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Pitch clock: bad. Reason: baseball is not timed. It is based on the occurrence of a sequence of events. When those events are complete, the game is complete. Also, why would I want a game to end faster? What else am I going to be doing? It is, after all, a pastime.

Larger bases: strange idea but I don’t see a problem with it. Feels a little Little League-ish.

Runner on second in extra innings: horrible. Again, baseball is based on a sequence of events. These events have to occur in certain ways. If a runner is on a second, the runner should reached there through one of the established events (hit, walk, error, balk, combination thereof, etc.). The theme again seems to be speeding up the ga

I am currently rereading the main ten in order, having completed all Malazan books through tGiNW (including Goats of Glory haha). I can say with confidence that the second reading is better than the first. I make so many connections that I did not make before, encountering favorite characters again is so enjoyable, and I can use the wiki freely without fear of spoilers to learn things that I otherwise could not. After my first reading of the main ten, although a devoted fan by that point, I was confused about many things. In short, I would say that any difficulty that a new reader experiences the first time around is worth it to experience the reread.

If anyone has seen the Robot in Netflix’s excellent re-envisioning of the classic Lost in Space, that is how I imagine the Shrike. Many illustrations of the Shrike don’t capture the grace I feel it has, and the Robot is graceful. You would have to add blades and alter the “face” of the Robot were it to line up with the book’s description but the spirit is there.

In a post from yesterday, a comparison was made between Darujhistan and Istanbul. I realized that I have always imagined Darujhistan in the same spirit as that city, without consciously realizing it until now. So, now I wonder: what are some other real-world corollaries between locations (cities, regions, continents) in the Malazan world and our own world that you may be imagining?

Hi everyone. Spoilers below for all books of the Wheel of Time, so please proceed carefully if you have not read all the books.

It took me almost a decade to get through all of the books, and I particularly bogged down in books 6-11. I do not like it, however, when people are overly critical of authors or screenwriters, e.g., saying that the series should have been much shorter, saying that a whole season of a show should be re-made, etc. I think it is hard to create something, and it is better to be grateful that another human being put forth time and effort to create something that can help us to imagine new ways of being, new ways of seeing, new ways of thinking, alternative ways of beh