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Did they purposefully name it after the dystopian borderlands Corporation?
or after the GREEK titan, because its "huge"
These guys usually name their shit after science fiction novels that they didn't understand the themes of. This is likely named after the Hyperion Cantos series by Dan Simmons.
Well, hopefully we’ll get a shrike and it’ll put all the billionaires in the tree of pain.
Release the shrike!
Its the tormentus nexus
Probably
It's either saying it out loud, some inside joke that shouldn't have been made public, or they don't get the point of themes and morals of stories.
They're openly saying it, mocking the masses
I think there's some prior art (about 100y) by a poet named Hölderlin.
I'd say more like a couple thousand years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(mythology)
Let's not be cherry picking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion
Hyperion is one of the oldest names we have though? Why do you think Hölderlin wrote that poem?