Beta Key Contest #3
Welcome to week 3 of the DiabloFans Caption Contest. Each week, we're going to have a screenshot to show and your job is to add a caption. Whether the caption be epic or completely for the lulz, we don't care! We'll choose the best one or two entries each week and they'll be granted a Diablo III Beta Key.
To edit in your caption, you can just toss this image into MSPaint or any other photo editing program, add a few thought or speech bubbles, and go to town! You can then upload your screenshot to your Gallery here on DiabloFans, or any other image sharing service you choose. This week's screenshot is...
Submissions can just be posted here and you are allowed more than one entry if you like! These will run Saturday to Saturday, every week for the next few weeks. Winners will be picked on Saturday and the next screenshot will go up.
Congratulations to Kaulov for winning the second Beta Key caption contest.
Oh man...I love me some Pulp Fiction.
For those that get the reference
This is the type of person that this website caters to. How could you not understand the Harry Potter reference? Lmao, doesn't make sense? Use your brain dude. I know it takes a few seconds of thought, but come on. Let me break it down for you, so you don't hurt yourself trying to figure it out. The concept and focus of the photo is puke. So I took the concept that EVERYONE is aware of and used it to creative effect. The idea is that Hagrid is telling Harry Potter that he is a WIZARD, yet Harry is playing the game as a MONK. It is a personification of indulgence into the world of games, in which people see themselves as a character. It's one of the most basic personification and story telling methods.
So it uses the viral phrase of, "you're a wizard harry", which everyone who HASN'T been living under a rock for the last 10 years is aware of, and makes it applicable in a scene in which many possible factors could attribute to the primary focus of the reason for the puke. So upon learning that he is a WIZARD and not a MONK, Harry projectile vomits in a gut reaction. Harry has immersed himself into the game as the WRONG character. The puking is funny because it's entirely unwarranted, yet it serves to tell the reader of Harry's multiple levels of confusion, misunderstanding, and surprise. The subject matter is similar and a strictly Diablo reference is utterly unnecessary. Is that really so hard to understand? Use your brain. I like it because it tells a story in 1 frame, yet it takes more than one "frame" of thought to process. It's part of what good comedians will consider well thought-out comedic timing. Where what you are seeing or hearing comes at the right moment and in the right delivery. The fact that the scene is taking place in an instant, and rightfully so, on top of the fact that you are aware of the simplicity of the scene in the brief moment it takes to understand the joke, is part of what makes it so good.
For comparison, a joke that takes too long to read or understand, or serves as a visual distraction from the point of the joke, or states the obvious and uncreative (like this week's winner), or has too long of a setup for a delivery that isn't meant to be the focus, is a bad one. Those are the kind of jokes that 99% of this week's submissions used. If you find them funny, then good for you.
And for the 500th time, I'm not saying my entries are the best, I'm just saying they're MUCH better than the winners. I was fully prepared to lose to the "blinding flash" entry this week. It was brilliant, and I am just as upset for the person who submitted that as I am for myself. I set that submission as my bar, and if I didn't feel that one of my submissions came close or surpassed its greatness, then I wouldn't submit it. I won't be learning any humility. Humility in an intelligent and rational being is the acceptance of non reality for the sake of others, and I will not take a back seat to incompetence. I will accept defeat in the face of my superiors, but that has not occurred...not even close lol.
And I never said that the people behind these submissions are unfunny idiots. However, the submissions themselves, are mostly unfunny and idiotic...lmao. "dude I told you she couldn't drink that much!", "family guy puking chowder reference" (Oh, like every single person didn't think of that IMMEDIATELY, so creative), "I remember my first beer", "omg dude u just ate something gross and now ur puking". Really? Give me a break. If you really looked through all the submissions, as I did 3 times, then you would know that 95% of submissions encompassed the above, or a simple variation.
Fair enough, as long as one can accept the fact that the majority of people have about as much mental capacity as a used tampon. If their primary objective was to attract new and intelligent people to this website, then they failed MISERABLY. They set the bar so low the first week, and even lower this week. Hence the reason for so many awful submissions this week, and about 1000 fewer total submissions. Most of the creative and intelligent people saw the contest for what it was and vacated, I stuck around because I wanted a key more than them, and look where my 100 hours of work got me.
I'm not asking Diablofans to cater to me, I don't know why all you altruists seem to think this is solely about me. All I'm asking is that they set the universally accepted criteria of rewarding the best with the prize in regards to a competition. I'm not saying my submissions are better than everyone else's (although I do believe they are better than most), I'm saying that my submissions are MUCH better than both winners, and so are many of the other submissions I've seen. It's not a matter of opinion, it's a measurable fact derived from empirical evaluation. If you disagree, then you aren't capable of understanding, or just too ignorant to accept it as a truth. It's not a debate, it's just one side not getting it, and the other side hopelessly trying to explain it for all eternity.
Oh yeah, and as for my "E-bomb" submission from the first week. I will absolutely admit that the concept is not 100% unique when considering the contents of the original picture. The reason I think it is so great, is because the concept itself is brilliant, and its implementation excellent. The reason it works for that picture, is because the majority of what is happening, is happening in the center of the picture. All the action and focus is taking place in the perfect spot to allow that idea.
Also, the demon hunter's position can be used to illustrate the effects of a bomb going off near her feet. In my submission, she appears to have been surprised by something...like a bomb. Then there's the environment. The environment worked for the idea because it could be creatively transformed without an overly large stretch of the imagination in regards to the idea.
Then there's the delivery. Link serves as the perfect character for this event. He is a character that you would find in such a dungeon, except his version of it, would be a little more "E for everyone". So he stumbles upon this demon hunter and this giant monster, and decides that it's too violent and grotesque. Since link is a bomb thrower, he decides to lighten up the situation from atop his stoop, with a look of gleeful and uncaring mischief on his face. Link is one of the few universally recognized characters that could serve as the essential poster child for "E for everyone" games. For these reasons, as well as others, he served as the perfect candidate for the idea.
In comparison, the 2 latest pictures could not use that idea to great effect AT ALL. There is no indication of a bomb, no conceivable point of delivery, no characters worth transforming, no environment of great enough variety, and the focus of the picture was too far off to the side for the latest winner.
After that explanation, does it still make no sense? I honestly don't see how such simple concepts can slip past anyone. My girlfriend who has never played a Zelda game got the reference and reasoning for it immediately.
If you want my reasoning behind why this contest is a sham and why the judges should be ashamed of themselves and why this "competition" is an abomination, I would be happy to forward you the message I sent to one of the forum mods. It's several pages long.
As for making a picture that makes sense, I fear that am not capable of appealing to those of a lesser mind. If you didn't understand the Harry Potter submission, then I just don't know what to tell you...lol
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