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Re:Reddit's photo albums broke due to Integer overflow of Si... by johnfarrelldev on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @07:15PM (#33978240)
I always found the funniest occurrence of this was in the Civ game though it seems it originally being a bug is disputed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Gandhi

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Re:Reddit's photo albums broke due to Integer overflow of Si... by vikingerik on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @08:00PM (#33978613)
The bug never existed at all in Civ 1. It was an urban legend all along. Similar behavior was intentional in Civ 5 as a joke, which convinced everyone that it really did happen in Civ 1 when it never did.
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Re:Reddit's photo albums broke due to Integer overflow of Si... by RedShift1 on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @08:21PM (#33978783)
Mandela effect
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Re:Reddit's photo albums broke due to Integer overflow of Si... by yen223 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @01:11AM (#33980563)
It's the result of people repeating what they read on the Internet, not what they personally experienced.

This happens way too often

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Re:Reddit's photo albums broke due to Integer overflow of Si... by fknorangesite on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @02:13AM (#33980886)
> This happens way too often

You're not wrong; but fyi it only happens in your originating universe. Over here we all experienced it.

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Re:Reddit's photo albums broke due to Integer overflow of Si... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @11:43PM (#33995305)
People being lied to is not the Mandela effect. The Mandela effect is about things you personally remember.

A Mandela effect here would be if the explanations themselves that talked about overflow never existed.

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Re:Reddit's photo albums broke due to Integer overflow of Si... by AceJohnny2 on Thursday December 15, 2022 @02:01AM (#33996235)
Huh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Gandhi

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