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Deadlock Clock: Mar 26th 2015 at 11:59:00 PM
ThePope Since: Oct, 2010
#1: Feb 20th 2015 at 11:42:05 AM

The new image was added without creating a thread. And it's...bad. It's really...really bad.

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#2: Feb 20th 2015 at 12:37:54 PM

An IP thread is not required for adding an image to an imageless page ( unless there's a note to that effect on the page).

But yes, that's really, really bad. It's artifacted, too small, too busy, and verging on Just A Face And A Caption.

edited 20th Feb '15 12:38:17 PM by Madrugada

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#3: Feb 20th 2015 at 12:44:55 PM

Oho, wait a second here. There was a note not to add an image without a thread. It was removed when H Ammy was added, back in February of last year.

It referred back to this thread which died of inactivity.

Current image pulled. For the record, it was this:

edited 20th Feb '15 12:56:42 PM by Madrugada

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#4: Feb 20th 2015 at 12:55:16 PM

That's one of the worst page images I've ever seen.

I think there's a lion? And snipers aiming at him? Maybe?

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#5: Feb 20th 2015 at 1:09:59 PM

Holy Hathor, that is a bad image.

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ThePope Since: Oct, 2010
#6: Feb 20th 2015 at 2:15:13 PM

Yeah, that's why I said the thing about creating a thread, since there was a warning explicitly not to do that.

Doesn't matter since that image is rubbish anyway.

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#8: Feb 21st 2015 at 10:33:00 AM

[up] I like 7.2. The first one is so wacky it seemed more like a Drunk on Milk example to me, and the image for 7.3 is entirely text and doesn't really demonstrate anything a quote couldn't. If we could figure out a good caption for the just the third panel on 7.2 I think that would work.

Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#9: Feb 21st 2015 at 5:46:10 PM

[up][up] 1 and 3 dont quite seem like this trope, 2 could work but I think we would have to use the entire comic. But yuck with the Funetik Aksent.

edited 21st Feb '15 6:06:03 PM by Memers

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#10: Feb 22nd 2015 at 2:45:45 AM

FWIW, the original is from here.

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#11: Feb 22nd 2015 at 2:35:46 PM

Maybe use something from this Girl Genius comic. I did up one possibility.

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#12: Mar 23rd 2015 at 1:48:00 AM

Clock is set.

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#13: Mar 23rd 2015 at 7:13:52 AM

Fry's 100 cups?

The only problem is without context, it does look a bit more like Must Have Caffeine.

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#14: Mar 23rd 2015 at 7:48:30 AM

I have no idea what that's supposed to illustrate.

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#15: Mar 23rd 2015 at 8:08:23 AM

I just want to add this trope is 'Bullet Time' as in perceived time slows down by any drug not just caffeine and not just someone getting uber hyper and zooming around the place. That would be another trope, unsure if it exists or not maybe as Caffeine High?

None of these actually work.

edited 23rd Mar '15 8:10:42 AM by Memers

Daefaroth Fnord from California Since: Jan, 2014 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#16: Mar 23rd 2015 at 8:25:17 AM

^Both the Futurama and Over the Hedge examples seem to be proper usages of the trope (Hammy calmly steps around and over the slow moving laser beams of the activating security system and time all but stops for Fry after his 300th coffee and he calmly walks around pulling motionless people out of a burning building). I'm not so sure about the Girl Genious one, I like the image but we don't see it from her point of view, just from outside. The problem is how do you show that happening and the caffeine (or whatever) ingestion in just a few static images?

edited 23rd Mar '15 8:28:50 AM by Daefaroth

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Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#17: Mar 23rd 2015 at 9:03:54 AM

[up] By finding something like Bullet Time's image.

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#18: Mar 23rd 2015 at 9:14:53 AM

To be fair, even Bullet Time has a fairly weak picture. Without knowing the context all it looks like is some dude falling with a couple beam distortion lines flying past him. Maybe he got shot by some kind of sonic beam. I agree it is a better image than what has been posted here but other than being the trope namer that one is hardly perfect.

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#19: Apr 16th 2015 at 9:43:49 AM

The clock's long expired on this one; locking up.

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