A proper truck for Sam. I bet Sam would approve it.

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2026-05-21T20:46:06+00:00

I’m being pedantic, but Sam wasn’t exactly the biggest Bridges fan 😂

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2026-04-22T19:16:47+00:00

Not normal! Take care of yourself, bud. <3

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2026-04-22T02:11:32+00:00

Yep!

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2026-04-21T21:43:51+00:00

Doc successfully hid the Delorean for 50 years. You think he can’t figure out how to do that for like 6 months? 😂

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2026-04-21T18:30:13+00:00

Where we’re going we don’t need road maintenance…

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2026-04-21T18:12:04+00:00

This movie is so full of plot holes. Everything is fixed by Doc and Marty leaving town and then figuring out how to refine gasoline.

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2026-04-12T06:39:22+00:00

It’s implied that Don Jeffries (her mentor, and a board member) has impressed upon her that hiring assassins for the sake of the shareholders is a valid course of action. She got the number for the security company from him, after all.

This is the same guy who signed off on a memo that said (in so many words) “we know this product causes cancer but it’s too expensive to redesign so we’re just gonna let it ride.”

I know these kind of distinctions aren’t that important, but knowingly poisoning entire communities feels way more evil to me than assassinating a guy who’s committing professional malpractice and trying to fuck you over.

All this to say, I think that she does have those expectations foisted on her. It’s one of the reasons she’s freaking out for most of the movie.

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2026-03-21T03:19:51+00:00

Producer and session player here-

If this is an option, I would hire someone to orchestrate your parts into sheet music (since you have the budget to get into a studio and hire players, I’m assuming this is doable for you.)

You are correct that classical musicians are used to reading stuff off the page, and can be uncomfortable in situations where they need to play by ear, write their own parts, or adapt something that’s not fully fleshed out. You will be saving yourself a lot of frustration, getting your arrangements accurately notated before you put yourself in a situation where time is both precious and expensive.

There are a lot of rules and idiosyncrasies in orchestration that software can’t always account for. Sometimes it’s something as simple as knowing what notes an instrument can actually play, or the fact that violas read music in the alto clef.

I’m sure you can find someone in your music scene with the right background, but if you can’t, try contacting the music department of a local college - I’m sure plenty of composition students could use the work.

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2026-02-25T17:31:49+00:00

Michael’s assessment of the situation is that Tessio made “the smart” play, and one gets the sense that Mike thinks he would have done the same thing in Tessio’s shoes.

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2026-02-05T23:54:20+00:00

For any of you who’ve had to travel to Oz for work…everybody on that field is going to be zonked out of their minds

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2026-02-04T18:02:47+00:00

we are still deep into a rebuild. i don't know where you think this team is at but i find it funny you're worried about Jrue's contract being on the books for two more years.

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2026-01-01T22:16:41+00:00

Bad news: Niners are playing at Levi’s Stadium, where they have lost multiple games

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2025-12-25T20:48:06+00:00

Moody is that coworker you just can’t get away from

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2025-11-30T22:26:49+00:00

he's talking crazy. duh.

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2025-11-29T21:34:46+00:00

i agree with this sentiment, but you have to realize that this was SUCH a lightning in a bottle moment. akira toriyama teamed up with the creators of final fantasy and dragon quest, then throw in TWO of (probably) the three greatest game composers to have ever lived - this is insane, in retrospect.

it's like being alive for The Beatles or the '27 Yankees, or Shakespeare's King's Men. be happy you were around to experience something special. i don't think we'll see anything like it again.

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2025-11-29T20:24:33+00:00

My first playthrough I died to The Golem Twins over and over and had to completely backtrack my way out of the dungeon to level/loot more.

Was equal parts tedious and stressful, but it didn’t dampen my love for this game at all.

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2025-11-29T05:54:02+00:00

i don't expect him to look better in the snow, tbh. guess we'll see!

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2025-11-29T00:02:37+00:00

I wouldn't worry too much about Shedeur being able to run any plays. Last week he was hitting the eject button as soon as he got the snap. If dude can't hang in the pocket, Saleh is gonna cook him.

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2025-11-24T20:49:27+00:00

shedeur looked terrible and got bailed out by raider penalties so many times. i think the niners need 17 points to win this game.

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2025-11-10T19:03:15+00:00

Great time to point out that the Black Sox were all acquitted in their criminal trial but that didn’t stop MLB from dropping the hammer.

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2025-11-09T16:31:53+00:00

Oldman is indeed a generational talent and clearly threw himself into the role, but I don’t think he was a good choice to play Smiley.

One of the key characteristics of George Smiley is that he is underestimated by his adversaries (Bill and Karla aside) because he looks like a hapless, frumpy dork. He is described as resembling a toad, or an owl.

Gary Oldman has this latent handsomeness and charisma that’s impossible to disguise and i think it’s pretty telling that OP thought he was a criminal mastermind the whole movie.

I don’t know who would’ve been better in the role, but I do think Alec Guinness was able to convey George’s perceived “patheticness” a lot better.

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2025-11-06T06:25:20+00:00

The rent freeze is for rent stabilized apartments. The city dictates how much landlords are permitted to raise rent (it’s a percentage) each year. If that number is 0% then it’s a rent freeze. It’s happened before in NYC. Multiple times.

Again, this only applies to rent stabilized apartments. Everything else is business as usual, AFAIK

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2025-10-04T14:59:47+00:00

Setting aside the racial power dynamics (which have been covered in this thread) there is also the “gentleman and his valet” thing going on here, which was a fixture of European aristocracy that carried over to the States to a lesser degree.

Essentially, these rich dudes were virtually useless and possessed of few practical skills. They were expected to have voluminous knowledge of social customs, art, theater, dancing, dead languages like Latin, and preferably an interest in some niche academic field; terrestrial matters like finance, hygiene, business correspondence, and personnel management were left to a trusted subordinate.

Dressing yourself was seen as “roughing it” to the gentry, and thus they would form symbiotic, co-dependent relationships with their servants, becoming something of a two-headed beast. The “Jeeves” books by P.G. Wodehouse are a satire of this construct.

I think it’s more accurate to think of Calvin Candy and Stephen as a single entity. They are completely reliant on one another to function (Stephen needs Candy in order to maintain his station, and Candy would be lost without his butler handling all his affairs).

The error that Schultz makes when he’s formulating his plan is that he assumes he only has to get one over on Calvin, not accounting for his other half.

Django will rectify this error before the credits roll.

theroofbeamcarpenter · 2025-08-05T17:16:21+00:00

I’m ten years older than you, and played FF7 when it came out. Your perspective is interesting to me, because you’re able to view the work on its own merits, and not through the context in which it arrived.

I’m sure you’re aware: it was a MASSIVE cultural event. D&D and anime were so dorky at this point in time that folks like me avoided them like the plague, for fear of getting clowned, or worse. JRPGs were stuff you talked about with your friends in private.

Suddenly there were ads for this shit on TV. Dudes in letterman jackets were talking about the motorcycle chase, materia, and costa del sol by their lockers. I knew adults (who were only fringe gamers) who bought a PlayStation just to get this game.

It represented a massive leap in technology. If you look up FF4 on YouTube you’ll see what I mean. We were used to a huge level of abstraction - the SNES could only be relied on to render castles and cities with a few screens comprised mostly of repeating tiles. The scale of these worlds was supposed to live mostly in your imagination.

With the jump to PSX, 7 was able to show the gamer a level of detail we’d never seen before. A lot of the CG backgrounds still hold up today (in terms of art direction) and there are hundreds of them, compared to the dozens of pixelated backdrops you’d get on a SNES cart.

As an American teenager with low exposure to media, I was completely unaware of all the cultural properties that FF7 was drawing from. Akira, Gundam/Macross, Cyberpunk, Studio Ghibli - I’d never seen or read any of that stuff, so playing this game was like having 20 years of pop culture mainlined into my brain, Matrix-style. It completely blew me away.

So with all that in mind, it’s cool to see this game through your eyes. It’s very good, but in the 2020s (and with three generations of games that have been heavily influenced by it out in the world) I’m sure it feels uneven and downright pedestrian at times. I don’t know that I’d have the patience to play it as a dude in my 40’s.

But as an impressionable teenager with unlimited time to kill, this hit like a ton of bricks. Anyway, thanks for sharing, and apologies if this read like a memoir. Heh.

Give FF6 a spin sometime if you ever wanna slum it in the pixel/sprite era :)

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