I've been doing video game VO since 2003. In my 20+ years, only ONE game has ever paid "royalties/residuals/bonus payments." That game? Date Everything. And that's ONLY because it's a game produced by professional voice actors who purposefully created a special contract for the game w/ SAG-AFTRA.

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someone asked me literally yesterday if I could use AI for voice acting for Waifu Death Squad since there are so many speaking parts, and my response was "why would I want to do that? Working with actors is the fun part, because they'll surprise you with their line reads or dialogue tweaks."

Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Yeah I looked upon Cthulhu's dread visage and I was fine. Big octopus on a man's body. Not exactly "difficult to comprehend." Maybe you guys should go outside more idk

If you're wondering how this will go Square Enix handed off their mobile Octopath game to NetEase who immediately started using ChatGPT to translate everything resulting in text like this. When players complained they started asking fans to fix their translations in exchange for in-game currency

The director of Rune Factory 3 and 4 has a kickstarter going on! Pretty fun character designs, too.

I’m playing Cave Story for the first time on Switch and the translation feels like it might be letting down the Japanese script. Is the fan translation better? I never play games on PC, but this might be the exception.

Yume Nikki PS1. Demo out NOW! It contains two dream worlds to explore. You can run it on a real PlayStation 1. This is a fan game. I put a lot of love and care into it. I hope you enjoy it. #yumenikki #ps1 #psx #gamedev #homebrew

Hey! I'm looking for a contract/commission 3D Modeler & Rigger who knows cute non-humans & robots. If you know anyone that might be a good fit, check out my posting! www.scarygood.studio/jobs

One of my favorite pieces of art I’ve ever commissioned. It just makes me happy every time I look at it!

It’s cool that Chuck Schumer, Kiersten Gillibrand, and Hakeem Jeffries just proved to every future dem that establishment approval is irrelevant tbh

www.twitch.tv/gideonzhi Now live! Tonight we're hacking away at Splatterworld, the recently-discovered Splatterhouse Famicom RPG prototype! Goals are: * Integrate replaced title screen * Replace font * Showcase Python build code

Please, PLEASE, I am begging you as both a parent and someone who is sick of all this THIS, go vote for your school boards. Even if you don't have kids, that's how these reactionary dipshits got their feet in, that's where the book bans and library cuts start.

I completely forgot this was out so soon! With both TotK and DW:O near and dear to my heart for obvious reasons, I can’t wait to play this.

Best Dragon Quest I for the very first time. It was fun! Made it quite a ways into Dragon Warrior NES as a kid, but never really managed to crack the series otherwise, so I figured I’d start fresh. The return trips to the castle can drag, but the game holds up, especially with the GBC conveniences!

Once again:

Hey look it's my game Adios, which made people cry!! If you like it, please leave a review so other people can check it out and because I read all the reviews and they make me very happy

@nobogasawara.bsky.social I just started Dragon Warrior I GBC, and as someone who was raised on Pokémon Red, the translation makes me feel like a kid again. There’s a snap to your work that never fails to put a smile on my face. And as a loc pro, I’m amazed you did it in such tight text boxes!

Still one of the fav things I've made

First day as a vampire hunter: This is easy lol First night as a vampire hunter: oh no

Big congrats to @ancientgames.bsky.social @yuzokoshiro.bsky.social on today’s Japanese physical release of EARTHION!🚀✨🥳 Super proud of the @sdxgames.bsky.social versions we made, and especially stoked that we teamed up with 8BitDo (the best!) on this rad M30! ❤️ superdeluxegames.jp/collections/...

This excellent article covers the history of Crunchyroll subs, the strengths and weaknesses of different subtitle formats, executive disdain, and the importance of giving people who care about their work time and support enough to do a good job. Give it a read, I promise you’ll learn something!

New article on ★ daiz.moe ★ Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason daiz.moe/crunchyroll-... A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes! Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)

important reminder: food banks usually prefer money to direct food donations because they can buy at discounted rates check with your local food bank to be sure but now is the time to help out

"Cruel Angel's Thesis is officially 30 years old. I still haven't watched Eva, sorry" -Oikawa Neko, Lyricist

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

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Picture this exact scenario, but it started happening a decade ago and now every agency you work with won't shut up about you taking more time for less pay to correct their magic machine's mistakes and you'll have just the slightest idea what your games' localizers have put up with this whole time.

To celebrate Fantasy Maiden Wars getting an official English translation, we interviewed the English translation team to learn more about the translation. Click the link below to read the article! special thanks to @guiltyjake.bsky.social and mogumogu.carrd.co! en.touhougarakuta.com/article/fant...

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Picked up Burning Force the other day, and there really is a special place in my heart for games that have the energy of an OVA.

Playing bad games doesn't ruin your credibility, it actually makes you learn about what you like. You start noticing effort, weird ideas, stuff that polished games smooth over. Play more broken, weird, and ambitious trash; it’s good for your taste and good for your brain. #blog #gaming

Man………..

I really wish the Mariners could make things sliiiiiiightly less dramatic.

I'm old enough to remember when Stealth used to harass my colleagues at RPGFan (of course, mostly the women).

Everyone's entitled to one good scare, but why settle for one when you can have 24 when you play Indigi-Horror Book bingo! How many of these Native Horror books have you read? Let us know down in the replies and tag a friend to see how many they've read! #nativehorror #indigisky #redpopnews

uma musume casual outfits can be easily divided into 5 categorical styles, i think

i love being a native woman !!! protect and love the native women in your life !! send them money !!!

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

I had Linux running on my work PC in college. Going back has never looked more appealing.

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

I wrote about how all the beautiful dumb stuff really does matter, and why you should come out for No Kings Day on Saturday.

Did you know this happens in Star Fox: Assault? (I've uploaded this clip before, but I've re-edited it to make it both easier to see and to also have subtitles. :D)

Western Alaska is hurting right now. Coastal communities are facing devastating flooding from Typhoon Halong. Homes destroyed, families displaced, villages cut off. They could use our assistance! #WesternAlaska #MutualAid #DISASTERRELIEF #boost #indigisky #redpopnews