If the stories on The Root haven’t convinced you, here’s a reminder: COPS DON’T ‘PROTECT AND SERVE’ YOU, THEY PROTECT CAPITAL AND UPHOLD THEIR “LAW”.
And the more power they get, the more they become oppressors when the “capital” becomes more self-interested. When a police department gets surplus funding and supplies,…

Read all the books and cite all the economic “rules” you want, nobody cares what a thing “should have” cost if it had been adjusted for inflation all along. It wasn’t, and we just care what it cost now compared to a year ago.

The “reality” is all economic “rules” are completely made up and selectively “enforced.”

Now,…

At this point, I am starting to think that people are just physiologically incapable of remembering that inflation is a thing that exists.

I just got home from grocery shopping & on TV was Monk & who was the central guest character on that episode? The guy who played Veronica’s dad as a security guard. Whoever said there is no such thing as a coincidence must have never watched reruns.

Veronica Mars? Maaayyyyybe? But wouldn’t he be more between Shaun on Psych & Adrian Monk?

“I was at church a couple of weeks ago, and our pastor talked about on this issue in particular, we need to speak gently and kindly because it is such a sensitive issue and there are a range of different viewpoints on the question of life. Mine happens to evolve from my position on faith and my relationship with…

This is very much getting into the boundaries between active and passive racism, and systemic racism in general. There’s a question that came up in some DEI training I was taking part in: are you A racist (noun), being racist (adjective), or taking part in racism (verb-ish/adverb-ish)? Are they all equivalent? I don’t…

True, but this is english voice acting for an american audience. No clue how the japanese dub was handled. And yes, MGS was far from the first game with voice recordings (especially if you were a pc gamer then).

The Pokemon world doesn't seem to have systemic racism as far as I can tell, so cops are most likely different there anyway. Though they have a bad habit of just letting kids deal with criminal organizations.

For the movie, is he currently a cop? Because I’m unsure if a former cop counts as a cop. A former cop very often can be (and usually is) a bastard, but I don’t know if it’s still a requirement.

An hour of finished dialogue is considerably different from the amount of time spent recording it.

It’s reductive to talk about what their pay works out to per hour / per day because while it sounds great in the abstract, it is considerably less great when you consider that VA employment is inconsistent and the gap between work can be significant. $1200 becomes considerably less impressive when it’s your only job…

The issue with Ray Liotta and Vice City isn’t whether or not he had marketing power, or could just walk away, but his knowledge of the significance of the game (and expected revenues) relative to the value of his time.

He openly said in interviews he didn’t play video games and had little-to-no idea of how big the GTA…

Whether she wanted them or not at the time she wasn’t in a position to negotiate for them. Not with the way the market was back then. She wasn’t a major player back then and video game voice acting jobs were still fairly limited. This is still when it was an exception for a game to have a full voice cast rather than…

Without seeing her actual posts and the context she was using that language in, it’s impossible to tell if she was racist, or merely a clueless dumbshit.

“Around the time she was 16 or 17, it seems, Lunden was in the habit of tweeting the N-word. A lot.”

To all of the people out there saying how happy Jennifer Hale (and other VAs) should be with what they earn, make note that Ray Liotta, Michael Hollick, and Young Maylay (Tommy Vercetti, Niko Bellic, and CJ Johnson, respectively), all had complaints about what they were paid for their roles, which were significantly…

She probably has the third or fourth most lines in the game. She plays a *substantial* role in the plot of a game series known for long, drawn-out, and fully-voiced cutscenes.

Lotta bootlickers in the greys. Stay safe down there, folks.

Considering the game was done as a non-union job and everybody used pseudonyms, I’m not shocked to hear it also paid terribly. I hope the later games paid better but I also would not be shocked if they didn’t either.