"Ya build a house, and do they call ya Billy the Builder? No. You farm your land all your life, and do they call you Billy the Farmer? No. But you fuck ONE GOAT..."
Honestly I think if they had it named "Bill's PC" from the start, it'd probably have more overall impact. Like when you first open it and see that you'd just think "Who the hell is Bill?" but a couple hours later Bill introduces himself and you'd be like "Oh cool you're that guy, neat."
When I was little, my original team of Charmander, and a bunch of Rattatas weren’t cutting it. What caused me a great amount of frustration is that I really wanted to use the different Pokémon I had caught, but everytime you caught one the game says it was sent to Bill’s PC. I remember ranting to my mom about “all my Pokémon are going to this greedy guy named bill!”
It makes me wonder why Bill and the rest of the PC creators can't just make a brand of their tech, so everyone can remember their name at the start. It's like using a Mac but you don't know it was made by Apple if it doesn't have the logo.
I never thought about bill again, but in all honesty, the man devised a system for turning living creatures into digital code and back with no harm to them. That’s insane
No more insane than pokeballs honestly. I mean the reality is that absurdly advanced technology is normal in the pokemon universe, what with the teleporters and stuff.
The funny thing is they actually made Bill a recurring character in the manga. Like, he’s literally one of the main characters for the climax of the Yellow chapter. He adds a sense of realism and comedy 😂
The games were designed in the early 90's, before the internet really took off. Computers could still connect with each other, however, by calling each other directly, like in Wargames. The PC makes modem sounds whenever you click on someone name, like it's dialing into different computers directly. Head cannon: The player's character only sees a list of phone numbers; they recognize their own number & Professor Oak's number, but don't know Bill's till they meet him.
I've always thought this was such a weird "twist" as well. What's even worse is that the same exact thing happens up until Gen 6. Like some dude in GameFreaks office legit said "oooh we have to show who made the PC in this game"
And even then Bill is by FAR the most memorable of those mini PC mystery persons, so that little stuff at Cerulean, the Eevee and all yea he made it work into a semi-interesting NPC with more devellopement than litteraly half of Gen 6's rivals lol
I'd love him to do a skit about the different types of roadblocks in Pokemon games. Like "oh boy, you can't go on to the next route, I haven't had my morning coffee yet."
In the original, you can’t go past because he’s drunk. I buy it: if I was a 10 year old and a drunk old man barely conscious on the side of the road was slurring at me to hang around and talk, I’d back away
Yeah it sure does make me confident to leave my precious babies with some rando, then when I finally meet them it makes me feel extra safe to know I'm leaving them with a piece of cardboard
What are you talking about?! Everyone thinks about Bill when them meet his family in Fuschia city, in a house near the Poke center, and they say he works too much and never comes home, as if he doesn't just have a house of his own in Cerulian... Wait am I the only one who talks to every npc in Pokemon because they all say weird things and tell really weird stories some times.
@KB do you actually expect to reach anyone by dropping a bunch of Bible verses into the comments section of a skit about Bill from Pokemon? at least try to bother doing some actual apologetics instead of just stating the basic concepts that most people who'd be watching this video are probably familiar with and then spamming verses without context, sheesh
For me it's been a mildly amusing reminder how much the scientists love to pat themselves on the back. This is coming from the same series where players being able to meet each other through dimensional travel is just given a "isn't science amazing?"
I'm playing Yellow and Crystal on the 3DS these days and I wondered the same thing. Why the hell did they do that? They could have just "PKMN Storage" and "Item Storage" or something and not that PC nonsense. I remember a friend of mine back when we were kids that refused to use that "Somebody's PC, because then someone else could snatch my pokemons!". It was confusing.
I think the best part is that if they DIDN'T do that, you still wouldn't know who Bill is at the start of the game, but you'd be able to recognize the name later when you met him and the surprise reveal would have actually landed!
And then they stopped doing this at like Gen 6, I think. Like, 90 percent sure that's when they stopped it. I remember Bill being Kanto and Johto, there was one for Hoenn like near the meteorite town in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, there was one for Sinnoh who was I think Bill's cousin or something in Hearthome, I'm pretty sure there was one for Unova, and I don't remember there being one for Kalos.
That's one thing I liked about BDSP remake, they introduced you to the PC maker in like the first town and then if you went to her home, she'd unlock the ability to access the PC from wherever.
i feel like there's some really cool early internet/server history behind this that i was WAY too young to know when i first played and only now am vaguely like "...maybe it's some old internet thing??" as i've started looking through old linux tutorials. someone somewhere knows what kind of situation this was referencing and i wanna hear the story
The way this video ends perfectly illustrates the comedic genius that is ProZD. He doesn't try to milk the sketch for 30 minutes after the punchline drops.
As a kid, the "Someone's PC" thing made me think that catching Pokemon past your first 6 would send them to some laptop in the overworld at random, and so I spent ages checking houses for computers to try and find the one that had all my Pokemon in it... The DPPt Pokemon Center PCs do not look like computers, I can't fault my younger self too hard.
It was literally the most confusing thing for me as a kid because I didn't think it was _my_ PC with _my_ pokemon in it so I only thought you could have 6 Pokemon total.
I just thought someone was stealing my Pokemon and that I had to to steal them back! It was honestly underwhelming to me when it just turned out to be the Eevee fan
It's one of those little details that means absolutely nothing to casual players, but means a lot to people who really care about the lore. I personally like stuff like this in Pokémon games.
The first time I turned a computer on at a Pokémon center and I was met with that option, I just chose my own computer because I thought "Why would I use Prof. Oak's computer or someone else's computer? That sounds rude, what if they get mad if I do? Better use my own." before realizing I couldn't arrange my Pokémon in my own and for whatever reason I had to use somebody else's computer.
I remember really liking it when I found out who's PCitwas in gen 3, also it was optio al and I was around 9 years old, finding zigzagoon could evolve was exciting.
it's almost accurate. i was more pissed. because it's just like.... this isnt rocket science. why are they acting like its so hard to just edit a story. this is first draft bullshit. this is a GLOBAL VIDEO GAME. they could easily say to themselves "ok that needs a little update" but they just dont give a fuck. pokemon has NEVER been about fun. It's tedious and atrocious and shame on everyone for buying into it every fucking time
@Spindly Johnny you can help us. Do me a favor and help me spread the word. We all need to starve the bots. It's super unrealistic, but if it's possible, we need to get everyone to stop replying to bots, and stop clicking on their YT links to dislike their videos. If we can all stand together and ignore them, they will have no purpose and their creators will stop using their resources to make them functional. Hope it's not too much to ask
to me, the storage is always "someones pc". even long after the person has been revealed. at that point in the game, you dont read those menus anymore anyways
Thinking about it, gen 1 had a ton of moments like that. Mr. Fuji (I think that was the guy in Lavender anyway)? See him once and never again. Bill? One and done. President of Silph Co? You save the guy then never go back to say hi to the MULTIBILLIONARE YOU SAVED.
In my first playthrough of Yellow (I was like 6 mind you) I didn't understand that you could use someone's PC to store your pokemon because it didn't make sense to do that. Like "that's not mine, I'm not putting my mons there". Genuinely thought I was stuck with mons I didn't want in my party, reset my file, and did a solo Pikachu run until I got the other three starters.
I've never thought about this before, but this basically implies that either Bill/the other PC creators only put in their name for people who have talked to them, or the trainer finds this new information so fascinating that they update the name of the PC themselves.
Unless you are stupid like I was as a small child and when your rival first fights you in Gold/Silver his name is ???, so when officer Jenny asks you his name you just assume his literal name is ???, so there is just someone with a name that is a shrug I guess.
This is how I thought about it: “This is the storage system, right? It must be connected to someone’s PC, so I guess I’ll just call it that. Plus, ‘Pokémon Storage System’ is a mouthful and PSS can have multiple meanings.” Then after you meet Bill or whoever runs the system... “Oh, so it’s this person who runs the server? I guess calling it Bill’s PC would fit better now that I know.”
@Connaeris The professor's voice echoes in your head, and tells you that it's a memory and not him speaking directly to your mind via a wireless implant he installed after drugging you. Obey, he says. Obey. OBEY!
or it is supposed to portray the world through the eyes of a naive child who basically goes "huh. Who is Bill?" and therefore only recognizes this name as "someone" because they never met them. True emersion.
I thought it was always "Bill's PC", but in the beginning when it's just a random stranger, your character doesn't really care all that much. After you've met him, they're like "time to use the storage system invented by that weirdo who fused himself with a Pokemon". The name doesn't change, it's just the game pointing out that your character has learned something new about the world they're exploring.
This literally confused me the first time I played pokemon. I thought I couldn't catch more than 6 pokemon, because every time i did, it would say "it was transferred to someone's PC!" so I just thought it was given to another character or something
When i was a kid i thought every Pokemon you caught after you had a full party was sent to a random person playing the game with less than 6 Pokemon. When i finally interacted with the pc my mind was blown
in the early days of the internet, there are no true websites, you directly connect to "someone's PC" using their ip address, bill being the mad lad he was let randos use his storage tech for free, because that is the general attitude of internet nerds back then. the internet used to be way more open and free, something I wish more people experienced today.
I like how "bill's PC" is the section you store your pokemon in, but "Dennis' PC" (or whatever you name your character) is where you store items. Meaning your pokemon now belong to Bill
@Charziken The only reason you have the PC storage system is because of Bill. He is the original inventor/Creator. You made the agreement with Oak and Oak works with Bill.
@Curious banda But professor Oak and Bill are two completely different people. You made an agreement with the professor of each region (Birch in gen 3) but Lanette (the NPC behind gen 3 PC's) is a completely different person.
That's probably because items belong to you, but you have a pact with Professor to catch Pokemon, so he needs to access them whenever he wants to if you are not carrying it. Kind of like how Pokemon go to Oak in anime.
I always felt that the "mystery" of it would have been more intriguing had they just named it "Bill's PC" from the start. Everyone would think, "Who tf is Bill, tho?"
@M. Wayne Origins/Generations/Twilight Wings has different VAs from Masters and Pokemon the Series. I'll never understand why. Or why all three of those have voice acting and yet the main series games on Switch (which somehow includes Let's Go and Legends Arceus according to Game Freak) don't.
Bill turning into a Pokemom and Gary being the name of my rival are two of my earliest memories with the gen 1 games 😂 it wasn't until I played Sapphire that I realized the name changed after you met the person lol (Lanette in this case? I can't remember xD)
the "well that's.. hurtful" was the best comedic delivery 🤣 When you made a sketch to criticize something about a video game but feature the feature you're criticizing as a character, this happens ig
Bill: "Behold! I turned myself into a Pokemon!" Trainer: "Wow! This momentous scientific discovery will change our world forever!" *literally never mentioned again*
I disagree, I remembered him perfectly well. My problem is with the fact that his name is not there until you meet him, and then magically appears. Either he changes the display name only for specific users of his service after meeting each one of them, which is hard to believe unless he never goes outside his house, or the software he wrote auto-renames the box if you actually know him which means that it can read your mind or something like that. Also, in both cases it means he is offering a public service that literally doesn't specify its provider, and people actually trust putting their pokemon in there. it's like depositing your money into a virtual account connected to "some bank somewhere", without knowing where it is and who owns it and how you can trust it.
In the manga, he got them from Team Rocket. He was developing forced evolution technology for them. I think this was going to be seen in the anime, hence Mewtwo being carved in his door.
Isn’t bill the guy that turned himself into a Clefairy for some reason? What is Bill’s purpose beyond trolling the Pokémon transfer system? Now if Bill was, say, the player’s father or the true leaser of Team Rocket, that’s be interesting. But, nah, he is some guy you met briefly a couple times.
My first time playing Pokemon, I had to be specifically told by my brother to open “Someone’s PC”. I thought it would be disrespectful to go through someone else’s private business 😅
@Jake Murray I love that, when watching that as a member of the intended demographic (idk, like being a nine-year-old), it all makes sense Robert Rodriguez's kids movies feel like fever dreams to adults but are perfectly logical to kids. I don't know how he does it
I always found it weird that we were taking the Pokémon out of someone else’s PC. To the kids who played this this would imply that you’re stealing from someone.
To quote a Homestuck: "thats a hell of a mystery no one thought was a mystery and didnt even really need solving but damn if it didnt just get solved so nice work"
I still remember, the very first time I was exposed to Pokemon, my older cousin let me play his Pokemon Blue on his Game Boy for a little while. I was so excited when I told him: "Hey, I dont know who this Bill guy is, but I released a bunch of his Pokemon!" I was not allowed to play with his Gameboy anymore after that, and I didnt find out why until I got my own copy of Blue for myself.
@Stephen Owen The original games data wouldn't allow for such a long pc name sadly. Also the modern concept of cloud storage wasn't really a thing back in 1996
W2 wasn’t first game and I swear it took me the longest time to figure out why I was always going to this “Amanita” person’s PC. Actually, I don’t think I really figured out why, I just learned Amanita was a random shmuck I met somewhere who owned the PC or something. Still no clue why I needed to go to her PC but whatever.
In gen 4, even meeting the person is optional content. You could be the champion, still sending your Pokemon to ???'s PC. Happened to me on more than one playthrough of Platinum.
It feels like they give the most random character is the most rememberable names, and any character that is slightly important to anything has the most forgettable
I used to think "someone's pc" meant it was owned by the establishment, like the Pokémon Center. So it meant you could access your inventory of Pokémon from any pc, probably with a password of sorts.
I'll be honest, after leaving bills lab... 99% of us don't remember him even for one second afterward. the other 1% of us either remember him occasionally, or make the eevee into something sentimental or something like that. as far as the 'bills pc' thing is concerned... 1st: why even change it? 2nd: does he think it matters. 3rd: is he that starved for attention?
@Jesse Lindsey I still think it's hilarious that Hoenn has TWO opposing teams that want to do completely opposite things that would both still destroy the ecosystem. (Also probably the plainest evidence in the series that Pokemon trainers totally drop out of regular school when they're Ten.)
"Wow, who could be behind these crimes being comm-" it's the local dumbass-dressed Team. "I wonder what their goals ar-" They're using pokemon as tools to commit crimes and possibly unmake reality. "Gosh, what are they doing in this obscure locati-" Capturing the game's Legendary. Every single time. Except gens 1 and 2 where Team Rocket was just "I want this pokerman to commit a crime for me, haha money". God, things have escalated since then.
The effect is even stronger in other games where the PC inventor is an even more forgetable character like Bebe. at least Bill gives you a free Eevee and does some wacky shit like turn himself into a pokemon. the only thing I remember about Bebe is that I prefer the name "Someone" to the name "Bebe"
@Alsyrriad 🪙 Agree. It was little side stories like this that made the games feel like a real, living world. That, and the exploratory aspect of them. Yeah, you could totally get lost and confused about where to go next, but that's realistic. You're canonically a pre-teen (or teen, depending on the game) heading out on a journey across the whole region by yourself for the first time with little/no prior experience and no companion(s) except little animal creatures who can't tell you sh*t about where to go next. It's unrealistic to _not_ get lost. I'd give a pass to SwSh on that because at least the in-game explanation makes sense, in that, if it's basically a tournament, they should be telling you exactly where to go, because it's poor management on their part if they don't. Still doesn't make sense how the map is so linear, though, unless they built their entire region around the tournament???
@Ironhornet I started playing Pokemon as an adult and I also feel that the game lost its sense of wonder. Juvenoia is a thing but so is corporate comfort zone
the bill side story was legit interesting and funny though. gen 1 was filled with funny little stories like this that made the world so much more engaging and intersting.
I was literally always wondering why they name it “someone’s” pc. Like bru i didn’t even realize as a kid that they changed it to “bills” pc. Who thought they would blow a kids mind with that twist lool
I always interpreted it like this: The PC is always named Bill's PC but because you haven't met him yet it was referred to as ''Someone'' because it's just a random ass name. Who is this Bill guy? After you meet him you put two-and-two together and the game changes the name to Bill's PC to show that the player knows who it is referring to.
@RevonFyll Lore wise it makes sense. Bill is the original inventor/Creator of the storage system where you put your pokemon. He works with Oak and they want to research all types of Pokemon so they ask you for help. You then store the pokemon onto Bills PC because he is the pokemon expert and inventor of the storage system.
@Noah Marshall Even today, if you take a look at Kaspersky's goings-on in Windows Event Viewer, you'll see "thehoff" over and over, some coder's in-joke David Hasselhoff reference hidden deep under the covers of a tool used by millions all over the world.
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It's funny how Bill is more remembered as "the guy that turned himself into a Pokemon" more than "the guy that invented Pokemon digital storage".
@Sam Keiser digimon
@Sam Keiser di...digimon?
@R 2 H Bro, those are fried potatoes, get your eyes checked.
You know what they say: save a kid from a burning house, everyone just keeps calling you Tim. But you fuck **one** goat...
"Ya build a house, and do they call ya Billy the Builder? No. You farm your land all your life, and do they call you Billy the Farmer? No. But you fuck ONE GOAT..."
Honestly I think if they had it named "Bill's PC" from the start, it'd probably have more overall impact. Like when you first open it and see that you'd just think "Who the hell is Bill?" but a couple hours later Bill introduces himself and you'd be like "Oh cool you're that guy, neat."
Bill could've also been another version of Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny, where there are multiple versions of them. There's a Bill in every region
I think I would have just assumed it was Bill Gates then. I'm pretty sure he owns a PC.
Unless he's a closet Mac user, of course...
@jswp5 You were supposed to open it?? I just ignored it
@Brett McCollum ♪ But what if your name is Someone? Someone will wonder why Bill suddenly claimed their PC.
You right
When I was little, my original team of Charmander, and a bunch of Rattatas weren’t cutting it. What caused me a great amount of frustration is that I really wanted to use the different Pokémon I had caught, but everytime you caught one the game says it was sent to Bill’s PC. I remember ranting to my mom about “all my Pokémon are going to this greedy guy named bill!”
Fuckin' Bill! *Unbelievable.*
@weesh Someone got a thesaurus for Christmas
@𝑻𝑬𝑿𝑻 𝑴𝑬 𝑶𝑵 𝑻𝑬𝑳𝑬𝑮𝑹𝑨𝑴 @ProZD_01SCAM
@Vito the cat that's so cute
@Vito the cat lol
It makes me wonder why Bill and the rest of the PC creators can't just make a brand of their tech, so everyone can remember their name at the start.
It's like using a Mac but you don't know it was made by Apple if it doesn't have the logo.
I never thought about bill again, but in all honesty, the man devised a system for turning living creatures into digital code and back with no harm to them. That’s insane
No more insane than pokeballs honestly. I mean the reality is that absurdly advanced technology is normal in the pokemon universe, what with the teleporters and stuff.
"without harm"
Never forget that Bill also just casually invented fucking time travel as well.
@Brandon F. like…digital devils 😈
Bill: "Yes! 😅 No harm done to them! None at all! 😇"
I like how this suggests bill personally changes the name of people's pcs once they've met him, just to remind them he made it
"Bill was here"
@Topo Gigio There's a little thing called a joke. Maybe you should look up what it is so they stop flying over your head.
It's true
@Seven Hunnid good for you m8
It just dawned on me it’s a reference probably to bill gates
I like how "Bill's" face slowly becomes more crestfallen when he realizes the player is not getting into it
The funny thing is they actually made Bill a recurring character in the manga. Like, he’s literally one of the main characters for the climax of the Yellow chapter. He adds a sense of realism and comedy 😂
The games were designed in the early 90's, before the internet really took off. Computers could still connect with each other, however, by calling each other directly, like in Wargames. The PC makes modem sounds whenever you click on someone name, like it's dialing into different computers directly.
Head cannon: The player's character only sees a list of phone numbers; they recognize their own number & Professor Oak's number, but don't know Bill's till they meet him.
You know I kind of despise how reasonable this theory is.
The fact that it cuts in the middle of the sentence makes me believe the trainer went on with a really long rant about how little they cared
I love how these characters seem to portray the duality of Sung Won: stoney-faced chill-man and giddy lil scamp
Ooooooooooookay????
@Caleb Dude was flabbersmacked. 😭
@Max Flower you did not 😂😂 bro was *perturbed* 🤣🤣
@Max Flower bet you're fun at parties
@im sacredI’m the one who reports bots. If they wanted to blend in better, they’d insult my ilk and me harshly~
I've always thought this was such a weird "twist" as well. What's even worse is that the same exact thing happens up until Gen 6. Like some dude in GameFreaks office legit said "oooh we have to show who made the PC in this game"
And even then Bill is by FAR the most memorable of those mini PC mystery persons, so that little stuff at Cerulean, the Eevee and all yea he made it work into a semi-interesting NPC with more devellopement than litteraly half of Gen 6's rivals lol
I'd love him to do a skit about the different types of roadblocks in Pokemon games. Like "oh boy, you can't go on to the next route, I haven't had my morning coffee yet."
"Trying to Leave Pewter City again? But you need to know where Brock's gym is, let me show you where to go!"
I think about that one in BW2 where a bunch of guys block your path saying they’re dancing for no reason
Thats funny. I opened this video hoping it would be anything BUT that
In the original, you can’t go past because he’s drunk. I buy it: if I was a 10 year old and a drunk old man barely conscious on the side of the road was slurring at me to hang around and talk, I’d back away
Yeah it sure does make me confident to leave my precious babies with some rando, then when I finally meet them it makes me feel extra safe to know I'm leaving them with a piece of cardboard
Bill gave me an Eevee and then I never thought about him or talked to him ever again. 10/10 character.
@Xyn Ghoul Yea, but he gives Eevee in Goldenrod city in Gold/Silver/Crystal
@Doctor Hu No, he gives you an Eevee in GSC.
What are you talking about?! Everyone thinks about Bill when them meet his family in Fuschia city, in a house near the Poke center, and they say he works too much and never comes home, as if he doesn't just have a house of his own in Cerulian... Wait am I the only one who talks to every npc in Pokemon because they all say weird things and tell really weird stories some times.
@Doctor Hu no, he DOES give you an Eevee, I got one too
@KB do you actually expect to reach anyone by dropping a bunch of Bible verses into the comments section of a skit about Bill from Pokemon? at least try to bother doing some actual apologetics instead of just stating the basic concepts that most people who'd be watching this video are probably familiar with and then spamming verses without context, sheesh
For me it's been a mildly amusing reminder how much the scientists love to pat themselves on the back. This is coming from the same series where players being able to meet each other through dimensional travel is just given a "isn't science amazing?"
I like to think there’s at least one Trainer who decided to keep all of his Pokéballs on him cause he didn’t trust the security of “Someone’s” PC
I'm playing Yellow and Crystal on the 3DS these days and I wondered the same thing. Why the hell did they do that? They could have just "PKMN Storage" and "Item Storage" or something and not that PC nonsense. I remember a friend of mine back when we were kids that refused to use that "Somebody's PC, because then someone else could snatch my pokemons!". It was confusing.
I love the new prozd skits, I’m so glad they’re coming back
I think the best part is that if they DIDN'T do that, you still wouldn't know who Bill is at the start of the game, but you'd be able to recognize the name later when you met him and the surprise reveal would have actually landed!
@im sacred You silly.
He's NSA.
@Anima "what if you named the trainer Bill"
What if you named the trainer Someone?
@Anima What if you named him Someone?
@Thomas Ryan what if your name is bill
It's funny how Bill is more remembered as "the guy that turned himself into a Pokemon" more than "the guy that invented Pokemon digital storage".
The awkward silence after "it's my PC!"
The hard cut at the end
100/10 perfect skit
Poor Bill. I mean, this is wholly accurate to my feelings, but still. Poor Bill.
And then they stopped doing this at like Gen 6, I think. Like, 90 percent sure that's when they stopped it. I remember Bill being Kanto and Johto, there was one for Hoenn like near the meteorite town in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, there was one for Sinnoh who was I think Bill's cousin or something in Hearthome, I'm pretty sure there was one for Unova, and I don't remember there being one for Kalos.
I love little he shows any emotion, even when he gets jump scared
That's Red for you
Bill almost triggered an emotional response from him the second time he showed up.
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That's one thing I liked about BDSP remake, they introduced you to the PC maker in like the first town and then if you went to her home, she'd unlock the ability to access the PC from wherever.
i feel like there's some really cool early internet/server history behind this that i was WAY too young to know when i first played and only now am vaguely like "...maybe it's some old internet thing??" as i've started looking through old linux tutorials. someone somewhere knows what kind of situation this was referencing and i wanna hear the story
The way this video ends perfectly illustrates the comedic genius that is ProZD.
He doesn't try to milk the sketch for 30 minutes after the punchline drops.
As a kid, the "Someone's PC" thing made me think that catching Pokemon past your first 6 would send them to some laptop in the overworld at random, and so I spent ages checking houses for computers to try and find the one that had all my Pokemon in it...
The DPPt Pokemon Center PCs do not look like computers, I can't fault my younger self too hard.
@Daniel King pokemon go be like
For a second there I thought you meant you were going into people's houses and checking their computers in real life.
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It was literally the most confusing thing for me as a kid because I didn't think it was _my_ PC with _my_ pokemon in it so I only thought you could have 6 Pokemon total.
I just thought someone was stealing my Pokemon and that I had to to steal them back! It was honestly underwhelming to me when it just turned out to be the Eevee fan
@TheOfficialPSI dude, that must've hurt really bad. I can't even imagine the reaction... How did he react to that?
@TheOfficialPSI wtf, why would you willingly delete anyones data anyway you little shit
@TheOfficialPSI Did he beat your ass up for that crime?
@Alzhan Void Sansado Hey, I buried it deep, y'all just inadvertently dug it up.
It's one of those little details that means absolutely nothing to casual players, but means a lot to people who really care about the lore. I personally like stuff like this in Pokémon games.
The first time I turned a computer on at a Pokémon center and I was met with that option, I just chose my own computer because I thought "Why would I use Prof. Oak's computer or someone else's computer? That sounds rude, what if they get mad if I do? Better use my own." before realizing I couldn't arrange my Pokémon in my own and for whatever reason I had to use somebody else's computer.
I have no idea why the game was made this way, very counter intuitive
I remember really liking it when I found out who's PCitwas in gen 3, also it was optio al and I was around 9 years old, finding zigzagoon could evolve was exciting.
You do that “I couldn’t give less of a shit what you’re saying right now” face so well 😂 fucks sake man, love these skits
the way ProZD reacts at the end is absolutely 110% accurate, love his facial expressions
it's almost accurate. i was more pissed. because it's just like.... this isnt rocket science. why are they acting like its so hard to just edit a story. this is first draft bullshit. this is a GLOBAL VIDEO GAME. they could easily say to themselves "ok that needs a little update" but they just dont give a fuck.
pokemon has NEVER been about fun. It's tedious and atrocious and shame on everyone for buying into it every fucking time
@a fox But if the situation presents itself I'll say something.
@a fox I doubt people will listen. Mainly because they can't be bothered.
It will do more good than what KZclip is doing for the situation anyway...
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to me, the storage is always "someones pc". even long after the person has been revealed. at that point in the game, you dont read those menus anymore anyways
Thinking about it, gen 1 had a ton of moments like that. Mr. Fuji (I think that was the guy in Lavender anyway)? See him once and never again. Bill? One and done. President of Silph Co? You save the guy then never go back to say hi to the MULTIBILLIONARE YOU SAVED.
In my first playthrough of Yellow (I was like 6 mind you) I didn't understand that you could use someone's PC to store your pokemon because it didn't make sense to do that. Like "that's not mine, I'm not putting my mons there". Genuinely thought I was stuck with mons I didn't want in my party, reset my file, and did a solo Pikachu run until I got the other three starters.
I JUST played my first pokemon game this year, Ruby Red. This was my exact reaction.
I've never thought about this before, but this basically implies that either Bill/the other PC creators only put in their name for people who have talked to them, or the trainer finds this new information so fascinating that they update the name of the PC themselves.
Unless you are stupid like I was as a small child and when your rival first fights you in Gold/Silver his name is ???, so when officer Jenny asks you his name you just assume his literal name is ???, so there is just someone with a name that is a shrug I guess.
This is how I thought about it:
“This is the storage system, right? It must be connected to someone’s PC, so I guess I’ll just call it that. Plus, ‘Pokémon Storage System’ is a mouthful and PSS can have multiple meanings.”
Then after you meet Bill or whoever runs the system...
“Oh, so it’s this person who runs the server? I guess calling it Bill’s PC would fit better now that I know.”
@Connaeris The professor's voice echoes in your head, and tells you that it's a memory and not him speaking directly to your mind via a wireless implant he installed after drugging you. Obey, he says. Obey. OBEY!
or it is supposed to portray the world through the eyes of a naive child who basically goes "huh. Who is Bill?" and therefore only recognizes this name as "someone" because they never met them. True emersion.
I thought it was always "Bill's PC", but in the beginning when it's just a random stranger, your character doesn't really care all that much. After you've met him, they're like "time to use the storage system invented by that weirdo who fused himself with a Pokemon". The name doesn't change, it's just the game pointing out that your character has learned something new about the world they're exploring.
This literally confused me the first time I played pokemon. I thought I couldn't catch more than 6 pokemon, because every time i did, it would say "it was transferred to someone's PC!" so I just thought it was given to another character or something
I wonder how confusing this must've been if you named your character Bill
Honestly now if I ever start my own company building computers I'm going to name every computer "Zukaro's PC".
When i was a kid i thought every Pokemon you caught after you had a full party was sent to a random person playing the game with less than 6 Pokemon.
When i finally interacted with the pc my mind was blown
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in the early days of the internet, there are no true websites, you directly connect to "someone's PC" using their ip address, bill being the mad lad he was let randos use his storage tech for free, because that is the general attitude of internet nerds back then. the internet used to be way more open and free, something I wish more people experienced today.
I like how "bill's PC" is the section you store your pokemon in, but "Dennis' PC" (or whatever you name your character) is where you store items. Meaning your pokemon now belong to Bill
@Charziken The only reason you have the PC storage system is because of Bill. He is the original inventor/Creator. You made the agreement with Oak and Oak works with Bill.
@Curious banda But professor Oak and Bill are two completely different people. You made an agreement with the professor of each region (Birch in gen 3) but Lanette (the NPC behind gen 3 PC's) is a completely different person.
That's probably because items belong to you, but you have a pact with Professor to catch Pokemon, so he needs to access them whenever he wants to if you are not carrying it. Kind of like how Pokemon go to Oak in anime.
Imagine if this is how real-life PCs work.
This is criminally under-viewed and underliked! I expected this to trend way more this is hilarious and so well done.
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I always thought it was neat that bill made the pc system thing :)
When I was younger, the whole ‘Bill’s PC’ thing confused me. I thought I could no longer access the PCs cause that one belonged to Bill
I always felt that the "mystery" of it would have been more intriguing had they just named it "Bill's PC" from the start. Everyone would think, "Who tf is Bill, tho?"
Your “What is happening?” face is priceless every time.
Since ProZD is his official voice, it would be hilarious just imagining Mustard sitting at his PC not giving a crap.
@M. Wayne Origins/Generations/Twilight Wings has different VAs from Masters and Pokemon the Series.
I'll never understand why. Or why all three of those have voice acting and yet the main series games on Switch (which somehow includes Let's Go and Legends Arceus according to Game Freak) don't.
I knew I would find you here! >:o
@HazelB wait what? he voiced a pokémon character?
@Pokémaniac Guquiz found it
kzclip.net/video/PrInjvoRS_g/бейне.html
@Pokémaniac Guquiz I actually replied to the wrong person, but anyway didn't he made a couple of videos of he showing which characters he voiced?
Bill turning into a Pokemom and Gary being the name of my rival are two of my earliest memories with the gen 1 games 😂 it wasn't until I played Sapphire that I realized the name changed after you met the person lol (Lanette in this case? I can't remember xD)
the "well that's.. hurtful" was the best comedic delivery 🤣
When you made a sketch to criticize something about a video game but feature the feature you're criticizing as a character, this happens ig
Bill: "Behold! I turned myself into a Pokemon!"
Trainer: "Wow! This momentous scientific discovery will change our world forever!"
*literally never mentioned again*
There is the movie that seems to be built around the concept, but, yeah, I am surprised that it otherwise does not come up again.
I saw a man turn himself into a pokemon
Funniest shit Ive ever seen
I disagree, I remembered him perfectly well. My problem is with the fact that his name is not there until you meet him, and then magically appears. Either he changes the display name only for specific users of his service after meeting each one of them, which is hard to believe unless he never goes outside his house, or the software he wrote auto-renames the box if you actually know him which means that it can read your mind or something like that. Also, in both cases it means he is offering a public service that literally doesn't specify its provider, and people actually trust putting their pokemon in there. it's like depositing your money into a virtual account connected to "some bank somewhere", without knowing where it is and who owns it and how you can trust it.
“Hey look at these Pokémon, take one”
“Where did you get these?”
“ *moving on* “
In the manga, he got them from Team Rocket. He was developing forced evolution technology for them. I think this was going to be seen in the anime, hence Mewtwo being carved in his door.
What's with all the spambots?
That was hilarious!!!😆🤣 Have an awesome day whoever you are!!!
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Here is the full clip explaining why Dad left you: (Making fun of bots)
*kzclip.net/video/vn8WdvkmTGs/бейне.html*
I mean, this was legitimately cool to me my first time playing through red as a kid so
Isn’t bill the guy that turned himself into a Clefairy for some reason? What is Bill’s purpose beyond trolling the Pokémon transfer system? Now if Bill was, say, the player’s father or the true leaser of Team Rocket, that’s be interesting. But, nah, he is some guy you met briefly a couple times.
My first time playing Pokemon, I had to be specifically told by my brother to open “Someone’s PC”. I thought it would be disrespectful to go through someone else’s private business 😅
I had a straight face through it all then I got hit with the
"...Hurtful."
Bill taking off the fake moustache like that will make him more recognizable to a guy who has not met him without it.
@Jammin' out Rexan He's two kids in a trench coat.
@Jake Murray I love that, when watching that as a member of the intended demographic (idk, like being a nine-year-old), it all makes sense
Robert Rodriguez's kids movies feel like fever dreams to adults but are perfectly logical to kids. I don't know how he does it
@Jake Murray oh my god yes thanks for reminding me of the best part of the spykids franchise. It all goes downhill right after that moustache rip
@heddecatamerThe first spykids has the fake uncle take off his mustache for no reason when he reveals himself to not actually be their uncle.
I now need a fictional character to actually do this in something idk what thing tho but something
I always found it weird that we were taking the Pokémon out of someone else’s PC. To the kids who played this this would imply that you’re stealing from someone.
*When the big villain reveal of the story is the guys browsing history you’ve been looking at*
I didn't find Bill until my second time through the game, so I always assumed Someone was like a placeholder for your name
I literally still have my original gameboy and fire red ❤️ i think I’ll go play it just because I saw this.
I was actually kind of disappointed that in Arceus it never says "someone's pasture"
It's Arceus Time!
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lmao
I love how it just fkin cuts off at what seems as the start of a long long rant, peak comedy xD
To quote a Homestuck: "thats a hell of a mystery no one thought was a mystery and didnt even really need solving but damn if it didnt just get solved so nice work"
I still remember, the very first time I was exposed to Pokemon, my older cousin let me play his Pokemon Blue on his Game Boy for a little while. I was so excited when I told him: "Hey, I dont know who this Bill guy is, but I released a bunch of his Pokemon!"
I was not allowed to play with his Gameboy anymore after that, and I didnt find out why until I got my own copy of Blue for myself.
@Stephen Owen The original games data wouldn't allow for such a long pc name sadly. Also the modern concept of cloud storage wasn't really a thing back in 1996
It was dumb to even have the whole Bills pc concept. It should have just been called Pokémon storage from the get go
Your cousin couldn't even get mad at you, the game literally didn't label those Pokemon as belonging to *him.*
That's so brutal though >.
Based
Oooooff! That is hilarious!!
Thanks a lot, Prozd. Next time warn people when you're gona throw spoilers around
"That's hurtful" got me laughing
@Thechugg don’t you mean… a random NPC’s PC?
…I’ll be taking my leave now
I still have no idea how we have access to a random stranger's PC
Fr
Link to the Clip : he did what 😲
kzclip.net/video/mCfYi7634rU/бейне.html
Once again, a perfectly valid reaction to Bill
W2 wasn’t first game and I swear it took me the longest time to figure out why I was always going to this “Amanita” person’s PC. Actually, I don’t think I really figured out why, I just learned Amanita was a random shmuck I met somewhere who owned the PC or something. Still no clue why I needed to go to her PC but whatever.
It took me a moment to remember Bebe's existence (Gen 4 my first), and then I didn't even remember Amanita (Gen 5) at all.
In gen 4, even meeting the person is optional content. You could be the champion, still sending your Pokemon to ???'s PC. Happened to me on more than one playthrough of Platinum.
It feels like they give the most random character is the most rememberable names, and any character that is slightly important to anything has the most forgettable
I used to think "someone's pc" meant it was owned by the establishment, like the Pokémon Center. So it meant you could access your inventory of Pokémon from any pc, probably with a password of sorts.
Yeah when I was a kid I always took it in a more abstract way too. Like "I'm someone. I guess that means anyone can use the PC for this function."
@Rachel Rachel nice
Same, like the same way my computer is a dell and i use Microsoft windows. The PC is Bill's
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I actually got excited when I found out whose PC when I met them. Probably because Bill gave us an eevee.
This confused me so much as a kid that I wondered if I was like, stealing my pokemon back from someone
I'll be honest, after leaving bills lab... 99% of us don't remember him even for one second afterward. the other 1% of us either remember him occasionally, or make the eevee into something sentimental or something like that. as far as the 'bills pc' thing is concerned...
1st: why even change it?
2nd: does he think it matters.
3rd: is he that starved for attention?
the sad thing is that they would still do this if they added item storage back.
God, this is every mystery in mainline pokemon
@MoonGhostDoodles scarlet and violet is self aware about it at least
@Jesse Lindsey I still think it's hilarious that Hoenn has TWO opposing teams that want to do completely opposite things that would both still destroy the ecosystem. (Also probably the plainest evidence in the series that Pokemon trainers totally drop out of regular school when they're Ten.)
"Wow, who could be behind these crimes being comm-"
it's the local dumbass-dressed Team.
"I wonder what their goals ar-"
They're using pokemon as tools to commit crimes and possibly unmake reality.
"Gosh, what are they doing in this obscure locati-"
Capturing the game's Legendary.
Every single time. Except gens 1 and 2 where Team Rocket was just "I want this pokerman to commit a crime for me, haha money". God, things have escalated since then.
@Shaded Way How do you do, fellow trainers?
@Tallyn Nyntyg I was referring to the other mysteries. But yes, Clive's identity is peak mystery writing.
Honestly, I know this just skit just came out but this is an instant classic. This is God Tier level. Amazing.
i wish i was this easily entertained
Reminds me of how in dpp I never found the PC manager on my first run because she was in a nondescript house in the biggest city in the game
Your "why do I care" face has to be the best on KZclip by far
The effect is even stronger in other games where the PC inventor is an even more forgetable character like Bebe. at least Bill gives you a free Eevee and does some wacky shit like turn himself into a pokemon. the only thing I remember about Bebe is that I prefer the name "Someone" to the name "Bebe"
I for one appreciate Bill and the others for running the PC storage system. Though I owe it to the manga for making him a kinda important character.
pokespe bill ftw
He was important because all the legendaries and Mew Three live in his backyard.
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@𝑻𝑬𝑿𝑻 𝑴𝑬 𝑶𝑵 𝑻𝑬𝑳𝑬𝑮𝑹𝑨𝑴 @ProZD_01 *you're
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Petition to name every cloud storage service "Someone's PC"
I cough-wheeze-laughed when he said "who the fuck cares?". Is that a guffaw? I think that was my first real guffaw. Wow. Thanks, ProZD.
Bravo on your voice performance as Cat Viper ProZD! It was such a shock discovering your debut as a One Piece character! You really blew me away! 👏😄
He's just really excited to show off his basic JavaScript knowledge.
Ok but I low key miss that they don’t do this anymore even if it didn’t make any sense
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@Alsyrriad 🪙 Agree. It was little side stories like this that made the games feel like a real, living world. That, and the exploratory aspect of them. Yeah, you could totally get lost and confused about where to go next, but that's realistic. You're canonically a pre-teen (or teen, depending on the game) heading out on a journey across the whole region by yourself for the first time with little/no prior experience and no companion(s) except little animal creatures who can't tell you sh*t about where to go next. It's unrealistic to _not_ get lost.
I'd give a pass to SwSh on that because at least the in-game explanation makes sense, in that, if it's basically a tournament, they should be telling you exactly where to go, because it's poor management on their part if they don't. Still doesn't make sense how the map is so linear, though, unless they built their entire region around the tournament???
@Ironhornet I started playing Pokemon as an adult and I also feel that the game lost its sense of wonder.
Juvenoia is a thing but so is corporate comfort zone
the bill side story was legit interesting and funny though. gen 1 was filled with funny little stories like this that made the world so much more engaging and intersting.
Arceus slapped so hard, probably ny favourite newer game
Also, I miss having pokemart themeq
The reaction at 0:46 is so on point.
Everybody knows Bill is just the guy who lets you draw two cards
I thought that was pot of greed.
This!!
I was literally always wondering why they name it “someone’s” pc. Like bru i didn’t even realize as a kid that they changed it to “bills” pc. Who thought they would blow a kids mind with that twist lool
Its funny that Looker is more memorable then Bill even though Bill is how I can stuff my sla- I mean willing friends into a digital prison.
I always interpreted it like this: The PC is always named Bill's PC but because you haven't met him yet it was referred to as ''Someone'' because it's just a random ass name. Who is this Bill guy? After you meet him you put two-and-two together and the game changes the name to Bill's PC to show that the player knows who it is referring to.
@RevonFyll Lore wise it makes sense. Bill is the original inventor/Creator of the storage system where you put your pokemon. He works with Oak and they want to research all types of Pokemon so they ask you for help. You then store the pokemon onto Bills PC because he is the pokemon expert and inventor of the storage system.
@Noah Marshall Even today, if you take a look at Kaspersky's goings-on in Windows Event Viewer, you'll see "thehoff" over and over, some coder's in-joke David Hasselhoff reference hidden deep under the covers of a tool used by millions all over the world.
@RevonFyll It's to introduce kids to the assume-compromise philosophy
That is literally this skit
@RevonFyll Bill is the person who created the pokemon storage system
I have never played Pokemon in my life and this video is truly incomprehensible to me.