Internet Popular Mandela effect .
Tyrannosaurus is a large monster that has been added to "Monster Hunter" since three generations, and has been on the stage for more than ten years. Because of its fat and long green appearance, it is often called "loofah dragon" in China and is also called "pickled cucumber" in Japan.
Although it has a cute nickname, there are few things in the game that can shock players more than the sudden sound of the appearance song of Tyrannosaurus.
Tyrannosaurus has two exclusive soundtracks, called "The Willful Intruder" and "The Greedy Demon". The title of the song summarizes its characteristics: it has thick skin and thick flesh, high attacks and irritability, and will scramble into the battle between players and other monsters without prior notification, conduct indiscriminate attacks, and will also eat other captured monsters and even similar corpses.
For players who are deeply involved in hard battles, the terrorist terrorist who joins in the fun is a huge threat (the picture comes from the automatic movie "Monster Hunter: Guild Legend")
The distinctive terrorist terrorist brought the two game mechanisms of "scrambled into" and "large monster fighting" into the "Monster Hunter" series, and left many rumors to be passed down by word of mouth among the hunters. The most famous one is probably the "violent and extremely hungry" terrorist terrorist will even chew on its cut tail... Just listening to the description, the cruel image is vividly revealed on paper.
Many people believe that they have witnessed this scene in the game, but what has happened recently made them confused - these players remember the scene of "Tyrannosaurus ate their own tail" vividly, but they cannot find any reliable video to prove it.
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A week ago, a Tieba user posted a reward at "Monster Hunter Bar" to collect videos that can prove that "Tyrannosaurus will indeed eat their own tail in the game."
The poster's attitude is obviously biased. He believes that the "Tyrannosaurus ate its own tail" is purely a wrong collective memory of some people, otherwise there would not be no proof video that can be saved for more than ten years. This post is a letter of war he sent to those who swear to have seen this scene.
"Mandela Effect" itself does not have much derogatory meaning, but this post is obviously a bit provocative and means that
post quickly gathered people watching the fun. Someone tentatively posted an ancient video that was widely circulated on the Internet. The blurry picture recorded the tyrannosaurus ate its broken tail in " Monster Hunter 3".
But this video was quickly questioned for fraud - the bone sticks of the "meat" in the game can be vaguely seen below the tail. The Tyrannosaurus seems to be gnawing at the tail, but in fact it is eating prop meat covered under the tail model.
Soon, the original source of the video was also found, showing that what the terrorist terrorist ate was the frozen meat hidden under the tail. The truth behind this video that has been circulating for more than ten years is nothing more than a "disguised method".
"P3G", "MHXX", "MH4G"... The videos of various versions of the terrorist dysfunction eating tails circulated on the Internet were identified one by one. Everyone followed clues and concluded that they were all "optical illusions caused by model misalignment". The terrorist dysfunction just happened to be eating other normal meats.
gnaws the hunter, gnaws the cat, gnaws the corpses of other monsters, but they are not gnawing the tail
Four years ago, an unpopular video released by a Japanese player almost became the last hope. He recorded that Tyrannosaurus nibbling his own tail in " Monster Hunter World ", and there is no flaw in this video.
Someone contacted the publisher to verify, but the other party frankly stated that he uploaded a spoof video, and there was also meat hidden under the tail.
The one who confirmed to the other party was the netizen who posted the reward
Compared to whether the terrorist terrorist eats its own tail, the statement that "relevant video records can be found on the Internet" was first overturned.
At first, netizens who were just watching gave rewards, and the bounty gradually increased to more than a thousand yuan. At the same time, everyone also set some specific rules for the issue of video fraud: it is required to prove that the video will be recorded at least before the terrorist terror cut off its tail, so as to verify that there is nothing hidden under the tail.
Everyone has searched the Internet in the past and has not found videos that meet the requirements. This means that if you want to prove this, the best way is to record new samples at the moment.
Someone runs the old version of the monster hunter through the emulator and conducts convenient tests through various auxiliary means; some people toss the private server of "Monster Hunter 3 Tri" to reproduce tasks that could only be participated in online mode; some people rummaged through boxes and cabinets to find the long-clogged PSP or 3DS, and try to restore the original flavor... Some even send old game consoles that cannot be turned on and the rocker fails to repair or replace the new battery, and are afraid that they will be taken away by others before the machine is repaired.
Verification videos sprung up like mushrooms after the rain
This concern finally proved to be over-thinking - a week passed, from the Monster Hunter Tri, which was originally appeared in the Monster Hunter to the latest Monster Hunter World, players have all obtained the same result: no matter how hungry you are, the Tyrannosaurus turns a blind eye to the tail that was cut off.
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Players' common memory of "Tyrannosaurus ate their own tail" has not been suspected to be a Mandela effect recently, and the debate is not limited to domestic players.
In 2018, Tyrannosaurus terror appeared in "Monster Hunter World" as an additional content. This generation of games has strengthened the performance of "large monsters fighting for territory", and Tyrannosaurus will exaggerately hold various monsters in his mouth.
"Tyrannosaurus's Great Sword"
The cruel performance of Tyrannosaurus's Tyrannosaurus impressed new players, and old players would further emphasize to them: "This guy got crazy back then but even ate his tail!"
In the animated short film produced by NCHProductions at that time, the scene of Tyrannosaurus eating his tail was also used as a representative of its behavior in the old continent (referring to past game versions), which made this meme spread more widely.
This animation short film has nearly 10 million views in the oil pipe alone, which has a wide impact.
Players actively tried to reproduce this famous scene in the new work, but unfortunately found that this setting did not seem to be retained in the new work. At this time, some people raised a long-standing question: "Speaking of all, have you really seen Tyrannosaurus rex eating its tail in the old monster hunter?"
At that time, a Japanese player launched a round of Twitter voting. Among the more than 600 participants, less than 20% said that they had seen such a scene with their own eyes, which proved to a certain extent that there were more people saying this and fewer people seeing it.
But no one can convince the other party if these 20% of people who have seen them and 80% of people who have not seen them.
"Tyrannosaurus ate their tail" problem actually constitutes a classic "crow paradox", that is, we can never prove through induction that "all crows are black", and also cannot prove that "all tyrannosaurus do not eat their own tails". As long as there is no counterexample evidence that "Tyrannosaurus literally eats their tails", this debate will never have a result.
In the past, people who supported and questioned this statement had their own opinions and ended up leaving the conclusion to the quantum state that "maybe there has been".
But this post bar reward is somewhat provocative, and the debate has caused much more intense than before.
People who insist on their correct memory began to attack the questioners purely using ignorance as their personality and seeking trouble; the opposition responded mercilessly, "The old man's mouth is harder than the skin of the terror tyrannosaurus", determined to take this battle to face the sound of the hearing.
Both sides are aiming at maiman, and things have developed to a situation where they are vowed to win or lose.
As domestic players began to verify this from the English and Japanese communities, the war was also led overseas, and the "Tyrannosaurus" also became popular on English Twitter. The discussion atmosphere there was also full of gunpowder, and both sides showed a life-and-death quarrel.
English community almost copied the original words of the post bar full of gunpowder, and instantly led the battle, making this topic the hottest topic in reddit in the past two days
There were also hundreds of people who swore that they must have seen Tyrannosaurus ate their tails in a certain version of the monster hunter. They also vividly described that they could not collect their tails because they were eaten, so they were deeply impressed.
But no matter how many oral narratives are, it is that over the years, no video can confirm their statement.
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On the one hand, the questioner kept making new videos. The less circulated game version in China has also been completed by foreign players, proving that Tyrannosaurus will not act like eating its own tail under various conditions and specific tasks.
In some specific double-terror tyrannosaurus missions, tyrannosaurus is only confirmed to devour similar corpses
. According to the test results, tyrannosaurus not only does not eat their own tails, but also has no interest in the tails of other monsters. This means that "tail" is mostly independent material encoding in the game and will not trigger the tyrannosaurus to eat "corpses".
Many players who participated in the test originally stood on the side of their supporters and felt that they had seen Tyrannosaurus ate their tails in the game, but the results of their personal experiments were shaken and began to suspect that it was indeed a mistake in their memory.
These are summarized as the "three major contradictions" in this storm:
1. The Tyrannosaurus in the hungry state will take the initiative to eat other foods, but will not touch the tail;
2. Assuming that the triggering conditions for "eating tail" exist but are extremely harsh, many players claim that this is very common;
3. Those players who are particularly stubborn in their opinion claim that they have seen Tyrannosaurus eat tails are unwilling to record a verification video. On the other hand, people who firmly believe that their memory is correct but are suffering from being unable to come up with counterexamples have also begun to look for evidence from other angles.
On the Japanese Q&A website, there are still discussions among players in 2009 about the newly released "Monster Hunter 3". The content they talked about was not "Will Tyrannosaurus terror eat their tails?", but "Can players still dig out the material from the tails that Tyrannosaurus terror have eaten", which shows that the former was a widely accepted fact for players at that time.
A Japanese junior high school student ten years ago asked netizens if Tyrannosaurus would eat their tails so that they could not dig
In the view of the supporters, Tyrannosaurus eating their tails was a common phenomenon back then. No one would deliberately record videos to prove this. In addition, recording videos for console or handheld game at that time was far less convenient than now. These two layers of filtering ultimately led to the failure of any empirical videos to survive. As for the so-called "large sample test", at most, there are hundreds of people participating. Compared with the one million people around the world who were playing at the same time, it was just a slim witch, and it was normal that the result was not measured.
In various wikis and guide books, the saying "Tyrannosaurus will eat its own tail" is also common, which is considered to be a proof that this phenomenon has been widely observed.
related descriptions appear in encyclopedia documentaries in various languages
, but such arguments were quickly found in counterexamples. As it turns out, in the English forum twelve years ago, players had a fierce debate on "whether the terrorist eats his own tail". Some people unceremoniously mocked that such videos were all fakes, but no one could come up with a credible recorded video to refute him.
is even in "Strange Hunting". Someone had long put forward this statement in 2011 as a rumor, and personally verified it, asking the rebutter to use videos to slap in the face, but it did not cause any trouble at that time.
seems familiar, as if it were a different generation
As for the so-called wiki and guide book, the source found after research is also a third party's opinion. It is likely that it is just a description made by an editor that adds fuel to the fire, which is not enough to fully accept it. From another perspective, these rumors may be the cause of the "Mandela effect".
In the official "Monster Hunter Visual Art Collection", there is no relevant statement
The "Monster Hunter Dictionary" built by Japanese players focuses on collecting information about monster hunting and is considered to be the most comprehensive and reliable private resource station. Its entry about Tyrannosaurus has recorded for many years that "Tyrannosaurus will even eat its own tail" and has not changed due to debates among players. But in these few days, this description has been annotated as "misinformation".
Questioners regard this as a stage victory. At least someone will bring up this rumor in the future. You can directly throw this link to the other party without having to argue again.
Faced with this huge debate, the official promotion of "Monster Hunter" also mentioned the Tyrannosaurus who failed to appear in the latest work " Monster Hunter Rise " for a long time. They released a product information in the past few days to promote his Tyrannosaurus badge.
he knows how to bring goods
Conclusion
Obviously, the controversy about "whether the terrorist eats his own tail" has been around for a long time, but this time it was particularly lively.
This is somewhat affected by the recent "expert identification of the popular Internet Mandela effect". Compared to the debate about whether the textbooks teach whether "Heaven will give a great responsibility to this man" or "Heaven will give a great responsibility to this man", gamers are just making small fuss.
"A reward for a disagreement" is a new trend brought about by this round of debate. How much money is not the key. What is important is that it makes the discussion more like a bet. With a difference between winning and losing, the parties involved are more opposed and the conflict is more intense; but this also stimulates both sides to actively provide evidence to a certain extent and promote the whole picture of the matter to the surface.
This seems to confirm the sentence - "The more you distinguish the truth, the clearer it becomes."
Unfortunately, when the test is overturned by the player's dictionary, the newly joined discussants are often talking about the videos that have been falsified early, and even staying in the version of "I think I've seen it"... This inevitably makes people feel that these quarrels are meaningless after all.
The Internet cannot spread facts faster and more widely than rumors. After going around, everything seems to only prove that "human memory is not reliable", although this matter has long been unnecessary to repeatedly verify.
