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Stratadrake Dragon Writer Since: Oct, 2009
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#1: Aug 4th 2011 at 10:08:46 AM

With only a page image (in fact three of them, due to the 350px size limit) and a bare list of tropes, this is a good case of how NOT to design a work page.

Can somebody with familiarity to the comic provide us with an actual writeup?

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Xtifr World's Toughest Milkman Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
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#2: Aug 4th 2011 at 10:18:21 AM

It's not a page image, it's a description of the comic. You could call it the self-demonstrating version. Just as it says, the comic features exactly the same images in every episode. Only the text changes.

edit: and nearly seventy tropes is not what I'd call "a bare list".

edited 4th Aug '11 10:21:51 AM by Xtifr

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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#3: Aug 4th 2011 at 10:29:59 AM

We've had this before. Like last time, I think this works better than a normal text description.

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DoktorvonEurotrash Since: Jan, 2001
#4: Aug 4th 2011 at 10:34:09 AM

The page is brilliant as it is.

Falco Since: Mar, 2011
#5: Aug 4th 2011 at 10:39:44 AM

That is brilliant.

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helterskelter Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#6: Aug 4th 2011 at 10:42:55 AM

Ah, the actual comic explains, so I think it suffices.

Stratadrake Dragon Writer Since: Oct, 2009
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#7: Aug 4th 2011 at 10:51:03 AM

You could call it the self-demonstrating version.
Ironically, that doesn't improve my opinion of the matter any.

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Xtifr World's Toughest Milkman Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
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#8: Aug 4th 2011 at 12:44:46 PM

It includes an explanation of the comic, I'm not sure what more you would need.

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Aquillion Since: Jan, 2001
#9: Aug 4th 2011 at 1:41:11 PM

I'm not sure what else we'd say, yeah. This summarizes the comic nicely.

Xtifr World's Toughest Milkman Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
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#10: Aug 4th 2011 at 1:57:19 PM

I added "Let T-Rex explain:" to help make it clear that the comic is the description, and not just a picture.

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Spark9 Gentleman Troper! from Castle Wulfenbach Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#11: Aug 4th 2011 at 2:02:50 PM

Hm, on my browser it shows up as three separate images with a visible seam in between them. I suppose this is because of the enforced image width limit? But perhaps we can reskin it to remove the seam?

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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#12: Aug 4th 2011 at 11:51:48 PM

Don't think so. The way the coding is set up requires that I think. It wraps this little bubble around something that's been put in that code.

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Jackerel SURPRISE from ur sentry Since: Feb, 2011
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#13: Aug 5th 2011 at 3:49:56 PM

The image is fine and everyone else hasn't seen a problem. I don't get why we can't get away with the occasional joke. I swear, sometimes, Tropers Law isn't a fallacy...

Can we get this locked?

edited 5th Aug '11 4:04:26 PM by Jackerel

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Spark9 Gentleman Troper! from Castle Wulfenbach Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#14: Aug 5th 2011 at 4:08:16 PM

[up][up] Okay, as the image size check is (presumably) in the upload code, perhaps one of the mods can make an exception here and install an image that's technically too wide?

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FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#15: Aug 5th 2011 at 4:11:39 PM

Image works just fine. I say "Hell, no" to yet another straight text write up.

edited 5th Aug '11 4:12:39 PM by FastEddie

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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#16: Aug 5th 2011 at 4:31:48 PM

Eddie, care to comment on magicing up a special image coding just for this page?

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Xtifr World's Toughest Milkman Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
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#17: Aug 5th 2011 at 4:39:45 PM

I don't think the lines are that big a deal, but I certainly wouldn't object if they went away.

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