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good-morning Lord Something, Forgetter of Cool Titles from Brazil Since: Nov, 2021
Lord Something, Forgetter of Cool Titles
#1: Jun 5th 2022 at 9:18:16 AM

The image on this page is a Visual Pun using a scene of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in which a planet is artificially built. However, it is hard to see that the thing being constructed is a planet even with context, and the caption doesn't provide more information.
There are probably clearer images of planets being built in fiction, but I think it would run the risk of making people think the trope is about literal constructions of planets, different from other puns like Canon, in which it is clearer that the image is supposed to be taken as a joke. This plus the Trope Talk discussion on the possibility of Worldbuilding being an Omnipresent Trope (since every narrative has to explain the rules of its setting, no matter how close to real life it is) inclines me to vote for pulling it, and, should we replace it, use an illustration of the concept instead of a Visual Pun.

Edited by good-morning on Jun 5th 2022 at 1:38:16 PM

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#3: Jun 5th 2022 at 9:31:00 AM

I agree with pulling the current, at least.

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#5: Jun 5th 2022 at 9:52:36 AM

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#6: Jun 5th 2022 at 9:54:03 AM

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#11: Jun 5th 2022 at 4:38:35 PM
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#13: Jun 5th 2022 at 8:06:09 PM

4's in and tagged, caption?

Old pic:

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/8_3.jpg

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#14: Jun 6th 2022 at 7:10:31 AM

I'm reminded of an Einstein quote we could paraphrase: "God does not play dice with the universe; she plays wright."

Or end it with "she plays darts."

good-morning Lord Something, Forgetter of Cool Titles from Brazil Since: Nov, 2021
Lord Something, Forgetter of Cool Titles
#15: Jun 6th 2022 at 7:39:17 AM

[up]I think that's a tad confusing.

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#16: Jun 6th 2022 at 5:51:25 PM

Agreed. No consensus on a caption; locking up.

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