I use “we” a bit too freely. I am a game developer, but I’m indie and self-managed at the moment, though I heavily endorse my many friends who are at big name companies in their efforts to unionize. Of course, one reason I’m so adamant about it is because I, myself, have an end-goal of joining up with an established…

I’ve said in many of the responses, I am absolutely not against voice actors demanding better treatment or better pay.

I think I have to agree. I love voice actors, and I love the work that they do. I certainly don’t want to see fewer of them (I tend to actually frown a bit upon the practice of replacing dedicated voice actors with film actors). That said, devs are the ones who put the long, incredibly difficult hours into actually…

As I said in many responses, it’s not about voice actors being paid less; it’s that everyone across the board needs to be paid more.

We’re trying to unionize. It’s not that easy, nor that simple. There are a myriad of obstacles and barriers that have impeding progress in forming a developer union. For better or worse, there’s an army of young men who love playing games and - as young men are wont to do - are willing to sacrifice enormous chunks of…

We’re trying to unionize. There are a lot of factors that are keeping that from happening.

You say that like we haven’t attempted to do so. You can’t just up and unionize. Many of these unions for voice actors and actors have been around for decades, before many of them were even born. SAG was founded in 1933 and was supported by already exceedingly wealthy actors and filmmakers with the financial means to…

Then those developers should unionize. They’re essentially complaining that VAs might get paid more because they asked to be paid more, while they aren’t getting paid more even though they aren’t fighting for it at all.

So the devs should unionize.

True. I’m not “against” voice performers in any way.

It’s because no matter how good you are, there’s always a slightly hungrier code monkey waiting to stab you in the back and step over your corpse to take your job.

drawn together, and i rewatched some of it this week and still found it just as funny.

Well then that just means the code-monkeys should really unionize and join forces with the voice actors to make sure everyone involved gets paid fairly, now doesn’t it?

So Justin Bieber?

Code-monkeys are a dime a dozen. They’re replaceable.

That was my initial response...”Meanwhile code-monkeys don’t get shit.”

ive already seen this. #linkthetwink

Yes I have and it confused me as a child.

Link is not a female character. Why would a female play that character in a movie or game? It’s like making a movie about Barack Obama and having a woman play as Obama. Why would you do that?

Couldn’t he played just as well by a effeminate male actor?