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EDITED IN: I resized the original comic by opening the image in my browser and shrinking the browser window until a screenshot of the image was within 350 pixels.
It's not as blurry, but instead it looks a little... pixelated, I guess? Not sure if that's the right word for it, but the text doesn't look quite right.
I guess that's inevitable when you're trying to get a 600-pixel-wide image with small text to within 350 pixels. We probably don't need all the panels, though I'm not sure which to keep... we should aim for something for which the panels seem to line up, and what we have right now most certainly fits the bill...
edited 12th Oct '11 10:08:34 AM by HiddenFacedMatt
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Not to mention it's rather long. What is that, eight panels? A bit much for one image.
edited 12th Oct '11 10:27:05 AM by ThePope
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Is that the entire strip? If so, we can't use it...if we can pare it down to the most essential panels, that will work better until we find something else.
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+1 to pull.
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I'm making a mod decision to pull it; it's way too much to count as fair use and we shouldn't be doing that. Also, a whole strip simply can't work at the size we are wanting for article illustrations.
Instead, please start thinking about what you want there instead.
edited 22nd Nov '11 8:43:52 PM by Morven
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A pocketful of saudade.
We can just pick a few panels from there, as it will evade the legal thing and improve image quality. Which ones, though?
The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.
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^ Saying "evade the legal thing" like that just makes it sound like Loophole Abuse, which is hardly any better.
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A pocketful of saudade.
Yeah, I do get the sinister vibe, but that's how it works.
The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.
Panels 5, 7 and 8 do the trick for me.
EDIT: I notice it doesn't really setup how this skill is useful but adding both panels 2 and 3 still doesn't shorten it by enough. If it can't get cut down to three panels or less then it's too long and something else is needed.
edited 23rd Nov '11 7:20:43 AM by treelo
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I tried using panels 5, 7, and 8, but since these panels are not of the same width it didn't work out that symmetrically.
I suppose I could try resizing the panels until they're the same width, but that would be very misleading, and I wouldn't know where to start on what to resize them to.
Perhaps we should try looking for an alternative source for page images...
edited 23rd Nov '11 1:45:10 PM by HiddenFacedMatt
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I definitely agree on the alternative source.
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It's not a very good image anyway.
Rhymes with "Protracted."
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That's true, I couldn't even tell what trope it was meant for initially. It just seemed like a way to shoehorn in an xkcd strip.
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One suggestion - use of Din's Fire to light torches.
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Eh, it's not very clear, and the quality's low.
Rhymes with "Protracted."
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Quality can be fixed later by finding better screenshots of the same moment. The question for now is if that moment could be considered demonstrative to begin with. Anyone else want to weigh in on that one?
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I have no idea what's going on there...is he using some kind of fire flare magic to light those torches?
The orange is fire.
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I think the idea behind the picture is solid, but the picture itself is really unclear.
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Yeah, if we just go by the picture itself, it's not very self-demonstrating for the trope. This is another of those tropes that's really hard to capture in a couple images.
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What can we do with this? I'd still opt for the xkcd strip.
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You mean the whole thing, or my 3-panel version? Using the whole thing is questionable from a moral perspective, and probably from a legal one as well.
And my 3-panel version has different panels of different widths arranged vertically, which is not very aesthetically appealing.
edited 2nd Dec '11 6:23:01 PM by HiddenFacedMatt
"The Daily Show has to be right 100% of the time; FOX News only has to be right once." - Jon Stewart
This image is in pretty crappy quality.