Board 8 > Bayonetta voice actress Hellena Taylor calls for a boycott of Bayonetta 3

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foolm0r0n
10/24/22 6:55:26 PM
#301:


normalize being wrong and changing your tune

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KamikazePotato
10/24/22 6:56:42 PM
#302:


foolm0r0n posted...
normalize being wrong and changing your tune
Legitimately difficult to do when arguing with bad faith actors

Being wrong and changing your tune about one specific case = the entire broader discussion is invalid and corporations were right all along

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TeamRocketElite
10/24/22 6:57:21 PM
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Super_Sonic_5 posted...
I hate that as soon as new info comes to light in cases like these, everybody immediately wants to retcon the conversation and act like it was so obvious what was really going on and everyone else was so stupid for having any belief or sympathy. When the story broke, it was just as likely that Platinum - notoriously on the verge of bankruptcy at all times - was pinching pennies to try and stretch their budget, and had to scramble for a replacement when Taylor played hardball. It's okay to assess available data and form a conclusion from it, we're not a jury.


Penny pinching was mostly ruled out fairly early. If they were looking the go on the cheap, they don't select Jennifer Hale as a replacement.

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KamikazePotato
10/24/22 7:02:55 PM
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TKDBoy1889 posted...
Actual issues on worker's rights are going to be set back not only thanks to Helena, but thanks to everyone that immediately jumped on her bandwagon with ZERO EVIDENCE. When will social media learn to stop assuming Twitter rants by themselves are evidence?
This is actually a perfect example of what I mean. Hard evidence rarely comes out in situations like these due to NDAs, which favors corporations. 'Twitter rants' are also where most expos new stories are first broken these days. If people were less passionate whenever stories of corporate shittiness first come out, then no progress would ever be made. Hell, progress barely gets made as it is.

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paperwarior
10/24/22 7:06:28 PM
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NDAs were a big caveat in following the rule of making sure to get all the info first. For a while there, not all the info was available and it wasn't clear if it would be. It wasn't just reading a headline and not bothering to read the details.

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Lopen
10/24/22 7:39:02 PM
#306:


Lopen posted...
cynicism isn't always the way to be smarter about a topic

foolm0r0n posted...
normalize being wrong and changing your tune

which of these is the more ridiculous messenger to deliver a lesson to be learned

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Lopen
10/24/22 7:49:16 PM
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Anyway while I agree that you shouldn't just believe the big company by default there was a lot of evidence that Hellena was the one in the wrong here before it became dead obvious

  1. Jennifer Hale, who is presumably more pricey than Hellena Taylor, is the replacement.
  2. Hellena Taylor rips into Jennifer Hale and says she has no right to call herself the Voice of Bayonetta.
  3. Non-standard talk of residuals are mentioned in the negotiations.
  4. Inflated sense of the value of the Bayonetta franchise given by Hellena Taylor.
It's one thing to just favor the business, it's another to blindly ignore everything we know about the situation at hand because the business is always bad and the individual is always good. Why not save that rhetoric for companies that have earned it and give both sides the benefit of a doubt until we know better otherwise. Platinum doesn't deserve to be lumped in with Blizzard and its ilk just because.

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TKDBoy1889
10/24/22 8:56:38 PM
#308:


KamikazePotato posted...
This is actually a perfect example of what I mean. Hard evidence rarely comes out in situations like these due to NDAs, which favors corporations. 'Twitter rants' are also where most expos new stories are first broken these days. If people were less passionate whenever stories of corporate shittiness first come out, then no progress would ever be made. Hell, progress barely gets made as it is.
Problem is Twitter is also rampant with lies and people who will just rant to drive their point home. If you end up attaching yourself to lies to support your narrative, it makes your narrative look bad. Fact is, Helena was offered a far better hourly wage than most workers in general. $15,000 total ($10,000+$5,000 from Kimiya) for what was going to be roughly a half a week's worth of time for your typical full-time employee. But even IF it was only $4,000 for the whole game, that would still amount to roughly about $250 an hour based on how long the previous games took to record.

People talk about the "fair and livable wages," but are acting like a single voice acting gig ought to cover a years expenses. That is the issue. Ultimately now it seems those doubling down are insisting VA's ought to get paid a year's salary for just one or two gigs. I'm sorry, but $250/hr is a more than reasonable wage. Either hustle for more gigs or treat voice-acting as supplemental income.

There ARE people who deserve better in the corporate culture. Your programmers and testers and asset designers who are the ones pulling 50+ hour weeks a lot of the time, and sometimes have to skip meals to get by. Contractors who put tireless effort into a job for a very long time under the promise of getting a secured job, only to be released as soon as the project has gone gold. Yeah, those people who are truly putting their blood and sweat and tears into a company deserve better. Someone who does 20-30 hours of work for a few thousand dollars or more, I can't really give much sympathy for.
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agesboy
10/24/22 9:04:14 PM
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TKDBoy1889 posted...
Fact is, Helena was offered a far better hourly wage than most workers in general.
i thought we already moved past the point where people were comparing stable work hourly pay to gig work hourly pay in this topic

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HeroDelTiempo17
10/24/22 9:26:44 PM
#310:


TKDBoy1889 posted...
There ARE people who deserve better in the corporate culture. Your programmers and testers and asset designers who are the ones pulling 50+ hour weeks a lot of the time, and sometimes have to skip meals to get by. Contractors who put tireless effort into a job for a very long time under the promise of getting a secured job, only to be released as soon as the project has gone gold. Yeah, those people who are truly putting their blood and sweat and tears into a company deserve better. Someone who does 20-30 hours of work for a few thousand dollars or more, I can't really give much sympathy for.

wow you're right, all of the workers involved should share in in the profit generated from their labor according to their contribution. so true.

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LordoftheMorons
10/24/22 9:59:14 PM
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TKDBoy1889 posted...
Problem is Twitter is also rampant with lies and people who will just rant to drive their point home. If you end up attaching yourself to lies to support your narrative, it makes your narrative look bad. Fact is, Helena was offered a far better hourly wage than most workers in general. $15,000 total ($10,000+$5,000 from Kimiya) for what was going to be roughly a half a week's worth of time for your typical full-time employee. But even IF it was only $4,000 for the whole game, that would still amount to roughly about $250 an hour based on how long the previous games took to record.

People talk about the "fair and livable wages," but are acting like a single voice acting gig ought to cover a years expenses. That is the issue. Ultimately now it seems those doubling down are insisting VA's ought to get paid a year's salary for just one or two gigs. I'm sorry, but $250/hr is a more than reasonable wage. Either hustle for more gigs or treat voice-acting as supplemental income.

There ARE people who deserve better in the corporate culture. Your programmers and testers and asset designers who are the ones pulling 50+ hour weeks a lot of the time, and sometimes have to skip meals to get by. Contractors who put tireless effort into a job for a very long time under the promise of getting a secured job, only to be released as soon as the project has gone gold. Yeah, those people who are truly putting their blood and sweat and tears into a company deserve better. Someone who does 20-30 hours of work for a few thousand dollars or more, I can't really give much sympathy for.
The hourly wage is deceptive because for a job like this you're going to be spending a significant amount of your time auditioning/prepping (I'd assume significantly more than recording, but I'm not sure what the multiplier is and obviously it depends on your audition success rate and how long the gigs you can book are). That said yeah, even at her original $4000 lie she's at the union base (which from what I can tell is what most VAs command). As a returning main character I do think it's reasonable for her to expect more than that, but four times the base rate when Bayonetta is her only notably role doesn't seem like an insulting offer to me.

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foolm0r0n
10/24/22 10:17:13 PM
#312:


Lopen posted...
which of these is the more ridiculous messenger to deliver a lesson to be learned
Definitely mine since you've been a very consistent messenger of cynicism not meaning you're smart

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foolm0r0n
10/24/22 10:24:33 PM
#313:


KamikazePotato posted...
Being wrong and changing your tune about one specific case = the entire broader discussion is invalid and corporations were right all along
Think of it the other way around. By fearing their interpretation of your one admission as a condemnation of an entire movement, you're encouraging them to act like that in the first place. If that threat is all it takes to make yourself act like a stubborn idiot, then of course they will respond in that way and bring you down to their level. You're giving too much power to actual idiots.

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Lopen
10/24/22 11:40:00 PM
#314:


foolm0r0n posted...
Definitely mine since you've been a very consistent messenger of cynicism not meaning you're smart

I would have guessed yours because self awareness hurts the impact but what do I know.

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Nanis23
10/25/22 9:04:42 AM
#315:


Bane_Of_Despair posted...
This....is an extremely frustrating and regrettable outcome. It doesn't change my approach of believing those who are abused by companies/others, just really fuckin sucks that it's seemingly turned out twisted in this scenario. But also

Shut the fuck up Nanis
Oh, come on now, really?
It's not like I bragged about this, or insulted those that decided to believe her, or said how "ahead of the curve" I was
I just stated something that you should have learned years ago - be neutral at first and then form your own opinion after you learn the facts
Those who sides themselves with the victims automatically are just as bad as those who sides themselves with the companies
Get rid of your prejudice for fuck's sake

But whatever I am the bad guy because I don't jump to conclusions whenever a random person on the Internet plays victim

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foolm0r0n
10/25/22 12:13:37 PM
#316:


Nanis23 posted...
Those who sides themselves with the victims automatically are just as bad as those who sides themselves with the companies
Have you tried taking this to its logical conclusion?

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LiquidOshawott
10/28/22 10:49:14 AM
#317:


https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1586002385281122306?s=46&t=2sIBllQDZbXP5utxoOn0iQ

continuing down the rabbit hole we go

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10/28/22 10:53:11 AM
#318:


https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/9/2/AAeolZAAD00o.jpg

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SHINE_GET_64
10/28/22 11:01:03 AM
#319:


the continuous schreier dunk

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PrivateBiscuit1
10/28/22 11:01:38 AM
#320:


Man, don't ever call Schreier a liar. Lol

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SHINE_GET_64
10/28/22 11:06:15 AM
#321:


https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1586004825698861058

I wonder why

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Nanis23
10/28/22 12:20:02 PM
#322:


LiquidOshawott posted...
https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1586002385281122306?s=46&t=2sIBllQDZbXP5utxoOn0iQ

continuing down the rabbit hole we go
Ouch
She is done

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Kenri
10/28/22 2:18:57 PM
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We already knew she was conservative so that doesn't surprise me tbh

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agesboy
10/28/22 2:42:08 PM
#324:


i found out about her personal politics around the time the schreier article went out and i started really looking forward to seeing what charities she endorsed

no Autism Speaks, but more religious stuff than expected

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foolm0r0n
10/28/22 2:44:03 PM
#325:


Any Christian org will fund anti-abortion ads, so it's essentially saying she suggested a Christian org

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LordoftheMorons
10/28/22 2:48:40 PM
#326:


foolm0r0n posted...
Any Christian org will fund anti-abortion ads, so it's essentially saying she suggested a Christian org
The org is called "Billboards for Life"... seems pretty specific!

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MacArrowny
10/28/22 4:00:01 PM
#327:


foolm0r0n posted...
Any Christian org will fund anti-abortion ads, so it's essentially saying she suggested a Christian org
https://billboardsforlife.com/

You're calling this "any Christian org"?

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foolm0r0n
10/28/22 4:56:14 PM
#328:


Yes?

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Lopen
10/28/22 5:03:02 PM
#329:


normalize being wrong and changing your tune

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foolm0r0n
10/28/22 5:13:31 PM
#330:


Is the goal to make me explain to you how that's a Christian org like you're a bunch of toddlers or something? I don't get it

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Lopen
10/28/22 5:17:14 PM
#331:


Figures the guy who thought I was randomly talking about wheat wouldn't understand context and why "any" has considerably different implications when used in this discussion

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Dels
10/28/22 5:26:16 PM
#332:


i mean i had the same reaction when i saw the tweet, i was like "what, did they dig through all the charities and find out that one of them is christian and vaguely supported something anti-abortion among other things"

and then i looked and it was like, no, she literally linked to Anti-Abortion Charity.

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CelesMyUserName
10/28/22 5:31:27 PM
#333:


Would've had more cover going the Salvation Army route which, while still being shit, gets a pass for just being really ubiquitous

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StealThisSheen
10/28/22 5:50:06 PM
#334:


foolm0r0n posted...
Is the goal to make me explain to you how that's a Christian org like you're a bunch of toddlers or something? I don't get it

The point is that it isn't a Christian org that just happens to run billboards, it's an org that is SPECIFICALLY anti-abortion/runs billboards and just happens to be Christian.

There is a stark difference between a Christian org that goes "well, yes, this is Christian," and an org whose main focus is literally the anti-abortion subject.

Yes they're technically Christian, but, uh... It's not like they're outwardly pushing multiple Christian values. Just one specific one.

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Kenri
10/28/22 5:55:38 PM
#335:


I'm not sure the distinction really matters. They're an anti-abortion religious organization either way.

I will say that even if I was anti-abortion I feel like donating to a charity specifically for billboards would just feel like throwing my money down a pit.

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charmander6000
10/28/22 6:01:00 PM
#336:


Kenri posted...
I'm not sure the distinction really matters. They're an anti-abortion religious organization either way.

I disagree. For example, a Christian organization which runs a homeless shelter and is against abortion, but doesn't do anything about it is better than a Christian organizations whose sole purpose is to promote anti-abortion views.

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StealThisSheen
10/28/22 6:05:40 PM
#337:


charmander6000 posted...
I disagree. For example, a Christian organization which runs a homeless shelter and is against abortion, but doesn't do anything about it is better than a Christian organizations whose sole purpose is to promote anti-abortion views.

This. There ARE good Christian organization causes, even if they're usually outweighed by the bad more often than not. This one doesn't do any of those, though. It ONLY focuses on the bad.

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WhiteLens
10/28/22 6:14:30 PM
#338:


I guess we should be a little thankful that Reuben Langdon pretty much removed himself from the voice acting industry without causing much of a ruckus towards himself, as I'm pretty sure most of these companies aren't going to want to deal with him. That's probably why Ken has a new voice in Street Fighter 6.

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Xiahou_Shake
10/28/22 6:19:32 PM
#339:


Reuben Langdon is an absolute nutcase but also I don't know if I have it in me to ever accept another voice for Dante

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KamikazePotato
10/28/22 6:20:06 PM
#340:


I was today years old when I learned that Dante's VA is a conspiracy theorist.

Damnit.

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Lopen
10/28/22 6:24:05 PM
#341:


Far as being a nut job goes conspiracy theorists are mostly harmless. Can't speak for Dante's VA in particular don't really care to dig into him but.

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Xiahou_Shake
10/28/22 6:24:35 PM
#342:


Reuben Langdon has historically been mostly an X-Files era conspiracy theorist rather than the nasty, malicious kind that we've had the displeasure of dealing with in more recent times... but he's gotten worryingly close to the latter with some of his anti-vax views and such.

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WhiteLens
10/28/22 6:41:14 PM
#343:


Yeah, to be fair, he's not spewing much hateful words, he's just......far out there.

And who knows, SF6 has a lot of voice cast change, so he could have been replaced as Ken anyways regardless of his views.
But he has been quite dodgy about it whenever it gets brought up.

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foolm0r0n
10/28/22 6:47:32 PM
#344:


StealThisSheen posted...
The point is that it isn't a Christian org that just happens to run billboards, it's an org that is SPECIFICALLY anti-abortion/runs billboards and just happens to be Christian.

There is a stark difference between a Christian org that goes "well, yes, this is Christian," and an org whose main focus is literally the anti-abortion subject.

Yes they're technically Christian, but, uh... It's not like they're outwardly pushing multiple Christian values. Just one specific one.
What?

Go to the website and the link to the church it's associated with. They do a bunch of stuff and this is apparently one of them. Looks like your classic set of charities for homeless and kids and such. If you're donating to a church it likely has this combo anti-abortion/homeless/kids stuff, so go check.

StealThisSheen posted...
This. There ARE good Christian organization causes, even if they're usually outweighed by the bad more often than not. This one doesn't do any of those, though. It ONLY focuses on the bad.
It's official then, The SEP finds billboardsforlife.com acceptable because it's part of a good Christian org. Hellena did nothing wrong here. Let's all eagerly await a better reason to hate on her.

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ChichiriMuyo
10/28/22 6:55:35 PM
#345:


Just saw what she wants Bayo3 boycotters to use their money on. Fuck that bitch, now I want to buy Bayo3 just to spite her.

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charmander6000
10/28/22 6:58:26 PM
#346:


foolm0r0n posted...
It's official then, The SEP finds billboardsforlife.com acceptable because it's part of a good Christian org. Hellena did nothing wrong here. Let's all eagerly await a better reason to hate on her.

I think you misread that post SEP clearly said billboardsforlife is bad...

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Lopen
10/28/22 7:04:53 PM
#347:


foolm0r0n posted...
Oh right, I forgot about your reading comprehension

I highlighted the "being wrong" post plenty in here but this one is almost as hilariously unaware

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StealThisSheen
10/28/22 7:13:05 PM
#348:


foolm0r0n posted...
What?

Go to the website and the link to the church it's associated with. They do a bunch of stuff and this is apparently one of them. Looks like your classic set of charities for homeless and kids and such. If you're donating to a church it likely has this combo anti-abortion/homeless/kids stuff, so go check.

It's official then, The SEP finds billboardsforlife.com acceptable because it's part of a good Christian org. Hellena did nothing wrong here. Let's all eagerly await a better reason to hate on her.

You're not actually very smart, are you? Today I learned.

EDIT: Seems like you just now realized what people were saying, and you attempted to move your shitty logic to somebody else. Except I blatantly said billboardforlife.com is bad, so you fail, here.

This is classic "Oh shit I defended this person, so now I need to pretend it was actually somebody else defending them." Sad, really.

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Mr_Crispy
10/28/22 7:19:46 PM
#349:


Xiahou_Shake posted...
Reuben Langdon has historically been mostly an X-Files era conspiracy theorist rather than the nasty, malicious kind that we've had the displeasure of dealing with in more recent times... but he's gotten worryingly close to the latter with some of his anti-vax views and such.

the main plot line in the x files is pretty much just anti vaxx and white replacement garbage, though.


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10/28/22 7:23:56 PM
#350:


did b8 separate into factions in the years ive been gone or something

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