There's a notable gap between what is criminally liable incompetence and what is incompetent enough to make a lone-wolf style assassination a plausible risk. Whilst it's not a very effective way to guarantee your political opponents are removed, deliberately straying into that realm of incompetence is an extremely safe and cost effective way to have a chance they're removed.
As long as the people in charge understand to keep the quiet part quiet and just thumb their noses at each other ignoring or encouraging performance issues in the organisation, the worst that'll come legally speaking is just getting fired from their role. And the deep state is certainly in a position to reward them with another cushy role elsewhere once it all dies down.
Just Tommy Robinson probably.
Shit is getting wild in old Britbongistan. Got contacts there saying the reckless summer energy is bringing out a general heightened sense of disorder everywhere. Masked up motorcyclists all over, gangs of unsupervised under 10 y/o kids running riot in shops, multiple actual riots in the northwest from different groups. It seems like it's not just the invaders anymore, even the native working class are collectively not giving a fuck anymore.
The upper-middle class are being willfully oblivious to it all though, so they're still playing with fire thinking they're too well insulated to get burned.
The only detail they initially released being "Born in Cardiff" without mentioning ethnicity was such a scummy thing.
I'm still working on hating journalists enough, but they just keep raising the bar every day.
I imagine this would be technically way harder to do, but I also love this. The OG voice actors don't lose any work they were capable of doing anyway, and get some extra incidental pay. And I get to watch a bunch of mediocre Western lefty voice actors try to dance around how to bitch about losing their jobs to foreigners without getting canceled.
Yeah, of course it makes sense from a self interest perspective for them. It's like inmates wanting nicer jail cells. In either case I don't just not give a fuck, I actively want to see them fail.
Rather than adapt to their looming obselescence and leveraging any other talent that still has value they've chosen to be the old spinster luddites trying to burn the weaving machines if they want. Go right ahead and try and coerce through union action everyone else in the industry still providing real value (and also indirectly the consumers too) into subsidizing your unwillingness to adapt, but you're on your fucking own.
Less so than with books really. With writing there's basically infinite space for creative innovation. With voice acting there really only a finate space of human vocal range to play with, especially if it's actual spoken languages not just howls and grunts. There's data for that entire range already out there and AI can be practically just as good at filling the gaps as humans given enough work.
Oh it helped, just not enough. Thankfully that monster needed a miracle.
Best videogame voice acting I've ever experienced was the Swedish gibberish in Magicka.
I think that at least for a while in the UK the economies of scale net outweighed direct gov incompetence, until government incompetence from other areas of governance started to bleed over too.
It doesn't matter if the care is more cost efficient with your tax money if the government is also giving away unlimited healthcare to huge numbers of people from fictitious warzones with almost zero verification and zero contributions.
It's also harder to be efficient when it turns out the supposedly smart people you selected to use the resources effectively were actually graded more on a color chart than a results table by the education system and are barely more effective than a flowchart with pills taped the end of each branch.
Got a hearing test a while back just as part of regular checkups. They asked if I'd guinea pig for a trainee and I said sure.
Got a diverse young woman, and I shit you not she managed to completely miss my ears when putting the headset on and proceeded to try and start the test anyway. (Edit - to be clear, this wasn't a bone conduction test and placed correctly off the ear. This was a regular, through air, speaker cup, cupping a random part of my scalp near my ear) Made solid eye contact with the supervising doctor who was equally diverse and barely paying attention and they did nothing to correct it. I had to say "No I can't hear anything, but it's not on my ears" and put the headset on properly myself.
She might as well have been a toddler playing pin the tail on the donkey. No shit people don't want anyone that incompetent and poorly supervised doing anything to them when there's actually something wrong with them.
All but the most hardcore based women I know have been in a social media cult-trance since the AstroTurf began "First woman president, first woman president. First. Woman. President! Criticism of auntie Kamala is criticism of all women, we must unite sisters!"
A strong group compliance bias coupled with forcing the vast majority of their socializing through an easily manipulated digital filter has turned them into mindless drones.
Ever civ game has then. Usually with cultural bonuses to low tech warmongering.
I remember thinking Renfield from last year was surprisingly entertaining alongside the cringe. Although that's more black comedy than actual horror.
Dumb, popcorn munching entertainment I've managed genuinely to enjoy despite their baggage?
The Expanse, Cyberpunk Edgerunners, and Edge of Tomorrow (that one barely squeaks in under a decade though) come to me off the top of my head.
That'll hardly bother her, teacher is just her brand identity. She's an influencer (aka mass manipulator) working under thesociablesociety.com, she even has a domain email from them in her tiktok bio.
Edit - link's fucked for some reason, just type it in.
The month long pride orgy finished less than a month ago and they're at it again already.
Just wait, I bet eventually we'll find out the attacker was already "known to the security service" well before this happened too.
Mental children willingly flocking to a kindergarten teacher's hollow smile and babying language? I dunno, seems pretty legit.
That there are way too many developmentally stunted adults out there is probably something we ought to learn to accept at this point.
Use one of those big suitcase dollies, just scoop them all up and drag them outside by the dumpsters where they belong.
Pick them up and balance the boxes on something just high enough they can't touch the floor anymore. You'll see if they're really handcuffed in there or just holding hands again.
And today someone else, identity withheld, has been arrested for going on a stabbing spree in a nursery lets see if they're as quick to call this guy a terrorist.
Indies especially are embracing it these days, making demo integration into the storefront so easy and prominent has been one of the best things steam has done lately for consumers.
I'm sure Lethn isn't the only game dev who recognizes how many hacks are out there shitting out garbage games. If they know their shit they'd be fools not to go out of their way to demonstrate they made a real game instead of some retard's first unity project pinned on the storefront like a crayon drawing on a fridge. The demos are the only thing that has got me to give a chance to, and buy, any hidden gems these last few years.
The danger of looking at it is letting the subversiveness seep in, but I imagine everyone here at this point is of the rare stock that have full immunity to that sick propaganda so it's probably fine. Plus knowing the details lets you more effectively argue against it with the normies.
The masses would be better off not seeing it, but anyone who wants to lead a charge against it still needs to know their enemy.
The working assumption on my part is that AI voice synthesis will/has-in-private developed similarly to AI picture synthesis.
Where it is trained on the product of a huge number of artists and if asked to can often recreate one particular artist's style recognizably, but can also mash the training from a bunch of different artist's work together and create a generic gestalt image that is still aesthetically pleasing enough to suffice for an entertainment project. It is still in abstract sense built off their work, but given the black box like nature of the large AI models, all it needs is a couple of third party contractors and a few conveniently unrecorded steps in the process to make it practically impossible to prove one specific artist's work was needed to make an AI model that does a good voice. With enough third party voice data, and some legally and arguably morally acceptable training methods (eg. Asking a bunch of human proof-listeners, "which of these voice clips sounds most like Homer Simpson?") it's even plausible to effectively impersonate someone else's voice without ever directly training off audio clips of them. We already accept that openly impersonating someone's voice is not stealing, it's who is doing the physical speaking that owns that audio recording, it's only a problem if you try to pass it off as actually spoken by the impersonatee.
So realistically the only thing that would keep voice acting intact as profession would be purely an honor system by the producers around not abusing plausible deniability, and I cannot think of a more dishonorable bunch of wretches than entertainment media producers. I like to consider myself a realist, so I also consider voice acting a career with a looming expiry date.
As you say, you don't need union action to make people read contracts, and that's why I view the union action not as a measure to encourage informed consent, but as a simple coercive measure to try and force union terms on union members that will put impractical minimum charges or procedural requirements on allowing your voice work to help AI development. All in an effort to strangle the "with enough third party data" clause above that lets voice AI become a generalized tool that can replace even those unwilling to directly participate in its development.
I'm not even stridently 100% anti-union, but union intervention in this instance is largely indistinguishable from gov intervention, it's just a smaller and more focused government still taking choices out of individuals' hands. It's stopping those individuals willing to accept even short term lucrative contracts that will drastically cut down the demand for them in the future, for the sake of those who would refuse those contracts because they are unwilling to change.