Watching people get into a huge argument over their silly claimed “voice actors” when they pick the same one to put on their TRP3 
holy cow guys settle down. When did this even become a trend?
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Gonna need you to spill the tea on this one. Which voice actor claim was it? Let me guess, Shadowheart (they always use the character name and never the actress lol)?
The nice thing when you make machinimas is you can just put yourself down for Voice Reference.
Voice Reference: Pookamhura.
(Plus when you’re F2P most people can’t hear me commenting on their Long-Leggedy nonsense anyway)
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I always choose voice references like Harvey Fierstein or Kathleen Turner. I doubt this will ever happen to me.
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I spoke to Harvey Fierstein on the phone once. He really does sound like that.
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How’s big 'Harv holding up these days? Always thought he got a bad rap.
#FreeTheHarvester
RP community at large is indeed a bunch of silly snowflake nowadays
It was actually two male -characters- (not sure about the players, i just sat and watched) with that guy who played the Witcher? Henry Carville? Caville? I dunno I’m old and don’t really watch TV at all anymore. But that guy.
BRB making an RP character with voice claim of Henry Cavill.
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Never quite understood the point of voice claims myself. Half the time they’re lost on me anyway, because I’m not familiar with the person or character being referenced and can’t be bothered to look it up.
Addendum:
To elaborate a bit, I can kind of see using particular characters or actors as a sort of ballpark reference for how you imagine your character to sound, as I’ve done that a couple times privately. It’s more so the idea of ‘This voice from this thing is my character’s voice now’ that I don’t get. To an extent it kind of comes off as pretentious to me at most and lacking originality at least.
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I mean if all they wanted was the voice claim, they could have said “alright you be Henry Cavill, my dude will be the voice actor from the video games, Doug Cockle.”
Buuuuut…Doug Cockle doesn’t exactly look like Henry Cavill now does he? 
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Same. IDK who half these people are that are mentioned as voice claims, so it means nothing to me.
I always used to just imagine whatever voice seemed to fit the character back in ye olden days when I still RP’ed (still get a kick out of TRPs but don’t participate these days). Even now I imagine I’d just mentally insert a voice even with a supposed voice claim, assuming I knew they actor/actress being claimed to start with.
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You go through stages in life.
When you’re a kid you don’t know or care about celebrities. It’s not William Shatner, it’s just Captain Kirk. You know the cartoon characters but not who voices them.
When you’re a teenager celebrities start to become important to you. You’re trying to find your clique. You want to know who all the right celebrities are and who the wrong ones are according to the group you identify yourself as a member of.
In your twenties you start identifying celebrities based on their talent and by your thirties you reach your peak celebrity knowledge. The celebrities you know in your thirties will form the basis of how you define a celebrity for the rest of your life. Through your forties you’ll find you just don’t really care about keeping up with who the current A-listers are.
In your fifties and sixties you become like you were as a child. You don’t know the name of popular celebrities. At best they’re “the guy in that movie about the thing” and “the girl who is on that TV show you don’t watch but you kinda know exists”. Whenever you talk about a celebrity it will be the celebrities that were the hot new talent when you were in your 20s and 30s.
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I never followed celebrities. There’s a few dozen I might know by name or face, and that’s about it. Just not big into movies/tv/influencers/etc.
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You know, genuinely, I don’t keep up with celebrity news, so I have no idea what this is in reference to. My point was simply that I choose now relatively unknown actors whose careers peaked last century to avoid situations where someone in a video game is mad that our RP characters have the same voice reference.
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My character’s voice reference is a tin can. He’s a death knight. That’s what death knights sound like to me. Like someone talking into a can.
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Using a specific character rather than the voice actor for said character is something I tend to prefer because voice actors can have a vastly different speaking voice than the character they’re voicing. This can be anything from attitude and tone difference to full on sounding like a totally different person.
Tara Strong, for example, a prolific voice actress, voiced both Timmy Turner from Fairly Odd Parents, and Raven from Teen Titans, and her actual speaking voice sounds like neither of them. The actor mentioned by OP as the voice claim being fought over, Henry Caville (who isn’t a voice actor but it still applies), also has several roles with voices that are markedly different from his speaking voice.
Absolutely cringe for fighting over a shared voice claim though, that’s the chance to emote something funny, like “do I really sound like that?!” moment, not OOC beef.
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Valid points regarding the range of acting. What I see a lot though is people will put a specific character as their voice claim, and then basically they are that character from another setting. There’s nothing wrong with taking some inspiration from other sources of fiction but I do balk at people doing a 1:1 copy of said character with little in the way of their own creativity.
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I’ve never been able to figure out voice claims because the way my character sounds in my head is generally distinct from how the voice acting of another character might be directed.
It can be difficult to find something that truly fits.
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But is this going to matter to anyone but you? Like, I don’t even know who Tara Strong is so if I came across your character, that voice ref would mean zip to me and I’d just insert whatever mental voice my brain thought fit your character. I’ve a sneaking suspicion that it’s that way for the majority of people and many RPers just want to be “cool” and follow whatever TRP3 trend is going on atm. I’m not saying that’s you, but I’m saying voice references are largely unnecessary and aren’t going to make -any- difference to how people “hear” your character.
I know this because you learn it very very quickly as an author; you can describe your character’s voice or appearance a dozen times and it won’t matter because the reader is always going to have their own mental image about these things regardless. Best to get the basics out once or twice and then let the reader do what they’re going to do with those descriptions.
I remember the first RP addon when you were really not supposed to put anything more than a very basic character description and you had to RP to find out the rest.
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