pretty much, another example of cultural impact but little sales is probably Silent Hill lol
I remember back when the the anger over Bayo2 being a Wii U exclusive happened and I was just completely taken a aback by how huge and vicious of a moment that was given that the original game seemed to have very modest sales.
Even not as a contractor, I pay taxes and occasional business expenses. I get that $1000/hr isn't going directly into a VA's wallet...but then my salary isn't going directly into mine either. Not sure I buy this as the strongest line of argument.
Career VAs are always working, which is what leads to "problems" like how we had that period where AAA productions wanted Nolan North to do the Drake Voice™ on everything since Uncharted was successful, while he might be doing stuff in between those gigs for smaller but no less important roles, like the Personality Spheres in Portal 2 or being the voice of Deadpool for a few years.
This is nonsense. People acted like shits, stop making excuses for it. I literally did not feel comfortable asking what I thought were basic obvious questions in the other thread…and I didn't even think she was lying, I just wanted clarification. Your post is saying that if I'd asked for that clarification people should've dogpiled me and said I was posting in bad faith and I should just believe every word she said without question.
Lol. Yeah, I can't think of a good way to put it while on my phone and at the office but I imagine your post would have been better.
It wouldn't launder their image. It would look like a big company going after an individual person, which is what it is. The right and wrong of it would not be conveyed to the mass audience.
I can agree with this. She sounds like a shitty person but shitty people get shafted by companies all the time. And supposedly not shitty people lie sometimes. There's no magical formula.
Post an example of this, I jumped in the thread near the end and that seems like a gross interpretation of what happened.
That's a pretty generous estimate.
As in to break in to the industry or per gig? And do we know on average how much time is spent auditioning versus doing the actual work?
This mirrors where my mind is currently at, however Jason and many others who are much more knowledgable than me of the gaming industry/voice acting seem to believe voice actors are underpaid even at the higher rate Hellen was offered. So while my mind is in one place, I'm interested in hearing the reasons why they are underpaid to have a better understanding.
I mean ...doesnt this apply to pretty much 99% of the time when applying for a job? reimbursement is not the norm
Depends on the level of dogpiling and the nature of the disagreement, I think. No one is psychologically equipped to handle a bunch of strangers telling them "you're a bad person" over and over. I take your point in milder situations, but I wouldn't say what was happening in the previous thread (or to Kamiya, for that matter) would be easy for anyone to brush off.
There was a clear shift in the thread shortly before it got closed. A screenshot was shared and it was insinuated that people who still expressed that Taylor may have been saying the truth about the negotiations were endorsing harassment of Kamiya or muddying the waters for a TERF (also happened in this one earlier). These insinuations are disingenuous. There is a distinction between a person in a professional capacity, and what they say or believe in a non-professional capacity. It takes emotional maturity to separate the two, that's what I meant. Whatever happened between Kamiya and Taylor on a professional level is not related to what they say or believe in in a non-professional capacity.
Most of this stuff was rightfully called out in the old thread though.
Given the accusations she made were justified only by faith of her character, yes her opinions of stuff outside her career reflects how people see the situation. TERFs have a complete bucketlist of disengious or straight up lies to attack trans folks with very little pushback by media and the general population. So people well familiar with this will take what they say critically. People brushing off the TERF accusations are very much muddying the water, as it's not keeping it on topic as they paint it, but dismissing bigotry towards a marginalized class entirely from a person we're supposed to take at their word.
Comparing this to sexual harassment is horrible. Literally horrible.
Has to feel unbelievably shitty for the team that the game was kicking up this much positive buzz after years of anticipation, only for it to be roadblocked in the last stretch by what practically amounts to a faux pas. I can only hope for their sake that the momentum can slowly shift back in their favor. The Bloomberg/VGC/et al. reports might not reach the mainstream recognition that Taylor's original tweets did, but among the enthusiast circles it at least seems to have made an impact.
Jason is a legit journalist. And a fantastic one at that. You should check some of his past work - great pieces to dive into if you are interested!
Is that the actual comparison being made? I think it's the larger rhetoric around this situation. (Which I think *is* interesting, in an anthropological sense, but probably requires more distance and care than makes sense in this venue.) Happy to be corrected here, though.
