Lots of game stuff, but definitely also comics and originals as well.
Reading an old story of mine so I can remind myself of what happens in it before I start making revisions, and near the climax, I just forgot a character. Like, she just never shows up again for no particular reason.
So, I should probably do something about that. She’s in the house with everybody else, and then after they all step outside to see what’s going on, she just fades out of existence.
It is with profound disappointment that we report the industry CEOs have walked away from the bargaining table after refusing to counter our latest offer. (1/11)
We have negotiated with them in good faith, despite the fact that last week they presented an offer that was, shockingly, worth less than they proposed before the strike began.
These companies refuse to protect performers from being replaced by AI, they refuse to increase your wages to keep up with inflation, and they refuse to share a tiny portion of the immense revenue YOUR work generates for them.
We have made big, meaningful counters on our end, including completely transforming our revenue share proposal, which would cost the companies less than 57¢ per subscriber each year. They have rejected our proposals and refused to counter.
Instead they use bully tactics. Just tonight, they intentionally misrepresented to the press the cost of the above proposal – overstating it by 60%.
They have done the same with A.I., claiming to protect performer consent, but continuing to demand “consent” on the first day of employment for use of a performer’s digital replica for an entire cinematic universe (or any franchise project).
The companies are using the same failed strategy they tried to inflict on the WGA – putting out misleading information in an attempt to fool our members into abandoning our solidarity and putting pressure on our negotiators.
But, just like the writers, our members are smarter than that and will not be fooled.
We feel the pain these companies have inflicted on our members, our strike captains, IATSE, Teamsters and Basic Crafts union members, and everyone in this industry. We have sacrificed too much to capitulate to their stonewalling and greed.
We stand united and ready to negotiate today, tomorrow, and every day.
Our resolve is unwavering. Join us on picket lines and at solidarity events around the country and let your voices be heard.
One day longer. One day stronger. As long as it takes.
- Your TV/Theatrical Negotiating Committee
The WGA has an agreement and the production companies are under the impression that means all unions will immediately stop striking.
It’s no longer writers AND actors holding up production, so, ah, of course they can ignore the actors’ contract requests and just demand that they get back to work. The picket lines will be cut in half, right? And that means the actors will fold, right?
…stand with the unions, no matter how long it takes. Actors are not in a weaker spot now; they may even have more leverage than they did last month - because the studios are going to start having scripts but no way to get them on screen. They have a strong point of leverage to mention to the stockholders; the AMPTP can’t claim “well maybe we’re not really negotiating, but hey, there’s nothing to negotiate about because the writers are on strike.”
Actors have a much stronger concern about AI. We’ve seen LLM-generated text. It’s junk. Studios weren’t fighting for the right to have chatbot-written scripts; they wanted the right to have an auto-generated script, have one of their producers add half a dozen names and a few sponsored references, and hand that off to a writing team to fix, at 1/3 the cost of the writers actually making the script.
Actors are fighting to avoid AI being trained on their voices and having those snippets inserted in movies they aren’t paid for, among other things; that’s much harder to detect.
I honestly do not think “AI will never be as good as human creativity” is a good argument at this point. Like yes, it is true right now, but they’re just going to keep trying to prove it wrong. To me the line is, “Modern AI is built off of PLAGIARISM, UNPAID and UNDERPAID labor.” AI is a labor rights issue, not just for the people who’s labor it would replace, but for the people whose labor was STOLEN for the AI to “create” anything.
The only thing I need tumblr to do is to get like… cool with the idea you can hire people here to do commissions for you and to like.. consider monetary support for artists cuz one of the reasons and the biggest reason I moved to twitter in the first place is because people there buy my art. I make a living there doing art.
And the vibe here is **we don’t do that here** If you want artists to be here and do art you gotta be okay with the concept of artists trying to make money.
I hate capitalism as much as the next person but I’m also 30 years old living with my fucking parents because I can’t pay for a 1 bedroom apartment. Artists are not ‘big business’. We’re not Disney. We’re just people trying to make a living or some money for groceries and shit.
I just started reading Sailor Moon, and I had to do this.
