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This thread is for general discussion of page quotes, whether to change, move or remove them.

Unused quotes should be put on a Quotes Wiki page (just replace the namespace in the URL of the wiki page you are making a quotes page for with Quotes/).

Image captions are discussed elsewhere and have their own thread in the Image Pickin' forum.

Edited by wingedcatgirl on Jun 10th 2024 at 5:50:24 AM

Nocturna Since: May, 2011
#726: Apr 18th 2013 at 7:28:54 AM

Agree with deleting the first and third and keeping the second until/unless a better quote is found.

edited 18th Apr '13 7:29:36 AM by Nocturna

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#728: Apr 18th 2013 at 11:22:34 AM

Censor Box: Two quotes. The first works pretty well, but the second doesn't really do much without some kind of description of what they're doing when they say they're "censoring real life."

I say yank the second.

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Terrie Since: Apr, 2011
#730: Apr 18th 2013 at 1:31:10 PM

Since it seemed to be the most popular, Awesome Music/Music was changed to the Jimi Hendrix quote.

Also, [up][up][tup].That second quote just makes no sense in that context.

edited 18th Apr '13 1:32:13 PM by Terrie

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#731: Apr 18th 2013 at 2:46:35 PM

Agree on keeping the first quote on Censor Box. The second just sounds like it's about general censorship, not the box.

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#732: Apr 18th 2013 at 2:50:53 PM

Pick the first Censor Box quote, the second is too long and unclear.

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Nocturna Since: May, 2011
#733: Apr 18th 2013 at 3:14:28 PM

Ditto to keeping the first quote for Censor Box.

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#735: Apr 18th 2013 at 5:32:44 PM

I don't like Sequel Difficulty Spike's quote. It sounds like generic complaining rather than actual difficulty.

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#736: Apr 18th 2013 at 5:40:55 PM

[up]Give it the chainsaw.

"Yeah, it's a shame. Here we are in an underground cave with all these lasers, and instead of having a rave we're using it for evil."
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#739: Apr 19th 2013 at 12:38:57 PM

Just launched Sparse List of Rules and I'm wondering if anyone thinks the Star Wars one I added to the quotes tab is better than the Discworld one. It's not as funny, but it also better demonstrates a list with gaps in it.

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Nocturna Since: May, 2011
#740: Apr 19th 2013 at 1:09:12 PM

I don't think either of them are very good (as it's impossible to convey whether or not we see the rest of the list in the actual work), but of the two, a truncated version (using only the first 3 orders) of the Star Wars one would be best.

edited 19th Apr '13 1:09:45 PM by Nocturna

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#741: Apr 19th 2013 at 1:10:12 PM

Ok, I'll do that, then.

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#742: Apr 19th 2013 at 2:42:56 PM

I just removed the superfluous Memetic Mutation quote that was on Command & Conquer Economy. It only repeated the name of a different trope.

Nocturna Since: May, 2011
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#744: Apr 19th 2013 at 6:16:09 PM

[up]Me Too!.

Mind Hive's quote, while good, is also too long, at least vertically. We could trim it down a little, or we could use another quote that could work without the dialogue format. This one comes to mind:

"We are many; you are but one."Ermac, Mortal Kombat 9

"Yeah, it's a shame. Here we are in an underground cave with all these lasers, and instead of having a rave we're using it for evil."
Nocturna Since: May, 2011
#745: Apr 19th 2013 at 6:45:43 PM

[up] I don't think that's a good quote, because it's not clear that it's a mind hive unless you're familiar with the work. (Or, I at least assume you're proposing it because they're a mind hive...)

I think we could trim the current quote to:
Shepard: What is the individual in front of me called?
Legion: There is no "individual". We are geth. There are currently 1,183 programs active within this platform.

edited 19th Apr '13 6:46:48 PM by Nocturna

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