game actors are officially on strike 
over AI
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/5/24213808/video-game-voice-actor-strike-sag-aftra
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"We're going on strike because you're able to seamlessly replace us for less than our current wages."
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Yeah, making a strong argument for increasing investment in this kind of tech
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Companies are r-slurred if they sign something promising not to use AI. In YouTuber circles it's becoming more and more common for people to clone their own voice if they are faceless and generally no one even notices.
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What are the video games companies going to do now?
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Some of them will probably capitulate 🤣
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Oh no!
Anyway...
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Because this went so well last time.
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Good. I hate voice acting in games. Its almost universally terrible and outside of Lowang, never entertaining. Shut up and let me shoot stuff.
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Were there any games in development people care about right now?
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ES6 so it can finally release, be a pile of dogshit, and then I'll be free
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I said "in development"
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todd is raising creation engine's cheese wheels per room limit in as we speak.
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yeah that's why he said elder scrolls 6
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When ES6 releases everyone will call it terrible, still play it, grumble about how Skyrim was way better and pure unfiltered kino, and repeat for 40 years until ES7 releases
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I think there's enough of a counter jerk of ppl saying Skyrim is trash that's unlikely
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That counter jerk will go away because once ES6 becomes the new popular game for normies the people who started as skybabies will become bitter disenfranchised boomers like Morrowind fans
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Couldn't be me
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Skyrim sucks and the Bethesda modding community is overrated.
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It will be the greatest game you ever buy 6 times over the course of 11 years.
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MH: Wilds
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This is your average voice actor in 2024:
https://www.gamesradar.com/games/dragon-age/dragon-age-the-veilguard-actor-is-both-terrified-and-thrilled-to-voice-the-protagonist-and-says-the-rpgs-diversity-means-the-world-to-me/
The worst fricking thing about these people is that they think they actually matter.
I can't wait for ai to replace these fricking narcissists.
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Uh ok...
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Sounds like an opportunity to hire theatre actors who almost universally give better performances and don't do the 'anime' voice.
E.g. FF12, Xenoblade Chronicles, Bayonetta (before she got too big for her gunboots).
Or perhaps the most prolific should just clone and license their voices. If they were smart, they would.
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All five of them?!
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Let's show them why they don't need us!
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The only good vidya voice actor was the guy that played vulpes inculta.
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You may think you hate voice actors enough.
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voice acting was fricked the moment bayonetta tried to blackmail the company into paying her 50% of the gross or whatever because she considered herself the most important person "working" on the game. VAs are useless leeches with an overinflated ego and companies are going to crack down on them
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Hi! It's good to see you're woke to the inherent micro-r*pe that is your sexuality, and it's even better that you've chosen to be a non-harming shut-in. I wish more white cis men would do this!
You should consider estrogen supplements to make yourself less predatory. As a white male, you having kids is problematic, yes, but have you considered adopting PoC children and trying to raise them non-binary? Just make it clear to them that any white cis male sexuality you accidentally display despite your estrogen supplementation is shameful, and just make it a habit to say "I'm so sorry. I am so very sorry." after every offence. You should also consider exploring cuckolding (with a marginalized minority man/woman/otherkin of course) if you still find your sexuality to be uncontrollable.
Good luck and welcome to the right side of history!
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