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Star Man posted:I would imagine the biggest western video game developers and publishers would move their mocap and voice talent over to a place like Canada or New Zealand. Somewhere that SAG-AFTRA can't get them. this sounds like move that will backfire, my gut says that most english speaking countries, even the UK are less regressive than America. like it works for weird accounting tax tricks, but not for skills and labor.
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NZ literally gutted its labor laws for the Hobbit
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Gyges posted:Yeah, Miami and Key West are the Florida cities you've heard of that are facing complete devastation from sea level rises. You should see a doctor
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Sep 3, 2023 21:02
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Nenonen posted:You should see a doctor Its just the tip
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BiggerBoat posted:I live in that upper right red part there on an island maybe a mile wide. 3x I've had hurricane flood waters reach half way up my slanted driveway and several neighbors to my west have flooded multiple times. My house is paid for so my plan is to stick around, wait 6 years for my son to turn 18, the child support payments are done and then sell this place if it's still standing and gently caress off ot higher ground somewhere. Hopefully out of the godforsaken red hell hole of Florida Sell the house to who, Ben? loving Aquaman?
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:NZ literally gutted its labor laws for the Hobbit Talk about rubbing salt in the wound.
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borkencode posted:Sell the house to who, Ben? loving Aquaman? In 6 years? Some rich gently caress who wants coastal property and has money to burn.
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Star Man posted:I would imagine the biggest western video game developers and publishers would move their mocap and voice talent over to a place like Canada or New Zealand. Somewhere that SAG-AFTRA can't get them. I doubt it's actually that easy to outsource voice acting to overseas. Even if they speak flawless English, they're going to have different accents. Plus I imagine that New Zealand, population ~5 million, is going to have a smaller talent pool of professional voice actors than the US does.
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Sep 3, 2023 23:41
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Former vegan here, people also just really hate vegans. One of my friends invited me to her dinner club thing where they go try out a new restaurant every other week and I’ve been twice. Both times there was at least 1 or 2 people at the table who would make a big deal about her being vegan ranging from patronizing “are you sure you can eat that” comments to “””””jokes””””” about how vegans always preach on and on about being vegan. The thing is I have literally never heard her even mention that she was a vegan at the table. But other people sure do love pointing it out for her.
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DeadlyMuffin posted:My father was a contractor and it was incredibly hard on his body. He was adamant that I not follow his footsteps, so it's interesting to see people advocating the opposite. If I was talking to someone interested in the trades I'd steer them towards a specialty that's easier on the body.  If and whenever it pays well the trades are always brutal work that breaks your body and sometimes poisons you too.
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Boris Galerkin posted:One of my friends invited me to her dinner club thing where they go try out a new restaurant every other week and I’ve been twice. Both times there was at least 1 or 2 people at the table who would make a big deal about her being vegan ranging from patronizing “are you sure you can eat that” comments to “””””jokes””””” about how vegans always preach on and on about being vegan. When I tried being vegan for a year or so, the only way to get people to shut the gently caress up about what I ate was to say it was a diet. Mention you're doing it to lose weight and everyone who was losing their poo poo just accepts it. They still can't figure out what it means though. "What, you can't eat eggs/milk/fish byproduct?" they'll ask for the 50th time. It made me fear the horrors that someone with actual food allergies must go through.
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Sep 4, 2023 02:33
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Gyges posted:They still can't figure out what it means though. "What, you can't eat eggs/milk/fish byproduct?" they'll ask for the 50th time. It made me fear the horrors that someone with actual food allergies must go through. Comes up in the R/relationships thread a LOT that people will food allergies constantly have to deal with SOs/in-laws/family members trying to 'test' them and mess with their food or force them to eat what they've repeatedly stated they're dangerously allergic to.
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I don't have the diet of a vegan, but I can imagine. I'm a picky eater. I've gotten better as I've gotten older but I eat the same foods at the same restaurants always. It drives my family bonkers, to the point I've quit eating with them. Let people eat what they want. If they aren't actively dying, they don't need your help
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Sep 4, 2023 02:38
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Main Paineframe posted:I doubt it's actually that easy to outsource voice acting to overseas. Even if they speak flawless English, they're going to have different accents. I don't think that is at all true. There's a lot of actors in American film who are British and Australian that hide their native accents with coaching. A lot of major Hollywood films are already shot in Canada. You'll fly out stars to Vancouver or Toronto, film there, and use local talent in Canada for extras and character actors. One of the biggest importers of anime in the west is Ocean Group, and they're based in Vancouver. Just about every episodic cartoon show you watched growing up was voiced by Canadians. New Zealand's been the filming location of a handful of American TV shows like Power Rangers, Hercules, Xena, and others. Motion capture can be done anywhere. You don't see the faces of the mocap actors, they're irrelevant. Any foreign country where an adequate studio will do.
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Gyges posted:They still can't figure out what it means though. "What, you can't eat eggs/milk/fish byproduct?" they'll ask for the 50th time. It made me fear the horrors that someone with actual food allergies must go through. 2 of my best friends (married couple) both have severe allergies to different things - and relatively common ones at that. Nobody in our mutual circles of friends ever tests or questions them on it, and because both of them have allergies, I doubt their inlaws do either. I do know that when we go out to eat, they have a list of restaurants that they know are safe that we pick from - anything not on that list requires a call in advance to confirm and a stern look at the menu. Certain cuisines are simply off the table as well.
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Studios don't really need to offshore. SAG-AFTRA is much weaker in video games than it is for TV or movies and doesn't have the same kind of monopoly on necessary labor. Non-union jobs are already common and you can do 99% of the work for a game without actors. In the 2017 strike, the union pretty much gave up their main demand (residuals) after a year where the strike didn't really disrupt anything.
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Randalor posted:Nazis are just outright parading and demonstrating around Florida now. So that's... what's the opposite of "cool and alright"? That. Florida: "Where Woke Goes To Die and Nazis Thrive!"
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FlamingLiberal posted:The Keys already flood now, on sunny days. There are a bunch of articles out there but they don't really get much attention. Biscayne Blvd in Miami does this as well. 
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Google Jeb Bush posted:There's a pretty big distinction between lowlying coastal areas and Orlando (and Gainesville, and Tallahassee). As much trouble as it's going to cause, Florida as a whole is not going to sink beneath the waves. No, but there's going to be consequences unforseen in the next half-century from losing parts of the state. Disney already had surprisingly low crowds this summer and while there can be many causes as to this (prices too high, people already blew their post-covid vacation load, DeSantis/conservatives turning on the Mouse), it's not unreasonable to think that Florida summers are going to be too hot for tourists to want to go and stand in line for hours. My gut says that Disney is going to be very interested in the American Heartland theme park that's opening up in Oklahoma. If that can prove to be a reliable draw over the next decade, then Disney may decide that somewhere in the Great Plains midwest may be the next logical step for Disney expansion. They can only build so much currently due to the amount of wetlands that are protected and they're at the point where they really need to start considering building a fifth park to handle crowds (in theory), if Disney could allow themselves to be forward thinking enough to plan a third major campus/city, midwestern areas that might have milder winters due to climate change might be the play. Yes it means tornados instead of hurricanes but nowhere's going to be 100% safe from climate change and we're not building on the moon yet.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Comes up in the R/relationships thread a LOT that people will food allergies constantly have to deal with SOs/in-laws/family members trying to 'test' them and mess with their food or force them to eat what they've repeatedly stated they're dangerously allergic to. A story that always comes to my mind wrt that stuff is how Jason Mantzoukas almost died as a kid because he is incredibly allergic to eggs and while over at a friend's house that friend's parents didn't believe that his egg allergy was real so they served him something with egg in it. They thought he was a picky eater and they almost killed him.
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At the high school where I teach, I have in recent years had several kids go vegan, permanently or temporarily. I’ve been heartened that other kids don’t give them a hard time much. (They do argue about the ethics of it, but these are teenagers; they’ll argue about anything.) And when they bring in food for a special class or advisory, they’re always good about bringing something that the vegan kid can eat. So the kids are all right, etc etc. (What I’ve found interesting is that a bunch of them have stopped eating animal products to improve their athletic performance. I guess there was a documentary about that making the rounds a year or two back and it had an influence.)
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borkencode posted:A group of tech billionaires secretly bought up 50k acres in Northern California, and only started getting attention because the government was concerned about it being next to Travis AFB. There's no way Disney moves.
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Srice posted:A story that always comes to my mind wrt that stuff is how Jason Mantzoukas almost died as a kid because he is incredibly allergic to eggs and while over at a friend's house that friend's parents didn't believe that his egg allergy was real so they served him something with egg in it. They thought he was a picky eater and they almost killed him. Of course, the most important takeaway is that even if he was just a picky eater it's still an rear end in a top hat thing to do. Respect people's boundaries, full stop. If you feel the need to test them, you are an rear end in a top hat.
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Gyges posted:They still can't figure out what it means though. "What, you can't eat eggs/milk/fish byproduct?" they'll ask for the 50th time. It made me fear the horrors that someone with actual food allergies must go through. As someone whose spouse has both celiac disease and multiple food allergies, lemme tell ya, poo poo sucks! Eating out is basically an impossibility, and it's incredibly hard for people to understand the concept of cross-contamination. (The closest we've ever gotten was a Jewish friend who was like "Ohhhhh, so it's like kosher!")
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Looks like Laura Loomer had a rough time covering the Florida Nazi rally, but at least she was able to appreciate the beautiful displays of the first amendment in person
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Cheesus posted:Are they beholden to the whims of their shareholders to have their Galt's Gulch built and making profitable for the next quarter? I believe they're trying to build a no poo poo Libertarian City. An idea that is equal parts terrifying and baffling. Like, how do you even plan and build out an intrinsically governmental entity for libertarians? Are all the roads toll roads, and all services based on an insurance model?
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Gyges posted:I believe they're trying to build a no poo poo Libertarian City. An idea that is equal parts terrifying and baffling. Like, how do you even plan and build out an intrinsically governmental entity for libertarians? Are all the roads toll roads, and all services based on an insurance model? They're pushing for walkable, so look at places like Seaside FL or Seabrook WA for recent US examples of walkable planned communities. And yes, it does feel like the Truman Show to live in one (the movie was filmed in Seaside)
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Fighting Trousers posted:As someone whose spouse has both celiac disease and multiple food allergies, lemme tell ya, poo poo sucks! Eating out is basically an impossibility, and it's incredibly hard for people to understand the concept of cross-contamination. (The closest we've ever gotten was a Jewish friend who was like "Ohhhhh, so it's like kosher!")
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parthenocarpy posted:They're pushing for walkable, so look at places like Seaside FL or Seabrook WA for recent US examples of walkable planned communities. And yes, it does feel like the Truman Show to live in one (the movie was filmed in Seaside) Oh, so walkable cities are fine if they are the ones doing it?
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Oh, so walkable cities are fine if they are the ones doing it?
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parthenocarpy posted:Looks like Laura Loomer had a rough time covering the Florida Nazi rally, but at least she was able to appreciate the beautiful displays of the first amendment in person I don’t want to google her name. What happened.
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Oh, so walkable cities are fine if they are the ones doing it? Well you can dive head first into the libertarian dream scenario where the sidewalks are coin operated every step. Sounds fun. If they're truly aiming for a walkable community then the foundation of the layout is basically "barrier free, unless you are a motor vehicle." I've seen a lot more publicity from the people funding the whole thing about the community being walkable, not libertarian.
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davecrazy posted:I don’t want to google her name. What happened. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-757450 quote:'Jews won't replace us': Neo-Nazis rally in Disney World, across Florida
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i wonder if the regressive jewish snowbirds in FL think they wont be leopard face eaten.
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PhazonLink posted:i wonder if the regressive jewish snowbirds in FL think they wont be leopard face eaten. They just have to avoid the leopard for like 3/4 months a year. So a whole lot of societal degradation can happen before it begins to affect their gated retirement community.
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quote:He then approaches Loomer and says, “Put the Jew in the oven!” before flipping up his middle fingers and making a Nazi salute. I know what they mean, but it'd be a mean feat to flip a double bird while simultaneously heiling. 
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Star Man posted:I don't think that is at all true. There's a lot of actors in American film who are British and Australian that hide their native accents with coaching. Funny thing is most don’t need coaching. They all grow up watching American media so standard Midwest is very natural for them. Unless you’re Chris Hemsworth and your accent changes every line. If you ever get drunk with Australians or like South Africans (don’t do this by the way) ask them to do an American accent. It’s funny. I don’t know if it’s changing back but when I was trying to get in to film Vancouver had been kinda supplanted by Atlanta and I’m not sure if that’s changed. Vancouver just didn’t get enough days with sun. And even in Atlanta they’re bitching about how many days they lose to rain. Also how quickly the southern production crews unionized. Motion cap can in theory be done anywhere but it takes a lot to get started. I did a movie where they had to put my face on someone else. They still flew me out to LA and spun me around in a desk chair. This was back in like 2014 or so. Voice stuff can be done everywhere. The biggest thing for Australia or New Zealand is they just do not have to equipment out there or the people that know how to use it. A friend of mine who had his own steadycam rig was thinking of moving to Australia and he reached out to some guy on a message board to see what the work was like. Back in 2015 there was only one guy in Australia with a rig, and work was so scarce he was installing tile on the side. Plus, if they do something like use non union production crews they grab in Australia they’ll get their asses torn up. Even if they decided to go with local hair and make or whatever, the rest of the production crews would revolt. Especially on big productions. So yeah, actors are completely replaceable, but the tech is not necessarily, and the crews will shut down anything.
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Rappaport posted:I know what they mean, but it'd be a mean feat to flip a double bird while simultaneously heiling. One can easily Hail Hydra with both middle fingers out.
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