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Maybe, but some counterpoints: 1. They specifically say it's not: "As many of you correctly assessed, we're actually a real company in the Boston area. We're w
by jessriedel 2y ago
Maybe, but some counterpoints:
1. They specifically say it's not: "As many of you correctly assessed, we're actually a real company in the Boston area. We're working hard to assure and secure vaccine and other biological manufacturing production."
2. A company focused on paperwork compliance sounds pretty realistic and not the sort of sexy work like you'd expect for fictitious company in a marketing campaign. I think in the game Black Mesa did scary bio research -- very sexy -- not compliance, although tbc I don't know the Half Life universe well.
- necubi 2y agoAlso from LinkedIn it seems very legit? Like this is their CEO: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesfracchia/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesfracchia/. Profile has been around for a long time, lots of corroborating info elsewhere on the web (like https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200625005037/en/Dotmatics-Acquires-BioBright-to-Accelerate-Laboratory-Data-Automation-for-the-Lab-of-the-Future https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200625005037/en/Dot...).
- ironhaven 2y agoBlack Mesa in the game was more high energy physics/interdimensional travel not anything medical like on the website. Both topics could be under the “mad science” label
- jessriedel 2y agoAh, thanks for the correction
- CommieBobDole 2y agoOn your second point, Aperture Science was originally founded to manufacture shower curtains for the military and we all know how that worked out.
- ChainOfFools 2y agoI've never heard anything to confirm this, but I've always assumed that this was a reference to the history of Ball Aerospace, with its improbable origin and evolution from a company that made glass jars and lids for grandma's rhubarb preserves.