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Video Games, TTRPG, jokes, voice, food, cocktails, disco, brunch. Black, Queer, Brunch PhD | he/they | Twitch Partner | TTRPG Performer and Occasional GM 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖖🏿 | [email protected] urbanbohemian.com

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Brian Gray 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · Aug 7

Hey y'all, Brian (he/they) aka urbanbohemian here! I'm a Black Queer writer, foodie, streamer, #TTRPG player/performer & GM, lover of comics, cocktails, #brunch, #disco and all-around Gen X geek. 💖🥂🪩

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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 2d

Happy 2nd anniversary to the Steam Dev Cheat Sheet 🥂

LMK if any info is out of date! Good luck with your game 🎮

#indiegamedev

STEAM DEV CHEAT SHEET
Quick access to a collection of best practices & magic formulas:

STEAM CAPSULE
(Your Game)
The single most IMPORTANT element since it's seen the most
Clear
Readable
Game name
Genre
Hook(s)
Hire on artist!

THE DISCOVERY ALGORITHM
Get 7,000+ wishlists before launch
Get 10+ reviews ASAP (positive or negative, just need 10)
The only punishing review status is OVERWHELMINGLY NEGATIVE (the rest are neutral for traffic)

WISHLISTS
About 15% of wishlists convert in the first week.
ALL wishlisters are emailed at launch.
Discount 20%+ to email wishlisters after launch.

SALES ESTIMATES FROM REVIEWS
One review represents about 20-55 soles.
It's the New Boxleiter Number! ~30 is good
So 100 reviews = about 3,000 copies sold.

TRAILER
(Viewers skip through trailers)
Start strong
Omit intro logos
Direct to gameplay
60 seconds or less
End with ONE CTA: Wishlist it or buy it

Made in October 2023

From the author of How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself
valadria.com

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Sam from WayTooLateTV 🏳️‍🌈 @waytoolatetv.com · 4h

Here's your schedule for this week! Going in for surgery on Monday, so BEDCOM 2 ep 13 goes up at MIDNIGHT PT Monday morning so I can go in without worrying about it. Bite-Sized BattleTech EX ep 49-A is up on Wednesday at 7pm Pacific, and BEDCOM 2 ep 14 is up at the normal time, noon PT, on Friday.

Weekly Schedule for October 12-October 18th in gold lettering for YouTube.com/WayTooLateTV -- BEDCOM 2 ep 13 goes up at MIDNIGHT PT Monday morning. Bite-Sized BattleTech EX ep 49-A is up on Wednesday at 7pm Pacific, and BEDCOM 2 ep 14 is up at the normal time, noon PT, on Friday the 17th.

Brian Gray 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 5h

It's SO good.

Brian Gray 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 6h

"And ladies, here's a tip for you. When you go shopping for your [Westinghouse] ranges, take your husbands along. They know real values!"

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Brian Gray 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 6h

"They say never to peek or lift the lid until your vegetables are cooked, so the vitamins can't escape into the air."

😂😂😂

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Brian Gray 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 6h

Starting down a rabbit hole of Industrial and Commercial Advertising FIlms. This one from Westinghouse is a wife and mother needing to impress an older relative and wouldn't you know it, her oven is on the fritz. Lucky for her a neighbor has a new electric oven!

Bonus role by Margaret Hamilton!

" DINNER AT 6 " 1946 WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC APPLIANCE OVENS & RANGE PROMOTIONAL FILM 68484

YouTube video by PeriscopeFilm

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Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 7h

They should bring back American Doctor Who and make it even worse this time.

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tt🪦RIP💀gifs @ttrpgifs.bsky.social · 7h

HEARTBREAKING: Person walks into a new room and immediately forgets what they were going to do.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 7h

Since there's not alt text: UPS is just starting to "dispose" of some shipments from overseas.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 7h

tell me more about republicans being the pro-business party.

www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

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Brian Gray 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 7h

Again, no one is trying to *sell* anyone on the benefits of AI. They're just cramming it into everything we use, every site we visit and everywhere we go, and taking our continued use by way of... existing as consent.

Fucking sucks.

Michael Dashow @mdashow.bsky.social · Aug 19

Warning to anyone who has their art on Spreadshirt.com: They now have a feature where anyone can remix your art and it's impossible to opt out unless you just leave the site altogether.

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI

Spreadshirt is an online print-on-demand store. You can sell T-shirts and mugs and so on. My wife Arkady Rose is an artist as well as a musician, and had a pile of designs on Spreadshirt and Redbub…

pivot-to-ai.com

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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 8h

pivoting to multiplayer campaign

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 7h

Send every ICE employee to the fucking Hague.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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RahRah🫀 @rahrah.bsky.social · 7h

Otterly Yours is a gmless two player single page game about otters holding hands and it's free if you want it.
rahrahstorytime.itch.io/otterly-yours

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Brian Gray 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 8h

Ohhh, those look amazing!

Brian Gray 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 9h

Playing Placid Plastic Duck Simulator and one duck boldly going…

I love when the ducks escape the pool and we get a look at the surroundings. Watch the full video to see the… office chair? 🤔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoHz...

#Twitch #StarTrek #ducks #shorts #gaming

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Brian Gray 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 9h

*snort 😂

Brian Gray 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 10h

On my way to the store, one of the bus shelters that has a digital screen with rotating ads. One was for TRON: Ares with a big picture of Leto and a review from Men's Journal. "…demands to be seen on the biggest screen possible…"

And for a moment I didn't know if that meant the film or Leto.

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Daan | New To Narrative @turbohermit.bsky.social · 14h

Big thanks to @urbanbohemian.com for trying out our silly little deckbuilder! They're extremely entertaining to watch (and very insightful as a playtester), so give their video a watch. ✨

www.youtube.com/watc...

#deckbuilder #roguelike #bibidi

Urb Plays: Bibidi Bibidi!

Bibidi Bibidi! is a wizardcore roguelike deckbuilder where you combine cards in your spellbook to cast unique and powerful spells. Crawl through twisting tunnels and fight maddening monsters to find the perfect build for your wizard. Every turn is a puzzle! https://store.steampowered.com/app/35406

www.youtube.com

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 23h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Brian Gray 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 14h

I sometimes get it if it crosses over your particular hobby or interest, AND YET… you still don't have to post it.

A whole bunch of people were enjoying their day before that spilled onto their timeline. Now they're annoyed or mad at someone they don't even know who will never even see it.

Why? 💖

Brian Gray 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 14h

Whether the intent: doing good, wanting engagement or wanting weird attention…

I really don't think we ever need the "look at this mf'er right here" energy that is posting "can you believe this random person, in a group you're not, in on a website you may rarely visit said a racist thing" here.

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Brian Gray 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 15h

OMG, please don't RSVP for protests or sign up on random 🧊 watch sites.

That shit is how you get put on ActBlue text message begging lists.

EW.

a man is wearing a black sweater and making a funny face .

ALT: a man is wearing a black sweater and making a funny face .

media.tenor.com

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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