He Who Walks Behind the Riffs
@swordwraith.bsky.social
Guitarist in Owlbear. TTRPGs, SRPGs and heavy metal. Ex-Adamantis. He/him. ENG/日本語 Ok.
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I guess I should do one of those introductory posts now.
I'm Jeff - I play guitar and write songs in the trad metal band Owlbear. You're mostly gonna see posts about music, tabletop RPGs, pixel art and miniature painting. I also worked on some of the fan translation of Sword World RPG sourcebooks.
I'm Jeff - I play guitar and write songs in the trad metal band Owlbear. You're mostly gonna see posts about music, tabletop RPGs, pixel art and miniature painting. I also worked on some of the fan translation of Sword World RPG sourcebooks.
This is just as surreal to me as it is to Leona. This changed the trajectory of everything.
Owlbear broke 100k streams on Feather & Claw in 6 months, this is very surreal to me. We're also closing in on 150k for CttR, and collectively 1/4 million between the two of them????
September 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
This is just as surreal to me as it is to Leona. This changed the trajectory of everything.
Forced to endure the toilet thoughts of Europeans who claim songs like A Little is a Little Too Much makes the new Helloween not a power metal album, while ignoring the existence of a songs like Perfect Gentleman.
You cannot take the opinions of Wind Rose enjoyers seriously.
You cannot take the opinions of Wind Rose enjoyers seriously.
September 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Forced to endure the toilet thoughts of Europeans who claim songs like A Little is a Little Too Much makes the new Helloween not a power metal album, while ignoring the existence of a songs like Perfect Gentleman.
You cannot take the opinions of Wind Rose enjoyers seriously.
You cannot take the opinions of Wind Rose enjoyers seriously.
Saw someone post this unironically and I can't believe I've been notching out Peace and Enlightenment for years now
August 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Saw someone post this unironically and I can't believe I've been notching out Peace and Enlightenment for years now
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Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw
August 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw
I liked it better whan it was the tour hammering home the importance of hanging on to the people who mean something in your life and not the latest round of political accelerationism.
June 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I liked it better whan it was the tour hammering home the importance of hanging on to the people who mean something in your life and not the latest round of political accelerationism.
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People use this thing like a search engine. It is currently dictating public policy.
ChatGPT gets crushed at chess by a 1 MHz Atari 2600
A cycle-exact emulation of the Atari 2600 CPU running at a meager 1.19 MHz is more than enough to utterly humiliate ChatGPT in a game of chess....
www.techspot.com
June 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
People use this thing like a search engine. It is currently dictating public policy.
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Everyone keeps talking about what’s “legal” like that matters anymore
June 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Everyone keeps talking about what’s “legal” like that matters anymore
Haven't posted much here on account of having way too many balls in the air right now, but the Owlbear tour starts in a week:
June 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Haven't posted much here on account of having way too many balls in the air right now, but the Owlbear tour starts in a week:
Calling your shows 'rituals' is just Naruto running for metal bands.
May 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Calling your shows 'rituals' is just Naruto running for metal bands.
Epiphany: As much as I love Gundam, Macross protagonists are ultimateely more relatable for me because they by in large consistent of clueless neurodivergents who love giant robots and music and are incapable of interpreting the most blatant of signals from potential partners.
May 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Epiphany: As much as I love Gundam, Macross protagonists are ultimateely more relatable for me because they by in large consistent of clueless neurodivergents who love giant robots and music and are incapable of interpreting the most blatant of signals from potential partners.
Returning to this account to say that if your profile picture on any social media platform on Al Gore's internet in 2025 involves you smoking a pipe you should be asked to leave. You are neither Sherlock Holmes nor J.R.R Tolkien, so exeunt, pursued by bear.
May 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Returning to this account to say that if your profile picture on any social media platform on Al Gore's internet in 2025 involves you smoking a pipe you should be asked to leave. You are neither Sherlock Holmes nor J.R.R Tolkien, so exeunt, pursued by bear.
Purging all distraction and outside influence till I am reduced to an entity that does but four things - Writes his LANCER campaign, practices his band's music, paints miniatures and snuggles his cat.
May 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Purging all distraction and outside influence till I am reduced to an entity that does but four things - Writes his LANCER campaign, practices his band's music, paints miniatures and snuggles his cat.
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Make sure your RPG battle transitions, scene composition, and attack animations are at least as cool as this Taiwanese DOS RPG from 1995
May 14, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Make sure your RPG battle transitions, scene composition, and attack animations are at least as cool as this Taiwanese DOS RPG from 1995
Rolling up to my Lancer players with an opportunity for them to fight not just fascists, but fascists who believe in the divine right of kings, like:
May 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Rolling up to my Lancer players with an opportunity for them to fight not just fascists, but fascists who believe in the divine right of kings, like:
Ah shit, here we go again. (I'm painting these, not playing them.)
April 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Ah shit, here we go again. (I'm painting these, not playing them.)
Had an interaction witth someone insisting that Citadel makes the only true to metallic color metallic paints in all of miniature painting dom and I am again reminded that hell is other people with your special interest.
April 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Had an interaction witth someone insisting that Citadel makes the only true to metallic color metallic paints in all of miniature painting dom and I am again reminded that hell is other people with your special interest.
I'm sure this cover choice is totally innocuous and has nothing to do with the political leanings of half this band. Anyway, I am once again asking when we can stop pretending Exodus was good and bands can stop trying to remake Bonded by Blood
April 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I'm sure this cover choice is totally innocuous and has nothing to do with the political leanings of half this band. Anyway, I am once again asking when we can stop pretending Exodus was good and bands can stop trying to remake Bonded by Blood
It's the 35th anniversary of Fire Emblem, so everyone should go listen to the song @katyvscary.bsky.social and @thel8299.bsky.social wrote about the first game. Strong opinions on Manaketes featured here. #FireEmblem
Shadow of the Dragon, by Owlbear
from the album Feather and Claw
owlbearmetal.bandcamp.com
April 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It's the 35th anniversary of Fire Emblem, so everyone should go listen to the song @katyvscary.bsky.social and @thel8299.bsky.social wrote about the first game. Strong opinions on Manaketes featured here. #FireEmblem
When 7 people ask you for a slot in your LANCER game, a system which can definitely not accommodate that many players.
April 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
When 7 people ask you for a slot in your LANCER game, a system which can definitely not accommodate that many players.
When I described AC/DC as 'the dumbest band ever', people need to understand that this is a highly contextualized statement and can be mean 'Dumbest band ever (derogatory)' or 'Dumbest band ever (complimentary)' based on the circumstances.
April 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
When I described AC/DC as 'the dumbest band ever', people need to understand that this is a highly contextualized statement and can be mean 'Dumbest band ever (derogatory)' or 'Dumbest band ever (complimentary)' based on the circumstances.
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Every time I decide "Hey, maybe I should engage in TTRPG communities' more and do even the most meagre bit of poking about a Discord, I realize why I do not engage TTRPG communities, because the discourse around game design and mechanics is x10 worse than Death Metal Elitist Discourse(tm).
April 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Every time I decide "Hey, maybe I should engage in TTRPG communities' more and do even the most meagre bit of poking about a Discord, I realize why I do not engage TTRPG communities, because the discourse around game design and mechanics is x10 worse than Death Metal Elitist Discourse(tm).
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Fuck the apartheid state of Israël. Absolutely disgusting freaks.
April 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Fuck the apartheid state of Israël. Absolutely disgusting freaks.
"Humans would do nothing without a profit motive." Tabletop roleplaying firmly disproves this - I just spent 3 hours making isometric maps for LANCER work in Foundry VTT.
April 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"Humans would do nothing without a profit motive." Tabletop roleplaying firmly disproves this - I just spent 3 hours making isometric maps for LANCER work in Foundry VTT.
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I spoke with nearly two dozen creatives and publishers in the tabletop industry today. It's bad. It's real bad.
Tabletop teams near panic as Trump tariffs could kill decades of growth
‘Devastating consequences’ on the way, says trade group
www.polygon.com
April 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I spoke with nearly two dozen creatives and publishers in the tabletop industry today. It's bad. It's real bad.