James B. Jones

@jamesbjones.com

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Award-winning video game wordslinger | not-so-award-winning author | Oxford comma enthusiast | baseball nut | son of Detroit | DMs [regrettably] Open

All of the MLB mascots post for a photo together - except for Ace, the mascot for the Toronto Blue Jays, who for some reason is never a part of these All-Star Game shenanigans.
Belgium defeated the United States by a score of 4-1.
An image of a Roman statue holding a Starbucks cup filled with blood. The statue pours the blood out of the Starbucks cup. The caption reads: “When your Starbucks cup says Happy Holidays instead of Io Saturnalia”
Jira. It's a screenshot of Jira. Don't get excited; this is from the Atlassian company website. No studio secrets to be found here!
A Topps baseball card of Bobby Bonilla during his first tenure with the New York Mets.
A screencap of Andrew’s post showing that the account being quoted is already blocked.
A headline from Windows Central: “The 'AI Stigma' is real and severely punishes developers": A new study shows how much using AI in games hurts sales, and the numbers are hard to believe”
A tweet from Pope Leo XIV which reads: "Dear writers, we need your imagination, your narrative creativity and your lively thinking. We need these to create spaces of freedom and authenticity, within which divine grace can make the promise of consolation and peace resound."
Much like he did with Windows 11 before hitting a brick wall with Bazzite, James has reskinned Linux Mint to look as close to Windows XP as is possible. It was harder to do on Windows.
A group of men in waders skim the algae from the entirely-too-green reflecting pool in Washington DC.
A two-image meme: Image 1: Eric Andre, labeled “Executives” shoots Hannibal Buress, who is labeled “Game Studios” Image 2: Eric Andre asks “Why don’t we have any games?”
Lois Griffin stares at a bottle of pills. The bottle has a label which reads "iOS 27 Beta," while Lois is captioned with "My Perfectly Fine iPhone 17 Pro"
The transparent green original Xbox.
A cropped image of an Ian Bogost post, which reads: “Sorry for posting, but” Also, I apologize for reminding you that Ian Bogost is a person who exists.
LA Noire. It’s James’s favorite game.
A close-up picture of James’s well-used Xbox console.
James recently re-logged his entire video game library and it came out to… - $19,148 worth of old games. - $5,627 worth of old game hardware - $2,115 worth of peripherals - $470 worth of amiibo, Disney Infinity, and LEGO Dimensions sets
The 2008 Tennessee Congressional Map, showing how Democrats had five of the state's nine congressional districts.
An edited Burger King ad replacing "Burger King" with the opening text to Master & Commander: Far Side of the World. "April - 1805 Napoleon is Master of Europe Only the British Fleet Stands Before Him Oceans Are Now Battlefields"
A high-res version of the drawing of a man in a yellow shirt pointing intensely at the reflection in his own mirror.
In addition to being on a number of anti-AI lists, James is also on a list of people compiled by one Abbey St. Brendan called “Just Insufferable.” This amused James immensely.
James wears his spectacles while also being adorned in a yellow and black plaid shirt and black undershirt. His hairline is… respecting his face’s boundaries. Yeah. That’s the ticket.
The famous Predator handshake meme. One arm is labeled "Muslims," the other is labeled "Catholics." Where their hands meet, the caption: "This fuckin' Trump Guy..."
In Starfield, you can find juice boxes of beer - complete with sippy straw!
Ballister Boldheart (Riz Ahmed) and Nimona (Chloë Grace Moretz), the two leads of the film.
Two men look at each other, a patient and a doctor: Doctor: “Your blood pressure is 420/69” Me: “Oh hell yeah.” Doctor: “You’re definitely gonna die.” Me: “OH HELL YEAH”
As James said in a previous post on here: "I've never been big on the "business" of game development but in the past three years I have really, truly come to resent what "the money people" have turned this industry into."
Using the Pokopia Font Generator, James wrote: "Put the game on the damn card."
In 2022, while stating his opposition to Joe Biden's plan to forgive student loans for military members, Rep. Don Bacon (Republican from Nebraska) said: "My House colleagues and I are very concerned that the deeply flawed and unfair policy of blanket student loan forgiveness will also weaken our most powerful recruiting tool at the precise moment we are experiencing a crisis in military recruiting."
James showing off NHL 95 on his functioning SEGA CDX, a thing he’s wanted since he was eight years old.
Godzilla wearing sunglasses reminds Donald Trump that bombing Iran “wasn’t very FIFA Peace Prize” of him.
James is appropriating a quote from Los Angeles Dodgers utility player Kiké Hernandez, who posted to Instagram after the Dodgers defeated the Blue Jays: "I'M SO GLAD THE BETTER TEAM DIDN'T WIN!!"
“Additionally, reigning Intercontinental Champion Dominik Mysterio, known for his rebellious in-ring persona and cultural resonance, will participate in a first-of-its-kind integration in which his signature gear will feature DUDE Wipes branding during every in-ring appearance on WWE programming, including Monday Night Raw and various PLEs. The integration debuted this past Monday on Raw, when Mysterio returned to in-ring action wearing his recognizable bandana rib cage t-shirt incorporated with DUDE Wipes branding.”
The ten books James has read as of February 11th, 2026. From bottom-to-top (which, also, is his reading order): 1.) "On Writing" by Stephen King 2.) "The Hearth Witch's Guide to Magic & Murder" by Kiri Callaghan 3.) "It Gets Better... Except When It Gets Worse" by Nicole Maines 4.) "Something More Than Night" by Ian Trellis 5.) "Half His Age" by Jennette McCurdy 6.) "John Brown: A Biography" by W.E.B. Du Bois 7.) "The Dead Zone" by Stephen King 8.) "How to be an Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi 9.) "Hood Feminism" by Mikki Kendall 10.) "Detroit: I Do Mind Dying" by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin
dbrand's latest advertisement on Reddit has the title: "We stole Apple's colors and put them on a phone case." The text in the image, in big, black letters, reads: "Donald Trump is in the Epstein files."
A copy of the announcement of Jeffrey Epstein’s death, dated August 9th, 2019 - the day before he died. “STATEMENT OF MANHATTAN U.S. ATTORNEY ON THE DEATH OF DEFENDANT JEFFREY EPSTEIN Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said: "Earlier this morning, the Manhattan Correctional Center confirmed that Jeffrey Epstein, who faced charges brought by this Office of engaging in the sex trafficking of minors, had been found unresponsive in his cell and pronounced dead shortly thereafter. Today's events are disturbing, and we are deeply aware of their potential to present yet another hurdle to giving Epstein's many victims their day in Court. To those brave young women who have already come forward and to the many others who have yet to do so, let me reiterate that we remain committed to standing for you, and our investigation of the conduct charged in the Indictment — which included a conspiracy count — remains ongoing.”
A screenshot of Bitcoin's market value continuing to plummet, dropping an additional 8.47% in the 24 hours leading up to this post. As of February 5th, 2026, it is down over 41% from its peak in October 2025.
A screencap of a section of the “About” Page for Dark Cloud Games, a game studio in southern Portugal that just… really loves themselves some Satan. On their page, each member of their team goes by an alias. These aliases just happen to be synonyms for The Devil. The screenwriter is “NERGAL,” the designer is “MEPHISTOPHELES.” Further down the staff list is an entry for “Your Mother,” which is neat.
A screenshot of the email from Xbox Enforcement showing that Jeffrey Epstein’s Xbox LIVE account had been permanently banned for repeated harassment and abuse.
A view of "Lover's Leap Arch" at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Munising, Michigan
A photo of James’s copy of W.E.B. Du Bois’s biography of American abolitionist John Brown.
Garth Brooks, outfielder for the San Diego Padres, returns to the dugout during a spring training game in 1999.
A screencap from Caddyshack: Judge Smails, played by Ted Knight, moments before delivering his line: “Well… we’re waiting!”
A famous image of then-rookie David Bote of the Chicago Cubs, rounding third base with his arms outstretched like a child pretending to be an airplane after hitting a walk-off grand slam against the Washington Nationals to give the Cubs a 4-3 victory on August 12th, 2018. Image Credit: Stephen Green
James’s Akko Mu02 with custom Studio Ghibli keycaps.
An image showing that on December 26th James is watching the April 16, 2025 matchup between the Yokohama DeNA Baystars and the Yomouri Giants. The Giants would win this game 5-0.
The immortal General Electric Digital Clock Radio that seemingly every child of the 80s and 90s owned.
A screenshot of James’ phone showing that the #1 item on the TikTok shop is a swastika pendant.
Dan Bongino waiting for you at the bottom of grandma's stairs.
Homer Simpson stands before a board room of network leadership as he gives his list of suggestions for how to improve Poochie, saying: “I've been doing some thinking, and I got some ideas to improve the show. Igot it right here. Uh, one: Poochie needs to be louder, angrier and have access to a time machine. Two: Whenever Poochie's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking, "Where's Poochie?"”
As it turns out, the guy who loves baseball played a baseball game more than any other game on PS5 in 2025, playing 228 hours of MLB The Show 25.
James is holding his copy of “Pro Yakyū Spirits 2024 - 2025” and longing for the menus to be in English
Apparently 6-foot Flamin’ Hot Cheetos-themed USB cables exist.
A screengrab of a bunch of games currently on Steam about Austria's most pathetic export: Adolf Hitler.
The Predator meme showing two men engaging in a burly handshake over a shared opinion. One man, labeled "Spotify Wrapped," shakes the hand of another man, labeled "The Game Awards Nominations" in their shared belief that December just doesn't exist.
A chart showing that James is considered “generally offline” on the “Grass Touching” scale. That is an absolute win!
A screenshot of Beelink's "Drivers and BIOS" page, which has their products listed with such names like "Product Title 1," and explaining what the download is with descriptions like "Description 4."
The United Videogame Workers-CWA account quotes a post, saying "And that's just the ones who feel comfortable saying it" with an emoji of paint being applied to nails. Except the post is deleted. So... who was comfortable saying what, when, again?
Jasper Beardsley from The Simpsons, holdin' his trusty paddle. The caption: "Creating a Generative AI that pretends to be Jesus Christ askin' you for money? That's a blasphemin'."
A clean-shaven seventeen-year-old James smiles at the camera while wearing his Class B dress uniform: a light green button-down shirt with white undershirt, and a black beret with blue unit crest seal - uninhabited, as he had yet to learn his unit assignment.