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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

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#1751: Jul 21st 2020 at 11:21:44 AM

Yeah that caption kinda sucks. Remove it or replace it.

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#1752: Jul 21st 2020 at 12:05:31 PM

That needs to be zapped posthaste.

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#1753: Jul 21st 2020 at 12:08:22 PM

After it's removed send it into space behind NEOWISE. That way we won't be seeing it again for the next 8000 years.

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#1754: Jul 21st 2020 at 3:42:56 PM

All this fuss about one word?

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#1755: Jul 21st 2020 at 4:21:05 PM

Being just one word is part of the problem. It doesn't contain enough information to be interesting.

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#1756: Jul 22nd 2020 at 3:06:37 PM

VideoGame.Dwarf Fortress's caption might need its rudeness turned down a notch...

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#1757: Jul 22nd 2020 at 3:09:40 PM

[up] That was brought up a while back; I’d be fine with cutting it wholesale if we can’t think of anything better.

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#1758: Jul 22nd 2020 at 3:20:50 PM

Relevant IP thread, for reference. There is a source code comment saying not to change the caption (including removing the profanity) without a new thread.

Edited by wingedcatgirl on Jul 22nd 2020 at 3:24:26 AM

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#1759: Jul 22nd 2020 at 3:35:37 PM

[up] The thread was 8 years ago. Does it really matter anymore?

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#1760: Jul 22nd 2020 at 4:11:17 PM

Answering that question would be the purpose of the new thread. It's not like it would really be reasonable to have a rule like "IP decisions more than X years old can be safely ignored".

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#1761: Jul 22nd 2020 at 10:18:33 PM

Maybe when the backlog lightens up we can see about replacing the pic. As I see it, it's literally JAFAAC.

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#1762: Jul 25th 2020 at 4:31:44 PM

For They Look Just Like Everyone Else!:

Exhibit A: the banality of evil.

You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"
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#1764: Jul 28th 2020 at 12:16:37 PM

Can we tweak the caption on Hellevator to this, please?

I haven't played the particular game that Tango is from, but still... robo kitty. :D
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#1766: Jul 29th 2020 at 7:19:09 AM

Here's the caption from Corpsing:

Stephen Colbert valiantly tries to keep a straight face.note 

I don't see anything wrong with it except the potholes to Unfortunate Names, an NRLEP trope, in reference to real life people. Any objections to removing them?

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#1768: Jul 29th 2020 at 11:13:59 AM

I think those are fake joke names, not actual real people?

Or was the first one real and the rest made up...? I don't remember, I'm not in the Colbert fandom.

That said, I don't think I really care about the pothole either way.

Edited by wingedcatgirl on Jul 29th 2020 at 1:15:25 PM

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#1769: Jul 29th 2020 at 7:12:30 PM

The current caption of Power Rangers S.P.D. is a spoiler of epic proportions, not even spoiler tagged.

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#1770: Jul 29th 2020 at 7:28:07 PM

[up] Whose idea was it to make that the caption? If nothing else, we can have no caption.

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#1771: Jul 29th 2020 at 7:32:54 PM

I zapped it.

By the way, one of these rangers quits at the end. Try to guess which one.

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#1772: Jul 29th 2020 at 11:28:15 PM

You Can't Make an Omelette... had the image source as the caption, so I made it a pothole instead. Any ideas for an alternate caption, or should we leave it without one?

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#1773: Jul 30th 2020 at 3:00:51 AM

I think "no caption" would be best. It's got enough text as it is.

(Annoyed grunt)
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#1775: Jul 30th 2020 at 7:37:42 AM

Yeah, no caption on there.

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