Leif Johnson

I highly appreciate that every time I've accidentally left a personal item on the commuter shuttles over the last five years—so about six times, ha—I've always gotten it back through lost and found.

This is already how games work if you are over 35

Logged into FFXIV to get one last look at my cool beachside house in Shirogane—expecting to cancel my sub because I haven’t played in ages—and there were actually the three people RPing (innocently :p) in there! Awwww! Made my day. Maybe I’ll let it live … I like seeing people enjoy things I made.

Bought Clair Obscur Expedition 33 and went in totally blind. No reviews, no product page descriptions, no tweets, nothing. One hour later: I think I’m in love.

Spent the evening watching The Big Lebowski with Jeff Bridges in attendance. Talk about a memorable 4/20.

My superpower is fogging up the windows of every Uber I get into.

Sending anyone from this country to a foreign gulag, particularly without a court hearing, should rightfully end a presidency. Full stop.

Wow, Blue Prince really opens up once you get the railgun

Knowing it was all done in one take, the final shot of episode 2 of Adolescence is one of the most phenomenal feats of cinematography I’ve ever seen in my life. Wow.

I’m at Princeton University and this meme was just recommended in one of my feeds. Think the algo is basing it on location … lol

So much for nice views on the train into NYC.

I’m at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study visiting an old friend from academia, and seconds after we walked behind the main building, I went “Is that … is that the ‘Oppenheimer’ pond?! IT IS!!!!” Ha, I recognized it immediately.

Was in the neighborhood and figured I’d drop by. Seemed like an appropriate place to visit for the times.

The first video game I ever played (I think)

Seeing a lot of genAI art used in the service of fascism lately

I think my ultimate goal with weight loss is to get to a point where random dudes in the street no longer call me “big guy.”

me & the paragraph the editor wants me to delete

I think it’s OK to ditch the “edge of” talk. We’ve been there for a while.

Democratic Party messaging, 2025

As someone who can remember the twilight years of the Cold War—I can’t believe any American my age or older is fine with this.

Old Man Mode: Activated!

AP could have been cowardly and rolled over for Trump. “We had to comply or we’d lose [funding/access/privileges]” like so many orgs are doing. It would have been easy for them to say “gulf of America” But it never stops there. They got the memo. Good job AP.

Sadly, I have been expecting this since the first term.

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

Gift from a close friend who CLEARLY really knows me well.

I guess, deep down, I should have suspected that (finally) telling my parents I was diagnosed with Type 1 autism would trigger an anti-vax rant … but I was still shocked. These can’t be the people I grew up with.

i just think at this point it you don't see the direct path from gamergate to trumpism then you're purposely ignoring it

I haven’t really played Final Fantasy XIV in two years, but I keep paying my sub because I am one of the lucky dudes with good property and I get the warm fuzzies from reading the many compliments on my sushi restaurant in the guest log. But … I should probably let it go at this point, eh?

Didn’t realize I’d passed this point already. Probably the rarest achievement I have, ha.

When Pac-Man came to San Francisco in 1981, Dianne Feinstein and city leaders (and the @sfchronicle.com!) declared war on video games. Their hysteria has aged very poorly. So many lessons in the Chronicle archive. Gift link! 👾🎁 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

Why is everything so, so stupid?

Wait, the dude who wrote American Primeval was also one of the writers of The Revenant? Man, what did the French ever do to this guy?

Sign I just saw in the Castro. (Probably went up last week.)

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

hey ishmael. could you maybe stop talking for a while

RIP, king www.vulture.com/article/davi...

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

Glad y’all apparently got that “UFOs in New Jersey” thing out of your system.

Agatha All Along and Skeleton Crew are both way more fun to watch than I was led to believe.

the zelda movie has a chance to do something extremely funny

My roommate is a master of putting me in my place when I need it, and I love him for it. (I was down and complaining about some aspects of my life.)