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keiferskiyesterday at 10:47 AM2 repliesview on HN

The real-world cyberpunk dystopia won’t come with cool company names like Arasaka, Sense/Net, or Ono-Sendai. Instead we get childlike names with lots of vowels and alliteration.


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anewhnaccount2yesterday at 11:46 AM

Except Phillip K Dick calls the murder bots in Second Variety claws already so there's prior art right from the master of cyberpunk.

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m4rtinkyesterday at 10:49 AM

The name still kinda reminds me of the self replicating murder drones from Screemers that would leep out from the ground and chop your head off. ;-)