Bethesdais well known for dropiing little Easter eggs into its games, andStarfieldis no exception. With a huge initial player base that’s dwindled significantly since launch,a lot of these Easter eggswere gobbled up by players and regurgitated all over the internet in the game’s opening weeks. Yet six months out, players still seem to be finding undiscovered references in the game.
The most recent one is a little iffy, and it harkens back to a creepy and bizarre — yet unusually popular — online animation from 20 years ago. We’re talking about Salad Fingers.
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For those who missed out on cringe internet memes around the turn of the century, Salad Fingers is a collection of animated shorts that began on YouTube and Newgrounds in 2004. There are only eleven episodes at the time of this writing, and while the height of Salad Fingers' popularity was around two decades ago, the most recent (and nearly the longest, running at eleven minutes even) episode came out in September 2023. Interestingly enough, that’s thesame month in which Bethesda released Starfield.
Yes, it’s as weird as it sounds.
One Starfield player, who goes by the Reddit handle Villan900, shared a recent screencap from the game, which they believe to be a reference to this eerie slice of internet history. What makes some players believe that this particular locker belongs to Salad Fingers is its owner’s obsession with spoons. Four spoons can be found on the locker’s top shelf, and the word “Spoons” has been scrawled three times on the back of the locker.
While it’s uncertain what the intent of this locker was when the developers put it in, this could be a reference tothe original Salad Fingers video, titled Spoons, which lasted less than two minutes and features the title character describing his love for rubbing rusty spoons against his elongated, pale green fingers before going off on a quest to find the perfect spoon. Yes, it’s as weird as it sounds.
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This isn’t the first seemingly out-of-place reference that players have stumbled across — in fact, it’s not ever the first locker in the game to contain an outside reference. It’s already pretty well known that you can find lockers featuring three plushies, each with Chunks-brand cubical apples stacked atop their heads, an obvious reference to the lesser-knownDr. Seuss book Ten Apples Up On Top.
There’s also the museum onMars which contains artifacts taken from old Earth, including what is clearly an Elder Scroll, a reference to Bethesda’s most popular RPG series, as well as frequent visits in space from a traveler hoping to scam you out of credits with the promise of anextended ship warranty.(Hint, don’t take this deal. And that’s just to name a few.
Whether this particular locker was indeed meant to honor the creepy green man or not, we can’t say for sure, but it is fun to know that players are still finding funn little tidbits this faer into Starfield’s run.
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