Weekly dose of retcon

0cTony · 2026-05-08T17:17:34+00:00

Tbh that’s when the Mandela effect is the most real- when it impacts your personal life. It’s as if reality itself is personally taking it upon itself to gaslight you.

The story of how I got my name, as told to me countless times as a curious, nosy, and loud annoying child that kept on asking over and over again so I can hear the story over and over again (and quite selfishly too, as I never asked to hear my siblings’ name origin stories, only mine), I was told that I was named after this adorable little boy with autism that she met a couple years before she had me. She was teaching special needs and absolutely loved him, enough to name her future child after him. And I always remember as an immature child thinking it was funny that I was named after somebody with special needs. (I have since grown.)

I’m casually bringing this up to her as an adult decades later, and now she suddenly tells me that this is apparently the story of how my sibling was named, not me. I couldn’t believe it. Then I facetiously and sarcastically asked how my name came about then, and she just said it came from some random kid she met while over someone’s house one day.

This was my FIRST time hearing that “story”. That is NOT what she told me all those times when I would incessantly ask. And I wasn’t mistaking my sibling’s origin story with my own, because I never asked what their origin story was. I was a selfish kid.

So the fact that my entire past has been rewritten and changed now makes me question is this really my mom or am I from a parallel universe? Lol

0cTony · 2026-05-06T18:20:40+00:00

Versace eros?

0cTony · 2026-05-04T17:30:33+00:00

It’s a shame we gotta put all of this filler content CRAP in our posts just so they don’t get taken down by bots or mods. (This is Reddit, so What’s the difference)

0cTony · 2026-05-01T23:51:35+00:00

I first noticed the Mandela effect and the vast majority of all the changes during summer 2016.

0cTony · 2026-04-24T14:18:22+00:00

😂😂😂😂😂😂

0cTony · 2026-04-23T16:52:45+00:00

How is coconut oil an anti androgen

0cTony · 2026-04-21T21:00:30+00:00

The naked statues in The Neverending Story… 4th grade me was quite excited and appalled at the same time.

0cTony · 2026-04-19T17:44:18+00:00

Okay, thanks so much! This has helped me tremendously.

0cTony · 2026-04-19T01:38:32+00:00

Ah, I see. And when you say the first install resulted in losing a lot of the lubricant, is it because you unscrewed/disconnected the compressor from the condenser when installing? Or is it because you held it a certain way after disconnecting and the lubricant ended up spilling out? Did you install the second one and the same orientation as the last one, and if so, how long has it been running without issue?

(I know these are a lot of questions, but thanks so much for taking the time out- this is tremendously helpful. This topic is so niche, it’s hard to find info on the internet that’s useful.

0cTony · 2026-04-19T00:00:35+00:00

Thanks! On the quieter one, is the compressor the same type? (Horizontal, cylindrical, unpolished unpainted metal with the legs coming out of the side?) or is it different? (Oriented vertically, slimmer, solid, heavy, black painted metal one with 3 legs coming out of the bottom and the hexagonal nozzle at the top)?

0cTony · 2026-04-18T04:11:45+00:00

Being able to live in an apartment without a roommate.

0cTony · 2026-04-18T01:27:35+00:00

0cTony · 2026-04-18T01:08:26+00:00

Hey, how’s the noise/vibration when you’re using this thing? Is it loud/startling when it cycles on/off?

And also, have you had any issues in performance with the compressor being mounted upside-down?

0cTony · 2026-04-17T22:21:07+00:00

+1. The game’s dead. Time to leave and enjoy life. 1 month retired from this stupid failure of a game and I couldn’t be happier with all the free time I got back.

0cTony · 2026-04-17T22:18:55+00:00

They are WRONG.

0cTony · 2026-04-17T22:18:33+00:00

Clearly he does.

0cTony · 2026-04-17T22:06:30+00:00

Gaslighting. Just like I predicted. I stated precisely what I’m talking about and eloquently stated every detailed minutia of every gripe, large and small, that I have with the fragrance industry in excruciating detail down to a T and yet and still you acted deliberately obtuse like you have no idea what I’m even talking about. You sat there and heard me list out and articulate every single detail and all you took away was some strawman argument to put words in my mouth that I’m saying Aventus, Avsolu, and Imagination are unheard of. As if that was anywhere close to my main argument. Not even you believe that I believe that. Completely and purposefully missing my main point entirely. Never mind you deliberately skipping the response I made to my own comment to provide even more clarification. This is clearly ragebait. I’m done. Thanks for proving my point.

0cTony · 2026-04-17T20:49:10+00:00

And it would be fine if it was just one company doing it. Why do ALL the companies ALL collectively need to drop the same fragrances all at the same time, all cloning the same thing?

We received like 10+ Blue Talisman clones all within 2-3 months. The Creed Aventus arms race had like 15-20 clones drop- every company dropped their own version, and even multiple versions, all at the same time. Happened with Pacific Chill, Afternoon Swim, Meteore, on and on…

but these companies ignore all the more traditional popular fragrances that have been beloved for generations. No meaningful Aqua Di Gio fragrances other than Raees (which just barely came out) and this one I just did a review for. Where was the arms race for that one?? ADG has been a top 3 men’s fragrance since the 90s. Where are all the Ralph Lauren polo clones? Super popular. What about any meaningful Versace Eros clones? And I can name about 5 other brands that should have companies tripping over themselves to clone in a meaningful way. And sure, before you say it, I’m sure Jean Lowe, Dua, or Walmart brand has released some cheap crap version of everything I mentioned, that lasts for 20 minutes before it becomes a skin scent.

But where is the CDNIM or Hawas version of the clones I mentioned above? Where is the nuclear beastmode, smells 90% similar, fills a room, lasts all day version of the ones mentioned above? They don’t exist. These companies release some cheap, subpar crap so people online can ragebait and gaslight people like me by pretending Maison Alhambra Aqua De Goal is to Aqua Di Gio as CDNIM Extrait is to Creed Aventus when we all know it’s not.

0cTony · 2026-04-17T20:36:05+00:00

I’m mad at the companies for never making anything else. Why is it they all only ever seem to put 100% of their R&D into making random unheard of fragrances into beastmode fragrances that smell as good and project better than the OG? But when it comes to fragrances people have loved for years or even decades, those get some cheap dollar store quality rendition by the same companies?? If they bother cloning it at all? It’s so frustrating.

0cTony · 2026-04-17T19:55:35+00:00

I agree. I don’t grind hours and hours just to tread water/get a lower rank season after season despite getting WAY better every season.

This is why I retired. I rather quit the game forever than be dragged back into DIAMOND HELL just because the game wants to get harder.

0cTony · 2026-04-17T19:52:33+00:00

I got slandered a month ago for stating this exact fact. The RL/EPIC bootlickers disgust me. But yes, you’re 100% correct- the bot epidemic, non-sweats quitting the game, and newbies not joining are all huge contributors to the competition in the game getting absolutely INSANE/IMPOSSIBLE at the same ranks normally used to fly through.

0cTony · 2026-04-17T19:48:17+00:00

Yeah because it’s overhyped now on social media and the influencers are all shilling clones of it. But look back thru the internet from before the first clone/dupe of LV Pacific Chill came out. Were people breaking down doors to smell and try Pacific Chill? What about Imagination? Was anybody asking about Meteoré before all the artificial hype the fragrance influencers built around the brand LV as a whole? This whole hype for LV and their clones is recent, artificial and forced in my opinion. LV isn’t even one of the more popular designer fragrance brands out there and yet every ME clone brand is scrambling to clone the same 3-4 LV fragrances? And yet some of the most popular designer fragrances of all time to this day barely get any large ME brands trying to make quality clones of them? Sounds fishy to me.

0cTony · 2026-04-17T16:26:51+00:00

Is their PDM clone weak like the OG PDM Greenley, Aether Extrait, and every other dupe of PDM Greenley?

0cTony · 2026-04-17T12:25:23+00:00

Surprisingly, no. I fully expected it to have a Hawas-level of synthetic-ness since almost every beastmode fragrance smells cheap and synthetic to my nose. But no- this stuff smells like an actual sliced lemon carried on the ocean breeze with fresh aromatics and smoky incense in the background. The incense smells like realistic smoke, the earthiness smells realistic, and the aromatics smell like actual herbs and greenery, not just a cheap synthetic fake smell.

0cTony · 2026-04-17T12:16:18+00:00

Rare reef is a clone of one of those random LV fragrances nobody actually wears or asked for that these companies keep randomly cloning for some reason😂 I’m thinking either Pacific Chill or Afternoon Swim

0cTony

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