Lead Writer for a variety of current projects by Alfabusa. Nurgle enthusiast, and Comedy Goblin torturer.
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@ElliotIllu
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@Ribbonflies
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Finally uploading a Voice Acting Reel for my work for the past 13 or so years!
My darling girlfriend
@ElliotIllu
created it, and now it's here. Gaze upon my condensed work.
Happy Pancake Thursday!
This is an artist's interpretation of
@Earndilio
's voice acting.
(My plushie was scheduled for today, but it did not arrive. It is so sad. But at least I'm gonna fry a wacky stack of pancakes in a moment)
@VoicesByZane
Having watched the entire series start to finish with friends: Yeah absolutely. This series exists purely so Paul WS Anderson can have his wife Mila Jovovich do cool things.
Peak wife guy behavior, honestly, shame the movies are antithetical to the franchise.
If the massive increase in LGBT identification in recent years is a result of increased acceptance, why aren't we seeing large numbers of Gen X and older coming out of the closet?
To anyone following me for either 40k nonsense, or information about TTS allow me to make a blanket statement:
This is unacceptable.
This is beyond unacceptable.
Not only is this unacceptable, it's tragic. And completely unwarranted.
Do not treat people like this.
@VoicesByZane
For 6k, you could be the FIRST to dine at DEXTER JETTSTER'S FAMOUS ANACHRONISTIC 1950'S-ESQUE DINER. He will serve you BLUE EGGS and REGULAR BACON, he will serve you COFFEE that is GREEN and TASTES LIKE FRUIT, he will serve you PANCAKES that are ROUGHLY SHAPED LIKE R2D2.
Fun Fact:
@Alfabusa
has allowed me to leak the fact that we are including a Sex Scene somewhere in the future episodes of TTS. Keep your ears and eyes out, if you find it first I'll pay you one dollar!
@Lord_Mandalore
Much as I agree it was super heavy handed at times, and the "if you want to do good, stop playing" stuff is detrimental to its moral, it at least had something to say in a market over-saturated by Modern Military Shooters that made you out to be a cool action hero.
Hey Everyone! It has been a few months since I last talked about some of our behind-the-scenes funstuff, what with the last episode of TTS we released being earlier this year. But this time I will be talking about our writing process a bit! Buckle up buckaroos, it's gon be wild.
@VoicesByZane
It's hard to place blame solely at his feet, since tragic events do just seem to appear around Homer, but he did bait them into firing at him, and then duck just in time for her to get hit.
But it's not really about how culpable he is in her death, just how tragic it was at all.
Hey All, I rarely make actual announcements here, but I felt it'd be a treat for anyone interested in "If the Emperor had a Text to Speech Device" if I went ahead and showed off some aspects of the scriptwriting process once in a while. I'll start it off great, with Inquisitor.
@VoicesByZane
And you CANNOT forget John's obsession with Nutmeg, a spice which has dubious use in many of the dishes laid out by him.
And yet he seems to gleefully apply it to all of them.
Me and my big brain, I forgot to show what an ACTUAL Modern script looked like. Gone are the days of fully left-bound dialogue and lack of indentation. Now we keep dialogue centered for the most part, so it stays legible for the VAs, and clear on what is dialogue. Very efficient.
@Lord_Mandalore
At least your character goes through an arc, and the game makes you actually sit and question what you're doing. All I can see from TLOU2 is "Murder is bad, don't do a murder or someone will murder YOU!".
Like, yeah dude, we learned that from the 10 Commandments, calm down.
@VoicesByZane
It's really infuriating because I really love Morality systems in games, but to revolve yours around "Killing bad!!!" in a game about *assassination* is just so patently stupid it beggars belief.
Why make a deep system that is gated off by forcing you into the game's bad ending?
Wanted to share some of the hidden drama of the production chat again. We have inane arguments about utter nonsense and it becomes a cornerstone of our own internal lexicons.
This is a scary place to work. Also helps if you can translate swedish to english.
@Lord_Mandalore
It sucks that the man hours that went into making a patently bad idea are now wasted.
But I suppose on the other hand it's good that a patently bad idea failed to launch.
@BipolarDustin
@PhillipBankss
This sounds so very eerily similar to how badly C Martin Croker was treated despite being such a core member of the major Adult Swim fare.
Hoping he gets some damn support beyond what we as fans can give him.
There is no 'but' here. There is no 'what about' here.
If you treat someone, who is putting their heart into their work, like they exclusively must produce work for you for free? You do not deserve their work. You do not deserve anyone's work. Go back to your hole, and starve.
Life will move on, and we still want to create. Hang around won't you?
For TTS though, it is good to remember that tomorrow is a hope, not a promise. Maybe some other day.
I really feel it's important to point out, to both sides of this whole debacle, the people who defend GW's practices, and those who defend content creators.
Yes. Nothing that has been written is particularly new. It's the same thing, worded differently.
I know I said recently that we weren't going to be leaking information regarding the production of our new projects, but I think this one is just enigmatic enough to work.
HTP Fun fact of the day! In the scene where Brok Blacklaw is saying things into Marckus's Nokia N-Gage, I did write lines, but Alfa bleeped them because censor sounds funny.
Not only that, Haven Kendrick voiced them! Three times! In him and his Fiance's house! He got in trouble!
Everyone's out here excited for Henry Cavill to be in this upcoming Eisenhorn series, frankly I think Amazon and GW missed their chance.
Henry Cavill as: Jaq Draco, Secret Inquisitor
Fun fact: The original title for this document was Boreale Juggles Nurglings, in honor of my first line ever on anything Alfa ever produced.
I will now regret to my grave that I decided against this.
Gonna level with you all, the GW statement about fan content like TTS potentially getting the axe is uh...
I generally hate whataboutism, but sincerely which is worse, fan content that generates goodwill and revenue through exposure?
Or funny 44th Waffen SS Krieger Armies?
Alright, everyone listen up, we've got something to discuss.
Me and my Roommate shop at Lidl every once in a while to get groceries, and we elected on a whim to purchase Captain Sondey's Cookies, a sleeve of chocolate creme filled cookies. Here's where this gets weird.
Want to give a personal shoutout to
@SUPERSNAKEKICK
and
@geistverrse
for making today's Poppenang meeting a better experience than when it started. Noelle if you are reading this thank you for telepathically transliterating Alfa's agony.
I don't generally like to pile on about how much I prefer Battletech to 40k, but the idea that warcrimes are both universally vilified, and heavily punished, and not just something considered "A Fact of Life" really helps.
HEY HEY HEYYYYYYYYYY...
BITCONNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-
The first episode of our new short series, Half Life: Zero Viscosity, will be going live in ONE DAY.
Prepare yourself for fluid.
Sad and terrible news all!
According to an investigation,
@herknes
was thrown into a pocket dimension by a mysterious ghoul who materialized from the shadows. Eyewitness reports indicate the ghoul was muttering about tractors.
If you see Herknes, please don't say anything.
Literally don't even bother telling me about how TTS makes income for Alfa, because that is a fucking TINY percentage of GW's annual income, and it isn't even leeching off of it.
Where is my favored son, the Pickaxe?
Where is the dirty tool of back breaking labor that was used to mine the ore for a suit of armor, and what can pierce said armor just as easily?
A tool that a peasant is afforded, that is far scarier than any scythe, shovel, or pitchfork.
The first thing I'm gonna say is that we've been at this for... a long time. Like far too long. Dating back to the old Alfa-Legion, cursed be its name, we had developed scripts for our old game project, Tales of the Alfa Legion: The Screaming Night!
Discussion, however, cannot happen if the road is one foot wide, and there is a dead body laying on it.
Sometimes you have to cut your losses and move on. Even if people don't understand, and never will, it must be done for your own sanity.
Proud of
#USSupremeCourt
affirming the Texas law banning abortion for babies with a heartbeat. As an entertainer I don’t get political often. Yet with so many vocal peers on the other side of this issue, I felt it was important to go on the record as a pro-life game developer.
Big appreciation to all the folks that showed up to
@WarHamsShow
today! We had a blast doing this episode, which is doubly nice because apparently so did a lot of you.
Waw.
@Lord_Mandalore
It's great, attention to detail really sells any story experience, no matter how bleak or grim. There's almost never any downside to including flavor and detail like that, and yet it's done so rarely.
Hearing Walker subtly get more vicious and violent sold me on the atmosphere.
Quick statement to anyone who has been wondering where our weekly writing exposés have gone, don't worry, we didn't die yet. Despite my best efforts
@SUPERSNAKEKICK
and
@Alfabusa
still live, but I assure you I'm trying VERY HARD. I've got something in store for them.
Remembered a discussion I was having with Alfa and the others in the production server regarding the upcoming Werewolf book releasing in August.
WoD has changed how the chat operates in some very fascinating ways.
An important thing to remember is that companies are run by people, not arbitrary machines.
People, at the end of the day, make the decisions that help or hinder them. People can make judgement calls that are not binary agree or disagree.
There is always room for discussion.
Captain Sondey comes up on exactly zero google image searches. Nothing I do turns up any results for Captain Sondey specifically. However, it does turn up a different Pirate-Themed cookie. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you; Captain Rondo.
@ParentingLeaks
You had better mind what you leak, or the only leaking from here forward will be your paycheck when we start to leak it into the Chesapeake Bay Water Table Preservation Fund.
You don't want to end up like that bastard Herkenes Dragonbalde, trust me.
For reference, here is the man himself. I cannot find a single goddamn thing pertaining to this damnable twink and it is driving me mad. Is it because the American market likes male pirates more? Who decided this? Why are they doing it to spite ME specifically?
If anyone ever wonders why Mechwarrior Online tends to pick fairly standard models of mech, and rarely pulls from the more esoteric sources or strange mechs, I ask you, do you WANT an 85 ton artillery piece to punish you for playing the game?