RealAmanda 🍁
@realamandalive.com
(she/her)
Professional Voice Actor 🎙️🎮
Marketing, Fundraising, Engagement🕊️
Hobbit Vibes 🌻
Professional Voice Actor 🎙️🎮
Marketing, Fundraising, Engagement🕊️
Hobbit Vibes 🌻
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Since we're all talking about AI Voice acting right now, it's probably a good time to say I've been a free agent since last year!
Indie Devs: Let me know your VA budget and let's work something out. The big dogs can't afford me, but I promise you can.
realamandalive.com/voice-demos
Indie Devs: Let me know your VA budget and let's work something out. The big dogs can't afford me, but I promise you can.
realamandalive.com/voice-demos
My dad might be some kind of lesser Ainur.
December 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
My dad might be some kind of lesser Ainur.
Reposted by RealAmanda 🍁
Read this
I wrote this huge, 3,000-word or so deep dive into the state of game actors’ contracts in the UK, which is a hot mess of exploitation, AI clauses and chaotic rate calculations.
And no one read it.
But you really, REALLY should.
www.gamesindustry.biz/contracts-fo...
And no one read it.
But you really, REALLY should.
www.gamesindustry.biz/contracts-fo...
Contracts for game actors are a nightmare in the UK
SAG-AFTRA's strike might have sorted things out in the US – but UK contract negotiations are still a mess of exploitation, AI clauses, and non-standard rates
www.gamesindustry.biz
December 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Read this
Happy "staying up all night in abject terror remembering every bad thing you did all year" Eve to my fellow former Catholic kids.
December 6, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Happy "staying up all night in abject terror remembering every bad thing you did all year" Eve to my fellow former Catholic kids.
Repost with your model of positive masculinity
December 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Repost with your model of positive masculinity
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Sir the surgery to give you pig eyelids was a complete success
December 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Sir the surgery to give you pig eyelids was a complete success
Arguing with philosophy bros about what is or isn't "art" is a colossal fucking waste of time. They lack the temerity to express themselves in any earnest or authentic way and prefer to argue semantics instead.
December 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Arguing with philosophy bros about what is or isn't "art" is a colossal fucking waste of time. They lack the temerity to express themselves in any earnest or authentic way and prefer to argue semantics instead.
Everyone who uses photoshop regularly prefers phtooshop from 10+ years ago though... what is he even talking about!?
December 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Everyone who uses photoshop regularly prefers phtooshop from 10+ years ago though... what is he even talking about!?
Some voice work I had done a few weeks ago was called "AI" even though I was fully credited and people in the comments were saying, "that's an actress, not AI".
AI voice software has already killed my chance at a career, so when I do get work and it's assumed to be AI, it's a particular gut punch.
AI voice software has already killed my chance at a career, so when I do get work and it's assumed to be AI, it's a particular gut punch.
This exchange on r/boardgames, in reference to the review I wrote yesterday, raises a whooooooole lot of emotions for me. Bear with me as I work through them.
December 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Some voice work I had done a few weeks ago was called "AI" even though I was fully credited and people in the comments were saying, "that's an actress, not AI".
AI voice software has already killed my chance at a career, so when I do get work and it's assumed to be AI, it's a particular gut punch.
AI voice software has already killed my chance at a career, so when I do get work and it's assumed to be AI, it's a particular gut punch.
Reposted by RealAmanda 🍁
I bet I know some folks who know how much The Game Awards is charging for trailer slots this year!
Kotaku would love to know. I can work with you to make sure the information is used responsibly and won't be linked back to you.
[email protected]
[email protected]
Kotaku would love to know. I can work with you to make sure the information is used responsibly and won't be linked back to you.
[email protected]
[email protected]
December 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I bet I know some folks who know how much The Game Awards is charging for trailer slots this year!
Kotaku would love to know. I can work with you to make sure the information is used responsibly and won't be linked back to you.
[email protected]
[email protected]
Kotaku would love to know. I can work with you to make sure the information is used responsibly and won't be linked back to you.
[email protected]
[email protected]
I reduced all social media usage in 2025. I was starting to feel like those sad elderly people at a casino, attached to a slot machine, getting milked dry in exchange for the smallest fraction of dopamine.
I don't even have unreasonable limits, it's like 1-2 hrs a day for most apps.
I don't even have unreasonable limits, it's like 1-2 hrs a day for most apps.
December 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I reduced all social media usage in 2025. I was starting to feel like those sad elderly people at a casino, attached to a slot machine, getting milked dry in exchange for the smallest fraction of dopamine.
I don't even have unreasonable limits, it's like 1-2 hrs a day for most apps.
I don't even have unreasonable limits, it's like 1-2 hrs a day for most apps.
Well, I guess now it's Zero Gravity!
Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure — cache wipe turns into mass deletion event as agent apologizes: “I am absolutely devastated to hear this. I cann...
The user even made a screen recording to document his troubles
www.tomshardware.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Well, I guess now it's Zero Gravity!
Reddit has it's pros and cons, that's for sure, but I go there to remember what the internet used to be like... a bunch of weirdos being weird about the niche thing they care about.
From the KitchenConfidential community on Reddit: Waaaah?
Explore this post and more from the KitchenConfidential community
www.reddit.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Reddit has it's pros and cons, that's for sure, but I go there to remember what the internet used to be like... a bunch of weirdos being weird about the niche thing they care about.
Migraine recovery day - I had a whopper yesterday!
My poor swollen brain 🤣
My poor swollen brain 🤣
December 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Migraine recovery day - I had a whopper yesterday!
My poor swollen brain 🤣
My poor swollen brain 🤣
I'm reading The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem, and I'm convinced it could make the most incredible contemporary stage play.
I keep imagining minimalist sets and effects using wispy fabric like tulle and silk.
I keep imagining minimalist sets and effects using wispy fabric like tulle and silk.
December 4, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I'm reading The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem, and I'm convinced it could make the most incredible contemporary stage play.
I keep imagining minimalist sets and effects using wispy fabric like tulle and silk.
I keep imagining minimalist sets and effects using wispy fabric like tulle and silk.
Reposted by RealAmanda 🍁
doing a remote talk for high school students friday
rate my slide design
spoiler the skill is learning how to work well with other people
rate my slide design
spoiler the skill is learning how to work well with other people
December 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
doing a remote talk for high school students friday
rate my slide design
spoiler the skill is learning how to work well with other people
rate my slide design
spoiler the skill is learning how to work well with other people
My number one artist was Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass 💀
December 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
My number one artist was Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass 💀
I lost someone super close to me and still keep them in my steam faves. I think about them every day. 💔
I don't really have many mutual friends from that time, so it's one of my only remaining links.
I don't really have many mutual friends from that time, so it's one of my only remaining links.
Just had cause to remember this, a piece I wrote earlier this year that I was very pleased with, because I text the friend that it's about to make sure they have my new UK number. What strange animals we are.
www.eurogamer.net/can-a-steam-...
www.eurogamer.net/can-a-steam-...
Can a Steam profile be a real memorial for a lost life?
How a Steam profile can help you grieve a loved one.
www.eurogamer.net
December 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I lost someone super close to me and still keep them in my steam faves. I think about them every day. 💔
I don't really have many mutual friends from that time, so it's one of my only remaining links.
I don't really have many mutual friends from that time, so it's one of my only remaining links.
What a fucking day. I'm so ready for sleep.
December 3, 2025 at 5:26 AM
What a fucking day. I'm so ready for sleep.
Executives don't want to pay for us, developers don't understand us, and players don't seem to give a shit.
Why should we even fucking bother? Honestly.
Why should we even fucking bother? Honestly.
Voice actor for Baldur's Gate 3's Karlach says 'we're still seen as outsources' in game dev: 'There's a weird disconnect'
Samantha Béart says the realities of studios and fans are very different.
share.google
December 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Executives don't want to pay for us, developers don't understand us, and players don't seem to give a shit.
Why should we even fucking bother? Honestly.
Why should we even fucking bother? Honestly.
The skill tree in every Assassin's Creed.
Dust Hone on Instagram: "The greatest finishing moves of all the finishing moves.
Finish them.
🤝
______________________________
#mma #muaythai #bjj #york #finishingmoves"
3M likes, 21K comments - dustdna on July 22, 2025: "The greatest finishing moves of all the finishing moves.
Finish them.
🤝
______________________________
#mma #muaythai #bjj #york #finishingmoves".
www.instagram.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The skill tree in every Assassin's Creed.
I swear, every single Godot tutorial was made with a different version and has a hundred comments about how different elements require workarounds to achieve the same result.
How the hell am I supposed to learn anything when every learning resource I find is outdated/incorrect? 😭
How the hell am I supposed to learn anything when every learning resource I find is outdated/incorrect? 😭
December 1, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I swear, every single Godot tutorial was made with a different version and has a hundred comments about how different elements require workarounds to achieve the same result.
How the hell am I supposed to learn anything when every learning resource I find is outdated/incorrect? 😭
How the hell am I supposed to learn anything when every learning resource I find is outdated/incorrect? 😭
Why are goalies the way that they are?
November 30, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Why are goalies the way that they are?
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“to die, to sneep; to sneep, perchance to dream—for in that sneep of death what dreams may come, when we have shuffned off this mortan coin, must give us pause, there's the respect, that makes canamity of so nong nife” - hamnet
November 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
“to die, to sneep; to sneep, perchance to dream—for in that sneep of death what dreams may come, when we have shuffned off this mortan coin, must give us pause, there's the respect, that makes canamity of so nong nife” - hamnet
I just learned about an old poop fossil on Reddit and now my loved ones shall not know peace until I've been able to tell them every horrible detail from the wikipedia.
Like how it was "moist and peaty"
Like how it was "moist and peaty"
Lloyds Bank coprolite - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I just learned about an old poop fossil on Reddit and now my loved ones shall not know peace until I've been able to tell them every horrible detail from the wikipedia.
Like how it was "moist and peaty"
Like how it was "moist and peaty"
If you need me, I'll just be perusing manuscripts in my study.
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
If you need me, I'll just be perusing manuscripts in my study.