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Do we really need both of these? : Lightning Glare

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joeyjojojuniorshabadoo Since: Nov, 2010
#1: Mar 24th 2011 at 12:59:06 PM

Both of these images are good, really. As are the ones on the Image Links page. But having two images just seems wrong. I could understand three or more, as a collage-type thing, but showing two unrelated examples just looks weird. An older Image Pickin' indicates that it was a compromise in a previous thread (which I could not find). Since I can't see any other reason to justify a bad image like this, and I figure several months is long enough for people to cool off, we should really just pick one.

What say you?

Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#2: Mar 24th 2011 at 1:48:05 PM

I'm okay with it. I went ahead and hottiped the works though.

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#3: Mar 24th 2011 at 3:47:34 PM

I'm fine with the current version, especially since we had a previous IP thread about this page.

Osmium from Germany Since: Dec, 2010
#4: Mar 24th 2011 at 4:02:48 PM

Having two pictures is OK when they are necessary e.g. showing a before/after trope or when they show different aspects of one trope.

But this two nearly identical pictures are somehow redundant. One of them is enough. The description is short, having such a long picture looks odd.

edited 24th Mar '11 4:04:21 PM by Osmium

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#5: Mar 24th 2011 at 4:15:47 PM

I think this a time when its better to leave well enough alone. The image is well enough, it illustrates the trope, doesn't even need a caption, you wouldn't need to know where they are from to get the explanation, the text isn't hard to read because of the picture either. Its well enough, I say leave it alone.

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AceNoctali A lil' bentô ? from France Since: Nov, 2009
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#6: Mar 24th 2011 at 4:18:12 PM

Current pic is fine as it is IMO.

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joeyjojojuniorshabadoo Since: Nov, 2010
#7: Mar 24th 2011 at 4:27:58 PM

[up] [up] Agreed on all counts, but the thing is, either one of the pictures, by itself, would also do all of those things. And it wouldn't have an extraneous picture under it that shows the exact same thing, unlike literally every other page on the site (as far as I know). And it wouldn't spill over into the examples as badly.

edited 24th Mar '11 4:28:44 PM by joeyjojojuniorshabadoo

Osmium from Germany Since: Dec, 2010
#8: Mar 24th 2011 at 4:28:17 PM

It is not the first time someone started a discussion because of the double image. And there is absolutly nothing we win by using this two pictures. They are equally good, we could choose one of them at random and nothing would be lost.

Lets make a crowner with a lock timer and decide for one of the pictures.

DoktorvonEurotrash Lex et Veritas from Not a place of honour (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#9: Mar 25th 2011 at 2:16:27 AM

I seem to recall we chose two pictures because people couldn't settle on just one of them.

Count me in as another person who wants to change it.

fenyx4 Since: Jan, 2011
#10: Apr 8th 2011 at 10:27:35 PM

They look fine to me; I have no qualms about both of them being there. As for a singular pic, I'm kind of biased towards the Naruto image because I'm more familiar with that anime, it's a scene that is in recent memory, and the Naruto/Sasuke Lightning Glare scene preceded a very...awkward and infamous scene of the original Naruto anime... >_>

Clarste One Winged Egret Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
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#11: Apr 8th 2011 at 11:02:22 PM

I don't care which one stays, but I'm against leaving both up there.

Raso Cure Candy Since: Jul, 2009
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#12: Apr 20th 2011 at 1:33:45 PM

This one? (If someone can gray out the Japanese text.)

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Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#13: Apr 20th 2011 at 1:45:59 PM

That's not bad...is there a bigger version? Also, I don't mind the characters in the background.

shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#14: Apr 20th 2011 at 1:47:03 PM

[up][up] Eh, either of the two on the page right now are better because the focus is more on the glare. That one the lightning is so small it's hard to tell it's lightning.

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Raso Cure Candy Since: Jul, 2009
shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#16: Apr 20th 2011 at 1:54:33 PM

[up] Yeah, it's not bad, but it's not as good as either of the current page images.

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marheavenangel89 Captain Mimi from TEXAS!!!! Since: Mar, 2010
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#17: Apr 20th 2011 at 1:56:34 PM

At first I was gonna say I prefer the current image, but...then I saw Raso's suggestion and changed my mind.

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shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#18: Apr 20th 2011 at 1:58:33 PM

I just don't like it because the lightning glare isn't in the original work. It was added later by a fan and the colouring isn't very well done.

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#19: Apr 20th 2011 at 2:01:30 PM

[up] Oh! Dang...in that case, I'll retract my support; a work where it actually appears is better than a GIM Ped-up fanwork.

Raso Cure Candy Since: Jul, 2009
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#20: Apr 20th 2011 at 2:02:31 PM

They get them all the time (this one was already up on the image links} that one was just the clearest I got I am almost positive that its is there in the tankoubon release.

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shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#21: Apr 20th 2011 at 2:04:04 PM

[up] That one's blurrier than either of the two on the page. Good for image links, but I'd rather a sharper page image. The lightning is lost a bit too much in the background with the blur.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
Clarste One Winged Egret Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
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#22: Apr 20th 2011 at 2:05:04 PM

Why are we suggesting images at all? Both of the ones on the page are great, it's just that we don't need both of them.

ThePope Since: Oct, 2010
#23: Apr 20th 2011 at 3:03:19 PM

Maybe we can have a crowner between the two.

I'm fine with either, really.

marheavenangel89 Captain Mimi from TEXAS!!!! Since: Mar, 2010
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#24: Apr 20th 2011 at 3:04:22 PM

[up] I also see no harm in having a crowner.

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Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other

ImagePickin: LightningGlare
20th Apr '11 3:51:56 PM

Crown Description:

The page currently has a double image. We only need one and want to decide which one to keep.

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