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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    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.

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      Old and busted: bateman-ontological “We just injected you with the Necrosis nanovirus. In exactly twenty-four hours you will be a corpse… that is unless of course you can do a job for us…”

      New and bazinga: huey-lewis “By purchasing a license to use our proprietary product, you agree to accept cookies and promotional notifications. Your likeness and all content you produce is solely owned by us…”

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      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’.

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        Same thing with how normalized a bunch of therapy speak has become, but of course that has the additional wrinkle of everyone misusing it because they’re not licensed therapists.