#va strike

[a-short-ass-disappointment]

I am so frustrated right now, I had thought that the VA strike for Genshin had improved. I was dead wrong...

I've texted a friend about it and she told me to just play it in the Japanese. If I was looking at her she would have been six feet under...

Why is it always the things I love just turn to dust infront of me. I love the English VA cast, it hurts my vary being that this is effectively killing the VA industry as a whole.

I know exactly why a company would want to do this, but at the stake of what? There whole company is on the line as well as there income.

I love voice actors, not for the roles thay play, or the characters thay bring to life. But for who thay are as a person. I don't want a robot giving me a performance, I want to linsen, read, and get to know the person behind one of my favorite characters.

This isn't something you can replace overnight and expect the community to rally with you and support the idea. I'm here for the actors, im playing the dub because I want to support my favorite people in the acting industry.

I started the new arcon quest for Natlan, at first I thought my earbuds where messing with me. Or that my game was bugged.

It wasn't...

As soon as I only heard the blood pumping in my ears from the nerves. Hoping, praying, that it was just Kachina, I was so excited to hear John Patneaude... I cant begin to describe the sinking feeling of my stomach and my heart dropping.

I couldn't finish the quest...

As soon as we met Kinich and I didn't hear John I closed my game. I couldn't stomach it.

With what's been going on with the washing of the characters and disrespecting not only my culture and but many others. I was desperately just gripping onto the VA's to get me through this...

Im so frustrated, im so sad, I'm so angry, I don't understand why this is being carried out for this long. I just want my voice actors back, I want to hear John Patneaude again as Kinich. Alehando Saab as Cyno, Ray Chase as Neuvillette-

I was my VA's back, I want to hear them, I want to support them...

Is that to much to ask for..?

[sweetjazzygirl]

The disrespect for Eng VAs is crazy because the fuck you mean you want A.I. to replace them? Why you want an A.I. to steal a HUMAN'S VOICE?

[kiwisandpearls]

I’m pretty sure Feixiao’s voice actor didn’t get fired over a poc edit. Pretty sure HSR is just using the JP dub for her (Feixiao’s) videos because of the recent video game voice actor strike that’s been happening, and the studio involved with HSR’s English dubbing might’ve been one of the studios struck by it.

[frolics-dannilions]

The recent strike has affected genshin with the voice lines. I usually play it in cn or kr but the en for natlan just hits different, so I won't be playing the archon quests until the strike is over. No matter how good the other dubs are.

[jay-wasreblogging]

For more information.

[schrodingers-hoarding-problem]

kill ai

kill it right now

kill it dead

death murder and violence

this is what i wish upon it

[springtrappd]

marta svetek -- voice of gregory, vanny, roxanne wolf in fnaf: sb and its dlc, ruin -- has joined kellen goff in voicing her thoughts on ai reproductions of her voice. again: if you want voice actors to maintain a living wage (and their own mental health), please respect her wishes and ensure that this kind of behaviour is heavily discouraged in the future.

full text of thread below the cut for brevity:

Been getting tagged in all kinds of posts and popular TikToks of people using AI voice clones of my FNAF characters to have them sing or say all kinds of random stuff. You might think it's fun. But really it's contributing to the problem all VAs are facing in the wake of AI. The more these AI voice clones get used, the more they're normalized, and the more businesses see it as a viable alternative to real VAs when making content for you. Slowly but surely, most of your favourite VAs will be out of work. Not to mention what this will cost in terms of future generations of VAs. Incredible performances we'll never get to experience because most businesses will more often than not go for the cheapest, quickest option as soon as the technology is up to scratch. This is made even worse by the fact that we currently have very few legal protections against the unauthorized use of our voices using AI. And we're being pressured to waive those too, for a fraction of their worth. This is one of the big reasons the current strikes are a thing. If you enjoyed my work in FNAF and have any respect for the amount of time and effort VAs put into bringing characters to life, don't use AI voice clones in your fanart. I can't express how violated I feel every time I hear my voice say words that aren't my own. And just in case it wasn't clear - I have never consented to having my voice, likeness or any of my performances synthesized into AI voices/avatars etc.

[cajapeydoesthings]

Hey, here's a link to a petition for the SAG-AFTRA Video Game Strike.

Please sign and support VAs in video games.

[uniiiquehecrt]

Voice actors are NOT the same as actors.

It takes a specific kind of skill-set and training to be able to warp and meld the voice. It takes a certain kind of talent and dedication to hone that talent into the ability to meld the voice and invoke emotion with one's voice alone. Actors are used to using their voice secondarily to their body language and their facial expressions. It's all mirrored back on camera. They do have nuance. But it's a different kind of nuance and a different kind of training to produce that nuance.

Voice actors might get their likeness transposed on their character's design, and maybe their mannerisms might seep into the character's animation. But when it's all said and done: their presence is in their voice. They are bringing a character to life, showing that emotion in their voice, trying to keep a specific accent, drawl, pitch, tone in that voice and keep it consistent for their recording sessions.

The voice actor is like a classically trained musician who can play first chair in a competitive, world-renown orchestra. The actor (who fills the voice actor's role) is like a moot who played violin in beginner and intermediate high school orchestra and thinks they can get into Juilliard with that 2-4 years of experience.

This doesn't mean that the HS orchestra moot can't play. They can even be really good at it. Maybe they won competitions and sat first chair. But they are not in the same league as the person who's been training their whole lives and lives and breathes to hone their craft using the instrument and all of the training they've ever acquired to perfect it. They are not meant for the same roles. They are not in the same caliber. You do not hire the HS equivalent when you want to play complex music in a competitive orchestra.

Actors are not the same as voice actors.

And furthermore, actors - especially big name actors - taking the roles of animated characters for big budget films or TV pilots makes no sense anyways when - at least in the case of TV pilots - there's not a point to hiring a big budget actors anyways. That money could be used elsewhere (like paying your animators), and the talent that is brought onto the screen for X character could then be hired on to voice said character no recasting required.

I wouldn't say voice acting as a profession is in danger exactly, but it's certainly being disrespected and overlooked for celebrity clout, and this has ALWAYS been an issue. Shoot, even Robin Williams knew that much - which is why he tried so hard not to be used as a marketing chess piece for Aladdin and got royally pissed off when it happened anyways. People shouldn't go to any movie (but especially not animated films) because "oh famous actor is in it". People should go because it's a good movie and the voice acting is good.

People who honest to god think that voice actors are replaceable because "oh well anyone can voice act" or "I like xyz celebrity so naturally it'll be good" ... Honestly I just wish you'd reassess your priorities because you're missing the point and are part of the problem.

Voice Actors ≠ Actors.

[gearchronocle]

this OPENING man. THIS OPENING. GOES SO INCREDIBLY HARD. FOR NO REASON. it should be illegal to have a song this good in a funny haha silly little comedy anime. I'm going crazy why is it so good. kaidou why r u going so hard on the vocals for NO!! REASON !!!

the fact that it's kaidou singing keeps me up at night. you go lil chuuni boy. eat that up like a full course meal and leave no crumbs not even the plate

[the-bibrarian]

Paris, yesterday (03/23/23). This is an excerpt from a video by journalist Amar Taoualit posted on twitter

This is what they’re doing to a peaceful, registered-with-the-proper-authorities march.

You can hear protesters shouting “children! there are children!” and “that’s my grandfather! my grandfather is on the ground!”

I think some families felt safe going because traditionally, union-backed, “registered” marches are peaceful and the riot police waits until they officially end, when only the more radical protesters are left, to attack. Not saying that is fine, but there was a tacit agreement for peace during the first hours of a protest. (That’s exactly what happened in Lyon yesterday, and there were also a few kids among protesters. It ended up being fine but it made me very anxious to see them, and it looks like I was right to worry.)

Things turned extremely violent in the night. I don’t feel like chronicling it, but suffice to say there were more that 900 fires in Paris. I don’t know what to think of the overwhelming silence from international media on the subject.

Anyway, I know that in principle we should all be able to protest and the police shouldn’t attack, and we’re supposed to be a democracy and we shouldn’t bow down to wanna-be autocrats that want to suppress our voices, etc.

La réalité c’est que pour quelques temps en tout cas, il faut laisser nos enfants à la maison, et que si vous êtes âgé, malade (asthmatique !), déjà blessé, personne handicapée, etc. il vaut peut-être mieux passer votre tour pour ces manifs-là. Il y a d’autres façons d’agir.

Notamment, je suis sûre que les syndicats ont besoin d’aide logistique et d’argent, et LFI, dont les députés sont sur le terrain, sur les piquets de grève, a certainement toujours besoin de plus de militants (j’ai pas ma carte chez eux pour être claire, mais je pense que c’est le parti qui soutient le plus sincèrement le mouvement).

Les députés LFI Louis Boyard (au centre) et Carlos Martens Bilongo (à droite), dans une manifestation le 20 mars. Photo de @teamroscoes (merci !!)

La député LFI Mathilde Panot au piquet de grève des éboueurs de Vitry-sur-Seine le 16 mars (photo de son twitter)

^ these are pictures of lawmakers from the leftist France Unbowed party participating in protests.

[utilitycaster]

I firmly believe that pre-taping has been, overall, good, and that anyone who claims the stream is different than when it was live is fucking making that shit up because it's indistinguishable, with the singular exception of Sam posting The Full Chetney on Twitter 2 minutes after the end of the stream with an admission that he couldn't figure out Reddit.

[sweetjazzygirl]

"They should just replace the VAs—"

THE STUDIO IS GREEDY FOR MONEY, EVEN WITH NEW VAS, THEY WILL NOT PAY THEM. THAT'S WHY THEY NEED A.I. BECAUSE THEY REFUSE TO PAY FOR THEIR VAS, GET THAT SHIT INTO YOUR HEADS!!!

[kiwisandpearls]

unless I got something completely wrong with the strike the VAs are doing; with how popular Genshin is hopefully at least Formosa (the studio doing at least I think the EN dub) will be willing to work with Sag-Aftra, because if not, no voice acting will get done and Genshin will probably have little to no issue switching studios

(Here’s the context for that)

[nappingpaperclip]

VIRGINIANS:

The primaries are tomorrow Tuesday March 5th.

We do not have a write-in option!

Blank ballots and ballots with anything written in will not being counted. This is why some folks are organizing for folks to protest vote for Marianne Williamson, a Jewish progressive who has been calling for ceasefire

[harmonysanreads]

Do you think if Aventurine tries hard enough he can sound like Alhaitham ?—?