{"id":5648,"date":"2005-03-08T21:31:56","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T05:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/08\/5648\/"},"modified":"2005-03-08T21:31:56","modified_gmt":"2005-03-09T05:31:56","slug":"i-can-still-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5648","title":{"rendered":"I Can Still Tell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0001VGFK2\/ghosthouse01-20?dev-t=D23PLTC2ZRJPCJ%26camp=2025%26link_code=xm2\">Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas<\/a> and &#8220;met&#8221; the character Wu Zhi &#8220;Woozie&#8221; Mu.  This is an animated character, with a human actor&#8217;s voice playing during the cutscenes.  But Woozie&#8217;s voice sounded odd to me&#8230; not really credible as a Triad (&#8220;Chinese mafia&#8221;) leader.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>For one thing, he sounds way too young to be a leader- maybe this is intentional.  Also&#8230; he has no accent.  Actually, he has a very slight accent, but it isn&#8217;t like anything I&#8217;ve heard from any of my Chinese or Chinese-American friends.  The person he sounds most like to me is documentarian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purespace.net\/\">John Neely<\/a>, who I happen to know is half Japanese.  Neely does not have an accent.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Turns out the voice actor is Japanese.  This is my pet peeve, even when it turns out in favor of Japanese-Americans- ALL LOOK SAME.  Please directors, if the character is Chinese, use a real Chinese American voice actor.  But was I just lucky?  Or is there something subtle there I am registering?<\/p>\n<p \/>\nRacist!  Or&#8230; connoisseur?  <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and &#8220;met&#8221; the character Wu Zhi &#8220;Woozie&#8221; Mu. This is an animated character, with a human actor&#8217;s voice playing during the cutscenes. But Woozie&#8217;s voice sounded odd to me&#8230; not really credible as a Triad (&#8220;Chinese mafia&#8221;) leader. For one thing, he sounds way too young to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}