Well that was more just a random number I tossed out. I’m not sure if there’s any accuracy to it. That said, since you’ve clearly had experience with it, does 4k for that work fall in line with industry norms? Is the VA trying to demand (perhaps not unreasonably) a premium because they ‘found the voice’ of the protag?

I think the other VAs talk about his pay is worth noting as well. If its based on an hourly rate, like in studio hours, that can change the calculation. If its like 80 hours of in studio work, 4k really isn’t that bad.

That's the smart way to play it all. I'm not saying the show is being stupid and I'm still desperately trying to give it a chance so here's hoping that's what they do for both! 

I mean they woke the Balrog up a few thousand years before the source material, so who knows anymore. I hope Celeborn is still alive though. Otherwise the show is skewing incredibly, incredibly hard away from ‘adaptation’ and into ‘billion dollar fan fiction’.

98. 1 would be furious about the Chris Pratt casting and 1 would be confused because Bob Hoskins has been dead for almost 10 years.

While I don’t like the show, I think you’re probably not gonna get much out of your request. The racist backlash against this show is a minority, but it’s not just a few people here and there. There’s quite a lot of it going around, especially in places where hardcore fans tend to hang out (forums and LOTRO is where…

You are inadvertantly describing the landscaping job I had in high school in West Texas :p

Well, fellow-internet-rando-who-just-doesn’t-know-what-they’re-talking-about, literally every single competitive sport, job, or general venture works like this. Chess isn’t unique and in chess, like all the others, your feeling, alone, doesn’t mean anything. That also doesn’t mean his feeling was wrong or not…

He didn’t actually deliver any information though, did he? Not until much much later and even that was just his ‘feeling’. Other people brought up Hans’ unlikely rise, and Chess.com is the one delivering this information. Would this have happened if Carlson hadn’t been cryptic and coy about it? Yes. He’s the top of…

Great writing is a considerable stretch with Cyberpunk 2077. Hopefully with the sequel they can come up with a plot that isn’t boring, disconnected from the actual gameplay, and slightly less cliched.

I’m not a fan of this show but yeah. Like I had someone go on a screed in LOTRO about black <insert fictional race here>. It’s disgusting. Like pacing and plot and what not, that’s something people can have a discussion about. But there’s none of that in an IGN comment section. I’m sorry you delved into those depths.

No mention of Streets of Fire?!

Ah yes. The multi-billion dollar revenue generating industry just desperately needed those extra ten dollars in order to innovate. It’s not at all as if economies of scale is in effect in the production of games, or the vastly expanded audience wildly offset development costs. Just look at the movie industry. Ticket…

This for real. Right now he just sounds like a sore loser. Without proof, it sounds like he got beat and doesn’t like it so he’s crying about it. If he had an actual suspicion, there’s ways to get those investigated that don’t involve behaving like a petulant child.

I ran it on PC and while I had a few bugs nothing was game breaking. Everytime I saw something, it was non-intrusive enough for me to go ‘well this’ll get patched’. Only exception was I think a mission critical tank was stuck inside a building at the end so I couldn’t blow it up but I just restarted the mission and it…

Yah I just didn’t want to have any misconceptions that I just rage hate the show or something. I want it to be good, but I also don’t want it to trample over established lore. Like yeah the LOTR movies made changes and cut stuff, but not at this level. Like the time compression really kills a lot of the ‘threat’ of…

Well, the LOTR movies made plenty of changes I don’t like, but I generally understand why those things were done from a filmmaking perspective. Like I understand why having Arwen show up to help instead of Glorfindal was done, because Arwen is just kind of scenery in the books and Glorfindal doesn’t have any impact on…

I did always think it was a weird magical decision for Elwing to change into a plank, but I suppose if there was a ship wreck of some kind, having that ability would come in handy. I still don’t think changing in a giant board is as useful as, say, becoming a bird or something, but what can you do?

That sketch did help launch the career of Donald Glover, and I know some of the other guys in that troupe are pretty prolific and active comedy writers, so I think it's less people's brains didn't work and more that everyone was just happy not considering the implications of what they were doing. Also obviously there…

A couple other folks replying to you have kind of hit the nail on the head. My biggest issue would be the timeline compression. By the time Isildur is born, Celebrimbor is dead, the Numenorians have already fought Sauron once, and the One Ring has been made. Numenor already has colonies in Middle Earth and the…