• @roofuskit
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    136 months ago

    Seriously? That had to be an intentional name. “Let’s name our prototype after a fictional experiment that killed an entire planet of people and turned the survivors into rapey, murderous, cannibals.”

    • @NOT_RICK
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      6 months ago

      Firefly is the class of ship Serenity is if I recall correctly. Don’t remember what the Reaver experiment was called.

      Edit: Found it, was a chemical experiment called the Pax that had the opposite of the intended effect.

        • @NOT_RICK
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          46 months ago

          Ah you’re right

      • Rayston
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        46 months ago

        Technically it had too much of the effect on 99% of the population. They just sat down and died because they couldn’t be bothered to continue living.

        The other 1% had the opposite effect x100, murder cannibals

    • linuxgator
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      56 months ago

      Someone also thought that Soylent is a good name for an actual product…

        • linuxgator
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          6 months ago

          Green seems to be one of the most prevalent colors for it.

      • @Chobbes
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        16 months ago

        I’m baffled by the number of people who don’t know this reference. I haven’t seen the film either, I guess, but I thought it was a pretty well known pop culture reference.