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Subject: Code above Network Status?

There just aren't enough moments in the day to rectify the wrongs of the past.

When in Reach, if you hover above the statuses and descriptions of how your network is going, a code of mixed characters and numbers will show up.

What is this code for?

  • 08.16.2012 4:19 PM PDT

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I'm watching you.

It's for your sneakernet avatar.

  • 08.16.2012 4:27 PM PDT

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  • 08.16.2012 4:55 PM PDT

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Posted by: Phoenix1710
It's for your sneakernet avatar.

I still don't believe that. I have looked on 3 different TV's (2 HD, one SD), and on not a single one is it possible to distinguish 0 from D, or 8 from B.

That leaves me with 32,768 possible combinations it could be (based on the amount of 0/D's and 8/B's I have), so with all of that + it being released on April 1st, I can either assume that they are really really stupid when it comes to fonts (which I have never thought of them up to this point), or the whole thing is a big April Fools joke.

[Edited on 08.17.2012 5:52 PM PDT]

  • 08.17.2012 5:44 PM PDT


Posted by: i can has drugz

Posted by: Phoenix1710
It's for your sneakernet avatar.

I still don't believe that. I have looked on 3 different TV's (2 HD, one SD), and on not a single one is it possible to distinguish 0 from D, or 8 from B.

That leaves me with 32,768 possible combinations it could be (based on the amount of 0/D's and 8/B's I have), so with all of that + it being released on April 1st, I can either assume that they are really really stupid when it comes to fonts (which I have never thought of them up to this point), or the whole thing is a big April Fools joke.


So it's an april fools joke because you're blind? lol...

It's easy to tell the difference between D, B, 0 and 8

  • 08.17.2012 10:33 PM PDT

Posted by: Timtaztix
yeah this reminds me of the time i got sent to jail for stealing crocs from target becozs i wanted all of the colors because i only got the green wons for my birthday and i wanted more ;)

Posted by: i can has drugz
Posted by: Phoenix1710
It's for your sneakernet avatar.
I still don't believe that. I have looked on 3 different TV's (2 HD, one SD), and on not a single one is it possible to distinguish 0 from D, or 8 from B.

That leaves me with 32,768 possible combinations it could be (based on the amount of 0/D's and 8/B's I have), so with all of that + it being released on April 1st, I can either assume that they are really really stupid when it comes to fonts (which I have never thought of them up to this point), or the whole thing is a big April Fools joke.
I did it this morning. It's not that difficult.

  • 08.17.2012 10:55 PM PDT

Que Custodiet Ipsos Custodes

--Tea-baggers are funny, it's as if they think they are far more hetero than the people who do it in real life, because they use their e-ballsacks to do it. What a manly victory dance.
~ManBearPig_06~


Posted by: SatansReverence

Posted by: i can has drugz

Posted by: Phoenix1710
It's for your sneakernet avatar.

I still don't believe that. I have looked on 3 different TV's (2 HD, one SD), and on not a single one is it possible to distinguish 0 from D, or 8 from B.

That leaves me with 32,768 possible combinations it could be (based on the amount of 0/D's and 8/B's I have), so with all of that + it being released on April 1st, I can either assume that they are really really stupid when it comes to fonts (which I have never thought of them up to this point), or the whole thing is a big April Fools joke.


So it's an april fools joke because you're blind? lol...

It's easy to tell the difference between D, B, 0 and 8

You're either a liar, or it only works on certain TV's.

There is NO difference, and multiple people have looked with me as well. Unless they were all the same letter (ie. all D's and no 0's, all B's and no 8's), none of which worked as combinations, they are indifferentiable, and more than one person on more than one TV agreed with me.

It is an April Fools joke because the only people 'claiming' it works are random users on an internet forum, and I can confirm with first hand evidence that you can not tell certain letters/numbers apart (ie. I have yet to see your proof, yet mine is right in front of me and has been backed up by multiple witnesses)


At best, it really does work, and Bungie was stupid as hell to pick such a crappy font, and then to take that font, make it tiny on the screen, fade it out to the background, and have it tilted(the reach menu is on an angle), so that you have to have a very specific TV setup to be able to tell the similar characters apart (on the assumption you people are telling the truth, which I still have doubts about). There are many fonts that are made for people working with code that make it impossible to mistake characters for other ones (a simple slash through the 0, etc.).

[Edited on 08.19.2012 1:23 PM PDT]

  • 08.19.2012 1:18 PM PDT


Posted by: i can has drugzWhen did you last try it? It was broken recently, but was fixed a few days ago.

It's pretty obvious that it does actually work too, it updates your "last played" date, so anyone with a date more recent than March 31st 2012 is proof.

  • 08.19.2012 1:35 PM PDT


Posted by: i can has drugz
You're either a liar, or it only works on certain TV's.

There is NO difference, and multiple people have looked with me as well. Unless they were all the same letter (ie. all D's and no 0's, all B's and no 8's), none of which worked as combinations, they are indifferentiable, and more than one person on more than one TV agreed with me.

It is an April Fools joke because the only people 'claiming' it works are random users on an internet forum, and I can confirm with first hand evidence that you can not tell certain letters/numbers apart (ie. I have yet to see your proof, yet mine is right in front of me and has been backed up by multiple witnesses)


At best, it really does work, and Bungie was stupid as hell to pick such a crappy font, and then to take that font, make it tiny on the screen, fade it out to the background, and have it tilted(the reach menu is on an angle), so that you have to have a very specific TV setup to be able to tell the similar characters apart (on the assumption you people are telling the truth, which I still have doubts about). There are many fonts that are made for people working with code that make it impossible to mistake characters for other ones (a simple slash through the 0, etc.).


So you and everyone you know is blind.

If I could be bothered writing down a 60 odd digit code and input it into sneakernet I would.

  • 08.19.2012 6:08 PM PDT

Ok, so for mister blindman and his friends.

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  • 08.19.2012 6:43 PM PDT