#THE VOICE ACTORS

[saishu-harachi-thegatorlord]

OHHHH MY GOD THE NEW EPISODE AAAAAAANDIAHCISIVIDI

(Spoilers for ch2 ep14!)

THE MIN AND EDEN PARALLELS OH MY GOD

they are actually going to make me sob

[toranoya]

The VA's! Some of them anyway. :)

@airteacher @aiirmaster @zhaofucaged @bolinity

[minteehell]

Spreading my Kopi x Beverly (koverly?) propaganda

THEYRE SO CUTE THEYRE SO CUTE I WILL POST MORE OF THEM!!!!

[yusuke-of-valla]

GAMES MADE BY PEOPLE WHO ARE PAID MORE TO WORK LESS

[eulogysinger]

When I remember they all in the same timeline I giggle

[transparentcheesecake2]

Its important to inform that Ben Diskin(Black Doom's VA) is currently roleplaying as Black Doom on twitter and here are some of my favorites

Black Doom says no rights

[niyana-the-ambiguous-mobian]

The freaking Roger voice acting history jumpscare took me out real good.

Also, SHADOW KNOWS ABOUT ASSASSINS CREED

[trisiyamoon]

Voice actor meet their characters🎙️🤡🎪

[miscellaneouzz]

There is no better duo than the high charisma low wisdom method actor and his ride or die partner in crime.

[ganglemanva]

I GUESS WE DOIN CIRCLES NOW

https://twitter.com/stormbringxr/status/1825199922544554156 thanks  @TomSchalkOfficial  for the ford now go watch gravity falls please

[noirbunnydeluxe]

ok, now I can sleep...

[autumn-may]

Mostly spoiler free summary of my viewing experience

[toranoya]

(lol, Feiii liked the other one and I forgot her muse. :) @feiiizhu

"I think Bolin has worked his way out of the Polar-Bear dog house." -Opal

"Get your hands off me! You're crushing my individuality!" -Huan

[cfserkgk]

HE IS HERE HE IS HERE BEST BOY LAHAN IN THE NEW OPENINNGGG DID YOU GUYS SEE HIM

I haven't posted in ages because of coursework building up but I saw the new opening and needed to post modern day Lahan and Maomao. I knew he doesn't actually have green hair but yeah the anime confirmed the black hair again (let me dream) BUT WHY DOESN'T HE HAVE BLUE EYES? I always thought the blue eyes was a La clan thing because Lakan has them, so I will continue to believe that Lahan has blue eyes.

But more siblings AU - I had much fun drawing this one. I need more of their interactions.

[yusuke-of-valla]

WE LIVE IN A HELL WORLD

Snippets from the article by Karissa Bell:

SAG-AFTRA, the union representing thousands of performers, has struck a deal with an AI voice acting platform aimed at making it easier for actors to license their voice for use in video games. ...

the agreements cover the creation of so-called “digital voice replicas” and how they can be used by game studios and other companies. The deal has provisions for minimum rates, safe storage and transparency requirements, as well as “limitations on the amount of time that a performance replica can be employed without further payment and consent.”

Notably, the agreement does not cover whether actors’ replicas can be used to train large language models (LLMs), though Replica Studios CEO Shreyas Nivas said the company was interested in pursuing such an arrangement. “We have been talking to so many of the large AAA studios about this use case,” Nivas said. He added that LLMs are “out-of-scope of this agreement” but “they will hopefully [be] things that we will continue to work on and partner on.”

...Even so, some well-known voice actors were immediately skeptical of the news, as the BBC reports. In a press release, SAG-AFTRA said the agreement had been approved by "affected members of the union’s voiceover performer community." But on X, voice actors said they had not been given advance notice. "How has this agreement passed without notice or vote," wrote Veronica Taylor, who voiced Ash in Pokémon. "Encouraging/allowing AI replacement is a slippery slope downward." Roger Clark, who voiced Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption 2, also suggested he was not notified about the deal. "If I can pay for permission to have an AI rendering of an ‘A-list’ voice actor’s performance for a fraction of their rate I have next to no incentive to employ 90% of the lesser known ‘working’ actors that make up the majority of the industry," Clark wrote.

SAG-AFTRA’s deal with Replica only covers a sliver of the game industry. Separately, the union is also negotiating with several of the major game studios after authorizing a strike last fall. “I certainly hope that the video game companies will take this as an inspiration to help us move forward in that negotiation,” Crabtree said.

And here are some various reactions I've found about things people in/adjacent to this can do

And in OTHER AI games news, Valve is updating it's TOS to allow AI generated content on steam so long as devs promise they have the rights to use it, which you can read more about on Aftermath in this article by Luke Plunkett