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e0qdk@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Bill’s PC. As in Bill Gates, probably. You’re lucky it didn’t get overrun with malware.

(No idea who/what inspired the Japanese name マサキ though.)

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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I think the idea there is that Masaki is a fairly common, not very unique Japanese male name.

So, Bill is a fairly common, not very unique male name in English.

In French and Spanish, Bill is Sam, in German he’s Lennart, in Italian, Alessio.

I think the idea was ‘just some normal guy’.

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