Only trust people who's actions consistently match their words. Get fucked, sycophants.

I say this with empathy toward every struggling actor who is just trying to make due: Providing your voice for A.I. undermines everyone in the industry. It is a net negative, that will only make it harder for you and everyone else down the line. It. Is. Wrong.

Each smallest bit of genai dogshit, represents *hundreds* of artists being fucked over. Not just now, but artists years from now who would have been hired had the company kept paying people to find and hire and manage artists.

#Twitch #Streamers, I need your help! ISO anti-ai tools (detectors, identifying and blocking bots and bot tools, etc). When I try to search online, all I get are results to counteract AI detection tools. WHICH TOOLS!? Please send any #recommendations for tools here! #TwitchStreamers #AntiAI

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Maybe there will be an extended director's cut. It looked like they just used straight up Minecraft footage standing in for the background, I'm assuming before the full CGI render. Also you get to see more of each character, who all seemed way more interesting.

One time I got temporarily suspended from the Bob Ross twitch livestream for saying I'd let him spit in my mouth.

this should be such an open and shut case with every facet of their deal, but somehow isn't. more, please, more

Not that there was ever much occasion for this, but now we're never going to be able to say something was "the smartest thing to come out of Trump's mouth" without giggling immaturely.

I'm learning a lot of things that I care not to learn this morning.

When I'm an old lady, my grandkids will call Dispatch "one of Nana's stories".

We're the same age.

if anyone's looking for it it's the Celebration pattern from Joy Carpets, available from various online stores in assorted rug dimensions or as proper carpet directly from the company. I chose it for similarity to d-1772 and d-1976 in the old fun time electra dye catalog a24films.com/notes/2021/0...

If your take boils down to, "exploitation and harm is inevitable and therefore I will continue to enable and support it," then we're probably not going to get along.

arc raiders, alters, same story aftermath.site/the-alters-a...

I heard "instinctively MAHA" is actually in the DSM-5 now.

They've got Regina George choosing the youtube thumbnails over at CBC.

Now that's what I call a compliment!

I'm watching LEGO Phantom of the Opera Live on Tiktok, which feels like a painfully acute recession indicator. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTH38QuAxw...

Making a really funny person belly-laugh feels like a genuine accomplishment.

Since we're all talking about AI Voice acting right now, it's probably a good time to say I've been a free agent since last year! Indie Devs: Let me know your VA budget and let's work something out. The big dogs can't afford me, but I promise you can. realamandalive.com/voice-demos

I'm here to tell you that voice actors (even very very good ones) are not expensive, more than make up for their cost in the value they bring to your game, and if Baldur's Gate can record real actors for every line of dialogue in the game, so can you for your 100 generic barks or even specific ones.

Every word out of Tim Sweeney's rat face pisses me off. Oh, this argument is "political"? It's divided "along political lines"? Which ones, pal? You're responding to a review in EUROGAMER, you dumb fuck. There's a world outside your shithole country with more than two flaccid, ineffectual parties.

look I think we can all agree the important thing is as long as most money on earth consistently keeps flowing to about fifty people who are all friends and they don't have to do anything because it's earned by profiting off everyone else's work then whatever happens to anyone else is irrelevant

My review of ARC Raiders is now live. It's a well designed extraction shooter. But Embark Studios' use of AI voices is indefensible in a game that has benefited so much from human speech. www.eurogamer.net/arc-raiders-...

I just wanted to state, for the official record, that I posess dumps like a truck, truck, truck and thighs like what, what, what and sometimes I move my butt, butt, butt.

Just posting this for no reason in particular 🫠

Every time I have a migraine and sleep most of the day, I wake up to see some new gargantuan catastrophe from America. At this point, I don't know if my migraines cause these things or just foretell them, but perhaps I should be dunked in a lake or something.

Betteridge’s Law strikes again 🙄

Forget astrology, I want to know who you marry in Stardew.

How be less think?

Her favourite time of year besides the first snow! She gets to shred up leaves, watch kids get on and off the bus, and wear her jaunty homemade sweaters.

I'm still feeling this way- I feel defeated as a woman, as a Canadian, as a creative, as a professional, as a person. There's waves crashing on all sides and it's just too big for me to handle alone while most of my supports for those things have disintegrated over the last few years. 😫

Nice to see.

Breaking News: Dumb idiot desperately attempts connection with like-minded strangers on the internet! 🕹️ Baldur's Gate 3 (Act 1) 🧝 High Elf, Necromancy 👾 www.twitch.tv/realamanda

The average consumer just doesn't care enough about artists for this to affect their bottom line. We've clearly demonstrated to decision-makers that if a game is fun enough, sticky enough, engaging enough, viral enough - consumers are okay with exploitation to make that happen.

I kind of want to stream a Stardew-Like game and I can't tell if I want to try something new or just start a new Stardew farm 🤣

In a world full of terrible role models for young people, I’m so glad there are also smart, joyful and empathetic people like Ms Rachel and Mychal Threets.

Editorial cartoon: Don't bread on me. Enjoy :)

I have clinical depression but am old-hat at management that generally works well for me. However, every so often, I'll be wondering why I'm trapped in an episode, and I do a SINGLE creative thing and think, "it's that damn phone! you dumb, bitch!!"

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Dr Oz is like, "not to fret, fetch my healing crystals while I inspect this man's humors!"

Feeling blue after the time change? 9 out of 10 dentists recommend bingewatching all 70+ episodes of historical Chinese harem drama "Empresses in the Palace".

I've felt so defeated the last few days and it's been such a rough demon to shake out of my head.

"That's how we can get that without needing to have someone come in every time we create a new item for the game." Yeah, it's not like every pro voice actor was recently forced to invest thousands into home studio gear and Source Connect or anything. 🙃 (This is incredibly insulting.)

ugh could this disrupt cushy jobs of a relatively small number of people who mostly burned out decades ago and gave up to coast on getting insider trading tips and being treated as a VIP social class for doing absolutely nothing that'd be unfortunate

"Why don't tourists want to come here anymore!?"

just right now?!

Any fellow gals play Arc Raiders yet? How painful is it to play with a feminine gamer tag/voice?