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Mazerunner posted:Dudley also had a playstation several years before they were released, so either Vernon was actually the dad who works at nintendo or Rowling doesn't pay attention to numbers at all Dudley Dursley having a PlayStation shortly before its Japanese release and a year and a half before its EU launch is the Mystery of Faith central to the Harry Potter franchise
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Apr 14, 2021 04:15
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It's also mentioned he plays 'Mega Mutilation' on it so pretty sure there wasn't much attention paid to accuracy.
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Apr 14, 2021 04:40
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NikkolasKing posted:So in the first book, Harry mentions having a go on Dudley's computer, right? Mine did, but my parents both worked at tech companies, so that's not really a good measurement. I did hear a thing how in the 80s is actually when parents getting computers for their kids had a big effect on the industry, because that was mainly happening with boys, and that's when the modern gender disparity in the tech industry really started. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/07/22/487069271/episode-576-when-women-stopped-coding
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Apr 14, 2021 05:01
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NikkolasKing posted:So in the first book, Harry mentions having a go on Dudley's computer, right? 1991 isn’t the Stone Age. The Commodore 64 came out in 1982 and that was 17 million home computers. Plus, Dudley was spoiled as poo poo.
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Apr 14, 2021 05:42
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My fam was dirt poor and had dirt poor friends in the early 90's and i still had computer access and dicked around with MSPaint in my early childhood a few times.
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Apr 14, 2021 07:38
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Or a Spectrum or a Commodore 64 or similar. The real tell with the PlayStation thing is that Rowling wasn't thinking of any particular date at all and then decided to retrofit a strict period onto the books.
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Apr 14, 2021 08:38
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Rowling didn't plan poo poo out and this is constantly referenced and obvious despite what she says? 
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Apr 14, 2021 09:10
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Seriously, did Harry or Hermione not think it would be a fun idea to give Arthur Weasley a Playstation or a Gameboy and see what bullshit enchantments he puts in it?
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Apr 14, 2021 09:55
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They could go to a Hobby store and blow his goddamned mind. But something something prime directive.
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Apr 14, 2021 11:17
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Out of universe: Rowling doesn't care about video games or any actual aspect of modern real life and doesn't care to know. In universe: Harry probably isn't a big fan of video games since he probably never really got to play them unless Dudley was really bored (and you drat well know Dudley would throw a tantrum if he ever loses) and Hermione strikes me as being raised on books. Really, technology rarely if ever features in the stories except as a plot device and less and less as it goes on; by the point of Deathly Hallows it might as well be in a fantasy universe. The latest relevance I can think of is in Goblet of Fire when it's Harry's suggestion that Rita Skeeter has got them 'bugged' that gets Hermione on the right track of how she's actually spying on them. (Which is an indication of something that you'd think would come up; find out the magical equivalent of a technology that might accomplish what they're trying to do or what they think someone else is)
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Apr 14, 2021 11:17
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MikeJF posted:Probably an Amstrad. Probably an Amiga 500+
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Apr 14, 2021 12:25
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Out of universe: Rowling doesn't care about video games Get a load of this dork.
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Apr 14, 2021 12:28
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Really, technology rarely if ever features in the stories except as a plot device and less and less as it goes on; by the point of Deathly Hallows it might as well be in a fantasy universe. Hogwarts may well be in Scotland and follow a "hidden world" conceit but the setting itself is so detached from real life that the series has more in common with isekai/portal fantasy stories where the protagonist's lost contact with the ordinary world.
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Apr 14, 2021 14:15
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Dudley had a Sega Genesis. He was a huge Sonic fanboy.
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Apr 14, 2021 14:16
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Dudley had a Sega Genesis. He was a huge Sonic fanboy. He becomes a boxer tho, clearly played Punch-Out.
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Apr 14, 2021 14:35
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Ghost Leviathan posted:He becomes a boxer tho, clearly played Punch-Out.  Pictured: Dudley's Dream.
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Apr 14, 2021 15:31
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JethroMcB posted:Dudley Dursley having a PlayStation shortly before its Japanese release and a year and a half before its EU launch is the Mystery of Faith central to the Harry Potter franchise Harry Potter and the OOPart PlayStation
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Apr 14, 2021 18:43
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josh04 posted:The real tell with the PlayStation thing is that Rowling wasn't thinking of any particular date at all and then decided to retrofit a strict period onto the books. Nah, the date was set down in Chamber of Secrets, a few books before the PlayStation reference. It's just a minor anachronism.
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Apr 14, 2021 18:50
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Went to check that, googled "Harry Potter dating", immediately released what a huge mistake I'd made.
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Apr 14, 2021 18:52
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Nearly Headless Nick's 500th deathday party in CoS was 31st Oct 1992.
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Apr 14, 2021 19:00
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josh04 posted:Went to check that, googled "Harry Potter dating", immediately released what a huge mistake I'd made. Drarry 5ever Also Harry Potter dates are kind of insane. Like I imagine Snape being Alan Rickman-aged but no, he died around 35. Hitler shot Harry's parents when they were 20.
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Apr 14, 2021 20:31
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Drarry 5ever Carrying on a theme in Harry Potter that everyone peaks really early.
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Apr 14, 2021 20:59
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Rowling was pretty much the first to admit she was poo poo at maths. I still don’t get how she could think you could have 400 quadrennial tournaments in less than a thousand years, though. Especially as the first World Cup was on an odd year and the one in the books was on an even year.
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Apr 14, 2021 21:23
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Having your system of currency be like seven knuts to a sickle and twelve sickles to a galleon was pretty bold though.
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Apr 14, 2021 21:47
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TinTower posted:Rowling was pretty much the first to admit she was poo poo at maths. Wait do you mean the quidditch cup or the grand child murder tournament of the same year? e: speaking of both of those, they remind me of Viktor Krum. I know I've posted this before, but that guy used to beat the poo poo out of the little swastika-drawing wizard nazi kids at Durmstrang before he became a sports prodigy. Dude was an absolute unit. When Luna's dad first appears at the wedding in Deathly Hallows, Viktor shows up again just to comment to Harry about his wizard swastika amulet like "oh Harry that is not cool my man, not cool at all" Viktor Krum: buff sexy anti-nazi partisan god Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 22:14 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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Apr 14, 2021 22:01
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reignofevil posted:Having your system of currency be like seven knuts to a sickle and twelve sickles to a galleon was pretty bold though. That's just how british money works
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Apr 14, 2021 22:07
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TinTower posted:I still don’t get how she could think you could have 400 quadrennial tournaments in less than a thousand years, though. Especially as the first World Cup was on an odd year and the one in the books was on an even year. initially they had one every couple of months but they started running out of kids to kill
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Apr 14, 2021 22:14
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All I'm hearing is "Rowling's editor is rubbish"GodFish posted:That's just how british money works I mean look at this poo poo: "Before Decimal Day in 1971, there were 240 pence (the plural of penny) in one pound sterling. There were four farthings in a penny, twelve pence in a shilling, and twenty shillings in a pound; so 960 farthings in a pound."
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Apr 14, 2021 22:38
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Drarry 5ever Since you lead this off with a mention of Drarry, I thought you meant that dating Harry was loving insane.  Which it is, Harry's a miserable bore to go out with, as evidenced by the disastrous dates with Parvati and Cho.TinTower posted:Rowling was pretty much the first to admit she was poo poo at maths. Isn't it part of an editor's job to point out and have the author correct these kinds of small details? Then again, I think someone ITT mentioned that Rowling stopped having any editors around GoF.
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Apr 14, 2021 22:50
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JethroMcB posted:I mean look at this poo poo: 12 and 240 are highly composite numbers and 20 and 960 are decently divisible too, so it made some sense. Rowling chose two prime numbers which is just loving stupid.
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Apr 15, 2021 00:40
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TinTower posted:Rowling chose two prime numbers which is just loving stupid.
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Apr 15, 2021 00:48
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Harry being rich as poo poo always was kinda weird to me because he never does anything with any of it besides I guess buying a fancy broom.
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Apr 15, 2021 00:54
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Like with Quidditch the joke is taking an already convoluted system and making it sillier because that's the kind of thing wizards would do. It's early in the first book and is when she's definitely going for a more whimsical feel. Yeah, the Knuts/Sickles/Galleons conversion doesn't bother me at all. Whimsy and silliness is fine. Too bad she couldn't keep it up and instead went with racism, transphobia, and misogyny. And a hamfisted Jesus metaphor in the last book.
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Apr 15, 2021 00:57
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reignofevil posted:Harry being rich as poo poo always was kinda weird to me because he never does anything with any of it besides I guess buying a fancy broom. He could just drop a small chunk of his fortune and improve the life of his best friend's family, who took him in and treated him with love and kindness the likes of which he'd never seen, with a snap. Never does.
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Apr 15, 2021 01:01
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CainFortea posted:He could just drop a small chunk of his fortune and improve the life of his best friend's family, who took him in and treated him with love and kindness the likes of which he'd never seen, with a snap. Tho to be fair Ron is kind of a dick about the whole prospect the one time he offers.
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Apr 15, 2021 01:12
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CainFortea posted:He could just drop a small chunk of his fortune and improve the life of his best friend's family, who took him in and treated him with love and kindness the likes of which he'd never seen, with a snap. why that wouldn't be proper, they're of irish descent after all. what would they even do with the money, etc. etc.
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Apr 15, 2021 01:13
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He buys more candy than anyone could possibly eat one time, I guess, and then makes sure that everyone else knows that the two of them are just hogging all the treats on the first day of school
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Apr 15, 2021 01:14
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:1991 isn’t the Stone Age. The Commodore 64 came out in 1982 and that was 17 million home computers. Plus, Dudley was spoiled as poo poo. Other thing to bear in mind was it was a lot more common to have a (cheap non-PC) computer like a Spectrum or by then an Amiga or Atari ST than a console at the time in the UK compared to the US.
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Jazerus posted:getting Your Boy into Those Newfangled Machines was the done thing in the late 80s and early 90s, britain had a stronger computer culture than most places at the time (but worse computers Your phone is still running the same architecture developed for one of those computers  Granted they were expensive, you saw Archimedes in schools not homes mostly, but they were poo poo hot for the time.
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