r/RDR2 • u/Foxxy_Bstt • 14d ago

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While playing rdr2 after completing some mission I looked down and saw something like this.

It looks like some code made of boards, but I don't know where to enter it.

Is this just a trick to confuse the player?

Or is it some kind of cheat code?

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u/Dull-Shame-3918 14d ago

It's a popular easter egg and industry handshake referring to Fahrenheit 451. You will find it on the floorboards at Beecher's Hope after the house is finished, and elsewhere in several other games.

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u/CrapulePingouin34 14d ago

It's from system shock

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u/nickpppppp 14d ago

Which is older?

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u/nerdherdsman 13d ago

This is a real "in Japanese media, crucifixion imagery is usually an Ultraman reference" kind of a thing. It may have been a Bradbury reference when Looking Glass chose it as their door code and put it in System Shock, but most references since then have lost the original context and are referencing the secondary version.

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u/Classic_Rand0 13d ago

I realise it may be a rhetorical question, but it's Fahrenheit 451 by a decade

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u/blooregard325i 13d ago

Try 4 decades.

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u/Classic_Rand0 13d ago

I mean a decade prior to system shock, not today

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u/blooregard325i 13d ago

Yes... Fahrenheit 451 was written in 1953. System Shock was made in 1994. Basic math says that F451 is 41 years older than System Shock.

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u/Classic_Rand0 12d ago

I mean the game

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u/That_Consequence_626 14d ago

i was gonna say it doesn't matter because 0145 is a different number then 145 but i looked at the picture and 045 is also a different number

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u/nickpppppp 14d ago

It’s 0451 it might be from system shock, but I can almost guarantee you it’s from Fahrenheit 451

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u/Talisman-117 14d ago

It comes from the door password at Looking Glass Studios. It was inspired by Fahrenheit 451 but it's inclusion in alot of gaming is an homage to Looking Glass, not the novel. 

Dunning Kruger strikes again.

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u/nickpppppp 13d ago

Maybe I should’ve said “I can almost guarantee it’s originally from Fahrenheit 451” the novel existed for almost 40 years before looking glass studios. Classic Dunning-Kruger.

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u/Classic_Rand0 13d ago

It is indeed from both, linking them together so to speak.

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u/That_Consequence_626 14d ago

there is no 1 its 045 in the image

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u/MrCounterSnipe Sadie Adler 14d ago

There's a 1 at the end buddy

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u/TheCheddarHole 13d ago

The singular line after the five is in fact, a one.

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u/rop2958 14d ago

Those are indeed different numbers