User blog comment:Pawn of Atlas/Contradictions about Fontaine's and Drinkable Plasmids/@comment-3967731-20140506232609

We have to take these dates with a grain of salt.

There were dates in the Voxophones in Infinite, so they just decided to put dates in the Audio Diaries for Burial at Sea. This is a large fuck up on their part as Pawn of Atlas noted. Also, remember that the date a diary was recoded does not necessarily mean that's the date the events discussed within it occurred.

It's best that we just make the best sense of these events and let the little inconsistencies caused by the dates slide. Pauolo suggested it's possible the dates for You Stupid Bastard and Product Recall were inverted (Everything was rushed so suddenly, I wouldn't put it past the designers). To spare you some reading I'll summarize some of the other points made:

On Drinkable Plasmids:

1. October or earlier: Yi Suchong begins viewing Columbia through the Tear in the Silver Fin and invents drinkable Plasmids. A number of them are distibuted throughout Rapture. Andrew Ryan publicly commends Suchong for this technological achievement (as a businessman not as his superior).

2. Afterwards, the statistics show that Drinkable Plasmids require an excessive amount of ADAM to make, creating a need for alternative forms of ADAM production, and Fontaine officially stops production of 3. September: Sensing it's only a matter of time before Ryan Security comes after him and still having some drinkables left after the initial production, Fontaine passes out Old Man Winter to some of his top men for the upcoming fight.

On the Conversion of Fontaine's:

1. September: Fontaine was "killed" in a bloody shootout that left lots of bodies full of ADAM (enough of a "war" to institute the Gatherer/Protector program). His followers & anyone associated with him were rounded up and held in lock-up.

2. October: It became apparent that the prisoners would need to be kept somewhere else. Ryan openly suggested Fontaine's Department Store as a more substantive place to hold the prisoners. Suchong laid low for a while. Ryan came to him and offered him a job (threatening that the Dept. Store would eventually be his only other option if he refused).

3. December: The council finally agreed that the Dept. Store be the location, the place is closed to the public, and converted. Before this, business had been continuing as usual at the faciliy (thus explaining Oven of the Future, Pennies on the Dollar, Old Man Winter Giveaway, Laissez-Faire).

Suchong's poor "Engrish" makes different interpretations possible. Isn't it possible that when he says ''Splicers burning each other to bits. Lucky ones not killed, sent to department store prison instead, he actually means not killed will be sent to department store''?