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I'm not saying that the forces of destiny are conspiring against my innovative microwave cheese floppies but look at what I've just been given...

My memory vs the Internet. A horrifying tale.

So I really have distinct memories of playing Sleeping Dogs - a superlative open-world gangster/police game set in Hong Kong - in January 2011.

I remember the sofa I was sat on, where I was playing it, the tension waiting for The Teenager to emerge, the fact that The Wife was mocking my sartorial choices for my in-game character (if you wear certain clothing, you get +5% in your stats etc.)

Every single online reference to the game's release date is August 2012. When by then we would have been in a different flat, on a different sofa, using a different TV etc.

Every piece of objective reality data tells me that my memory is wrong. But it can't be.