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RPGs with RPGs

Do you know if there are any role-playing games (table-top or electronic) which have rocket-propelled grenades in them? 85.76.66.75 (talk) 13:18, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

Per our article, Fallout: New Vegas is an RPG and per this it includes RPGs. (Maybe pump-action propelled rather than rocket-propelled, but to my mind a grenade launcher's a grenade launcher). I expect there are others. › Mortee _talk 20:13, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

According to this the Soviet RPG-7 features in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and numerous later games of that franchise. Alansplodge (talk) 22:37, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

Those small clips you see in the Cinema before the movie starts

When you go to the Cinema, before the movie starts, you see all these different clips from the film's producers/distributors. There are two in particular that I remember: one in which the camera goes inside a 3D rendered pyramid and another in which lightning strike a tree. Could anybody tell me the names of those two film companies/studios/producers/distributors/whatever they are? I've tried searching everywhere on the internet but I don't know where to start because I don't even know exactly what type of company they are and all I can remember are the clips but not the names. Really appreciate any help, ♠TomasBat 16:41, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

Presumably you are talking about trailers. There are thousands of these and it will be difficult to identify the films in question without more information. --Viennese Waltz 16:59, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

No, it's not trailers. Those "clips" would be the logos for the production companies. (Originally a logo was static, such as a mark on paper, but the meaning has been extended to this sort of use.) The one with the lightning belongs to Jerry Bruckheimer Films -- see here. Not sure about the other one. --76.69.47.228 (talk) 17:04, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

The first one might be Pyramid Films. See [1] (theater) and [2] (for home video). Rmhermen (talk) 17:29, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

Those are part of the movie, kind of like credits for the various production companies for the film. And if you later get it on home video, you'll also have the home video producer's logo tacked in front of it. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:41, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

Mystery solved: The clip in which the camera enters a pyramid is from a small film company in Argentina called "Film Suez". Unfortunately, I can't find the full clip anywhere on the internet :( And yes, the lightning one I was looking for was from Jerry Bruckheimer Films. Thanks guys! ♠TomasBat 02:15, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

There must be a term-of-art for those logo-clip-thingies. The same with video games where there can be 3 or 4 of those annoying things that you need to Esc out of (hyper-splash-screens?). —2606:A000:1126:4CA:0:98F2:CFF6:1782 (talk) 18:40, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia's article suggests "production logo, vanity card, vanity plate, or vanity logo" (and also distinguishes between "opening logo" and "closing logo"). (added later: Relatives include sound trademarks, often part of a production logo ... and because I found this particular example creepy). ---Sluzzelin talk 18:59, 27 August 2018 (UTC)