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Why would Mojang sue for something like that? Bethesda's lawsuit was a huge mistake. Notch actually had a brilliant marketing idea when he challenged them to a competition, and had they taken him up on it, it could have been totally played up. The end result could have been WIN for both companies. Unfortunate, really. I think he's right though.... it seems pretty clear that the average gamer enjoys both releases, and that the lawyers involved in the suit probably didn't get held enough as children.

Notched means it has dips and points. You must have a slightly smaller vocabulary than most people.

although with a much higher-resolution texture pack.

I have no doubt Skyrim has a high resolution texture pack... however those are some seriously poor quality textures in that pic. Hi res does not necessary equal high quality.

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Notched means it has dips and points. You must have a slightly smaller vocabulary than most people.

I wish I could +1000 you.

you see, dragons werent boviously added cause of skyrim, jab (or notch, i cant remember) alredy pointed to add dragons even before skyrim was made, and notched pickaxe was in oblivion too,so there is nothing related, but also, there aint something as coincidence,its not cause evrything i related but if it realy was coincidence, it would be able to happen agai, wich it cant, time only pass one time, you cant go back to the past. Like yuko said, there isnt something as coincidence, only the inevitable. Still, its all unrelated (including my lesson here about "inevitable" XD).

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You people are dumb, the Notched Pickaxe was in Oblivion too.

REALLY?! did it have lightening damage and helped with smithing? and it was surrounded by ore? (pluss again lightening damage notch uses lightning in mods and such as a minecraft meme

well, if you can re-name weapons after you enchant them in skyrim, I'll enchant that pick and name it...Notch's pickaxe!
here's hoping you can add to its attack power...

yeah by the new addition of dragons in the game i think mojang is hinting towards goodwill with the bethesda company...

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It's a joke.

Kind of a bad one, at that. As in it is not funny at all, and wow, it is terribly overused.

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Wow, even though it has been proven that there's no such thing as any notched thing in oblivion, people keep being ignorant and say that...I wonder, is the minecraft forum a little slow? or do you just have trouble with reading?

I swear that these people are ****ing illiterate.

There is NO proof of that, no one has offered a picture, video, or even a can of tomato soup that would prove the Notched pickaxe was in Oblivion.

Just to add to the things that no one will read, a quick google search for "Notched Pickaxe" brings up this:

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Notched_Pickaxe

"The Notched Pickaxe is an item found at the very top of The Throat of the World."

And clicking on "The Throat of the World" leads you to:

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/The_Throat_of_the_World

"The Throat of the World is part of the main questline in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim."

Notice that it says, "In Skyrim."

I doubt anyone read this, but if you did, thanks for your time.

This can be found in TES IV: Oblivion, therefore it is a coincidence, People really get over it, there is a difference between a "Notched Pickaxe" and "Notch's Pickaxe"
Simply saying something is a easter egg because it resembles another word is just flat out ignorant.
So for now on you guys are saying any Bethesda game to come out with the word Notched in it, is copyright? Learn your facts.

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This can be found in TES IV: Oblivion, therefore it is a coincidence, People really get over it, there is a difference between a "Notched Pickaxe" and "Notch's Pickaxe"
Simply saying something is a easter egg because it resembles another word is just flat out ignorant.
So for now on you guys are saying any Bethesda game to come out with the word Notched in it, is copyright? Learn your facts.

*sigh* Please sir/madam, provide photo proof or else that didn't happen.

This is pretty cool, it's kinda hard to believe that this is from minecraft though. Like other people have said, it could just mean damaged or jagged.

The fact that its a pickaxe makes me think it's more of a Minecraft reference. And what's with people saying Notch copied Skyrim by adding dragons? Notch mentioned a long time ago he wanted dragons and he finally got around to adding them, minecraft dragons don't seem anything like Skyrim dragons either.

I don't really see WHY it's so assumed this is a reference to Minecraft just because it has the word "Notch" in it. Notch is a word, as well as Notched. I could be wrong though, as I haven't found any sort of information about a "Notched Pickaxe" in earlier games of the series like many here claim. It just still seems like a stretch to call it a nod to Minecraft until Bethesda announces if it is or isn't meant that way.

I think this whole thing is a joke. You guys arguing "It's a coincidence" or "sue sue sue", are missing the whole point.

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I think this whole thing is a joke. You guys arguing "It's a coincidence" or "sue sue sue", are missing the whole point.

The "sue sue sue" thing is a joke itself, because of the lawsuit between Bethesda and Mojang.

I really would have never expected this!