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Gunna try to stream today! Let's start at 12 pm pst! Twitch.tv/corinaboettger

My dog is asleep I rip open a cheese stick Dog is wide awake now

My dog thinks my husband controls the rain and doesn't want to go out on my apartment balcony so she looks at my husband as if to ask him to turn it off 🤣🤣🤣🤣

One more night before Where WInds Meet and I'm going to play more Warframe because it's what I do. A invite you to deal with it. twitch.tv/BennyFits

Jeff Bezos paid $50 million for a wedding. He just got a $16 billion tax break. He just laid off 60,000 people. And you're furious about a kid getting a free school lunch?

Can someone ask Megyn Kelly why teenagers can’t access gender affirming care because they’re “not old enough” to make that decision… But apparently they are old enough to be raped by a bunch of pedophiles? Just trying to understand the logic here.

Dropping cosmetics prices and refunding players who already bought them is a fun distraction from all the negative talk about not using human voice actors for your NPCs But it also follows that if you can afford to cut prices and do refunds, you could afford to pay human actors to voice your NPCs.

Got a real pancake/waffles situation happening here on bsky dot com.

I'm 55 followers short from 200. Can I make it before new years?

People are in denial about how quickly they could become disabled, unhoused or food insecure It can happen to anyone & it can happen in an instant Folks act like those receiving assistance have failed That they should “try harder” The system is rigged. It’s failed us, not the other way around

Even on projects that don’t feature AI, it’s often difficult to justify how little voice actors get paid for work on projects that sell in the millions So it’s fascinating to see folks say “they were compensated fairly” repeatedly on this occasion where we don’t even have the voice actors credited.

Ask literally any voice actor if they get royalties from the video games they worked on. They will tell you no. They might even laugh. Now imagine any developer actively trying to use AI VO to save money wanting to offer something like that.

Who else remembers a few years ago when the Jujutsu Kaisen movie made almost 200 million at the box office and the dub cast got like $300 tops

We’re in another healthy round of discourse on AI voicing in games, and I saw an argument made that’s worth spotlighting - the idea that a developer may have an extremely last-minute tweak and corralling a studio, engineer, director, and actor on short notice may be impossible. Let’s poke at that 🧵

It’s a small thing, but when Dropout TV found out they’d accidentally misgendered me in a video clip, they went in and recut the whole clip to fix the mistake. It took a day. No AI; just hardworking folks putting in extra. That’s what the industry is. AI is just lazy, destructive, and pathetic.

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.

I don't expect a writer to come up with dialogue for anything a user might ask. That's why user's shouldn't be able to ask NPCs literally anything. It defeats the purpose of storytelling. Either have 1 baked in line or 2-3 dialogue choices with 2-3 possible responses.

Average healthcare costs in the US: Giving birth? $18,000 Cancer treatment? $150,000 One month ICU stay? Between 30k and 150k. That’s not including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through. Cost in Canada? $0. Cost in the UK? $0. Cost in Australia? $0.

Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult. A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates. When will party leadership learn this lesson?

Now more than ever we need to vote with our wallets and use our voices to protest against companies using AI. If you (like me) don't want companies to use AI art then stand by that. Don't buy their products or promote them on your YouTube channel. Demand they actually HIRE artists.

Anyway I’m sure there’s absolutely nothing noteworthy about the fact that the consenting voice actors for Arc Raiders aren’t known or named and they aren’t talking at all about how proud they are to be involved with such a popular title.

People defending the chatbot NPC situation in Petit Planet insist that you can't expect a writer to come up with appropriate responses to anything a player might ask I'd argue the NPC chatbot doesn't seem to be able to do this either, contradicting itself and stating generic gibberish.

Can’t help but notice the general goalpost has shifted entirely from, “Stop smearing Hoyo with lies. They’d never stoop to using GenAI.” to “Genie is out of the bottle, get with the program, luddite.”

“But it’s not voiceover, it’s just text.” Yes and writers shouldn’t be getting replaced by this sort of thing. “They couldn’t generate responses to every possible thing asked” Yeah and expecting any NPC to be able to has clear downsides and trying to will result in bland, unimpressive dialogue.

Players of the beta for upcoming Hoyo title Petit Planet have noticed there’s an AI chatbot featured and at least one barista NPC whose dialogue is generated by AI Fans of their titles are defending it saying “this is a good use of AI” and “you can’t stop AI at this point.” This is from the TOS:

Priorities. [Cartoon by Michael de Adder]

Trump is appealing the judicial order to pay full SNAP benefits by tomorrow. He’s spending tax payer dollars going back to court to try and avoid giving folks money they are legally owed. He’s starving 42 million people because to him they are leverage. It’s enraging.

This is disability visibility. Mamdani listened. He didn’t pander or talk over the disabled journalist. He acknowledged his concerns and gave real responses about how he plans to fix them. 1 in 4 Americans has a disability, it’s a huge number of voters. Don’t ignore us!

Look can A.I. really be a bubble if all it requires is 2 trillion dollars and all the planet's drinkable water to make money? I think not.

Happy V for Vendetta day

37 books read this year so far

Every time I post "the VO industry has monsters that will literally hide under your bed and eat your face while you sleep" I stop to think maybe I'm complaining for no good reason but then inevitably half a dozen VAs will reply "can confirm, they ate my face" and it's like, oh dear it's justified.

Sometimes I wonder if the systemic problems in the voiceover industry has roots in things like wanting certain privileges so bad that they're afraid of losing what they never had to begin with. Ex: If livable wages weren't privileges but actual things (cont'd)

It's November and I'm going to change it up tonight by playing a game I haven't played in a while. Get in here. The IRS wants to know what I've been doing all this time and I need you to vouch for me. twitch.tv/BennyFits

Reminds me of people complaining about procedural generation in games like it's the same as GenAI. A program that uses dev made assets to quickly create environments is not the same as stealing art and mashing it together like generative AI does.

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.

Trump admin to pay partial benefits for November. “The bad news is that the relief will be temporary and meager: SNAP benefits were already modest (roughly 1 in 8 people get an average of $187 a month per person in SNAP), and “partial” payments means additional hardships.”

My service dog started by tasking and laying on me... and then she fell asleep... while tasking... so now I can't move.

If your attitude as a creative professional is “AI is here to stay,” I hope you recognize that because of this attitude - as a creative - you soon won’t be.

Re-watching The Lord of the Rings with friends and because we are not mature whatsoever this made us all cackle

anyway here's my twitter post from two years ago explaining my decision to quit VO since it's a) not here and b) a little relevant to things I'm sharing lately

I hate it here.

You're gonna see some prolific VA talent get in bed with AI in the coming months/years while their less prolific community members lose opportunities across the board due to it. Some of them don't care. Some of them are too focused on the bag and the attention to do so.

Unfortunately I suspect as union activity gains momentum and popular support in this broken industry we will continue to see studios ramp up their union busting efforts. Be smart: practice good infosec, read up on typical union-busting tactics, and most importantly: don’t let them scare you.

This Halloween, don't let conservatives scare you into thinking that any public spending for the common good is "socialism." https://youtu.be/xq02yuY4wDQ?si=1pZ3aUVE7u452gtr

Happy Halloween. Trickle-down economics is nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich corporations and the super-rich. For working people, it's been 40 years of all trick and no treat. Enough.