The Power of a Voice

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I will not become a zealot. I don't think defending someone from zealotry makes me one.

I have no real reason to doubt your experiences or stories and I think you'd pet a kitten and then despair about all the shit that's going to happen to that poor kitten in this world. I'll pet a kitten and hope it has a decent future. We'd probably both be forced to take it in and care for it under extreme circumstances and then bitch at ourself at what idiots we are. I tell my son...cute will screw you over, every time.

I think you've earned your point of view and no amouint of anybody online saying whatever is going to change that unless it impacts reality.

All I owe people is humane, fair, and correct treatment dissected out from my biases and prejudices. I am what I am, I am who I am. And tho I wish with all my heart for a house to drop on Zumi or Stella, I aint the one gonna drop the house on either of em. Gladiators have rules, too.

 

[Recidiva]

Thanks for explaining that, Rex.

I know bg gives good voice. She has a really nice voice.

Oh! She does! She's adorable!

 

[Recidiva]

All I owe people is humane, fair, and correct treatment dissected out from my biases and prejudices. I am what I am, I am who I am. And tho I wish with all my heart for a house to drop on Zumi or Stella, I aint the one gonna drop the house on either of em. Gladiators have rules, too.

I don't think you're good people, but I think you're people and that's a step up from fake people.
You're also willing to bear the consequences of your actions.

 

[gravyrug]

I've always known that the voice is attractive to me, but I'm noticing the sub-motivations involved. It's the same with humor or intelligence, I like to encourage those things so I'll support them. A blend of those things, humor, intelligence and a beautiful voice is the ideal.

I'll lose interest in a beautiful voice if it is saying ugly, stupid things...but it might just take me a little bit longer and I might be sorry that beautiful voice wasn't talking any longer.

Ulaven will occasionally do the redneck voice, I will resort to Fran Drescher. It's a standoff.

What also comes up is that I mimic people and the tone of how I interpret their thoughts...not their voice...but their tone of voice. If I think they are saying something stupid, I'll repeat their words in a "stupid" voice. Apparently it pisses people off because I think I'm mocking them, but I'm just duplicating the mental dialect that I hear such words...I'm trying to be more careful about my expression, but it's interesting that I hear stupid things in stupid, ugly voices in my head and if I repeat them, they're said that way. I slip into accents very easily. We just passed through North Carolina and four seconds of a waittress and I'm ready to say y'all.

I have a similar tendency to fall into whatever accent is most noticeable in a conversation. Even if it's just one person with a really strong accent, when the rest have fairly subtle ones, the strong accent wins, and I start copying it unintentionally. This isn't much of an issue in one-on-one conversations, but it can get a little weird when I'm talking to a Australian and several Texans.

 

[Recidiva]

I have a similar tendency to fall into whatever accent is most noticeable in a conversation. Even if it's just one person with a really strong accent, when the rest have fairly subtle ones, the strong accent wins, and I start copying it unintentionally. This isn't much of an issue in one-on-one conversations, but it can get a little weird when I'm talking to a Australian and several Texans.

My mom called me "the human sponge" and said she could tell who I was playing with in a given aftenoon because I came home talking like them.

I have realized I can't do an Australian accent. I've worked out...certain vowels, but I can't do it well enough to fall into it. I had a friend say that every American he's ever seen try to do it, including Meryl Streep, failed at it.

I tried, I failed. (Oi fayeld) Man, their vowels are tough.

I also lived in Massachussetts and that's a real tough accent. I can't make it through a lot of "good" movies because if they're set in Boston, half the cast sucks at it. "The Departed" made me sad in so many ways.

 

[lovetoread]

If that fella Gideon did all the voices of my games, I would have to quit workin' just to play over and over again.

 

[girlsmiley]

I have a similar tendency to fall into whatever accent is most noticeable in a conversation. Even if it's just one person with a really strong accent, when the rest have fairly subtle ones, the strong accent wins, and I start copying it unintentionally. This isn't much of an issue in one-on-one conversations, but it can get a little weird when I'm talking to a Australian and several Texans.

I have a mate up the pub from California. Nice bloke.
We try to imitate each other.
I tell him, "Fail, mate. Fail." He reckons he'll get there.
I tell him, "On ya, mate."

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I don't think you're good people, but I think you're people and that's a step up from fake people.
You're also willing to bear the consequences of your actions.

Everyone gets an opinion, and no one gets the exclusive opinion about anything. I mean, whos nicer than Jesus, and you see what it got him. At the end he had damned few real friends. Barabas the murderer had more friends.

 

[warrior queen]

Do you have any funny sensitive hearing stories?

When I moved here I kept hearing beeps and I'd jump up..."Did you hear that? There's that beeping!"

Ulaven said I was crazy. Intermittent fucking beeping over years and I never was in the position to find it until I finally found a digital watch with an alarm stuck in the back of a drawer.

Or the time I figured out where a leak was on a pipe because I could hear a hiss and locate it down and through concrete.

He doesn't call me crazy any more.

I'm a bit like that.
Before we got the flatscreen, the 'whine' from the old tv box would drive me nuts - especially when it was turned off and on standby.
Everyone in the house said I was hearing things, but once we got the new screen they noticed the difference.

 

[Recidiva]

If that fella Gideon did all the voices of my games, I would have to quit workin' just to play over and over again.

The best voices overall in DA1 are still Steve Valentine and Claudia Black. I would follow around either of those two and ask them to read me takeout menus.

DA2 has some good voices. But at this point I think the best deliveries are from Varric and Isabella. Gideon has a great voice, but I don't think he does as much with it as he could.

Another really good actor who does a lot of voices in DA1 and the expansion, he was in Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Ethan Rayne and Galaxy Quest as Sarris - Robin Sachs. I stalk that guy and will buy audible books he narrates just to hear him talk. Don't care what it is.

And the guy who plays Gorim the dwarf was also Spike in Cowboy Bebop...Steve Blum. The main reason to go through the dwarven origin. Also the best reason to talk to Oghren any chance you get. He's awesome.

 

[Recidiva]

Everyone gets an opinion, and no one gets the exclusive opinion about anything. I mean, whos nicer than Jesus, and you see what it got him. At the end he had damned few real friends. Barabas the murderer had more friends.

I have a friend on the edge of real messiah complex stuff, giving away his stuff, wanting to join a cult, hoping they'll see him as the real leader...

He's a great guy but this is his thing. He wants to save the world and if he can't he wants to destroy it.

I said if I were Jesus's friend I'd tell the guy to settle down, stick with the carpentry thing, have some fun. It doesn't end well. I also encouraged him to try to destroy the world because he wants to do it with some sort of awesome technological advances. I said maybe that's his path, I'm ambivalent and maybe he'll discover something useful, but he probably can't actually destroy the world.

When he told me he'd warn me first, after offering to give me most of his possessions, I declined the possessions and the warning. "I do not want to know, please do NOT tell me."

 

[Recidiva]

I'm a bit like that.
Before we got the flatscreen, the 'whine' from the old tv box would drive me nuts - especially when it was turned off and on standby.
Everyone in the house said I was hearing things, but once we got the new screen they noticed the difference.

Yup. That's the worst stuff. Things other people can't hear.

And I can't STAND autotuned stuff, it drives me from the room. It's absolutely awful.

 

[Smittenkitten_]

The best voices overall in DA1 are still Steve Valentine and Claudia Black. I would follow around either of those two and ask them to read me takeout menus.

DA2 has some good voices. But at this point I think the best deliveries are from Varric and Isabella. Gideon has a great voice, but I don't think he does as much with it as he could.

Another really good actor who does a lot of voices in DA1 and the expansion, he was in Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Ethan Rayne and Galaxy Quest as Sarris - Robin Sachs. I stalk that guy and will buy audible books he narrates just to hear him talk. Don't care what it is.

And the guy who plays Gorim the dwarf was also Spike in Cowboy Bebop...Steve Blum. The main reason to go through the dwarven origin. Also the best reason to talk to Oghren any chance you get. He's awesome.

Personally, from playing dragon age one and two, I must say I love Fenris's voice from dragon age 2. His voice is amazing, It's proberly because he has this husky voice. I don't know, I've always had a thing for voices.
Even in games or movies/series, I can recognise the voices of the voice acters when they are in different series's or what not. I know for example the voice actor of Fenris in dragon age did a few of the npc's voices in diablo3.
Another random off the top of my head, the guy who does the voice of general Iro in avatar the last airbender, also did Haku's voice in samarai jack :3 I was rather happy to just figure that out by just listening. (forgive me if my info is a little wrong... Will double check now and edit where nessisary)

 

[Recidiva]

Personally, from playing dragon age one and two, I must say I love Fenris's voice from dragon age 2. His voice is amazing, It's proberly because he has this husky voice. I don't know, I've always had a thing for voices.
Even in games or movies/series, I can recognise the voices of the voice acters when they are in different series's or what not. I know for example the voice actor of Fenris in dragon age did a few of the npc's voices in diablo3.
Another random off the top of my head, the guy who does the voice of general Iro in avatar the last airbender, also did Haku's voice in samarai jack :3 I was rather happy to just figure that out by just listening. (forgive me if my info is a little wrong... Will double check now and edit where nessisary)

Yup, Gideon does Fenris's voice. He's good, but maybe it's just that I don't like the character and he's just unendingly broody. There's no pacing to him, he's just dour and depressed all the time. No fun at all.

I do the same thing. I recognize people in costume and makeup and in voice acting more easily than I do by description of the actor.

I recognized Fenris from some of his work on Everquest II, which I played. He was a guy that I used to go and ask for a quest over and over. Not...accept it, just ask He's good! I don't think DA2 gave him a real chance to shine to the best of his ability. But again it is probably just my preference for humor.

I think the times that this comes the most to the fore is in movies or TV, where men play women or girls play boys. In "Pitch Black" there's a girl playing a boy's part. I didn't realize until Vin Diesel asked other characters did they really think he was a boy that I realized...I was supposed to think he was a boy. Sounded like a girl, I didn't pick up on the fact that she was dressed like a boy. It's a futuristic film, I just figured things were more ambivalent as dress went.

Also, in "Deadwood" Garrett Dillahunt plays two separate parts in two separate seasons. Most people I'd ask didn't notice. I'd assumed they were twins and then was entirely confused when I wasn't supposed to have noticed just because the guy was wearing a different costume and makeup.

 

[Wings]

Voices are important to me. I am not all that fond of my own but I've done some voiceover work for a few things so I guess it can't be all that bad.


Plus if I let it get all low and breathy I can usually get free things over the phone.

 

[Recidiva]

Voices are important to me. I am not all that fond of my own but I've done some voiceover work for a few things so I guess it can't be all that bad.


Plus if I let it get all low and breathy I can usually get free things over the phone.

Oh yeah. I've gotten marriage proposals from operators. It's nice.

Combined with boobs in person, it's unfair.

 

[Wings]

Oh yeah. I've gotten marriage proposals from operators. It's nice.

Combined with boobs in person, it's unfair.

Exactly! Add the voice to the boobs in addition to the eye contact...you can make just about anyone your bitch.

 

[Recidiva]

Exactly! Add the voice to the boobs in addition to the eye contact...you can make just about anyone your bitch.

I called a friend at work once and the receptionist told him "Marilyn Monroe is on the phone, is she going to sing you happy birthday?"

I'm really good at impressions and I do a good WALL-E and Gremlin and if you let me watch movies long enough (as I had to with my kids) I'll do ALL the voices.

It is an unfair advantage and I'm not at all sorry I have it.

I am not really vulnerable to someone with a hot body, but someone tell me a joke in just the right tone of voice or sing like Danny Elfman? I'm in trouble.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I have a friend on the edge of real messiah complex stuff, giving away his stuff, wanting to join a cult, hoping they'll see him as the real leader...

He's a great guy but this is his thing. He wants to save the world and if he can't he wants to destroy it.

I said if I were Jesus's friend I'd tell the guy to settle down, stick with the carpentry thing, have some fun. It doesn't end well. I also encouraged him to try to destroy the world because he wants to do it with some sort of awesome technological advances. I said maybe that's his path, I'm ambivalent and maybe he'll discover something useful, but he probably can't actually destroy the world.

When he told me he'd warn me first, after offering to give me most of his possessions, I declined the possessions and the warning. "I do not want to know, please do NOT tell me."

Milton H. Erickson MD was the wizard for psychotics, and understood them intuitively. He believed homosexuality and cross-dressing were delusions. Ask him to explain it, and he typically answered, THE TOE BONE'S CONNECTED TO THE FOOT BONE, THE FOOT BONES CONNECTED TO THE ANKLE BONE, etc

I found that working with psychotics required you to learn their canons, and once you knew their canons you could work them around to your particular delusions.

 

[Recidiva]

Milton H. Erickson MD was the wizard for psychotics, and understood them intuitively. He believed homosexuality and cross-dressing were delusions. Ask him to explain it, and he typically answered, THE TOE BONE'S CONNECTED TO THE FOOT BONE, THE FOOT BONES CONNECTED TO THE ANKLE BONE, etc

I found that working with psychotics required you to learn their canons, and once you knew their canons you could work them around to your particular delusions.

Right. I can't really argue with him when he's like this, he'll just shut down and wouldn't call me again.

I can at least maintain contact and trust. He's really, really smart. The dude could theoretically find a way to save the world in the midst of trying to destroy it. But he's probably just going to avoid his meds and play video games.

Homosexuality and cross dressing are fabulous.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Right. I can't really argue with him when he's like this, he'll just shut down and wouldn't call me again.

I can at least maintain contact and trust. He's really, really smart. The dude could theoretically find a way to save the world in the midst of trying to destroy it. But he's probably just going to avoid his meds and play video games.

Homosexuality and cross dressing are fabulous.

I never had that luxury. When they called me on the phone with a life or death game of STUMP THE HEADSHRINKER CHUMP I had to find a way to sink my hook in them first time, to reel them in.

No, no, no. Queers are confused.

 

[Recidiva]

I never had that luxury. When they called me on the phone with a life or death game of STUMP THE HEADSHRINKER CHUMP I had to find a way to sink my hook in them first time, to reel them in.

No, no, no. Queers are confused.

Yeah, I don't get paid, it's entirely voluntary. I knew long ago I couldn't actually help someone unless they ask for help and they want help, in which case I'm more of a facilitator. Someone needing involuntary help is pretty screwed. People trying to help people who don't want help are pretty screwed.

No, you're confused. Homosexuality is a biological thing.

I'm almost embarrassed by saying "No, YOU!" but in this case it fits. My brother was gay. Dearly wanted to be straight. He wasn't. His answer as to why? "Guys make my dick hard." I'm afraid no amount of research gets to counteract that sort of reality. If you didn't have the experience of growing up with someone who was gay who desperately did not want to be, that's not your fault. It wasn't confusion, it was his dick. That explains a lot of human behavior, by the way.

He didn't cross dress, but Ru Paul is awesome.

 

[richard_daily]

Voices are crucial.

I tend to like a sultry, slow voice, over a high pitched squeeky one, and I'll never be able to become aroused by a woman who speaks with an air of entitled valleygirlness.

I like it when a woman reads aloud to me, or records her voice with words for me.

I also like being talked to in different languages in the bedroom, it doesn't matter if I can't understand it, sometimes that's an even bigger turn on. French is always great to hear.

 

[Recidiva]

Voices are crucial.

I tend to like a sultry, slow voice, over a high pitched squeeky one, and I'll never be able to become aroused by a woman who speaks with an air of entitled valleygirlness.

I like it when a woman reads aloud to me, or records her voice with words for me.

I also like being talked to in different languages in the bedroom, it doesn't matter if I can't understand it, sometimes that's an even bigger turn on. French is always great to hear.

I listen to lots of voices for my job. Some are so grating I can't stand it...mumbling and rushing and even worse...lozenges in the mouth, chewing...nasty. I get entirely grossed out and to the teeth gritting stage of having to listen.

A bad voice will make me want to get away.

 

[blobfish]

My voice is probably not especially nice.