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Re:Black Mesa by jessriedel on Thursday August 15, 2024 @07:17PM (#41261519)
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.

Re:Black Mesa by CommieBobDole on Thursday August 15, 2024 @08:20PM (#41261869)
On your second point, Aperture Science was originally founded to manufacture shower curtains for the military and we all know how that worked out.
Re:Black Mesa by ChainOfFools on Friday August 16, 2024 @01:21AM (#41263386)
I'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.
Re:Black Mesa by necubi on Thursday August 15, 2024 @07:20PM (#41261545)
Also from LinkedIn it seems very legit? Like this is their CEO: 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/Dot...).

Re:Black Mesa by ironhaven on Thursday August 15, 2024 @07:53PM (#41261735)
Black 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
Re:Black Mesa by jessriedel on Thursday August 15, 2024 @09:44PM (#41262340)
Ah, thanks for the correction