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We don't have companies called Militech or anything, we have companies named shit like Poob. Palantir is the only suitably evil sounding company

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[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Raytheon sounds pretty evil. BlackRock as well.

[-] underisk@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago

Palantir. Literally an evil wizard orb.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ackshually the palantir were created by Feanor in the first age and were just kinda like telephones. The orbs themselves are neutral leaning towards good, it's just evil wizards got 2 of the last like 4 that are around.

[-] underisk@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

ill give you credit for having at least read some of the silmarillion (or maybe watched that amazon show? do they cover that?), but know this is done begrudgingly and I do not condone this behavior

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

I am a massive Tolkien nerd. Can't stand fantasy otherwise

[-] BobDole@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

Raytheon sounds pretty evil

Probably why they rebranded to RTX after the recent merger.

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

RTX OFF commercial-district

RTX ON posadist-nuke

[-] axont@hexbear.net 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Cyberpunk companies are named like the Bloodweb Syndicate and their company propaganda is dudes in LED face helmets holding big science guns. It rules. Like I could see myself on a hover cycle raiding their HQ with all my half-robot underclass buds.

Real life evil companies make propaganda in flat pastel colors and make social media posts like "Erm, did someone say coffee?" We live in daycare center aesthetics.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

Daycare centre aesthetics really fucking nails it. I also really hate how people have internalized and regurgitate patronizing HR speak as if real people should ever say 'touch base'.

[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago

Blackwater was appropriately unsettling. Constellis just doesn't have the same ring to it.

[-] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

That's fine, just give them 6 months to do another "oopsie" warcrime and they'll rebrand to something even worse.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 months ago

they learned that astro-turfing and pleasant titles are more effective than naming themselves something like: Evil Corp LLC.

[-] Lussy@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago

I dunno, Elon Musk sounds exactly like the type of name used for a corporate villain in a dystopian novel.

[-] Sinister@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

His mom looks like straight out of the capitol district.

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Fiction: Damien Knight, an enigma who is suspected to be a former US black ops soldier whose records were erased in the Crash, bought out a controlling stake in ARES MACROTECHNOLOGY with assistance from the dragon president Dunkelzahn.

Reality: An inbred south african apartheid failson bought out the right to be called technoking.

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

Evil names peaked at "Rupert Murdoch"

[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Remove the context(or maybe don't) and 'Elon Musk' is a perfect cyberpunk baddie name, 'Elon' sounds exotic and even futuristic to the western ear(tbh it used to remind me of the 'Eloi' from The Time Machine when I'd just heard the name and didn't know much about him), and Musk implies he's a no-good stinky doo-doo head

[-] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

For real. Also: I was promised tons of cool dangerous unregulated tech to go along with it! Can't get a machine gun rocket launcher arm prosthetic but at least you can purchase a the license to a jpeg of one with dumb little speaker which is spying on you to sell your data. Shit blows.

[-] HelltakerHomosexual@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

Jeff Bezos, and Amazon actually sound kinda evil

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Facebook is kind of chilling when you think about it as a global surveillance corporation collecting faces and watching what those faces are doing. They've got your face in the book, and they're watching you, so take care.

Microsoft or northrop grumman isn't any less scary than weyland-utani (alien), or Umbrella (resident evil).

Apple and Google ya tho, I agree.

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