Heard it here first and looks like Arch is going to mention it in his stream later, both places also mentioning the recent closure of Volition...
My acceleration side of me is going 'DO IT!' because it'd love the infiltrated western studios to burn and all that nice IP feasted on by better studios, maybe I can finally get a good Battlefield and Command and Conquer game again. The non-acceleration side of me.....couldn't give a shit, I have zero apathy for these idiots ever since they said I was bad for finding healthy women attractive and didn't castrate myself to prove how loyal I am.
I know strikers have targeted YouTubers and Streamers too but gaming as well, it really seems ALL these people can be easily replaced by AI if they're kicking this much of a fuss about it.
Edit: just saw this video on the same subject looking a bit more on the social media side. Looks like some streamers who are VAs in support of the strike aren't going to play games from companies unless they are 'indie'. Don't know what their indie games are as they could be walking simulators, but probably best to knock them down too. Part of me actually wants this to extend to include anime dub studios and VAs too, just cut out ALL of the cancer at once.
There has never been a better time in history to be an indie creator, I'm not a superstitious man, but it really does feel like the stars are aligning.
Truly, just find a niche audience to appeal to and if your game is of excellent quality, you'll attract other customers too.
Go! Go! Go! Strike! Strike! Strike! You can do it, voice actors! I believe in you! Strike for as long as it takes to fulfill your every demand from those greedy corporate overlords! Don't give them an inch! Show them that you are willing to drag this out to the grave.
No, no, no! We need actors/writers so we can keep churning out these excellent modern games! Whatever would we do if something interrupted that?
Maybe those dastardly gamers would actually have the GAMEPLAY be the focus instead! How HORRIFYING.
nah they would just pull out the textboxes and just play a sound while the text scrolls.
Indie developers are better anyway. There are zero AAA games worth playing anymore because they're all derivative, preachy collectathons anyway.
That settles it. WGA/SAG have entirely lost. Every piece of news seems to say the strike shows no signs of ending anytime soon, and it is rapidly approaching the longest one in WGA's history (I believe it hits that milestone on Oct 4th roughly). Add in some hints that members of the unions are starting to have a cash crunch, and all I can think is that they're trying to drag gaming in to get some measure of public support.
So, go ahead voice actors. Join the strike, get replaced by AI even faster than you're already being (indies and modders are already using AI voices), and go away.
Agreed. Do it. They'll kill the whole entertainment industry. I'll take the win.
Not a good thing.
If AAA dies it won't kill the good japanese studios or the smaller companies that don't need that structure. It's the best possible thing.
well its one of the best possable... its also one of the most realistic, the industry needs a crash and reboot to shake off the parasites that have latched on over the years.
It's the most important and best thing that needs to happen.
Seeing as how I am years behind on games with probably zero chance of ever catching up I am not sure I am even going to notice. I am playing Wasteland 3 now, for example, with Serious Sam 4 after that.
Who gives a shit? For decades workers have been getting replaced by automation and no one cared. Now that it’s affecting actors everyone is losing their minds. Learn to fucking code.
alternatively learn to mine coal.
Oh yes, please! Fingers crossed they go on strike.
Go, comrades! Solidarity! Power to the people! Seize the means of production! And whatnot!
"WORKERS" OF THE WORLD UNITE. NO MERCY OR COMPROMISE WITH THESE CORPORATE FATCATS, DON'T LET THEM UNDERVALUE YOUR "LABOUR" ANY LONGER.
Maybe the big console manufacturers, especially Sony and Microsoft, will finally get their act together if this turns out to be true.
Hopefully this would mean no more pronoun choices, no more "straight white man bad/bumbling" plots, no more unnatural female character proportions, no more shoehorned in politics, no more microtransactions, and no more always-online DRM.
I think the whole AAA gaming industry needs to be completely dismantled and rebuilt at this point.
maybe anime localizers and voice actors should join them
Yes, destroy your own careers as quickly as possible. Video games will only get better with you gone.
Good. Let both industries crash, maybe we'll finally get products made by people who care.
The guy who did the awesome Scooby Doo animation paid VAs out of fear and redubbed his entire video. Most of the comments are telling g him to not give an inch, but I think the stars are in his eyes.
Side note, but "SAG-AFTRA" has to be one of the dumbest sounding organization names I've ever seen.
I prefer the Film Actors Guild.
while i share the sentiment of wanting the dragons hoard to be disperced i realise annother dragon perhaps microsoftt will just swoop in and squat on any vacent hoards... on the otherhand if fans can stop attacking each other over stupid shit and crowdsource they may beable to walk off with a gem of their own. would be nice for some of the forgotten ip to go public.
Oh no I won't be able to play crappy games I think I'm going to kill myself now.
Do it F.A.G. https://nitter.net/ManletThorin/status/1679882202958397443
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There is a problem with birth rate, just women might not be the solution...
It's completely feminists fault that we are SERIOUSLY considering artificial wombs and tech like it just so that we can continue humanity without their influence. Have a few generations raised with positive male role models and no feminists and we might be back on track.
Porn bans.....good luck, porn will always exist so long as a guy has a pencil and can draw boobs, it's getting even easier thanks to AI. I won't cry if porn with actors goes away, too many risks anyway with that industry.
They never have been. Not in our lifetime.
We can consider, they'll fight with their neutered tradcon purse puppies to the last breath to stop it.
The plan is to take away everything and force you to give them a chance. I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire, but I'm sure it'll work on mentally weaker people.
So, what's your plan? Hide in the forest?
His plan is to move to Israel rubbing his hands the whole way.
I'm not going to tell anyone here. It doesn't work if a lot of people do it.
Are you going to email it to world leaders? Wait, wrong poster
Achtkyually porn is propaganda deviced by wahmen to make men falsely think sex is more than laying like a starfish
Kek.