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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords

@glenatron.bsky.social

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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 · 5h

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 · 5h

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

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 7h

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

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 8h

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 · 8h

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 · 8h

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 · 1d

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

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 8h

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

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 8h

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 · 9h

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 · 10h

... 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 · 10h

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...

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 10h

Of course, music from thirty years ago now is the music that was coming out then. 😐

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 10h

At the same time I clearly remember when I first listened to a Michael Chapman album from before I was born and realised that there was no time limit on great songwriting, that maybe something from thirty years ago had more to say than most modern records.

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 10h

I'm very counter to most modern cultural trends but I do try to mostly buy music released in the last twelve months. I buy music rather than streaming but I like to know what today has to offer.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 10h

Another delicious cooking tip.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 10h

I moved to Firefox as this began then to Vivaldi when they started putting AI in Firefox. So far Vivaldi has been great! No problems with compatibility or anything else, smooth and easy transfer, some thoughtful design.

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 12h

"Everybody is twelve" theory entirely supported here. Although even when I was twelve I would have been cringingly embarrassed to come out with this kind of nonsense.

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

I didn't know this fire had happened - it didn't make the news here. What a loss. After reading up on what happened I had to search around to check they evacuated the mules successfully (they did, of course!)

Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 23h

#NorthRim
#GrandCanyon
#Fire
This was really sad to see.
For many miles, everything was burned along the road following the north rim of the Grand Canyon.
Tragically, the North Rim Lodge was also a complete loss.
Nature will eventually recover and re-grow, but not for a generation of humanity.

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Myra! @myrdrottningen.bsky.social · 22h

I'm enjoying new (?) Friends at the table season Perpetua a lot, surprisingly my faves might be Veile and Elena, especially together, they are both girl failures in their own unique ways!

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

The Untamed changed a lot once I realised in the book and animated version modern Wei Wuxian looks completely different and isn't just obviously the same guy wearing a half-mask. That made things make a lot more sense.

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

The thing is The Untamed is a flashback to a critical part of the story whereas this is just showing clips from previous episodes. It's a good show (or at least a silly show that knows it is silly and leans in) but the constant nostalgic clipshow moments are a bit much.

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

We're currently watching The Legend Of Shen Li on Viki and episodes are around 42 minutes, but if they cut the lingering stares to a maximum of ten seconds and all the flashbacks to previous episodes, I reckon they'd have tight half-hour episodes.

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

Working up the cover page for my Game Jam entry - this might be most of the way there. Not perfect, but I only have about six weeks left until it has to be done so good enough may be good enough.

A RenPy title page with an image of some standing stones and the title "Tatterdemalion."

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