Monday, July 07, 2025

Story Post: Regressive Retroviral Biotic Manufactory

Adminned at 10 Jul 2025 20:44:48 UTC

A plant that is used to devolve hostile organisms at the genetic level, such as removing antibiotic resistance in bacteria, eliminating animal-to-human transmission in viruses, or selectively de-inbreeding dog breeds.

Comments

Clucky: he/him

07-07-2025 20:07:25 UTC

Score 3. A solid start, but also seems like a bit of word jumble to fish for keywords.

Bucky:

08-07-2025 00:34:53 UTC

Score 3

The flavortext description has it doing the opposite of what a manufactory does, but again, I’m rating the backronym not the flavortext. That leaves a plausible device except that “regressive” implies the opposite of futuristic.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

08-07-2025 04:55:05 UTC

Score 3

DeactivatedUser4498:

08-07-2025 05:15:13 UTC

Score 5

Kevan: Yard he/him

08-07-2025 07:17:58 UTC

Score 3. Seems a fool’s errand to be working on bacteria and viruses like this at a single site.

Josh: he/they

08-07-2025 07:44:47 UTC

Score 4. The work of preventing future pandemics may not be fun, flashy scifi, but not all heroes wear rocket boots.

Darknight: he/him

08-07-2025 23:47:46 UTC

Score 3

aria: she/they

09-07-2025 15:35:02 UTC

Score 3. it is hard to parse (although maybe this is just me)

Chiiika: she/her

09-07-2025 16:17:21 UTC

Score 2 - I think I get the regressive being a statistical analysis; but ehhhh; flavourtext doesn’t really support that and it is hard to parse only with the backronym

JonathanDark: he/him

10-07-2025 20:41:40 UTC

I thought the regressive component was pretty neat. Score 4

JonathanDark: he/him

10-07-2025 20:44:19 UTC

This Backronym is now closed.

None of the words in the title of this Backronym included all the letters of any of the Buzzwords.

Josh gained 3 Points from the median Score.