James
@lostleftsock.bsky.social
UX, product, & design specialist. Avid hiker. I talk about games, tech, UX, and design.
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For about another 21 hours all our games are suspiciously cheap:
🕵️ Gunpoint is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/206190/G...
🚀 Heat Signature is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/268130/H...
🧙♂️ Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...
🕵️ Gunpoint is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/206190/G...
🚀 Heat Signature is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/268130/H...
🧙♂️ Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...
Save 40% on Tactical Breach Wizards on Steam
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to ...
store.steampowered.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
For about another 21 hours all our games are suspiciously cheap:
🕵️ Gunpoint is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/206190/G...
🚀 Heat Signature is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/268130/H...
🧙♂️ Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...
🕵️ Gunpoint is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/206190/G...
🚀 Heat Signature is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/268130/H...
🧙♂️ Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...
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We’ve surpassed 250,000 wishlists, and we’re just ONE WEEK away from launch!
Help us push BALL x PIT through this final stretch and reach as many potential ball enjoyers as possible - wishlist, play the demo, and tell your friends!
Thanks so much for the amazing support, y’all deserve a Woah!❤️🔥🏐
Help us push BALL x PIT through this final stretch and reach as many potential ball enjoyers as possible - wishlist, play the demo, and tell your friends!
Thanks so much for the amazing support, y’all deserve a Woah!❤️🔥🏐
October 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
We’ve surpassed 250,000 wishlists, and we’re just ONE WEEK away from launch!
Help us push BALL x PIT through this final stretch and reach as many potential ball enjoyers as possible - wishlist, play the demo, and tell your friends!
Thanks so much for the amazing support, y’all deserve a Woah!❤️🔥🏐
Help us push BALL x PIT through this final stretch and reach as many potential ball enjoyers as possible - wishlist, play the demo, and tell your friends!
Thanks so much for the amazing support, y’all deserve a Woah!❤️🔥🏐
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"Watching Nate ragdoll off a mountain like a stupid great big spaghetti man still hasn't lost its charm after so many hours, and there is something strangely soothing about knowing he will eventually crash to earth and begin his journey anew. Mud-splattered. Pride in tatters. But somehow resolute."
Baby Steps has me questioning my entire existence
Why am I doing this?
www.gamedeveloper.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
"Watching Nate ragdoll off a mountain like a stupid great big spaghetti man still hasn't lost its charm after so many hours, and there is something strangely soothing about knowing he will eventually crash to earth and begin his journey anew. Mud-splattered. Pride in tatters. But somehow resolute."
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Learned about “Americanitis” today and now you have to also www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brie...
October 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Learned about “Americanitis” today and now you have to also www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brie...
Combining Baby Steps with the Kathy Rain: Soothsayer soundtrack is the cheeseburger with donut buns I needed. Nate goes hardcore. #babysteps #kathyrain
September 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Combining Baby Steps with the Kathy Rain: Soothsayer soundtrack is the cheeseburger with donut buns I needed. Nate goes hardcore. #babysteps #kathyrain
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Psychonauts 2 is still FREE on PlayStation Plus until October 7!
So you’d better start the download now!
So you’d better start the download now!
Psychonauts 2, Stardew Valley, and Viewfinder are coming to PlayStation Plus on September 2. bit.ly/45RNHwD
September 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Psychonauts 2 is still FREE on PlayStation Plus until October 7!
So you’d better start the download now!
So you’d better start the download now!
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ZeniMax staff lambast chaotic Xbox layoffs: 'It's difficult to work when you're looking at a graveyard'
'I don't care how many times they do it to try and make it seem normal—it's not. The way they do it is inhumane.'
'I don't care how many times they do it to try and make it seem normal—it's not. The way they do it is inhumane.'
ZeniMax staff lambast chaotic Xbox layoffs: 'It's difficult to work when you're looking at a graveyard'
Employees at The Elder Scrolls maker ZeniMax explain how Microsoft's latest round of colossal layoffs unfolded and what they mean for the studio and its developers.
www.gamedeveloper.com
July 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
ZeniMax staff lambast chaotic Xbox layoffs: 'It's difficult to work when you're looking at a graveyard'
'I don't care how many times they do it to try and make it seem normal—it's not. The way they do it is inhumane.'
'I don't care how many times they do it to try and make it seem normal—it's not. The way they do it is inhumane.'
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WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
July 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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Pretty impossible to read CBS canceling The Late Show as anything other than a favor to Trump, coming as it does a week after they paid him off to approve the Skydance merger.
Cool move, I'm sure your numbers go way up when people like me have zero reasons to watch your network.
Cool move, I'm sure your numbers go way up when people like me have zero reasons to watch your network.
July 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Pretty impossible to read CBS canceling The Late Show as anything other than a favor to Trump, coming as it does a week after they paid him off to approve the Skydance merger.
Cool move, I'm sure your numbers go way up when people like me have zero reasons to watch your network.
Cool move, I'm sure your numbers go way up when people like me have zero reasons to watch your network.
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Some figures to keep in mind today as Xbox makes these layoffs
CNBC: "Microsoft reported nearly $26 billion in net income on $70 billion in revenue for the March quarter. The numbers were well ahead of Wall Street’s consensus, keeping Microsoft ranked as one of the most profitable companies in the S&P 500 index, according to data compiled by FactSet."
July 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Some figures to keep in mind today as Xbox makes these layoffs
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UFO 50, our collection of 50 games in one, is on sale for the #SteamSummerSale! A game for every mood (or at least fifty of them).
Includes local multiplayer and ✅Verified on Deck!
🛸: store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/...
Includes local multiplayer and ✅Verified on Deck!
🛸: store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/...
June 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
UFO 50, our collection of 50 games in one, is on sale for the #SteamSummerSale! A game for every mood (or at least fifty of them).
Includes local multiplayer and ✅Verified on Deck!
🛸: store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/...
Includes local multiplayer and ✅Verified on Deck!
🛸: store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/...
How is Microsoft / Xbox so bad at naming things? Who thought the ROG Xbox Ally X was a good name? I can only guess at what the console after the Xbox series x will be called. #xbox #videogames
June 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
How is Microsoft / Xbox so bad at naming things? Who thought the ROG Xbox Ally X was a good name? I can only guess at what the console after the Xbox series x will be called. #xbox #videogames
If you’re looking for cool Next Fest demos, may I recommend Ball x Pit: store.steampowered.com/app/2062430/...
It’s real good. My family will miss me when this launches for real.
It’s real good. My family will miss me when this launches for real.
BALL x PIT on Steam
BALL x PIT is a brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite. Batter hordes of enemies with ricocheting balls and gather the riches of the pit to expand your homestead, generate resou...
store.steampowered.com
June 15, 2025 at 1:50 AM
If you’re looking for cool Next Fest demos, may I recommend Ball x Pit: store.steampowered.com/app/2062430/...
It’s real good. My family will miss me when this launches for real.
It’s real good. My family will miss me when this launches for real.
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Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park 😲😲😲, situated on the Arizona-Utah border in the southwestern United States, is a breathtaking landscape renowned for its iconic sandstone formations. Managed by the Navajo Nation, this park holds profound cultural and spiritual significance for the Navajo people.
March 27, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park 😲😲😲, situated on the Arizona-Utah border in the southwestern United States, is a breathtaking landscape renowned for its iconic sandstone formations. Managed by the Navajo Nation, this park holds profound cultural and spiritual significance for the Navajo people.
What awful UX this is from @metacritic.com - the score is only two numbers and you need to truncate it? Even when plenty of room available. I assume this dark pattern is so you click in. Just terrible. #design #webdesign #ux
May 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
What awful UX this is from @metacritic.com - the score is only two numbers and you need to truncate it? Even when plenty of room available. I assume this dark pattern is so you click in. Just terrible. #design #webdesign #ux
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If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”
May 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”
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Hey it's another one of those inevitable things turning out to not be.
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars.
Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses. Real buttons are sooooooo back baby!
Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses. Real buttons are sooooooo back baby!
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its sen...
www.wired.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Hey it's another one of those inevitable things turning out to not be.
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British devs at morning standup be like
EarlyStartup.Init()
EarlyStartup.Init()
May 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
British devs at morning standup be like
EarlyStartup.Init()
EarlyStartup.Init()
Lab Rat is a really great puzzle game. Very silly too - though I think it would be better without the Dev Comm parts, which can get a little grating. Just let SARA test! #videogames #indiegames
May 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Lab Rat is a really great puzzle game. Very silly too - though I think it would be better without the Dev Comm parts, which can get a little grating. Just let SARA test! #videogames #indiegames
@diregoldfish.bsky.social I chuckled on puzzle 1.8 when ideas labeled “irredeemable trash” were only one tick below “Activision”.
May 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
@diregoldfish.bsky.social I chuckled on puzzle 1.8 when ideas labeled “irredeemable trash” were only one tick below “Activision”.
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polygon and giant bomb dead in the same week is just unfathomable
May 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
polygon and giant bomb dead in the same week is just unfathomable
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And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
April 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.