This is the thread to use if you feel that the page image itself is good but the caption needs help.
If you think that both the image and the caption are poor, please make a thread in Image Pickin' for the page, and we'll work on the image and caption both at the same time.
As with other TRS and IP threads, please state your reasons and make your case in your first post. Don't make the other posters spend time trying to pry it out of you.
Edited by Willbyr on Jun 21st 2021 at 9:42:03 AM
Seems OK for me.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I definitely am for the idea, implementation seems good... yeah, go for it.
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I'd be fine with that caption for Serial-Killer Killer.
In the mean time, I had an idea for Widely-Spaced Jail Bars, but I'm not too confident in it. Tell me what you think.
edited 30th Jan '15 3:47:04 PM by MrL1193
Hi
Alright, I've added the caption on Serial-Killer Killer and adjusted the tag to note this thread.
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I'm not really feeling it but it's not bad.
edited 31st Jan '15 2:29:40 AM by SeptimusHeap
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Monster.Comic Books, Monster.Star Wars, and Monster.A Song Of Ice And Fire have an unusual element in their caption: the quote is preceded by "<Speaker name>:". I think that looks bad. Other thoughts?
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
It's annoying, not to mention redundant (since the speaker is already depicted in the image, and really, do we really need to know what their names are?)
Hi
I don't care for it either...we already have page quotes, it feels like trying to double up on those.
Nix the names. The captions are okay without them, but with them they just look redundant.
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Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
I don't get the caption for Brain in a Jar.
I get what fMRI is, just not the reference. I could look it up, but that means the caption is already failed, doesn't it.
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
Zzzzzzzzzz
The brain, it is bored, sitting there in a jar. So it's singing "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" to itself.
And by the way, "I didn't get it so it's a failure" is not the case.
edited 16th Feb '15 1:38:49 PM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.I agree that "I don't get it, so it's bad" is a very weak argument.
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
I admit it may sound like it, it's not just "It's bad because I don't get it."
Shouldn't an image and caption be able to stand by itself without any knowledge of pop cultural reference?
...was what I was going to say, but then upon a quick search it's actually a folk-song, which I find fair enough.
Alright, moving on.
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
For the monster pages, all three of them are locked, so an admin is gonna have to nix those names.
Image Source. Please update whenever an image is changed.
A moderator can do so as well.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster
I won't argue, but just to explain the point of the speaker name for the monster pages was in case someone didn't know who it was and was curious. Though I guess a Google search could solve that.
edited 18th Feb '15 1:31:32 AM by ACW
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That additional information doesn't really add anything for people who's not familiar with the work (knowing the character's name doesn't help explain their role or how they fit the trope, unless it's a naming trope); and people who are familiar with the work should already know who the character is, anyway, so they don't need that extra info.
Medal of Dishonor's caption was changed on 2013/11/10 by Hourai Rabbit from the "a for effort" chosen in the thread to the more-grammatically-correct "An "A" for Effort". Technically this was ignoring the header saying the caption was chosen by the thread and shouldn't be changed, although I imagine grammatical fixups are generally considered allowable - it's just it's funnier (and more consistent) with the Stylistic Suck caption, in my opinion. Are there any objections to me changing it back?
Moon◊
Hi
None here.
I agree that "intentionally wrong" is more funny.
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
Done, then. Added a pothole to Stylistic Suck, hopefully to make it more apparent what the intention was.
Moon◊
Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster
Caption idea for Western Animation:
Hi
Good enough for me.
Crown Description:
Serial-Killer Killer can be confusing. I think a caption something along the lines of, "Notice the knife next to the tie and the syringe behind the other man's back," would help.