Not easy to do when you have hundreds of people on contract, locations on contract and sets on contract.

It was either this or cancel the series with s3.

I’m betting viewership will drop off with this news anyways. So S3 or 4 will the be last.

This is a ridiculous statement. Voice acting isn’t merely showing up to the session and reading your lines. Those sessions might have totaled 20 hours, but the “research” that takes place before the session - reading through the script, understanding the context, deciding how to approach each line, discussing things…

It’s prudent not to conflate “direct” and “forceful” with “mean”.

I get you think you should be able to set the pay for certain industries, but you don’t.

“You do realize that most videogame characters do, in fact, sound the same and nobody really cares?”

Comparing this to a regular job pay is nonsensical. How many projects can a VA actor realistically get in a year? To make it ‘40 hours a week’ job all games on the market would have to be covered by the same handful of actors. Would you like it if characters in most games sounded the same?

You have to consider it in the context of freelance work. Any one job has to pay enough to keep you going for a LONG time, since you don’t know when the next job will show up. Also all game devs should be earning a lot more anyway, so that shouldn’t be an argument for keeping any particular role from earning more.
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They named the high schooler, but not the bullies. Fair is fair. Name them and have them own up to the bullshit they spew.

YES. Seriously, Kotaku should join Defector, or just pool technical resources with them and go independent.

This is a good thing, Fandom sucks complete ass, but the justification ModdedInkling gave makes me raise an eyebrow. It was a Star Wars artist wanting their article to be changed to reflect their actual name and not their deadname, nothing related to the name or pronouns of characters.

Agree. I’ve stopped regularly visiting a couple of them due to this.

Good for them! Now do Kotaku

There was debate involving the naming conventions of someone identifying later as trans.

yeah i was taken aback by that but i see it as just some of the tension between the community and fandom even if it isn’t the best example of that tension

Seems like this is probably a good thing, but it does feel a liiiiittle bit weird that their example justification is what if we want to misgender/deadname someone, and Fandom won’t let us.

I’d say getting rid of the ads is the biggest win. Fandom wikis are fucking RIFE with ads, so much so that they interfere with the content.

Right Wingers are the biggest snowflakes on the fucking planet I swear lol.

So everyone should give up their industry because they aren’t being paid the proper wage? Fuck that noise.

If the lead of a major video game series can’t afford to run a car based off work on said series then maybe it’s not a sustainable industry? So if everyone took your advice we would get shittier games?

People who like to abuse people, like to be in positions that allow them to abuse people.

Is there something about running a company that turns people into complete monsters or are complete monsters just naturally drawn to run companies?