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December 21

Solo: A Star Wars Story and the Star Wars Timeline

I have a question about the film Solo: A Star Wars Story - how do the events shown in the film fit into the Star Wars timeline? Specifically, are the events of the film supposed to occur before, after, or at some point during the events shown in the TV series Star Wars Rebels? FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 06:04, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Wookiepedia would be the best place to go to research the answer to this question.--Jayron32 23:20, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Our articles that you linked to say that Rebels is 14 to 5 years before A New Hope. And Solo is ten years before. Rmhermen (talk) 02:05, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

There are clues in the works themselves. For example, Darth Maul appears in Solo, then he dies toward the end of season 3 in Rebels. So, of course, Solo had to have been set before that.--William Thweatt ^TalkContribs 03:43, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Soccer stats - red cards

I wonder if there are any soccer statistics databases that chronice red cards? More specifically I seek information on the red cards given to John Arne Riise. 128.39.13.201 (talk) 10:33, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

He had zero red cards. Try googling Riise red cards. Widneymanor (talk) 17:06, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, that’s just English Premier league red cards.Widneymanor (talk) 18:40, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

December 22

is there a list for Japan only released games?

Some time ago I looked at Rhythm game and about a day ago. On the ps4 there was a function, where you can watch people play games. And it was a Japan only game on ps3, during the year 2007 or 2008. Then it was brought on the ps4. (When you press the game info, the ps4 shows you the ps store and it has that short info about it.) While in one part of the video, it had a type of Hatsune Miku presence. But in the game you can see at least 20 of them singing. But not as to love live? And they just sing on a stage, rearrange how the song line up is, like in a V formation, a X, etc. As that's pretty much it. From that video.

And is there a website that I can find a narrower search about it? Or does playstation have some archive of it's game release. Because I just got the ps4 from a friend that's going to the army and he gave it as an early x-mas gift. As that was about 3 days ago. 66.87.69.36 (talk) 02:50, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

Was it Dream Club? Does that come close to the 'you see 20 people singing at once?' Unblue box (talk) 04:29, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

name of a movie

I'm trying to find a movie I saw a long time ago, but I can't remember its name, it's about a man that works in a company that the ceo just dyed and at the end he get to become ceo... sort of, I don't remember the exact details

in a subplot he tries to bang a model that play hard to catch, and he record almost all calls and do lots of questionable stuff

his family is not that proud of people with to much money. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iskander HFC (talk • contribs) 15:00, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

Wild guess: The Hudsucker Proxy? What is the company's business? —Tamfang (talk) 17:02, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

Nop, that's not the film, I don't remember exactly what was the company business, but is more a drama than comedy, I remember that right at the beginning of the movie the boss dies of an illness, possibly cancer, and everyone is like expecting, to try to take control of the company or to get the best of the situation, and the daughter of the boss that was part of the board (they show her as not very bright) get casted aside by the new management.

the man record almost all conversations in pendrives... Iskánder Vigoa Pérez (talk) 19:25, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Help finding info about pulp author in Publisher's Weekly, finding promotional images

I'm working on Marty Holland and have some related questions:

• There is a reference to an unpublished screenplay/novel "Scar of Encounter" in The Publishers Weekly, Volume 156, Part 1 (extract here). Could someone access this and report the contents of the article?
• Holland published a pulp novel, "Fast Woman", for which I can find a cover image, copyright extract, and a partial image of the first page (see Talk:Marty Holland), but because pulps were often published under multiple titles, I'm unsure if this is a wholly new work (despite publisher claims) or a republished version of another story. Can anyone find more info?
• Can anyone locate a publicity image of Holland from her film productions? If so, I'd like to use these for the imagebox in her article. I have an image of her from a dust jacket, but am unsure if that passes fair use as a promotional image or not.

Thanks Kellen^T 20:38, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

December 24

sf: phrases as currency

Name the story, maybe by Vernor Vinge. Post-apocalyptic. The tribe uses sacred sentences as currency: I can pay you by teaching you one of them, and I thereafter must not spend it again. (I don't remember if the story touches on how double-spending is prevented, but it's not hard to imagine.) The protagonist is banished for collecting these sentences by eavesdropping. He suspects that the sacred sentences are fragments of the instruction manual for an Ancient machine hidden nearby. —Tamfang (talk) 22:01, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

TV series that played with the "Will they/won't they?" trope?`

Will They or Won't They? is a well known trope of sitcoms. I think I remember a recent show (in the last years) that started off as if they were going to set up a "will they or won't they" with characters spekulating how long it will take but then brought the two leads together within the first episode(s). I just can't remember the name of the show. Any guesses which I could mean? Regards SoWhy 22:52, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

It's no longer "recent", but NewsRadio did this. The execs wanted the male and female leads to have a Sam and Diane relationship, where the romantic tension between them would drive storylines. Instead, the writers deliberately disobeyed and had them sleep with each other in the second episode and derived storylines from the fallout. Matt Deres (talk) 16:14, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

@Matt Deres: Thanks but I was thinking about something more recent. Regards SoWhy 21:20, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

I believe Jules and Grayson got together in some form quite fast in Cougar Town although it still took a while for the relationship to be resolved [1] but I have no idea what their plans were and this sort of thing isn't uncommon [2]. (I mean even the infamous friends case didn't take that long for them to have sex.) There is of course also opposite, the infamous case of How I Met Your Mother? where the thing was supposedly completely answered by the first episode, only for the last episode to reveal, 'well actually.....' Nil Einne (talk) 11:10, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

December 25

Trying to identify a style or technique of picture processing

The following picture was processed in some technique which I can't identify. Does anyone recognize or know about it ? (it might have been processed by Photoshop).

File:Unidentified technique of pic processing, 25.12.18.jpg

An example of the processing technique

בנצי (talk) 17:18, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

It's had its color depth downsampled. This particular effect is called posterization. Matt Deres (talk) 22:07, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Besides posterization, it has some kind of relief filter applied, it could be a texture, or simply a low relief or emboss effect.

Iskánder Vigoa Pérez (talk) 19:36, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

December 27

Narrative sequence of the Hobbit and LotR

What is the correct chronological sequence of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings films? Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 10:37, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Fairly sure it's the same as the books i.e. the Hobbit films occured about 75-80 years before the Lord of the Rings films (discounting the flashbacks etc). Nil Einne (talk) 11:16, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Nil Einne, that makes sense, the opening scene of LotR is Bilbo Baggins' 111th birthday. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 12:16, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Check the opening narration for LOTR. That takes place first. At one point, it mentions that Gollum had the ring in his cave, and that the ring abandoned Gollum, to be found by a hobbit, Bilbo. That's the point where "The Hobbit" is located in the timeline. You saw the meeting of Bilbo and Gollum in full detail in the first Hobbit film, and how Bilbo got to be there and his eventual return home. Cambalachero (talk) 12:40, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

The films aren't very explicit about it, but the books (specifically appendix B) are. They are consistent, except for the fact that in the film Pippin doesn't seem to age in the 17 years between the Long Expected Party (when he should have been 11 years old) and the Quest. This time interval is not completely skipped, as at the end of the film it is stated that Bilbo is 130 years old. The Hobbit is set in Shire Reckoning 1341 (returning home in 1342), the Party in 1401, the Quest begins in 1418, return home in 1419 and they leave from the Grey Havens in 1421. I think the first of the Hobbit films begins with a scene just before the Party and then says something like "60 years before". PiusImpavidus (talk) 10:14, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

December 28

Star India's parent company within 21CF

(I'm asking because I can't find annual reports and public filings from Star India Private Limited.)

I know Star India is a part of 21st Century Fox, but I'd like to know the company's ownership structure so I can find out the parent company within 21CF. Is it a part of Fox Networks Group? If it isn't, is it still a part of Fox Entertainment Group? If it isn't, is it directly owned by 21CF? JSH-alive/^{talk/cont/mail} 18:38, 28 December 2018 (UTC)