone else.  The guy heading up our Moon colony is a supervillain, his bedroom probably looks basically like this one but with a real sleeping surface and minus the chains."


(*)  The conjunct word 'super-villain' began as a fictional trope in dath ilan, but the corresponding real-life aesthetic and gender-trope and famous-person-behavior-pattern later took over as the primary meaning of 'super-villain' in Baseline; which term is now translating oddly to Taldane's cognate for their real-world version of the old dath ilani fictional trope.  It's not helping that in Civilization 'supervillain' hasn't primarily referred to anything fictional since long before Keltham was born; and he's not particularly thinking about the underlying component words in Baseline, nor even that this well-worn compound word has components, nor the historical origins of the term.

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"I just don't see how being a supervillain* is an alignment-correlated thing at all.  It's an aesthetic, not a," utility function, "specification of what goals people pursue.  I wanted to be a supervillain when I grew up, and, while this was not a realistic life goal, nobody would have listed that as a reason why I was any more Evil than anyone else.  The guy heading up our Moon colony is a supervillain, his bedroom probably looks basically like this one but with a real sleeping surface and minus the chains."


(*)  The compound word 'super-villain' began as a fictional trope in dath ilan, but the corresponding real-life aesthetic and gender-trope and famous-person-behavior-pattern later took over as the primary meaning of 'supervillain' in Baseline, and the compound no longer means quite what its conjuncts say; which term is now translating oddly to Taldane's cognate for their real-world version of the old dath ilani fictional trope, based on a similar compound which in Taldane has preserved its original meaning.  It's not helping that in Civilization 'supervillain' hasn't primarily referred to anything fictional since long before Keltham was born; and he's not particularly thinking about the underlying component words in Baseline, nor even that this well-worn compound word has components, let alone the etymology of the term.

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"I just don't see how being a supervillain* is an alignment-correlated thing at all.  It's an aesthetic, not a," utility function, "specification of what goals people pursue.  I wanted to be a supervillain when I grew up, and, while this was not a realistic life goal, nobody would have listed that as a reason why I was any more Evil than anyone else.  The guy heading up our Moon colony is a supervillain, his bedroom probably looks basically like this one but with a real sleeping surface and minus the chains."


(*)  The compound word 'super-villain' began as a fictional trope in dath ilan, but the corresponding real-life aesthetic and gender-trope and famous-person-behavior-pattern later took over as the primary meaning of 'supervillain' in Baseline, and the compound no longer means quite what its conjuncts say.  This Baseline term is now translating oddly to Taldane's cognate for their real-world version of the old dath ilani fictional trope, based on a similar compound which in Taldane has preserved its original meaning.  In Civilization 'supervillain' hasn't primarily referred to anything fictional since long before Keltham was born; and he's not particularly thinking about the underlying Baseline components 'super-villain', nor even that this well-worn formerly-compound-but-now-specialized term has components, let alone the etymology of the word.