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Metanet Software Inc. @metanetsoftware.com · 25/09/2026

We'll be streaming some more N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO playtesting on Sunday, at 3pm EST -- and there are plenty of archived streams if you'd like to get a taste immediately. ;) www.twitch.tv/metanet_soft...

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Small game developer based in Montreal, QC, Canada. We just announced N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO! Wishlist it on Steam now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040020/N_PLUS_INFINITY_TIMES_TWO/ You pro...

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 15/09/2026

We have decades, literally decades of evidence that privatisation not only doesn’t work it makes things more expensive and worse as profits get siphoned off. There is no “competition” in airports!!! If I want to fly international out of Toronto you have to fly out of Pearson!!!

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Mare Sheppard @maresheppard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Such an honour for one of our games to be mentioned among the greats in this list! ❤️

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Metanet Software Inc. @metanetsoftware.com · 13/09/2026

ICYMI: we're doing a sneak-preview playtest of the brand new, very fun (if we do say so ourselves (and: we do!)) Team Tag game mode that's part of N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO. Tune in approximately 4 hours from now to get your mind blown! ;)

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Metanet Software Inc. @metanetsoftware.com · 12/09/2026

Sad because you missed this on Friday? Don't be -- we're doing it again!! Tomorrow (Sunday), at 3pm EST. See you there/then. <3 p.s - please wishlist N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3040020/... p.p.s - already wishlisted it? Tell a friend! ;)

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N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO on Steam

5 fresh flavors of world-class online mayhem, from Friendship-Testing™ Co-op to Friendship-Ending™ Competitive, plus classic singleplayer. Run around with friends, lure enemies into opponents, make th...

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Metanet Software Inc. @metanetsoftware.com · 11/09/2026

This is happening in just under 2 hours! See you soonish. ;)

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Metanet Software Inc. @metanetsoftware.com · 10/09/2026

Want a sneak peak at Team Tag, a 2-on-2 parkour platforming battle mode that's part of N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO? Tune in tomorrow (Friday) at 3pm EST for an early playtest stream. :D www.twitch.tv/metanet_soft...

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I wrote about AI, our relationship to pain and to comfort, and about why writing should hurt johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/writing-sh...

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Writing Should Hurt

On our relationship to pain and creativity

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026

werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)

Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

dear god.. a flavor scientist at the Cheetos factory has published a blog post saying no one is prepared for how "dangerously cheesy" they are

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 03/09/2026

Takes less than 90 seconds, and it’s the best thing you’ll do today if you’re a Canadian.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Andrew 💻📚☕ @andrewdys.art · 02/09/2026

"an art form doesn't grow at the center, it grows at the edges" 👏👏👏

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Cycle Fun Montreal @cyclefunmontreal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Who will be the 1st cyclist to die on a Toronto street where a bike lane was torn out bc Ontario govt's "war on bikes"? Remember: the 2014 death of Mathilde Blais in Montreal spurred the development & implementation of the Montreal's REV gap-free protected-bike-lane-network on major artery streets.

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 03/09/2026

Meanwhile in Toronto we’re ripping the fucking bike lanes out

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Metanet Software Inc. @metanetsoftware.com · 31/08/2026

And that's a wrap for our first appearance at Gamescom! 😅Thank you to everyone who came to check out the game, we're so glad you had a good time.🔥 And thanks again to Otto & Leo who showed N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO so well! Don't forget to wishlist on Steam ❤️ store.steampowered.com/app/3040020/...

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Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

N Plus Infinity Times Two is the first party game in the N plus series and it's a fucking banger. Pretty straight forward, you pick up the controller and play some quick rounds.

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Metanet Software Inc. @metanetsoftware.com · 27/08/2026

N PLUS INFINITY TIMES GAMESCOM 2026! Hall 10.2, Indies of the Americas booth. If you're there, you gotta get your hands on this. Go early, we've heard there may be a line! ;) Big thanks to Otto and Leo for doing such an incredible job showing the game off to the crowds :D #gamescom #indiegames

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Metanet Software Inc. @metanetsoftware.com · 19/08/2026

Going to Gamescom 2026? Well you're going to want to get yourself to the Indie Hall (Indies of the Americas booth) and be among the first people to try out N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO (and check out our beautifully colourful signage)! Tell your friends! :D Danke ;)

A colourful vinyl banner of N+ INFINITY x2 is being printed -- visible are an array of bright, leaping ninjas, and the logos for both Metanet Software and the game.

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Indie STAMPede Quest ➡️ gamescom @indiestampede.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

📢The Indie STAMPede Quest welcomes N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO to this year’s stamp quest lineup at #gamescom2026! Run around with friends, lure enemies into opponents, make the ultimate sacrifice for teammates, and hunt each other with rockets 🚀 @gamescomdev.bsky.social @metanetsoftware.com

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Miguel Sternberg / Spooky Squid Games @spookysquid.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Thanks everyone who attended Engage MTL to play the Russian Subway Dogs & They Bleed Pixels arcade cabinets, and the Goblin Girl Game early demo! Always great seeing folks enjoying the games we created! Also shoutout to Local Streams for a fantastic event and creating the cabinets!

Photo at Engage MTL of people playing the They Bleed Pixels and Russian Subway Dogs bar top arcade cabinets created by Local Stream. Russian Subway Dogs screen is being mirrored on a large flat screen TV mounted above it.

The Spooky Squid Games merch table at Engage MTL. Someone is playing Goblin Girl Game on a little demo station.

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Metanet Software Inc. @metanetsoftware.com · 21/08/2026

We're live now! come join us as we do some more level testing of N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO 🎉

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Metanet Software Inc. @metanetsoftware.com · 21/08/2026

Starting in just under 2 hours! :D

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Metanet Software Inc. @metanetsoftware.com · 20/08/2026

We'll be doing another preview/playtest of Team Tag -- the cool new 2v2 game mode found only in N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO (wishlist it now!) -- tomorrow, Friday Aug 21, at 3pm on Twitch. See you there/then! ;) www.twitch.tv/metanet_soft...

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Miguel Sternberg / Spooky Squid Games @spookysquid.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Engage MTL This Friday in Montreal! I'll be there with arcade cabinets and merch for Russian Subway Dogs (new coin-op version!) and They Bleed Pixels, plus a playable (very early) demo of Goblin Girl Game. Tickets and more info: local-streams.bloomtickets.ca/event/2302?E...

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Local Streams Presents
BREAK ISOLATION THROUGH ART
[four vertical images]
Live Music
[image of someone blowing a saxaphone]
Short Films
[creepy painting of someone holding a perl in one hand and a wad of bills in the other]
Indie Arcades
[key art of the Clawed Girl from They Bleed Pixels]
No Phones
[Cartoony illustration of a man with a beard and straw hat looking at a happy little puffy humanoid of some sort]

ENGAGE MTL
Claire Devlin * Spooky Squid Games * Films from Sundance, The Oscars & More

Engage with the most exciting arts from across Canada and each other - phone-free.

AUG 21
6pm-10pm
$40
MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels)
3680 Rue Jeanne-Mance

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Metanet Software Inc. @metanetsoftware.com · 26/06/2026

RESKEET THIS FOR A LIFETIME OF GOOD KARMA (and one good videogame, to be delivered at some point in 2027) <3

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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“This decision does nothing to change the facts that were affirmed in our original win, and from the government's own effort that bike lanes do not cause traffic congestion, and removing them will put people's lives at risk”

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 15/08/2026

"AI’s Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper Finds" > AI companies are the fossil fuel industry's best friends. futurism.com/artificial-i... And yet so many people I know in tech keep finding excuses to justify not only using the tech but even working on the tech itself

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AI's Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper Finds

AI is giving the fossil fuel industry a major leg up, a new paper has found, indicating its carbon footprint extends beyond data centers.

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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2026 🎉 The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans. Deadline: September 27th More info 👇

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

At this point, anyone advocating for more fossil fuel infrastructure and extraction is just an evil person. There's no other word for it. It goes beyond greed, beyond ignorance. It's just plain evil. Crops are being cooked IN THE GROUND.

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Potatoes ‘boil’ in the ground as record heatwave sweeps across swathes of Asia

South Korean farmers are suffering in record heat, as Hong Kong reports its highest ever temperature and Japan swelters through newly designated ‘cruelly hot’ days

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026

As Leek puts it: "Once prediction shapes the choices in front of us, we lose the ability to tell the difference between what people wanted and what the system made easy to want." 14/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026

In a *stellar* essay entitled "Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same" by the data scientist Lauren Leek, we get a top-notch example of "putting things together": laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperatur... 11/

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Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same

What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

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Metanet Software Inc. @metanetsoftware.com · 11/08/2026

Looking for something really cool to do, to spice up your Tuesday? We recommend wishlisting this videogame! ;)

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Metanet Software Inc. @metanetsoftware.com · 09/08/2026

This is starting now! Come join us and get another sneak peek at the new game 🔥

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Mare Sheppard @maresheppard.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I’ve been doing a daily collage lately — each one is made from some words and an image that feel right at that moment, chosen from a specific group of books/magazines (additionally, I’m trying to find a way to use every part of each bk/mag in the process — it’s a fun constraint!). Here are a few:

Collage in a wire-bound sketchbook of two similar photos of tumultuous water against a cloudy sky opposite each other, with 45 degree strips of black paper containing portions of white English and Japanese text overlaid on the photos and surrounding negative space. Bright Fluo red text scattered across the page says: “the lake calls to the sky”

A sparse collage featuring a rocky beach and ocean in black and white, the far-off horizon made up of negative space. Within that space are words, angled across the page on red fluorescent paper like a poem in three lines: “lobs bombs / Goes home. Doesn’t respond.”

A collage in a sketchbook of three more or less black and white images arranged in a vertical line. Spacewar is in the middle, surrounded by some console screenshots of (unrelated) code. The bright red text meandering across the page reads: “think of fields nearby but fences first”

This collage is the most colourful of the four, featuring photos of trees, ground, night sky and lights, different moments in time of the same scene, rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise and overlaid in chunks vertically along the page. Bright text on red fluorescent paper urges: “Without direction in mind, Walk”

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Metanet Software Inc. @metanetsoftware.com · 09/08/2026

It's almost time for another Team Tag testing session, where N++ veterans go head-to-head in this brand new, super fun (if we do say so ourselves) game mode. Join us on Twitch in about 90min! :D www.twitch.tv/metanet_soft...

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Small game developer based in Montreal, QC, Canada. You probably know us for N and N+, and N++! http://store.steampowered.com/app/230270

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 06/08/2026

We are halfway to the end of the game industry hardship bundle - this is when most campaigns to experience a slump - let's try to beat the trend! We've already raised $160k to help out of work game devs - I'd love to double that by campaign's end. Please share widely! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

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Metanet Software Inc. @metanetsoftware.com · 10/07/2026

TGIF, IYKWIM. ;) Also: please wishlist N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO! And reskeet this! And then make a second Steam account so you can wishlist it again!!

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