#veronica crabtree

[laserwalnut]

That goofy shit

[whatdoessunshinetastelike]

the old lady

[sillyfellerr7]

zorry I was gone for a while so here's some artm....

[leobebestevens]

Draw crabtee

can you tell im tired tonight compared to last night

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[princessianthe]

my wife

[sp-hot-take-confessional]

they shouldn't have killed ms. crabtree or given her a breast reduction

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[yusuke-of-valla]

WE LIVE IN A HELL WORLD

Snippets from the article by Karissa Bell:

SAG-AFTRA, the union representing thousands of performers, has struck a deal with an AI voice acting platform aimed at making it easier for actors to license their voice for use in video games. ...

the agreements cover the creation of so-called “digital voice replicas” and how they can be used by game studios and other companies. The deal has provisions for minimum rates, safe storage and transparency requirements, as well as “limitations on the amount of time that a performance replica can be employed without further payment and consent.”

Notably, the agreement does not cover whether actors’ replicas can be used to train large language models (LLMs), though Replica Studios CEO Shreyas Nivas said the company was interested in pursuing such an arrangement. “We have been talking to so many of the large AAA studios about this use case,” Nivas said. He added that LLMs are “out-of-scope of this agreement” but “they will hopefully [be] things that we will continue to work on and partner on.”

...Even so, some well-known voice actors were immediately skeptical of the news, as the BBC reports. In a press release, SAG-AFTRA said the agreement had been approved by "affected members of the union’s voiceover performer community." But on X, voice actors said they had not been given advance notice. "How has this agreement passed without notice or vote," wrote Veronica Taylor, who voiced Ash in Pokémon. "Encouraging/allowing AI replacement is a slippery slope downward." Roger Clark, who voiced Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption 2, also suggested he was not notified about the deal. "If I can pay for permission to have an AI rendering of an ‘A-list’ voice actor’s performance for a fraction of their rate I have next to no incentive to employ 90% of the lesser known ‘working’ actors that make up the majority of the industry," Clark wrote.

SAG-AFTRA’s deal with Replica only covers a sliver of the game industry. Separately, the union is also negotiating with several of the major game studios after authorizing a strike last fall. “I certainly hope that the video game companies will take this as an inspiration to help us move forward in that negotiation,” Crabtree said.

And here are some various reactions I've found about things people in/adjacent to this can do

And in OTHER AI games news, Valve is updating it's TOS to allow AI generated content on steam so long as devs promise they have the rights to use it, which you can read more about on Aftermath in this article by Luke Plunkett

[bookclub4m]

Episode 205 - Favourite Reads (and Media) of 2024

 It’s episode 205 and time for us to talk about our favourite reads of 2024! We discuss fiction and non-fiction books we read for the podcast, plus comics, videos, music, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

Check out Hark! Jam's holiday music podcast!

Favourite Fiction

For the podcast

Anna

The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence (Episode 200 - Library Fiction)

Jam

A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher (Episode 202 - A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking)

Matthew

The Sixth Gun Omnibus, vol. 1 by Cullen Bunn, Brian Hurtt, Bill Crabtree, and Tyler Crook (Episode 201 - Weird West)

Meghan

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (Episode 203 - Dark Academia)

Not for the podcast

Jam

Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman

Matthew

Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day: And Other Tales of the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard, narrated by Nicholas Guy Smith

Meghan

When Among Crows by Veronica Roth

Anna

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Trailer

Favourite Non-Fiction

For the podcast

Matthew

I Am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future by Michael Molcher (Episode 195 - Pop(ular) Culture Non-Fiction)

Meghan

Telling It to the Judge: Taking Native History to Court by Arthur J. Ray (Episode 197 - Law & Legal Non-Fiction (for the layperson))

Anna

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli (Episode 194 - Indie Publishers)

Jam

Why I Adopted My Husband: The True Story of a Gay Couple Seeking Legal Recognition in Japan by Yuta Yagi (Episode 192 - Non-Fiction Graphic Novels & Comics)

Not for the podcast

Meghan

Secret Gardens by Jennifer Potter 

Anna

Bunker: Building for the End Times by Bradley Garrett

Jam

Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run by Martinus Evans

Matthew

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

Other Favourite Things of 2024

Anna

Cats

Buldak Cream Carbonara

Go Go Town!

Jam

Diceomancer

“California” by Chappel Roan

Galway Food Tour

Matthew

The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel by Jenny Nicholson

Giant Days by John Allison, Max Sarin, and Lissa Treiman

Spy x Family by Tetsuya Endo

Matthew talked about this and Giant Days in Episode 193 - Spring Media Update

Spy x Family / Designer Chairs

Meghan

Living Small - Laura Fenton (series: Small Takes)

BBC: The Secret History of British Gardens with Monty Don

Dwell magazine

Runner-Ups

Jam

Books for the podcast

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (Episode 204 - Cozy Fantasy)

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes (Episode 189 - Romantic Comedies & Humorous Romance)

Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante (Episode 194 - Indie Publishers)

Picture Books

I Won’t Give Up My Rubber Band by Shinsuke Yoshitake

100 Mighty Dragons All Named Broccoli by David LaRochelle

Games

Wingspan (both board & Switch Edition)

Crossword puzzles

Movies/TV/Video

Delicious in Dungeon

I Saw the TV Glow

Robot Dreams

Gastronauts

I Want to Tell You About My Favorite Fight Scene 

Anna

River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey (Episode 201 - Weird West)

Kimiko Does Cancer by Kimiko Tobimatsu and Keet Geniza (Episode 192 - Non-Fiction Graphic Novels & Comics)

Matthew

[Tumblr won't let us post the full lists because they're too long, check the podcast site to see them all.]

Video Essays

Alpha Protocol Retrospective | An Extremely Comprehensive Critique and History

Reform!

X Men Video Game Retrospective | A Complete History and Review 

DB2024 - The Taco Bell "Wedding" in Decentraland

The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse

The Great Game: The Making of Spycraft

The Bizarre World of Fake Video Games

Meghan

French

Balcons by Marianne Brisebois (contemporary fiction)

Cariacou by Olivier Lussier (poetry, prose)

La véritable histoire de la maison mobile des Miller by Dave Eggers (childrens, illustrated)

Fiction

The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir (horror, translated)

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (cosy fantasy, series)

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (supernatural)

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (time travel)

The Gathering by C.J. Tudor (horror, vampires)

Bride by Ali Hazelwood (supernatural romance)

The Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff (horror, series)

Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante (contemporary)

Frontier by Grace Curtis (scifi, western)

Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang (horror)

The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan (weird, translated, series)

The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes (scifi, spy thriller)

Roaming by Jillian Tamaki by Mariko Tamaki (graphic novel, new adult)

Nonfiction

Instructions for Travelling West by Joy Sullivan (poetry)

Island Home: a Landscape memoir by Tim Winton (essays, memoir, Australian)

Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place by Daniel Coleman (essays, history, Canadian)

Give us feedback!

Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read!

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Join us again on Tuesday, January 7th we’ll be discussing the genre of Cultural Studies!

Then on Tuesday, February 4th we’ll be talking about the genre of Monster Romance!

[whatdoessunshinetastelike]

Shelly and Mrs crabtree,,, unstoppable duo,,

they are the only characters in the show

[sillyfellerr7]

they could never make me hate u Veronica,,,,,

[leobebestevens]

headcaonon what does crabtree do when it is not time to drive the bus

-crabtree is a sweet tea fiend. she has jugs of it in her fridge and drinks it instead of water.

-she reads shitty regency romance books and pictures herself in it.

-she has pet ferrets and they stink up her house but she loves them.

-she likes to knit little hats for the ferrets and dresses them up all cute and takes their pictures

-i see her as a model car builder. she likes to display them on shelves in her house.

-she has a garden and grows lots of things and makes fresh zucchini bread with the zucchini she grows

-crabtree feeds stray cats so theyre always flocked in her yard (which is not tended to whatsoever)

-she likes to wake up early and drink her sweet tea in the garden

-she yells at kids walking by her house from a rocking chair on her porch

[regularkyle]

i don't want to have to pull out my bts bona fides okay just trust me. trust me on this. and this is not hard and fast im going off prevalent ao3 interpretations here

seokjin - early on he was the caretaker but there is some attempt at detaching from the safe boring mom of the group to be a lil edgier and fun therefore: kyle

yoongi - deadpan tortured soul smoker turned poor lil meow meow = CRAIG

hoseok - veronica crabtree

namjoon - bleeding heart with a chip on his shoulder and a LOT to angst about this may not be the stan u expect but it's the stan u deserve

jimin - designated bottom and woobified to hell and back (tickle his cow udders for 7 hours straight) but also cutely jealous and neurotic so the closest we're gonna get to a tweek

taehyung - based less on actual personality traits and more on various authors basically having their own ocs to project onto and slapping a name on it, this is your butters

jungkook - kenny (source: dude. i said trust me.)

[bullborn]

The entire faculty is FUCKING!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sp-hot-take-confessional]

ms. crabtree is kinda hot tbh. i love gross women

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[metukika]

silly young adult/teenager drawings of the south park elementary staff >>