Just a person and a caption: Confusion Fu

It's a dude with a weird face striking a pose. How does this even show the trope?

Hah, wow, I looked at the pic a minute ago and wondered "Why isn't this in IPC for being a JAFAAC?" Now it is.

It's a dude doing a egyptian mural pose with a bag over his head and a giant scalpel in mouth.

Looks crazy enough to me.

He has a mouth? I seriously can't even tell whats going on with his face.

And according to google, he has a paper bag over his head, so how do you even see his mouth?

But even forgoing that, all that tells me is "he's a doctor striking a pose" not "He's a fighter with an unpredictable move set"

edited 3rd Aug '11 1:39:22 AM by Ghilz

So where were you guys when I needed you back in June?

Was away from the forums! Mostly.

And still it's not bad enough to pull immediately and there are still not any propositions

Against pull

edited 3rd Aug '11 6:28:00 AM by Adannor

Fine

Motion to Pull

Image Is Just A Face And A Caption. Character just looks like a doctor striking a pose or about to dance. To quote Willbyr on the previous topic "One strike is that it's rather jaggedy art." It's hard to tell wtf is going on.

edited 3rd Aug '11 2:47:30 AM by Ghilz

Missed post 3; wanted to add: he certainly does look crazy — but the trope is not craziness. In fact craziness is not required or sufficient: it's a fighting style with strong elements of randomness. Random in the sense of chaotic, unpredictable. As you would expect, fighters like this tend to be zany at a minimum, but still: not required.

I want to second the motion, but I know some folks don't mind this one so I'm waiting for their comments.

edited 3rd Aug '11 3:24:04 AM by Camacan

I'm still voting "keep unless we find something better"...the artifacting is bad, though.

Voting for keep till something better shows up.

The question remains: how are you getting the trope from the image? Not to be obtuse, but honestly what I see is a guy with a paper bag on his head in a "walk like an Egyptian" pose with some kind of flute randomly floating in front of the bag. I "know" it's a flute because I can see the embouchure hole on the right.

Additionally, I can't see any fight. I simply can't get from there to an unpredictable, chaotic fighting style. I can't see how a viewer without work knowledge could reliably be expected to, either.

edited 3rd Aug '11 8:54:13 PM by Camacan

I'm thinking an in-game screenshot of Arakune summoning his insects or turning invisible might work. His whole moveset is unpredictable.

This is really hard to show in a single still image.

Wait, that's a flute? ...I'm for pulling current pic.

How has this not been pulled? It does not visibly have anything to do with the trope.

edited 7th Sep '11 2:36:21 PM by INUH

Try and guess by looking what that person is going to do next. You can't, can you? Of course not, because it's such a weird and confusing stance.

Opposing pull. I think it's better than imageless. Would like to see potential replacements first.

No, I can't guess what he's going to do next. That includes not being able to tell that the image has something to do with fighting.

So what you're saying is that the image confuses you, yes? Just as Planned...

Less confusion, more "not triggering any particular form of recognition."

I always end up at this page under the name "Schrödinger Fu," and under that name I always just assumed that the boxy head was like the Schrödinger's Cat experiment. So I got it right away... or at least, I thought I did. I suppose that confusion is part of the point, though.

edited 1st Oct '11 5:14:39 PM by Bebop

If you find any wicks to Schrödinger Fu,, please change them to Confusion Fu. The old name is defunct.

edited 2nd Oct '11 12:42:12 AM by Camacan

I'm all for the pull, not a scrap of demonstration present.

Question, would that image work if it was clear it was within a fighting game? So, you have the one character in an Action Pose, weapon ready, prepared to fight, and the other... well, a guy with a scalpel in his mouth, a bag over his head, and giving a stupid pose?

Problem being the image would end up being quite horizontal, and it may be squished down into incomprehensibility with 350 pixels.

That would probably work better. Sadly, I don't have the resources to make such an image, at least not one of high or even decent quality.