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* ''VisualNovel/NoCaseShouldRemainUnsolved'': The visuals are few and far in-between and the gameplay revolves around piecing together scattered fragments of dialogue, figuring out where they fit on the timeline and who exactly was talking.
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Compare {{Textplosion}}, when a {{comic|s}}'s panels are suddenly filled with text before reverting to illustrations, and ScriptFic (indeed, many examples of this trope are script fics clumsily converted into prose to [[LoopholeAbuse get around]] Website/FanFictionDotNet's ban of the format). See also TalkingIsAFreeAction, WallOfText, InactionSequence, and SpeechCentricWork. When the dialogue itself is being used as a substitute for describing the scene, see ShowDontTell and {{Expospeak}}.

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Compare {{Textplosion}}, when a {{comic|s}}'s panels are suddenly filled with text before reverting to illustrations, and ScriptFic (indeed, many examples of this trope are script fics clumsily converted into prose to [[LoopholeAbuse get around]] Website/FanFictionDotNet's ban of the format). See also TalkingIsAFreeAction, WallOfText, InactionSequence, and SpeechCentricWork. When the dialogue itself is being used as a substitute for describing the scene, see ShowDontTell and {{Expospeak}}.
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* ''Literature/EndersGame'' deliberately does this with the conversations between Graff and Anderson, and the conversations between Graff and Carlotta. The comic book adaptation depicts these conversations as a page with nothing but script written on it.

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* ''Literature/EndersGame'' deliberately does this establishes no context with the conversations between Graff and Anderson, and the conversations between Graff and Carlotta.Carlotta, to give them the impression of being an OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness. The comic book adaptation depicts these conversations as a page with nothing but script written on it.
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*''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice'':Discussed in "Scene Writing" episode. JP states that writers, especially book writers, should not waste their time setting the scene before or during the characters talk to each other as according to him, readers can imagine the scene as well as writers.
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Compare ScriptFic; indeed, many examples of this trope are script fics clumsily converted into prose to [[LoopholeAbuse get around]] Website/FanFictionDotNet's ban of the format. See also TalkingIsAFreeAction, WallOfText, InactionSequence and SpeechCentricWork. When the dialogue itself is being used as a substitute for describing the scene, see ShowDontTell and {{Expospeak}}.

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Compare ScriptFic; indeed, {{Textplosion}}, when a {{comic|s}}'s panels are suddenly filled with text before reverting to illustrations, and ScriptFic (indeed, many examples of this trope are script fics clumsily converted into prose to [[LoopholeAbuse get around]] Website/FanFictionDotNet's ban of the format. format). See also TalkingIsAFreeAction, WallOfText, InactionSequence InactionSequence, and SpeechCentricWork. When the dialogue itself is being used as a substitute for describing the scene, see ShowDontTell and {{Expospeak}}.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey My God,]] [[WallOfText it's full of words!]] (And not much else.)]]

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* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' uses this in a lot of its interviews, adding to the chilling effect most of them get. Granted, the reason why they're featureless is they're written as actual interview transcripts instead of any sort of narrative.

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* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' ''Website/SCPFoundation'' uses this in a lot of its interviews, adding to the chilling effect most of them get. Granted, the reason why they're featureless is they're written as actual interview transcripts instead of any sort of narrative.
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** "Literature/TheFeelingOfPower": The characters of Aub and Shuman are the only ones to rate a description, even when other characters are the only ones present in a scene. The rooms are all empty of description, although chairs and tables are implied, not textual evidence supports their existence.

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** "Literature/TheFeelingOfPower": The characters of Aub and Shuman are the only ones to rate a description, even when other characters are the only ones present in a scene. The rooms are all empty of description, description; although chairs and tables are implied, not no textual evidence supports their existence.
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* ''Hogwarts Exposed'': Used throughout, but taken UpToEleven by the fourth chapter of ''Too Exposed'' which is a ScriptFic in all but name.

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* ''Hogwarts Exposed'': Used throughout, but taken UpToEleven by exaggerated in the fourth chapter of ''Too Exposed'' which is a ScriptFic in all but name.
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** "Literature/HellFire": No descriptors for the main characters are used, or for the room itself. They don't matter; the description is reserved for the [[{{Overcrank}} slow-motion film]] of an atomic bomb.

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** "Literature/HellFire": "Literature/HellFire1956": No descriptors for the main characters are used, or for the room itself. They don't matter; the description is reserved for the [[{{Overcrank}} slow-motion film]] of an atomic bomb.
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[[caption-width-right:350:My God, it's full of words!]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:My God, [[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey My God,]] [[WallOfText it's full of words!]]words!]] (And not much else.)]]
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