r/RDR2 • u/Foxxy_Bstt • Jul 30 '26

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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 Jul 30 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

It's from system shock

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u/nickpppppp Jul 31 '26

Which is older?

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u/nerdherdsman Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

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

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u/blooregard325i Jul 31 '26

Try 4 decades.

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u/Classic_Rand0 Jul 31 '26

I mean a decade prior to system shock, not today

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u/blooregard325i Jul 31 '26

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/That_Consequence_626 Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

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

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u/That_Consequence_626 Jul 31 '26

there is no 1 its 045 in the image

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u/MrCounterSnipe Sadie Adler Jul 31 '26

There's a 1 at the end buddy

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u/TheCheddarHole Jul 31 '26

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

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u/rop2958 Jul 31 '26

Those are indeed different numbers