Zebras: White horses with black stripes or black horses with white stripes?

I honestly think people are misconstruing the song to be about suicide when it's really about realizing you've found your place all along and learnt to live and enjoy it.

• Get me some rope

• Tie me to dream

• Give me the hope

• to run out of steam

This is paralleling Jeff's life. He's basically saying he misses his former "dream" life (or that his dream life may be dying) and longs for it to return (and would do anything to hold on to it) and hopes that this longing will "run out of steam" so he can move past it.

• Somebody said

• it could be here

• We could be roped up, tied up, dead in a year

This speaks to the community college itself - that in Jeff's mind it is a depressing end and that he is resigning himself to mediocrity where he feels ultimately trapped and held hostage (because he is obligated to attend to re-assume his former life)

• I can't count the reasons I should stay

• One by one they all just fade away

This is where it gets interesting because I feel it's more playing fast and loose with double negatives than anything else. Jeff has "so many reasons" why (enough that he can't count them) he should hold on to his old life and expectations that he couldn't possibly consider (or enjoy) an alternative. However, the last line shows that the charm of the school, of making real friends/family and finding actual purpose is slowly eating away at those expectations he set for himself and winning him over.

Jeff's arc in the actual show largely mirrors this inner turmoil and eventual acceptance and so I always assumed the song was designed deliberately to tell Jeff's story via a bit of foreshadowing.

"I got them Carl. It took me a while and cost me a lot, but I got them. I only wish you were here to see it, but I wanted you to know we won. I miss you - every single day I miss you buddy - but I know I'll see you soon and hope you're well. Until next time, brother."

For the amount of work you'll do, you can just as easily grind the grout down and re-do it vs trying to save it. You'll appreciate it more as well.

You can lay vinyl on a concrete floor as long as it's relatively flat - it can slope up and down like basement floors tend to do (the vinyl can take slopes no problem) but OPs picture is rough and jagged; I wouldn't do that.

Somewhere, off in the distance, the cross-collab team at VW and Rocket League felt a distinct disturbance in the force.

(This is awesome btw)

Why not go the other way and embed it into a floor unit like a table or TV stand etc? I've seen a few people do it with a glass top and it looks slick as hell and won't compromise your floor.

You could use whichever you're more comfortable with and nothing will happen either way because the brackets are already hitting the stud in two locations. The two non-stud anchors on each bracket are really only there to stop the bracket from flexing/twisting under the weight. I personally like EZ Anchors because you just screw them into the wall where you want and are done. Toggle bolts are very strong but definitely more tricky to do through TV brackets if you've never done something like that before.

To put your mind at ease, I have a 30lb articulating mount on a 100lb TV and only use four screws for the entire thing and my bracket can come out almost 2 feet. Now they are lag bolts (thicker screws) but if you're using the flush-mount samsung kit you're looking at maybe 50-60lb total for the TV and the brackets are maybe 2-3lbs on an install that never moves. You could probably fire two 3" deck screws screws into the middle of each bracket on the stud and the TV would never move. Don't do this, but I want to make you more comfortable with the amount of support you're throwing at this TV with 4 75lb anchors and 4 stud-screws.

I guess I don't understand the vision of burying the projector inside the ceiling - is it a short-throw?

Dude you are way over-thinking this and so is most of the thread (and no one has looked at this specific mount as it's not a normal TV mount). Because it's actually two separate mini-mounts, all you need to do is fire four screws into each bracket in the outside corners.

Now, because the brackets aren't 16-18" long, no matter how you slice it, 2 of 4 screws on each bracket will always go into raw drywall. So, hit up Homedepot, buy the 75lb EZ Anchor 10 pc kit (like $10 tops) and then screw in this pattern (based on your pic):

Left Bracket: Two wood screws into the STAR-highlighted Stud, Two EZ Anchors and wood screws into the Triangle highlighted area to the RIGHT of the STAR.

Right Bracket: Two wood screws into the TRIANGLE-highlighted Stud, Two EZ Anchors and wood screws into the STAR-highlighted area.

This will give you four stud connections across the TV (two per bracket) and an additional 300lb of anchors as extra protection (150lb per bracket). You could just about hang off this TV with this much engineering (plz don't unless you use lag bolts)

This would also be a whole hell of a lot easier if the bracket was in one piece instead of two, but there you go.

A video from Samsung showing you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5-6xrZB_Lg

OP are you not finishing the ceiling off?

that's because acorns and pigs are both magnetic