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October 26

Animated album covers! (cartoons)

and I'm not talking about like moving ones, I was thinking like when the band member have been drawn on the covers. :P and not realistically... I saw this cover of one of the albums by Bis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkX0hpfzGi4

and I was thinking! are there more like this? :) I just love that drawing style, not too releastic but not too weird, just in between, it looks more like characters from an old 90s cartoon, which is really cool! Where can I find cartoon album covers? like from the early 00s, and 90s. 80s were probably not were "cartoon like". so uh.. yeah. :D

please list ANY you can find with a cartoon-program feel in it! like, could have been characters on a cartoon on tv. xD

and like THIS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiPyMciRWQQ King Missile III ! something like from RuneScape, that cover is like something a kid playing RS would draw, it's amazing! and his voice reminds me of a RS player! I'm positive there are more covers like that.

thankss 31.209.159.215 (talk) 00:53, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

I think the phrase you're looking for is cartoons, rather than animations which are moving. A quick google for "cartoon LP covers" will turn up hundreds. --TammyMoet (talk) 11:46, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Can anyone identify this board game?

Hi, and thanks in advance for always being a port of call. I'm wondering what the game is called, and if possible the era of the kit. I have a small case & inside it is a set of playing cards, two pairs of dice, plus a cube counter with numbers on it in multiples of 2 x 4 x 8 to 64. There are a set of red and black chips, and some discs in red and white with two cups. Maybe I should have said first that the case opens into a playing board with ranks of alternate red and white long triangles opposite each other to the right and left stitched on a green felt. The case is old and doesn't have a playing grid on the outside, just a kind of woven self-pattern not quite argyle, in cream & burgundy like a tweed. The rest is dark brown or blackish pigskin leather. Anyone? Manytexts (talk) 09:49, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Sounds like Backgammon. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 09:51, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

That was fast! Thanks so much. When was this kind of set popular, do you know?

Definitely backgammon and the cards were probably just put in there to make some sort of game set so that if you didn't want to play backgammon, you could play cards or vice versa. Dismas|^(talk) 10:09, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

(ec) It sounds like you have a multi-game kit, which contains equipment for several games, one of which would be backgammon. (The board and the doubling cube are unique to this game.) The dice and cards can be used for other games as well. Typically, these game sets also included a checkerboard as well, though this may have been lost from your set.    → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 10:14, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

• Example 1
• Example 2

Thanks all, your response is beyond the call and answers my query perfectly. Manytexts (talk) 11:07, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

In the UK, a "Combination-Game-Set" is called a games compendium. Alansplodge (talk) 21:08, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Ever the nerd of whatever I've discovered, I thank you Alansplodge for the icing on the cake. Manytexts (talk) 08:20, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

How I convert 12tet to to 7 tet?

12tet is X*(2^(N/12)), with X usually being 440.
To convert to 7tet I just do X*(2^(N/7)) ? 201.78.130.233 (talk) 13:24, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

See Equal temperament for the relevant article. Tevildo (talk) 19:42, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Does Teller speak in Atlas Shrugged Part II?

75.75.42.89 (talk) 15:12, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

According to our article (Raymond Teller), he has a "brief speaking part" in the movie. Tevildo (talk) 17:27, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Oh, my. I am not sure I want to watch that again to find out! μηδείς (talk) 18:42, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

That's why God invented the Fast Forward feature. :) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:54, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

LOL, a God mention on a Objectivism topic! Excellent. BTW "watch that again" does make me curious how many times μηδείς has watched it. ^{Market St.⧏} _{⧐ Diamond Way} 22:18, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Just once. there was no way that was going to meet expectations without having been a 13-part miniseries done by the art director of Mad Men and starring Claire Danes as Dagny. And that they cast the 50 y/o comedian Diedrich Bader of Drew Carey fame as a 22 year-old genius graduate student in physics is enough for tarring and feathering. μηδείς (talk) 02:34, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

You should do reviews! Love the Mad Men art director mention! ^{Market St.⧏} _{⧐ Diamond Way} 05:43, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Either of Mad Men or of Gattaca. μηδείς (talk) 17:37, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

The Marin County Civic Center makes any movie look better :) 75.75.42.89 (talk) 21:09, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Marin County Civic Center μηδείς (talk) 21:12, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Looks like that's where they'll hold the premiere of the Fountainhead remake. Hopefully directed by Almodovar, instead of Alan Smithee. μηδείς (talk) 21:15, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

King Vidor? -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 00:25, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Really, another question about Franco? Really?

Is Mr. James Franco's worldwide popularity diminished in España because of an unfortunate coincidence with the late Generalissimo? Why else hasn't Mr. Franco (not the late general, the other one) "gotten together with" the Almodóvar hermanos? Is James tied up? Serious enquires only porfa. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.240.77.215 (talk) 19:37, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Have you searched Google to see 1) if (your premise is actually true; and (2) if so, why? Unless someone here just happens to know, you might get better info from searching Google and/or finding a fan forum. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:56, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Considering the fact that General Franco is still dead and there has been one or two generations of Spaniards who have grown up only reading about the dictator it is hard to imagine that the names being the same has had any influence on on ticket sales. At any rate I am not sure how one would judge box office results since James Franco has been in blockbusters like Spider-Man (2002 film) and independent films like Howl (film). Bugs may have the best advice and you might try fan forums like the ones that take place on IMDb. MarnetteD | Talk 20:27, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

This was about a decade ago so MarnetteD might be more right today but there was very much strong nostalgia to Franco in parts of Madrid by the patriarchs and matriarchs of the families. I likened it to how grandparents in the states tell the story of how they survived the Great Depression/Dust Bowl, maybe not held by the kids and grandkids but those in Madrid got weekly or daily doses of it as recently as the early 2000s. ^{Market St.⧏} _{⧐ Diamond Way} 20:58, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the post Marketdiamond. You have point about the older generation but it would still be hard to tie any of that to reaction to James Franco or any of the films he has appeared in. Another thought comes to mind - James is hardly the only person with the last name Franco. If this prejudice existed would not businessmen, restaurant owners, singers, authors and on and on ad nauseum have been affected by it? Is there any evidence of people with Franco as a last name changing them? It all seems very unlikely. MarnetteD | Talk 22:12, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Agreed. ^{Market St.⧏} _{⧐ Diamond Way} 22:21, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

The surname Franco is not that uncommon. The Spanish Wikipedia page for Franco list 11 notable Spaniard people with that surname not related with the dictator.--Pacostein (talk) 00:47, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

I am sure if there were an actor named Athulf Hissler with whom Pedro Almodovar wanted to work the name would not be an impediment. He's an artist. μηδείς (talk) 02:38, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

The Norwegian accordionist Frode Haltli has achieved notability despite his name being an anagram of Adolf Hitler. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 03:31, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

I am sure it goes without saying but...Generalissimo Franco, is still dead.--Mark Miller (talk) 04:38, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Not so sure, didn't I see him with Elvis & Howard Hughes at the Waffle House last weekend? ^{Market St.⧏} _{⧐ Diamond Way} 05:40, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

That would be the one founded by Judge Crater and the crew of the Marie Celeste. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 12:56, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Vinyl records

Are vinyl records still sold in shops or have they moved on the modern age? B-Machine (talk) 21:22, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

My local HMV store has a small vinyl section that seems to have appeared quite recently. This page seems to explain why this might be. - Karenjc (talk) 21:39, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Like other collectables vinyl records go in and out of vogue. In large cities there are usually stores that sell used ones. I seem to remember that sometime in the last decade that some company actually released a new album or two in the format but I could be wrong. Maybe others who watch this page will know. MarnetteD | Talk 22:17, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

I can beat vinyl records. I have what appears to be a Bakelite record of the Carter Family. StuRat (talk) 23:03, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Bakelite records were not uncommon in the 1950's (in the same sort of application as the Flexidisc of later decades), although they're not referred to in our article. An area for expansion, perhaps? Tevildo (talk) 18:23, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

There are still vinyl albums released of recent recordings by pop artists. The last one I personally knew about was The Division Bell by Pink Floyd. There have been many others though and our vinyl revival article goes into some detail about them. Dismas|^(talk) 04:11, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Any decent hipster will still tell you an album sounds better on vinyl and any even halfway hipster-ish band still releases vinyl records. For example you can buy Reflektor by The Arcade Fire on vinyl on their website. Adam Bishop (talk) 04:44, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Audiophiles will simply say that digital recordings are unable to capture the full range of sound reproduced by analog, vinyl records. It appears this is true and why many artist like to release works on vinyl.--Mark Miller (talk) 19:12, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

The Record Store Day article may be of some interest. While it is not dedicated specifically to vinyl, you can see from the lists of RSD-specific releases that quite a bit of vinyl is still being produced. --LarryMac | Talk 13:44, 29 October 2013 (UTC)