This affects you - the audience - more than you think. Because there are no residual payments on videogames, many actors rely on convention appearances as a replacement income. Because cons = $, cons have begun expecting talent to make it through YOU (no appearance fee). You’ve been tip-cultured.

Bought a new workshop vacuum cleaner and look how much dust I found!

If there is anything positive about this debacle, it's the massive wave of devs who have come out in response to this to say "actually we use human artists and always will". You love to see it.

I’ll reiterate why it doesn’t matter if the actors involved “agreed to it”: - Actors generally want to actually work, not just be in things - Dredging their voices means they won’t get to come back for repeat work - The finished work still sounds monotone and unmemorable Human actors only.

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.

This is incorrect! “Nickname” is a nickname for Mr. Nicholas Name

HUMAN VOICE ACTORS

God damn. Lot of love for you on this one @eurogamer.bsky.social

I built a catio 🐈‍⬛ ❤️ Dreadnought is an indoor cat, but we still wanted to let him play outside. So I took it upon myself to build an outdoor play space for him from scratch! Now to fill it with more cool stuff!

My gym progress is…progress-ing

What do Kylie's moss friend, Hecate Marnocha, and Dreadnought Harrison have in common? 👁️ 👁️

For Halloween this year, I’m going to be a himbo

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula

I voice Aglovale in this new expansion pack for Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond! Huge thanks to @soughtaftercast.bsky.social Marc Graue Studios, Cy Games, and my agents at Atlas Talent for letting me breathe life into this character!

Just playing Borderlands 4 and OH MY FUCKING GOD---

Too eepy for gaming.

10 video games to get to know me 🎮💪 jumping on the trend. Or is the trend jumping on me???? It was a real challenge not just to pick all ten of these but also to balance the very real game boxes that are not .pngs on my body for this photograph. What’s your fave?

Trying on a jacket and I’m nervous because this could become my whole aesthetic

I will NOT be at MCM Comic Con this weekend because I ordered an Industry Pass and then FORGOT to pick it up. If you see me at MCM this weekend, be sure to say BACK FOUL BEAST, I KNOW THE REAL KIT ISN'T HERE! YOU ARE AN IMPOSTOR, SIR, A DEVILISH DOPPELGANGER! (I'll make the next one, I swear!)

As a side project I’ve been levelling my garden. (SOLO levelling?) Moving tons of soil to make it flat (ish, allowing a small slope for drainage). It’s so much work, but it’s rewarding - I even started work on a big planter! HOWEVER, ALSO: The gardening AND gym gains together are going WILD.

Thanks BAFTA! I’m pretty sure I mostly just post thirst traps and I once played a man butchered in the mountains by the Baldur’s Gate 3 hotties but I pledge to use this power for good

Beyond disappointed to learn that Arc Raiders, like The Finals before it, uses AI voice acting. So many iconic game voice work is little vendor greetings, and to farm that out to a machine is a hollow admission of a lack of care. I know a thousand actors who would have done better for buttons.

Okay, let's hope this is niche and serious enough: If you are watching a show with someone and need to leave the room, ask to pause what is being watched. I have hung out with SO MANY PEOPLE who just dart out of the room or even say "it's fine, leave it running" and I find that SUUUUPER rude.

I keep seeing this ad for an Elgato mic arm that praises its silent movement and I really want to know how loud the previous gen one was and/or what the use case is for a VA/streamer who apparently waggles the mic around like a pool noodle

Daddy came home…

Friday gym pump photo dump 📷

A perfectly normal picture of my laundry basket.

Honestly, agreed (err, generally). I have a good deal of respect for someone who will take the time to see something and give their take rather than parroting consensus. That said, much like Fantastic Beasts, I think The Flash had more serious problems at its core than just being schlock…

Since it's been out for a while and you can see the cast list on the website, you can hear me as the Barkeep and a load of additional voices in Shadowverse Worlds Beyond's Diawl story! Thanks to @soughtaftercast.bsky.social for choosing me and to Marc Graue Studios and Cygames for having me!

...So have any VAs been made Trusted Verifiers yet here so we can start slapping blue badges on people?

It's Winter's Wrath from Destiny 2. I say this as a Titan main but are you KIDDING ME with how cool it sounds

Figuring out all the Destiny 2 raids with a solid crew of friends. This culminated in my first charity livestream, where we beat Crown of Sorrow at midnight. Look at that happy little twink. I had hair then!

My friends in uni and I used to have semi regular massive gaming sessions that often began at like midday and would finish the following morning. Fuelled entirely on Monster Energy and porridge pots. It's a miracle I am either healthy or alive.

League of Legends: Nautilus Apex Legends: Ballistic Smash Bros: Falco Overwatch: Reinhardt Marvel Rivals: The Thing

All the free time. I can make one game last thousands of hours, but I have so many cool things on and so I can't laze about like a weird Apex Legends slug like I used to. If I got 4 extra days per week that were just for me, that would level things out.

With the caveat that I don't often get mad when playing games, I definitely get annoyed when I have to grind levels to be able to play campaign missions. It's my firm belief that the level curve of a game should match the main quest, and you can grind to overlevel, but you shouldn't get stopped.

Probably Animal Crossing. I like the idea of getting to pay my mortgage back whenever I like with zero interest. Or Zenless Zone Zero, because I and all my friends would be stupid hot.

I haven't got Ghost of Yotei yet, does that count as upcoming? I adored Tsushima and so I have high hopes for the follow up. If it's gotta be upcoming, I am really excited for Black Ops 7. BO6 was just a System Shock game built with the COD engine and I'm so here for the sequel.

It was Death Stranding 2 and I adore the complete unity of artistic vision those games have. Pure methodical and atmospheric gameplay, gorgeous as hell, and with some genuinely phenomenal setpieces. And a VTuber.

No competition.

NieR Automata, and it's not even close. The specific vibe of playing through it and literally being unable to stop until I was sat sobbing at Ending E at 7am after staying up the entire night is one that I'm not sure any game will ever replicate again.

It’s honestly really weird that the guy from Nightmare Before Christmas is called Jack Skellington. His name is MISSPELT. He should be called Jack SKELETON, right? It’s like if my name was Kit Harington or something.

As someone whose entire entry to VA was doing impressions of game characters until his friends told him to fuck off and buy a Blue Yeti, never underestimate the power of persistence and passion because they're all you're ever going to have. Picture of me unrelated.

Dreadnought has been enjoying attacking our bedroom door at night. Came out this morning and he almost ran away but I GOT PROOF: He has BUILT A LITTLE FORT TO SIEGE US FROM.

Wait, it wasn’t recording.

Spent all morning ripping up the old paving slabs in the garden, laying some new ones at the back by the fence, and spreading manure and seeding so I can join the two lawns together. My arms hurt. This would have taken two fucking seconds in the Sims.

I realised after I took this picture that there’s a wrapper on the cabinet next to me. Pay no mind to it. Look at me. Look at ME.

Wilbur and Harold omg...... commission for @gioedwrds.bsky.social ! 🤓✌️look at this film....!!

Existing legislation that suggests that feeding thousands of Orphans to the Orphan Crusher would be “morally reprehensible” is, in my centrist opinion, far too limiting, draconian and woke! Just think about what we could do with more CRUSHED ONES