Glitch in the Matrix in real life

[Lou]

To this day me and my best friend have no idea how this was possible and the only real explanation was and still is, it's a glitch in the Matrix, but I am open to any other explanation.

It was the year 2002, I just had bought the game "Disciples 2" and me and my friend installed it on my PC at home, I had no internet back then and my CD drive was a normal read only drive.

We were creating a map with the editor, you instantly knew it was a selfmade map, the name and the layout, we were just messing around and having fun, we saved the map on my PC and played a bit.

Later that same day we drove to the office of my friends parents and I took the game CDs with me, for some reason we had to wait there, so we installed the game on an office PC with internet.

To our surprise the exact same map we created a few hours ago could be found and played on this PC as well and we have no idea why and how.

My PC at home as I said had no internet since my parents were too greedy, I had no CD burner and even if it wouldn't be possible to save a selfmade map onto a original game CD, we also had no floppy discs or USB drives to save the map on, there was simply no possible way to get the map we created on my PC at home all the way to the office PC, there were also no online profiles and even if, as I said my PC had no internet.

So how was this possible? Occasionally we bring it up in conversations and still wonder to this day how this was possible, anybody have any idea?

[sandokanski]

2025-2002 = 23

Can be memory glitch.

[////]

probably some obscure time forgotten tech feature you both were unaware of.

so that map wasn't on the disc?

[Kobs]

The map had to be saved on the game disk when you played it

[sandokanski]

A friend of mine was telling me a crazy story involving us both. Even crazier than this. She ends with "do you remember that?"

And I told her that I remember she was telling this as her dream 10 years ago, so yes, I remember it and I remember it was her dream, not reality.

Then she finally remembered it was a dream. Funny things happen.

[Bjørn]

Originally posted by sandokanski:

A friend of mine was telling me a crazy story involving us both. Even crazier than this. She ends with "do you remember that?"

And I told her that I remember she was telling this as her dream 10 years ago, so yes, I remember it and I remember it was her dream, not reality.

Then she finally remembered it was a dream. Funny things happen.

Memories are indeed fleeting. I've read some articles about that back when it was much discussed.

What we can clearly remember from the past, when discussing it and analysing it, can turn out to be a completely different experience, never happened, or something that happened to someone else, etc.


This example from the OP is pretty fascinating, though. Glitch in the Matrix, indeed!

My first thought was that the map they thought was 'home-made' in an editor might be a pre-made map that was already there when starting the editor, and they edited it a bit, but... I don't know the game at all, so I don't want to speculate.

[☮ne✟rue𝓢ax☯n]

Talking of glitches in the Matrix.

https://youtu.be/DLUnxvyLxBE?si=Kq3X3cM_4dOXaTv2

[Bjørn]

Originally posted by ☮ne✟rue𝓢ax☯n:

Talking of glitches in the Matrix.

https://youtu.be/DLUnxvyLxBE?si=Kq3X3cM_4dOXaTv2

Woah

[Lou]

Originally posted by ////:

probably some obscure time forgotten tech feature you both were unaware of.

so that map wasn't on the disc?

No chance, it had a distinct stupid name I can't remember and the layout was the exact same,just playing around.

We tried to replicate it on his PC at home but it didn't work.

My PC had nothing special, no internet and read only devices, well it had a floppy disc slot but we didn't use floppies.

[Lou]

Originally posted by Bjørn:

Originally posted by sandokanski:

A friend of mine was telling me a crazy story involving us both. Even crazier than this. She ends with "do you remember that?"

And I told her that I remember she was telling this as her dream 10 years ago, so yes, I remember it and I remember it was her dream, not reality.

Then she finally remembered it was a dream. Funny things happen.

Memories are indeed fleeting. I've read some articles about that back when it was much discussed.

What we can clearly remember from the past, when discussing it and analysing it, can turn out to be a completely different experience, never happened, or something that happened to someone else, etc.


This example from the OP is pretty fascinating, though. Glitch in the Matrix, indeed! :dssmile:

My first thought was that the map they thought was 'home-made' in an editor might be a pre-made map that was already there when starting the editor, and they edited it a bit, but... I don't know the game at all, so I don't want to speculate.

Still to this day we can't get an answer that doesn't involve impossible steps.

The map we made had a distinct name we gave and the layout was outs aswell.
There was no way that map we made could have gotten saved on the factory printed game CD, since my disc drive was read only.

As I said it feels impossible.

[sandokanski]

Maybe it was a prank your friend had for you. And it is still funny....

[Lou]

Originally posted by sandokanski:

Maybe it was a prank your friend had for you. And it is still funny....

Also (quite) impossible since we were together the whole time, he would have had to think ahead that we would make a map in the editor instead of just playing the game and bring a floppy disc to save the map on, we had no USB sticks.

Also my best friend hates pranks, being pranked and pranking others, he is one of the most honest humans I know.

[☎need4naiim☎]

There are some cases that some marketplaces (especially those with little hardware knowledge) can give customers read-only Disc Drives instead of Read&Write. There are also cases that customers are handed with Read&Write disc drives instead of Read-only. And, the latter can not be detected for a long long time because the owner won't be expecting that Disc Drive to write on any disc and therefore, won't use it to burn a CD with data. If you had been given such a disc and you weren't aware of the game installer's functionality (such as "copying any new map data into the CD as long as there is space on it"), then it is normal to experience such an ODDITY that surprised you for years.

[ꉔꏂ꒐꒒ꇙ]

Originally posted by Lou:

Glitch in the Matrix in real life

I've seen multiple glitches, this is nothing new. We are simulations being simulated in a simulated simulation created by simulated simulations.

[Lou]

Originally posted by ꉔꏂ꒐꒒ꇙ:

Originally posted by Lou:

Glitch in the Matrix in real life

I've seen multiple glitches, this is nothing new. We are simulations being simulated in a simulated simulation created by simulated simulations.

Did you always think of them as glitches in our simulation or did it take some time?

What was your weirdest one?

I only remember this one, but I have a faint memory of a Mandela effect happening in the Aladdin Disney movie.
Also seen many different videos and discussion about the glitch in the matrix topic.

[Abaddon the Despoiler]

That is the weirdest thing that you ever saw?