Natasha Hoar ☕️🎙️🔊🥰
@natashahoar.bsky.social
Voice actor. Writer. Destiny button masher. Sound & dialogue design? WHEEE! Occasional game audio-focused streamer. Breast cancer survivor. I’m your Storyteller. She/her. #TeaDAMMIT (Audio)!
#VoiceActing | #DialogueDesign | #GameAudio | #AudioFangirl
#VoiceActing | #DialogueDesign | #GameAudio | #AudioFangirl
I’ve only just noticed that the Renegade Leader ship in D2 has a different outer orbit engine sound to the regular ships, AND I FREAKING LOVE IT.
November 18, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I’ve only just noticed that the Renegade Leader ship in D2 has a different outer orbit engine sound to the regular ships, AND I FREAKING LOVE IT.
Now just imagine if non-US rights holders had been allowed to join the class action…
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Now just imagine if non-US rights holders had been allowed to join the class action…
Could I get a bit of outside perspective on something that’s bugging me re. schooling for creative careers?
A school I’ve been looking at for a while bcs of their excellent (I’m told) recording arts diploma recently had their latest grad ceremony, where grads were told to ‘collaborate w/machines’.🧵
A school I’ve been looking at for a while bcs of their excellent (I’m told) recording arts diploma recently had their latest grad ceremony, where grads were told to ‘collaborate w/machines’.🧵
November 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Could I get a bit of outside perspective on something that’s bugging me re. schooling for creative careers?
A school I’ve been looking at for a while bcs of their excellent (I’m told) recording arts diploma recently had their latest grad ceremony, where grads were told to ‘collaborate w/machines’.🧵
A school I’ve been looking at for a while bcs of their excellent (I’m told) recording arts diploma recently had their latest grad ceremony, where grads were told to ‘collaborate w/machines’.🧵
Folks who are brand new to Destiny 2 - ignore the new event, Call To Arms.
Seriously. Ignore it. And I gnore all the getgud YT videos about it that imply if you can’t do it, or you’re not 550 light, that you’re a loser.
Go play the expansions - the core game. Play everything BUT Call To Arms.
Seriously. Ignore it. And I gnore all the getgud YT videos about it that imply if you can’t do it, or you’re not 550 light, that you’re a loser.
Go play the expansions - the core game. Play everything BUT Call To Arms.
November 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Folks who are brand new to Destiny 2 - ignore the new event, Call To Arms.
Seriously. Ignore it. And I gnore all the getgud YT videos about it that imply if you can’t do it, or you’re not 550 light, that you’re a loser.
Go play the expansions - the core game. Play everything BUT Call To Arms.
Seriously. Ignore it. And I gnore all the getgud YT videos about it that imply if you can’t do it, or you’re not 550 light, that you’re a loser.
Go play the expansions - the core game. Play everything BUT Call To Arms.
Having a complex relationship with a sibling who lives on a different continent just sucks. Trying to be a level-headed go-between for said sibling and their child who lives on your continent is…well it sucks even more.
0/10 Do not recommend.
0/10 Do not recommend.
November 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Having a complex relationship with a sibling who lives on a different continent just sucks. Trying to be a level-headed go-between for said sibling and their child who lives on your continent is…well it sucks even more.
0/10 Do not recommend.
0/10 Do not recommend.
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It’s that time of year again — Book Angel time @oblongbooks.bsky.social ! You can come into the store to choose books for the kids in our program — or you can donate online and the booksellers will shop on your behalf. 📕 👼 📚
oblongbooks.com/bookangel
oblongbooks.com/bookangel
Be a Book Angel!
Provide books for a child in need with our Book Angel program! The Book Angel Program will return in 2025! Stop by our Rhinebeck store and choose a
oblongbooks.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
It’s that time of year again — Book Angel time @oblongbooks.bsky.social ! You can come into the store to choose books for the kids in our program — or you can donate online and the booksellers will shop on your behalf. 📕 👼 📚
oblongbooks.com/bookangel
oblongbooks.com/bookangel
I swear that the Spectre Sound guitar comparison and stealth review videos are eventually going to get me into playing electric guitar.
(Because I need to add another hobby to the long list that I dip into and out of, like a hummingbird with undiagnosed ADHD and crippling perfectionist tendencies.)
(Because I need to add another hobby to the long list that I dip into and out of, like a hummingbird with undiagnosed ADHD and crippling perfectionist tendencies.)
November 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I swear that the Spectre Sound guitar comparison and stealth review videos are eventually going to get me into playing electric guitar.
(Because I need to add another hobby to the long list that I dip into and out of, like a hummingbird with undiagnosed ADHD and crippling perfectionist tendencies.)
(Because I need to add another hobby to the long list that I dip into and out of, like a hummingbird with undiagnosed ADHD and crippling perfectionist tendencies.)
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No 24 year old actor has ever sounded more like a 50 year old ad executive in the history of the universe
November 16, 2025 at 7:32 AM
No 24 year old actor has ever sounded more like a 50 year old ad executive in the history of the universe
Reposted by Natasha Hoar ☕️🎙️🔊🥰
If there was suddenly a giant shark in every PSA video, would that improve the reach of our messaging?
Are you located in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York corridor?
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
November 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
If there was suddenly a giant shark in every PSA video, would that improve the reach of our messaging?
It’s telling how bad the Ai ‘music’ problem is on YT when channels like LoFi Girl have to start labeling their releases with [no AI].
November 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It’s telling how bad the Ai ‘music’ problem is on YT when channels like LoFi Girl have to start labeling their releases with [no AI].
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
frvr.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
After 10mnths of non-stop Buy Canadian/Support Canadian pushes, it’s hilarious that the only store straight up admitting in a tv ad that Black Friday is an American commercial celebration (but they’re not here to judge) is The Brick, who will refund price differences from BF up to Boxing Day sales.
November 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
After 10mnths of non-stop Buy Canadian/Support Canadian pushes, it’s hilarious that the only store straight up admitting in a tv ad that Black Friday is an American commercial celebration (but they’re not here to judge) is The Brick, who will refund price differences from BF up to Boxing Day sales.
It would have been awesome if Crayola had collaborated with the Wicked team for two themed box sets. Can you imagine Glinda and Elphaba inspired boxes of wax crayons? 😍🖍️
November 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
It would have been awesome if Crayola had collaborated with the Wicked team for two themed box sets. Can you imagine Glinda and Elphaba inspired boxes of wax crayons? 😍🖍️
Couldn’t snap a pic because I was driving, but had a large BC Hydro van behind me this morning, with what looked like a Purge-inspired mask zip tied to the front of it.
You okay, BC Hydro? Is there someone we need to call??
You okay, BC Hydro? Is there someone we need to call??
November 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Couldn’t snap a pic because I was driving, but had a large BC Hydro van behind me this morning, with what looked like a Purge-inspired mask zip tied to the front of it.
You okay, BC Hydro? Is there someone we need to call??
You okay, BC Hydro? Is there someone we need to call??
Our local children’s hospital has a radio ad that features the most ‘post apocalyptic child survivor’ vsn of I’ll Be Home For Christmas, and I’m going to need someone to use it as an intro to a ‘last gasp of humanity’ Christmas special. Not zombies, per se, but maybe post alien invasion, or war..?
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Our local children’s hospital has a radio ad that features the most ‘post apocalyptic child survivor’ vsn of I’ll Be Home For Christmas, and I’m going to need someone to use it as an intro to a ‘last gasp of humanity’ Christmas special. Not zombies, per se, but maybe post alien invasion, or war..?
Reposted by Natasha Hoar ☕️🎙️🔊🥰
‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet:
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet:
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
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if you dislike AI and like me you were about to buy the new ANNO, probably worth reading this
November 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
if you dislike AI and like me you were about to buy the new ANNO, probably worth reading this
I’m begging dudes who use mixed gender coat racks at work to TONE DOWN THE COLOGNE. One half of my winter coat REEKS of eu de I’m Pretty Sure This Is Sexy To The Ladies. 🤢🤮 I’m seriously going to go stand in the rain for a bit to try get rid of the stench.
November 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I’m begging dudes who use mixed gender coat racks at work to TONE DOWN THE COLOGNE. One half of my winter coat REEKS of eu de I’m Pretty Sure This Is Sexy To The Ladies. 🤢🤮 I’m seriously going to go stand in the rain for a bit to try get rid of the stench.
I’d love a show featuring David from Lottery Dream Home, and Prue from Bake-off, spending the day comparing their jewelry collections.
Hell, let them have a fabulous show that showcases up and coming indie jewelry artists! Let our baking great aunty and our gay Home Network uncle have a joint show!
Hell, let them have a fabulous show that showcases up and coming indie jewelry artists! Let our baking great aunty and our gay Home Network uncle have a joint show!
November 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I’d love a show featuring David from Lottery Dream Home, and Prue from Bake-off, spending the day comparing their jewelry collections.
Hell, let them have a fabulous show that showcases up and coming indie jewelry artists! Let our baking great aunty and our gay Home Network uncle have a joint show!
Hell, let them have a fabulous show that showcases up and coming indie jewelry artists! Let our baking great aunty and our gay Home Network uncle have a joint show!
Reposted by Natasha Hoar ☕️🎙️🔊🥰
Anyway, by the end of Andromeda, I was clocking 500-600 lines/callouts in 4 hours.
If I remember rightly, director Josh said Jen Hale's best by the end of ME3 was upwards of 800 cues in a 4 hour session.
Ain't about workflow or speed. They don't wanna pay you.
If I remember rightly, director Josh said Jen Hale's best by the end of ME3 was upwards of 800 cues in a 4 hour session.
Ain't about workflow or speed. They don't wanna pay you.
November 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Anyway, by the end of Andromeda, I was clocking 500-600 lines/callouts in 4 hours.
If I remember rightly, director Josh said Jen Hale's best by the end of ME3 was upwards of 800 cues in a 4 hour session.
Ain't about workflow or speed. They don't wanna pay you.
If I remember rightly, director Josh said Jen Hale's best by the end of ME3 was upwards of 800 cues in a 4 hour session.
Ain't about workflow or speed. They don't wanna pay you.
Another week of the Vault being inaccessible for storing things on PS4.
Did I miss a TWAB where it was pointed out neener neener go fck yourself PS4 players, go use the app?
I don’t want to use the app. I want to use a previously perfectly good IN GAME function.
Did I miss a TWAB where it was pointed out neener neener go fck yourself PS4 players, go use the app?
I don’t want to use the app. I want to use a previously perfectly good IN GAME function.
a stuffed penguin wearing a pink hat and skis is sitting on a chair .
Alt: a claymation penguin wearing a pink towel on their head, is sitting on a chair, arms crossed, looking mad as hell.
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Another week of the Vault being inaccessible for storing things on PS4.
Did I miss a TWAB where it was pointed out neener neener go fck yourself PS4 players, go use the app?
I don’t want to use the app. I want to use a previously perfectly good IN GAME function.
Did I miss a TWAB where it was pointed out neener neener go fck yourself PS4 players, go use the app?
I don’t want to use the app. I want to use a previously perfectly good IN GAME function.
Omg Dev is in the Tower?? Is he finally going to have some pie with Mark and Hawthorn? 🥰🥰🥰
I need lore of him and Lodi chatting about languages and dialects. Get my two language and dialect nerds a table, and some tea, stat!!
I need lore of him and Lodi chatting about languages and dialects. Get my two language and dialect nerds a table, and some tea, stat!!
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Omg Dev is in the Tower?? Is he finally going to have some pie with Mark and Hawthorn? 🥰🥰🥰
I need lore of him and Lodi chatting about languages and dialects. Get my two language and dialect nerds a table, and some tea, stat!!
I need lore of him and Lodi chatting about languages and dialects. Get my two language and dialect nerds a table, and some tea, stat!!
“AI dialog generation + human personality and tuning could totally transform gaming."
So instead of recording a live person, who can create whatever you want & make it make sense in the context of the game, you have an engineer humanize an artificial voice, like checking a ChatGPT legal document?
So instead of recording a live person, who can create whatever you want & make it make sense in the context of the game, you have an engineer humanize an artificial voice, like checking a ChatGPT legal document?
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has defended AI following Eurogamer's 2/5 Arc Raiders review, which criticised the game's use use of AI voice generation. "AI dialog generation + human personality and tuning could totally transform gaming," Sweeney said.
www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-tim-sw...
www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-tim-sw...
Epic's Tim Sweeney wades into the Arc Raiders AI row
"This technology increases human productivity in some areas by integer multiples"
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“AI dialog generation + human personality and tuning could totally transform gaming."
So instead of recording a live person, who can create whatever you want & make it make sense in the context of the game, you have an engineer humanize an artificial voice, like checking a ChatGPT legal document?
So instead of recording a live person, who can create whatever you want & make it make sense in the context of the game, you have an engineer humanize an artificial voice, like checking a ChatGPT legal document?
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Interviewed an audio director recently who told me how an *iconic* character catchphrase came from the voice actor improvising in the booth.
Using AI voices robs you of the chance for spontaneous, funny, ad-libbed performances that could help define your game.
Using AI voices robs you of the chance for spontaneous, funny, ad-libbed performances that could help define your game.
If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Interviewed an audio director recently who told me how an *iconic* character catchphrase came from the voice actor improvising in the booth.
Using AI voices robs you of the chance for spontaneous, funny, ad-libbed performances that could help define your game.
Using AI voices robs you of the chance for spontaneous, funny, ad-libbed performances that could help define your game.
Nooooooo! I thought maintenance started at 8, and I just popped online to grab the bear bed, only to be attacked by a cat error. 😭
[#Destiny2Game] Maintenance: Update 9.1.5.5
Destiny 2, all APIs, and Bungie Websites are being brought offline for expected maintenance. Destiny 1 may be impacted.
REMAINING TIMELINE
❖ Downtime End: ~9 AM PST (-8 UTC)
❖ Maintenance End: 11 AM
Destiny 2, all APIs, and Bungie Websites are being brought offline for expected maintenance. Destiny 1 may be impacted.
REMAINING TIMELINE
❖ Downtime End: ~9 AM PST (-8 UTC)
❖ Maintenance End: 11 AM
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Nooooooo! I thought maintenance started at 8, and I just popped online to grab the bear bed, only to be attacked by a cat error. 😭