How am I just now noticing the typo oh my god

@spice8rack.bsky.social I thought your deck was a scathing critique of Capitalism by showing how the bourgeoisie (Omnath) literally grows fat off of the production of others, extracting wealth just to generate more wealth. 😂

(Omnath being a stand-in for Baby Boomers, of course)

They're not looking to exploit Marin Miller, however. Unless you have evidence to the contrary?

"We must secure the existence of our people and a future for TRANS children."

And then the 88 could become a representation of a top-down view of two trans lesbians hugging with their tiddies touching.

Praxis achieved 😎

This motherfucker looking like a devil from Kill Six Billion Demons

Hell yeah

This SG thing has me very worried, because I actually, truly am in the process of making a game with some friends haha

We hadn't even thought about SAG-AFTRA and like... Well, the webcomic we're basing it on (The Out-of-Placers) has a large fan base and it's important to us that we do right by them

What if we later contract out some other VA roles, and one of the people insists that we sign with SAG-AFTRA in some kind of fashion.

Then, a lot of public pressure mounts and demands we sign; however, only person involved who wants to is that one outside VA.

Would we be wrong to still not sign?

Thank you for the really in-depth response. <3

Quick follow-up: Say I and a couple friends make a game studio. We wear a bunch of hats, and we do the VA ourselves. We all decline to sign any agreements with SAG-AFTRA, we're genuinely not interested.

Do you feel as if that would be in the wrong?

I feel that the only way to guarantee protection for all workers is for SAG-AFTRA to refuse to compromise on AI.

However, if I'm mistaken and SAG-AFTRA can somehow prevent that process, then that would be awesome to hear. <3

Union protections are extremely important, of course, but SAG-AFTRA has had enough of a concerning track record regarding AI that I can understand SG not signing a contract with them.

I hope this clears things up a bit.

Also, we can't forget that Amelia Tyler is doing work on Hades 2. That's another big contributing factor.

And seeing that, despite the thing with her being traumatized by her voice being stolen and used for rape porn, that SAG-AFTRA went ahead and partnered with Ethovox.... Yeeeeaaaaah

Well, there was Replica.

Then the thing with Amelia Tyler happened. Who works with SG.

And, then despite that, SAG-AFTRA partnered, with Ethovox later in the year

(RE: celeb response)
www.eurogamer.net/actors-raise...

SG isn't anti-union, but I can see why they wouldn't work with SAG-AFTRA.

Unions aren't the only way to have protections. It's one way of many.

There's also the very sensitive subject of Amelia Tyler working with them.

It's such a big mess for sure.

There's also this.

SG has a responsibility to protect their VAs and respect their wishes, and since Amelia Tyler is working with them, what they're doing makes sense.

www.eurogamer.net/baldurs-gate...

I imagine it also has something to do with SG having Amelia Tyler doing voice work for them.

And while some VAs are okay with using AI—and I don't begrudge them for it—a lot aren't.

However, SG doesn't want to undermine SAG-AFTRA.

It's a messy issue, but not black and white, you know?

What really sucks is that SAG-AFTRA is now _actively_ partnering with companies like _Ethovox._

SAG-AFTRA's handling of all of this reminds me of how Democrats used to handle dealing with the GOP.

And seeing where that's gotten us... Yeah D:
deadline.com/2024/10/sag-...

Except, SAG-AFTRA has already demonstrated that they're willing to capitulate against the will of VAs.

Like, the big movie stars and such threw voice actors under the bus

I think it's because SG is extremely anti-AI, and SAG-AFTRA has a softer stance on that (as in, they support the use of AI and a lot of members were really unhappy about that)

SAG-AFTRA is pro-AI, though, and I assume Supergiant doesn't/can't work with them because of that?