Actors demand action over 'disgusting' video game sex scenes [BBC] - eviltoast
  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    3 months ago

    Ok yeah that’s really fucking uncool.

    There are absolutely actors who are down to do that stuff but you can’t hire people with a script sight-unseen and just drop stuff on them that might straight up give some people a panic attack to even think about, let alone re-enact.

    Title makes you think there are actors who don’t want games in general to contain explicit adult content, but this is 100% reasonable, and yet another reason voice actors and game industry workers need to unionize.

    I bet your ass the same shit is happening with asset creators and animators.

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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      I think they actually are unionized. At least in the UK. That’s what some of the Baldur’s Gate 3 actors said when asked about the anti AI strikes. They can’t participate because of the rules of their union.

      If I recall correctly there is even a sentence in the article about the British union starting to tackle this issue.

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        In some countries, some people, in some parts of the industry, are unionized. It’s not even close to being the norm. It’s only slowly starting to happen.