Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2011 February 16

= February 16 =

watching tv programs online like online news
Where can Jeopardy that plays for free on local tv stations be watched online via real time streaming? --Inning (talk) 00:16, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't believe it can be done legally in the US. I've been searching on and off for a couple weeks and haven't found anything.  In particular, I'd like to see the recent episodes with the Watson computer but can't find them either.  Seems you and I are in the same boat.  Dismas |(talk) 13:11, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I think the problem is with advertising. TV shows on channels with adverts basically exist to expose people to advertisements.  If the shows were streamed, the adverts might not be part of the stream; the TV channels want to force people into watching the adverts, which is why streams aren't often provided.  In the meantime, there is an answer to the question of how you can watch Jeopardy vs. Watson just a few answers above this one. --Viennese Waltz 13:16, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Yep, the IP said that they found it on YouTube but didn't provide details or links. I've looked using various search terms. I found a number of promotional pieces but not the episodes in question. Dismas |(talk) 13:35, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * It may have been deleted from Youtube for copyright reasons since the IP wrote that. I've seen people get around the copyright issue by pointing their video camera at the TV screen and uploading that to Youtube, but I dunno, that seems like a lot of work to me. --Viennese Waltz 13:50, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Of course, that doesn't get around the "copyright issue",but it might get around YouTube's attempts to automatically detect copyright violations. APL (talk) 14:46, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I always assumed that it would get around the issue. Surely you're allowed to upload anything that you record in your own home (as long as it's not pornographic, violent etc)? --Viennese Waltz 14:50, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Surely not: it's still a violation of copyright. YouTube has removed home videos where the radio is playing in the background because the copyright holder of the music has complained. --NellieBly (talk) 01:15, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * As a smoker who can't smoke indoors, it's really annoying when something I'm watching doesn't have commercial breaks. Hulu.com has them, sometimes, and of course you get them at places like ABC.com. (Pausing an online stream, of course, can work -- but somehow the structure of it, both dramatically and temporally, just isn't as satisfying as just stepping away for the duration of a typical commercial breaks).  WikiDao    &#9775;  13:34, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

I would like to see more on the young film director Brendan Moriarty ...
Brendan Moriarty directed the feature film "The Road To Freedom" and now is doing Kings of Angkor and producing the war film "Mayaguez" in Cambodia late this year. Just google this kids name. Thank you for your time Willie Barela. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bajanvista (talk • contribs) 06:39, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * We rely on published information, and there seems to be little information about him beyond what is in the article which you have already started. The issue of whether he is (yet) sufficiently notable for an article of any sort needs to be considered.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 09:24, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Which Wizardry series game is this?
I remember a much-beloved game from my childhood, I'm fairly certain it's a member of the Wizardry series, but I don't remember which it is. The cogent points about it I remember are:
 * I played it on an x8088
 * It came on a fair number of 5.25" floppies, at least four or five, maybe more like six, it wasn't a CD-ROM
 * The graphics were 3d-like, you could turn and walk around, the graphics were about on-par with Eye of The Beholder, even though due to a lack of distinguishing features on walls it was very easy to get turned around (for a 10-year-old anyway)
 * At one point near the start of the game you find yourself putting rotten cheese in front of a hole to open up a new area due to rat stampede breaking down the wall
 * There was a bell tower of some kind, I remember bats being up there
 * it was AMAZINGLY difficult, at least for a 10-year-old
 * it was not Crusaders of the Dark Savant
 * I don't remember any sort of town or starting area, it started rather abruptly without a whole lot of guidance, with you facing in a room with lots of doors that were immune to your bend bars/break gates ability at that level.

I think it may be Bane of the Cosmic Forge, but I can't find much detail on that game. Any help would be very appreciated 65.29.47.55 (talk) 08:54, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * There's a video here of the DOS version of Bane of the Cosmic Forge. Does it look familiar to you? APL (talk) 15:56, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * It was Bane of the Cosmic Forge alright... oh lordy that takes me back. Anyone know where I can get a (legitimate only!) copy? 65.29.47.55 (talk) 01:11, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
 * eBay! Of course!  It won't seem to let me link, but there are a few copies on eBay. APL (talk) 19:20, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Wouldn't you just know it. Here's the first Google result for the game's title. Zunaid 17:21, 20 February 2011 (UTC)