Talk:Easter eggs

Portal reference section
OK so User:Majr, User:Skylinerw, and I have been having a mini edit war over Easter eggs, specifically my edit to the Portal reference section.

OK so here's my rationale for reverting back to adding that:


 * 1) Languages may not be Mojang-written content, but they are Mojang-approved content. In other words if Mojang approved it, yes technically it's community content but it might as well be Mojang because if it's not something _they_ would've written it wouldn't be in the game. It's not as if the community could put anything they want in there (eg machine translations/spam).
 * 2) There's already a language section above. Both of those are Easter eggs ie non-essential additional fun content added to the game _by Mojang_.

So that's why I believe adding my sentence in is important. Let me know what you think.

—benjabean1 (talk) 23:52, 2 April 2016 (UTC)


 * There actually were some issues with people getting spam and derogatory terms approved in translations a few years ago. Several users were eventually banned, and Mojang had to add restrictions to the crowdsourced translation process. While Mojang approves which languages are used, they exercise very little control over the content of the translations. So the presence of Pirate Speak and Lolcat as available languages is a notable easter egg, but the actual text in those languages is not. -- Orthotopetalk 01:22, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Aha. Thanks for clearing it up. —benjabean1 (talk) 01:30, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

2001 a space odyssey reference
Ok there's this obscure movie called 2001 A Space Odyssey. I know most of you have never heard of it...oh what's that? EVERYONE's heard of it because it's a very very famous classic movie? Good, well tell BDJP007301 that because he thinks references to it are just coincidence and won't allow the page to mention "Oh my god it's full of stats" as being a pop culture reference. He's reverted the change twice, demanding a link to where Mojang actually says that's what they're referencing. Considering "the cake is a lie" doesn't have such a link and it's a more obscure reference I don't see how this is needed. Feel free to complain to him here: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/User_talk:BDJP007301 –Preceding unsigned comment was added by WildBluntHickok (talk • contribs) at 21:50, 3 April 2016‎ (UTC). Please sign your posts with
 * According to this article on Wikiquote, the quote "My god, it's full of stars!" is from the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey. Nevertheless, I think it's worth to mention this in this article here; You could just provide the link to the wikipedia article I linked to above as a reference. | violine1101(Talk) 22:21, 3 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Let's keep it civil.
 * In addition to Violine1101's link, I'll offer as a reference that it's passed into common usage as a snowclone, showing that it is likely that this is a typical variation of that quote.  As for whether there's any question it's that quote, there is nothing else it could possibly be, that's not itself a reference to this meme about the 2001 book. – Sealbudsman talk/contr 23:24, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * To be clear I put this up on the talk page as an attempt at DE-escalation. As a saner alternative to a mindless revert war. Getting the opinion of a 3rd (and 4th) party is always a better solution than continuing the back and forth reverts. WildBluntHickok (talk) 23:49, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Also on the splash page, "full of stars!" isn't referencing a Mojangsta, but goes unchallenged for the same reason. There's one very famous quote, and no real competing alternative. – Sealbudsman talk/contr 23:59, 3 April 2016 (UTC)