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9 Post author: FAWS 18 April 2012 02:30AM

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Comment author: Nominull 18 April 2012 02:38:48AM *  8 points [-]

Isn't Harry a little young to have played Fate/Stay Night, both in the sense of it being a Japanese porno game not suitable for 11-year-olds and it not having been made yet when the story is set?

EDIT: Clearly this is intended as a hint that he has the time-traveling adult Voldemort's memories implanted in him.

Comment author: 75th 18 April 2012 02:52:22AM *  6 points [-]

According to canon, the original PlayStation was available in 1993. So if certain electronic media are available earlier in the MoR universe, it's only a slight embellishment of an existing canon discrepancy.

Comment author: Alsadius 18 April 2012 02:58:11AM 0 points [-]

What canon? The original PS came out in December 1994.

Comment author: linkhyrule5 18 April 2012 03:04:32AM 11 points [-]

Rowling made a mistake and gave Dudley a PS in 1993.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 April 2012 03:27:20AM 17 points [-]

I am totally using that as my rejoinder there - "If Dudley can get a Playstation in 1993, clearly Playstations are timeless in canon."

Comment author: linkhyrule5 18 April 2012 03:32:43AM 10 points [-]

Wait, you can violate the six-hour limit on backward movement of information with Playstations?

Does that mean the Department of Mysteries has a Playstation department?

plots evilly

Comment author: pedanterrific 18 April 2012 03:35:23AM 28 points [-]

No, no, the sand in the Time-Turners' hourglasses is made of ground-up Playstations.

Comment author: Locke 18 April 2012 04:47:29AM 1 point [-]

I don't think that would actually make sand, it must be the game-discs.

Comment author: David_Gerard 18 April 2012 10:09:14AM 4 points [-]

This brings to mind the scratched game CD in Homestuck.

Comment author: [deleted] 19 April 2012 05:19:20PM 2 points [-]

Presumably Sega is the only organization with the power to stop PS from taking over the world, hence their constant warfare in Megatokyo.