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The Mammoth...KEEP IT CLEAN!
Posted By: PyroSporker16 <PyroSporker16@comcast.net>Date: 1/1/13 3:06 a.m.


Found this last month on the level "Reclaimer", been meaning to post this for a while. I finally just finished the game tonight, so I was motivated to follow through and post.

Somehow when I saw the blurry computer monitors on the decks of the Mammoth I was able to make out the words KEEP IT CLEAN in the first line of the lower monitor read out. KEEP IT CLEAN obviously made me remember the Superintendent, and then I remembered the old Superintendent wallpaper with some of his PSA's written out. Looked it up and sure enough, looks like the whole block of text is made up of SI quotes. The only thing I can't put together is the why? (besides 343 tipping their cap to Bungie? Or was it just something better to use rather than generic text?)

The rest of the screens and readouts seem far too blurry to be deciphered.

This is the ODST wallpaper I recalled, with this text in it:
http://www.bungie.net/images/games/wallpapers/SUPERINTENT3.jpg

"RECYCLING: DO YOUR PART!
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK
LOOK BOTH WAYS BEFORE CROSSING
IN CASE OF FIRE USE STAIRS
NO PARKING AT ANY TIME
TURN LIGHTS OFF PRIOR TO DEPARTURE
PLEASE REMAIN CALM
VEHICLE MAKES FREQUENT STOPS
GOOD CITIZENS CONSERVE FUEL
PARDON OUR DUST
BE A HERO! REPORT VIOLATORS
TAKE IT TO MAKE IT
BEACH OPEN FOR WATER CONTACT
YIELD TO PEDESTRIANS"

My apologies for the poor quality here, I can't do a game film screen capture (what gives 343i?) and I have no other way to attempt a video capture. So I took a blurry cam photo with my phone.
Load up "Recliamer" and trade guns with your ally that has the sniper rifle and then go in the mammoth and check it out in game - it will be slightly easier to decipher than my photo, but not by much. Maybe someone with a capture card/rig can get a cleaner photo?

http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/7059/imag0020kg.jpg

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/2494/imag0020crop.jpg

"KEEP IT CLEAN
BE A HERO! REPORT VIOLATORS
BEACH OPEN FOR WATER CONTACT
YIELD TO PEDESTRIANS
LOOK BOTH WAYS BEFORE CROSSING
RECYCLING: DO YOUR PART!
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK
... ... ...
PARDON OUR DUST
... ...
GOOD CITIZENS CONSERVE FUEL
... ... ... ... ... (--FOR HEALING ONLY?)
IN CASE OF FIRE USE STAIRS
... ... (PLEASE REMA?)

... ... ... ... . (NO PARKING AT ANY T?)"

the dots I'm not sure about

It could easily be nothing, but I also noticed on the rocket pods mounted atop the Mammoth a decal-ed number that just seems far too cleanly formatted to be only a random number.
I've seen a few other suspicious numbers and letters around various levels that could be somebuddy's initials and possibly a date, but some of it is just me seeing shapes in the clouds.

Anyone know a 343-er that is 26? Or possibly a significant event that happened on July 22 '86? I've tried going through the well known employee list, 343 website calendar, and culled the net but no good leads yet.

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/7764/imag0019hh.jpg


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Replies:

The Mammoth...KEEP IT CLEAN!PyroSporker16 1/1/13 3:06 a.m.
     Re: The Mammoth...KEEP IT CLEAN!Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 1/1/13 11:39 a.m.
     Cleaner pics...munky-058 1/1/13 4:46 p.m.
           Re: Cleaner pics...Jillybean 1/2/13 10:07 a.m.
     Re: The Mammoth...KEEP IT CLEAN!General Vagueness 1/6/13 2:31 a.m.
           Re: The Mammoth...KEEP IT CLEAN!Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 1/6/13 9:16 a.m.



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