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Her LinkedIn lists her primarily as a casting and performance director (also for TellTale, which I didn't realise) and you can see her directing the voice cast in the Broken Age documentary. I think she started as a sound editor, though.

I also hated the voice acting in the SOMI SE. There were some obvious exceptions (the storekeeper, for example), but for the most part everyone seemed to be doing their best to do a "funny" voice. I literally had to stop playing because it drove me up the wall it was so bad. I don't know exactly what happened, or who was to blame. Also I thought Khris Brown was the person responsible for the LucasArts voice-acting from Hit the Road onwards? Or maybe it was just Grim Fandango onwards (ie. Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, Broken Age -- Schafer's titles). There was certainly a marked improvement from the abysmally voiced Fate of Atlantis, whoever it was. The first SE felt like a huge step backwards to me.

It was a serious question. Your argument that the people who study and teach these things have never considered something as obvious as the fact that there are disenfranchised white people implies that you've not really taken time to understand the other side. (Of course such a thing exists, and of course it hasn't been forgotten.) Someone else here talked about how they were surrounded by people who didn't understand what the wider issue is and I wondered if you were the same. What country are you from? How old are you? You talk about your culture, but it's very hard to put your comments into context. I posted a video that touched upon the issue of "white privilege" and puts it in some context. You seem to have ignored it? That's a shame because it does a better job of explaining parts of it than I can. Resorting to insults isn't going to get much of a rise out of me, I'm afraid.

Are you making any effort to understand the arguments, or are you just living in a bubble of people who think like you?

I think I'm in the tiny minority who preferred EMI Elaine...

I understand the $60 fee includes customs charges? Or so I saw someone say.

Dang

Children will be children. I wonder if I would have been one of the inappropriately outraged if I was still a teenager. I’d like to think not, but who knows, we all hold weird notions when we’re young.

Yeuch. Some of the bile has started to seep into the FB groups I frequent. Thankfully the conversation is slightly balanced -- there are few people smart enough to point out the lack of logic in the complaints -- but the fact that they exist is annoying in the first place. A self-entitled vocal minority that I hope are rightfully ignored in all future decisions. It's interesting that you say it's age related, Jennifer. Sometimes I feel online conversations would make a lot more sense if we could see each other. I'm 42!

Ron did just that. He shared a tweaked version of the tools he used to create Thimbleweed Park. It's a language/interpreter called "Dinky". I started a thread about it a while ago: Ron's Dinky

Wow. If it's that involved I'm guessing they'll release the book separately?

Hmm. It does make me wonder what could be in the behind the scenes book.

Anyone know how close a replica the code wheels will be? They look fake in the mock-up. I still have my MI2 one I remember asking Jake an (in hindsight) embarrassingly basic Photoshop question (how do you stop things from sticking to guides). He was very nice in his response, especially considering how basic it must have been to him.

Nice one, LS. Lovely design. I wonder if they make take that central image and make it larger and reduce the amount of visible marbling... although I can see why you'd do it the way you have to make it look more about the collector's box, and less about the artwork. Does look nice. Dammit.

Interesting to do a before and after: Murray looks absolutely hideous, but the rest. Annoyingly good. Dammit!

Well fuckity fuck. Now I want to buy this. Arghhhh 😫 Curse them!!!

Well isn't this charming...

The only issue is that it was too loud. Nothing major. Looking forward to the public release so everyone who missed it can watch (assuming they didn't already watch it!)

Why would they create an edited version just for the people who already watched it live? 🤷‍♂️

Yeah, I don't take anything for granted in the adventure game world...

For what it's worth, my Steam copy of Season 1 says it's only available on Windows (I don't have Catalina, I deliberately stayed on Mojave for moments like this). I'm sure I have a physical copy of Season 1 somewhere, but I can't find it... so maybe not 😕 Edit: Found all three seasons Windows only 😕

They did say in that email that they will be publishing a public version soon. No idea when, though.

It seems the people who think this is wrong are upset purely with hypothetical situations. Fun fact: Hattie McDaniel was the first black actress to win an Oscar in 1939 for Gone with the Wind. The second black actress to win an Oscar was Whoopi Goldberg... in 1990. People of colour didn't historically get cast in notable roles very often (and still struggle now). Hollywood has a long history of casting white actors to play people of colour. A long history. They'd just put them in dark makeup and that would do. Due to societal pressure they slowly stopped putting people in dark makeup... but they still cast those roles with white people. They just changed the ethnicity of the character instead. Not good. With voice acting, nothing changed for a long time because controversial makeup wasn't an issue. But today doing such things, even unintentionally, harkens back to this troubling history of consciously excluding people of colour. Refusing to acknowledge this fact is denying reality. It happened, for decades, and now it needs to be consciously addressed because it was wrong. Also refusing to acknowledge that Bosco is a black man is denying reality. It's like saying Homer Simpson isn't a white man because his skin colour is yellow. Trevor Noah summed up the issue perfectly.

Well, it was confirmed by the devs themselves in the Vice article when it was revealed they'd decided to recast the part because having a white actor playing a black man didn't sit well with them 🤷‍♂️

Love this new image! I’m guessing they fact it was harder to navigate. Where’s the “exit” the Melee”s overhead map? Probably would have been easy for new players to miss.