damn bloomberg needs to change out the printer cartridge
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Seems like the summary is: Two anonymous corporate sources say she was actually offered that much over multiple shorter sessions but wanted 6 figures + a share of profit and she flatly denies all of that. But also with a lot of heavy handed editorializing and too-cute-quotes implying everyone was too hasty to side with her in the first place.
I know Jason Schreirerer is like the labor guy or whatever and this actress follows some right wing accounts so maybe itâs fair but itâs always a bit of a bummer to me how quickly people back off of having beliefs when a company puts out even the lightest counternarrative.
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the VA being a bad person doesnât magically make platinum/nintendo the good guys here. they can both be bad
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and honestly, even if she sucks and even if sheâs not being fully honest⌠like, letâs say it was 5 sessions at 4K. you can still argue that thatâs still not adequate compensation for that kind of work, especially for such a high profile franchise.
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instantly siding with the corporation when they tell you their side is so telling I hate that schriereer guy he seems so fake
toups is right they can both be shitty and the woman can STILL not be paid enough!!
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Yea I think itâs funny the company side is not only completely anonymous( unlike this lady putting her career on the line publically), but is also being laundered through âBloomberg mediaâ but gaming is so foregone in terms of corporate influence thatâs all like a given
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someone can be a bigot and I can still point out that itâs not okay to fuckin rob them
ugh
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yeah bloomberg is anecdotally one of very few good and stable and well-compensated places to work as a writer (business journalism is good in general but obviously screamingly dull if you arenât one of the vanishingly few people who has an ear for it and is not psycho)
speaking as someone who is ensconced at another of these very few places I am sympathetic, and their frontend devs and designers have always been pretty playful, by âlivable NYC employerâ standards they actually have a good professional reputation despite whatever knee jerk objections I or anybody else may have to the masthead
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god that period they brought in Josh Topolsky was a wild time
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re: Bloomberg, given the amount of NY media places to work that have laundered anti-trans writers (among many other horrible positions) over the years i find it easy to not be very forgiving of these publications and the corporate behemoths they represent in spite of the bad shape media is in and how precarious the jobs are. they are dying institutions and my sympathy towards the people aboard only goes so far. i guess i still kind of hate what new york represents in spite of living here. my attitude towards a lot of new york specific institutions is generally âwhat did you expect, of course everyone else hates youâ
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yeah honestly I feel like that taught me something about how much you can improve the culture someplace by just hiring people who actually like their work and getting out of the way of them doing weird shit
(this was @sakurina)
like if you have to work for a living itâs just so rare that youâre gonna get to do it to a high level in public with actual resources and some personality, and itâs still way more morally neutral than like, Facebook imo
i fully understand people need to work, esp like as someone who teaches a bit for NYU which is cartoonishly evil at times. but also my attitude towards a lot of that stuff is⌠donât expect me to love you or your work or treat it as a respectable authority either just because you have this position. itâs a trade-off. i think itâs part of the reason why a lot of people (mostly wrongfully) trust content creators over news media.
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i deleted my post because it didnât capture my point because i was being too vague but basically it initially didnât make sense to me thag Bb would pay a lot for games coverage but with stuff like this itâs clear why theyâd want to have a voice in the space
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yeah i think Bloomberg has more stability than other games media jobs (not saying much ofc) due to prob having more piles of money so itâs easy to snap up bigger name writers in that space who were disgruntled by all the ownership musical chairs and horrible editorial mandate stuff that basically forced all the writers out of places like Kotaku.
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out of curiosity, is there any information for what amount of compensation japanese voice actors expect for these kinds of roles?
2 minutes of searching are saying about $150 for one character on a 30 minute episode starting out.
It doesnât go particularly higher for legendary talent.
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if youâre making money at voice acting, you either 1. are on the grind 2. have enough infamy to parlay it on secondary income sources (the con circuit. Iâm talking about doing the con circuit.) or 3. you are a big talent and the producers are handing you a giant bag of money to put eyes on the product
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thereâs a rank system that determines VA pay in Japan based on seniority iirc, so it almost entirely depends on the profile and newness of the actor rather than the role itself. and what their agency asks for is another matter entirely
new VAs are like anyone up and coming in the japanese entertainment industry - expected to have a day job to pay the bills
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oh and more to your point, discussing the bayonetta situation with someone in the industry, they said the original $4k claim for the role would have been significantly more than the Japanese pay for the role
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