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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

You CANNOT tell me that there's 20+ years between these two people. They both look to be in their twenties, maybe early thirties. Best I can come up with after hearing Anca lament the age difference is him being 18 and her 38, which still feels like a stretch? #BloodOfTheDawnwalker

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Definitely, thank you for linking the article! I do have to say though, it reads very reasonable compared to other cases. Generating previews during an iterative process, with the set intent to give the final script to voice actors, is kind of the best one can hope for, if AI must be used at all.

“I think that companies should use AI, but in the way which helps people to work, not replace the people,” he explained.

Before the Q&A concluded, a spokesperson from Rebel Wolves went on to clarify the studio’s stance on AI when it comes to the final product: “I want to make one thing absolutely clear: nothing that's in The Blood of Dawnwalker was created using generative AI. Nothing. People with blood and flesh made this game from the beginning to the end.”

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love finding such remnants of humanity in video games 😁 #TheBloodOfDawnwalker

A wooden barricade with a bright red cylinder labeled "do not use this asset" at the top

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

What does one do on a weekday night in Berlin when they can't sleep? Correct, go out to a bookstore that's open until midnight. At least if their name is Nat. The haul itself also feels like quintessential me: #booksky

"A botanical daughter" by Noah Medlock
"The fabric of our souls" by K.M. Moronova
"John Doe does not suck" by Kathryn Berla
And an enamel pin of a green purple stack of books topped by a cup of coffee

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

A quick google told me these actually originate in Hamburg, so apologies to @winston-yallow.bsky.social & Jan Halwe specifically 🙏🏼 (In my defense, we never had them in the state I grew up in, so I first saw them here in Munich)

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Gotta love being able to show up to work as myself in every sense 💚 If you are at #TwitchCon, make sure to plan a pit stop at the @byterockers.games booth to play some indie gems, will you?

Me and my colleague in front of the ByteRockers' Games booth

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

If we extend this to the concept of death in general, it has to be the "Babe"

Babe - A Little Pig Goes A Long Way movie poster

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I don't think most of these "negative" phrasings are malicious rather than programmers talking in what they assume is a neutral, efficient tone. Obviously, this is not received that way by most people, but that's a core communications problem also called transmitter-receiver model. Two variations:

Shannon–Weaver model
The five essential parts of the Shannon–Weaver model: A source uses a transmitter to translate a message into a signal, which is sent through a channel and translated back by a receiver until it reaches its destination

Source–message–channel–receiver model of communication
The source–message–channel–receiver model of communication consists of four components, each of which is characterized by several aspects

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Ever since I heard that the way we draw butterflies is based on how they look when pinned for preservation, not how they are shaped when alive, I cannot look at @bsky.app's logo the same way again 🥲 (@unsplash.com images for reference, the wings aren't nearly as stretched out as we picture them 🦋)

side-view of an orange butterfly on a flower

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Headed out for day two! By the way, I once again carry two #MtG Commander decks with me, if you ever want to take a break from the conference hustle 🃏 #GodotEngine #GodotCon

two Strixhaven precons, Witherbloom and Silverquill

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Visiting today & tomorrow! 🌷 Don't hesitate to come and say hi if you spot green hair :) #Godot #GodortCon #GodotConAmsterdam #Amsterdam

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

"No duplicates" made for an additional challenge here, but I think I am done overthinking this now? (make your own version ⬇️)

favorite game: dragon age inquisition
best story: expedition 33
favorite art style: zelda twilight princess
biggest personal impact: 102 dalmatians - puppies to the rescue
best combat: baldurs gate 3
overhated: thief (remake)
underrated: infamous second son
overrated: life is strange
needs a remake: dragon age origins
criminally overlooked: strange horticulture
favorite protagonist: horizon zero dawn
favorite antagonist: slay the princess
best soundtrack: darkest dungeon
best multiplayer: monster prom
not usually my thing, but: BPM bullets per minute
turn my brain off: slay the spire
best with friends: tabletop simulator
best retro game: moorhuhn adventures: der schatz des pharao
nostalgic childhood game: löwenzahn
game everyone should play: the stanley parable

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This town can't decide what the current season is xD On Friday, I went to photograph cherry blossoms. Today, I woke up to gigantic snowflakes again.

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I'm not crying out of happiness and relief, you are 😭

Net.Attack() at the top of Steam's New & Trending

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I met @malicedafirenze.bsky.social today! We horsed around and continue to use premade engines. IYKYK 🌈

Me and Alice taking a selfie at the "Horses of Hoofprint Bay" booth

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Still one of my favorite quotes from this game - even in general, to be honest. #TheVeilguard Makes me feel a lot better about my own shortcomings, especially since I know I do good work despite (or maybe because of?) my personal quirks.

Varric: That's the danger in recruiting competent people. They bring more interesting - and complicated - problems along with them.

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Haven't done this in ages, help me through the awkwardness? www.twitch.tv/murderveggie #SteamNextFest #Twitch #WhatHashtagsDoPeopleEvenUseNowadays

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Of course, the exact moment I talk about streaming 🙃 Just in case anyone was wondering if the spam ever stopped. Am I to be flattered that someone thinks the fate of video games as a whole is in my hands? Don't tell the billionaires in charge. (Don't worry, I have tough skin, this is just silly.)

Troll texting at 19:42
"Stop ruining video games you freak or nature. Do your parents a favor and disappear"

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Came across this while deck building: #Expedition33 deck anyone? They even almost got the tagline right 🥀 #MtG #MagicTheGathering

The Capitoline Triad
Legendary Creature - God Artificer
"Those Who Came Before"

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Just learned about something that unlocked a new level of self- and world-understanding for me. The "Double Empathy Problem" with #Autism In other words: Why I originally believed I cannot possibly be #autistic, because empathy comes naturally to me. Just that people misunderstand me a lot, too.

The double empathy problem

The ‘double empathy problem’ is a theory from the autistic autism researcher Dr Damian Milton. It tries to explain why non-autistic people can experience autistic people as lacking in communication skills, including empathy. The theory states that there is a two-way problem, and that autistic people often experience non-autistic people as lacking in these skills too.

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

No, just no. If you can borrow the word "Doppelgänger", you can use "Stoßlüften" as is.

washingtonpost Lüften, meaning “airing out" or "ventilation," is dogma in German households. Rain or shine, hot or cold (which, in Berlin winters, can be bone-numbing), windows must be opened several times a day to exchange stale indoor air for the fresh outdoor stuff.
Ventilation, of course, is part of life in much of the world. Germans, however, have codified it in an especially German way. Many apartment leases contain a “lüften” clause, requiring tenants to open their windows multiple times a day, even — or especially - in winter. German courts have ruled that, absent specific landlord guidance, a tenant is required to open windows twice a day, morning and evening, for 10 minutes each.
The trend has suddenly gone viral on U.S. social media — and, to Germans' horror, some Americans are claiming it as their own, with a new name.
In recent months, wellness influencers on Tik Tok have taken to promoting the trend of "house burping," or periodic
window-opening.

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Sign to buy more books directly from the #IndieAuthor (many have their own online stores!) Ordered a three part vampire series (in EN and with signature) and apparently someone paid attention to my address, because this arrived as well: #booksky #darkromance

Two books from the Chicago Ruthless series by Sadie Kincaid, accompanied by a note: "Hi, we received some German copies + thought you might like them as a thank you for your support!"

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

To be fair, only one of them was mine - got myself the Blight Commander (sleeves & deckbox from my stash, not these packages)

Lorwyn Eclipsed Blight Curse precon
Ultimate Guard purple flower deckbox
Dragon Shield Verdant Catacombs sleeves

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

These are all #MtG pre-orders 😅 My flatmates and I might have a little obsession going on here...

postal worker carrying a stack of boxes from local mtg retailers

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Like I said, perfect forever. This was a fun build!

This year's Lego Halloween Wreath, featuring a bat, pumpkin, and ghost as well as green, purple, and pink foliage.

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Running this, fittingly, in my bat deck.

Batwing Brume
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn if white mana was spent to play Batwing Brume. Each player loses 1 life for each attacking creature he or she controls if black mana was spent to play Batwing Brume. (Do both if white and black mana was spent.)

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

sth tells me I should stow the balcony furniture away

snowy sun chair, wintery garden in the background

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I love kindred synergies that can be used against your opponents, and own way too many vampire decks 🦇 Negative counters are just such a nice way around indestructible.

Gift of Fangs, 1 black mana
Enchantment Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 as long as it's a Vampire. Otherwise, it gets -2/-2.

Vampire of the Dire Moon, 1 black mana
Creature Vampire
Deathtouch, Lifelink

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

That's a lot of purple, guess I got some more traveling to do. Stayed - longer/repeated trips Visited - vacations or conferences

Europe Level 40
Most countries near my home Germany are yellow or orange
A lot of purple further away

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I'm a sucker for merchandise from games that made me feel wheeee (Europeans beware, additional taxes, but for once reasonable shipping)

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Building lego models is oddly relaxing 🦴

a pair of Dalmatian puppies with a TV and bone as accessories

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

They *most likely* meant to include keyword dice like these and got confused along the way

keyword dice, six sided: hexproof, menace, flying, trample, vigilance, first strike

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I snatched up Baldur's Gate I & II this #SteamWinterSale Happy to confirm that this RPG passes my signature "can I have green hair?" check ✅

Color Choices screen
Bright green hair, muted purple armor

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

What a strange (engine) world we live in www.unrealengine.com/en-US/news/u...

Unity developers will be able to bring their games to Fortnite and Unity’s enhanced commerce platform will come to Unreal Engine

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Thank you 💚 I can kind of answer regardless:

Manic Panic Electric Lizard hair color tub

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

A certain @coppolaemilio.com's talk at @gamesground.bsky.social was a trip down memory lane 💭 I spotted a few pieces of my own writing and pet projects (plushies, GodotCon Berlin) that re-affirmed I made some lasting, positive #GodotEngine contributions, no matter what the haters say. #GamesGround

"Building Godot - The Process Behind the Engine"

Godot plushies and their Chinese imposter

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Early @gamesground.bsky.social highlights: A great talk about #SensitivityReading! Just like I keep saying with #CommunityManagement, it's more than a "niche add-on" to your development process. No, there is a real business argument to be made about improving the overall quality of your game 🎮 📈

Demistifying Sensitivity Reading to make inclusive(strikethrough) better games by Jennifer Lufau

Mindmap showcasing different areas of work: adapted language, character design, cultural authenticity, communication check, creative choices, harmful stereotypes, world building

Case study: Sifu by Sloclap
Cultural appreciation gone wrong = appropriation

Case study: LIS true colors by Square Enix
Cultural appreciation

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Staple Nat move: take a laptop to conferences and find a silent corner to... 1. Recharge social batteries for 1h 🔋 2. Schedule some fresh social media content & other community todos, cause this kind of work never stops ♾️ @gamesground.bsky.social #GamesGround

me behind my laptop, peace signing like the typical bisexual

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Met some old #GodotEngine friends who happened to be in town 💙

group picture of Godot people taken at a biergarten

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

My lip is numb and swollen as hell now, but I think they suit me 🦷

angel bite piercings with spikes to mimic vampire fangs

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I tend to forget that I was raised in a Polish home, until it comes to food: grandma's cooking rules 🥟

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Spotted in the wild. Water droplet for size comparison.

a very tiny snail on the latch of a post box, upside down and right next to a drop of water

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

On our end, that question mark leads to this "help centre" with FAQs but no contact option 🫤

screenshot of the Meta Business Suite help centre

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Here's the situation: a #ContentCalendar needs to be filled. SMM and copywriting are handled, but #MotionGraphics need to be outsourced. Think ingame gifs and vertical video content. Ideally, the right person/company for this task is skilled in capturing footage as well as editing. So that...

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