AFAIK, you used to be able to use their printers with all sorts of third-party alternative software options. Then they removed that ability, and tried to lock people out of restoring that ability. The fear was that they'd then start going the HP route, charging subscriptions/money for features.

The lack of clarifying punctuation here has me contemplating several possible interpretations.

"submissive. Challenge level: Impossible" implies "it'd be impossible for <Y> to be submissive."

"Submissive Challenge Level: Impossible" implies "the actual difficulty level is much lower."

🤔

Is Taft-Hartley available in a state like California? One that isn't "right-to-work"?

Also, don't enough of those waivers eventually mean they *must* join the union, or stop getting waivers? Basically shifting them from "SAG-eligible" to "must join"?

IMO, a crowd that is pro-union is going to support the union's ability to strike. Considering nothing about Supergiant is special (they're not students, it's not a game-jam, this isn't a no-profit game), I don't see why the union should cut them a sweetheart deal like Miller proposes.

If SAG is willing, then take them the current offered contract, ask them to draw up a SAG version that has no increase in costs to the studio, with the relevant carve-outs. (I suspect you'd end up with >7% less take-home pay, or insufficient exceptions, though.)

Will the union legally pursue randos for AI cloning on your behalf? e.g. if Betty White rises from the grave, an evil version of herself, and begins a campaign of cloning AI voice actors for evil purposes... you don't have a contract with her. Will the union pursue?

The union won't fight violations of a contract they weren't a part of. The VA can sign a non-union contract, but then they have to pay for any legal fights on their own.

Miller is in the union. The studio has never signed a contract with a union. This makes me wonder how Miller did VA work for Hades 1. Did they not join the union until after Hades 1? Did they expect the studio and all other VAs there to sign on to the union because they did?

They've *claimed* that flipping to a union contract would not disrupt other VAs or the studio... by pointing to SAG-AFTRA's involvement in game jams and no-profit games. Hades 2 is planning on being neither, so far as I'm aware, so I haven't been able to understand what the connection is.

So, just to make sure I'm understanding: SG would need to negotiate exceptions for 19-to-27+ other voice actors and somehow arrange for a perpetual guarantee that this wouldn't require them to hire union for a hypothetical Hades 4? Or even further Hades 2 roles? In order to keep one VA?

Those are not the resolutions you say they are. It looks like BSky shrank them. You may need to host them on your site.