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Spark9 Gentleman Troper! from Castle Wulfenbach Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#1: Apr 8th 2012 at 2:28:25 PM

This is a textbook JAFAAC: the image is some random guy with text stating "he's a bad guy". That is not a good illustration for The Un-Twist.

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KaiserMazoku Since: Apr, 2011
#2: Apr 8th 2012 at 3:02:41 PM

It's basically a demotivator too.

Feather7603 Devil's Advocate from Yggdrasil Since: Dec, 2011
#3: Apr 9th 2012 at 2:09:16 AM

I vote pull for looking like a demotivator Image Macro. That it doesn't even help the trope, being a JAFAAC, doesn't exactly speak for the picture.

edited 21st Apr '12 5:26:28 PM by Feather7603

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#4: Apr 9th 2012 at 2:14:54 AM

"Demotivator" refers to a very specific, lazy, mass-produced template for text-picture combination. I'm not sure it shows the trope optimally, but Keep Until Better Image Suggestion for now.

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KaiserMazoku Since: Apr, 2011
#5: Apr 9th 2012 at 2:34:20 AM

Which is why I said "basically". No, it doesn't look EXACTLY like one, but it might as well be one.

rodneyAnonymous Sophisticated as Hell from empty space Since: Aug, 2010
#6: Apr 20th 2012 at 6:55:37 PM

Arguably looks kind of like an image macro (tho even that is a stretch, the type is multicolored and otherwise stylish) but does not look at all like a demotivator. Agree that it's a terrible image but that particular criticism seems invalid.

This, btw:

Dude made zombies, ok?

edited 20th Apr '12 7:04:35 PM by rodneyAnonymous

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FinalStarman from Clinton, Massachusetts Since: Nov, 2011
#7: Apr 21st 2012 at 3:05:40 PM

That's not a demotivator at all. This is what a demotivator looks like. This is also what a demotivator looks like. A demotivator is a specific type of image, and this ain't it.

With that out of the way, I'm going to say Keep Until Better Image Suggested. But it's not really a great imageā€¦

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Feather7603 Devil's Advocate from Yggdrasil Since: Dec, 2011
#8: Apr 21st 2012 at 5:27:22 PM

Okay, so not a demotivator. I still think it looks like an Image Macro, though.

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#9: Apr 21st 2012 at 11:03:47 PM

While I can't entirely disagree that it looks like one, having played Borderlands, I can say with certainty that that's just the character title card. Every vaguely-important NPC gets one when you first meet them. (For example, Zed.)

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Feather7603 Devil's Advocate from Yggdrasil Since: Dec, 2011
#10: Apr 21st 2012 at 11:15:01 PM

[up]Do they have texts like saying he's a bad guy? Zed didn't.

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#11: Apr 22nd 2012 at 12:09:55 AM

They do have subtitles for some, yeah. For instance...

edited 22nd Apr '12 12:12:14 AM by ShadowHog

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#12: Apr 22nd 2012 at 12:11:51 AM

It would have been nice to have an examples list to draw from....

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#13: Apr 22nd 2012 at 11:55:44 AM

Keep Until Better Image Suggested; Although the text could techically be alone as a quote, having the Obviously Evil guy on it improves it a lot. It's still far from perfect though.

I wouldn't call it an image macro either, as it looks very custom-made.

Feather7603 Devil's Advocate from Yggdrasil Since: Dec, 2011
#14: Apr 22nd 2012 at 6:28:23 PM

I won't object to it if that's actually how it appeared in the game.

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#16: Jun 11th 2012 at 6:49:49 AM

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