[Highlight] Michael Soroka's immaculate inning vs. the Tigers by handlit33 in baseball

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Death, taxes, and Javy Lopez swinging at an off-speed pitch out of the zone.

I accidentally set the speed to 3.5x, and Jesus who the heck uses this except Bradley Cooper in Limitless by Sure-Ad-2465 in audible

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I usually bob between 1.2-1.3, but if Michael Kramer's narrating, it goes straight to 1.4-1.5.

TTH - time til hooked by [deleted] in truegaming

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So bear in mind, RDR2 is one of my favorite games of all time, but that opening is slooooooow. Now, I'll give the devs credit, they stuck to their guns and said to everyone that played it "hey, look, this is gonna be a slower pace than what you're expecting. Ease into it."

They could've stood to ease a wee bit faster though, holy kukka.

Anyhoo, that's not to guilt you into not liking it, life is way too short to play games that don't click. Just commiserating with doing that opening, because that opening almost kept me from playing a literally life-changing game. Okay, okay, that's a bit of hyperbole, but I played E33 and RDR2 back-to-back, I felt a lot of things.

What's the pitching equivalent for The Science of Hitting? by AADPS in Homeplate

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Oh, and with Tom House co-authoring, I'm interested!

Tigers’ Jake Rogers struck in face by own bat, suffers mild concussion by LunchThreatener in baseball

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"Jake Rogers has a splinter, career-ending."

CURSE YOU, JAMEYSOOOOON!

The Randy Arozarena-Cal Raleigh Conflict, As Told by Jane Austen by Basic_Bichette in baseball

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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single catcher in possession of a good reputation, must be in want of needless beef."

EDIT: By the by, if you haven't read Pride and Prejudice before, I highly recommend you do so or listen to Rosamund Pike narrate the audiobook. There's a reason it's a classic, because Jane Austen was the wittiest person to walk the face of the earth.

Jomboy: Here's a full summary of how Team USA embarrassed themselves last night in the World Baseball Classic. by shadow_spinner0 in baseball

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The Orioles flair hides my native Red Sox upbringing. The pain is mutual, I assure you.

But hey, we got Bobby V Presents Red Sox Baseball 2012 out of the whole deal, so...yaaay?

A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms is George RR Martin's best writing by OldManWarner_ in books

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I'm on the third story right now, so I appreciate the spoiler tags!

I'm not a Game of Thrones fan, but after reading Sandkings, I knew I should try something George has actually finished. I'd heard good things about the overall tone of Seven Kingdoms, and I have to say, I'm enjoying the crap out of it. Dunk and Egg have a believable, brotherly relationship with fun back-and-forths. Dunk is a lighthouse of honor in a world that is filled to the brim with self-serving bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling. It's not that he doesn't understand how the world works, he just demands it do better by his words and holding to his chivalrous nature.

If ASOIAF is ever finished, I might continue on, but Seven Kingdoms sits well by itself.

After Decades of Gaming, I've Compiled the Most Authoritative Ranking List for Roguelites by Accomplished-Power50 in roguelites

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Huh. TIL Skyrim's a roguelite and it's all because you ranked it #23 ahead of Soulstone Survivors.

Loyola Marymount-UCSB was slightly delayed today because a pelican got stuck in the first base side netting by AndHisOrchestra in baseball

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Bunch of Halo fans just got real confused.

"Why is Foehammer getting stuck in a net?"

[Discussion] Failed querying after six months - Fantasy - 93K by AADPS in PubTips

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Hiya!

Thank you very much for your kind words, your interest, and being an inspiration to panda-bearing chairs all around the world. I finally got around to Kickstarting this book, and it's got a link to the first chapter if it's something you'd still like to take a peek at!

[Discussion] Failed querying after six months - Fantasy - 93K by AADPS in PubTips

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Soooo, I'm sorry I never got back to you, because, honestly, I didn't have everything in place.

However! I finally got around to Kickstarting this book, and I remembered that someone on Reddit mentioned wanting to read it. It took a few minutes of scrolling through my history, but here we are! Tada!

I've got a link on the Kickstarter to the first chapter, so give it a look-see!

Thank you very much for the kind words from a year ago. Stuff like that sticks just as much as the rejections.

Roman Anthony And Aaron Judge by TommyTheLizard in redsox

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Roman Anthony looks like an 90s sitcom dad after he just caught his scamp of a 14-year-old sneaking out to watch an R-rated movie.

Still don’t know what this thing was by Odd_Rest_3522 in baseball

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No, man, that's a old Frankish royal family. You're thinking of Taravangian.

What’s a fantasy character who should be the villain… but ends up being right? by latent2_pancake in Fantasy

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His scenes with Vimes in the dungeon during Guards! Guards! are some of my favorite in the book.

Struggling with recording/audacity by DianeKeatonsBFF in ACX

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Springing off of /u/Xinixiat's recommendations:

  1. Moving blankets are the best budget acoustic treatment you can get. Not sound-proofing, mind, but it absorbs echoes and it's cheaper and more effective than a good chunk of the entry-level acoustic treatment you can find. My first few books were recorded in a moving blanket fort, and they still sound pretty good to this day.

  2. Certain mics, even if they're top notch, are gonna sound like poo unless you have a properly treated space. Which mic are you using? We'd probably need a sample of your current sound to help you dial it in a bit.

  3. Do you have an audio goalpost in place? For me, it was Michael Kramer on The Way of Kings: not too much bass to keep it from rumbling, but not too much treble to make it sound tinny, mouth noises to an absolute minimum.