What are your experiences with the Mandela Effect? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by gianni@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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See title. For those who don’t know, the Mandela Effect is a phenomenon where a large group of people remember something differently than how it occurred. It’s named after Nelson Mandela because a significant number of people remembered him dying in prison in the 1980s, even though he actually passed away in 2013.

I’m curious to hear about your personal experiences with this phenomenon. Have you ever remembered an event, fact, or detail that turned out to be different from reality? What was it and how did you react when you found out your memory didn’t align with the facts? Does it happen often?

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[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 12 points 9 months ago

That gen 1 of Pokemon didn't have compound types (i.e. Pokemon with two types). In reality they did

[-] RampageDon@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ghost types are only weak to psychic in that game because they are poison types too. Ruined me for generations swearing psychic was super to ghost.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

But...gen 1 doesn't have dual type...right?

[-] discostjohn@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

Of course it does. I remember a lot of people thinking Rock types were immune to electric attacks because nearly every rock type in red and blue was also a ground type.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 5 points 9 months ago

Venusaur is Grass/Poison.

Charizard is Fire/Flying.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago

I argued with my partner so hard about this.

Then we looked it up.

I was soooo wrong. And I was the one who got Blue and Red when they came out.

[-] MimicJar@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I've never heard that before and find it baffling.

Bulbasaur comes out of the gate with two types.

Charmander becomes Charizard with two types.

The first (or second) non-starter you encounter is Pidgy with two types.

The required Viridian Forest had Weedle with two types and if you only got a Caterpie, that becomes Butterfree who also has two types.

The number of two type Pokemon that you can catch at the start of the game is massive. Probably about half?

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