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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Happy Black Cat Appreciation Day! Here’s Luclin! 🐈‍⬛ Frankly, I think our little voids have a much better rep than in the 90s. Well deserved good rep, too. She’s such a love bug.

All hail Luclin, Mistress of Shadows ! The picture is a black shorthair cat front half. She’s lounging comfortably on a blanket that also has cats on it. She’s looking off-screen at something.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Beheadings are on Wednesdays, so that tracks.

Worf from Picard S3, saying “Beheadings are on Wednesdays.”

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Best STAR TREK captain. Wrong answers only

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride, Norrathians! www.everquest.com/news/eq-prid... Look at these three new adorable clothy-furballs to join the FREE Pride familiar group this year! All previous years' familiars remain available for free during Pride, as well.

An EverQuest screenshot. It features three clothwork 'red panda' models. The one on the left is Erollisi's Openheart Panda (Nonbinary flag colors), the middle is Erollisi's Aceheart Panda (Asexual flag colors), and the right is Erollisi's Freeheart Panda (Pansexual flag colors). The three red pandas are surrounded by a faint rainbow filter.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)

Little Monsters partial movie poster from 1989. Err, I mean Mandalorian and Grogu. But not really. Man... Fred Savage was young.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

In honor of Transgender Day of Visibility… 🏳️‍⚧️

A close-up of a fun-size KitKat candy pack, open, on a gray office desk.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Hey all! I’m not at GDC, but this is #WhatAGameDevLooksLike! My name’s Melissa (she/her/any), and I have over 20 years experience in the game industry, from AAA to start-ups, and from customer service, community, and QA, and now in content/narrative design for Darkpaw Games the past 5 years. 😺

A selfie of a 40s-yo woman with a gray and pink cat-themed bowling shirt.

A selfie of a 40s-yo woman with a gray Daybreak Games jacket-vest over a Kind Co t-shirt. I am at my work desk, with a Daybreak water bottle behind me. I am playfully sticking my tongue out, and wearing headphones.

A selfie of a 40s-yo woman and 40s-yo man, with my hair at shoulder length. I am holding up a FippyFest Staff badge (2024), and wearing a bright blue Fippy Fest staff t-shirt. The man is my partner who accompanied me, and he has a big ol’ fluffy beard.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Caffeine, sugar, still yawning. Curse the “Spring Forward”! 🥱😅

A close-up of a Starbucks venti cup, focused on the order sticker: Vt Hot White Mocha, Triple, 3 Caramel Syrp, 3 White Mocha, Protein Milk.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. We love you for who you are. We mourn for those who lost their lives from senseless violence for being who they are. Continue to be who you are. I'm going to have this guy running around with me on EverQuest Beta today, because y'all will never be forgotten.

An in-game screenshot from EverQuest of Erollisi's Trueheart Panda, a red panda-like and stuffy-like familiar made of patchwork blue, white, and pink, including the transgender flag on its sides. It has the name "Zieri's familiar" above its head.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Fun fact: today was Day 365 of my streak on Finch app, too. 🐥

A cute purple and teal cartoon bird ("birb") with its wings on its hips and smiling happily. The text says "365 day streak", and "Finch: Self-Care Pet" at the bottom.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

My 5 year anniversary on the EverQuest team! 🎉 Thank you, @darkpawgames.bsky.social, for being an amazing studio to work for, with fantastic people. I look forward to many more years of awesome content creation with you all. ❤️ #NeverGiveUp #EverQuest #GameDev #ContentDesign #NarrativeDesign

The back of the shiny pewter fantasy mug etched with my name, “Melissa Comeau”, and “5 years”.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Present community rewards earned for EverQuest! $100,000 - 200% bonus experience gains, 200% more likely rare spawns, 145% more loot, 90% increased coins, 100% increased alternate currency, 200% increased collections spawns, and 75% bonus evolving item exp. Not too late to donate! #ExtraLife4Kids

With leopard-like patterning, this house-cat sized feline is stretching, back low, tail high, and a brilliant indigo blue to match the Extra Life official colors.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Oldest selfie on my phone. 2015!

Selfie of a woman with brown hair and rainbow colored face paint on 3/4 of her face, like a leopard may have been designed by Lisa Frank.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I was *that person* at the gym today. 🤭😅Yrrggllggrrl! 🎃

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Ah, grackle season. Outside every HEB like it’s the store’s personal choir.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

"I was married but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle."

From the movie Spaceballs, it's the RV-spaceship, Eagle 5, floating through space at sublight.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

At least you shouldn't have to deal with this, unlike others.

A Starbucks cup that appears to have the name "Shat" on it. The subtitled text says "Chad".

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Welcome to Shattering of Ro Beta, #EverQuest players! Preorder gets you in, and we'd love to have you. In the meantime, I'm in spreadsheets, so don't mind if I take a bit of an in-game nap while AFK. 😘

An in-game screenshot from EverQuest, with the green-named (GM+) 'Kitteh Zieri the Shattered' in guild <Way of the Feline> in a bovoch illusion, curled up in a sleeping position (feigned death). A bovoch in EQ/EQ2 is a cow / t-rex hybrid. It looks as silly as it sounds. Moo.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Darn temptation. I am supposed to be behaving, Starbucks! Luring people like me back with protein milk. Ha!

A sticker on a Starbucks venti cup that says it is a Vt Pumpkin Spice Latte with the customization of Protein Milk

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

YouTube's being unintentionally funny. (ICYMI, not a real injury. 🫶)

From the YouTube website, under the Shorts heading, the first video displayed (left) shows "What happens if Karlach uses too many Soul Coins..." The second video (right) shows "Paul Rudd's Burn Injuries" with the on-video caption of "I don't know." (Additional context: Karlach is a tiefling barbarian from Baldur's Gate 3 who has an infernal engine in her chest, in place of her heart. Soul Coins make her engine run hotter. Ouchie!)

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Double rainbow action go! 🌈

Looking out over the central Texas hill country, where there is a primary rainbow and a faint secondary rainbow outside of it. The sky is multicolored pink and lavender.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Post a screenshot of your first 5 steam purchases and let Bluesky judge you. From Steam, click your name (top-right) > account details > view purchase history and scroll down. The Dig being the first. I still replay that occasionally. <3 Patricians and Merchants was totally my husband's. Haha.

A cropped screenshot of some old Steam purchases, in order of original purchase, The Dig (July 14, 2009), Mass Effect (2007) (March 29, 2011), Borderlands GOTY (July 10, 2011), Broken Sword - Trilogy pack (August 12, 2011), and Patricians and Merchants (August 12, 2011)

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

A few days late on updating here, but… guess what arrived earlier this week? #GameDev #DevTeamLife @devteamlife.com

Two hardback comic compilation books: The DevTeamLife: The Painfully Relatable Book About GameDev, and The DevTeamLife 2, both by Victor Lahlou.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

“In other news… watermelons.”

$iOS notification: “Apple News Today. On today’s podcast: How the Epstein files fractured the MAGA movement. Plus, life inside “Alligator Alcatraz,” and what a perfect watermelon sounds like”$

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I may or may not have encouraged players to submit bug reports on simple typos (specifically double-spacing mid-sentence) today. One bug thread to rule them all for it, but... 😅 Luff you guys! Have a good and safe weekend! #EverQuest #GameDev

An EverQuest Discord screenshot where user 'Crixx <Hella Darkness>' states: "Zieri spearheading a campaign against two decade old audio triggers" (channel: #the-veterans-lounge, timestamp: 3:59pm US Central Time, Jul/03/2025)

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Oh man, if I could pull off the bangs/fringe these days, I would! 😅 My undercut also presently goes high, which is great for keeping my hair from being a frizzy triangle when down, but not as much room for layering.

Me, a heavy-set woman with hair up in a pony tail, showing an undercut up to the crown. Taken a few months ago.

Me, a heavy-set woman, with glasses on and dark hair down to the shoulders. Definitely 35+ yo mom vibes, which isn’t untrue.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

As a reminder... EverQuest has free Pride familiars/pet-illusions this month! ❤️💜💙

A small patchwork-style red panda with the coloring of the bisexual pride flag. It's name above its head is Zieri`s familiar. The item in question is Erollisi's Boundlessheart Panda, which can also be used as a pet illusion.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The only AI allowed in this house.

Peanut Hamper, a sentient exocomp from Star Trek: Lower Decks. She is facing Tendi, who is facing away from the viewer.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

When game designers intend one thing, and gamers find alternate methods... #GameDev

A young child holds a baseball bat like a battering ram and knocks a plastic baseball off of a tee with the end of the handle.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Post-workout, I am not cute. Not even close. But boy do I feel great. Just restarted Zombies 5K from the beginning after a toe fracture ~6 weeks ago. @runwithzrx.bsky.social #Runner5 #ZombiesRun

A heavyset person in her 40s, sweaty and with sweat ring on her gray shirt, smiling. Still not cute, but strong!

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

A film that takes place where you're from. This is the first film I saw in the theater that I remember everyone talking about it being filmed local. (The first one I recall people simply talking about was... Dr Giggles. Haha!)

The movie poster for Mr. Holland's Opus.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Who else has been banished to the cat room today? 😜 Happy Bristlebane Day, Norrath!

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Happy Friday! I hope today’s the last day of rain because I have plans for the renaissance faire this weekend. Rawr! 🧝🏹✨

A smiling woman with elf ears and brown hair in a brown tank top and skirt, fluffy tail, and sitting at a medieval themed bar top with fish and chips.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

It's... a day today. (Work's fine, family's fine, world is not.) Have a kitteh. Here's Luclin sunning on our kids' craft table.

A short-hair black cat laying down, curled up in the sun, half-way on a craft table and half-way on the window sill next to it.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

The crew of the Rocinante (The Expanse) giving cheers over a table.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

My name is Melissa (she/her pref, any ok). I’m a content designer for @everquest.bsky.social at @darkpawgames.bsky.social. I have been in the industry for over 20 years, most of it in QA, but also CM and CS roles. Been designing since 2020. I am not at GDC this year, but #WhatAGameDevLooksLike ❤️

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The Agency: Covert Ops was the *released* promotional Facebook game based on The Agency (unreleased). It was pretty fun.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Feeling “Basic Bitch” femme today. ☕️

Woman with brown and grey shoulder length hair under a knit cap, holding a chai latte from Starbucks with a smiley face written on it.

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Melissa Comeau @firepuff.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Sometimes I feel just a little OP. (Final Fantasy XVI, Story focus.) 🎮🔥

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