The Mandela effect in videogames

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Basically, the Mandela effect refers to a situation in which a large mass of people believe an event occurred when it did not. The term originated in 2009 by Fiona Broome, after she discovered that she, along with a number of others, believed that Nelson Mandela had died in the 1980s (when he actually died in 2013).
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Prepare to get your mind blown, by our collective delusions.
How many of these common misconceptions, did you still believe in?
 
All these misconceptions are just proof that we live in a simulation.

The simulation got tweaked by our overlords at some point leaving only the traces in our collective minds.
 
Just going to drop a movie recommendation here:

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Starring Ivanka Trump in the lead role.
 
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MarV0 said:
All these misconceptions are just proof that we live in a simulation.

The simulation got tweaked by our overlords at some point leaving only the traces in our collective minds.
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Blaming everything on a "simulation" is a clever way to avoid engaging with reality. It's a thought-provoking idea, but without proof, it's just a fancy way of saying, "I don't know, so let's make it mysterious." Let's focus on facts, not fiction.
 
I always found fascinating on how incapable many are in admitting their mistakes.

I wonder if it's a type brain defect that doesn't allow them to accept that they just misremembered or misunderstood something and there's no need to create dumb shit like this Mandella Effect to feel better.
 
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hemo memo said:
Blaming everything on a "simulation" is a clever way to avoid engaging with reality. It's a thought-provoking idea, but without proof, it's just a fancy way of saying, "I don't know, so let's make it mysterious." Let's focus on facts, not fiction.
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To be fair, we don't have a whole lot of proof that everything is real, either. Granted, you have your 5 senses and your memories, but they could all just as easily have been programmed in. If God is real and created the universe in six days, couldn't that be taken to mean that he created the simulation that we are a part of? You're right, it is thought-provoking. I don't think we know as much as we think we do as a species.
 
Killjoy-NL said:
Xbox being successful during the x360 era.

They were just less bad.
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No, MS was very successful with the 360. I remember everyone that played video games in my school having one and we all played each other online every weekend.

Plus the marketing by celebrities for the 360 was crazy back then. It was definitely the prefer console over PS3 for most of that gen.
 
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Aion002 said:
I always found fascinating on how incapable many are in admitting their mistakes.

I wonder if it's a type brain defect that doesn't allow them to accept that they just misremembered or misunderstood something and there's no need to create dumb shit like this Mandella Effect to feel better.
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Yeah this simply highlights how many people are incapable of admitting to themselves they could ever possibly be wrong. The entire of reality being unstable and unpredictable is a more likely truth to them than 'i accidentally made something up and am wrong'

That's fucking TERRIFYING and a massive indicator of what's wrong with the world today. Too many people can't accept that they may have ever been wrong about something, so they barrel ahead with their original views no matter what evidence is shown to them.
 
hemo memo said:
Blaming everything on a "simulation" is a clever way to avoid engaging with reality. It's a thought-provoking idea, but without proof, it's just a fancy way of saying, "I don't know, so let's make it mysterious." Let's focus on facts, not fiction.
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It is also more leaps of reasoning than just believing in the Christian God who created the universe.
 
hemo memo said:
Blaming everything on a "simulation" is a clever way to avoid engaging with reality. It's a thought-provoking idea, but without proof, it's just a fancy way of saying, "I don't know, so let's make it mysterious." Let's focus on facts, not fiction.
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You're on a damn video game board where we talk about fantasy pixels on a screen. How about you let people have some fun, momma. Would that be ok with you?

The Mandela Effect on the serious scale is a negative infinity. That is a fancy way of saying,"get the stick out of your ass and let loose, my guy".
 
MarV0 said:
All these misconceptions are just proof that we live in a simulation.
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Little interesting sidenote (well, interesting to me):

How many of you were aware that the iconic line in Matrix about a "deja vu" being a sign that someone "tweaked the simulation and adjusted reality" was not a Wachowski brothers' invention, but something that Philips K. Dick affirmed to believe as a fact in a now-notorious press conference?



The man wrote some great stories, but chances are he was a bit of a cuckoolander.
 
DirtInUrEye said:
Are you twelve?
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No, this is why he is saying it:
MatrixReloaded101 said:
No, MS was very successful with the 360. I remember everyone that played video games in my school having one and we all played each other online every weekend.

Plus the marketing by celebrities for the 360 was crazy back then. It was definitely the prefer console over PS3 for most of that gen.
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Because certain audiences, mainly Americans, still think that the 360 was the 2nd place of that generation. The reality is that it had a solid run in the first half of it's life cycle and that momentum suddenly slowed to a crawl in the second half. However it finished in 3rd place.
 
Interesting.
I remember Rainbow Road does have railings because I used to cheat by jumping off the left side at the start and landing deep into the track hitting the rail.
I thought it was catch the pigeon.
I remember Tinker Bell doing the wand thing as well, even before they showed that.
 
Rainbow Road had no railings on SNES in my timeline. Vader for sure said "Luke, I am your father" and Sleepy Beauty was certainly "mirror mirror on the wall"
 
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That N64 Rainbow Road mention having no rails is ridiculous. Anyone who would try that jump skip right at the beginning of the track would know this.
 
"Nintendo was the first console to release Rumble with the N64 Rumble Pak."

Sony did it two days earlier in Japan.
 
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MarV0 said:
All these misconceptions are just proof that we live in a simulation.

The simulation got tweaked by our overlords at some point leaving only the traces in our collective minds.
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Sentenza said:
Little interesting sidenote (well, interesting to me):

How many of you were aware that the iconic line in Matrix about a "deja vu" being a sign that someone "tweaked the simulation and adjusted reality" was not a Wachowski brothers' invention, but something that Philips K. Dick affirmed to believe as a fact in a now-notorious press conference?



The man wrote some great stories, but chances are he was a bit of a cuckoolander.
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He wrote great stories because he was off his rocker in part due to his massive experimentation with drugs. And I don't mean modern day 'experimenting with drugs' but old school trying shit out to see what it did.
 
Before I entered the thread I though this was about the Mandela virus.

Antwix said:
That N64 Rainbow Road mention having no rails is ridiculous. Anyone who would try that jump skip right at the beginning of the track would know this.
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I skip the entire Raibow Road on 64 at the begining as long as I remember.
 
Sooner said:
What are you on about? The point is Miyamoto never said that quote, but people still believe he did.
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In these times, delaying a game doesn't really guarantee that it will turn out well.

It has to do with time optimization.

Fan communication also helps.
 
The Mandela effect or as I call it; not wanting to know the truth. You can Google everything now. It's not the Middle Ages. You can look at the specs and see which console has more power. The fact that people still argue over whether the Xbox or PS2 is more powerful is ridiculous. I can understand it at the time before we had access to the kind of information we have now, but not anymore.The reason you didn't have the same debate with the Xbox One and PS4 was because it was easier to just check.
 
The one that always gets me is the Moonraker film.

Jaws girlfriend had braces that was part of the joke, but the actress who played her said she never wore them.
 
Sooner said:
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...and a game released on WiiU, well fuck it, we can just release it again at full price, and no one will care!

(yes, I'm among like the dozen - dozens! - that actually had a WiiU)

(and yes, I realize that's not an actual quote in the image, just wanted to expand on it)
 
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March Climber said:
Because certain audiences, mainly Americans, still think that the 360 was the 2nd place of that generation. The reality is that it had a solid run in the first half of it's life cycle and that momentum suddenly slowed to a crawl in the second half. However it finished in 3rd place.
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Yes, Xbox 360 ultimately ended in 3rd place, but Xbox was perceived as a winner in the console war between Playstation in that generation, due to the market share Xbox gained coming off of OG Xbox, and the market share Playstion lost coming off of PS2.

Context is everything.
 
People used to believe (maybe still do) that in Matrix 1 Neo wears a leather coat, but no, it's a trenchcoat fabric. It's Morpheus the one in leather and Trinity in latex.
 
Killjoy-NL said:
Xbox being successful during the x360 era.

They were just less bad.
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I was a teenager during this era. Everyone in my class had an Xbox 360. There were about 5 kids in the entire year with a PS3.

It had great exclusives and Xbox Live. Parties were the place to be after school. Perhaps their constant stepping on rakes since around 2012 is clouding your memory.
 
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the gaming ones don't work on me. because I actually pay attention when it comes to games. the cartoon stuff and branding stuff sometimes surprise me because there I just don't pay attention in everyday life.

so I absolutely was kinda surprised to see that the Monopoly guy didn't have a monocle... but for these gaming related ones? I was fully aware of all the things shown in that section. mostly because I play many of the older games shown there still now from time to time, and never stopped playing them.

there hasn't been a single year of my life ever since I was like 8 or so, where I didn't play at least through the first level of SMB1 I think.
and I emulated Mario Kart 64 or played it on OG hardware at least every other year or so since it released, this includes playing Rainbow Road... I have the rom on basically every device that can emulate it, and I have owned the Wii Virtual Console version since the day that one came out.

so for mainstream games like that I simply can't misremember stuff as I never stopped playing them for long enough for that to happen to me.
 
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I could swear that if you visited the castle in Mario Kart 64, you could get off the kart, enter, and start playing regular Super Mario 64.

Nah, not really but I always dreamed of doing that since I didn't own Mario 64 :messenger_persevering:
 
Obviously this isn't anything serious and just misremembering and in some cases, like mass hysteria, people can wrongly believe the same detail and it becomes the new truth. It can be funny in a mind fuck way.

I haven't watched the video (but will later), but I remember listening to a podcast that brought some up (some already mentioned) and the 2 i remember (are movie related as the games were mentioned by others) are C3P0 from Star Wars wasn't all gold as he had a silver / metal leg. In Gone With the Wind, the main guy never says "frankly my dear, I don't give a damn"

Edit - As pointed out by NeoIkaruGAF NeoIkaruGAF The Gone from Wind quote is in the movie, but apparently the Madela Effect was that it was not the final line in the movie.
 
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Shaggy had a Adams apple and in risky business he put them glasses on
And monopoly man has a eye glass

Risky business homer puts the glasses on
Ace Ventura beats the monopoly man up with a eye glass on and says just past go with it on
Shaggy you would see the Adams apple go up and down and it had hairs on it
 
RedC said:
Yes, Xbox 360 ultimately ended in 3rd place, but Xbox was perceived as a winner in the console war between Playstation in that generation, due to the market share Xbox gained coming off of OG Xbox, and the market share Playstion lost coming off of PS2.

Context is everything.
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Only in certain regions is this perception a reality. As you say, context is everything.
 
I could've sworn growing up, that there was a game called Jet Set Tricky. I went looking for it years later, thinking it was very obviously a sequel to Jet Set Radio. Nope. Only Jet Set Radio exists.
 
hemo memo said:
Blaming everything on a "simulation" is a clever way to avoid engaging with reality. It's a thought-provoking idea, but without proof, it's just a fancy way of saying, "I don't know, so let's make it mysterious." Let's focus on facts, not fiction.
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Lol. It's a part of the human condition.
 
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