OccidentalOctopus

Semi-Professional Idiot,
Ide of March,
Aspiring Squire,
Non-Player Character,
Phi Male
20s

[OccidentalOctopus @OsctopusO]

@ChanTheMan1297 I just said you're free to prejudge the movie. You don't have to defend that decision to me.
I'm just saying the suggestion that the ad "respects lore" or "cares about lore" makes no sense when the most it does is make surface-level references.

[OccidentalOctopus @OsctopusO]

@ChanTheMan1297 @komradekhris The only things in the ad that tie it to RE are "Raccoon City" on an emergency broadcast, RPD on background cops, and a 3-second cameo of a Licker obscured by darkness.
Feel free to pre-judge a movie you haven't yet seen, but trying to claim the ad "respects lore" is nonsense.

[OccidentalOctopus @OsctopusO]

@legomeaker101 Just because you have the right to talk about something doesn't make you well-informed and doesn't make conjecture or hypotheticals empirical evidence.
This was a waste of both our time, like I said.
I'm tired and don't wish to continue talking in circles.
Bye.

[OccidentalOctopus @OsctopusO]

@legomeaker101 Ok. Bye

[OccidentalOctopus @OsctopusO]

@legomeaker101 That's not an actual answer to the question I asked nor does it contain any verifiable proof. You know that right?

[OccidentalOctopus @OsctopusO]

@legomeaker101 Like I said before, I have no reason to accept your word over the word of people who actually work in the VA industry, who work with groups of actors who work toward advocacy, and who are actually deciding who gets cast or not and why. So... what the fuck are you eve saying?

[OccidentalOctopus @OsctopusO]

@legomeaker101 Cause this is starting to sound like:
"Definition is established by use, except for if the people actually putting the concept into practice do so in a way that contradicts the definition I'm saying it has, then that doesn't count."

[OccidentalOctopus @OsctopusO]

@legomeaker101 And most importantly, is every person who has ever claimed to put the principles of authentic casting into practice then engaged in race-locking their auditions? Because if not, then there is, by your own logic, more than one definition of authentic casting.

[OccidentalOctopus @OsctopusO]

@legomeaker101 "Established by use." Cool, who has used it, where have they described what they aimed to do by doing it, where have they done it, what and when did putting it into action demonstrate it meant race-locking VA?

[OccidentalOctopus @OsctopusO]

@legomeaker101 And who decides that definition? Because it's not you.
if you're trying to argue that the organization that established that definition is untrustworthy or does not have any authority to establish that definition, give me a reason why it isn't

[OccidentalOctopus @OsctopusO]

@legomeaker101 Now you're just wasting both our time. Like actually say something or I'm leaving

[OccidentalOctopus @OsctopusO]

@legomeaker101 Like I understand what you're saying, but without any actual proof that NAVA is just hot air, it means nothing, and at that point you could make a semi-convincing argument that authentic casting has no set definition whatsoever, so then ProZD could've meant anything by it

[OccidentalOctopus @OsctopusO]

@legomeaker101 So you have no evidence?

[OccidentalOctopus @OsctopusO]

@legomeaker101 And I have no reason to talk your word over the word of actors who actually work in the industry and/or advocate for actors.

[OccidentalOctopus @OsctopusO]

@legomeaker101 Right so again I don't care about your opinion. Like if you have some source that directly proves that authentic casting for VA is locked into a single stagnant definition, or that NAVA has no authority regarding it, cool please provide it, otherwise you're just talking.

[OccidentalOctopus @OsctopusO]

@legomeaker101 So if you have some evidence that proves that's not what authentic casting is or that that *was* what ProZD was complaining about, and of course that he ever advocated for it for VA in the first place, I'm all for it, otherwise, I really couldn't care less about your opinion.

[OccidentalOctopus @OsctopusO]

@legomeaker101 So you just fully misunderstand the concept of inequality that already exists in the industry. Cool.
Either way, I'm not here to argue about authentic casting itself, just prove that every dipshit who says ProZD got authentic casting and wasn't happy with it is wrong.

[OccidentalOctopus @OsctopusO]

@legomeaker101 Talking about unfairness when the entire point of that aspect is that minorities by default have less opportunities to play themselves and have to work harder to be considered for roles, and thinking that an initiative to help minorities should benefit the majority is dumb.

[OccidentalOctopus @OsctopusO]

@XrayPC Frankly, you could've been working in VA for the past 20 years, if you say something that directly contradicts the org that works with diversity initiatives to decide what authentic casting is, guess what?
It means you don't know what it is.

[OccidentalOctopus @OsctopusO]

@XrayPC And I'll say it again.
NAVA's guidelines for authentic casting say clearly: marginalized VAs read outside their races by necessity.
So when you say a VA who wasn't allowed to read outside his race got "bit in the ass by wanting authentic casting", no, you don't understand it.