Thank you for the lecture, Getter, but the first thing on my mind when I decided to get back to doing this was not to just drop everyone off of the list, ask them to redo all of their lines, and throw caution to the wind. It was also not the first thing on my mind to be accused that I'm doing things that I know very well not to and to be berated for it.
I know that you've dealt with terrible people in the voiceacting community before, people who can't do their jobs right and or ask too much of you when they don't even have a say in the matter, but you're really coming across as overbearing when you try and teach me how to do my own job. I can handle this, I promise you. I'm not telling ANYONE to redo their lines. In fact, anyone who's sent in their lines to us already are still in our library of auditions. Your lines are completely safe. We just wanted to contact you and see if you were still interested having your audition lines be considered for some roles in this project. You're psyching yourself out into believing that I'm just going to suddenly tell everyone "welp, redo your lines," and reacting to something that never actually happened in this case. I don't like to sound crass with this reply, but you're belittling me and Ransom by jumping to conclusions and assuming that we've forgotten how to do this over the past month or so. You can say it was in the best interests of the community if you like. All I was saying was that I'm not going to sit around and wait two months just to pick one voiceactor again, like it seemed we were doing before. We were going to get the ball rolling on everything we had left hanging when we stopped, and once we were back in, we would stick with it until the end.
And to be honest, you're barking up the wrong tree when you come to complain to me for half of this stuff. I've been doing everything per what Ransom's told me and have maintained constant contact with him through all of the important details. If you have a problem with the way he does things, bring it to him, but you need to get over your fear of doing eighty-something lines for someone. I'm not going to hand you a role unless I'm certain that you can deliver on it, and you need to go through actual auditions for them, not hand me references from campaigns and voice bits you did before and expect me to just go ahead and count it. If you're not even willing to commit to reading lines for an audition, then I can't help you, but I'm not going to let your mistrustful attitude interrupt the flow of this VA effort just when it's back to picking up steam again.
I know what message you're trying to get across, but next time, maybe you should get all of the facts before you try and teach us a lesson we already know. Now read this post once more and give it another shot.
