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I will not be worshipped I am NOT your

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anointed I don't belong to you dude

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you've up you rewind time fix it boom

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drop the mic climb the pipe to the Train

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oh you'll go is saying what what that's

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a rap song I wrote the really only goal

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that I've had in my life was to be a

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video game voice actor I decided when I

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was like 12 that that's what I wanted to

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do everything since then has just been

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sort of a surprising place Ashley rich

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I'm an actor and a voice-over artist for

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video games and a writer I'm probably

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best known for tiny Tina and Borland's -

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Chloe price and life is strange I felt

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abandoned a Loy and horizon zero dawn so

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much for running from mistakes and

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Parvati in the outer worlds let's just

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do it proper I first knew that I wanted

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to be an actor my second playthrough of

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Metal Gear Solid whenever they

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introduced a new character - names come

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up the character name and then

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underneath it was another name so I

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looked it up and I was like oh that's

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the guy to play Solid Snake that was a

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moment that I realized it was a job and

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I really wanted to have that job my

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brother Anthony and I had a web series

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called hey ash whatcha playing which was

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like sketch video game comedy from there

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Anthony got hired to write at gearbox

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for Borderlands 2 as he was writing some

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new characters he realized that he had

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basically written tiny Tina in my voice

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and so I auditioned and I got cast and

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that was my very first role which is

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pretty wild she was honestly based on my

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character in the webseries that my

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brother and I did and our friend

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Christina from high school all around

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the stag just plant the stalker chased

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the Bandit the stalker thought twas all

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and fun

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and it voice-acting for games you kind

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of have to be able to think on your feet

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pretty quickly without any preparation

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and role-playing games you basically

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have to be able to perform all of these

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different dialogue options as if they

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could occur at any point in the game it

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all has to flow between whatever choices

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the player makes you also have to scream

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way more in video games you're usually

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gonna have what's called an efforts

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session punches kicks pain sounds

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horizon zero dawn is an open-world RPG

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style game and I play the lead a boy

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horizon is actually one of the

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best-selling ps4 games of all time

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pretty good

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careful there you'll sprain your neck

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one of the really unique things about

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Horizon is that a law is your only

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choice so if you don't like her sorry

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because she's all yet I'm past trusting

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you with secrets I was so nervous

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recording horizon zero dawn because it

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was rare at the time to only have one

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option of who you were playing as and

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for that option to be a woman I don't

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believe in demons and I don't run when

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lives are at stake get out of here

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halo is an exceptional fighter and she's

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very smart but I wanted her to feel that

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there was vulnerability there that there

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was some weakness but also balancing

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that with compassion and drive and a

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focus on what's right I think the thing

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that's really started to change in the

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industry is that you are getting this

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massive influx of really interesting

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female characters a lot of the

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characters that I've played in games

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they're big swings for games I really

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think I've been so lucky to be able to

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play the characters that I've played

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that are so like complex and interesting

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