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You’re free to negotiate whatever contract you want with the voice actors you hire.
That's what they did in the case of the recent Bayonetta controversy. They actually paid less for the replacement than they were expecting to pay the original actor who wanted more.
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> My son can kill it in under 20 minutes If that's "20 minutes from start of game to end", that's pretty good going. Get him a YouTube channel and get him grinding towards the World Record!
It is. He claims that with a specific seed, he's done it in much less (4 minutes maybe? I don't know). It's possible his speed-run record with a random seed is 14 minutes now, but I'm not entirely sure about that. Last year, his class at school (he was 12-13) had their own server where they built lots of stuff. At some point, they divided into two teams. His team was the largest, which he found unfair, so he switched…
14 minutes would be top 400 of the "random seed glitchless" category. Which is pretty good since there's 3600+ (distinct) runs on that leaderboard.
> He's ridiculously good, that much is clear to me now.
I would agree.
> He doesn't talk much, though, and I think that's kinda necessary for a youtube channel.
I dunno - I follow a few Minecraft channels who don't talk and use subtitles instead. Fits with the general "chill" aesthetic (although I appreciate speedruns are anything but chill.)
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If you'll allow me a small but important nitpick: I would say that the value of a piece of art is subjective. Critique, if done correctly, is based on measurable factors. "And it was all just a dream" could be fairly, and reasonably, be called: predictable, unsatisfying, and lazy. Whether someone thinks that the content leading up to, and including the ending is valuable or "good" is subjective. To put it a different…
as a representative of someone who the poem spoke to, I'd like to comment. The themes in this piece run fairly deep; and to call them trite or predictable is both a completely fair statement of an opinion, and revealing that one may not be reading with the intended context. It's very common to end a story with "it was all a dream". It's not quite so common to embed vedic scripture within and talk to the philosophy th…
I think I understand the jist of what you mean, and I can agree that, if the...I don't know what the right word would be, the "meaning and essence"(...?) of the thing is more "Here's a philosophical concept" rather than "Here's an A to B story" then I can see why it would be seen as more subjective. I suppose someone could judge the logic of a philosophical concept, but that's way, way outside my depth. :)
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If you'll allow me a small but important nitpick: I would say that the value of a piece of art is subjective. Critique, if done correctly, is based on measurable factors. "And it was all just a dream" could be fairly, and reasonably, be called: predictable, unsatisfying, and lazy. Whether someone thinks that the content leading up to, and including the ending is valuable or "good" is subjective. To put it a different…
I like how you've defined value here and its separation from critique. A related idea is that of perspective . Creating something often requires picking between multiple options, and to do that successfully the creator must keep in mind their goals (evoking an emotion, telling a particular story, conveying an idea, etc) along with the desires of their target audience. The creator's goals and their intended audience f…
I suppose I can understand that. I think that there could be some "wiggle room" there, but it would depend on how hard something like an ending would clash with the thematic elements leading up to that ending. I.e. a dreary, dystopian future leading into Baby Elephant Walk for the credits would probably be an objectively poor choice unless could be executed in some sort of "perfect" way. There's just such a wide array of small choices that can dictate the final product that, yeah, I can't really disagree with what you're saying. There's always an exception to an exception, or even a mere alternative to the standard.
In a way, it's frustrating because I do think it would feel more satisfying if the general principals were more concrete, but in the same breath, that lack of precision is also what allows for enough variety to help spark creativity and unexpected twists and turns. I do think that there is something to be said for, say, arbitrary restrictions, to help encourage someone to be more creative with limited tools, but the variety of options also has clear and obvious benefits as well.
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It is. He claims that with a specific seed, he's done it in much less (4 minutes maybe? I don't know). It's possible his speed-run record with a random seed is 14 minutes now, but I'm not entirely sure about that. Last year, his class at school (he was 12-13) had their own server where they built lots of stuff. At some point, they divided into two teams. His team was the largest, which he found unfair, so he switched…
> It's possible his speed-run record with a random seed is 14 minutes now 14 minutes would be top 400 of the "random seed glitchless" category. Which is pretty good since there's 3600+ (distinct) runs on that leaderboard. > He's ridiculously good, that much is clear to me now. I would agree. > He doesn't talk much, though, and I think that's kinda necessary for a youtube channel. I dunno - I follow a few Minecraft ch…
He also claims to have beaten Civ 6 at Deity level, admittedly by following strategies he learned in Youtube, which is frustrating to me because I'm struggling on Immortal figuring stuff out on my own. At least I can still beat him in chess.
-Meet Markus at a con
-Markus best friend now
-Play Minecraft for days
-Write poem
-Markus says "I ain't reading all that, ship it! We have a deadline!"
-Take the money and run
-Enjoy cold hard cash instead of speculating on royalties
-Trip on shrooms on squatted land
-Try to squat poem
-"Dear Microsoft I don't care about laws. Love love love."
-Love love love
-Money money money plz
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Indeed. The game would've made $0 less had the ending just said "The End".
You really think that a poem that people have tattooed on themselves, put onto tee shirts and mugs, inspired emotional emails to the author, and so on has inspired exactly zero excess recommendations to friends, zero dinnertime discussions or social media posts that have led to purchases?
Wow...uh....that's kinda daft
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> No, and I feel like he made it extremely clear that this story is not really about money and his feelings are not driven by a lack of royalties. If it wasn't about money, than what was it about? "Fairness"? So money?
Yeah fairness, emotions, recognition, his own flaws and failures, and his general outlook on life. It's not about contract law or conflict with Mojang or Microsoft, it's just a story about his feelings.
They can be money, they can be something more vague like recognition, or truly nebulous like "a sense of human connection," but you've got to have goals. Otherwise you're just a child stumbling in the dark and yelling out.
Reading the post, I don't know what the author's goals are, and I get the impression they don't either.
It sounds like they weren't sure about their goals to begin with, didn't do anything to achieve them, felt robbed because other people's goals were misaligned with theirs, before finally accepting they can't change the past, which
Duh.