Console Wars Audio Book and Racism!

[AdamsArcade]

Here's a weird discussion for ya. Its link to video games is tenuous but its linked all the same.

Me and a mate were discussing the audio book Console Wars: Sega vs Nintendo. Personally I think it was an entertaining and enlightening listen into the history of two behemoths of gaming. I do recommend it.

Here's the argument we were having. The reader is a Fred Berman an American born voice actor who has pedigree in voicing many audio books. There are, obviously, many references and recollections of conversations had between the execs within Sega of Japan and Nintendo of Japan in the book, for which Berman puts on various Japanese accents/voices.

Now I'm no expert, but he does a pretty good job and as this is a factual/entertainment book professionally produced, I had no issue with the accents used to convey the various conversations. However my mate thinks its racist and they should have got a voice over actor of the correct race to portray the characters in the book.

I think he's being a bit over the top, maybe even trying to get a rise out of me. If someone is mimicking an accent in a stereotypical way to mock a group people, then that's racist.

Anyway, I just thought it was interesting my mate took such a strong stance against this guy's efforts to portray individuals in a book.

AdamsArcade2018-06-27 14:05:50

 

[funhouse]

I completely understand where you are coming from. Possibly it was naive of the narrator? Who knows.

Personally speaking I like to hear people from around the globe mimic/exaggerate people who sound like me. What's not to like? - it's fun!

More importantly I reckon it will be great when our human race gets to such a confident stage that no-one cares about this stuff anymore.

I fear we will all be gone by then though

On a similar topic my kids came back from school recently and told me that they were told by a class friend that he thought that Nintendo was racist because none of their characters had dark skin.

 

[thesharkfactor]

I don't think it is racist, I think your mate is a far left daftie.. does he work for the local Council or DSS?

 

[strykr]

Here's a weird discussion for ya. Its link to video games is tenuous but its linked all the same.

Me and a mate were discussing the audio book Console Wars: Sega vs Nintendo. Personally I think it was an entertaining and enlightening listen into the history of two behemoths of gaming. I do recommend it.

Here's the argument we were having. The reader is a Fred Berman an American born voice actor who has pedigree in voicing many audio books. There are, obviously, many references and recollections of conversations had between the execs within Sega of Japan and Nintendo of Japan in the book, for which Berman puts on various Japanese accents/voices.

Now I'm no expert, but he does a pretty good job and as this is a factual/entertainment book professionally produced, I had no issue with the accents used to convey the various conversations. However my mate thinks its racist and they should have got a voice over actor of the correct race to portray the characters in the book.

I think he's being a bit over the top, maybe even trying to get a rise out of me. If someone is mimicking an accent in a stereotypical way to mock a group people, then that's racist.

Anyway, I just thought it was interesting my mate took such a strong stance against this guy's efforts to portray individuals in a book.

If someone anyone in the world did a mock english accent, literally nobody would say it was racist. World has just gone completely f**king mad imo.

a stereotype is a stereotype,

racism is racism.

 

[simonden]

Has he started a campaign against the BBC to halt all sales of the 'ALLO 'ALLO DVDs and issue a public apology?

 

[AdamsArcade]

Has he started a campaign against the BBC to halt all sales of the 'ALLO 'ALLO DVDs and issue a public apology?

Haha! Nice. I shall let him know! I'm sure he'll get on it!