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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My big takeaway from learning a bunch of Queensryche for a Halloween set is that nobody on the internet accurately transcribes Queensryche songs and that apparently the average heavy metal transcriptionist sees a chord inversion and is paralyzed.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Would have never expected Wizards of the Coast to touch Dark Sun with a ten foot pole ever again. I would have liked to see Brom come back for the cover art, but I guess we'll see. Now do Birthright, you cowards.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Seeing a musician just openly post 'long drive and low presale. Thinking about cancelling to give myself a break, what do you guys thing?" is extremely high ranked on 'the lack of awareness of what constitutes an inside thought' ladder.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I often wonder if the person who created GIMP ever thinks they created an intuitive, user friendly piece of software. I still use it, mind you, but I do honestly wonder if it is perceived as accessible by its own creator.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

*record scratch* Excuse me what When your fight against the relentlessly imperialist culture-obliterating confederation of nations causes you to accidentally fall in with the fascists. (To her credit, Roxelana's is very 'uhhhh')

A scene from the Fire Emblem romhack 'Drums of War', wherein a dispossessed nobleman says 'Blood and soil, captain, these are our tenents.' to a shocked protagonist.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

What do you mean I have to make more albums, who came up with this

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

George Kamitani talking about porting Vanillaware games to PC has me feeling like I woke up on Earth-9. George if you're listening do this and make Unicorn Overlord 2, but in reverse order

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

1) Engaged in Union busting 2) Failed to catch someone blatantly lifting art from another artist in a card reprint. (Okay, this is MtG related, but also led to exposing how exploitative Universes Beyond art contracts are) 3) Doubled down on turning a TTRPG into a 'live service product'.

Image of a D&D fire giant with the article headline "Chris Cocks says it makes sense to move D&D to a 'live service model, but Hasbro will always make physical books.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Very cool that the West gets to see Korea's most renowned tactical RPG in at least some form after 30 years, but they are definitely making some localization choices for Genesis War.

Picture of a blue haired knight from the Korean tactical RPG Genesis War whose nameplate is displayed as 'Dycus Rockwood'.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I'm horrendous at being active here, but in a week we, the band that never wanted to leave their houses, leave the country to play a festival in Canada:

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"Monetization executive" should not even be a thing, but, lest we need a reminder that there are absolute ghouls with their hands on the tiller in all creative process and their only purpose is to steer it towards profitability at the expense of everything else.

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Premium Vintage @premvintageband.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Rocking the outro to “The King and the Bull” with @darrenkorb.bsky.social ! 🎥 DNA Lounge live stream #hades #hades2 #supergiantgames

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

One more micexplorers scene painted by @louiems.bsky.social and added to the original post below! #ttrpg #osr #mausritter #micexplorers #stockart

illustration of 3 adventurer mice resting around a bonfire lit inside an old tuna can. there is stew boiling inside a thimble hanging over the fire. there is a big rock with a bird claw carved on it. one mouse is lying down just resting. other is reading from a big tome wearing big glasses and the third mouse is roasting a seed, telling a story, wearing an eye patch and a robot hand.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Playing through a complete version of Dream of Five has been every bit as good as I expected, but still feels like a bit of a fever dream. I do get some amusement from the fact that if you take Ioan's old portrait with his new it looks like he's been through some shit since 2012 (relatable)

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Shoulda never smoked that shit, now I'm playing Fire Emblem romhacks again

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

The 40th anniversary of Zelda is all the excuse you need to submerge yourself in classic Katsuya Terada art.

A Katsuya Terada Zelda illustration. Link walks up some dark stairs

A Katsuya Terada Zelda illustration. Link looks at an ancient mural of a dream whale

A Katsuya Terada Zelda illustration. Link battles a shadow version of themselves

A Katsuya Terada Zelda illustration. Link comforts a wounded man in the sewers

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

The 3rd Saturday in February is World Pangolin Day to draw attention to the plight of the world’s most trafficked animals, these magnificent scaly mammals. 🧪🐡 There 8 species of #pangolin in Africa and Asia, all endangered, threatened by poachers for their meat & scales (used in traditional 🧵

My linocut print on black Japanese washi paper in a vertical gradient of copper to green ink of ground, grass and ground pangolin. Every scale of the pangolin is printed on different Japanese washi papers in various colours and patterns.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

If you ever feel bad about the course your life has taken, remember you went to high school with someone who spends three nights a week at the bar bragging about his Draft Kings spread and who also had a period where they tried to make it as a Twitch streamer because they are "Nasty at Call of Duty"

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

On a three hour bus ride and the driver has chosen the 1992 Steven Seagal classic Under Siege for our viewing pleasure. What an absolute hero Is Steven Seagal a piece of shit? Yes. Is everything about this ridiculous movie peak entertainment? Also yes.

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Chris B 🐻🌈 @loottheroom.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

It's a little known fact that the J in JRR Tolkien stands for Jorking It

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Alright I'm gonna resurface here for a bit because I basically only follow RPG, art and Fire Emblem content here and thus do not have to bear witness to garbage opinions about power metal

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I logged in specifically to call someone out for grifting people to buy $500 worth of Warhammer figures because unlike some of their normal marks I actually know the value of plastic, but they have comments disabled, so no point. I hope they somehow see this. Anyway, I'm out again.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

This is just as surreal to me as it is to Leona. This changed the trajectory of everything.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Saw someone post this unironically and I can't believe I've been notching out Peace and Enlightenment for years now

A chart of gibberish, describing emotions associated with a particular frquency (e.g Anger at 150 hz). Please do not take this seriously.

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Evangeline Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

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

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

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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Cran @cranfath3r.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Everyone keeps talking about what’s “legal” like that matters anymore

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

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:

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Calling your shows 'rituals' is just Naruto running for metal bands.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

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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TESTAMENTERROR✙ENJOYMENTERROR @testamentenjoyment.net · 14/05/2025

Make sure your RPG battle transitions, scene composition, and attack animations are at least as cool as this Taiwanese DOS RPG from 1995

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

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:

A picture of Faramir from the Lord of the Rings films, taking place in Osgiliath, with the quote 'Tell him, Faramir sends a mighty gift."

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Ah shit, here we go again. (I'm painting these, not playing them.)

A photo of a box of Khorne Berzerkers, a sub faction of Chaos Space Marines in Warhammer 40,000, on a painting desk.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

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

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Shadow of the Dragon, by Owlbear

from the album Feather and Claw

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

When 7 people ask you for a slot in your LANCER game, a system which can definitely not accommodate that many players.

A picture of the album cover of DJ Khaled's album 'Suffering from Success', featuring DJ Khaled, wearing furs and multiple pieces of gold jewelry, clutches his head and looks, eyes closed, to the ground.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

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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Sluts And Sorcery @slutsandsorcery.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Fuck the apartheid state of Israël. Absolutely disgusting freaks.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

"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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Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I spoke with nearly two dozen creatives and publishers in the tabletop industry today. It's bad. It's real bad.

polygon.com

Tabletop teams near panic as Trump tariffs could kill decades of growth

‘Devastating consequences’ on the way, says trade group

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

"They call us a band because thats what we have to wrap our stacks in" -Katheryn Scary, noted F-Zero Enthusiast

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 03/04/2025

Is executing 15 paramedics & aid workers from short range and then burying them and the red crescent ambulance they were in in a mass grave a war crime? Surprise, surprise, the Western world would like you to think it depends on whether its Israel doing it again. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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Evidence of ‘execution-style’ killings of Palestinian aid workers by Israeli forces, doctor says

Forensic consultant says multiple bullets were used from short range in attack that has caused global outrage

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

"Every band chat is--" Listen if the Owlbear band chat ever leaks the only thing we risk getting cancelled for is having had it set to the Sabrina Carpenter theme for four months

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