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January 28

Basketball, out of bounds

As ball is leaving the court boundaries, I hold it with both hands and, with my feet still within the court, keep the ball in play by bouncing it. Since my momentum had dragged me out of court, I return with both feet inside the court to establish a legal position and proceed to dribble the ball which wasn't touched by anyone in the meantime.
Have I committed a ball-handling error? Am I to be considered out of bounds and instead let somebody touch the ball before picking it up myself? Cheers, Splićanin (talk) 18:44, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like double dribble. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:54, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

See this. See Section II b. "A player in control of a dribble who steps on or outside a boundary line, even though not touching the ball while on or outside that boundary line, shall not be allowed to return inbounds and continue his dribble. He may not even be the first player to touch the ball after he has re-established a position inbounds." I'm uncertain whether the officials would classify it as a double dribble or an out-of-bounds/line touch violation, but it's rather unimportant in basketball, as the penalty for both is the same (loss of possession; opponent inbounds at out-of-bounds line where the violation happened). --Jayron 32 19:45, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you both, very helpful. Splićanin (talk) 20:46, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

January 29

Senate

Has anyone ever run for a United States Senate seat while occupying the other U.S. Senate seat in their state? 66.234.210.119 (talk) 04:49, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Why would they? Clarityfiend (talk) 09:02, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Why? For fun, explaining why this question is posed in the Entertainment section of the Reference desk. Presumably, if this is possible and they win, one natural person will occupy two seats in the Senate. Each US state separately legislates how its senators are elected, and we need to examine the texts to see if they exclude the theoretical possibility. I think no sitting senator has ever announced their candidacy for the other seat, just because I think we'd have heard of it as being an outrageously weird move. --Lambiam 11:33, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

(A) Their party would never countenance it. (B) It would cost a ton of money. Clarityfiend (talk) 08:50, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It has never happened. Whether or not it even could is an entirely unanswerable question, as since no one has ever attempted it, the matter has never been put to the test. --Jayron 32 12:04, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As Lambiam notes above, the rules for such things are set down by the states. It may well come down to it being legally prohibited, rather than depending on being put to the test in practice. Since WHAAOE, we must have an article on Laws for the election of U.S. state senators, by state, or at least a group of core rules that all states adhere to, with details of differences in other rules. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 21:45, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I rather suspect that there are no laws covering this possibility because they wouldn't be necessary. The powers that be would never allow one porker to hog the swill of two at the public trough. In times gone by, I would also have expected the voters to become disgusted at this outrage, but then Trump came along, and now all bets are off. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:13, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Run for a seat in another state? No. However, one Senator from one state (kinda) immediately became a Senator from another state, in unusual circumstances. See Waitman T. Willey. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 04:48, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Right - he didn't go anywhere, they just redrew the state lines around him. One guy that comes to mind, though, is RFK, who ran for senator in New York, and won - which led Tom Lehrer to brag that Massachusetts was the only state with three senators. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 08:07, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Or Mitt Romney, who was a resident of Massachussets before moving to Utah (where he'd only lived as a student at BYU) to run for Senator. There are probably plenty of other Senators like that, not even counting ones in newly created states. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 17:42, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

See List of members of the United States Congress from multiple states for all the details. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 22:36, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Prior to the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Senators were appointed by a vote of the state legislature. During that period, it would have been trivial for a sitting Senator to request appointment to the other Senate seat from the same state, since all they would have been requesting is a simple vote from his legislature. I am not aware of anyone making such a request, but if one did, I suppose that would count for the purpose of this trivia question. --M @r ē ino 15:33, 2 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

January 30

Transgression in Games and Play

Does anyone have access to, or a copy of, the academic book Transgression in Games and Play by Faltin Karlson and Kristine Jørgensen, specifically its seventh chapter "Queering Games, Play, and Culture through Transgressive Role-Playing Games" by Tanja Sihvonen and Jaakko Stenros? I need it as a cite in a draft; previously the information I needed was available on Google Books, but the preview has rotated around to one that cuts off before the relevant part, and the Discord server turned up a blank. I only need a fairly short section (half a paragraph or so), so can do with a quote of the relevant part. Vaticidalprophet (talk) 13:57, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If nobody here is able to help, you could try Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request and/or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Role-playing games, which seems to be quite active. Alansplodge (talk) 15:44, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

But if it's a problem with the new version of Google Books (which seems a lot less useful to me), there's a button in "Settings" which says: "Go back to classic Google Books". [1] Alansplodge (talk) 15:52, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Can you give a hint how to recognize the relevant part? (I can see all pages of Chapter 7, 116–129, of the 2019 MIT edition: ISBN 978-0-262-03865-2.) --Lambiam 17:41, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, @Lambian! It should be the paragraph starting with something along the lines of (I'm recalling from memory) the "infamous" or "strongly negatively reviewed" game, with a cite to a review by Darren MacLennan and Jason Sartin quoted as being from 2009 (the date in the book is actually inaccurate, but that's what you'll see). Vaticidalprophet (talk) 02:31, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Can you tell us what you're working on? It sounds like it must be pretty interesting. Temerarius (talk) 20:26, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Here is the full paragraph:

From the 1990s on, sourcebooks started to flirt more openly with sexuality. Some of the edgiest sourcebooks offered hooks for fairly outrageous material, such as “the fourteen inch barbed penis” that Brown’s (2013) group discusses. Yet most RPG sourcebooks do not include any queer content, and even the supplements on fantasy sexuality tend to be quite tame (Stenros and Sihvonen 2015). An obvious exception is the infamous and ridiculed (cf. MacLennan and Sartin 2009) 900-page sourcebook for the role-playing game F.A.T.A.L. (Anonymous 2003), which contains rules for rape and has magic items for impregnation, anal rape, and public masturbation. Even so, it does show that in private RPGs the standards of conduct can be very different and that Apperley’s characterization of “playing with one’s own shit” is at least at times fairly accurate. Such play is interpreted as transgressive only when it becomes public.

This is on page 128. BTW, I did not get the ping since my handle was misspelled. --Lambiam 20:41, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

January 31

Look Back in Anger (1959 film)

Who played Richard Burton's trumpet parts in Look Back in Anger? Thank you, DuncanHill (talk) 02:22, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Pat Halcox. NYT review --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 04:42, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Jpgordon: Many thanks - I thought it sounded like him. DuncanHill (talk) 15:22, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

February 3

Filming

What is the technique called in cinematography when the image lingers in a scene, but you can already hear someone from the following scene speaking? --2001:16B8:3174:3C00:CCF6:EB79:E5E1:72C1 (talk) 03:19, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly a special case of Dissolve (filmmaking). ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 06:07, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It has become very common that the audio transition (not necessarily speech) precedes the image transition, replacing the traditional simultaneity. The director or cinematographer would discuss the effects they want with the film editor, so one would expect there to be a name designating specifically such anticipatory audio transition. --Lambiam 10:04, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It's called a prelap. WP:WHAAOE. --Jayron 32 12:21, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well spotted! I'd just like to add that it isn't a novelty today: Alfred Hitchcock did one in an early scene of The 39 Steps (1935 film), at the cut from the crime scene in London to the train heading for Scotland. --142.112.149.107 (talk) 20:38, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

February 4

Why do modern movies still use orchestral soundtracks?

I've always wondered this, how come they haven't switched to electric music yet? 97.34.65.52 (talk) 02:13, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Because people still don't hate orchestral music? Because electric music (synthesizers, what?) would sound strange in, say, The Lord of the Rings? —Tamfang (talk) 03:07, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Electric music" is not a generally recognized concept. Our article Film score writes: "Since the invention of digital technology and audio sampling, many modern films have been able to rely on digital samples to imitate the sound of live instruments, and many scores are created and performed wholly by the composers themselves, by using music composition software, synthesizers, samplers, and MIDI controllers." What sounds like an orchestral soundtrack may have been produced digitally. Getting a full orchestral sound as in the sound tracks of Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings is probably still easier to accomplish using a live orchestra than digitally. Many film score composers, such as Hans Zimmer, combine digitally and orchestrally produced sound. --Lambiam 04:52, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

By way of contrast, one might try listening to the soundtrack of Forbidden Planet, which used electronic music exclusively. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.200.40.9 (talk) 11:33, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]