Crunchyroll vs SAG, Splatoon 3 & Karens Diner - Basement Life Podcast 4
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- TIMESTAMPS:
Cyberpunk: 02:25
Splatoon 3: 07:25
Aniplex Online Fest: 18:50
Japan Re-Opens: 31:00
Crunchyroll vs SAG-AFTRA: 34:00
Karens Diner: 48:08
Let's talk about Splatoon 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Aniplex/Bunny Girl Senpai/Nier, Japan Re-opening, and Karens Diner. Maybe one day the 2 lost episodes will be dropped..
TIMESTAMPS:
Cyberpunk: 02:25
Splatoon 3: 07:25
Aniplex Online Fest: 18:50
Japan Re-Opens: 31:00
Crunchyroll vs SAG-AFTRA: 34:00
Karens Diner: 48:08
Thank you for including these, it's SO handy 👍 cheers🍻
Yazy, Geoff, I love you both.
But my boomer ears simply cannot hear you. This video too quiet.
Thanks for shouting out #JustAMeeting though. I'd assume.
Not gonna lie, when I heard Bunny Girl was getting a season 2, I squealed. Love this show.
On the subject of "What did you expect?"
... For them to follow their own rules? Food on the table. No body shaming. It's all right there, you showed us the rules. If it said "Expect body shaming and for everyone to completely disrespect your clothing and personal space!" then sure, okay, fine, it literally says it in the rules- BUT IT DOESN'T. That's pretty clear.
I definitely agree, it's kinda sad that most of these entertainment venues where the whole gimmick is that people "almost cross the line" is that they eventually do
Unfortunately, there are a lot of anti-union people who have been in unions. They just... Kind of ignore what they have. They almost always harp on seniority as the problem, and defending underperforming workers. They think it'll be better without that.
They're blind to the reality of the situation, but that's what they think. They don't understand that defending other workers is important because you could get tossed too without a single care in the world. They don't understand the protections they have. They don't understand that they're not going to magically be recognized for their hard work if you get rid of the unions. That's not how any company works. No, without union protections, you'll be sacked because you're sick, or because the boss doesn't like you, or because it's Tuesday and they felt like it. You'll lose hours, wages, and more because some d-bag thought it'd be funny, or maybe it might possibly theoretically improve number go up-ness for one quarter. They don't see how, without the strict seniority rules, employers flip between not giving raises/bonuses at all and giving cousin Steve a promotion because he's been working so hard for the last two weeks that he totally deserves it (never mind that Steve hasn't done a lick of work yet and you don't think he ever will).
That's not to say unions are perfect. But a corporation's job is to make money, even at the cost of its employees. A union's job is to protect those employees. It's pretty damn obvious what's best there.
Agreed, it's important to strike a good balance between the two otherwise you either have a soulless company using employees like chewing gum or a bunch of people making unreasonable demands
You can work on SAG-AFTRA projects even without being union, it's just a matter of signing a short contract. There's nothing actually prohibiting them. Kyle McCarley actually tweeted a lot about this and also discussed it in a recent interview on the Cartoon Cipher, so I'd recommend checking those out.
It should be noted that Netflix spanish dubs are usually Mexican & Chilean citizens, living in those countries and are now getting payed in dollars at a comparable rate to US citizens, which is an inmense raise when comparing cost of living
That nier church was determined to be a very well done mod the guy used to make his footage I believe.
Was gonna say this.
More than just a new mod, it was the launch of new modding _tools_ by a modding team.
At this point Crunchyroll is going to lose all their big dub voice actors to Netflix since they are all union. If you want a great Netflix dub check out Edens Zero!
No they aren't. Most of the big name voice actors are Fi-core which means they can do both Union and Non-Union Projects. Most of the big name voice actors do not care about this situation anyways.
@@jamesshingles9377 exactly
Eden zero is great can’t wait for season two
@@jamesshingles9377 that entirely depends on what you mean by big name, considering how actors like Kyle McCarley are most certainly big names in the scene of anime dubbing.
wait does crunchyroll have anime in 4k as an option
The “Yazy's Rabbit Hole” segment was easily the highlight of this episode for me. I also enjoy the anime/gaming talk, but I'd love to see the podcast expand and have more topics like this.
"A sister venturing out" depicts issues in the Japanese school system regarding mental illness. It's even been recommended reading just that to learn about that topic on Twitter.
Also re: reading Bunny girl senpai: I own the first three volumes but only read the first one because I cried basically the whole time while reading it. Damn you Dreaming Girl movie.
I was watching the Mob season 3 dub and every voice actor sounded different, even the actors they didn't recast. Makes sense now that I know it's because they replaced the adr director.
we have a place in dallas called Dick's last resort with a similar concept, and they had to tone down their rudeness for similar reasons
Mob Psycho 100 is without a doubt one of the best anime of the past 5+ years. Obviously, as a fan I plan on watching the final few arcs play out (I've been waiting for it since s2 ended and I had to know how the manga ended), but this whole ordeal has really put a black mark on the experience for me. I don't watch a whole lot of dubs anymore, but this one was fantastic until this point. Kyle Mccarley just understood who the character was supposed to be and helped made the dub stand out. Suddenly the 1st episode of S3 airs and at least four VAs were changed (& those are just from the ones I actually recognized) for the most idiotic of reasons. Nothing against the new VA for Mob either, but it's just a whole new character and hard to accept. I would have rather waited for some sort of agreement to hopefully be reached and get a dub with the same characters that I've gotten used to then get a simuldub with a bunch of new ones.
Always love the way you two play off of each other, these podcasts are gems
The last two Netflix animes I watched no less three were all in English, and they were all very well done
@ 59:29 autralian accent wasn't required but it was appreciated.
Some of that Karen’s Diner stuff is reminding me of Turkish ice cream. I’ve never had it and I would want to try the product itself but I have no compulsion to try buying it because it looks like such a chore to endure the “just having fun” of it all
Burger is adorable.
Hopefully with the second season of Bunny Girl being announced they'll go back and dub the first season (reasonably certain this is how it played out with Kaguya-sama so I have hope *fingers crossed*).
The Rascal Does Not Dream Anime covers the first 5 volumes, and the Dreaming Girl film covers the next two. Light novels 1-7 are a perfect self contained story, yet I'm still very excited for what's next, there's 4 additional light novels out, read the 8th and its worth an adaptation. The series really meant a lot to me and my on going self confidence back in 2018, so much so, made an AMV: czcams.com/video/6GcR8WAfC20/video.html
Woohoo! Been waiting for this! Hope y'all can continue to smooth out the process to get more out!
I recall on social media a man talking about his best Christmas ever as a child when he finally got the bike he wanted (this was like the 60s or 70s) and remarks about how one day he was telling the story in front of his mom she then remarks “that was the year your daddy got the union”. Don’t underestimate the power of a union to make your lives better
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it's a good thing the nier automata anime is being dubbed by netflix, since if crunchyroll tried firing kyle mccarley from _that_ one, they would have a guaranteed riot on their hands
If a single VA for the english dub of NieR were to end up being changed (especially the main trio of Kyle Mccarley, Kira Buckland and Cherami Leigh) without a VERY good reason, I would absolutely be leading that riot.
@@seriouslysatan216 i'd be arm-in-arm with you, comrade
@@gorimbaud Let's hope it doesn't come to that, but should we find ourselves truly living in the darkest timeline, good to know.
The idea of dinner theatre made me think of doing "Diogenes Diner."
All the tables are inside giant barrels (Diogenes lived in a barrel) and the bathrooms are made up to look like city streets (he was a public nuisance that way), and there'd be occasional debates about the definitins of things and how far one could twist a definition to start defining something else, a la "behold, a man."
All SAG-AFTRA has to due, is threaten to pull all their actors from any and all Sony projects. Bring CR to the table, or no sony product will use a SAG member. That wouldn't only hurt Sony movies, but would hurt their Video games, and even their commercials. Imagine if SAG-AFTRA pulled all their members from the next Spider Man game, while it's in mid development. Imagine a company the size of Sony, Not being able to use ANY hollywood talent for any commercial.
I wish SAG-AFTRA would go full Nuclear on Sony. MAKE them come to the negotiating table, or they don't get to produce any piece of media in the US again.
i would like to call it yazy's odyssey through the internet
So the Nier thing, it turns out it was not some new ARG thing but actually a mod that someone made, which although that might sound lame, it was the first time someone cracked the game enough to mod it so extensively and I believe the modders released their tools publicly so people could potentially add their own story mods to NieR if they wanted to now.
The 'Nier Automata' hidden Church thing did turn out to be a mod that was the work of a few different modders all pooling their work together. The biggest reason people kept thinking it might be a 'real' thing was because the work to implement a whole new area like that was assumed... improbable on the verge of maybe impossible, and of course Yoko Taro not outright denying it. Something said by Lance McDonald--who does a LOT of modding work and the like. He's also the one to discover the 'last' secret in Nier Automata a while back, which was a hidden Developer Debug menu that grants access to several things that they left in-game because it isn't accessible outside of a very specific moment.
And yeah, the whole... Crunchyroll thing just... It is disgusting, but it's also unsurprising given it's Crunchyroll. They still pay much of their staff like crap, and the continued monopolization of services under their cheaply produced plastic umbrella is only exacerbating those problems, while continuing to do very little for the artists and staff responsible for producing the content they peddle. I dropped Vrv because they allowed their one actually decent platform fall to pieces and, rather than try to perform any upkeep on it, just let it sit there and rot. Crunchyroll is absolutely not worth any sub price on its own to me, especially when paired with the horribly user-unfriendly UI they continue to use. But this just makes it easier to keep things that way, in spite of the fact there are series I'd like to watch but cannot-- especially not with the current locking of everything behind premiums they are doing now. Which... hell, they are doing that now precisely because they OWN the lion's share of Streaming services. For me, the only other anime streaming service available is Hidive and... I'm not even impressed with them, especially as they continue to lose series without replacing or explaining it.
This news also absolutely kills my interest in Season 3 of Mob Psycho. Same as how the recent news regarding Bayonetta 3 replacing Bayonetta's VA has soured my interest in that game as well. It might not be the same reason as Mob's drop, but it was something kept intentionally silent on and hidden from consumers for practically a year now--and done full well knowing the backlash it might cause. It's shady and disrespectful, moreso when Platinum Games, like Crunchyroll, is continuing to advance some horrid practices with zero intention of stopping. It's been a... bad month for series getting their long-deserved 3rd entry it feels like.
Forgot to say this too, but as someone who has only worked non-union jobs...? I still say people need to unionize. And that's because dear god some of the crap I've had to deal with, and the things I had to do, in those jobs... And that goes for Retail (though thank Anime God that chain has bankrupted themselves to near-nonexistance) as well as waste management work. Especially with 'At-Will' employmet is bullcrap, while unions may not be perfect, it's the only way to protect yourself when a boss fires someone because they are jealous, or who uses health issues that an employee has as a club to abuse them with and mock over them not being able to work whenever management wants.
Automata comes from the word Automaton, which is what we used to call robots, before the word robot was popular. Automata is actual the plural of Automaton. And in Nier, we know that all the people in the game are robots. Simple way to remember how it's pronounced. It's not a new word, It doesn't sound like a new variety of a tomato. 2B is an Automaton, while the world is filled with Automata.
It really grinds my gears whenever I hear someone use the "tomato pronunciation." I can only hope that one day people will realize how odd it sounds.
I have never understood the appeal of those kinds of restaurants. Thats crazy
I never understood that kind of entertainment in general, same with like haunted houses and other roleplay things
I think that it's because I'm already kinda shit at normal social interactions so adding another whole layer of social norms and procedures I'm not familiar with just sounds like unwanted hassle, power to the people who like it tho, it's probably fun as hell if you know how to do it
Love the podcast! But make sure to up the gain on your mics guys! Without headphones, it sounds very quiet even at max volume
Kotaro Lives Alone is also another quality Netflix dub. Top shelf show in general.
As someone who wasn't able to watch the Bunny Girl Senpai movie at AX that year, don't feel bad. I probably would've HATED watching it in such a small room, so the theater experience was much better for me.
Ayyy look who's back
Is your camera placed on/attached to the table you're sitting at? Cause it seems to wobble a lot
Geoffs aussie accent made me crack tf up
Geoff: "Maybe that'll change when you play the single player?"
Yazy: "No."
Splatoon 3's story mode is genuinely great and you should play it. This is a threat.
Great episode all around. Loved hearing you cover such a variety of topics!
I had a unionized job in retail where the rule was I had to pay union dues off my paycheck but I would get no representation until I was made a full time employee. Full time employment was only offered after 4 years of part time. Management regularly went to weekend cottage parties with the union rep. It wasn't great. The building was eventually closed down for 'major' renovations resulting in everyone being let go(I left long before this) though some speculate that it was to dislodge the union. People were worried that this would be a new method against unionization but I have never heard of it happening ever again.
Anyway, despite my experience, I still believe that unions are important especially for industries where change is desperately needed like the gaming industry or dubbing as stated here on the podcast.
I'm not sure if it's just me, but I had to crank up the volume to well over double what I usually have it at to even begin to hear either of you. I know my sound is fine because Geoff's main channel video about CotE was so loud I had to turn it down before a neighbor complained.
Love both of guys thanks for the content
speaking of rabbit holes, i would never have watched any anime if not for being stuck in a covid hotel alone and watching a random suggestion on netfliks of bunny girl senpai. Random watching algorithm suggestion to hear and i see a second season is coming out.
I'd love to hear your take on Akiba Maid War once it gets a few more episodes; that first one was the most surprised I've been by an anime in a long, long time.
What's the anime about?
On the mental health angle: tabletop roleplaying fans have long talked about how the cyber-psycho trope is a bit problematic (stigmatizing prosthesis as making you inhuman isn’t really IT) but there is definitely nuance there. I felt the show portrayed it as well as they could.
I never really picked up on that, I just thought it was a mix of "addiction allegory because the more you use the harder it is to go back to the point where you need bottles of medication just to not go fully insane" , "balancing mechanic so that people don't go full op without consequences" and "nerve damage because your brain needs to connect with things it wasn't designed to and take care of a much bigger body than planned"
@@airplanes_aren.t_real that’s actually exactly the issue because if you think about what they are doing these people are simply installing prosthesis. Essentially you couldn’t have a large number of prosthesis in this universe or you’d go “insane” even if you need them. In the roleplaying games that do this (Cyberpunk and Shadowrun) there isn’t really a difference between “cyber” prosthesis and “inert” ones in this regard. The show makes that distinction and focuses on the less problematic elements.
Like imagine you are in a car crash and needed your lower body replaced. Even in the anime version you’d be risking cyberpshycosis if you wanted anything approaching a full replacement.
The way the TTRPGs are set up you basically lose part of your “humanity” the more cyberware you install, regardless of its necessity or function.
@@Arsenic7 that's actually something that I thought was explained by Rebecca and doc because they use a lot of augmentations but don't go overboard, like the cyberpsicosis only happens if you push it too far with too many enhancements that have too many functions that push you to your limit
Having said that I definitely see your point, it does frame any form of augmentation as a possible risk
I always felt like cyberpunk was meant to be a criticism of Transhumanism (basically the belief that human augmentation is the next stage of human evolution) that instead of being a cool sci-fi wonderland of cyborgs it's a dystopia where those augmentations only reinforce pre exiting societal structures that would inevitably make the rich richer and the poor poorer
I fall down weird youtube rabbit holes too. The most recent one was a bunch of cow hoof trimmings by farmers and such, which is not a big interest of mine. Before that it was all those survivalist building videos, many of which are faked
No, fiduciary responsibility doesn't mean that. NYTimes April 16 2015:
”To quote the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in the recent Hobby Lobby case: “Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.”
yeah, the whole Karen Cafe idea, that's uuhm ... that's just Vienna actually
well, in the witty banter kinda way... not making people feel bad about themselves
My biggest issue with this episode: i've had to have my PC volume on MAX because yall are talking so quiet T_T
So this was a good podcast but for the next episode I think you need to bump up Yazy by a couple decibels cause I found it very hard to hear her even with my headphones turned all the way up. Either way I look forward to the next one
Actually I think that may apply to both of you cause at some points it was also hard to hear Geoff
I believe the church turned out to be a new mod in the works of sorts?
Ah yes Bunnygirl Senpai. Also known as better Monogatari.
The syndey world center one was fine, went there the other day and they were just sasy lol, it was fun. Sad to see some stores are fucking up the geimic
I feel like Aniplex always undervalued non-action shows, so as popular as Bunny girl senpai was i doubt they cared. in fact I never watched cuz i was waiting for a dub and they never dubbed it so im not surprised the light novels took so long to come here. At least Kaguya Sama came out late enough that Funimation got to dub season 2 and went back for Season 1 later but a lot of shows got screwed by Aniplex.
On a side note, the Misfit of Demon King Academy manga is listed as "canceled"
Come for the anime stay for the cat commentary
Splatoon 3 has been such fun
Go team gear!!
I have known a large number of union people that have been anti-union, though that comes with explanation & caveats. I live in Michigan (United States) & most of the anti-union people in a union vent their anger & hatred against specific unions & usually not all unions. We have a lot of automotive jobs & related work: automotive unions have powerful sway. Most of the stories & reasons seem to amount to unions acting as a corrupt extension of administration instead of worker advocates. The most memorable specific example in my mind was a factory that caught on fire from the paint shop (very flammable, explosive chemicals) while only workers around the immediate area were warned or evacuated, while the rest of the factory didn't find out until later, even though onsite union reps were reported as being warned first. That is an example from 25 years ago & is second hand though it is one that has clearly left lasting impact for me. I have only heard stories of this flavor & degree concerning automotive unions, & hopefully they remain in yesteryear.
I live in Australia and I’d never heard of that restaurant, why must my homeland continue to do things that fill me with shame.
Have fun in Japan next year.
This should have been a video on your main channel and not a side channel.
I wasn't familiar with Platunes so I left
It turns out that the Nier automata secret church room is fake it's not part of the original game
So it is mostly a mod
I do think the general feedback ended up being mostly positive though since it was a cool demo of modding tools and the people who care about Nier Automata a lot still are the ones who are okay with these types of things.
@@U1TR4F0RCE but it would have been better people that it's a mod but instead they/he/she choose to tell people it's an actual hidden
Yazys huge mic boom is really in the way ☹️
Probably would have been easier if you guys were much closer...
Sitting in each other's laps -- Basement CuddleCast? (I wouldn't complain.)
TEAM CALLIE FOR LIFE!!!!
(And Team chaos)
While I agree with unionization, and think Crunchyroll should have taken the deal. SAGaftra has failed to protect members and take stances time and again from some pretty big issues (the open secret with Harvey Weinstein being a good example). And I think the industry would be better with more than one union representing talent (though not necessarily 300 small mom and pop unions which would obviously hurt with accomplishing anything industry wide).
Most of the issues I've seen and heard of are generally individual examples or specific union issues, not a union problem in general (the usual people occasionally are corrupt so of course that can happen in unions, and in multi-shop public unions sometimes some shops get dicked).
ETA: Your also slightly wrong on US fiduciary duties. They have to work to increase shareholder value, they can do that over long periods at the expense of short term profits (legally) from my understanding. Now the board and share holders may vote people out over it, but as long as they can make the case for longer term value; taking them to court would probably be hard.
You should do video on Xenoblade series.
EVERYBODY should unionize and corporate america sucks but Americans caring about dubs will never not be weird to me. We have subs now, who would willingly watch a dub
You don't like MOJO videos? Lol 😅🤣
Good dubs are a myth subs master race
YWNBAW
Two and a half minutes in and Jeff can barely get a word in wtf?
The two podcasts we scrapped ended up being me talking nonstop, so we were making a conscious effort to dial that back & encourage Yazy (who’s normally shy) to speak more.
@@mothersbasement Yazy gave it the full 110% then 🤣. I've watched a bit more and it became way more balanced later on. I guess I was just impatient.