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One of the popular Mandela effects on the Internet.

Tyrannosaurus Rex is a large monster that "monster hunter" has joined since three generations, and it 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 "pickled cucumber" in Japan.

Despite its cute nickname, there are few things in the game that shock players more than the sudden sound of a Tyrannosaurus rex debut.

Tyrannosaurus Rex has two exclusive soundtracks called "wayward intruder" and "gluttonous Devil". The title of the song summarizes its characteristics: it is thick-skinned, aggressive and irritable. Without warning, it will intrude into the battle between players and other monsters, carry out indiscriminate attacks, and eat other captured monsters and even the corpses of the same kind.

For hard-fought players, Tyrannosaurus rex is a huge threat (pictured in the animated movie Monster Hunter: Guild Legend). The distinctive dinosaur brought the two game mechanisms of "trespassing" and "large monster fighting" into the "Monster Hunter" series, leaving a lot of rumors spread by word of mouth among hunters. Perhaps the most famous of these are the "hungry" dinosaurs who even ate their cut-off tails. Just listening to the description, the image of cruelty sprang up on paper.

Many people are convinced that they have witnessed this in the game, but recent events have baffled them-these players remember the vivid scenes of "dinosaurs eating their own tails". But can't find any reliable video to prove it.

A week ago, users of a post bar posted a reward on Monster Hunter Bar for videos that proved that "dinosaurs did eat their own tails in the game."

The poster's attitude is obviously biased, believing that "dinosaurs ate their own tails" is a false collective memory of some people, otherwise there would not have been a corroborative video for more than a decade. This post is a letter of war he sent to those who vowed to have seen it.

The Mandela effect itself is not too derogatory, but the post was obviously provocative and soon gathered onlookers, who tentatively posted an ancient video widely circulated on the Internet. the blurry picture shows dinosaurs eating their severed tails in Monster Hunter 3.

But the video was quickly questioned as fake-the bone sticks of "meat" in the game were faintly seen under the tail. Tyrannosaurus Rex appeared to be gnawing on the tail, but actually ate prop meat covered under the tail model.

Soon, the origin of the video was also found, fully showing that the dinosaur ate frozen meat hidden under its tail. The truth behind this video, which has been circulating for more than a decade, is nothing but a "cover-up".

"P3G"MHXX"MH4G". Various versions of the video of Tyrannosaurus Rex eating its tail circulated on the Internet were identified one by one, and everyone traced the clues and came to the conclusion that they were all "visual illusions caused by model dislocation" and that Tyrannosaurus Rex was just eating other normal meat.

Gnawing on the bodies of hunters, followers and other monsters is not gnawing on the tail. Four years ago, an unpopular video released by a Japanese player almost became the last hope. He recorded the dinosaur gnawing on his broken tail in "Monster Hunter World." this time there is no flaw in the video.

Someone contacted the publisher for confirmation, but the other party said frankly that what he uploaded was also a parody video, with meat hidden under the tail.

It is the netizens who posted the reward that the claim that "relevant video records can be easily found online" was first overturned compared to whether the dinosaur ate its own tail or not.

At first, netizens who were just onlookers raised the reward to thousands of yuan, and at the same time, they also laid down some specific rules for video fraud: they were required to prove that the video was recorded at least before the dinosaur broke its tail to verify that there was nothing hidden under its tail.

People have gone through the Internet in the past and failed to find videos that meet the requirements, which means that the best way to prove it is to record new samples in the present.

Some people use simulators to run the old version of grotesque hunting, and through a variety of auxiliary means to carry out convenient testing; some people toss about the "strange hunting 3 Tri" private server to reproduce tasks that can only be participated in online mode; others rummage to find out the dusty PSP or 3DS, trying to restore the original. For this reason, some people even sent the old game consoles that they could not turn on and the rocker failed to repair or replace the new battery, fearing that the reward would be taken away before the machine was repaired.

The fear of verification videos springing up turned out to be paranoid-a week later, from the original "Monster Hunter Tri" of Tyrannosaurus Rex to the latest "Monster Hunter World," players verified the same result: no matter how hungry they appeared, Tyrannosaurus rex turned a blind eye to its cut-off tail.

The common memory of "Tyrannosaurus rex eating its own tail" has not been suspected of being a Mandela effect until recently, and the debate is not limited to domestic players.

In 2018, dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex appeared in Monster Hunter World as an addition. This generation of games has strengthened the performance of "large monsters fighting for territory", and Tyrannosaurus Rex will exaggerate all kinds of monsters in its mouth.

"the Sword of the Dinosaur" the new players were impressed by the ferocious performance of the dinosaur, and the old players would further emphasize to them: "this guy went crazy and even ate his own tail!"

In the animated short film produced by NCHProductions at that time, the scene of Tyrannosaurus Rex eating its own tail was also used as a representative of its behavior in the Old World, making the stalk more widespread.

This animated short film has been shown by nearly 10 million people in the oil pipeline alone, influencing a wide range of players to actively try to recreate the famous scene in the new work, only to find that this setting does not seem to have been retained in the new work. At this time, some people have also asked the question for a long time: "speaking of which, have you ever seen a dinosaur eat its own tail in the old monster hunt?"

At that time, Japanese players launched a round of Twitter voting, and less than 20% of the more than 600 participants said they had seen such a scene with their own eyes, which partly proved that more people talked about it and fewer people saw it.

But none of the 20% of the people they've seen and 80% of the people they haven't seen can convince the other side. " The problem of Tyrannosaurus Rex eating its tail actually constitutes a classic "raven paradox", that is, we can never prove that "all crows are black" through induction, nor can we prove that "all dinosaurs do not eat their own tails". As long as there is no counterexample evidence that "Tyrannosaurus rex did eat their own tails", this debate will never come to an end.

In the past, people who supported and questioned this claim mostly had their own opinions and finally came to an end, leaving the conclusion in a quantum state that "may have existed".

But this time the Tieba reward is more or less provocative, and the debate is much fiercer than before.

People who insist that their memories are correct begin to attack skeptics by taking ignorance as their personality and asking for trouble, while the opposite side fights back mercilessly that "the old man's mouth is harder than the skin of the dinosaur," determined to take advantage of this battle to correct the eyes and ears.

The two sides are at loggerheads with each other, and the matter has developed to a situation that vows to win or lose. As domestic players began to seek confirmation from the English and Japanese communities, the flames of war were also drawn overseas, and "Tyrannosaurus Rex" also became a hot spot on English Twitter. The atmosphere of the discussion there was equally explosive, and both sides showed a life-and-death quarrel.

The English community almost copied the original words of the fiery Tieba, and instantly succeeded in the war, making this topic the hottest topic on reddit in the past two days, where hundreds of people swore that they must have seen dinosaurs eat their tails in some version of strange hunting, and were also impressed by the vivid description that they could not be collected because their tails had been eaten.

But no amount of oral narration can change the fact that over the years, not a single video has confirmed their claim.

On the other hand, the skeptical side continues to produce new videos, and the less popular versions of the game in China have also been completed by foreign players, proving that dinosaur will not eat its own tail under various conditions and specific tasks.

In some specific Tyrannosaurus Rex missions, Tyrannosaurus Rex was only confirmed to devour corpses of the same kind, and from the test results, Tyrannosaurus Rex not only did not eat its own tail, but also lost interest in the tails of other monsters, which means that "tails" are mostly independent material codes in the game and will not trigger dinosaur eating "corpses".

Many players who took part in the test were on the side of supporters and felt that they had seen dinosaurs eat their tails in the game, but the results of their own experiments shook them and began to suspect that their memory had indeed gone wrong.

These are summed up as the "three major contradictions" in this storm:

1. Hungry Tyrannosaurus rex will take the initiative to eat other food, but do not touch the tail

two。 Suppose that the trigger condition of "eating tail" exists but is extremely harsh, but many players claim that it is very common.

3. Players who are particularly stubborn and claim to have seen dinosaurs eat their tails are unwilling to make even a verification video.

On the other hand, people who firmly believe that their memories are correct but suffer from not being able to come up with counterexamples also begin to look for evidence from other angles.

On the Japanese Q & A website, there is still a discussion among players in 2009 about the newly released Monster Hunter 3, not about "will Tyrannosaurus rex eat their own tail". But "can players still dig material from the tails eaten by Tyrannosaurus rex", which shows that the former is a widely accepted fact for players at that time.

Ten years ago, a student in the second year of junior high school in Japan anxiously asked netizens whether Tyrannosaurus Rex would eat its own tail so that it could not be dug up. In the view of the supporters, it was a common phenomenon for Tyrannosaurus Rex to eat its own tail at that time. No one would specially record a video to prove this point. In addition, at that time, video recordings for mainframe or handheld games were far less convenient than they are now, and these two layers of filtering eventually led to no empirical video being preserved. As for the so-called "large sample test", at most hundreds of people took part in the test, which is nothing compared to the millions of people around the world playing at the same time, and it is normal not to be able to measure the results.

In a variety of wikis and playbooks, the saying that "dinosaurs will eat their own tails" is also widespread, which is considered to be widely observed proof of this phenomenon.

The description appeared in the encyclopedic records of various languages, but such arguments were quickly found counterexamples. It turns out that in the English forum 12 years ago, players had a heated debate about "whether Tyrannosaurus rex ate its own tail". At that time, some people unceremoniously ridiculed that such videos were fake. but no one can come up with a credible video to refute him.

Even in the "weird hunting bar", someone put forward this claim as a rumor in 2011 and personally verified it, asking the rebuttal to hit the face with video, but failed to cause any waves at that time.

Deja vu, as for the so-called wiki and playbook, the source found by textual research is also the words of a third party, which is probably just the embellished description of an editor, not enough to fully believe it. On the other hand, these false claims may be the cause of the "Mandela effect".

In the officially supervised "Monster Hunter Visual Art Collection", there is no relevant saying that the "Monster Hunter Dictionary" built by Japanese players focuses on collecting information about strange hunting and is considered to be the most comprehensive and reliable folk resource station. Its entry on Tyrannosaurus rex has long recorded that "dinosaurs even ate their own broken tails", which has not been changed by disputes among players. But in just a few days, the description was annotated as "misinformation".

Skeptics see this as a phased victory, at least if someone brings up the rumor in the future, they can throw the link directly to the other side without having to argue it from the beginning.

In the face of this massive debate, the official tweet of Monster Hunter has long mentioned the dinosaur who failed to appear in the latest book "the rise of Monster Hunter"-they released a commodity message in the past few days. sell his family's dinosaur badge.

He knows the conclusion of carrying goods. Obviously, there is a long-standing debate about "whether Tyrannosaurus rex eats its own tail", but this time it is particularly lively.

This is more or less influenced by the recent "identification of the popular Mandela effect on the Internet". Compared to debating whether the textbook teaches "heaven will fall on people" or "heaven will fall on people", gamers here are just trifles.

"not saying a word and pegging a reward" is a new trend brought about by this round of debate. more money is not the key, but what is important is that it makes the discussion more like a gambling pact, and the difference between winning or losing makes the two sides more antagonistic and fiercer; but to a certain extent, it also stimulates both sides to actively present evidence and promote the whole story to surface.

This seems to confirm the saying that "the more reason distinguishes, the clearer it becomes."

Unfortunately, when the textual research to the player dictionary has been overturned, the new discussants are often still talking about those early falsified videos, and even stay in the "I think I've seen" version. This inevitably makes people feel that these quarrels are meaningless after all.

The Internet does not allow facts to spread faster and wider than rumors, and everything seems to prove that "human memory is unreliable", even though it doesn't take much trouble to test it over and over again.

This article is from the official account of Wechat: game Research Society (ID:yysaag), author: Lushark

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