early_riser@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days agoIn 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.message-squaremessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1225arrow-down16
arrow-up1219arrow-down1message-squareIn 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.early_riser@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square36fedilink
minus-squaree0qdk@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 days agoBill’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.)
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-22 days agoI 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’. EDIT: Damnit. I got got. Fucking LLM hallucinated those names. https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Bill I’m going with bulbapedia as a more authoritative source than your local, friendly, delusional autocomplete machine.
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.)
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’.EDIT:
Damnit.
I got got. Fucking LLM hallucinated those names.
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Bill
I’m going with bulbapedia as a more authoritative source than your local, friendly, delusional autocomplete machine.