Are there internet forums which were founded in the 20th century already, still exist, and may deal with musical topics (in total or in subsections)? So far, I know Delphi Forums. --KnightMove (talk) 15:33, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There's I Love Music. --Viennese Waltz 15:37, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but http://www.ilxor.com/ seems to be down?! --KnightMove (talk) 16:37, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No, it's not. [1] --Viennese Waltz 20:27, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ok thanks. I have set this as weblink in the article. --KnightMove (talk) 12:17, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Any other forum known which was already opened in the 1990s? --KnightMove (talk) 12:17, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

We Are The Music Makers is still going, having opened in 1999. --Viennese Waltz 13:03, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What is the Planet Marvin the Martian lives in? 50.100.44.204 (talk) 19:01, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Marvin the Martian lives on Mars, as one would expect from the name. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.8.29.20 (talk) 20:01, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That may be WP:OR. He may be from Mars originally, but does he actually still live there, or has he purchased a condo somewhere else, say on Ganymede, where real estate is cheaper? Clarityfiend (talk) 21:35, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If it's unreliable information, we need to edit his article extensively, since it states in several ways that he is from Mars, his home is Mars, he represents Mars diplomatically, and he has lived on Mars for some two millennia. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.8.29.20 (talk) 12:26, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Read the article more carefully next time. It only says he hails from Mars and that he has tried to destroy the Earth for two millennia. It does not say his home is currently Mars or that he represents the planet diplomatically (which, even if "true", wouldn't necessary require him to live there. Clarityfiend (talk) 12:51, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a gen-you-wine Mars Rover photo from a few years back.[2] ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 01:51, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am italian Wikipedia user and I like to know what is the differencies between this words:

When a film director show how the movie is built, two words is used for this: “behind the scenes” and “backstage”. What is the differencies? Thank you! 2.194.241.221 (talk) 20:23, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Backstage" generally (though not always) means the actual physical area behind the stage, whereas "behind the scenes" is a much broader term referring to anything that isn't known by the general public, even things like business deals to finance the production, casting reasons, etc. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:53, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is Knuckles the Echidna playable in his first appearance in Sonic the Hedgehog 3? 2605:B100:102:98EE:B178:9D5:9239:2287 (talk) 20:40, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently not. From Knuckles the Echidna it states "He was given a headlining role in the next game, Sonic & Knuckles, where he made his first appearance as a playable character." 196.50.199.218 (talk) 06:03, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You can only play as Knuckles in Sonic 3 by using Sonic & Knuckles's "lock-on" feature to insert the Sonic 3 cartridge into the Sonic & Knuckles cartridge. -insert valid name here- (talk) 20:49, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This video in Youtube is a weird recap in Spanish of the first season of What If...? (TV series), mixed with memes and stuff from other places. There are a pair of music tracks that I know I have heard somewhere, but I'm not sure. One is the one used at the end of the episodes (see for example 1:55 on), and the other is during the final fight with Ultron (12:38 onwards). Cambalachero (talk) 03:34, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

To be clear (since your post is a statement, not a question), are you asking if anyone can identify the music tracks? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.8.29.20 (talk) 12:29, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes Cambalachero (talk) 14:30, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The song exerpt just after 1:55 is from 'It Takes Diff'rent Strokes', the theme song of the TV show Diff'rent Strokes. (Found simply by web searching the sung lyric. I've never seen the show – wrong continent and era for me.)

I don't recognise the exerpt at 12:38 (and there's no words), but others probably will. Sounds like the sort of folk rock I like, actually. Hope this helps. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.8.29.20 (talk) 18:36, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Shazam says that the second piece is "The Raising Fighting Spirit" by ACN Music. Matt Deres (talk) 15:41, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Matt. And teh interwebs tell me ACN Music is a Brazilian music producer and composer who specializes in electronic and orchestral music. Sounds like someone we could stand to have an article on, but the sources I saw mostly don't look 'Reliable' in Wikipedia's sense. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.30.195} 94.8.29.20 (talk) 94.8.29.20 (talk) 17:25, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Leonard March is one of the side characters from Strangers and Brothers who appears in a few of the books from the series and he also appears in 3 episodes of the 1984 tv series and I've been wanting to know what happens to him in last appearance and where does he go to. Matthew John Drummond (talk) 17:59, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why major winter sports tournaments, such as Winter Olympics and skiing World, European and national championships almost never take place in the end of year, and all take place in the start of year? So, if Winter Olympics take place in February and March, and previously in January, why they have never taken place in December? Is it related to the fact that December is warmer than both January and February, and many places such as ski resorts have highest snow depth in February and March? --40bus (talk) 21:12, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ho, ho, ho! You wanna get a lump of coal from Santa? Clarityfiend (talk) 22:45, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

40bus I have no idea what Clarityfiend is trying to say, but the simple answer to your question is Yes. HiLo48 (talk) 22:54, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

40bus certainly seemed to have answered his own question. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:29, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is it that hard to understand that the sports would be competing with some obscure holiday called "Christmas"? Clarityfiend (talk) 00:42, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne were (at least partly) in December. I can assure you that Melbourne does Christmas. HiLo48 (talk) 00:47, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't claim Christmas made it impossible to schedule events in December. I'm only saying that it is a deterrent. Clarityfiend (talk) 19:16, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The threat of lumps of coal may be a deterrent in Canberran summer, but many in the bitter cold global North might welcome the selfsame lumps as an addition to a shrinking supply of fuel.  --Lambiam 23:04, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Others in the global North are wondering why we need strategic natural gas reserves to last a severe winter, when there hasn't been a severe winter since 1963. Not even an average winter since 2013. PiusImpavidus (talk) 16:15, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Getting ready for the collapse of the North Atlantic Current? Might or might not be a big issue for you, depending on where you are: definitely one for North-West Europe.

Of course, other parts of the world might also experience similar issues. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.8.29.20 (talk) 19:33, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That could be an issue, sure, dropping winter temperatures by around 15°C (after going up 6°C) where I live. But that whole collapse will take a few decades and by then natural gas heating will be a thing of the past. It has already been abolished for new construction. Maybe we'll use heat pumps on nuclear power. It would make sense. PiusImpavidus (talk) 20:17, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Governments are slow to adapt to new or future problems: they are always trying to address the last crisis. And solutions requiring large infrastructure or engineering take a long time to plan, approve and build: often they're obsolete before they're even completed. Such is the nature of human society (as opposed to individual humans).

Note that Natural gas is not just used for domestic heating (and cooking) – in the UK, for example, it supplies a large proportion (often over 50% on some days) of the nation's total electric power generation (see here); worldwide it averages to around 23% (exceeded only by coal, which is even 'dirtier') – this will doubtless remain the case for decades, during which supply fluctuations necessitate having Strategic natural gas reserves. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.8.29.20 (talk) 15:37, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well, 2/3 of December is actually in the autumn (northern hemisphere). --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 13:06, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Astronomical autumn rather than meteorological autumn which ends on 30 November - see this BBC article. Alansplodge (talk) 21:17, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ice sports are normally played indoors these days and we can make indoor ice throughout the year. It's cheaper in terms of energy the colder it is outside. When the coldest part of the year occurs varies by place, depending on things like latitude, distance to the sea, wind patterns changing over winter. I expect most northern hemisphere places to reach their lowest temperature in January.

More relevant are the snow sports, as they need snow outside. Maximum snowdepth is reached when melting begins. When this is varies regionally, but also by elevation. And it gets earlier in the changing climate. Although the skiing season gets shorter, the build-up of snow goes faster, as precipitation increases with warmer seas. PiusImpavidus (talk) 17:03, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Detective Conan Episode 418 (14:31-14:56). Please, can you help me to find the type of sword of that Chinese antique shop's owner, and the name of the statue's face? You can see also these three files: 1, 2, 3. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.117.2.188 (talk) 08:56, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The sword looks like a 大刀 (dàdāo).  --Lambiam 11:04, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Can you find even for the statue? Maybe it could be a Tibetan dog lion statue. Moreover, for the sword, its handle has red, blue and green ribbons: what is those three colors meaning for a sword in China? 80.116.148.210 (talk) 11:27, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please, can you answer my questions? 79.41.196.203 (talk) 16:33, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's very difficult to answer. Most explicit references will usually assert that the colors depend on the owner's choice in accordance to their own discipline and which set of symbolic rules they elaborated about it, unless in a military context in which case you may guess that the rules are basically the same. Other than that I only found this page which explains that "The Chinese rarely use multiple colors", so perhaps the owner of that sword (future owner perhaps) is not Chinese. --Askedonty (talk) 11:58, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Can you search also for the statue, so it's closed? 79.41.238.198 (talk) 12:14, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Suspension of disbelief is a theory how people might not see unrealistic elements of a work of fiction to get entertained. But I think even more relevant for films is another effect: The work of art keeps people so busy and excited that they do not have the time to think about inconsistencies and elements out of touch with reality. Example: In the canyon fight scene in Top Gun: Maverick, Maverick says: "We gotta get low. The terrain will confuse his targeting system." This would not be the case in reality against a 5th generation fighter targeting system, but 99% of the audience simply can't judge that, so it's not the point. But his own 40+ years old targeting system locks on the enemy instantly, which hardly makes sense in context and should provoke disbelief. However the audience is so excited and so busy awaiting the result of the fight - they don't have any time to think about it. Has this effect been named and discussed already? --KnightMove (talk) 15:54, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Aesthetic distance seems related. Matt Deres (talk) 18:57, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Or it's simply a plot hole. Xuxl (talk) 10:24, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Or maybe the writers figure the audience won't care. It's hard to imagine a bigger "plot hole" than the preposterous "matter transporter" in Star Trek, but it's an accepted part of the canon. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:49, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it has been discussed so but arguing the burden is on the viewer there is no burden left even translating the show into lessons if you conclude that in movies it has become about viewers expecting one more demontration of the pygmalion effect, solving itself in the instantaneous weapon lock, figuration of the effect's core self. --Askedonty (talk) 15:32, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Star Trek matter transporter is not that preposterous: scientists have already achieved Quantum teleportation of information, photons and atoms, and within the Star Trek canon it is established that the 'transporters' are not actually transmitting matter, but breaking down and analysing the 'transported' item at one end and reconstructing an exact copy at the other. This is not a 'plot hole', rather a deliberate plot device. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.8.29.20 (talk) 15:43, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Right, it's a plot hole. But I am looking for a term (if it exists) for the technique to keep the audience excited and busy enough for they would not care about that plot hole. Another example: In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the first fight occurs in the shopping mall. John O'Connor runs down the escape route corridor, hunted by the T-1000. The T-800 breaks the fire door and comes to meet them. But why does he do this? It does not even make the slightest sense if he doesn't know they are running down here. And he cannot possibly know. But nobody is concerned about this plot hole, because it is so clear that now the first fight must occur, and the audience is excited to see it - they don't question the way it happens. --KnightMove (talk) 14:23, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

With performing arts it has been discussed, especially with respect to magic: sleight of hand depends on the use of manual dexterity, psychology, timing, misdirection, and choreography (Henry, Hay (1975). Cyclopedia of Magic, pp 495–498. Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-21808-3.). Although with magic tricks one is not expected to completely suspend disbelief, but perhaps long enough to be entertained. Modocc (talk) 14:25, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

For me it was a plot device from my rather poor recollection of the Terminator plots. The AIs' battle came from the Earth's future, so they either might or should have some obscure god-like foresights of when and where to confront the O'Conners and themselves. Modocc (talk) 15:16, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

One might call it artistic licence. On IMDb these are called "goofs", specifically the category "factual errors" (next to "continuity" and "revealing mistakes"). An example given there for the film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is that the opening sequence (dated 17,000 BC) shows what appear to be African tribesmen hunting a tiger, although tigers have never been indigenous to Africa. If memory serves me, in this film — but perhaps it was in a different flick — one moment the heroes are in what is obviously Petra in Jordan, and next they turn a corner and are at the Giza pyramid complex in Egypt, a travel that without artistic licence would take some eight hours by car and a ferry ride across the Gulf of Aqaba to bypass Israel.  --Lambiam 14:14, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Detective Conan Episode 437 (04:43). Even if semi-covered by a picture, can you help me to translate the Japanese characters' which are visible on that book's two pages? Thank you.

Can you do it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.14.233.32 (talk) 15:55, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]