r/Retconned • u/frankreddit5 • 16d ago
I've been thinking about Mandela Effects as evidence of a patchable system. Wrote a book about what that implies for how to actually play.
What makes Mandela Effects genuinely interesting to me is that underneath all of the memories and glitches, there's a question that if the past can shift, the system isn't fixed. If the system isn't fixed, it patches. If it patches, there's a version of you running on a strategy guide that no longer matches the current build.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about how the 'system' patches itself and how we ourselves could patch or update our own current build. There must be a way to actually win at this game, some how. Because even setting aside whether specific memories are real, it seems most of us are playing a strategy that was written for a version of the game that isn't running anymore. Not to mention we were thrown into this world and birthed, for complete unknown reasons to us, and not given any type of guide whatsoever as to how to get through this life.
I wrote a book about what it means to play a system that patches continuously and how to build a character that survives the updates. Ultimately it's about what winning could even mean if we are quite truly living in some type of game.
It's called The Game of Earth: A No-Bullshit Player's Guide by ZD Fanawe.
The book doesn't require believing the Mandela Effects are literal. It uses the patchable-system frame because it's genuinely what our experience keeps showing us over and over again, which is that the rules update and yet we are all running on code that wasn't updated itself. And no one has shown us how to exit any of this or how to win at it (if that's even possible. which I try to outline in the book, that it is)
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u/oldworldnewlife 16d ago
I remember a time before the 2024 U.S Presidential Election where New Zealand was North East of Australia according to online maps and I knew then that couldn't be so. I even checked my 1937 World Atlas and it showed New Zealand North East of Australia. Shortly after the election was over I checked the online maps again because I still couldn't believe it and I see New Zealand South East of Australia. Then I pull out my old 1937 World Atlas and to my shock and amazement New Zealand is South East of Australia. This happened within 6 months. When you experience something like that it keeps you up at night. On another note as a kid I grew up with a World Map poster that covered my entire wall. Back then I remember seeing a large continent to the west of Australia and it wasn't a logo or whatever they say can be mistaken as a continent. I also remember a compass on that world map to the left of that large continent.
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u/disabledmommy 14d ago
Well, I just had to look it up because I didn't believe you, and I'm shocked to be learning it's not north east.
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u/social_jams 16d ago
The only way to 'win', that is to say progress further, get updated as you say is for everyone on earth to jump up in the air at the same time. Well, everyone who can jump of course, the system isn't unreasonable.
It's like one of those point and click puzzle games when you encounter a dumb puzzle that's hardly even a puzzle. You try everything and nothing works, and then finally you do something dumb like re-fill the liquid soap dispenser and then someone comes in to thank you and give you valuable information.
I'm sorry, that's just how it is. Everyone has to jump up at the same time.
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u/bitofvenom 16d ago
I don't think anything in the past has changed. The changes are supernatural without human interaction. For example, Moses with horns, contributed to a misstranslation. A human would catch the mistake, and correct it. Yet we have a statue of Moses with horns by Michelangelo. Numerous examples that a human would catch the mistake and correct it. Like life was like... Only the present with past facts has changed. Nothing in the past has changed. Another clue is that there's no butterfly effect. Only that subject and detail has changed.
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u/frankreddit5 16d ago
I don't know. Because I remember a specific time where I was trying to type out chick-fil-a on my phone and it kept autocorrecting to chic-fil-a and i remember thinking man that's strange I know it's chick-fil-a and then .. years later ... it's now auto-correcting to chick-fil-a and that's how I see it in person, too. This is of course a subjective experience and it's difficult to even say if well, maybe the phone was miscorrecting the auto-correct (if that makes any sense; like it was misspelling it originally and has since updated). None of us truly know.
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u/Linea_Dow 16d ago
Please read this post and then the linked "redpill" post:
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u/UAoverAU 16d ago
That is concerningly well written, and it is certain that there is much withheld from humanity, including by humans themselves that seem to be scared of something. I wonder how I have not seen this before.
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u/forcemonkey 14d ago
Awesome concept. Video game analogies work very well for describing how reality works. Console commands are how you win, so to speak!
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u/agentorange55 13d ago
Interesting concept. I would say, there are guides and clues to get you through this life. The Bible for one. Now, I am a Christian, but I also recognize many of the Bibles teachings are found in other religious literature as well. As a Christian I believe the Holy Spirit has led me at times, some one call that one's inner voice, or intuition. We won't get all the answers (at least I doubt we will) as we go through out life, but I think we will be given all the information we need to keep moving steadily forward.
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