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@LeifJohnson

South Texan with a Chicago aftertaste. Writer for IGN, TechRadar, VICE, PC Gamer, Rolling Stone, Mic, GameSpot, Paste, and more. Leif rhymes with safe!

The Texas Coastal Bend
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Born on June 21
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jun 16

    Very true, but too bad they don't get benefits and have to calculate their own taxes from their meager checks that rarely arrive on time.

    Only Freelancers are courageous enough to band together, leave their sanctuary, and face the unknown dangers that await.
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    9 hours ago

    To be clear, this is the mayor of San Juan who he insulted. She's using a bullhorn to find people.

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  3. 4 minutes ago

    I usually frown on "worst ever" statements about presidents. But have we ever had someone who casually insults his own citizens so often?

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    22 minutes ago

    Thread.

    My dad lives on the island. I shared the President's response with him this morning. He wanted me to share one anecdote in response. 1/
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  5. 26 minutes ago
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    And if it needs to be said, it’s never been “thousand.” At least for an individual article, anyway.

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  6. 28 minutes ago
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    Seeing responses from colleagues. I realize I’m blessed to say I’ve *never* written professionally for free. But it was never “thousands.”

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    8 hours ago

    This story is amazing. New Jersey doomsday prepper about to lose his house donates all his supplies to Puerto Rico:

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  8. 6 hours ago
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    Also, since March I've been seeking full-time employment, often outside of games. And there is a HUGE stigma with games, I've realized.

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  9. 6 hours ago
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    Oh! And by the way, in the seven years I've been doing this (full-time since 2012), rates have been dropping. They were low to begin with.

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    6 hours ago
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    I can confirm that, for the time people put into reviews, it's far, far less than minimum wage.

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  11. 6 hours ago
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    And then, of course, I still need to find the time to play the games. You end up feeling guilty for sleeping. For going to see a movie.

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  12. 6 hours ago
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    On Thursday, I jugged video and text edits for IGN, drafted two articles for Motherboard, wrote 3 news articles for TechRadar. All at once.

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  13. 6 hours ago
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    I'll sometimes get more because of seniority or preference, but we're talking like $50 or $100. You have to work non-stop to make this work.

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  14. 6 hours ago
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    I'd add that there's a document floating out there that people were wondering about because of the "low" rates. It's largely accurate.

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  15. 7 hours ago
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    Good time for a repost of this. If we didn’t love this—if we didn’t love *games*—we wouldn’t be doing it.

    I always wonder how people can think game journalists or game developers hate games, if neither job is well-paid, very stable, or respected.
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  16. 7 hours ago

    Fun fact, folks. Pay for reviews rarely, rarely “justifies” the amount of time put into them. Only for very short indie games, usually.

    Sometimes I briefly remember a follower telling me he thought freelance games writers were paid thousands of dollars per article
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    9 hours ago

    Trump is talking about Hispanics in a disaster zone the way dog-whistling Republicans talk about minorities on welfare.

    ...want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort. 10,000 Federal workers now on Island doing a fantastic job.
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  18. 7 hours ago

    My rooster is missing. :(

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    9 hours ago

    People criticized GWB for being out of touch when he was actually trying to survey damage. Trump is at a golf course in NJ

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  20. Retweeted
    Sep 29

    Hey, look! I wrote about Cuphead, too!

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  21. 13 hours ago

    For the late night/Brit crowd: I wrote about my excitement for Assassin’s Creed Origins’ guided history tours:

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