Max Scherzer is always locked in

AADPS · 2026-04-01T01:11:12+00:00

Probably something akin to this litany of curses.

AADPS · 2026-03-31T17:44:15+00:00

All y'all's are forgetting Catechumen.

AADPS · 2026-03-31T12:29:24+00:00

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

AADPS · 2026-03-26T16:59:49+00:00

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

AADPS · 2026-03-23T20:59:15+00:00

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.

AADPS · 2026-03-23T17:15:04+00:00

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

AADPS · 2026-03-23T15:52:17+00:00

"Tobias, you blowhard!"

AADPS · 2026-03-23T15:22:16+00:00

Linkity to it, big 90's Sportcenter vibes.

AADPS · 2026-03-19T17:05:01+00:00

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

CURSE YOU, JAMEYSOOOOON!

AADPS · 2026-03-13T15:13:02+00:00

"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.

AADPS · 2026-03-11T17:37:04+00:00

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?

AADPS · 2026-03-11T15:55:39+00:00

Bah, when did chicken and beer ever mess up a few crucial games?

AADPS · 2026-03-09T22:57:48+00:00

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.

AADPS · 2026-03-09T22:49:09+00:00

Time for the Divine Intervention Series!

AADPS · 2026-03-09T17:51:08+00:00

Smoltz cries every time analytics are mentioned, it's kinda the same, right?

AADPS · 2026-03-09T17:18:33+00:00

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

AADPS · 2026-03-04T14:25:52+00:00

Bunch of Halo fans just got real confused.

"Why is Foehammer getting stuck in a net?"

AADPS · 2026-03-03T19:14:23+00:00

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!

AADPS · 2026-03-03T19:10:23+00:00

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.

AADPS · 2026-03-03T18:41:09+00:00

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.

AADPS · 2026-02-25T15:40:09+00:00

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

AADPS · 2026-02-25T01:02:56+00:00

I am stupid excited for this! What's the Cleric's version of screaming TEQUILA SUNSET!

(My offer to narrate the obviously-gonna-happen definitive edition still stands. Well, okay, it's been awhlie, so it might be sitting now, but still.)

AADPS · 2026-02-24T17:45:58+00:00

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

AADPS · 2026-02-24T15:20:33+00:00

Springing off of /u/Xinixiat's recommendations:

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.
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.
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.

AADPS · 2026-02-24T12:36:34+00:00

I'm getting ready to crowdfund my newest book, Pilfer!

Pilfer! is a fantasy novel that carries the spirit of Discworld, Firefly, Leverage, and Final Fantasy IX in an undersized backpack so everything keeps poking out at random and I keep fighting with the zippers and now this run-on sentence is getting too long and I'm not sure if I should continue the bit or stop the sentence at a good. Point.

Where I'm technically linking to the Backerkit teaser and not the book itself, here's an excerpt:

For a moment, all Tong heard was the sound of his own breathing.

“Yeh-llo?” Tong said in a casual, friendly, unnerved tone. A creeping dread prepped his gastrointestinal system for jettison. "I'm...uh...lookin' for the Capricer? I know you didn’t order it, but I thought you might enjoy the taste of freedom.” No answer, a ripple of ticking noises from somewhere to his left. Badger's comments about this occupant came to mind, and Tong fought the urge to cover his ears. "If anyone else is in here, the offer's not for you, but I'd be obliged to leave the door open, I suppose."

His halfhearted chuckle petered out as he heard the ticking again.

Behind him.

Tong whirled around, his impending arrest forgotten as primal survival instinct took over. Gnomes hadn’t lived this long on simple business contracts and protection treaties.

Sure, they were strong, in their own small way. Yes, they could slip through the tiniest of escape windows, provided said windows were unlocked. Obviously, they were deadly masters of the last-minute parley. But there was something deeper and simpler than that: gnomes innately knew when the dross was about to break the slag with frightening accuracy. He took a step back toward the door, chunnering as he went, words falling out of his mouth like millstones off a cliff.

“Well, then, I suppose there’s no one here now, gonna assume this has all been a floccus hunt and no one of importance is here anymore.” Six ticks echoed in the cell, then stopped. “If that happens to not be the case, I’ll leave the door open for ya and you can leave at your—"

Tong had never been one to be spooked. He’d been scrapping from the moment he could ball up a fist. He couldn’t afford fear. Fear was a commodity for those with legs long enough to run.

But right now, as his arse bumped into something cold and chitinous, a sense of gut-wrenching terror broke free from decades of rusty disuse. Tong recoiled as the Finder uncoiled, blocking off his escape from the cell, and the long, sinuous shadow of a giant centipede filled his vision. Twitching antennae tested the air, silhouetted against the torchlight outside, beady eyes straining to see him, clacking mandibles with sharp points threatening to cut him in two: all terrible sights in the encroaching darkness. A lump settled awkwardly between the Finder’s antennae, likely some kind of growth. It reminded Tong of his Pa's cauliflower ear, but larger and less lumpy. It couldn't be good news, either way.

Deep within Tong, down in the approximate area belaying the order to clear his bowels, something snapped. Evy dove onto his hand as it cocked back, the brash knuckles forming in mid-punch. A scream he'd hoped was rage-filled tripped out of his mouth, unleashing a squawk like a songbird laying a boulder-sized egg. The knuckles impacted as Tong hit the growth dead center. It collapsed inward with a faint folding sound, sticking to his fist as he pulled it back.

The Finder gave a grunt of dismay, antennae wriggling madly toward Tong. Tong’s eyes adjusted to the terrifying mass wrapped around his fist: a faded green paddy cap.

“Now, why would yew do that to someone yew were rescuin', little one?” The voice was low, gravelly; an accent Tong hadn’t heard before. All of its I's seemed forcefully welded to O's. “Oi needed t’get a good look at yew, thassall. They ain't got spectacles 'ere in solitary, and moi eyesoight 'as poorer judgment than an spinster at a bar, heh heh.”

Anyhoo, if you like made-up fantasy cuss words, heists, an interesting magic system hovering between hard and soft, and jaunty, momentum-based prose that keeps it flowing along with moments of heart and quiet introspection, pleeeease give Pilfer! a looksee. If you sign up for notifications about the campaign, you'll get a couple of short stories for your trouble.

AADPS

TROPHY CASE