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• Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The PC was accessible from every pokecenter.

  It was a high availability cluster.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  But all the computers are connected via a network. Like I don’t have to go all the way back to Pallet Town from Lavendar Town to retrive the Weedle I tossed in there.

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  • 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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    • Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨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 ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean, he could have had a decent RAID setup, back in the 90s, why not?

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  • Padit@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    my admin breaks through the wall, fuming HOW OFTEN DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU, RAID IS NOT ACTUALLY A BACKUP!!!

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  • runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    RAID 1 and 2 existed by then, very feasible.

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    • dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Actually I don’t think Pokemon raids existed until Pokemon Go 😉

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• Jomega@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Both the anime and the Manga establish that the PC is merely a teleporter to professor oaks lab were he can study the ones you aren’t carrying. The games don’t mention this, but it might be the same there to.

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  • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They could do so much with that concept too. Like imagine the little picnics you could do out in the wild zones in sword and shield, except that’s just every time you go back and visit Oak’s lab. It could give you way more incentive to come back to your home town

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• mlg@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The funny thing is this would involve backups which would involve the idea that you can just copy paste Pokemon which is a big no no in Gamefreak’s world and even amongst Pokemon fans who go through insane hoops to transfer Pokemon from old games into new ones lol.

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Me running PKHex: “Just a few ‘legit’ YOSHIRA Mew couldn’t hurt.”

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• e0qdk@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Also, with no password so anyone can access anyone elses mons.

  At least in the anime you had your Pokedex as a kind of key card but again, no password. Whats stopping Team Rocket from stealing someones Dex and stealing all their spare mons.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Incompetence.

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I feel like there should have been an episode in the show that showcased Jessie trying to distract Nurse Joy while James stupidly withdraws a Onyx or some shit in the Pokemon Center resulting in them both getting smashed through a wall and deciding that stealing pokemon in non enclosed spaces was in their best interest

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• Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes because no cloud service has ever utterly fallen over and taken half the internet with it /s

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Cosmic ray: zap

  CLOBBOPUS

  has evolved into

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  • early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Now we know where missingno comes from.

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i hear he vibe codes his stuff now i wouldn’t trust them with your pokemon

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• BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Maybe in that world Bill is running subscription based “computer as a service” business model?

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• billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I gotta go check something… be right back.

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• bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well I play crystal so

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