Wuk Lamat VOICE ACTING APPRECIATION

[SwadTheFrog]

What is wrong with her accent exactly…?

It's racist.

No, seriously. South American here, as I've mentioned multiple times. The accent put on for Wuk is literally the equivalent of someone voicing a chinese character and then drawing out the Rs every time - think South Park's City Wok manager, but not played for laughs. It's REALLY racist.

[Havenchild]

It's racist.

No, seriously. South American here, as I've mentioned multiple times. The accent put on for Wuk is literally the equivalent of someone voicing a chinese character and then drawing out the Rs every time - think South Park's City Wok manager, but not played for laughs. It's REALLY racist.

South American here. Going to hard disagree. Her accent barely sounds South American to begin with. Not to mention, any notions of racism is the perception of weirdos on the net that look for something like racism in a video game. If you seek to find something to be offended about, don't be surprised to find it. It's weirdo terminally online behavior to assume racism with real world context in a video game to begin with.

If that's how they wanted the character to sound, so be it. The fact that anyone assumes racism or otherwise is idiocy and immaturity in themselves that they are trying to project onto others.

[SwadTheFrog]

South American here. Going to hard disagree. Her accent barely sounds South American to begin with. Not to mention, any notions of racism is the perception of weirdos on the net that look for something like racism in a video game. If you seek to find something to be offended about, don't be surprised to find it. It's weirdo terminally online behavior to assume racism with real world context in a video game to begin with.

If that's how they wanted the character to sound, so be it. The fact that anyone assumes racism or otherwise is idiocy and immaturity in themselves that they are trying to project onto others.

I've literally never cared about these things, but Wuk's voice is so bad and infact indeed, /racist/, by using the generic intonations witH T, H and R that nobody actually uses when speaking native spanish or portuguese. It ain't terminally online. It's a fact. You're either not actually from SA, or a bit delusional my dude. Combo that with the only food being tacos and all represented cultures being monocultures with no variation, and - again, you're either not actually from South America and just trying to do a funny gotcha, or you're delusional.

[Havenchild]

I've literally never cared about these things, but Wuk's voice is so bad and infact indeed, /racist/, by using the generic intonations witH T, H and R that nobody actually uses when speaking native spanish or portuguese. It ain't terminally online. It's a fact. You're either not actually from SA, or a bit delusional my dude. Combo that with the only food being tacos and all represented cultures being monocultures with no variation, and - again, you're either not actually from South America and just trying to do a funny gotcha, or you're delusional.

Correct...ish. Ancestry, not naturalized. And it's not not a Puerto Rican accent. It's an attempt at a weird amalgamation of of Brazillian and I want to say Chilean accent that forms a hilariously racist and extremely fake accent.

Unless, of course, you're saying people are born with accents and that it's a biological factor? God, I /hope/ you're saying that.

The accent is closer to Spaniard / Cuban / Mexican than any other Hispanic culture. Tacos were one food featured in one local of the expansion and it just so happens tacos (of different forms) are very popular among majority of hispanic cultures and cuisine. That is quite literally the safest food option if I had to chose any one thing that has graced every culture equally. To say otherwise is outright disingenuous.

Beyond that, we can agree to disagree but yeah it's terminally online behavior. First, you take real life and are trying to overly transpose that to a video game. Literally complaining that tacos being a feature is "racist" or stereotypical and not "representation" or whatever bs you convinced your head canon tural should be. Ultimately, Tural is NOT any of these real life locations, so trying evaluate it as such or perpetuate perception onto it is terminally online main character syndrome in full swing. It's not your world to build, it doesnt live off your beliefs either. At best, hispanic cultures are an influence and that's about it. It's not meant to be a 1 to 1.

[Cheapshot]

On top of the issue with the accent sounding inauthentic and forced (which isn't that unusual tbh, most actors are no good at imitating an accent that isn't their own)

it's an inauthentic forced accent. i know it's acting, and acting is playing pretend, but he could have at least done a good job when trying to replicate that sort of dialect.

It's racist.

No, seriously. South American here, as I've mentioned multiple times. The accent put on for Wuk is literally the equivalent of someone voicing a chinese character and then drawing out the Rs every time - think South Park's City Wok manager, but not played for laughs. It's REALLY racist.

The VA is Puerto Rican.

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And she’s a woman. Take this garbage elsewhere, or better yet, grow up.

[SwadTheFrog]

The VA is Puerto Rican.

Correct...ish. Ancestry, not naturalized. And it's not not a Puerto Rican accent. It's an attempt at a weird amalgamation of of Brazillian and I want to say Chilean accent that forms a hilariously racist and extremely fake accent.

Unless, of course, you're saying people are born with accents and that it's a biological factor? God, I /hope/ you're saying that.

[Cheapshot]

Correct...ish. Ancestry, not naturalized. And it's not not a Puerto Rican accent. It's an attempt at a weird amalgamation of of Brazillian and I want to say Chilean accent that forms a hilariously racist and extremely fake accent.

Unless, of course, you're saying people are born with accents and that it's a biological factor? God, I /hope/ you're saying that.

Why would I think people are born with accents, and what do you know about her exactly? There’s very very little info out there. You assuredly don’t know who her parents are, and what their accents are like. Why are you gatekeeping the heritage of someone else?

[SwadTheFrog]

Why would I think people are born with accents, and what do you know about her exactly? There’s very very little info out there. You assuredly don’t know who her parents are, and what their accents are like. Why are you gatekeeping the heritage of someone else?

You can't gatekeep someone's heritage. You're either born living and experiencing a cullture and it's language or you're not. And we *actually* know the heritage of a lot of the VAs of the expansion. The accent has outright been *stated* to be fake by Sena of all people, too - but hey, I'm sure you don't care about this, because it's not YOUR culture and YOUR language.

The accent is closer to Spaniard / Cuban / Mexican than any other Hispanic culture. Tacos were one food featured in one local of the expansion and it just so happens tacos (of different forms) are very popular among majority of hispanic cultures and cuisine. That is quite literally the safest food option if I had to chose any one thing that has graced every culture equally. To say otherwise is outright disingenuous.

Beyond that, we can agree to disagree but yeah it's terminally online behavior. First, you take real life and are trying to overly transpose that to a video game. Literally complaining that tacos being a feature is "racist" or stereotypical and not "representation" or whatever bs you convinced your head canon tural should be. Ultimately, Tural is NOT any of these real life locations, so trying evaluate it as such or perpetuate perception onto it is terminally online main character syndrome in full swing. It's not your world to build, it doesnt live off your beliefs either. At best, hispanic cultures are an influence and that's about it. It's not meant to be a 1 to 1.

Here's the thing : I don't care about those things usualy, like I told you. Seeing superficial "insipired" things just made me laugh a bit or go "neat!" because at this point I really am just used to Latino American stuff having bad depictions that are either incorrerct ,or just "Crime". - what I care about is the sheer hypocrisy of what this was. We were told, multiple times, that DT was going to be this wholle thing that celebrated and "respected" latino-american cultures, that it was going to directly refer to these things and do it properly, with an "alll latino cast" for the VAing roles. Instead, we got tacos, haha funny alpacas, and a bunch of americans puttiing on fake accents. That's just kind of really offensive. If we weren't told this, I'd care a lot less and laugh it off. But we /were/ told that.

That's the issue. But sure, keep making bad faith arguments and dismisssing them as "terminally online". If you like it when people spit on your face and tell you otherwise, congratulations, I guess? The more you talk, the more I'm absolutely certain you're either making these on purpose, or you're trolling, and I'm leaning towards the latter. But sure, "agree to disagree".