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A key-code found in many Looking Glass and Ion Storm games including System Shock, Thief, System Shock 2, Bioshock, Dishonored, Deus Ex Franchise, and more!
Many think it's a reference to Fahrenheit 451, but it was actually the key-code to get into the Looking Glass offices in Cambridge.
It has now spread and become one of the defining things in immersive simulation games.

-Warren Spector, Deus Ex creator
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0451 by lkjsdflkjsd February 27, 2017
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0451 was a code first used to unlock a vault in the game Deus Ex, published by Eidos Montreal. Since then, this code has showed up multiple times in a number of video games, including Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It is a reference to the book Fahrenheit 451. The code for the first door in System Shock was 451, a System Shock 2 door had 45100 as a code, and Bioshock had a room that required the code 0451 to enter. This number is now recognized by many Deus Ex fans. The art director of Eidos Montreal even tweeted to his followers that one of his flight numbers was 0451, and stated that Deus Ex fans would know what that meant.
Shannon--
Ammunition is disappearing again, so we're changing the door code for the comm van near the helipad. New Code: 0451.
Alex
0451 by Nerdy Guy 0451 September 8, 2011
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The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.
"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"
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Originated from Penny Arcade, a popular gaming webcomic.
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