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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords

@glenatron.bsky.social

1.3K followers 360 following 9.1K posts

GM and producer and music composer for Crudely Drawn Swords, lead guitarist for The Patient Wild, Game Designer for The Hallowed Walk and Trilogy, Programmer, Horse Trainer, dork-ass-loser and now apparently novelist?

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · Oct 17

I've picked up some followers lately so I'll do a new intro post - for many years I ran a very funny epic fantasy podcast called Crudely Drawn Swords, which you can listen to right now. I'm also a musician, programmer, game designer, horse trainer and apparently now novelist? I'm learning to draw.

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 9h

You're not going to a-TRACTOR agricultural audience with this kind of material.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 9h

A genuinely extraordinary game. Highly recommended.

Heart of the Deernicorn @heartofthedeernicorn.com · 11h

Make a language and then watch it die in Dialect, available on our website! #ttrpgs #ttrpg

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 9h

Cyrano de Bullshit-act.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21h

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 12h

Probably the actual advice that most young men need is that no one finds self pity appealing.

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 13h

A hazy October day, perfect for walking through twisty swampwoods.

A dark pool beneath a tangle of branches.

A mossy tree grows on many trunks from gleaming water.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 13h

It's so fun!

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 16h

Over £3,000! Yes! Who wants to hear of Welsh myths coming back to life to save us. We may even wake up Arthur is the need is desperate enough. If you haven't please back it as there is still 40% to go.

Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 17h

It being a Sunday, there's no update today. Things are quiet as usual. But we do want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has got us over the £3000 mark. Everyone else, why not click the link and find out more. www.kickstarter.com/...

The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd).

The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left.

Art by Josh Arklin.

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 16h

Copying the "delete and redraft" button from Mastodon is the lowest-possible hanging fruit in terms of improving the Bluesky UI.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 21h

I think the Sean Connery version would need two Hs so probably that can be discounted.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

This thread is full of excellent context for those of us not raised in a Catholic tradition.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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mivox is exHAUNTed 👻 @bs.mivox.net · 3d

Three people protesting outside the Portland, OR ICE facility, dressed in inflatable frog costumes, holding a small sign that says “Portland Frog Brigade”.

Over top of the photo is white text reading: “Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."”

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

It would make for a great halloween costume if one could construct a skeleton outfit with a built in xylophone.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

As @davidallengreen.bsky.social might say: Brace, brace.

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OpenAI does deals to make a deal — and the money is getting worried

Plus: how the AI bubble pops

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLvT... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251010-ope... - podcast

time: 8 min 52 sec

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

Indiana Jones and the traps that rusted solid and got clogged up with soil centuries ago.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

Those must be those Backrooms the young folk are so excited for.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

We always ran on Audacity locally for everyone - have some kind of time sync at the start, export the audio as a flac to upload it, record the call as backup. That's the best quality/complexity balance we found.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

The earliest biblical figure that has any historical evidence is a king in the line of David IIRC, which strongly implies David but many royal lines trave their descent to divinity. The scholarship on the old testament is pretty interesting, most of the early part seems to be purely mythical.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

If a historical David had existed he would probably have been playing with a quite different scale to the one we are familiar with.

Which leads me towards a fun idea for a story...

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

These dressed-up comics are so much fun, also Kat's regular daily comics are also a lot of fun - I recommend following her.

ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 2d

The complete comic dressup arc:
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Pt 9: (quoted skeet)

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

Sure but now we have at least thousands more chords that Guitar George must also know!

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

That depends a lot on who you mean by "we" - are there no chords in Indian, Chinese, Indonesian, Persian or other non-western music? None of those are reliant on the western twelve-note scale but they do still build harmonies in their own contexts.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely - we are separating into vast silos and streams, which also makes it hard to appreciate how famous people we've never heard of are and how obscure famous people are - most of the world don't know what Critical Role is never mind who the cast are but they sell out stadiums.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway this chat has persuaded me to finally give "a history of rock music in 500 songs" a try.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

... That's why you tended to see twenty year cycles in musical styles. Now all music is available to everyone I don't think we have that constraint so we probably won't see so many of those revivals.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

I think there's a mix of things but a big element is telescoping context. Pop music is old now! Sergeant Pepper is older today than The Rite Of Spring was when Sergeant Pepper came out. I think it's also less generational - kids used to grow up on their parents music collections...