Comment on In Pokemon Red and Blue, you're storing your pokemon in Bill's PC, not Bill's highly available georedundant cloud. One brown out and all your critters are gone.

Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• katkit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I somehow never thought about that. How does that work? Do they use a giant network of pneumatic tubes?

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  • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah. The Pokemon don’t get digitised and stored in a buffer, their ID transferred to Bill’s disks.

    Bill just has an old PC case filled with occupied Pokeballs and a Chansey labelling them, ready to tube some back.

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    • med@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s right. Pay no attention to the duplication glitch that occurs if you disconnect your Gameboys after trading one way.

      It’s definitely not restoring your totally unique and definitely not artificially reconstructed friend from a read only snapshot due to a glitch in Bill’s transfer code.

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      • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Makes me wonder why Team Rocket never tried malware. They could control all capture Pokemon quite easily.

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      • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        See, this is how we end up collapsing the universe…

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  • Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When we first meet bill, he’s working on a teleporter that pretty clearly digitizes you, transports you down a wire, and then reconstructs you at the other end, so there’s that.

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  • Bitflip@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Pidgey + rfc 1149

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “The internet isn’t some big truck you can dump everytjing onto! It’s a series of pneumatic tubes!”

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  • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They get turned into red light when going into pokeball. They get stored as red light. No need for tubes to store ball.

    Since the masterball exists that must mean you keep the masterball on you always and just pull the pokemon out with any connected PC.

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• early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Correct, because the PCs in the Pokemon centers can communicate with Bill’s PC where your mons are stored. Said communication likely happens over the internet, and since this is 1996 we’re talking about, it’s very possibly not encrypted.

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  • taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The lack of encryption is exactly why Porygon Z exists. A bad transfer along with a dubious disk and sure enough, your Porygon 2 gets a virus. And that’s not even 1996, but Gen IV.

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