Amelia Tyler, who was nominated for best performance for her portrayal of the Baldur's Gate 3 narrator, spoke candidly to Eurogamer about a particularly harrowing stream.
"People have been recreating my voice off the back of this game in AI without my permission, and several other actors from the game," she said. "Just so everyone is aware, none of us have given permission for that to ever happen. Unless I have signed something saying you're allowed to do that, that is stealing not just my job but my identity.
Honey, even if a modder tried to hire you, you wouldn't do it.
These fucking "stealing" people like the RIAA.
I was NEVER going to buy it.
Amelia Tyler, who was nominated for best performance for her portrayal of the Baldur's Gate 3 narrator, spoke candidly to Eurogamer about a particularly harrowing stream.
"People have been recreating my voice off the back of this game in AI without my permission, and several other actors from the game," she said. "Just so everyone is aware, none of us have given permission for that to ever happen. Unless I have signed something saying you're allowed to do that, that is stealing not just my job but my identity.
Honey, even if a modder tried to hire you, you wouldn't do it.
These fucking "stealing" people like the RIAA.
I was NEVER going to buy it.
Who cares what that dumb cunt thinks. Actors get so full of themselves when all they do is play pretend it's embarrassing. We need to go back to the times when actors were treated as lower than dirt.
Who cares what that dumb cunt thinks. Actors get so full of themselves when all they do is play pretend it's embarrassing. We need to go back to the times when actors were treated as lower than dirt.
Put a coin into the dancing monkey and watch it dance. That's all they're good for.
Honey, even if a modder tried to hire you, you wouldn't do it.
These fucking "stealing" people like the RIAA.
I was NEVER going to buy it.
Who cares what that dumb cunt thinks. Actors get so full of themselves when all they do is play pretend it's embarrassing. We need to go back to the times when actors were treated as lower than dirt.
That women's voice is attractive therefore making the game much more enjoyable. She did great job in DoS2 too with that sexy voice.
Honey, even if a modder tried to hire you, you wouldn't do it.
These fucking "stealing" people like the RIAA.
I was NEVER going to buy it.
Who cares what that dumb cunt thinks. Actors get so full of themselves when all they do is play pretend it's embarrassing. We need to go back to the times when actors were treated as lower than dirt.
That women's voice is attractive therefore making the game much more enjoyable. She did great job in DoS2 too with that sexy voice.
I find her sanctimonious, more than anything. It worked with Malady, but not so much as a narrator.
But then that might be the dialogue she was given to read, rather than anything else. A lot of the time it's putrid.
Baldur's Gate 3
Posted: April 16th, 2024, 21:06
by rusty_shackleford
she has a nice voice.
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Posted: April 16th, 2024, 21:15
by Metalhead33
I don't deny that the voice acting in BG3 is top-notch.... but god damnit, are all of their voice actors insufferable idiots. Like all celebrities, I guess.
I don't deny that the voice acting in BG3 is top-notch.... but god damnit, are all of their voice actors insufferable idiots. Like all celebrities, I guess.
Except Dammon's VA, who is just an innocent fool.
I don't give much weight to the opinions of an instrument.
Baldur's Gate 3
Posted: April 16th, 2024, 21:19
by rusty_shackleford
I think it's pretty cool how they picked VAs that look like the characters tho. You guys seen the frog woman's VA? Identical.
I don't deny that the voice acting in BG3 is top-notch.... but god damnit, are all of their voice actors insufferable idiots. Like all celebrities, I guess.
Voice actors are some of the most annoying and faggy people you will meet. I think it comes from the typical theatre kid faggotry and sense of self importance but mixed with cope and inferiority complex of not being a real actor. At least actors have their faces and visual performance forever tied to the character. If they didn't constantly try to force themselves into relevancy no one would know or care about what 99% of VAs look like or their personalities.
I don't deny that the voice acting in BG3 is top-notch.... but god damnit, are all of their voice actors insufferable idiots. Like all celebrities, I guess.
Voice actors are some of the most annoying and faggy people you will meet. I think it comes from the typical theatre kid faggotry and sense of self importance but mixed with cope and inferiority complex of not being a real actor. At least actors have their faces and visual performance forever tied to the character. If they didn't constantly try to force themselves into relevancy no one would know or care about what 99% of VAs look like or their personalities.
Bring back the old times, when voice acting was a secondary job.
Most characters in Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 were voiced by real actors who already appeared in live-action movies. Most Japanese female voice actresses are also singers and vice versa.
Other than that I guess it's just my problem struggling to separate the art from the artist, and grappling with the fact that my favourite fictional characters are all voiced by such faggots.
I mean, I know that all celebrities are dickheads, but these guys take faggotry to the next level.
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Posted: April 16th, 2024, 21:46
by Vergil
Nothing will ever reach the SOVL of games having most of their voice cast just be random niggas they could find around the office.
Honey, even if a modder tried to hire you, you wouldn't do it.
These fucking "stealing" people like the RIAA.
I was NEVER going to buy it.
Who cares what that dumb cunt thinks. Actors get so full of themselves when all they do is play pretend it's embarrassing. We need to go back to the times when actors were treated as lower than dirt.
That women's voice is attractive therefore making the game much more enjoyable. She did great job in DoS2 too with that sexy voice.
Yes she's a great VA, I'd 100% respect her job if she wasn't an uppity asshole
I don't deny that the voice acting in BG3 is top-notch.... but god damnit, are all of their voice actors insufferable idiots. Like all celebrities, I guess.
Except Dammon's VA, who is just an innocent fool.
Jennifer English and Neil Newbon both tried to cancel him, all because he's following some accounts on Twitter whose politics don't march in lockstep with the leftist zeitgeist.
He's a fool for thinking that copy pasting some cookie cutter DEI apology message that his PR manager sent him would save him from getting backstabbed by his fellow dipshit voice actors.
I don't deny that the voice acting in BG3 is top-notch.... but god damnit, are all of their voice actors insufferable idiots. Like all celebrities, I guess.
Except Dammon's VA, who is just an innocent fool.
Jennifer English and Neil Newbon both tried to cancel him, all because he's following some accounts on Twitter whose politics don't march in lockstep with the leftist zeitgeist.
He's a fool for thinking that copy pasting some cookie cutter DEI apology message that his PR manager sent him would save him from getting backstabbed by his fellow dipshit voice actors.
Havel's greengrocer
The most amazing part is how much they're willing to accept something that they know is a sham. They know many people are just putting that sign up because they'd otherwise lose their means to earn a living, and don't care in the least about the sincerity of the beliefs.
Well we need to know what's the "death threat" especifically. If it's that silly karlach beheading screenshot @ANONYMOUS_FRI3ND has done a few months ago to own the troons, it's one thing. Now if it's PMing Larian employees "we know your address and where you work, beware now", it's another completely different.
Isn't the former NOT considered a death threat by law because it has no single clear target ? At least by American law. Not to mention, only a virtual character got "hurt".
From my understanding, threats require multiple components. Intent needs to be established, as well as ability, and it needs to be reasonable in its ability to be carried out as well as the person also needs to show that they reasonably feared that the threat would be carried out.
There are a lot of conditions and most of the "accusations" of threats like these are thrown out with a good lawyer.
People on the internet claiming they "feared for their life" is mostly public show. If a guy lives in another country, state, etc... makes some basic threat generally, it would be very difficult for an honest prosecutor or judge to take it seriously (remember... honest), especially if no further action or means is taken by the person making the threat to see it to fruition.
Circumstance is important as well. A guy in a bar who has a heated argument and blurts it out, but does not press it would be a difficult means for prosecution. If that person however pulled out a weapon of any sort (knife, gun, etc...) this provides many elements required to reasonably justify the fear and the intent.
Like Anon mentioned, someone simply sending some imagery, or symbolically suggesting such would be a very tough sell, but if they were stalking, harassing, and it could be construed as intent to some degree. A passing comment, or the like I don't think would be legally justified as such.
Though this also would depend on country, state, even city/county codes which change from place to place, especially in commie "sissy states" where hurt feelings may be coded into law.
These days unfortunately, anything can be taken to court and even successfully prosecuted, regardless if it is just.
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Posted: April 16th, 2024, 22:16
by rusty_shackleford
if anonymous death threats were illegal I'd be sending copies of emails I receive to the police regularly
proving intent is nearly impossible, it's not even considered a terroristic threat in my state if you can prove it was a spur-of-the-moment response with no intent to go through with it
Yeah... what you mean is, killing people because they have a different opinion is right. That''s quite fascist of you. 14/88, am I right?
Remember, the filter is OFF in this forum.
It's debatable how serious ANY post is.
I baseline assume any similar post is meant to be edgy dark humor with a tinge of annoyance with the cultural degeneracy we are faced with.
Thing about open threats like that is only a small percentage are actually carried out due to the fact that only a loon would actually say it openly and then mean to carry it out. Most people who mean harm wouldn't project it, they would just carry it out which leaves the rest of the people who do say it as just blowing off steam or the like and those types are harmless over the internet as the anger cools and sanity returns. Though some hotheads are dangerous if you are in proximity when they blow.
if anonymous death threats were illegal I'd be sending copies of emails I receive to the police regularly
proving intent is nearly impossible, it's not even considered a terroristic threat in my state if you can prove it was a spur-of-the-moment response with no intent to go through with it
Yeah, most states tend to be that way. You have to have immediacy to the threat that they are going to carry it out. Without that (or a list of other threatening factors), its a mood issue. It is difficult in some states to even obtain a restraining order for some people and if you can't even meet that, there is no way you are going to establish a serious threat of personal injury case.
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Posted: April 16th, 2024, 22:29
by Oyster Sauce
I care about all voice actors exactly as much as I care about the greatest viddy game designers, coders and artists in the world. They are all my slaves and I strive to give them as little money as possible.
so I play the game with this little gem here:
